thee this question: Is not, in general, every-thing good?'
'I not,' quod I.
'No?' quod she; '†saw not god everything that he made, and
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weren right good?'
'Than is wonder,' quod I, 'how yvel thinges comen a-place,
sithen that al thinges weren right good.'
'Thus,' quod she, 'I wol declare. Everiche qualitè and every
accion, and every thing that hath any maner of beinge, it is of
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