Iam que domos patrias scitice post aspera gentis Prelia Laurigero, &c.
Incipit fabula Militis
Whilome was as holde stories tellen vs
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There was a Duke [Boccaccio calls Teseo 'duca di Atene' (I. 13), and says that his father Egeo was 're d'Atene' (I. 6).]
Of Athenes he was lorde and gouernoure
And in his time suche a conqueroure
That gretter was none vndere þe sonne
fful Mony a riche Contre had he wonne.
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What wiþ wisdome and his Chiualrie [Books I-II.]
He conquered al þe Regne of ffemynye.
That whilom cleped was Scithia
And wedded þe qwene ypolita
Line 868
An browht hire home wiþe him in to his contre
Wiþ muche glorie and grete solempnite
And eke hire ȝonge sustere Emelye
And þus wiþ victori and melodie
Line 872
Latt .I. þis nobul Duc to Athenes ride
And all his hoste in aremes be his side
And certes if it nere to longe to here
.I. wold haue told fully þe manere
Line 876
How wonnen was þe Reigne of ffemynye
By Theus and be his Chiualrrye
And of þe grete Bataile for þe nones
Be-twixen Athenes and Amaȝones
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And how asseged was ypolyta [folio 12b]
The faire hardie quene of Scithia
And of þe fest þat was att hir weddeynge
And of þe tempest at hire home comynge.
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Bot al þat þinge .I. mot at nowe for-bere
.I. haue gode wote a large felde to ere
And weike bene þe Oxen in my plouhe
The remenant of þe tale is longe y-nouhe
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I. wil not letten eke none of þis route
