every wight, by kyndely reson, shrewes in knitting wol eschewe.'
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'Than,' quod she, 'the good ought thilke knotte to have.'
'How els?' quod I.
'It were greet harm,' quod she, 'that the good were weyved
and put out of espoire of the knotte, if he it desyred.'
'O,' quod I, 'alas! On suche thing to thinke, I wene that
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heven wepeth to see suche wronges here ben suffred on erthe; the
good ought it to have, and no wight els.'