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Page 182 [CHAPTER CXXXI.] [The Knight of Latour speaks:] "Lady, ye make me to be merveilled how that ye so sore discounceille them to love. Wene ye to doo me to Page 183 beleve that ye be so trewe in your spekinge, that ye never were amorous? Certainly I have wel herd the complainte of some, of whome ye hold wel your pees." "Sire, sayd the lady, "I trowe that ye wold not beleve me if I told to you the very trouthe therof; but as for to saye I have ben prayd of love, I have many times perceived how somme men were aboute to speke to me therof, but ever I brake their wordes, & called to me somme other, wherby I did breke their faitte. Wherof ones hit befelle, as many knightes and ladyes were playinge with me, that a knight sayd to me how that he loved all the ladyes that ben in this world. And I did demaunde and asked him if hit was long syn that sekenes & eville had taken him. & he answerd that it was wel ij yere gone and past, and that never he durst telle it to me. I thenne answerd to him that it was nothinge of that space of time, & that he hasted him too moche, and that it was but a temptacion, & that he shold goo to the chirche for to cast upon him holy water, and that he shold saye his Aue Maria, & that his temptacion shold sone after go fro him, For the love was newe. And he demaunded of me why. And thenne I sayd to him that none paramoure or lover ought not to saye to his lady that he loveth her, till the time of seven yere and an half be passed & gone, and that it was but a litell temptacion. Thenne he wende to have argued, and put many reasons unto me, whanne I sayd al on highe: `Behold ye all what sayth this knight, whiche is but two yere syn he loved first one lady! And thenne he prayd that I shold kepe my pees therof, and that in good faithe he shold never speke to me therof."
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