Better vs is to giue, & saue vs fro disceite,
þan with our fo men lyue in seruage so streite.
THE kyng þis pay has nomen, & in cofres has, [De adven|tu Antonii.]
Sir Antoyn home is comen fro Almayn þer he was.
þe bisshop of Deuelyn don has his endyng,
Sir Hugh gode hele is in, & comen is to þe kyng.
þe ersdeken of Richemunde to þe pape is sent,
Sir Jon of Crawecombe with him is he went,
þe pape forto telle þe sothe how it was,
& in his dome to duelle, who did most trespas.
Toward Portesmouthe þe kyng fast drouh,
To werre as he wele couthe, he ordeynd whilk & how,
First to be cheftayn, to Gascoyn forto go,
Sir Jon of Bretayn formast on of þo,
Sir Jon Sayn Jon he knewe wele þat cuntre,
[Robert de Tiptoft, e son fiz aynez, MSS. Gall.] Roberd Tiptoft an oþer, on his sonne salle with him be;
Sir Laurence of Sauueye, also he was þare.
þei aryued alle o weye at Burgh sur la Mare.
þiderward [Le Count de Nichole fu laun|dreit aprestez, Par maunde|ment le Reis le Count est retournez, La resoun pur quay, vous dirray escotez, MSS. Gall.] as als he went, Sir Henry þe Lacie,
þe kyng eft for him sent, I salle telle ȝow whi.
IN Wales is a schreward to werre risen on, [Resmira|duk iterum movet bel|lum in Wal|lia.]
For he wend Sir Edward ouer þe se wer gon,
