maked it matere of vertu.
[But what] thing is it that a man may don to another man, that
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he ne may receyven the same thing of othre folk in him-self:
or thus, what may a man don to folk, that folk ne may don him the
same? I have herd told of [Busirides], that was wont to sleen his
gestes that herberweden in his hous; and he was sleyn him-self
of Ercules that was his gest. [Regulus] hadde taken in bataile
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many men of Affrike and cast hem in-to feteres; but sone after