*What seith [Valerie], [Titus], or [Claudian]?
*What seith [Ierome] ageyns Iovinian?
*How clene maydens, and how trewe wyves,
*How stedfast widwes during al hir lyves,
*Telleth Jerome; and that nat of a fewe,
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*But, I dar seyn, an hundred on a rewe;
*That hit is pitee for to rede, and routhe,
*The wo that they enduren for hir trouthe.
(B. 334)