badnesse of the sentence take they litel hede or els non.
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Soothly, dul wit and a thoughtful soule so sore have myned
and graffed in my spirites, that suche craft of endyting wol not
ben of myn acqueyntaunce. And, for rude wordes and boystous
percen the herte of the herer to the in[ne]rest point, and planten
there the sentence of thinges, so that with litel helpe it is able
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to springe; this book, that nothing hath of the greet flode of
wit ne of semelich colours, is dolven with rude wordes and