Ȝet was here deth depeynted þer byforn
By manasyng of marcȝ right by figure
So was it schewed right in þe purtreture
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As is depeynted in sterres aboue
who schal be slayn or elles deed for loue
Sufficeþ oon ensample in stories olde
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The statue of mars vpon a carte stood
Armed and loked grym as he were wood
And ouer his heed þer schyneþ two figures
Of sterres þat been cleped in scriptures
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That oon puella þat oþur Rubius
This god of armes was arayed þus
A wolf þer stood byforn him at his feet
wiþ eyen reed and of a man he eet
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wiþ sotyl pencel depeynted was þis storie
In redoutyng of mars and of his glorie
NOw to þe temple of Dyane þe chaste
As schortly as I can I wol me haste
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To telle ȝou al þe descripcioun
Depeynted ben þe walles vp and doun
Of huntyng and of schamefast chastite
Ther saugh I how woful Calystope /
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whan þat Dyane was agreued with here [folio 28a]
was turned from a womman to a bere
And after was sche maad þe loode-sterre
Thus was it peynted I can say no ferre
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hire son is eek aftir as men may see
Ther sawȝ I dyane turned in til a tree
I mene nouȝt þe goddes Dyane
But Peneus douȝter / þe whiche hight dane
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Ther saugh I atheon an hert I-maked
For vengance þat he saugh Dyane al naked
I saugh how þat his houndes han him caught
And freten him for þat þey knew him naught
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Ȝit I-peynted was a litel forþer more
