Some in the largë field, as ye may see: There helpeth nought, all go that ilkë 887 way: Then may I say that allë thing must die. What maketh this but Jupiter the king? The which is prince, and cause of allë thing, Converting all unto his proper will, From which it is derived, sooth to tell And hereagainst no creature alive, Of no degree, availeth for to strive. Then is it wisdom, as it thinketh me, To make a virtue of necessity, And take it well, that we may not eschew, 888 And namëly what to us all is due. And whoso grudgeth 889 ought, he doth folly, And rebel is to him that all may gie. 890 And certainly a man hath most honoúr To dien in his excellence and flower, When he is sicker

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