lighter thy soule in grace to be lissed. And trewly thy desyr,
that is to say, thy wil algates mot ben stedfast in this mater without
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any chaunginge; for if it be stedfast, no man may it voyde.'
'Yes, pardè,' quod I, 'my wil may ben turned by frendes, and
disese of manace and thretning in lesinge of my lyfe and of my
limmes, and in many other wyse that now cometh not to mynde.
And also it mot ofte ben out of thought; for no remembraunce
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may holde oon thing continuelly in herte, be it never so lusty