And after rood þe queen and Emelye
And after hem of ladyes anoþer companye
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And after hem of comunes after here degre
And þus þey passeden þurgh þat cite
And to þe lystes come þei by tyme
It nas not of þe day ȝet fully pryme
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whan sette was Theseus riche and hye
ypolita þe queen and Emelye
And oþer ladyes in here degrees aboute
vnto þe settes passeþ al þe route
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And westward þorugh þe ȝates of mart
Arcite and eek þe hundred of his part
with baners ys I-entred right anoon
And þat selue moment Palomon
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Is vnder Venus Estward in þat place
with baner whyt and hardy cheer of face
IN al þe world to seeke vp and doun
So euen wiþoute Variacioun
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Ther nere suche companyes tweye [folio 35a]
For ther nas noon so wys þat cowþe seye
That any had of oþer auauntage
Of worthines ne staat/ ne of visage
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So euene were þey chosen for to gesse
And in two Renges faire þey hem dresse
And whan he names I-rad were euerychon
That in here nombre gile were þer noon
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Tho were þe gates schitt and cried lowde
Dooþ now ȝour deuoir ȝonge knightes proude
The heraldȝ laften here prikyng vp & doun
Now ryngede þe tromp and Clarioun
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Ther is no more to say but Est and west
In goþ þe speres in to þe Rest
Ther seen men who can Iuste and who can ryde
In goþ þe scharpe spere in to þe side
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Ther schyueren schaftes vpon schuldres þyk
he feeleþ þurgh þe herte spon þe prik
