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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Marie de France

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.

Marie de France

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

Marie de France

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

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.

Marie de France