chaunge; evenhed of rewarde must ben don by right; than muste
nedes thy grace and this blisse [ben] endelesse in joye to †onbyde.
Evenliche disese asketh evenliche joye, whiche hastely thou shalt
have.'
'A!' quod I, 'it suffyseth not than alone good wil, be it never
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so wel with reson medled, but-if it be in good service longe
travayled. And so through service shul men come to the joye;
and this, me thinketh, shulde be the wexing tree, of which ye first
meved.*