¶ Hic Imperator Grecorum pecijt corpora Militum.
Thei swor alle by her god lege, [folio 228b]
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That thei wolde alle byleue that sege,
Thei wolde no lenger holde it forth;
Thei held hem no-thyng worth:
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Gret sorwe made thei al day,
That he was ded—I dar wel say.
AGamenoun, her Emperour,
He sente to Troye a procuratour,
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Lordis, knyȝtis, & squyeres,
And bad the kyng, for her prayeres,
And also to sir Paris,
To graunte hem tho two bodyes
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To grauen hem the moldes vndir,
That men on hem no more wondir.
¶ Priamus graunt the kynges bone
And seyde: "her wil scholde be done,"
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And escused him of that dede,
Bothe of assent and of rede;
He bad thei scholde hem hom lede.
Thei toke hem tho bothe In [MS. In bothe.] her wede [de by another hand on erasure.]
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As blody as thei wore;
For Achilles thei wepyn sore
And ledes hem home to here Grues,
But euery a man his sorwe newes,
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Off no Ioye thei ne rought,
When he was so ded hom [o altered from e.] brought.
AChilles is to Gregais broght;
Priamus then thei be-soght:
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"That he wolde to hem graunte
That knyȝt that was vayllaunte
In that toun to grauen somwher,
Wher he ordaynet for hem ther."
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¶ Priamus wolde not werne,
He bad hem graue them In an herne
