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406 And one there was Nectabanus Wise in this art, and malicious: When king or earl came on him to war, Quick he looked in the star; Of wax made him puppéts, And made them fight with bats : And so he learned, je vous dis, Ay to quell his enemy, With charms and with conjurisons : Thus he essayed the regiouns, That him came for to assail, In very manner of battaíle; By clear candle in the night, He made each one with other fight, Of all manner of nations That comen by ship or dromouns , At the last of many londe Kings thereof had great onde , Well thirty y-gathered beoth And bespeaketh all his death, King Philip of great thede , Master was of that fede ,