And knelynge / thanketh hire of that requeste
So glad he was / he nyste what to seye
She kiste hir sone / and hoome she gooth hir weye
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¶ Explicit prima pars
¶ Sequitur pars secunda.
Arryued been / this cristen folk to londe
In Surrye / with a greet solempne route
And hastifliche / this Sowdan sente his sonde
ffirst to his mooder / and all the regne aboute
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And seyde / his wyf was comen oute of doute
And preyde hire / for to ryde agayn the queene
The honour of his regne / to susteene
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Greet was the prees / and riche was tharray
Of Surryens and Romayns met yfeere
The mooder of the Sowdan / riche and gay
Recyueth hire / with also glad a cheere
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As any mooder / myghte hir doghter deere
And to the nexte Citee / ther bisyde
A softe paas / solempnely they ryde
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¶ Noght trowe I / the triumphe of Iulius
Of which / that Lucan maketh swich a boost
Was roialler / or moore curius
Than was thassemblee / of this blisful hoost
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But this scorpioun / this wikked goost
The Sowdanesse / for all hire flaterynge
Caste vnder this / ful mortally to stynge
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¶ The Sowdan comth hym self soone after this [folio 58a]
So roially / that wonder is to telle
And welcometh hire / with alle ioye and blis
And thus / in murthe and ioye I lete hem dwelle
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