“For shrifte stant of no value To him, that woll him nought vertue, To leve of vice the folie, For worde is wind, but the maistrie Is, that a man himself defende Of thing whiche is nought to commende, Wherof ben fewe now a day.”

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The Ninth Bolgia, in which are punished the Schismatics, and

“where is paid the fee

By those who sowing discord win their burden”;

“where is paid the fee By those who sowing discord win their burden”;