For which þis noble duk as he wel can
Comforteþ and honoureþ euery man
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And made reuel al þe lange night
vnto the straunge lordes as it was right
Ne þer was holden to discomfytyng
But as a Iustes or as a turmentyng
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For soþly þer was no discomfiture
For fallyng is but an aduenture
Ne to be lad wiþ fors vnto þe stake
Vnȝolden and wiþ twenty knightes take
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A person allone wiþouten moo
And rent forþ by arme foot and too
And eek his steede dryuen forþ wiþ staues
wiþ foote men boþe ȝemen and knaues
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It was aretted him no vylonye
Ne no maner man held it no cowardye
FOr which Theseus lowd anon leet crie
To stynten al rancour and al enuye
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The gree as wel on o syde as on oþer
And euery side lik as oþeres broþer
And ȝaf hem ȝiftes after here degre
And fully heeld a feste dayes þre
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And conueyed þe knightes worþily
Out of his toun a iournee largely
And hom went euery man þe righte way
Ther was no more but far wel haue good day
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Of þis batayl I wol no more endite [folio 37a]
But speke of Palomon and of arcyte
Swelleþ þe brest of Arcyte and þe sore
Encresceþ at his herte more and more
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The cloþred blood for eny lechecraft
Corrumpith and in his bouk I-laft
That noþer veyne blood ne ventusyng
Ne drynk of herbes may ben his helpyng
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The vertu expulsik or animal
For þilke vertu cleped natural
