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Updated: May 7, 2025

Speak I sooth, my masters?" quoth he, turning toward them of the town. Said a burgher somewhat stricken in years, "Nought but sooth; peaceable men like to me eschew such servants; all the more because of this, that if one of these queens misbehave with the knife, or strayeth from her master's bed, the laws of the Burg meddle not therein.

William Morris - The Well at the World's End: a tale