CHAPTER V.
'In this mater toforn declared,' quod Love, 'I have wel
shewed, that every man hath free arbitrement of thinges in
his power, to do or undo what him lyketh. Out of this grounde
muste come the spire, that by processe of tyme shal in greetnesse
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sprede, to have braunches and blosmes of waxing frute in grace,
of whiche the taste and the savour is endelesse blisse, in joye
ever to onbyde.'*
'Now, trewly, lady, I have my grounde wel understonde;