This Othe, with ournyng, ordant belyue
Letturs, by a lede þat he leell trist,
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To Agamynon gay wif, gert hym to beire,
Þat Clunestra was callid, as the clause tellus.
To hir he certifiet sothely in his sad lettur,
Þat Agamynon had goten to his gay spouse,
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Of Priam a prise doghter, prayset full mekull:
Hir he broght in his barge to his burgh hom,
Þat faire forto feffe in his fre londes:
And ho mvn douteles be dede, & done fro hir right.
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Þan he counseld Clunestra, er þat cas fell
To be war of þat wegh, & wait on hir-seluyn.
The lady leuit the lettur þat the lede sent,
And þonkit hym þroly with þonks in hir hert:
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She compast by course, in hir clene wit,
How this vilany to venge, & voide of hir harme.
OFF THE DETHE OF AGAMYNON AND ÞE EXILE OF DYAMEDE BY ÞERE WYUYS, FFOR THIS LETTUR.
When this worthy of wothe wan to his reame,
Out of perell and pyne of the pale ythes,
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Clunestra, that clere, come hym agayne, [folio 194b]
His worshipfull wife, with a wale chere;
Resayuit hym with Reuerence, as Renke to his owne,
With a faynond fare vndur fals thoght.
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This Clunestra the clere, as the clause tellus,
ffor lacke of hir lord laiked besyde.
Whille he faryn was to fight in a fer lond,
Sho spilt hade hir spousaile, sparit ho noght:
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And lodly in hir law the lady hade synnet.
Engest, with his Japis, hade Justilet hir with,
And getyn in his gamyn on the gay lady,
A doghter þat was dere, in hor derne play.
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