¶ Hic Imperator misit Agamenon ad Thelaphum Regem.
Off corn, of best, of alle manere goode [folio 183b]
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That was to mannes note & foode.
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AGamenon with gode entent
Did his Princes comaundement,
With many schippes forth he ȝede;
Thei sayled forth with gode spede,
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The wynde was good & eke schrille,
Hit blew wel sone the lond vn-tille.
When thei hadde the lond y-lauȝt,
Her schippes were sone vitayled & frauȝt.
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¶ Thelapus was of hem ful glad:
What-so thei wolde of him thei had,
He frauȝt he[r] schippes & here Coggis
With salt beffe & fat hoggis,
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With many a bole & wilde bore,
Vnto her schippes myȝt holde no more
Off corn, of flour, & gentil wynes,
Off seynt-pro-seynt, and maluesynes
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As gode as come of grapes.
Agamenoun faste him rapes
With alle his schippis to take the se,
For he was frauȝt as he wolde be;
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¶ The wynd was to hem good y-now,
Thei turned ster, and sail vp drow,
And sayled forth all by the wynde—
Some be-fore & some be-hynde—
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With alle her schippes & dromondes
To Troy aȝeyn to here bondes.
With mychel Ioye were thei keped ther,
Ful fayn the Gregais of hem were,
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For thei haue ben ful euel at ese,
For honger thei were ful mys-ese.
Thei grond the corn as sone & boke;
Tho myȝt thei speke & eke loke,
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