Castels & citez þat he he of Isaac held,
Baronies & feez, he ȝald him ilk a scheld.
þe grete lordes Inglis, þat þe werre had gonnen,
Wer fulle glad of þis, Cipres so sone was wonnen.
BE side of S. Andrew was an Abbay,
Cape þe name men knew, & þer in herd þei say,
þat kyng Isaac was priuely hid þer in, [Captus est Isaac in quadaur abbatia,ubi absconditus fuit.]
To R. so þei spak, he went him out to wynne.
Isaac tiþing herd, R. com him to seke,
Ageyn R. he ferd, to fote he felle fulle meke,
& said, "Sir mercy, my life þou saue it me,
"Do not þat vilany, fettred þat I be.
"In prison þou me do, bot nouht in bondes bynde,
"I pray ȝow it be so, for schame of my kynde.
Said R. "þou salle haue at þin owen deuys,
"þi life I salle þe saue," Isaac he did vp rise.
"O dele," said þe kyng, "þis is a fole Briton.
"He spak no maner þing, for regne to gif raunson,
"Ne no þing him bisouht, he was of kynge's blode,
"Bot for prison bisouht, als fole þat couth no gode.
"Now er his anens wrouht, of siluere wele ouer gilt,
"Dayet þat þerof rouht, his was alle þe gilt.
Taken is he to loke to Berenger & Jone,
& þei him vndirtoke þo ladies euer ilkone.
[Et le Rey Richard ad mayntenaunt donez Al sene|schal de Cypre la garde des citez. Partaunt com il estait si vilement maygnez, Statyn le nase des ore est surnomez in the French, unless it be that in one of Mr. Anstis's Copies this verse, Statyn le nase des ore est surnomez, is wanting.] To Statin gaf R. þe cite in kepyng,
& bad him be stiward, als ore was with þe kyng.
