And noght hedit þat hynde hertely in loue,
And þai hade laisure at lust þere likyng to say,
And wrixle þere wit & þere wille shewe:
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Ayther vnto oþer arghit hom noght.
Þai were assentid full sone sittyng to gedur,
And festoned þere forward how þai fare sholde.
Þan pertid þai priuely, Paris toke leue,
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And loutid þat louely, & ho hur luf kyste.
The knight with his company kayred fro þe tempull,
And sho beheld to þat hynd houyng full stille,
Lokyng on lenght with a loue ee,
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Ay folowyng on fer till he was forthe past.
THE RAUYSHYNG OF ELANE.
Then Parys forthe past proude at his hert,
Wele laburt with loue longit full sore;
Evyn shoke to his shippes þere shene men were in,
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And gedurt all the great greidly anon,
And said hom full soberly, er he sese wolde,
Thes wordys I wis, as ye wete shalle:—
"Now faithfull felowes, & my fre buernes!
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Hit is knowen to you kendly þe cause of our iourney,
Why Pryam has put vs þes partis vnto.
This was truly his entent, & takon vs in charge,
His sister Exiona to sese & we might,
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By any Way in this worlde & Wirdis vs demyt: [folio 50a]
And if vs happynt not hir to haue at our wille,
The Grekes for to greue on sum gret wise,
With all þe might þat we may our malice to kythe.
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And O nowise may we wyn þat woman to gete,
Withouten batell full bigge & a breme oste.
Telamon, the tore kyng, tentes hir so wele,
