Sche wounded & sclow & droff doun [folio 240b]
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The men that most were of renoun,
Sche barst gerthes, paytrel, & pole;
The gentil quene delis hir dole
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Here & thore as sche hem takes,
Gret ma[r]tirdome of hem sche makes;
Vn-til here tentis sche hem reuersed,
In euery a side that ost sche persed.
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WAs non of hem that tyme so bolde
Durst fyght with hir opon the wolde,
Not Diomedes, that vigorus,
Ne Ayax Thelamanyus,
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Ne that sturne knyȝt Menescene
Durst not byde hir In here tene,
Ne Agamenon, here Emperour,
Ne thei that were of most valour
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Not ones loke to hir ward [MS. hirward.] ;
But alle thei flow aweyward,
Vntil thei come to her tentis.
Many a man her dethe ther hentis,
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¶ For sche hem chased with swerd In hande,
With loude vois hem manassande,
And droff hem ouer doune & dale,
And fro her tentis & fro here hale,
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Vntil thei come vnto the see
That thei no wyse myght fer flee.
Tho turned thei aȝeyn and fauȝt,
As thei that tyme nede mauȝt,
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Or haue ben draynt In the see.
So that quene by-gan to slee,
¶ Thei hadde died tho with gret trosture,
Ne hadde tho y-comen socoure:
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For tho come than with-oute les
The noble kyng Diomedes
