Thus arn ye al nighe untrewe; for al your fayre speche, your
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herte is ful fickel. What cause han ye women to dispyse? Better
fruite than they ben, ne swetter spyces to your behove, mowe ye
not fynde, as far as worldly bodyes strecchen. Loke to their
forminge, at the making of their persones by god in joye of
paradyce! For goodnesse, of mans propre body were they
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maked, after the sawes of the bible, rehersing goddes wordes in
this wyse: "It is good to mankynde that we make to him an