¶ Hic Paris Filius Regis Troiani narrauit patri suo de sompno suo.
To the lond of lytel Inde, [folio 36b]
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I ȝede to hunte the [MS. to the.] hert & hynde.
Whan I was comen to the forest,
Off al that day fond I no best,
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Til it was passed ouer the none.
By him that sittes in trone!
Then was I war of a gret hert,
Fair, and gret, and ful smert,
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That ȝede on land and was to leyne;
Then was I glad and wondur fayne,
I folwed him, til hit was nyght,
And til of him I loste the syght
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Thorow derknesse of the leues
That growed vpon the greues.
I was weri of hunted & chased,
So hadde I that proude hert trased;
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My hors forsothe was ondeles
For rennyng and for werines;
My felawes hadde I alle lorn,
That tyme with me was no wyght born.
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I layd me doun vpon the playn
And tyed myn hors be the rayn;
Whan I was leyd, er I toke kepe
For werinesse I fel on sclepe.
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As I lay on my sclepyng,
Me thoght I saw a wondir thyng:
I saw a god [MS. agod.] bryghter then the glemyng
Come to me in my dremyng,
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And in his hond brouȝt goddis thre,
And alle were faire on to se.
That on goddes of the thre was
—As he me sayde—goddesse Pallas;
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The secunde was also
A louely lady, dame Iuno;
