to wilne in coveitous maner, al be it for the tyme out
of your mynde; as, if it come in your thought thilke thing to
remembre, anon ye ben willing thilke to done or els to have.
And thus is instrument wil; and affeccion is wil also, to wilne
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thing as I said; as, for to wilne helth, whan wil nothing theron
thinketh; for anon as it cometh to memorie, it is in wil. And so
is affeccion to wilne slepe, whan it is out of mynde; but anon
as it is remembred, wil wilneth slepe, whan his tyme cometh of
the doinge. For affeccion of wil never accordeth to sicknesse,