Withe riche rebanes reuerssede, who þat righte redys,
Raylede with rubes one royalle arraye;
Hir hude was of hawe hewe, þat hir hede hydys, [I. of a haa hew.]
Wroghte with peloure and palle, and perrye to paye;
Schruedede in a schorte cloke, þat the rayne schrydes, [I. the rayn shredes.]
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Sett ouer with safyrs, fulle sothely to saye.
And thus wondirfully was alle þe wyghtis wedys; [I. Safers and seledyms, serclet on sydus. D. seladyues?]
Hir sadille semyde of þat ilke,
Semlely sewede with sylke; [I. With ryche sa savmhellus of sylke.]
One a muyle als the milke
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Gayely scho glydis.
III.
Thus alle in gleterande golde gayely scho glydis
The gates, with sir Gawane, by a grene welle;
Nane bot hym selfe one a blonke by þat birde bydis, [I. And a byrne on a blonke, that with the quene a-bydus.]
That borne was in burgoyne, by buke and by belle.
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He ledde þat lady so lange by þose landes sydys, [I. by that loghe sydus.]
Sythene vndir a lorere scho lyghte, lawe by a felle.
Sir Arthure, with his Erles, fulle Ernestly rydis,
To teche þame to þaire tristis, trewely to telle.
To þaire tristis he þam taughte, who þat righte trowes,
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Ilke a lorde, with owttyne lett,
At his triste was he sett, [I. Vn-to a tre ar thay sette.]
With bowe and with Barcelett,
Vndir þose bewes.
IV.
Vndir þose bewes þay bade, þose beryns so bolde,
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To bekire at þose barrayne, in bankis so bare.
Thay keste of þaire coppilles, in clyffes so calde; [folio 154b] [I. hathels in hye, herdus.]
Thay recomforthed þaire kenettis, to kele þame of care;
Þare myghte hirdmene, hendely forsothte, herdis by-halde,
Herkyn huntynge with hornnes, in holtis so hare. [42-45. The order of the lines is the same in I. as in D.] [(43). I. huntyng with horne.]
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