in the selve maner eche other frere woll say that his order is
beste. And thus to eche of the foure orders ben the other three
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contrary in this poynte; in the which if ony say sooth, that is oon
aloon; for there may but oon be the beste of foure. So foloweth
it, that if ech of these orders answered to this question as thou
doest, three were false and but oon trew; and yet no man shulde
wite who that were. And thus it semeth, that the moost part of
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freres ben or shulde be lyars in this poynt, and they shulde