truste.'

'Now, certes,' quod she, 'above al fames in this worlde, the

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name of marcial doinges most plesen to ladyes of my lore; but

sithen thou were redy, and thyne adversaryes in thy presence

refused thilke doing; thy fame ought to be so born as if in dede

it had take to the ende. And therfore every wight that any

droppe of reson hath, and hereth of thee infame for these thinges,

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hath this answere to saye: "trewly thou saydest; for thyne