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Cato.
Lettres þou schalt rede on such manereÞat þou vnderstonde þe sentence clere;
Muche to rede wiþ-outen vnderstonding,
Caton seiþ hit is a dispysyng.
Þerfore I wole after þis resoun
Of þes prouerbes cesse of þe translacioun;
ffor he þat wol rede þis wrytyng,
In schorte wordes may haue lykyng.
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