hic incipit fabula [folio 115] [[No breaks are between the stanzas in the MS.]]
Ther is riht att þe west side of Itaile
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Doune att þe rote of Vesulus þe colde
A lusti pleine aboundaunt of vitaile
Where mony a toure and toune þou maiste beholde
Þat founden were in time of faders olde
And mony anoþer delitable siht
And Saluces þe noble contre hiht
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A markes whilome lorde was of þat lande
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[As were his worthi elderes hym be-fore [MS Reg. 18 C 2 folio 131b] [[MS Reg. 18 C 2omits l. 66-7.]] ]
And obeissan aie redy to his hande
Were al his lieges boþe lesse and more
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Þus in delite he leueþ and haþ done ȝore
Beloued and drad þorwhe fauoure of fortune
Boþe of his lordes and of his comune
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Þere-wiþ he was as to speke of Lignage
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A faire person and stronge and ȝonge of age
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The gentillest bore of lombardye
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[And ful of honoure and of curtesye [[MS Reg. 18 C 2]] ]
Discrete ynouhe his Contre for to Gye
Saue in summe þinges he was to blame
And Waltier was þis ȝonge lordes name.
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I. blame him þus þat he considerd nouht
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In time comynge what myht him be-tide
Botte on his luste present was al his þouht
[And for to hauke and hunte on euery syde [MS Reg. 18 C 2 folio 132a] ]
Wel nyhe al oþere Cures lete he slide
And eke he nolde þat was þe werst of all
Wedde no wife for owhte þat maie befall
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