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¶ That noon of hem, to othir / shuld do no wrong [of hem] H, om. LaR. no] om. La.]
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The ravenous wolf / the sely lambe toppresse; [wolf] HR, om. La.]
And thouh oon bé / more than an othir strong, [And thouh] Although La.]
To the febler / do no froward duresse. [no froward] LaR, none hard H.]
Al extorcioun / is groundid on falsnesse;
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Will is no lawe / whethir it be wrong or riht: [no] now R.]
Treuthe is put doun / the feeble is put to fliht. [put] leyd R.]
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¶ Odious of old / been all comparisouns, [comparisouns] HR, coparisouns La.]
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And of comparisons / is gendrid hatereede; [compari|sons . .] hem engendred bien fowle hateredis H. gendrid] engendrid R.]
All folk be nat / of lik condicïouns, [lik] oon H, And alle . . lyke of R.]
Nor lik disposid / of thouht, wil, or deede; [or deede] or dedis H, & dede R.]
But this fable / which that ye now reede, [But . .] For whiche cause this fable that ye rede R, For whiche this fable. whiche that ye redis H.]
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Contreuëd was / that who that hath grettest part [that who that] who that H, who R.]
Off vertuous yiftis / shold with his freend depart. [freend depart] LaR, friendis part H.]
(77)
¶ Thus all vertues / alloone hath nat oo man: [folio 76b] [Thus] As thus R. alloone . . oo] LaR, oon have no lyveng H.]
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That oon lakkith / god hath yove a-nothir: [god] nature HR.]
That thou canst nat / parcas a-nothir can: [parcas] LaR, parchaunce H.]
So entircomon / as brothir doth with brothir; [So . .] Entercomen therfore R. doth with] LaR, with his H.]
And if charite / gouerne weele the tothir, [And if . . tothir] If . . Roother H, Yf . . rother R.]
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And in oo clausë / speke in wordis pleyn, [And in oo clause] Al in oon vessel . . to H.]
That no man shold / of othir ha disdeyn. [of othir ha] have . . of othir H.] [Below, a later hand has written "Amor uincit omnia." The Roxb. Club reprint of 1822 has no envoy, but says, "Thus endeth the hors, the ghoos, and the sheep."]
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