'How is it,' quod I than, 'that so many blisses see I al day at
myne eye, in the firste moment of a sight, with suche wil accorde?
Ye, and yet other-whyle with wil assenteth, singulerly by him-selfe;
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there reson fayleth, traveyle was non; service had no tyme. This
is a queynt maner thing, how suche doing cometh aboute.'
'O,' quod she, 'that is thus. The erthe kyndely, after sesons
and tymes of the yere, bringeth forth innumerable herbes and
trees, bothe profitable and other; but suche as men might leve
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