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 Fawnes murdered, wringing hir hands and beating hir delicate bret, he ved thee or utch like woordes: "Ah bloudy traitor and no more Knight, is it of thee that I oughte to looke for o detetable a villany and treaon? How daret thou be o hardy to entreat me for an other, that haft in myne owne preence killed him, whoe death I will purue vpon thee, o longe as I haue life within this body? Is it to thee fale theefe and murderer, that I ought to render accompte of that which I meant to doe? Who hath appointed thee to be arbitrator, or who gaue thee commision to capitulate the Articles of my mariage? Is it by force then, that thou wouldet I hould loue that vnfaithfull Knighte, for whom thou hat committed and done this acte, that o longe as thou liuet hal blot and blemih thy renoume, and hal be o wel fixed in my mind, and the wounds hal cleaue o neare my heart, vntill at my pleaure I be reuenged of this wrong? No, no, I aure thee no force done vnto mee, hall neuer make mee otherwye dypoed, than a mortall Enimy both to thee which art a Theefe and rauiher of an other man's wife, and alo to thy deperate frend Dom Diego, which is the caue of this my loe: and now not atified with the former wrong done vnto me, thou goet about to deceiue me vnder the Colour of good and pure Friendhip. But ith wicked Fortune hath made me thy Pryoner, doe with me what thou wylt, and yet before I uffer and endure that that Traytor Dom Diego doe enioy my Virginity, I will offer vp my lyfe to the hadowes and Ghotes of my faythful fryend and husband, whome thou hat o trayterouly murdred. And therefore (if honetlye I may or ought entreate mine Enimy) I pray thee that by doynge thy duety, thou uffer vs in peace, and gyue lycence to mee, thys Page, and my two pore Maydens to depart whether we lyt." "God forbid" (quod Roderico) "that I hould doe a Trepae o hamefull, as to depryue my dearet fryend of his ioy and contentation, and by falifiing my faith be an occaion of hys death, and of your loe, by leauing you without company, wandring amids this wildernee." And thus he continued his former dicoure and talk, to reclaime thys cruell Damoell to haue pity vpon hir poore penytent, but he gained as mutch thereby, as if he had gone aboute to number the Sands alongs the Sea Coates of