and often, whan there is a throw-out shrewe, he coyneth al the
gold, al the precious stones that mowen be founden, to have in
his bandon; he weneth no wight be worthy to have suche thinges
but he alone. How many hast thou knowe, now in late tyme,
that in their richesse supposed suffisance have folowed, and now
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it is al fayled!'
'Ye, lady,' quod I, 'that is for mis medling; and otherwyse
governed [they] thilke richesse than they shulde.'
'Ye,' quod she tho, 'had not the flood greetly areysed, and