“To speak of royal lineage and richéss, Though that she were a queen or a princess, Each of you both is worthy doubtëless To weddë when time is; but natheless I speak as for my sister Emily, For whom ye have this strife and jealousy, Ye wot yourselves, she may not wed the two At once, although ye fight for evermo’: But one of you, all be him loth or lief, 516 He must go pipe into an ivy leaf: 517 This is to say, she may not have you both, All be ye never so jealous, nor so wroth. And therefore I you put in this degree, That each of you shall have his destiny As him is shape; 518 and hearken in what wise; Lo hear your end of that I shall devise. My will is this, for plain conclusión Withouten any replicatión, 519 If that you liketh, take it for the best,
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