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reste that is clyvinge to-gidere in him-self by stedefast
resoun? As whylom a tyraunt wende to confounde
of corage, and wende to constreyne him by torment, to maken
him discoveren and acusen folk that wisten of a coniuracioun,
which I clepe a confederacie, that was cast ayeins this tyraunt;
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but this free man boot of his owne tonge and caste it in the
visage of thilke wode tyraunt; so that the torments that this
tyraunt wende to han maked matere of crueltee, this wyse man