¶ He þouȝte on is fader anon riȝt:
Ase fresch a was to fiȝt
Ase grehonde to hare.
Betwene hem twie was gret fiȝt:
Aiþer smot oþer in helmes briȝt,
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And delde dentes sare.
Þai hewe helm and scheldes bo:
Gret fiȝt was betwene hem to;
Swich herde ȝe neuer are.
Reinbroun made [made repeated in MS.] him to blede,
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And felde him doun of is stede:
Þanne was he out of care.
¶ Reinbroun be þe nose him tok,
And drouȝ to him, & faste him schok:
Þat greuede him ful sore.
His heued benome him he hadde
Ner it þat he merci gradde,
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& seide, 'sire R[e]inbroun, þin ore,
For þe fader loue Gii,
Þe beste kniȝt, sikerly,
Þat euer was y-bore.
Wiþ þat þow haue merci on me,
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Al me prisouns diliured be, [folio 173b:b]
And hennes for euermore.'
¶ R[e]inbroun seide, 'so y schel:
In þat forward y graunte wel
Þat þow aliue go,
So þe prisouns diliured be;
Þar-to þe treuþe pliȝte me
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Betwene vs-selue to.'
R[e]inbroun glad & bliþe is: [C line 11581]
He hadde diliured sire Amis,
Þre hondred kniȝtes & mo.
Into þe castel wenten hii,
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Þar was Heraud & þe leuedy
Ful of sorwe and wo.
