Saidon the same kyng sone after þis;—
'Þat Dyamede þe derfe, & doghty Vlixes,
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To Palomydon in priuete presit to-gedur:
Þai toldyn hym full truly, in hor trayn feble,
Þat, doune in the dongyn of a dry pit,
Was a gobet full grete, all of gold, hid,
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Of tresoure of the toune, for takyng with fos.
Yf hym-self wold assent þe soume forto gete,
In priuete to part, þat no prise wyst;
Onon, at þe nyght, þo nobill,' þai saidyn,
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'Wold boune to þe bonke barly hom-seluyn,
All þe gold forto gripe, if hym gode likid.
Þen þe soueran assentid with a sad will;
Dred no dyssait of his dere kynges.
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Past furth to þe pit priuely all,
Vne aboue to þe bordur, & bodyn þere all.
Þen þai fraynet qwiche freke, þat schuld first enter:
And Palamydon, þe prise kyng, put hym þerto;
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Cast of his clothis cantly & wele, [folio 193b]
And his hose in hast, highit hym doun.
When þe prinse was past to þe pit bothum,
Þe buernes on þe bonk bet hym with stonys,
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And euyn dang hym to deth in þe derk hole,
Left hym þer lyond, & lurkit to þaire tentis.'
Þus told was þe tale, & full tru made,
To þe nobill kyng Nawle, of his nayt sone,—
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Lappit with a ligher in his laith hate,
Þat derit mony dughti, & drepit for ay.
Naule þen onon, for noy of þis tale,
With Othé his othir son, ordant belyue
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Þe grekis for to greue, & to ground bryng,
ffor þe sake of his sone, vppon sum wise.
Hit was told hym for tru, in tyme of þe wynter,
Þe grekis with hor grym ost were gon to þe se,
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