therof take his being, than shulde god be maker and auctour
of badde werkes, and so he shulde not rightfully punisshe yvel
doinges of mankynde.'
Quod Love, 'I shal telle thee, this lesson to lerne. Myne
owne trewe servaunt, the noble philosophical poete in Englissh,
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whiche evermore him besieth and travayleth right sore my name
to encrese (wherfore al that willen me good owe to do him
worship and reverence bothe; trewly, his better ne his pere in
scole of my rules coude I never fynde)—he (quod she), in a tretis