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5437 In every pell and myschaunce,
5438 Withoute chaunge or variaunce,
5439 Bothe of catell and of goode;
5440 And also forto spende her bloode
5441 And all her membris forto spille,
5442 Oonly to fulfille her wille.
5443 They maken it hole in many wise,
5444 And hoten hem her full servise,
5445 How sore that it do hem smerte,
5446 Into her naked sherte!
5447 Herte and all, so hole they yeve,
5448 ffor the tyme that they may lyve,
5449 So that, with her flaterie,
5450 They maken foolis glorifie
5451 Of her wordis spekyng,
5452 And han cheer of a reioysyng,
5453 And trowe hem as the evangile;
5454 And it is all falsheede and gile,
5455 As they shal aftirward se,
5456 Whanne they arn falle in poverte,
5457 And ben of good and catell bare;
5458 Thanne shulde they sene who freendis ware.
5459 ffor of an hundred, certeynly,
5460 Nor of a thousande full scarsly,
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