And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man 'of them' his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.
And whanne þe fadris and briþeren of hem schulen come, and bigynne to pleyne and plete ayens you, we schulen seie to hem, Haue ye mercy of hem; for þei rauyschiden not hem bi riyt of fiyteris and ouercomeris, but ye yauen not to hem preiynge þat þei schulden take; and þe synne is of youre part.