Enon lurkys to his loge, & laide hym to slepe.
By the renke hade hym restid ryses the sun,
Brightis all the burghe and the brode valis;
Meuyt ouer the mounteyns men to beholde.
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Jason feynit with fare as he hade fast sleppit,
And now rapis hym to ryse & rom from his bede.
With Ercules and oþer mo of his aune men,
He sues furth on þe soile to Chethes the kyng,
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In company of kynges and oþer clene burnes.
Whan he was ware of þe wegh, welcomed hym faire,
And spird at hym specially what his spede were.
Than Jason vnioynid to the gentill speche:—
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"Lord, and it like you, longe am I here!
Wold ye graunt me your grase goodly to wende,
I wold boune me to batell, and take my bare aunter,
Yon worthy wethir to wyn, & your wille be."
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THE COUNSELL OF CHETES TO JASON.
The Kyng þan full curtesly karpes agayne:
Sais, "Jason, this Jorney is no ioye in,
I am ferd, by my faith, of þi frele yowth,
þat hit lede þe to losse and þi lyffe tyne,
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And me harme for to haue of thy hegh wille,
To be sclaundret of þi skathe, & þou skape noght.
Þerfore ffrynd, by my faith, vppon faire wise,
I counsell þe in kyrt, kaire to þi londe,
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And put of þis purpos, for perille þat may folowe."
Jason carpes to the kyng, conyngly he said,
"Sir I hade counsaill in þis case er I come here, [folio 15b]
And ye shall boldly be blameles, þof me bale happyn,
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Þat I wilne of my wit & wilfull desyre."
Þan the kyng to þe knight carpes these wordes;—
"ffrynd þou shall fully haue fauer to wend,
