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Master Porges waited, but waited in vain He was pained "What,

silence?" he whispered awfully "What, contu in sin? Can I believe ood

Melot, ive your evidence"

This had effect "I confess," said the accused (speaking for the first

time), "I aes in an ecstasy, "the

sleeper awakened! The conscience astir! Oh, infallible fount of

justice! Oh, crown of the generation of Adaeneration of Eve! Observe now,from this stricken wretch Let me deduce them

for you As thus A woman seeketh naturally a ht naturally a ht Messire Prosper le Gai, a lord, the

friend of ladies Again A man should cleave unto his wife: but

Messire le Gai is a man, therefore Messire should cleave unto his

wife 'La, la!' one will say, 'but he hath no wife, owl!' and think to

lay isood for ood for a lady to live alone, who hath a great

estate and the cares of it: but Messire Prosper is that man, and her

ladyship is that lady; therefore they should marry; therefore Messire

Prosper should cleave unto her ladyship, and what the devil hath this

woman to do between a man and his wife now? Aha, I have you clean in a

fork I have purposely o it ho this accurséd O

tempora, O Mores! O Pudor! O Saecula Saeculorum! What incontinency,

you will say; and I say, What, indeed! Then co me, this is a Christian castle under

a Christian lady, the lahereof are fixed and stable so that no

o on to plead, noble seneschal

(say you), give us our laws lest we perish I see the tears; I say, Aye

The penalty of incontinency is well known to you; I say, Aye It is just