the chambres and stablis weren wyde
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and wel weren eased at the beste
and shortly whan the sonne was to reste
so hadde I spokyn / with hem euerychon
that I was of here feloshipe anon
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and made forward erly for to ryse [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 1b]
to take oure wey / there as I yow devise
but nertheles while I haue tyme and space
or that I ferther in this tale pace
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me thynketh it accordant to reson
to telle yow al the condicion
of ech of hem so as it semed me
and which they were and of what degre
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and eke in what array that thei were inne
and at a knyght than woll I first bigynne
A knyght ther was and that a worthi man [¶ A knyght.]
that fro the tyme / that he first bigan
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to riden owt / he loued chyualrie
trouth and honour / fredom and curtesie
ful worthi was he / in his lordis werre
and ther-to had he riden / no man ferre
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as wel in cristendom / as in hethenesse
and euere honoured / for his worthynesse
At Alisandre he was whan it was wonne
ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne
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aboven alle nacions in Pruce
in Lectow hadde he reysed and in Ruce
no cristenman / so ofte of his degre
in Garnade at the sege eke hadde he be
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of Algezire and riden in Belmarye
at Lyeis was he and at Satalye
whan thei were wonne and in the grete see
at many a noble arme hadde he be
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at mortal batailles had he ben ffiftene
and foughten for our feith at Tramessene
in listes thries and ay slayn his foo
