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Rh Quixote, "that if Sacripant or Orlando had been poets they had trounced the damoseldamsel [sic]; for it is an ordinary thing amongst poets once disdained or not admitted by their feigned mistresses (feigned indeed, because they feign they love them) to revenge themselves with satires and libels,—a revenge truly unworthy noble spirits; but hitherto I have not heard of any infamatory verse against the Lady Angelica, that hath made any hurly-burly in the world." "Strange!" quoth the vicar. With that they might hear the niece and the old woman, who were before gone from them, keep a noise without in the court, so they went to see what was the matter.