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resones, and with auctoritès of the olde testament and of the newe,
her pertinacie to distroy: but to paynims, that for beestes and
houndes were holde, to putte hem out of their errour, was †miracle
of god shewed. These thinges were figured by cominge of th'angel
to the shepherdes, and by the sterre to paynims kinges; as who
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sayth: angel resonable to resonable creature, and sterre of miracle
to people bestial not lerned, wern sent to enforme. But I, lovers
clerk, in al my conning and with al my mightes, trewly I have no