[6-text p 486]
But naþeles som seiden þat it was /
wonder þing to make of ferne glas /
And ȝit is glas nouȝt like aisschen of ferne
But for þey han I-knowen it so ferne
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Therfor cesseth her ianglyng and her wonder
And sore wondred som of cause of þonder
On ebbe and flood on gossomer and on myst
And on alle þing til þat þe cause is wist
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Thus Ianglen þey and demen and deuyse
Til þat þe kyng gan fro his bord arise
Phebus hath lost þe angel merydyonal
And ȝit/ ascendyng was a best roial
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The gentil lyoun wiþ his adryan
whan þat þis gentil kyng þis Cambynskan
Ros fro his bord þer as he sat ful hye
Biforn him goth ful lowde menstralcye
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Til he cam to his chambre of Parementȝ
Ther as þer were diuers instrumentȝ
That is y-like an heuen for to heere
¶ Now dauncen lusty Venus children deere
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For in þe fissch. her lady sat ful heyȝe
And lokeþ on hem with a frendly eyȝe /
This noble kyng is set vpon his trone /
This straunge knight is fet to him ful sone [folio 152b]
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And in the daunce he gan with Canace /
her is þe reuel and þe iolyte
That is not able a dul man to deuyse
he most haue knowe loue and his seruise /
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And ben a festly man as freisch as may
That schulde ȝou deuyse such array
who couthe telle ȝou þe forme of daunce;
So vncouth and such a freisch countinaunce
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Such subtil lokyng of dissimilynges
For drede of Ialous folk apparceyuynges
No man but launcelet and he is deed
Therfore I passe ouer al þis lustyheed
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