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By swiche that doon ille:
[Ecce ipsi peccatores abundantes in]
[sæculo obtinuerunt divitias.]
"Lo! seith holy lettrure,
Whiche beth thise sherewes?
Thilke that God gyveth moost,
Leest good thei deleth;
And moost un-kynde to the commune
That moost catel weldeth.