Yit hath the streem of Sitho nat y-broght 2510 (120) 2515 2520 (130) 2525 Upon your linage and your faire tonge, And on your teres falsly out y-wronge. How coude ye wepe so by craft?' quod she; Now certes, yif ye wolde have in memorie, Hit oghte be to yow but litel glorie To have a sely mayde thus betrayed! 2530 To god,' quod she, 'preye I, and ofte have prayed, (140) And moste honour that ever yow shal befalle ! 2535 2508. C. storm (error for streem); rest streme. Th. Scython; C. B. Sytoye ; A. Cytoye; T. Sitoy; F. Tn. Sitoio (Ovid has Sithonis unda). T. y-brought; 2509. C. comyth it; T. A. cometh; F. Tn. B. 2517. C. A. wel hath; rest hath wel. rest broght (brought). come hit; Th. came it. 2518. C. T. A. thyne (thy); rest the. C. come; T. comen; F. Tn. Th. B. cometh. 2519. C. T. A. thyn (thy); rest the. Tn. Th. B. That (only); but read Yif that. rest seyne (!). F. Tn. Th. B. wronge. 2532. All mayde. 2523. C. T. A. Yif (only); F. 2525. C. T. A. pleyne ; 2527. C. I-wronge; A. yronne (error for ywronge); 2529. A. Quhethir ther may (but this is Scottish). Than, preye I god, thou peynted be also, That folk may reden, for-by as they go, 2540 Betrayed hath and doon her vilanye That was his trewe love in thoghte and dede!" But sothly, of oo point yit may they rede, (150) For he begyled Adriane, y-wis, With swiche an art and swiche sotelte And, whan this lettre was forth sent anoon, Be war, ye women, of your sotil fo, 2545 2550 (160) 2555 Swich sorwe hath she, for she besette her so. 2560 (168) And trusteth, as in love, no man but me. Explicit Legenda Phillis. IX. THE LEGEND OF HYPERMNESTRA. Incipit Legenda Ypermistre. IN Grece whylom weren brethren two, Of whiche that oon was called Danao, That many a sone hath of his body wonne, 2565 2539. C. T. A. for by; rest forth by. 2546. A. C. T. subtilitee. 2549. C. T. A. him; rest om. A. has lost 11. 2551-2616. 2555. F. Tn. B. om. sent. 2561. So C. T.; so Tn. Th. (with now for as); F. B. And as in love truste no man but me. 2563. C. clepid; rest called. Among his sones alle ther was oon That aldermost he lovede of everichoon. As lyked to the goddes, or she was born, That conscience, trouthe, and dreed of shame, 2571. F. B. in; rest of. 2574. F. B. hyt (for her). 2570 (10) 2575 2580 (20) 2585 2590 (30) 2595 2577. C. T. 2581. thewis goode I-born. 2578. Tn. B. goddesse (!); F. goddesses (!). C. mot; rest moste (muste, most). 2582. F. B. Pitouse (fem.); C. Pyetous; Tn. T. Piteous. I propose What. Th. sadde (fem.?); rest sad. C. T. and; rest om. 2590. 2592. Th. And what; C. T. That what; F. Tn. B. And; 2597. C. F. Tn. B. To; T. Ryght; Th. Two. 2599. C. T. As; rest And. 2598. To Danao and Egistes also- 2600 (40) And casten swiche a day hit shal be so; 2605 The array is wroght, the tyme is faste by. And thus Lino hath of his fadres brother 2610 (50) The flour, the leef is rent up by the rote To maken garlands and corounes hye; Ful is the place of soun of minstralcye, 2615 Of songes amorous of mariage, As thilke tyme was the pleyn usage. 2620 (60) Whan that the hous was voided of hem alle, 2625 'My righte doghter, tresor of myn herte! As thou, myn Ypermistra, doghter dere! 2630 (70) 2601. C. Al thow; rest 2606. 2619. 2624. F. Tn. 2600. Th. Of (for To); without authority. And thogh (less clearly). 2603. T. C. Th. lyked; rest lyketh. F. Tn. B. witterly; rest vttyrly. 2615. F. Tn. B. om. of soun. F. Tn. B. om. right. 2620. F. Tn. Th. B. that (for the). Th. B. om. he. 2625. F. Tn. Th. B. voided was. F. B. om. hem. 2627. 2629. F. om. 1st that. 2632. C. myn; T. A. ins. my before 2633. F. Tn. Th. B. om. I. T. say; A. seye; rest seyth. F. om. after. doghter; rest om. And what I mene, hit shal be seid right sone, 2640 That, but thou do as I shal thee devyse, (80) Thou shalt be deed, by him that al hath wroght! Out of my paleys, or that thou be deed, 2645 This Ypermistra caste her eyen doun, 'I nil,' quod he, 'have noon excepcioun ;' 2650 (90) 2655 2660 (100) 2665 And seyde, 'herof a draught, or two or three, 2637. C. A., I; rest om. 2640. C. A. as in this; T. now on thys; F. Tn. Th. B. as seyn these. 2643. C. nescapist; Tn. Th. B. ne scapest; F. ne schapest (!). 2652. F. Tn. Th. B. be to me. 2655. Tn. Th. y-sene; rest sene. 2656. Tn. y-goo; A. ygo; rest goo (go). 2661. F. make; rest haue. 2666. So C. T. A. (but with costret for costrel); rest And with-al a costrel taketh he tho (badly). 2667. F. Tn. Th. B. om. or three (leaving the line too short). |