Ase þai com ride þourȝ þe toun,
Erles, barouns of renoun [Turnbull line 3614]
Hadde wonder of here armes slie,
In þat londe neuer swich þai sie.
Line 3792
Þe trompes gonne here bemes blowe;
Þe kniȝtes riden out in a rowe,
& þo þe tornement be-gan,
Þar was samned mani a man, [Turnbull line 3620]
Þe tornement to be-holde,
Line 3797
To se þe kniȝtes stout and bolde.
Þai leide on ase hii were wode
Wiþ swerdes and wiþ maces gode;
Line 3800
Þar nolde noman oþer knowe, [Turnbull line 3625]
Þar men miȝte se in lite þrowe
Kniȝtes out of sadel iboren,
Stedes wonne and stedes loren.
Line 3804
Þe kinges sone of Asie
Þouȝte wenne þe meistrie: [Turnbull line 3630]
Out of þe renge he com ride,
& Beues nolde no leng abide;
Line 3808
He rod to him wiþ gret randoun,
& wiþ Morgelai, is fauchoun,
Þe prince a felde in þe feld; [Turnbull line 3635]
He was boren hom vpon is scheld.
Line 3812
And also Beues adoun bar
A noble duk, þat was þar:
In Aumbeforce cleped a wes
Line 3815
Balam of Nuby, wiþ outen les; [Turnbull line 3640]
Taile ouer top he made him stoupe
& felde him ouer is horses croupe,
And seuen erles he gan doun þrawe,
Sum iwonded and sum y-slawe.
Line 3820
Saber is sone, þat hiȝte Terry, [Turnbull line 3645]
Kedde, þat he was kniȝt hardy;
He leide on, alse he wolde awede,
And wan his lord mani gode stede.
Alle þo þat hii miȝte hitte,
Line 3825
Noman miȝte here strokes sitte. [Turnbull line 3650] [3777—3826:
On þe morwe, whan þe day was cleer, [On þe] A SN; At M. whan] þo N. þe d. w.] it was day SNM.] Line 1 Euery knyȝt and hys squyer [Eche N. hys] euery S; eche N; eke M; om. C.] Fayre queyntyse on hem gunne þrowe, [þem C. dyd on hem M.] For no man scholde hem knowe. [That M. no man] the maiden SNM. myght M. þem C; him S; om. N; not add. C. Whan they justed on that day, As the maide in the toure lay, add. M.] Sere B. dysgysyd al here wede [Sere] om. M. dysg. al] deuysede SN; dud on C; visud hym of M. here] hys CM.] Line 5 Off blak sendel and off rede, [off] om. S. rede] stede (!) M.] Florysschyd wiþ rosys off syluyr bryȝt, [Vernysched C; Stencelled S; And taccllid (!) N. Steyned all M. rosys] crosses N. off s.] om. SNCM. rosys—br.] russet C.] And þat was þyng off fful gret syȝt. [And] om. SNCM. was] a add. SNCM. þyng off] om. SM. fful gr.] mekull C; faire SNM.] Þey comen rydyng in þe weye,Beffs and Terry togedere þey tweye. [9 f.: And whan he come in to the felde, Meny a knyght he beheld; They sye in the grene way Knyghtis comyng in grett aray. M; om. SNC.] Line 10 A knyȝt was redy in þat grene, [A—redy] On prikede SN; Then oon prekyd forthe C; One there smote M. in] on C; to add. SNM. þat] þe SNCM.] And B. prekyd to hym, as I wene, [And sir (om. M) B. rood (went C; prekyd M) him aȝene SNCM.] And smot hym soo in þe schelde, [And—soo] Beues hym smote M. in] on M; vppon S; apon N.] Þat doun he ffel in to þe ffelde; [doun—to] he fell down in M.] Terry smoot on soo wiþ hys spere, [Terry—soo] Another Terry smote M. hys] a M.] Line 15 Þat doun to grounde he gan hym bere. [doun to] to the M. gan] dyd M.] Alle men þat were þere,Hadde gret wundyr, what þey were, [15—18 om. SN.] [17 f.: All that sye hym in that place, Mervelid sore of that caas. M.] For alle þat ȝeden hem aȝene, [For] And S; om. NM. ryden him SN; euer hym rode M.] Doun þey ffeld hem on þe grene. [Adoun (Down M) he SNM. playn SN.] [13—20 om. C.] Line 20E.]
