a man from very good; the other haleth him to vertue by the
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hookes of thoughtes. And wenist thou nat that thy disese hath
don thee mokel more to winne than ever yet thou lostest, and
more than ever the contrary made thee winne? Is nat a greet
good, to thy thinking, for to knowe the hertes of thy sothfast
frendes? Pardè, they ben proved to the ful, and the trewe have
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discevered fro the false. Trewly, at the goinge of the ilke brotel
joye, ther yede no more away than the ilke that was nat thyn