The xxxij Boke: Of the Lesyng þat was made to Kyng Nawle; and of dethe of his son Palomydon.
Thys ylke tyme of the toile, tellis the story,
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There wont a kyng on the coste, in a cuntre of grece,
Hight Naulus to nome, an old man of age.
He hade londes full long, & of leue brede, [folio 192a]
And the grettist of Grise, of gronnde & of pepull.
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After a syde of the sea, sothely to telle,
Was a-party a prouynse, pight full of hilles,
With roches full rogh, ragget with stones,
At the full of the flode flet all aboue,
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By the bourdurs aboute, bret full of rokkes.
This noble kyng Nawlé hade naite sons two
At Troy in the toile the toune for to wynne,
Comyn in company of the kyde grekes,
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And fuerse men in fight, fell of hor dynttes.
The first of þo fuerse, and his fre ayre,
Was Palomydon þe pert, a prise mon in were:
And the yonger of yeres yepely was calde
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Othe with all men, abill of dedis.
Palomydon the pure, a prise mon of armys,
With a nauy full noble fro Naulus his ffader,
Past with a pepull prowde of aray,
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And turnyt vnto Tenydon, as I told haue.
The grekes, for his gretnes & his grym knightes,
