[The Second Fit.]
NOw hold ȝour mouth for charite
Boþe knight and lady fre
And herkneþ to my spelle
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Of batail and of chiualry
And of ladys loue drewery [folio 206a]
Anoon I wol ȝow telle /
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Men speken of Romauns of pris
Of horn child and of ypotis
Of Beuys and sir Gy
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Of sir libeaux and pleyn damour
But sir thopas bereþ þe flour
Of real Chiualry
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His goode steede he bistrood
And forth vpon his way he glood
As spark out of þe bronde
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Vpon his crest he bar a tour
And þer In stiked a lily flour
God schilde his corps fro schonde
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And for he was a knyȝt auntrous
He nolde slepen in noon hous
But liggen in his hood
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his brighte helm was his wonger
And by him baytith his destrer
Of herbes fyne and goode/
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