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Rh what Lady you are, but I wot that my Lord found on a time such a 'Lady ranging in the forest, and brought her home to his castle, and he took her and gave her his daughter to keep, and I provoked her as much as I could so sin with me; but she would in no wife consent unto me, wherefore I slew the Earl's Daughter that lay with her, and when I had so done, I put he bloody knife in the Lady's hand, that the Earl should think that the had stain his daughter with her own and, and then she was exiled thence, but where she went I wot not.

Then said the thief, I wot not of what Lady you speak; but well I wot that seven officers were leading me to the gallows, and such a Lady came riding by, and bought me of them: And then went I with her and after wards I betrayed her unto the master of the ship.

Such a Lady quoth the master of the ship received I, and when we were in the midst of the sea, I would have lain with her, but she kneeled down to her prayers, and anon there arose such a tempest, that the ship broke all in