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Where other statuts were of women shene;
And right furthwith Rigour on me gan loke
Full angrily, and seid unto the quene
I traitour was, and charged me let been:
'There may no man,' quod he, 'the statut know,
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That long to woman, by degree ne low.
In secret wyse thay kepten been full close,
They sowne echon to libertie, my frend;