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other disese, [if] he take it paciently, discomfiteth he nat; the
tyrant over his soule no power may have. Than hath that man,
so tourmented, suche power, that he nil be discomfit; ne overcome
may he nat ben, sithen pacience in his soule overcometh,
and †is nat overcomen. Suche thing that may nat be a-maistred,
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he hath nede to nothing; for he hath suffisaunce y-now, to helpe
him-selfe. And thilke thing that thus hath power and suffisance,
and no tyrant may it reve, and hath dignitè to sette at nought al