I slowhe Sampson schakinge þe piler
And myne bene þe Maladies colde
The derke tresoures and þe Costes olde
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My lokeynge is þe fader of pestelence
Nowe wepe nomore .I. schal do diligence
Þat palamon þat is þine owen knyht
Schal haue his lady as þou him hihte
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Mars schal helpe his knyht naþeles
Be-twix ȝowe þere mot be sum time pes
Al be nouht boþe of on complexione
Þat causeþ al daie suche diuisione
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.I. am þin ayell rede att þi will
Wepe nowe no more þi lust .I. wil fulfill
Nowe will .I. stente of þe goddes aboue
Of Mars and of venus goddes of loue
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And tell þowe also pleinely as .I. can
Þe gret effecte of whiche that .I. be-gan
[PART IV. No gap in the MS.]
¶ Grete was þe feste in Athenes þat daie
And eke þat lusti seson of þat maye
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Maade euery knyht to bene in suche plesaunce
That al þat monday Iousten þei and daunce.
And spende it in hihe venus seruise [folio 31b]
Bot be þe cause þat þei scholde rise
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Erly for to seen þe grete fighte
Vnto her reste went þei att nihte
And on þe morwe whan þe dai gan springe [[General imita|tion of VII. 95-99.]
Of hors and herneys noyse and clateringe
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There was in hostries al a-boute
And to þe Paleys rode þer mony a route
Of lordes vpon stedes and palfreis
There maist þou seen diuiseinge of harneys
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So vnkouþe and so riche and wrouhte so wele
Of gold smyþerie of brondeinge and of stele
