of dignitè of office, in whiche thou madest the †gaderinge of thilke
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goodes, and yet diddest in that office by counsaile of wyse [before
that] any thing were ended; and true were unto hem whos profit
thou shuldest loke; and seest now many that in thilke hervest
made of thee mokel, and now, for glosing of other, deyneth thee
nought to forther, but enhaunsen false shrewes by witnessinge of
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trouthe! These thinges greveth thyn herte, to sene thy-selfe thus
abated; and than, frayltè of mankynde ne setteth but litel by the