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‘Thoue shalte haue thy ransom fre,

I hight the hear this thinge;

For the manfullyste man yet art thowe

that euer I conqueryd in filde fighttynge.’

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‘Nay,’ sayd the lord Persë,

‘I tolde it the beforne,

That I wolde neuer yeldyde be

to no man of a woman born.’