but what thing is thilke spire that in-to a tree shulde wexe?
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Expowne me that thing, what ye therof mene.'
'That shal I,' quod she, 'blithly, and take good hede to the
wordes, I thee rede. Continuaunce in thy good service, by longe
processe of tyme in ful hope abyding, without any chaunge to
wilne in thyne herte, this is the spire. Whiche, if it be wel kept
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and governed, shal so hugely springe, til the fruit of grace is
plentuously out-sprongen. For although thy wil be good, yet