he coveyteth most, he shulde come to thilke love; and that
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is parfit blisse of my servauntes; but than fulle blisse may not
be, and there lacke any thing of that blisse in any syde. Eke it
foloweth than, that he that must have ful blisse lacke no blisse in
love on no syde.'
'Therfore, lady,' quod I tho, 'thilke blisse I have desyred,
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and †soghte toforn this my-selfe, by wayes of riches, of dignitè,
of power, and of renomè, wening me in tho †thinges had ben