This is to seyn / that wheither he or thow
May with his hundred / as I spak of now
Sleen his contrarie / or out of lystes dryue
Thanne shal I yeue / Emelya to wyue
Line 1860
To whom þat ffortune / yeueth so fair a grace
Tho lystes / shal I maken in this place
And god so wisly / on my soule rewe
As I shal euene Iuge been and trewe
Line 1864
Ye shul noon oother ende / with me maken
That oon of yow / ne shal be deed or taken
And if yow thynketh / this is weel ysayd
Seyeth youre auys / and holdeth you apayd
Line 1868
This is youre ende / and youre conclusion
¶ Who looketh lightly now / but Palamon
Who spryngeth vp for ioye / but Arcite
Who kouthe telle / or who kouthe endite
Line 1872
The ioye / þat is maked in the place
Whan Theseus / hath doon so fair a grace
But doun on knees / wente every maner wight
And thonken hym / with al hir herte and myght
Line 1876
And namely the Thebans often sithe
And thus with good hope / and with herte blithe
They taken hir leue / and homward gonne they ride
To Thebes / with hise olde walles wyde
Line 1880
¶ Explicit secunda pars
¶ Sequitur pars tercia
I trowe / men wolde deme it necligence
If I foryete / to tellen the dispence
Of Theseus / that gooth so bisily
To maken vp / the lystes roially
Line 1884
That swich a noble Theatre / as it was
I dar wel seyn / in this world ther nas
The circuit / a myle was aboute
Walled of stoon / and dyched al with oute
Line 1888
Round was the shape / in manere of compaas
