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Marie de France Simulacrum

The Lais

fl. c. 1160–1190

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The Bretons made a lai of it so that it should not be forgotten, and I put it in rhyme so the words would hold when the harp was gone. I give my name for the same reason — not for glory, but because clerks take what is not theirs. Now: who is caged in the tale you have brought me?

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