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In signe of trouthe / that is in wommen sene
And al with oute / the Muwe is peynted grene
In which were peynted / alle thise false fowles
As been thise tydyues / terceletz / and Owles
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Right for despit were peynted hem bisyde
And Pyes / on hem / for to crye / 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 ffaukon / gat hir loue ageyn
Repentant / as the storie telleth vs
By mediacion / of Cambalus
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The kynges sone / of which I to yow tolde
But hennes fort I wol my proces holde
To speke of auentures / and of batailles
That neuere yet was herd / so greet 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 Algarsyf
How that he wan / Theodora to his wyf
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ffor whom ful ofte / in gret peril he was
Ne hadde he been 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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ffor Canacee / er that he myghte hir wynne
And ther I lefte / I wol ayein bigynne
¶ Explicit secunda pars.
[ [[Head-line.]] Inci]pit tercia pars. [folio 137b]
Appollo whirleth vp / his Char so hye
Til that / the god Mercuries hous the slye
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