[6-text p 266]
Hir riche array / ne myghte nat be told
As wel in vessel / as in hire clothyng
She was al clad / in perree and in gold
And eek / she lafte noght / for noon huntyng
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To haue of sondry tonges / ful knowyng
Whan þat she leyser hadde / and for to entende
To lerne bookes / was al hire likyng
How she in vertu / myghte hir lyf dispende
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And shortly / of this proces for to trete
So doghty was hir housbonde and eek she
That they conquered / manye regnes grete
In the Orient with many a faire Citee
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Apertenaunt vn-to the magestee
Of Rome / and with strong hond held hem ful faste
Ne neuere myghte / hir foo men doon hem flee
Ay / whil that Onedakes dayes laste
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Hir batailles / who so list hem for to rede
Agayn Sapor the kyng and othere mo
And how al this proces / fil in dede
Why she conquered / and what title therto [folio 177a]
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And after/ of hir meschief and hire wo
How þat she was / biseged and ytake
Lat hym / vn-to my maister Petrak go
That writ ynough of this .I vndertake
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Whan Onedake was deed / she myghtily
The regnes heeld / and with hire propre hond
Agayn hir foos / she faught so cruelly
That ther nas kyng ne prynce in al that lond
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That he nas glad / if he that grace fond
That she ne wolde / vp-on his lond werreye
With hire / they made alliance by bond
To been in pees / and lete hire ride and pleye
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