memory, in vertue and pees arn writen; and in the contrarye, that
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is to sayne, in Styx, the foule pitte of helle, arn thilke pressed
that suche goodnesse hated. And bycause this book shal be of
love, and the pryme causes of steringe in that doinge, with passions
and diseses for wantinge of desyre, I wil that this book be cleped
The Testament of Love.
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But now, thou reder, who is thilke that wil not in scorne
laughe, to here a dwarfe, or els halfe a man, say he wil rende