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me a bak / haue memorye how in myn yong age / I was ſtronge and luſty / And how I made grete outtrages and effors / the whiche cauſed my yongthe / And now when I am bycome old and feble thow ſetteſt nought of me /  ¶ This fable techeth that who ſo euer doth ony good in his yongthe / in his auncyente and old age he ſhalle not contynue in the vertues which he poſſeded in his yong age