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THenne goodely they said al at ones / god foryeue you and we do / and praye you that ye will telle vs where we may fynde syr Beaumayns / Fayre lordes said syr Iron∣syde I can not telle you / for it is ful ••ard to fynde hym / for suche yong knyghtes as he is one / whanne they be in their ad¦uentures ben neuer abydynge in no place / ¶But to saye the worship that the reed knyghte of the reed laundes and syr per¦saunt and his broder said of Beaumayns / it was merueil to here / Wel my fayre lordes said kynge Arthur / wete yow wel / I shalle do you honour for the loue of syr Beaumayns / and as soone as euer I mete with hym I shalle make you al vp¦on one day knyghtes of the table round / And as to the syre Persaunt ••o Inde thou hast ben euer called a ful noble kny∣ghte / and soo haue euer ben thy thre bretheren called / But I merueil said the kyng that I here not of the black knyʒt your