Sithen schippis ȝode [MS. ȝowe.] furst with sayl and wynd, [folio 64a]
Might neuere man In book fynd,
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With so gret wo to gete land,
As the Gregeys dede, I vndirstand.
PRothesaly hath his naue
Neyhondes lorn and his meyne
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Thorow his outrage and his vn-wit,
Opon the lond so harde he hit.
But than come sayland opon a rowe
Afftirward with sayles lowe
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An hundrid schippis gret and stronge
With semely mastes fair and longe
In-to that hauen war and wisly,—
Ther other men were wel grisly,
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In the water swam and flotered,
And there schippis a-boute totered;
And to the lond so sofft thei sette,
That thei were nothyng lette
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With bank ne cragge ne with ston.
But thenne come Troiens many on
To the bank to hem ful blyue,
Fro the lond hem to dryue.
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But in the schippis were goode archeres
With dartes and gonnes & Arb[l]asteres;
The Gregeis thenne her bowes bent
And many an arwe thei hem sent,
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Many a darte was ther cast and schotyn,
And many a bodi ouer-floten.
The Gregeis were apert and quyk,
That arwes on londe thei dede styk,
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That many of Troye to dethe fell
With dynt of Arwe and of qwarell;
Thei drow a-bak—so were thei hurt.—
The Gregeis on the lond sturt
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