VIII. THE LEGEND OF PHYLLIS. Incipit Legenda Phillis. By preve as wel as by auctoritee, That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree, 2395 That may ye fynde, if that it lyketh yow. But for this ende I speke this as now, In love a falser herde I never non, 'God, for his grace, fro swich' oon kepe us!' Destroyed is of Troye the citee; This Demophon com sailing in the see With him com many a ship and many a barge Is wounded sore, and seek, and wo begoon. 2400 (10) 2405 2410 (20) So hunteth him the tempest to and fro. 2400. F. Tn. Th. B. om. if. 2402. F. Tn. Th. B. om. may. And with a wawe brosten was his stere. Whan he may walke, him thoughte hit was the beste Unto the court to seken for socour. Men knewe him wel, and diden him honour; For at Athenes duk and lord was he, As Theseus his fader had y-be, 2418. C. A. ne; T. noon; rest om. 2420 (30) 2425 2430 (40) 2435 2440 (50) C. A. 2422. 2420. A. So wood. now vp now doun; T. now vp and doun; rest vp and doun. Th. Chorus; T. Thora; rest Thorus (see note). F. Tn. B. om. Triton. 2423. F. Th. B. vp; rest vp-on. 2425. A. B. Ligurgus; C. Tn. T. Ligurges; Th. Lycurgus; F. Bygurgus (error for Lygurgus). 2430. C. That (for And). C. almost was (better than was almost in the rest). 2435. C. T. A. To; rest And. 2437. C. T. A. his; rest om. 2438. 2440. C. T. A. court; rest contree. A. om. for. 2443. F. Tn. That in his tyme was of greet renoun, To wryte of hem that been in love forsworn, Which to performe god me grace sende, Ye han wel herd of Theseus devyse That of her pite kepte him from his bane. 2445 2450 (60) 2455 2460 (70) For unto Phillis hath he sworen thus, To wedden her, and her his trouthe plighte, And piked of her al the good he mighte, Whan he was hool and sound and hadde his reste; And wel coude I, yif that me leste so, 2465 2470 2444. C. T. A. of gret; rest grete of. C. the; T. A. that; rest his. 2445. C. of (for in). 2449. C. owene (for olde). 2452. A. phillis; C. Philes; Th. T. quene Phillis; rest quene. F. B. And; rest Her (Hire, Hir). 2453. 2454. A. Th. agroted; B. agrotyd; C. agrotyed; F. Tn. agroteyd; T. agroteyed. 2455. C. T. ben in 2459. C. T. A. deuyse; F. 2470, I. T. I couthe ryght well, yef that hyt lykyd me Tell all hys doyng; but hyt ys vanyte. I He seide, unto his contre moste he saile, (80) 2475 2480 (90) She was her owne deeth right with a corde, Whan that she saw that Demophon her trayed. 2485 But to him first she wroot and faste him prayed 2490 (100) 2495 2475. 2480. C. homly; F. T. B. homely; A. 2484. 2472. C. T. vnto; A. into; rest to. F. Th. B. him; rest he. F. B. omit. 2476. C. hath hire sworn; A. hath to hir suorn; Tn. to her sworne; F. T. Th. B. to hir swore. 2477. So C. A.; F. Tn. Th. B. ageyn he wolde. huimly; Tn. humble; Th. hombly. C. let; rest om. 2482. C. ne; rest om. 2483. A. C. abought; F. Tn. B. Th. yboght. F. Tn. B. om. as. A. T. stories; rest story (but this would require recordeth; indeed, C. has recordith !). 2485. C. T. A. ryght; rest om. 2487. F. Tn. Th. B. But firste wrote she to hym. hire delyuere; rest delyuer hir. F. pyne (error for peyne). F. B. oo; Tn. one; rest a; see 1. 2495. 2491. C. T. A. Ne spende ; rest Dispenden. 2493. C. a fere; T. afyre; A. in fyre; F. Tn. Th. B. on a fire (badly). 2488. C. T. A. 2489. 'Thyn hostesse,' quod she, 'O Demophon, I pleyne not, god wot, beforn my day.'- By ordre, for hit wer to me a charge; She seide, thy sailes comen nat again, 2500 (110) 2505 2510 (120) 2515 2520 2496. C. Ostesse thyn. T. A. ò thow Demophon. 2498. F. Tn. B. om. mot. 2504. F. Tn. B. om. hid. 2505. Th. thylke; C. F. Tn. B. that thilke (!); A. that ilke; T. that. 2506, 7. C. omits. 2506. A. hath lycht this. 2507. T. yef; A. if; F. B. Th. yet (error for yef); Tn. yit (error for yif). 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; rest broght (brought). 2509. C. comyth it; T. A. cometh; F. Tn. B. come hit; Th. came it. 2517. C. A. wel hath; rest hath wel. 2518. C. T. A. thyne (thy); 2519. C. T. rest the. C. come; T. comen; F. Tn. Th. B. cometh. A. thyn (thy); rest the. |