203. Pandare gan him thonke, and to him seyde,

'Lo, sire, I have a lady in this toun,

That is my nece, and called is Criseyde,

Which som men wolden doon oppressioun,

And wrongfully have hir possessioun:

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Wherfor I of your lordship yow biseche

To been our freend, with-oute more speche.'

204. Deiphebus him answerde, 'O, is not this,

That thow spekest of to me thus straungely,