and maketh hem blynde fro the right pathe of trewe way that
shulde ben used? Therfore, in general, errour in mankynde
departeth thilke goodes by mis-seching, whiche he shulde have
hole, and he sought by reson. Thus goth he begyled of that he
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sought; in his hode men have blowe a jape.'
'Now,' quod I, 'if a man be vertuous, and al in vertue liveth,
how hath he al these thinges?'
'That shal I proven,' quod she. 'What power hath any man
to lette another of living in vertue? For prisonment, or any