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.
From Marie de France
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
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