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In signe of trouthe / that is in wommen sene
And al with oute the Mewe / is peynted grene
In which ther were ypeynted / alle thise false fowles
As beth thise tidyues / tercelettes and Owles
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Right for despit were peynted hem bisyde
And pyes on hem / for to crie and chyde
¶ Thus lete I Canacee / hir hauk kepyng
I wol namoore as now / speke of hir ryng
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Til it come eft to purpos for to seyn
How that this ffaucon / gat hire loue ageyn
Repentant as the storie telleth vs
By mediacion of Cambalus
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The kynges sone / of which I yow tolde
But hennes forth / I wol my proces holde
To speken of auentures / and of batailles
That neuere yet was herd / so grete meruailles
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¶ ffirst wol I telle yow / of Cambynskan
That in his tyme / many a Citee wan
And after wol I speke of Algarsif
How that he wan Theodera to his wif
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ffor whom ful ofte / in greet peril he was
Ne hadde he be holpen / by the steede of bras
And after / wol I speke of Cambalo
That faught in lystes / with the bretheren two
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For Canacee / er that he myghte hire wynne [folio 126b]
An ther I lefte / I wol ayeyn bigynne
¶ Explicit secunda pars .
¶ Incipit pars tercia .
Appollo whirleth vp / his Chaar so hye
Til that the god / Mercurius hous the slye [[Rest of the page blank]]
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