disese, whan he gan falle. How many ensamples canst thou
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remembre of kinges grete and noble, and huge power †helden, and
yet they might not kepe hem-selve from wrecchednesse? How
wrecched was king Henry Curtmantil er he deyde? He had not
so moche as to cover with his membres; and yet was he oon
of the grettest kinges of al the Normandes ofspring, and moste
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possession had. O! a noble thing and clere is power, that is not
founden mighty to kepe him-selfe! Now, trewly, a greet fole is