of armes or [seriaunts], and dredeth more hem that he maketh
agast than they dreden him, and that is put in the handes of
his servaunts for he sholde seme mighty? But of familieres
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or servaunts of kinges [what] sholde I telle thee anything, sin
that I myself have shewed thee that reaumes hem-self ben
ful of gret feblesse? The whiche familieres, certes, the ryal
power of kinges, [in hool] estat and in estat abated, ful ofte
throweth adown. [Nero] constreynede Senek, his familier and
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