For my tyme is to abide.
Suffraunce is a soverayn vertue,
And a swift vengeance.
Who suffrede moore than God?" quod he;
"No gome, as I leeve.
He myghte amende in a minute while
Al that mys-standeth;
Ac he suffreth for som mannes goode,
And so it is oure bettre,
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