Interea comes qui eum tenebat, mirari, et interrogare coepit quare ligari non posset, an forte literas solutorias de qualibus fabulae ferunt, apud se haberet, propter quas ligari non posset.
In the meantime the retainer that kept him began to wonder and to enquire of him what the cause was that he could not be bound, and whether he chanced to have about him spells for loosing, such as men talk of, that by the virtue of them he could not be bound.
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