He hadde a Beres skyn / colblak / for old
His longe heer / was kembd / bihynde his bak
As any Rauenes fethere / it shoon for blak
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A wrethe of gold arm greet / of huge wighte
Vpon his heed / set ful of stones brighte
Of fyne Rubyes / and of dyamauntz
Aboute his Chaar / ther wenten white Alauntz
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Twenty and mo / as grete as any steer
To hunten at the leon or [[MS. or / or]] / the deer
And folwed hym / with mosel faste ybounde
Colered of gold / and tourettes fyled rounde
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An hundred lordes / hadde he in his route
Armed ful wel / with hertes stierne and stoute
With Arcite / in stories as men fynde
The grete Emetreus / the kyng of Inde
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Vp on a steede bay / trapped in steel
Couered in clooth of gold / dyapred weel
Cam ridynge / lyk the god of Armes Mars
His Cote Armure / was of clooth of Tars
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Couched with perles / white and rounde and grete
His sadel / was of brend gold newe ybete
A Mantel [was] / vp on his shulder hangynge
Brat ful of Rubyes rede / as fyr sparklynge
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His crispe heer / lyk rynges was yronne
And that was yelow / and glytered as the sonne
His nose was heigh / hise eyen bright citryn
Hise lippes rounde / his colour was sangwyn
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A fewe frakenes / in his face yspreynd
Bitwixen yelow / and somdel blak ymeynd
And as a leon / he his lookyng caste
Of fyue and twenty yeer / his age I caste
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His berd was wel bigonne for to sprynge
His voys / was as a trompe thondrynge
Vp on his heed / he wered of laurer grene
A gerland / fressh / and lusty for to sene
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Vp on his hand / he bar for his deduyt
