& to þem seyde, "God glade ȝow here!"
Bot yuel he let, wyþ sory chere.
" Knyghtes," he seide, "mykel y ȝow loue,
" I haue ȝow holpen to ȝoure aboue,
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" & more y wolde, ȝyf y hadde ought;
" Þys [lond] [lond. (ceste tere, Wace, i. 312, l. 6780.)] ys þe kynges, & myn ys nought;
" Here hauy nought þat ought amountes;
" Þat y spend of, y ȝelde acountes,
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" ffor y þys contre [lond. (ceste tere, Wace, i. 312, l. 6780.)] haue y nought;
" ffro fer hit comeþ þat me ys brought.
" To serue þe kyng y do my tent;
" Of hym hauy no lond ne rent,
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" So þat y may nought holde to me
" ffourty squiers [sergeanz. (sergans, Wace, i. 312, l. 6788.)] on al my fe;
" ȝyf y more hadde, hit were ȝour prow,
" Þer-fore nede y mot parte [bot nedes .I. mot.] fro ȝow;
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" & þat ouer-þynkes [forþenkes.] me ful sore,
" ffor pouere y am, & may namore.
" Bot ȝyf ȝe se þat y ought mende,
" Boldely comeþ to me, or sende,
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" And y schal fonde, at al ȝour nede,
" Boþe forto cloþe & [to] fede."
¶ Exe iam falcitas ffortygerny.
Fortyger þenne turned his bak; [Lambeth folio 31b:2]
Fals he was, & feyntyse spak;
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And þo þat hadden dronke wel,
Trowed his sawes [falsnes. P. leaves out the next two lines.] ylkadel;
His word to truþe al þey hit turned,
Þat he to falsnesse had perforned;
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Þey seide til oþer, "what haue ȝe mynt?
