name that thou supposest of hem for to have. What might thou
more have don than thou diddest, but-if thou woldest in a fals
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quarel have been a stinkinge martyr? I wene thou fleddest, as
longe as thou might, their privitè to counsayle; which thing thou
hele[de]st lenger than thou shuldest. And thilke that ought thee
money no penny wolde paye; they wende thy returne hadde ben
an impossible. How might thou better have hem proved, but thus
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in thy nedy diseses? Now hast thou ensaumple for whom thou