"gentilesse" meaning in Middle English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French gentilesce.",
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          "ref": "14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, edited by Richard Morris, London: Chaucer Society, 1886, Book 3, Metrum 6, p. 78, https://archive.org/details/chaucersboeceen00morrgoog For which þing it folweþ, þat yif þou ne haue no gentilesse of þi self, þat is to sein pris þat comeþ of þi deserte foreine gentilesse ne makeþ þe nat gentil. (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "text": "(literally, “For which thing it follows, that if thou not have no gentilesse of thyself, that is to say prize that cometh of thy desert, foreign gentilesse not maketh thee not gentle.”)",
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  "word": "gentilesse"
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