than of power. Trewly, suche powers ben unmighty; for ever
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they ben in drede how thilke power from lesing may be keped
of sorow; so drede sorily prikkes ever in their hertes: litel
is that power whiche careth and ferdeth it-selfe to mayntayne.
Unmighty is that wrecchednesse whiche is entred by the ferdful
weninge of the wrecche him-selfe; and knot y-maked by wrecchednesse
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is betwene wrecches; and wrecches al thing bewaylen;
wherfore the knot shulde be bewayled; and there is no suche