thing of your kynde, and whiche thinges among other
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moste ye desyren! Trewly, Nero and his children ben shrewes,
that dispysen so their dames. The wickednesse and gyling of
men, in disclaundring of thilke that most hath hem glad[d]ed
and plesed, were impossible to wryte or to nempne. Never-the-later
yet I say, he that knoweth a way may it lightly passe; eke
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an herbe proved may safely to smertande sores ben layd. So
I say, in him that is proved is nothing suche yvels to gesse.