wil, and also thorow necessitè. Of this have I yet no savour,
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without better declaracion.'
'What wonder,' quod she, 'is there in these thinges, sithen al
day thou shalt see at thyne eye, in many thinges receyven in hem-selfe
revers, thorow dyvers resons, as thus:—I pray thee (quod
she) which thinges ben more revers than "comen" and "gon"?
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For if I bidde thee "come to me," and thou come, after, whan
I bidde thee "go," and thou go, thou reversest fro thy first