This is to seyn that wheþir he or þou
May wiþ his hundred as I spak of now
Sle his contrary or out of lystes dryue
Him schal I ȝeue Emelye to wyue
Line 1860
To whom þat fortune ȝeueþ so fair a grace [folio 25b]
The lyste schal I make in þis place
And god so wisly on my sowle rewe
As I schal euen iuge ben and trewe
Line 1864
ȝe schul non oþir ende wiþ me make
That oon of ȝow schal be deed or take
And if ȝou þinkeþ þis is wel I-sayde
Say ȝoure avys and holdeþ ȝow a-payde
Line 1868
This is ȝoure ende and ȝoure conclusioun
who lokeþ lightly now but Palamoun
who spryngeþ vp for ioye but arcite
who couþe telle or who couþe endite
Line 1872
The ioye þat is made in þis place
whan Theseus haþ don so fair a grace
But down on knees wente euery wight
And þanked him with al here hertes might
Line 1876
And namely þe thebanes ofte siþe
And þus wiþ good hope and herte bliþe
They taken here leue and hom-ward þey ryde
To Thebes / wiþ olde walles wyde
Line 1880
. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
ATrow men wolde / it deme necligence
If I forȝete to telle þe dispence
Of Theseus þat goþ so busily
To maken vp þe lystes rially
Line 1884
& such a noble theatre as it was
I dar wel say þat in þis world þer nas
The circuite þer was a myle aboute
walled of stoon and dyched al wiþoute
Line 1888
Round was þe schap in maner of compaas
