I slow Samson schakynge þe piller
And myne ben the maladijs colde
The darke tresounnys & the castis olde
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Myn lokynge is þe fadir of pestelence
Now wep no more I schal don diligence
That Palamoun that is þyn owene knyȝt
Schal han hese lady as þou hast hym hyȝt
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Though Mars schal helpe hese knyȝt ȝit neuertheles
Be-twixen ȝow there may ben sumtyme pes
Alle be ȝe not of on complexioun
That causeth al day swich dyuysioun
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I am thyn aiel redi at thyn wille [folio 166a]
Wep now no more I wil þyn lust fulfylle
Now wil I stynte of the goddis aboue
Mars & venus goddesse of loue
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And tellyn ȝow as goodly as I can
The grete effect for whiche þat I began
[PART IV. [No gap in the MS.] ]
Gret was the feste in Athenys þat day
And ek the lusti sesen of þat may
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Made euery whitht to ben in swich plesaunce
That al that moneday Iustene they & daunce
And spendyn it in venus hey seruyse
And by the cause that þey schulde ryse
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Erly for to sen the grete fyȝt
Vnto here reste wente þey þat nygh[t]
And on the morwe whan þat day gan sprynge [[General imita|tion of VII. 95-99.]
Of hors & harneys noyse & claterynge
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There was in ostelleryis al aboute
And to the paleys rod þere manye a route
Of lordys vp-on stedis & palfreyis
There mayst þou sen / deuysyng of harneys
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So vncouth & so ryche & wrough so wel
Of gold smetheris / of broudynge & of stel
