That he nys clad and redy for to ryde
with hont/ and horn and houndes him byside
For in his hontyng haþ he such delyt
That is his ioye and his appetyt
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To been him self þe grete hertes bane
For after may he serueþ now Dyane
Cleer was þe day as I haue told or þis
And Theseus with alle Ioye and blys
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with his ypolita þe fayre queene
And Emelye cloþed al in greene
On hontyng be þay riden ryally
And to þe groue þat stood þer faste by
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In which þer was an hert as men him tolde
Duk Theseus þe streyte wey haþ holde
And to þe launde he rydeþ him ful right
There was þe hert y-wont to haue his flight
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And ouer a brook and so forþ in his weye
This duk wol haue of him a cours or tweye
wiþ houndes which as him lust to comaunde
And whan þis Duk was come in to þe launde
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vnder þe sonne he lokeþ right anon
he was war of arcite and Palomon
That foughten breeme as it were boores tuo
The brighte swerdes wente to and fro
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So hidously þat with þe leste strook
It seemeþ as it wolde felle an Ook
But what þey were noþing ȝit he woot
This duk wiþ spores / his courser he smoot
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And at a stert he was bitwix hem tuoo
And pullid out a swerd and cride hoo
Nomore vp peyne / of leesyng of ȝour heed
By mighty mars anon he schal be deed
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That smyteþ eny strook þat I may seen [folio 23b]
But telleþ me what mestir men ȝe been
That ben so hardy for to fighten heere
wiþoute Iugge or oþer officere
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