ever-more what she meneth. And he that list nat to speke, but
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stilly his disese suffer, what wonder is it, tho[ugh] he come never
to his blisse? Who that traveyleth unwist, and coveyteth thing
unknowe, unweting he shal be quyted, and with unknowe thing
rewarded.'
'Good lady,' quod I than, 'it hath ofte be sene, that †weders
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and stormes so hugely have falle in burjoning-tyme, and by perte
duresse han beten of the springes so clene, wherthrough the frute