declared.'
'Ye, ye,' quod I, 'I fynde in no lawe to mede and rewarde in
goodnes the gilty of desertes.'
'Fole,' quod she, 'gilty, converted in your lawe, mikel merit
deserveth. Also Pauly[n] of Rome was crowned, that by him the
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maynteyners of Pompeus weren knowen and distroyed; and yet
toforn was this Paulyn cheef of Pompeus counsaile. This lawe
in Rome hath yet his name of mesuring, in mede, the bewraying of
the conspiracy, ordayned by tho senatours the deth. Julius Cesar