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14. wo: MS who. 32-4. Ase fele . . . suete: similar images of multiplicity are used in The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. S. B. Meech, EETS 212 (1940), p. 252, where the number of the souls to be saved is compared to dropys of watyr, fres and salt . . . gresys growyng in al erthe . . . and . . . sterrys; both writers are probably drawing ultimately on earlier Latin rhetorical tradition.
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