Sir Cleges
[L]ystyns, lordynges, and ȝe schall here [Ashmole MS. 61.]
Off ansytourres, þat be-fore vs were,
Bothe herdy and wyght,
Yn tyme of vter and pendragonn,
Kyng artour fader of grete renoune,
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A sembly man of syght.
He had a knyȝht, hyȝt sir clegys;
A douȝtyer man was non at nedys
Of þe ronde-tabull ryȝht.
He was man of hy statour
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And þer-to feyre of all fetour,
A man of mekyll myȝht.
Mour curtas knyȝht þan he was one
Yn all þis werld was þer non.
He was so gentyll and fre,
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To squyres þat traueyled in lond of werre
And wer fallyn in pouerte bare,
He gaff þem gold and fe.
Hys tenantes feyr he wold rehete;
No man he wold buske ne bete;
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Meke as meyd was he.
Hys mete was redy to euery man
That wold com and vyset hym than;
He was full of plente.
