maked the senatoures gilty ayeins the kinges real maiestee. O

maistresse, what demestow of this? Shal I [forsake] this blame,

that I ne be no shame to thee? (quasi diceret, non). Certes, I have

wold it, that is to seyn, the savacioun of the senat, ne I shal never

leten to wilne it, [and that I confesse] and am aknowe; but the

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entente of the accuser to be destourbed shal cese. For shal I

clepe it thanne a felonie or a sinne that I have desired the

savacioun of the ordre of the senat? (quasi diceret, dubito quid).

And certes yit hadde thilke same senat don [by me], thorugh hir