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goest not to the hasel; ne, for to fecchen roses, thou sekest not
on okes; and if thou shalt have hony-soukels, thou levest the
frute of the soure docke. Wherfore, if thou desyre this blisse in
parfit joye, thou must sette thy purpos there vertue foloweth, and
not to loke after the bodily goodes; as I sayd whan thou were
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wryting in thy seconde boke. And for thou hast set thy-selfe in
so noble a place, and utterly lowed in thyn herte the misgoing of
thy first purpos, this †setling is the esier to springe, and the more