¶ Sire Amis wiþ is meyne [C line 11641]
Wente hom to is contre
To þat emperour:
A ȝaf him is londes fre,
Boþe castel and cite,
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Wiþ wel meche onour.
Glad of him was þemperur fre:
Euer a was to him priue
Boþe in halle and bour.
And also was þerl Terry,
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Þat was þerles sone Aubry,
A man of gret fauour.
Heraud [Beraud MS. by a mistake of the rubricator.] & Reinbroun tok leue þo
Into Ingelonde te go: [C line 11629]
Þanne was þe leuedi in care.
Mani iurne þai ride þo [C line 11649]
Þourȝ Spayne & þourȝ londes mo:
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Into Bourgoyne þai come ware;
Þe contre was strued doun riȝt.
Heraud askede askede at a kniȝt
How hit was y-fare.
He seide, 'þe duk of Marce y-told,
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Þat is a stout kniȝt and bold,
Vs haþ y-brouȝt in care.
¶ Vpon our erl werreþ he:
He naþ leued boute þis cite,
Þat he naþ y-nome.
Ac þis castel is gode engyn:
Noblech a wereþ him þer-in
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Also a douȝti gome.
Wiþ him he haþ a noble kniȝt,
His souder, siker apliȝt,
Þat to him is y-come.
Ȝong a is, so þenkeþ me,
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Nouȝt twenti winter old nis he,
Ich telle þe at þe frome.
