so shewed.'
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'I herde thee saye,' quod she, 'at my beginning, whan I receyved
thee firste for to serve, that thy jewel, thilke Margaryte thou
desyrest, was closed in a muskle with a blewe shel.'
'Ye, forsothe,' quod I; 'so I sayd; and so it is.'
'Wel,' quod she, 'every-thing kyndly sheweth it-selfe; this
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jewel, closed in a blewe shel, [by] excellence of coloures sheweth
vertue from within; and so every wight shulde rather loke to the