to ben more profitably than this knot; kinges it mayntayneth,
and hem, their powers to mayntayne. It maketh misse to ben
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amended with good governaunce in doing. It closeth hertes
so togider, that rancour is out-thresten. Who that it lengest
kepeth, lengest is glad[d]ed.'
'I trowe,' quod I, 'heretykes and misse-mening people hence-forward
wol maintayne this knotte; for therthorough shul they
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ben maintayned, and utterly wol turne and leve their olde yvel