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  • He printed some of those removed sections in his blog ( "peraventure thes kan be putte yn to the ‘speciale edition’ of the tales when they aren publisshede on dvd"):

    June 30th, 2006 anonymous_sibyl 2006

  • And zif 2 persones ben at debate, and peraventure ben accorded be here frendes or be sumn of here alliance, it behovethe that every of hem, that schulle ben accorded, drynke of otheres blood: and elle the accord ne the alliance is noghte worthe, ne it schalle not be ne repref to him to breke the alliance and the accord, but zif every of hem drynke of otheres blood.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And zif 2 persones ben at debate, and peraventure ben accorded be here frendes or be sumn of here alliance, it behovethe that every of hem, that schulle ben accorded, drynke of otheres blood: and elle the accord ne the alliance is noghte worthe, ne it schalle not be ne repref to him to breke the alliance and the accord, but zif every of hem drynke of otheres blood.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Except peraventure I shall take the self-same weed

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • And zif 2 persones ben at debate, and peraventure ben accorded be here frendes or be sumn of here alliance, it behovethe that every of hem, that schulle ben accorded, drynke of otheres blood: and elle the accord ne the alliance is noghte worthe, ne it schalle not be ne repref to him to breke the alliance and the accord, but zif every of hem drynke of otheres blood.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

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