ben shewed, mercy and pitee in the herte, with pees to al other;
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and al this is y-closed in a muskle, who-so redily these vertues
loken. Al thing that hath soule is reduced in-to good by mene thinges,
as thus: In-to god man is reduced by soules resonable; and so
forth beestes, or bodyes that mowe not moven, after place ben
reduced in-to manne by beestes †mene that moven from place to
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place. So that thilke bodyes that han felinge soules, and move
not from places, holden the lowest degree of soulinge thinges in