The xxvij Boke: of (xxiij) Batell of þe Cite of Croy. [MS. has xxj]
Priamus, for pité of his pure sons, [MS. has "Paris" and "Priamus" written above.]
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Hade no wille for to weire, ne the wallis pas.
Two monethis with might, er he meue wold,
The yates to yeme he yepely comaundit.
The troiens in the tyme, as the text sais,
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With myche sorow in the Cité, sobbyng vnfaire,
Hade no hope of þere hele: þan þere hert failet,
And þai drepit in dole, as þai degh shuld.
Agamynon, by graith men, to þe gret send
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Oft-sythes, for sothe, in the same tyme,
Bade hym send furth his soudiouris, assemble to feld,
And buske vnto Batell, or his burgh yelde.
The noble hym denyet, for noy þat might happon,
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He drede hym full depely for desteny feble, [folio 165b]
Lest his folke in the feld were fynally distroyet;
And for hope þat he hade of a helpe sone.
Of Amysones auntrus atlet the qwene,
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Þat was born to the burghe in the bare tyme,
Honerable Ector in armes to helpe.
There out in the Orient, in old mens dayes,
A prouynse of prise, þat prestly was cald
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Amysone with all men, aftur full longe,
There wond in no wegh but wemen allone,
