¶ Hic consiluit eos ad reuertendum ad patriam.
— — [No gap in MS., but the copyist seems to have dropt some lines.] With sorwe but ligge and dethe a-bide— [folio 182a]
Off oure liggyng may not be-tyde
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But gret periles & drede of deth.
We take to vs an euel breth,
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¶ When we be-gonne furst this batayle,
And lefft oure contre euery dele,
And come her to gete batayle
On stronge men & hem assayle;
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So fele gode as we ther-by
Haue lorn of oures dispitously
That haue here ben a-mong vs slayn,
And al for the loue of dame Elayn!
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By him that me to man has wroght!
We haue to dere hir lyff aboght,
And many good men has sche mad sterue.
Another womman may we serue
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Menelaus for to haue
To his wyff,—so god me saue!—
That schal be genteler than was sche,
In many landes & many contre.
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¶ And we may remewe by skyl
With-oute blame, when so we wil;
For we haue take shenful vengaunce
Off the wrong and of the greuaunce,
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Off the schame & of the slaunder
That to vs did Alysaunder:
For we haue sclayn the douȝtiest man
That lyued In erthe, sithen we be-gan—
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¶ Ector that we haue don to dede,
He was alther lord and hede,
He was alther mayntenour.
Off his dedis with gret honour
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Now haue we wonne suche worschepe,
That we may wel with-oute schenchipe
