thou be ware, it [ne] wol ayen meve. In richesse many men
have had tenes and diseses, whiche they shulde not have had, if
therof they had fayled. Thorow whiche, now declared, partly it is
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shewed, that for richesse shulde the knotte in herte neither ben
caused in one ne in other; trewly, knotte may ben knit, and
I trowe more stedfast, in love, though richesse fayled; and els,
in richesse is the knotte, and not in herte. And than suche
a knotte is fals; whan the see ebbeth and withdraweth the
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