'Who is a frayler thing,' quod she, 'than the fleshly body of
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a man, over whiche have oftentyme flyes, and yet lasse thing than
a flye, mokel might in grevaunce and anoying, withouten any
withsittinge, for al thilke mannes mightes? And sithen thou
seest thyne flesshly body in kyndely power fayle, how shulde than
the accident of a thinge ben in more suretè of beinge than
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substancial? Wherfore, thilke thinges that we clepe power is but
accident to the flesshly body; and so they may not have that