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“Nay, more, if any Knight uphold as true, and with his brand and lance the cause defend, in lists or rasèd field, the same should rue foul infamy, or come to cruel end: The woman-weakness which but little knew, if e’er, such foul reproach, and yet which ken’d its want of nat’ural force could only crave their friends to succour and their kin to save.