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It hath and schal ben everemor That love is maister wher he wile.
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He hath the sor which no man heleth, The which is cleped lack of herte.
But in proverbe I have herde say, That who that wel his werk beginneth, The rather a good end he winneth.
O fol of alle foles, Thou farst as he betwen tuo stoles That wolde sitte and goth to grounde.
Bot for men sein, and soth it is, That who that al of wisdom writ It dulleth ofte a mannes wit To him that schal it aldai rede, For thilke …
The beaute faye upon her face Non erthly thing it may desface.
For whan men wene best to have achieved, Ful ofte it is al newe to beginne: The werre hath no thing siker, thogh he winne.
Nevere yit Was non, which half so loste his wit Of drinke, as thei of such thing do Which cleped is the jolif wo.
What is a lond wher men ben none? What ben the men whiche are alone Withoute a kinges governance? What is a king in his ligance, Wher that …
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