His fellow; here he standeth whole alive.’ ‘Ye shall be dead,’ quoth he, ‘so may I thrive, That is to say, both one, and two, and three.’ And to the firstë knight right thus spake he: ‘I damned thee, thou must algate 2349 be dead: And thou also must needës lose thine head, For thou the cause art why thy fellow dieth.’ And to the thirdë knight right thus he sayeth, ‘Thou hast not done that I commanded thee.’ And thus he did do slay them 2350 allë three. Irous Cambyses was eke dronkelew, 2351 And aye delighted him to be a shrew. 2352 And so befell, a lord of his meinie, 2353 That loved virtuous moralitý, Said on a day betwixt them two right thus: ‘A lord is lost, if he be vicious. [An irous man is like a frantic beast,
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