in hem-selfe, may right lightly ben preved. If power lacke on
any syde, on that syde is no power; but no power is wrecchednesse:
for al-be-it so the power of emperours or kinges, or els
of their rëalmes (which is the power of the prince) strecchen
wyde and brode, yet besydes is ther mokel folk of whiche he
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hath no commaundement ne lordshippe; and there-as lacketh his
power, his nonpower entreth, where-under springeth that maketh
hem wrecches. No power is wrecchednesse and nothing els;
but in this maner hath kinges more porcion of wrecchednesse