how atthalaunce huntyd þe wilde bore
And Melyagre / and many anoþer mo
For which Dyane wrought him care and woo
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Ther saugh I eek many anoþer story
The which me list not drawe in to memory
This goddess son / an hert ful hy he seet
with smale houndes at hire feet
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And vnder-neþe hir feet sche had þe moone
wexyng it was and schulde wane soone
In gaude greene hire statue cloþed was
wiþ bowe in hande and arwes in a cas
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hir eyȝen caste sche ful lowe adoun
Ther Pluto haþ his derke regioun
A womman trauailyng was hire biforn
But for hire child so longe was vnborn
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Ful pitously lucyna gan she calle
And seyde help / for þou mayst best of alle /
wel couþe he peynte lyfly þat it wrouȝt
wiþ many a floren he þe hewes bought
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Now been þise listes maad and Theseus /
That at his grete cost arayed þus
The temples and þe Theatres euery del
whan it was don it liked him right wel
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But stynt I wil of Theseus a lite
And speke of Palomon and of Arcite
THe day approcheþ of her attournyng [folio 28b]
That euery schuld an hundred kniȝtes bryng
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The batail to derreyne as I ȝou tolde
And til athenes her couenant to holde
hath euery of hem brought an .C. knightes
wel armed for þe werre at alle rightes
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And sikerly þer trowed many a man
That / neuer siþþen þat þis world bigan
For to speke of knighthod of her hond
As fer as god haþ maked see or lond
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Nas of so fewe so good a company
