A royal historie of the excellent knight Generides. Ed. from the unique ms. of John Tollemache ... by Frederick J. Furnivall. Roxburghe club.

HERE begynnetħ a royał historie of the excellent knight Generides, king Aufreus son̄, king of Ynde, that he gate on a faire ladie called Sereyne, doghtre and heire vnto the king of Surre, as he went on huntyng in a forest, and was conveid vnto hir by an hert wħicħ his houndes ran̄ to, which was ordeined him by fate and destynye: like as oon̄ of the seven̄ sages called Caton̄ declared vnto hire the cause whi. whicħ seid child conquered after many Regions bi his grete noblesse, And was a famous Prince, and A goode cristen man̄, and a charitable to ałł maner of peōple, and was maried unto Clarionas, the Sowdanes doghtre, and heire of Perse. Aftir whos decesse he was king of Perse by hire, And converted the countre to the cristen̄ lawe: And after sleugh Amalek the fals steward whicħ hadd put oute his fadre Aufreus king of Ynde from his countre. and toke his quene from him, the which was called Syrenydes, doghtre and heire vnto the king of Affrik, and held hir, and kept hir from the king Aufreyus by stong hond, by hir own free wiłł and vntrew agrement, which aftirward died in grete miserie and mischefe, and for sorow, whan the fals steward was sleyn̄, and toke him in hir armes, and so she died with him for verray shame of hir vntroutħ ayeinst hir husbond, And hou king Aufreus, whan he was put out of [Ynde] by his fals steward, went in to the lond of Tarce, and ther was chosen steward of the lond: And after the king of Tharse decesed, and then̄ was Aufreus chosen king of the lond by thassent of ałł the lordes and comoun̄s tħurgh his goodelie and worshipfułł demeanyng. And hou bi fortune the Quene Sereyne, Quene of Surre, the moder of Generides, was aspied in Tharse by the whasshing oute of the teeres of Aufreus shirt, which she wept vpon it whan̄ she lay with Aufreus the same night that Generides was ygoten̄ betwen̄ hem twoo in the forest, which teres wold neuer out of the shirte: But with hir whashing, or elles that she had died, And how that Aufreus than wedded hir. and was tho crowned Quene of Tharse, As ye may here in this boke see itt more pleinlie declared here aftir.