All the frigies vnfaire vnder fight endit.
Now furder how it felle I will faire telle.—
Sho assemblid hir seruandes with a sad wille,
Hade hom radly arayed for þe rode furth;
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Bryng horses to grounde and hernes anon,
To seche to Sitheria for solempne avowe;
And Venus to worship, as hir wele awe,
As ho heghly hade het for helping before.
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This Sitheria, for sothe, from þe same yle
Of Menelay þe mighty was but a mene spas,
And he souerain hym selfe & þe soile aght.
Tite, with outyn tariyng, atirit were all,
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Horses in haste & to hond brought;
The lady full louely was lifte vppon on,
A palfray of prise, prudly atyrit,
And glod on full gayly, þe gaynist to the bonke.
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There light þai full lyfely, lept into bote,
And were set ouer soundly into the same yle
Right with a Rother, and Rayket to bonke.
In hir atire to þe tempull tomly ho yode,
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Þere onestly sho offert, honourt hir goddes
With giftes of golde & of gode stones;
Tariet in the tempull, tentit to goumes;
Ho segh not þat semly, þen set hir to ground
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And proffert hir prayers to þe prise goddes.
These tythandes full titely told were to Parys,
Þat honerable Elan was entrid in þe tempull,—
Menelay mody wife þat he most louyt.
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He araiet hym full riolly with a route noble,
And past thurgh þe prese into þe proud tempull. [folio 48a]
He was enformyt before of þat fre lady,
Þat ho to Castor þe kyng accounttid was euon,
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And to Pollux: pure suster pristly to bothe.
Of hir fairehede feltymes hade þe freike herd.
ffro he þe semly hade sene he set so his egh,
