15. With that they gonnen laughe, and tho she seyde,

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'This romaunce is of Thebes, that we rede;

And we han herd how that king Laius deyde

Thurgh [Edippus his sone], and al that dede;

And here we stenten at these [lettres rede],

How the bisshop, as the book can telle,

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Amphiorax, fil thurgh the ground to helle.'

16. Quod Pandarus, 'al this knowe I my-selve,