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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