that he made of my servant Troilus, hath this mater touched, and
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at the ful this question assoyled. Certaynly, his noble sayinges
can I not amende; in goodnes of gentil manliche speche, without
any maner of nycetè of †storiers imaginacion, in witte and in
good reson of sentence he passeth al other makers. In the boke of
Troilus, the answere to thy question mayst thou lerne. Never-the-later,
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yet may lightly thyne understandinge somdel ben lerned,
if thou have knowing of these to-fornsaid thinges; with that thou