"ease" meaning in Middle English

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      "form": "eases",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "ease",
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      "expansion": "ease (plural eases)",
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  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "ese"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "So that the clerks be not with me wrathful\nI say that they [genitals] were made for both\nThis is to say, for duty and for ease\nOf reproduction, that we not God displease",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxvii, recto:",
          "text": "So that the clerkes be nat with me wroth\nI ſaye that they were maked for bothe\nThis is to ſeyn, for offyce and for ease\nOf engendrure, there we nat god diſpleaſe",
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        "Alternative spelling of ese"
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      "id": "en-ease-enm-noun-DhcZrlEt",
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  "word": "ease"
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      "expansion": "ease",
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  ],
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        {
          "english": "So that the clerks be not with me wrathful\nI say that they [genitals] were made for both\nThis is to say, for duty and for ease\nOf reproduction, that we not God displease",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxvii, recto:",
          "text": "So that the clerkes be nat with me wroth\nI ſaye that they were maked for bothe\nThis is to ſeyn, for offyce and for ease\nOf engendrure, there we nat god diſpleaſe",
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  "word": "ease"
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