people. Lo! how somtyme thilke that in your city wern in
dignitè noble, if thou liste hem nempne, they ben now overturned
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bothe in worship, in name, and in reverence; wherfore
such dignites have no kyndly werching of worshippe and of
reverence. He that hath no worthinesse on it-selfe, now it ryseth
and now it vanissheth, after the variaunt opinion in false hertes
of unstable people. Wherfore, if thou desyre the knotte of this
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jewel, or els if thou woldest suppose she shulde sette the knotte