Here armes vayled not an hoppe, [folio 82b]
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He smot In-two bothe chanel and choppe;
He sclow an hundrid then and mo,
Thei were so ferd, that alle tho
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Be-gan bacward to fle,
Thei durst not ones with eye him se.
¶ Ayax thoght, he was be-swyked,
When his men a-way priked;
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In his hert hadde he gret wo,
He wiste not what for to do;
He loked on bak toward here stale.
So mery was neuere Nightyngale
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Syngand In no hasel-crop,
Ne no child playing with his top [MS. thop.] ,
As Ayax was that ilke tyde,
When he hadde loked him be-syde:
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¶ He saw be-hynde him stondyng right
A ffresche Gregey, that was neuere aflyght
Out of that stede, toward that fyght
With twenti thousand rekened aryght;
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Ther was the flour of chiualrye
Off Grece certes and Thesalye.
Vnto that batayle come thei hard
With baneres brode and here standard;
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Ayax schewed his men that sight
And bad hem for schame fyght.
THe kyng come then of Cassedone,
To helpe Ayax with-oute essoyne;
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He broght with him to that poyne
Off gode knyghtes thousandes tweyne.
¶ The same tyme come thedur also
With bothe her ostes kynges two,
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With hem come thousandes seuene;
Ȝet leffte be-hynde twyes eleuene
