¶ Ciuitas Troieanus destructus est.
And mochel wo the Troyens wroght, [folio 26a]
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Thei fond a fair Mayde and a curtays
In Lamedon kynges paleis,
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That was of wonder gret beute,
The fairest may that man myȝt se:
Long, and smal, and riȝth tretis
Was that mayden schapen y-wys;
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That blisful, that swete wyght
Dame Oxonie forsothe sche hight; [¶ Oxonia Filia L'. Regis.]
Sche was the kynges douȝter Troyene [MS. troyene; the first e written by later hand over line.] ,
Getyn in wedlak on the qwene.
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¶ Hercules toke Oxonie,
That kynges douȝter of genterie,
And ȝaf here Thelaman to mede,
In-to the toun for he furst ȝede;
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For he was the furst man
That toke Troye, when thei it wan.
So weylaway! that sche was born!
So fele gode men for here were lorn
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Afftirward wel many a day,
As ȝe afftirward here may;
For bi here roos al the wo,
That sixti thousand knyȝtes and mo
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Deyed for her, and al here kyn,
And gode Ector, here owne Cosyn,
And gode Troyle, and Dephebus,
And here brother Priamus,
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And Hectuba the gode qwene [This line stands behind the next one in MS.] ,
And here douȝter Pollexene;
And alle that to Troye longed
For hir rape the deth ther fonged.
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Thay of Grece haue robbed the toun,
And brend houses & throwen hem doun;
Thay lefft right nouȝt that ought was worth,
