¶ Hic Pantasalia Regina pugnauit cum Regibus Grecorum.
That douȝti quene ful wel hem knowes, [folio 238b]
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Sche keste hem doun & ouerthrowes;
With-Inne a while so fele sche hath sclawe,
That thei fro hir a-weyward drawe;
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Thei knewe ful sone al hir strengthe,
Thei fled fro hir on brede & lengthe.
MEnelaus hadde grete envy
Off that quene Pantasaly,
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That sche the Gregais so defouled [o corrected from e.] ;
On hir that tyme ful foule he schouled
And seyde: "that he wolde to hir ride
To se whether sche wolde him abyde."
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He rode to hir with mochel Ire,
And sche was war & keped that sire
And smot him euene In-myddes the scheld,
That he fley out In-myddes that feld;
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Among her horses stille he lay,
Til that he was drawen a-way.
By the rayne his stede sche cauȝt
And to a mayden sche him be-tauȝt.
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¶ Diomedes, that douȝti kyng,
By-held that tyme that Iustyng,
He saw the kyng falle a-doun,
Vp the fete & doun the croun;
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His hors was lorn, & he on fote,
He seyde: "ther-on he scholde do bote,
That sturdy strok scholde sche abye."
He rode thanne to Pantasalye
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With al the myght that euere he hadde,
But sche was not of him a-dradde:
Sche cauȝt a spere, when sche was war
That þat kyng to hir was war;
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A sterne strok was hem by-twene,
But on hir hors sat the quene
