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Rh by all thee goodes you haue gotten togither. So he gaue hir an anwere at random, nothing aunwering hir deire. She contending with him, and he aunwering, in the ende as he had bene angry he aid to hir: I can but mue what reaon mooues you (in God's name) to deire to knowe my ecretes, being a thing that little profites you to know them, or not to know them. Be ye contented Madame, and et your heart at ret: let it uffice you to fare well, to be richly apparelled, and to be worhipfully wayted vpon and erued, although ye do not importune me to tell you uch a ecret. Thee are not thinges to be tolde, for I haue hearde it poken many a time and oft, that euery thinge hath eares: therefore many times thinges are poken which are repented of the partie afterwardes. Wherefore hold your peace, for I cannot tell you. To this anwere his Ladie replied, and louingly beought him to tell hir, weetly entiing with wifely traynes in uch ort, that the knight wearied with hir importunate peach yelded, and aid to hir: All that we haue, and as much as is in the houe (but weete hart I charge you let it neuer come from you) is tollen, and in deede to be playne with you, in the nightes eaon I tole it from this and that mans houe, o