¶ Heraud a Sarazin smot,
Þat he fel doun fot hot
Dede of is stede.
Þe þredde, þe ferþe þat he mai hitte—
No man miȝte his strok wiþ-sitte.
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For wreþþe a wolde a-wede.
Wiþ is swerd of meche pris
Mani Sarazin a slouȝ, y-wis,
And made here sides blede.
Þe Sarazins seide hit was a fend
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Þe deuel hadde þeder i-sent
Þemeraile [Emeraile MS.] to spede.
¶ Þe king hadde a Sarazin,
His stiward, þat seruede Apolyn:
Heraud he gan þrete.
Heraud he mete & is men echon:
Hard þai hewe to-gedre anon,
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And delde dentes grete. [folio 170a:b]
Þe stiward was sconfited þere,
Abated was þe meister banere:
To fle þai nolde lete.
Heraud siwede him on a rabyte: [arabyte MS.]
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Hard hii gonne to-gedre smite
Sterne strokes and grete.
¶ Here scheftes schiurede, scheldes flitte,
Brenyes barsten, [barsteþ MS.] hauberk ritte:
Þar was strong bataile.
Heraud ouercom him in þat fiȝt,
And ladde him to his folk ariȝt,
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Wiþouten eni faile.
Prisouns þai toke gret plente:
Forþ hii wente to þat cite
To þemeraile,
& presente him þe stiward,
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Þat in werre was so hard,
Swiþe heȝ of paraile.
