¶ Þe leuedi faire grete hem anon:
To vnarme hem hire-selue is gon
Wiþ a wel gode chere.
Here mete was redi wiþ-outen let: [C line 11293]
Anon hii were adoun y-set
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To þe sopere.
Heraud askede hire, y-wis,
'Dame, what þe lordes nam is
Fayn ich wolde hire.'
'Of þe Montayne he het Amis: [folio 172a:b]
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Wiþinne Almayne no swich þer nis,
Me leue frendes dere.
¶ A stiward was wiþ þemperour
(To al Almayne he was treitour),
Sire Berard of Paui:
Me lordes swike euer was he;
Þourȝ him in al þis sorwe we be.
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For þe loue of sire Gij,
Þat me lord louede wel,
& sokoured him in is castel,
We beþ in gret vileinie.
For þe dukes deþ Otoun,
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Þat was a treitour feloun,
He vs gan beliȝe,
¶ And made vs fle out of þat londe,
& in þis contre we beþ astonde,
Þat wonder is of siȝt:
Mechel Arderne cleped it is.
A fairy kniȝt herin is
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Þat is of meche miȝt:
Wiþ him ones fauȝt me lord,
& ȝaf him dentes wiþ is sword
Vpon is helm briȝt.
Wepne mai him dere non:
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He is so hard to hewe vpon
Ase marbel, y þe pliȝt.
