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¶ Hir riche array / ne myghte nat be toold
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 hir likyng
How she in vertu / myghte hir lyf despende
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¶ And shortly / of this storie for to trete
So doughty was hire housbonde / and eek she
That they conquered / manye regnes grete
In thorient with many a fair Citee
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Appertenant vn-to the magestee
Of Rome / and with strong hond / heeld hem ful faste
Ne neuere myghte / hir fomen / 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 / þat al this proces / fil in dede
Why she conquered / and what title ther to
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And after / of hire meschief and hire wo
How that she was / biseged and ytake
Lat hym / vn-to my maister Petrak go
That writ ynow of this / I vndertake
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¶ Whan Onedake was deed / she myghtily [folio 93b]
The regnes heeld / and with hire propre hond
Agayns hir foos / she faught so cruelly
That ther nas kyng ne Prince in al that lond
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That he nas glad / if he þat grace fond
That she ne wolde / vp-on his land werreye
With hire / they made alliance by bond
To been in pees / and lete hire ryde and pleye
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