Schall wende wyth yow, yf mystur bene. [bene is evidently wrong, and therefore kene in the pre|ceding line is probably wrong. Qy. fre: be?]
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Ye schall wende to that foreste
And kepe hym, þere ye may beste.
I prey yow, let for nothynge,
But that ye hys body brynge.'
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Gye hym armed swythe well
Bothe in yron and in stele.
He hyed on hys errande faste:
Hys felows folowed hym at þe laste.
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The emperowre rose ȝerlye
And so dud Gye, wytterlye.
The emperowre and hys barons
Wente to þe forest of Lyons.
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When þat þey come thore,
The hunters fonde a wylde boore,
That was bothe wylde and kene:
He slewe þe howndys all bedene.
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The hunters faste dud hym chace:
The emperowre folowed wyth hys mace.
They had redyn but a whyle,
Vnnethe the mowntaunce of a myle:
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They sye nerehande them a lyght,
As hyt were of helmes bryght.
All full were the feldus
Bothe of hawberkys and of scheldus.
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'We be take,' they seyde, 'allas,
Confowndyd and slone in thys place.
Tyrrye, my frende so lefe and dere,
Come and see, that y see here.'
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He behelde on the hylle: [This line appears to be corrupt. See note.]
'Thou mayste þem see, and þou wylle:
They haue vs beset on euery syde,
That we may nodur go nor ryde.
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