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“Thus doth the Duke experienced speak his mind, and of his bravest friends twelve names he quotes:
- That suit’able Champion be to each assign’d, he wills the namèd Knights be chose by lots;
- because the Dames be twelve; and when they find which Brave to which Belle-dame his life devotes, each unto each shall write and claim her rights, all to their King, the Duke to all the Knights.