Bothe of the assege and his [savacioun];

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Ne in him desyr noon othere [fownes] bredde

But arguments to this conclusioun,

That she on him wolde han compassioun,

And he to be hir man, whyl he may dure;

Lo, here his lyf, and from the deeth his cure!

470

68. The sharpe shoures [felle] of armes preve,

That Ector or his othere bretheren diden,