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

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

Thorgħ 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 lamedon
And eke of Medea / and of Iason

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With many glade / gilde stremys
And eke the welken / was so faire
Blew bryght' clere / was the ayre
And ful attempre / for sothe hyt was

For nother to colde / nor hoote yt was

Ne in al the welkene / was a clowde
And as I lay thus / wonder lowde
Me thoght I herde / an hunte blowe
Tassay hys horne / and for to knowe

Whether hyt were clere / or horse of sovne

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Meñ/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/whañ 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]

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360

[many. Bodl. 638]

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The mayster hunte / anoon 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

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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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Ful thikke of gras / ful softe and swete

With flourys fele / faire vnder fete

400

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

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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

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They were nat/an ynche a sonder
That hit was shadewe / ouer al vnder

And many an herte / and many añ hynde
Was both before me / and be-hynde
of fovnes / sowres / bukkes / does
Was ful the woode / and many Roes
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

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[leaf 135, back]

432

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

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I was war / of a mañ in blak

[nota in margin.]

That sete / and had turned his bak

To an ooke / añ huge tree

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 twenty 2 yere
Vpon hys berde / but lytel here

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

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