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dict
56,801
{ "en": "‘Alas, and shall my hands bloody be?", "me": "\"Allas! and shul my handes blody be?" }
56,802
{ "en": "I am a maiden, as I am by nature,", "me": "I am a maid, and, as by my nature," }
56,803
{ "en": "And by my form, and by my vesture,", "me": "And by my semblant and by my vesture," }
56,804
{ "en": "My hands are not made to grasp a knife,", "me": "Myn handes been nat shapen for a knyf," }
56,805
{ "en": "Nor to take from any man his life.", "me": "As for to reve no man fro his lyf." }
56,806
{ "en": "With knives what the devil have I to do?", "me": "What devil have I with the knyf to do?" }
56,807
{ "en": "Yet, shall my throat then be slit in two?", "me": "And shal I have my throte corve a-two?" }
56,808
{ "en": "Then will I bleed, alas, and deathwards wend!", "me": "Than shal I blede, allas! And me beshende;" }
56,809
{ "en": "And yet this thing indeed must have an end:", "me": "And nedes cost this thing mot have an ende;" }
56,810
{ "en": "Either he or I must surely lose our life.", "me": "Or he or I mot nedes lese our lyf." }
56,811
{ "en": "Now,’ quoth she, ‘since I am his wife,", "me": "Now certes,\" quod she, \"sin I am his wyf," }
56,812
{ "en": "And pledged to loyalty ‘tis best for me", "me": "And hath my feith, yit is it bet for me" }
56,813
{ "en": "To die myself in wifely honesty", "me": "For to be deed in wyily honestee" }
56,814
{ "en": "Than be a traitor and live on in shame.", "me": "Than be a traitour living in my shame." }
56,815
{ "en": "Be it as it may, dire earnest or in game,", "me": "Be as be may, for ernest or for game," }
56,816
{ "en": "He shall awake and rise and go his way", "me": "He shal awake, and ryse and go his way" }
56,817
{ "en": "Out by the window ere that it be day’ –", "me": "Out at this goter, or that hit be day!\" --" }
56,818
{ "en": "And she weeps tenderly upon his face,", "me": "And weep ful tenderly upon his face," }
56,819
{ "en": "And him in her arms she does embrace,", "me": "And in her armes gan him to embrace," }
56,820
{ "en": "And shakes him then, and wakes him soft.", "me": "And him she roggeth and awaketh softe;" }
56,821
{ "en": "And he leaps from the window high aloft", "me": "And at the window leep he fro the lofte" }
56,822
{ "en": "When she has warned him for his good.", "me": "Whan she hath warned him, and doon him bote." }
56,823
{ "en": "This Lynceus was swift and light of foot,", "me": "This Lino swifte was, and light of fote," }
56,824
{ "en": "And from his wife he ran away full fast.", "me": "And from his wyf he ran a ful good pas." }
56,825
{ "en": "The guileless woman is so weak, alas,", "me": "This sely woman is so wayk, allas!" }
56,826
{ "en": "And so helpless, that before she went", "me": "And helples so, that, or that she fer wente," }
56,827
{ "en": "Far, her cruel father gained his intent.", "me": "Her cruel fader dide her for to hente." }
56,828
{ "en": "Alas, Lynceus, why now so untrue?", "me": "Allas! Lino! why art thou so unkinde?" }
56,829
{ "en": "Why was there never a thought in you", "me": "Why ne haddest thou remembred in thy minde" }
56,830
{ "en": "To take and lead her forth secretly?", "me": "To taken her, and lad her forth with thee?" }
56,831
{ "en": "For when she saw that gone away was he,", "me": "For, what she saw that goon awey was he," }
56,832
{ "en": "And that she could in no way swiftly go", "me": "And that she mighte nat so faste go," }
56,833
{ "en": "And follow him, she sat lingering so,", "me": "Ne folwen him, she sette her doun right tho," }
56,834
{ "en": "That she was caught and fettered in prison.", "me": "Til she was caught and fetered in prisoun." }
56,835
{ "en": "The tale is told to this conclusion…", "me": "This tale is seid for this conclusioun...." }