I slowh Sampsoun in schakyng þe piler
And myne ben þe maladies colde
The derke tresoun and þe castes olde
Line 2468
Myn lokyng is þe fadir of pestilens
Now wepe nomore I schal do my diligence
That Palomon þat is myn owen knight
Schal haue his lady as þou him bihight
Line 2472
þow marcz schal kepe his kniȝt ȝet neuerþeles
Bitwixe ȝou þer moot som tyme be pees
Al be ȝe nouȝt of oo complexioun [folio 33b]
That ilke day causeþ such diuisioun
Line 2476
I am þi ayel redy at þy wille
wepe þou no more I wol þi lust fulfille
Now wol I stynt of þe goddes aboue
Of mars and of venus goddes of loue
Line 2480
And telle ȝou as pleinly as I can
The grete effecte for þat I bigan
. . . . . [no gap in the MS.]
GRet was þe fest in Athenus þat day
And eek þat lusty sesoun of þat may
Line 2484
Made euery wiȝt to ben in such plesaunce /
That al the monday iousten þey and daunce
And spende hit in venus heigh seruise /
But by þe cause þat þey schuln arise
Line 2488
Erly a morwe for to see þat fight
vnto þeir rest wente þey at nyght
And on þe morwe whan þe day gan spryng
Of hors and hernoys noyse and clateryng
Line 2492
Ther was in þe oostes al aboute
And to þe paleys rood þer many a route
Of lordes vpon steede and on/palfreys
Ther mayst þou see deuysyng of herneys
Line 2496
So vncowþ and so riche wrought & wel
Of goldsmithry of browdyng and of steel
