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Natalie ive always liked the name saige (rhymes with cage) other names:
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Quant il furent esleu, chascun y porta une saiette d'icelui saige homme qui ainsi les avoit enseignés.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Quant il furent esleu, chascun y porta une saiette d'icelui saige homme qui ainsi les avoit enseignés.
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Note 81: While this may have been the case for much of the work, there are references in the same obstetrical chapter to assistance by a midwife (saige baile) that moves beyond the realm of a self-help manual.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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"Celui qui ne craint fortune n'est pas bien saige."
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887
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Duchess Isabella, as time showed, was a woman of strong character and deep feeling, but she never seemed to have acquired any influence over her feeble husband, and found herself powerless to arouse him to any sense of his position, "_La dicte fille_" says Commines, "_etoit fort courageuse et eut volontier donné crédit à son mary, si elle eut pu, mais il n'etoit guère saige et révélait ce qu'elle lui disait_."
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887
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