'suche marvayles / fortuned than [ This line is in Stowe's hand. Bodl.

638, lf 115, bk, leaves a blank too.]

Thorgh syngynge / of her Armonye
For Instrument / nor melodye

Was nowhere herde / yet halfe so swete
Nor of a-corde/ halfe so mete

For ther was noon of hem that feyned
To synge / for eche of hem hym peyned
To fynde out of mery crafty notys
They ne spared / not her throtys
And soothe to seyñ / my chambre was
Ful wel depeynted / and with glas
Were al the wyndowes / wel y-glasyd
Ful clere / and nat an hoole y-crasyd
That to be-holde / hyt was grete Ioye
For holy al / the story of Troye
Was in the glasynge / y-wroght thus
Of Ector/and of kynge Priamus
Of Achilles / and of kynge lamedoñ
And eke of Medea / and of Iasoñ
Of Paris / Eleyne / and of lavyne

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[leaf 134]

320

324

328

Men/hors/houndes / and other thynge

And al men speke / of huntynge

How they wolde slee / the hert with strengthe

And how the hert / had vpon lengthe

So moche embosed / y not now what
Anoon ryght/whan I herde that

How that they wolde / on huntynge goon

I was ryght glad / and vp anooñ
Tooke my hors and forthe I went
Out of my chambre / I never stent
Til I come / to the felde withoute
Ther ouertoke y / a grete route
Of huntes/and eke of foresterys
With ma[n]y1 Relayes / and lymerys
And hyed hem/ to the forest faste
And with hem / so at the laste
I asked oon/ladde A lymere
Say felowe whoo / shal hunte here
Quod I and he answered ageyn
Syr/themperour / Octouyen

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[leaf 134, back]

356

360

[many. Bodl. 638]

364

368

The mayster hunte / anooñ fote hote
With a grete horne / blewe thre mote
At the vncoupylynge / of hys houndys
Withynne a while / the herte founde ys
I-halowed and rechased faste

376

Therwyth the hunte / wonder faste
Blewe a forleygne / at the laste
I was go walked / fro my tree
And as I went / ther came by mee

A whelpe that ffavned me / as I stoode
That hadde y-folowed / and koude no goode
Hyt come and crepte / to me as lowe
Ryght' as hyt had / me y-knowe

Hylde doun hys hede / and ioyned hys erys
And leyde al smothe/ doun hys herys

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[leaf 135]

392

Swetnesse of dewe / had made hyt waxe
Hyt ys no nede/eke for to axe

416

Where there were many/grene greves

Or thikke of trees / so ful of leves

And euery tree / stoode by hym selve

So grete trees / so huge of streng[t]he

Or fourty fifty/fedme lengthe

Clene withoute bowgħ / or stikke

With croppes bothe/ and eke as thikke

424

They were nat/an ynche a sonder
That hit was shadewe / ouer al vnder
And many an herte / and many an hynde
Was both before me / and be-hynde
Of fovnes / sowres / bukkes / does
Was ful the woode / and many
And many sqwirels that sete
Ful high / vpon the trees and ete
And in hir maner / made festys
Shortly hyt was so ful of bestys

Roes

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[leaf 135, back]

432

Yet shulde he fayle / to rekene evene
The wondres me mette / in my swevene

But forth they Romed / ryght' wonder faste
Dovne the woode / so at the laste

I was war / of a mañ in blak

That sete / and had turned his bak

To an ookean huge tree

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[nota in margin.]

lorde thogħ[t]1 I / who may that be [1 thought. Bodl, 638] 448

What' ayleth hym / to sitten here

Anoon ryght/ I went nere

Than founde I sitte / even vpryght
A wonder wel farynge knyght
By the maner / me thoght soo

Of good mochel / and ryght' yonge therto
Of the age of foure and twenty2 yere
Vpon hys berde / but lytel here

452

[2 foure & twenty. Bodl. 638, leaf 119]

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