She yaf answere ful softe and demurely,
Without chaunging of colour or corage,
No-thing in haste, but mesurabelly:—
'Me thinketh, sir, your thought is greet foly!
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Purpose ye not your labour for to cese?
For thinketh not, whyl that ye live and I,
In this matére to set your hert in pees!'
Lamant. 'Ther may non make the pees, but only ye,
Which ar the ground and cause of al this werre;