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"text": "þerfoꝛ greet ioie was maad in þat citee but þer was a man in þat citee whos name was ſymount a wicch þat hadde diſſeyued þe folk of ſamarie. ſeiynge þat him ſelf was ſum greet man / whom alle herknyden. fro þe leest to þe moost .· ⁊ ſeiden / þis is þe vertu of god .· which is clepid greet",
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"ref": "1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book I, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:",
"text": "Some of the kynges had merueyl of Merlyns wordes and demed well that it shold be as he said\n And som of hem lough hym to scorne\n as kyng Lot\n and mo other called hym a wytche\n But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges.",
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"text": "þerfoꝛ greet ioie was maad in þat citee but þer was a man in þat citee whos name was ſymount a wicch þat hadde diſſeyued þe folk of ſamarie. ſeiynge þat him ſelf was ſum greet man / whom alle herknyden. fro þe leest to þe moost .· ⁊ ſeiden / þis is þe vertu of god .· which is clepid greet",
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"text": "Some of the kynges had merueyl of Merlyns wordes and demed well that it shold be as he said\n And som of hem lough hym to scorne\n as kyng Lot\n and mo other called hym a wytche\n But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges.",
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