Wet hom with woundis, warpit hom doune,
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And myche baret on bent to þe buernes did.
Þan the grekes agayne getton the feld;
ffell was the fight foynyng of speires.
Miche harme, in þat hete, happit to falle
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On aither parte with pyne, þat put were to dethe.
The Mirmydons hade mynd of þe mayne troiell,
And laitede hym on the laund as the lede faght;
The compast the knight, closit hym within,
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On yche syde vppon hepes hastely strikon:
But mony of þo Mirmydons þe mayn knight slogh,
& woundit hom wofully a wondurfull noumber.
Þai hurlit of his helme, hade hit to ground,
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Harmyt the hode, þat was of hard maile;
Rofe hit full Roidly, rent hit in peses,
Þat all bare was the buerne aboue on his crowne;
Yet he fendit hym fuersly, fele of hom kild,
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And gird hom to ground, þat greuyt hom most.
Than Achilles with angur come angardly fast,
Segh the hathell all to-hurlit, & his hede bare,
And no helpe of his hynd (men) hastid him to.
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With a fauchon felle he flange at the knight,
Slough him full slawthly with sleght of his hond,
And hade of [his] hede vndur horse fete.
He light doun lyuely, leuit hym not so,
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ffestnyt hym vp fuersely, by his fete euyn,
Hard by the here of his horse tayle, [folio 158b]
And hurlit hym with hethyng þurgh þe hoole ost.
Thow Omer, þat oft-tymes openly writis
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Of þat buerne in þi boke, as best of his hondes,
Or wegh þat is worshipfull, & wight of his dedis,
He comendith hym kyndly as a knight noble;
