If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
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Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
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