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A woman both in Counsel wise,
Religious, fruitful, meek,
Who did increase her husband's friends
And larged his honour eke.

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata,
Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum.

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