Boccaccio:
(no analogue)
Petrarch:
non quod singulare aliquid habeam ad hanc rem, nisi quod tu me inter alios carum tibi multis indiciis comprobasti.
not because I have any especial privilege, unless it be that you have shown by many signs that you hold me dear among the others.
Chaucer:
Al have I noght to doone in this mateere
Moore than another man hath in this place;
Yet for as muche as ye, my lord so deere,
Han alwey shewed me favour and grace,
I dar the bettre aske of yow a space
Of audience to shewen oure requeste,
And ye, my lord, to doon right as yow leste.
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