Is so behovely to the crëature
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That it above al other is peerlees.
But it may nat †be gete, nathelees,
Among the men to lasten any whyle,
But wher the herte is playn, withoute gyle.
The pees is as it were a sacrament
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To-fore the god, and shal with wordes playne
Withouten any double entendëment