'The goodnesse,' quod she, 'of a person may not ben knowe
outforth but by renomè of the knowers; wherfore he must be
renomed of goodnesse, to come to the knot.'
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'So must it be,' quod I, 'or els al lost that we carpen.'
'Sothly,' quod she, 'that were greet harm, but-if a good man
might have his desyres in service of thilke knot, and a shrewe to
be †weyved, and they ben not knowen in general but by lacking
and praysing, and in renomè; and so by the consequence it
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