The
prologue
vpon
the
hystorye
of
Olyuer
of
Castylle
.
BYcause
that
the
memorye
is
the
reteynynge
&
nature
humayne
for
his
fragylyte
is
strongely
mouable
/
goodly
hathe
ben
introducte
that
the
reasons
concludynge
intendybly
the
saynges
/
and
also
auctorytes
of
sayntes
and
dyscrete
men
/
semblably
hystoryes
and
examples
worthy
of
commemoracyon
ben
reduced
by
wrytynge
/
for
to
shewe
to
them
that
ben
to
come
that
whiche
hathe
be
sayd
and
done
before
to
the
instruccyon
and
saluacyon
of
the
soule
of
euery
good
crysten
man
.
¶
Now
it
is
thus
that
is
this
present
tyme
the
scryptures
by
the
arte
and
ingenyous
practyke
of
Pryntynge
be
multeplyed
in
suche
a
wyle
that
dyuers
fayre
and
commodyous
ensygnynges
/
and
ensamples
ben
had
/
of
whiche
fewe
folkes
had
the
bokes
and
congnyssaunce
/
&
nowe
they
ben
put
forth
and
vttred
for
so
lytell
a
pryse
that
it
can
not
be
lyghtely
lesse
/
neuerthelesse
bycause
of
the
vnderstandynge
comune
/
that
is
better
contente
for
to
reteyne
the
hystoryes
/
and
examples
than
other
thynge
/
dyuers
hystoryes
ben
put
in
wrytynge
.
And
amonge
the
other
hystoryes
is
one
founde
of
longe
tyme
wryten
/
the
whiche
is
named
the
hystorye
of
Olyuer
of
Castylle
/
and
Arthur
of
Algarbe
his
loiall
felowe
/
the
whiche
for
theyr
vertues
/
and
to
loue
better
honoure
than
to
consente
to
euyll
/
had
grete
aduersytees
/
and
meruaylous
fortunes
and
aduentures
/
the
whiche
by
grete
loyalte
and
ardaunt
charyte
/
and
also
fydelyte
and
promesse
/
toke
an
ende
solytarye
.
¶
Here
begynneth
the
table
of
this
present
boke
¶
Tabula
.
-
¶
The
fyrste
chapytre
speketh
of
the
natyuyte
of
Olyuer
of
Castylle
/
and
of
the
dethe
of
his
moder
.
Capitulo
.
j.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
borne
to
be
baptysed
/
and
the
body
of
his
mod
borne
to
be
buryed
.
And
how
Embassodours
were
commysed
for
to
mary
the
kynge
agayne
.
Ca.
ii
.
-
¶
How
the
maryage
was
treated
betwene
the
quene
of
Algarbe
Arthurs
moder
/
and
the
kynge
of
Castylle
Olyuers
fader
.
Capitulo
.
iij.
-
¶
How
the
Kynge
of
Castylle
wedded
the
quene
of
Algarbe
/
and
ledde
her
in
to
Castylle
with
her
sone
Arthur
that
resembled
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
iiij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
and
Arthur
were
put
to
lernynge
/
and
of
the
Iustes
that
were
made
by
them
.
Capitulo
.
v.
-
¶
How
the
quene
of
Castylle
began
for
to
loue
Olyuer
dyshonestlye
.
Capitulo
.
vi
.
-
¶
How
the
quene
gaue
Olyuer
for
to
vnderstande
that
she
loued
hym
carnally
/
and
of
the
couerte
answers
of
Olyuer
to
honoure
.
Capitulo
.
vij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
all
trouble
of
the
requestes
of
his
stepmoder
/
and
how
he
prayed
god
for
to
reuoke
her
from
her
carnall
desyre
.
Capitulo
.
viij
.
-
¶
How
the
quene
yet
agayne
declared
her
courage
to
Olyuer
/
desyrynge
hym
to
fulfyll
her
carnall
desyre
/
&
of
Olyuers
fayre
denyenge
.
Capitulo
.
ix
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
refused
vtterly
the
quene
his
stepmoder
of
all
her
dyshonest
loue
.
And
how
she
menaced
hym
to
the
dethe
.
Capitulo
.
x.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
abode
all
alone
in
his
chambre
where
as
he
made
dyuers
complayntes
/
and
of
the
lettre
that
he
wrote
to
his
felowe
/
and
wherat
he
sholde
knowe
yf
that
he
had
ony
thynge
but
good
.
Capitulo
.
xi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
all
alone
withont
ouy
company
/
and
came
to
a
hauen
of
the
see
where
as
he
founde
a
shyp
in
the
whiche
he
entred
with
a
knyght
that
he
founde
there
of
Englande
.
Capitulo
.
xij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
of
Algarbe
came
in
to
the
chambre
of
his
broder
Olyuer
/
that
made
grete
dole
for
his
departyng
.
Capitulo
.
xiij
.
-
¶
How
the
Kynge
of
Castylle
came
in
to
Oliuers
chambre
/
and
of
the
grete
dole
that
he
demeaned
whan
he
founde
hym
not
.
Capitulo
.
xiiij
.
-
¶
How
the
kynge
sente
after
his
sone
/
and
of
his
lamentacyous
and
of
them
that
the
quene
made
whan
she
sawe
that
all
doloure
was
comen
by
her
cause
.
Ca.
xv
.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
fortune
that
happened
to
Olyuer
vpon
the
see
/
and
how
he
and
the
Englysshe
knyght
were
preserued
from
drownynge
.
Capitulo
.
xvi
.
-
¶
How
the
knyght
Olyuers
felowe
deyed
.
xvij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
dyde
burye
the
knyght
/
and
of
the
Iustes
that
were
publysshed
in
Englande
/
and
he
that
sholde
do
best
sholde
haue
the
kynges
doughter
to
wyfe
.
xviij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
assayled
of
theues
/
the
whiche
he
slewe
/
and
of
the
whiche
happened
to
hym
vpon
the
waye
towarde
London
.
Capitulo
.
xix
.
-
¶
How
a
knyghte
came
and
recomforted
Olyuer
/
and
of
the
promesses
that
they
had
togyder
.
Capitulo
.
xx
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
hermytage
.
Capitulo
.
xxi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
sawe
dyuers
knyghtes
and
other
folke
/
in
grete
estate
and
dyuersly
clothed
.
Capitulo
.
xxij
.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
Ioye
that
Olyuer
had
whan
he
sawe
the
fayre
stedes
and
the
ryche
clothynges
that
his
knyghte
had
brought
hym
/
and
how
he
armed
hym
/
and
of
the
ryche
pauylyon
and
beaute
of
the
fayre
Helayne
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
.
Capitulo
.
xxiij
.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
meruaylles
●hat
Olyuer
dyde
at
the
●orneyment
/
and
how
he
dyde
better
than
ony
other
.
xxiiij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
retorned
in
to
the
hermytage
the
seconde
tyme
without
makynge
hym
for
to
be
knowen
.
xxv
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
came
the
seconde
tyme
to
the
torneyment
and
how
he
wanne
the
sygne
of
the
defendauntes
of
the
Iustes
.
Capitulo
.
xxvi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
dyde
withdrawe
hym
in
to
the
hermytage
after
that
he
had
vaynquysshed
the
torneyment
and
of
the
dyspleasure
of
the
kynge
and
his
doughter
by
cause
of
the
deed
men
.
Capitulo
.
xxvij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
torneyment
the
thyrde
daye
and
bare
awaye
the
honoure
aboue
all
by
his
grete
prowesse
/
and
how
the
kynge
commysed
.xx.
knyghtes
for
to
take
hym
/
to
the
ende
that
he
knewe
what
he
was
.
xxviij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
taken
by
the
knyghtes
that
the
kynge
had
commysed
/
and
how
his
seruauntes
vanysshed
a
waye
/
&
how
he
founde
clothes
&
fynaunces
.
Ca.
xxix
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
founde
grete
fynaunces
/
seruantes
and
clothes
/
and
how
he
was
ledde
to
the
banquet
and
in
to
the
courte
with
grete
honoure
of
the
knyghtes
that
had
taken
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xxx
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
kynge
of
Englandes
courte
/
where
as
he
was
receyued
with
grete
reuerence
of
the
kynge
/
and
of
all
the
other
lordes
and
ladyes
.
Ca.
xxxi
.
-
¶
How
in
secrete
the
pryce
was
ordeyned
for
Olyuer
by
the
Iuges
commyssed
/
and
the
counsayll
of
the
kynge
approued
for
to
aduertyse
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
xxxij
.
-
¶
How
the
kynge
of
Englande
came
towarde
his
doughter
and
demaunded
her
to
whome
her
semed
that
the
pryce
sholde
be
gyuen
to
/
and
of
her
answers
.
Ca.
xxxiij
.
-
¶
How
the
pryce
of
the
torneyment
was
brought
to
Olyuer
by
dyuers
lordes
and
ladyes
/
and
what
was
the
pryce
.
Capitulo
.
xxxiiij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
requyred
the
kyng
of
Englande
that
he
wolde
reteyne
hym
of
his
courte
/
and
that
he
myghte
be
keruer
afore
his
doughter
Helayne
/
the
whiche
was
accorded
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xxxv
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
reteyned
of
the
kynges
courte
and
kerued
afore
his
doughter
/
&
made
the
othe
accustomed
Capitulo
.
xxxvi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
surprysed
of
the
loue
of
Helayne
/
&
cut
his
fynger
in
seruynge
her
.
Capitulo
.
xxxvij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
layde
hym
downe
syke
/
and
how
Helayne
was
syke
for
hym
also
/
and
how
by
her
faders
leue
she
wente
and
vysyted
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xxxviij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
after
that
the
fayre
Helayne
had
vysyted
hym
came
in
to
the
courte
/
and
of
the
messenger
of
the
kynge
of
Irlonde
that
came
and
defyed
the
kynge
of
fyre
and
blode
.
Capitulo
.
xxxix
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
requyred
the
kynge
of
Englande
for
to
gyue
hym
men
to
go
agaynst
them
/
&
so
he
had
.
Ca.
xl
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
after
that
he
was
departed
in
armes
from
London
came
afore
a
towne
that
the
Irysshmem
had
●esyeged
/
and
vaynquysshed
them
.
Capitulo
.
xli
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
sente
the
kynge
of
Englande
lettres
that
his
enemyes
were
dyscomfyted
and
torned
in
to
flyghte
and
of
his
enterpryse
●aken
.
Capitulo
.
xlij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
entred
into
Irlonde
and
assyeged
a
kynge
the
whiche
was
socoured
of
foure
kynges
/
the
whiche
he
dyscomfyted
.
Capitulo
.
xliij
.
-
¶
How
the
castell
and
towne
where
as
was
assyeged
a
kynge
of
Irlonde
/
dyde
yelde
them
.
Capitulo
.
xliiij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
after
dyders
thynges
sente
to
denounce
his
comynge
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
and
of
the
honoure
that
was
done
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xlv
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
courte
accompanyed
of
seuen
kynges
prysoners
/
of
the
whiche
he
made
a
present
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
Capitulo
.
xlvi
.
-
¶
How
the
kynge
of
Englande
gaue
his
doughter
Helayne
to
Olyuer
/
in
gue●don
of
the
seruyces
that
he
had
done
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xlvij
.
-
¶
How
the
Kynge
made
Olyuer
for
to
aryse
that
was
on
his
knees
/
and
of
theyr
gracyous
wordes
/
and
how
Olyuer
handfest
the
fayre
Helayne
.
Capitulo
.
xlviij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
wedded
the
fayre
Helayne
/
and
of
the
solemp●yte
that
was
made
.
Capitulo
.
xlix
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
was
vertuous
in
appesynge
noyses
&
debates
/
and
how
his
wyfe
was
with
chylde
of
a
sayre
sone
.
Capitulo
.
L.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
wente
on
huntynge
/
and
of
the
vysyon
of
his
wyfe
the
whiche
she
tolde
vnto
her
husbande
.
Ca.
li.
-
¶
How
the
sone
of
the
kynge
of
Irlonde
of
whome
Olyuer
had
slayne
his
fader
at
the
torneyment
founde
Olyuer
all
alone
from
his
men
/
and
toke
hym
prysoner
/
and
of
the
grete
dole
that
was
made
for
hym
.
Capitulo
.
li●
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
of
Algarbe
was
regent
of
Castylle
/
and
of
the
enterpryse
that
he
made
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
liij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
departed
and
put
hym
on
the
waye
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
Olyuer
/
&
of
his
aduentures
.
liiij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
slewe
a
meruaylous
beest
in
the
forest
.
lv
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
beynge
sore
hurte
&
lyenge
in
the
wood
/
●ppered
to
hym
an
auncyent
knyghte
that
heled
hym
/
&
tolde
vnto
hym
the
place
where
as
his
felowe
was
prysoner
.
-
Capitulo
.
lvi
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
by
the
commaundement
of
the
knyghte
/
wente
to
London
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
and
of
the
Ioye
that
they
made
to
hym
thynkynge
that
it
had
ben
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
lvij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
came
and
vysyted
Helayne
that
wende
that
he
had
ben
Olyuer
her
husbande
/
and
of
the
solempnyte
that
was
made
.
Capitulo
.
lviij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
laye
with
Olyuers
wyfe
without
vylaynous
touchynge
/
and
how
he
departed
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
lix
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
toke
the
kynge
that
helde
Olyuer
in
pryson
and
made
hym
delyuer
hym
clene
.
Capitulo
.
lx
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
and
Arthur
departed
from
Irlonde
/
&
how
Olyuer
by
Ire
kest
hym
of
his
hors
by
cause
that
he
had
layne
with
his
wyfe
.
Capitulo
.
lxi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
demeaned
grete
dole
for
the
dyspleasure
that
he
had
done
to
his
felowe
Arthur
.
Capitulo
.
lxij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
from
London
/
and
came
to
the
place
where
as
he
hadde
lefte
his
felowe
/
and
how
he
cryed
hym
mercye
.
Capitulo
.
lxiij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
after
that
he
was
heled
/
by
the
lycence
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
passed
in
to
Irlonde
and
had
vengeaunce
of
the
kynge
that
helde
Olyuer
his
felowe
in
pryson
.
Capitulo
.
lxiiij
.
-
¶
How
Arthur
layde
hym
downe
of
a
grete
sykenesse
/
&
of
the
grete
dyspleasure
that
Olyuer
hadde
.
Ca.
lxv
.
-
¶
Of
the
dreme
&
vysyon
that
Olyuer
had
foure
nyghtes
togyder
/
&
in
lykewyse
it
semed
to
Arthur
that
his
helthe
was
in
the
power
of
his
felowe
Olyuer
/
and
that
-
whiche
ought
to
be
done
for
to
he
le
him
.
Capitulo
.
lxvi
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
for
to
rendre
helthe
to
his
felowe
Arthur
slewe
his
two
chyldren
for
to
haue
theyr
blode
/
and
gyue
it
hym
to
drynke
.
Capitulo
.
lxvij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
in
a
basyn
of
syluer
brought
the
blode
of
his
two
chyldren
to
his
felowe
Arthur
/
and
made
hym
for
to
drynke
it
/
wherfore
he
was
all
heled
.
Ca.
lxviij
.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
myracle
the
god
shewed
to
Olyuer
of
Castyll
for
his
loyalte
/
in
reuyuynge
his
two
chyldren
that
he
had
slayne
.
Capitulo
.
lxix
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
afore
the
kynge
of
Englande
and
the
other
barons
of
the
realme
/
and
euen
afore
his
wyfe
tolde
his
aduentures
/
and
meruaylous
fortunes
.
Ca.
lxx
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
sente
his
felowe
Arthur
in
to
Castyl
for
to
denounce
his
comynge
/
and
how
the
kynge
of
Englande
accompanyed
Olyuer
and
his
fayre
doughter
Helayne
in
to
Castylle
.
Capitulo
.
lxxi
.
-
¶
How
the
whyte
knyght
appered
to
Olyuer
&
oppressed
hym
for
to
kepe
his
promesse
/
that
was
to
gyue
hym
the
halfe
of
that
the
whiche
he
had
wonne
at
the
torneymente
.
Capitulo
.
lxxij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
and
his
wyfe
demeaned
grete
dole
bycause
that
the
whyte
knyght
toke
one
of
theyr
chyldren
for
his
halfe
/
and
the
whiche
it
was
/
and
of
other
mysteryes
.
Capitulo
.
lxxiij
.
-
¶
How
the
knyght
had
pyte
of
Olyuer
hauynge
knowlege
of
his
loyalte
/
and
quyted
hym
all
.
And
how
he
made
hym
knowen
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
lxxiiij
.
-
¶
How
Olyuer
gaue
his
doughter
in
maryage
to
Arthur
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
and
of
the
dethe
of
Olyuer
and
Helayne
his
wyfe
.
Capitulo
.
ixxv.
-
¶
How
Henry
of
Castylle
Olyuers
sone
was
prysoner
/
and
deyed
in
turkye
.
The
last
chapytre
.
And
after
is
the
epylogacyon
of
all
the
boke
.
¶
Finis
tabule
.
¶
The
presentacyon
and
introyte
of
this
present
booke
.
TO
the
ryght
holy
and
ryght
well
e●rous
louynge
and
magnyfycence
of
oure
saueoure
Ihesu
cryst
/
and
of
his
ryght
doulce
and
gloryous
mod●r
saynt
Marye
/
the
whiche
ben
the
mocyons
of
all
good
operacyons
/
&
with
out
the
whiche
none
can
be
begonne
nor
ended
.
I
Henry
Watson
apprentyse
of
London
trustynge
in
the
grace
of
god
hathe
enterprysed
for
to
translate
this
present
hystorye
out
of
Frensshe
in
to
Englysshe
/
oure
moders
tonge
/
at
the
commaundement
of
my
worshypfull
mayster
Wynkyn
de
worde
/
not
hauynge
regarde
for
to
laye
it
in
another
/
or
in
more
dyffused
termes
than
the
frensshe
doth
specyfye
/
for
in
doynge
so
I
myght
lyghtly
haue
fayled
.
Wherfore
I
requyre
all
them
that
shall
rede
it
/
or
that
hereth
it
redde
/
for
to
holde
for
excused
my
lytell
and
obscure
vnderstandynge
.
In
praynge
our
lorde
that
he
gyue
me
grace
for
to
fynysshe
it
by
suche
maner
that
it
may
be
pleasaunt
and
agreable
/
and
profytable
vnto
the
reders
/
and
vnto
the
herers
of
the
same
.
Amen
.
¶
Of
the
natyuyte
of
Olyuer
of
Castyll
/
and
of
the
dethe
of
his
moder
.
Capitulo
.
i.
BYcause
that
I
desyre
the
hye
and
notable
faytes
of
ryght
noble
and
ryght
valyaunt
men
of
honour
and
prowesse
for
to
brynge
them
in
to
memorye
and
recommendacyon
/
and
also
to
the
ende
that
all
noble
and
vertuous
hertes
may
be
moued
and
styred
for
to
do
well
/
in
lykewyse
as
our
predecessours
hath
done
afore
vs
/
and
in
especyall
/
they
of
the
whiche
this
present
hystorye
treateth
of
.
¶
I
fynde
wryten
that
after
the
dethe
of
the
ryghte
noble
/
and
valyaunt
lorde
/
and
prynce
.
Carlemayne
the
grete
Emperour
/
and
Kynge
of
Fraunce
/
after
that
he
hadde
subdu●d
/
&
brought
vnder
his
obeyssaunce
/
in
to
our
holy
crysten
fayth
the
Spanyerdes
.
¶
There
was
a
kynge
in
Castyll
/
the
whiche
was
a
ryght
puyssaunt
prynce
/
that
was
moche
beloued
of
all
his
subgectes
/
that
at
that
tyme
was
depryued
of
the
ryght
heurous
felycyte
/
that
is
in
maryage
/
whiche
is
to
haue
lygnage
/
and
generacyon
/
for
the
whiche
cause
all
his
subgectes
were
gretely
at
my
sease
/
for
they
desyred
no
thynge
soo
moche
as
to
se
an
heyre
of
his
body
that
myght
be
successour
of
the
realme
after
the
decease
of
this
good
kynge
.
His
wyfe
the
whiche
was
the
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Galyce
/
that
was
a
fayre
lady
and
a
vertuous
/
amonge
her
prayers
and
orysons
/
that
she
ma●e
so
our
lorde
forgate
not
to
requyre
hym
by
his
debona●e
clemense
/
that
he
wolde
sende
her
a
chylde
/
to
the
ende
that
the
countree
abode
not
with
out
an
hery●ou●
.
Our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
herynge
the
request
that
this
good
quene
made
to
hym
/
forga●e
her
no●
/
〈◊〉
in
sh●●te
tyme
after
she
conceyued
/
and
whan
terme
was
come
she
was
delyuered
of
a
fayre
sone
/
of
the
whiche
the
kynge
/
and
all
his
subgectes
were
gretely
reioysce
/
but
theyr
Ioye
was
soone
turned
to
sorow
for
the
quenchad
trauaylled
so
sore
/
that
she
lyued
not
two
houres
after
the
byrth
of
her
sone
/
the
whiche
was
grete
dyspleasure
to
the
kynge
that
loued
her
so
moche
/
And
certaynly
he
had
good
cause
/
neuerthelesse
he
was
not
lefte
alone
makynge
that
sorowe
/
for
all
his
subgectes
bare
hym
company
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
borne
to
be
baptysed
/
and
how
his
moder
was
borne
to
be
buryed
.
And
how
the
Embassadours
were
transmysed
in
to
Al●arbe
for
to
mary
the
kynge
agayne
.
Capitulo
.
ii
.
AFter
the
complayntes
innumerable
of
the
kynge
/
and
of
his
subgectes
/
the
quene
was
layd
on
bere
and
for
to
gyue
comforte
they
ordeyned
that
the
chylde
sholde
be
borne
to
be
baptysed
/
with
the
corps
of
the
quene
.
And
soo
it
was
done
in
grete
lamentacyons
/
and
the
chylde
was
named
Olyuer
and
after
that
the
seruyce
was
fynysshed
the
kynge
retorned
in
to
his
palays
/
in
the
which
palays
he
demeaned
his
sorowe
by
longe
space
of
tyme
/
and
he
toke
no
comforte
but
in
his
ryght
amyable
sone
Olyuer
.
And
in
kyssynge
hym
oftentymes
he
sayd
vnto
hym
/
Alas
my
dere
sone
thy
natyuyte
hathe
torned
me
to
grete
Ioye
/
and
also
vnto
grete
trystesse
and
dolour
/
but
in
all
humylyte
I
beseche
our
lorde
that
he
haue
mercy
on
thy
moders
soul●
/
And
that
he
gyue
the
grace
that
thou
mayst
be
suche
one
as
my
herte
doth
requyre
.
In
suche
wordes
and
semblables
he
complayned
hym
often
vpon
his
felowe
and
spouse
that
he
hadde
soo
feruently
loued
The
noble
men
of
his
courte
/
and
also
other
of
the
realme
were
ryght
dolaunt
bycause
that
as
them
semed
the
kynge
was
becomen
all
desolate
/
and
not
soo
famylyer
with
them
as
he
had
ben
accustomed
afore
the
dethe
of
the
quene
/
wherfore
they
sayd
that
the
kynges
lamentynge
endured
ouer
longe
/
wherfore
it
is
expedyent
to
vs
for
to
take
aduyse
in
what
maner
we
may
cause
hym
for
to
cesse
it
/
for
he
must
put
it
out
of
his
memorye
/
for
he
is
yet
yonge
&
lusty
ynough
for
to
haue
ꝓgeny
&
chyldren
/
&
there
is
nothynge
that
may
cause
hym
so
sone
for
to
●esse
his
sorowe
/
and
make
hym
Iocounde
as
to
mary
hym
vnto
some
yonge
lady
●where
as
he
maye
take
his
pleasure
and
delyte
in
al
gladnesse
.
These
wordes
were
not
sayd
alonly
in
this
absence
/
but
also
in
his
presence
for
they
that
were
moost
couersaunt
with
his
persone
/
declared
it
often
vnto
hym
/
and
exhorted
hym
for
to
be
maryed
/
yf
that
they
myght
fynde
one
that
were
acceptable
for
the
dygnyte
.
At
that
tyme
the
kyng
of
Algarbe
was
deed
/
and
his
wyfe
was
abyden
wydowe
/
the
whiche
was
one
of
the
moost
excellentest
ladyes
at
that
tyme
of
the
worlde
/
the
whiche
had
a
sone
by
her
ryghtfull
lorde
and
husbande
that
was
named
Arthur
/
the
which
was
a
meruaylous
fayre
chylde
/
and
Olyuer
&
he
were
bothe
of
one
aege
.
The
kynge
of
Castyll
had
ben
aduertysed
of
the
beaute
of
the
quene
of
Algarbe
/
wherfore
he
sente
his
Ambassatours
/
for
to
haue
her
to
his
quene
/
the
whiche
Embassatours
whan
they
were
comen
theder
/
were
receyued
with
grete
tryumphe
and
honoure
/
in
so
moche
that
shortly
after
she
was
accorded
to
them
by
the
lordes
of
the
realme
/
as
ye
shall
here
.
Whan
they
were
brought
in
the
presence
of
the
quene
and
her
counsayll
/
they
declared
the
cause
of
theyr
comynge
/
the
whiche
was
gladly
herde
bothe
of
her
kynnesmen
/
and
the
other
barons
/
and
after
that
the
Embassatours
hadde
rehersed
that
the
whiche
they
had
in
commaundement
by
theyr
lorde
and
kynge
/
they
with
drewe
them
in
to
theyr
lodges
/
with
whome
wente
many
knyghtes
and
squyres
for
to
conueye
them
.
¶
How
the
maryage
was
treated
bytwene
the
kyng
of
Castyll
Olyuers
fader
/
and
the
quene
of
Algarbe
/
Arthurs
moder
.
Capitulo
.
iii.
AS
the
quene
sawe
her
accompanyed
〈◊〉
moost
parte
of
her
frendes
.
And
them
that
she
moost
trusted
in
sayd
.
Lordes
ye
knowe
the
cause
wherfore
the
kynge
of
Ca●●yll
hathe
sente
his
Embassadours
hether
/
wherfore
I
prarye
you
for
〈…〉
in
this
mater
/
for
I
am
she
that
by
our
good
counsayll
wyll
be
agreable
to
do
that
the
whiche
ye
shall
determyne
.
These
wor●s
fynysshed
/
she
toke
〈◊〉
and
wente
in
to
her
chambre
/
and
leue
them
alone
with
that
mater
.
And
fy●●●ly
/
they
were
all
of
ou●
accorde
/
that
the
maryage
sholde
be
made
/
And
retorned
towarde
the
〈◊〉
s●ynge
that
as
them
thought
there
was
but
〈◊〉
prynces
of
more
auctoryte
than
the
kynge
of
Casty●l
was
wherfore
she
myght
not
be
lyghtly
better
bestowed
.
And
in
effecte
they
shewed
her
the
yonge
aege
that
she
was
yet
in
/
and
also
th●
tendre
aege
of
her
sone
.
Wherfore
they
counsaylled
her
that
she
sholde
accepte
the
request
of
the
Kynge
of
Castyll
/
The
quene
answered
/
my
frendes
I
haue
tolde
you
/
&
yet
dothe
/
that
your
good
counsayll
and
〈◊〉
/
●s
well
my
wyll
.
And
therfore
make
the
responce
/
and
answere
to
the
Embassadours
on
〈◊〉
/
suche
as
●e
shall
thynke
moost
expedyent
/
〈◊〉
I
shall
〈…〉
.
And
then
they
thanked
her
/
and
〈…〉
fyue
/
or
syxe
of
the
moost
notablest
/
〈◊〉
whiche
were
chosen
for
to
gyue
the
answere
〈…〉
of
the
kynge
of
Castyll
.
And
wha●
that
they
were
com●n
to
theyr
inne
/
they
sayd
to
them
.
Our
honourable
lady
the
quene
/
of
her
grace
and
be●ygnyte
/
hath
accorded
vnto
your
request
/
not
all
of
her
owne
voluntary
wyll
/
but
at
the
instaunce
o●h●r
〈◊〉
and
Barons
.
To
whome
it
semeth
good
/
and
vtyll
/
for
the
prospery●e
of
bothe
partyes
.
That
ye
〈◊〉
whan
it
shall
seme
you
good
/
and
〈◊〉
your
lorde
/
that
as
〈◊〉
as
it
shall
please
hym
/
he
may
sende
for
her
/
or
come
in
his
persone
.
For
they
put
〈◊〉
to
his
noble
〈◊〉
.
Neuerthelesse
seynge
that
both●
partyes
were
wydowes
/
vnto
theyr
aduyse
/
it
were
〈…〉
that
he
came
the●er
for
to
wedde
her
And
〈◊〉
the
spous●ylies
sholde
be
doone
/
without
ony
〈◊〉
excesse
of
〈◊〉
/
more
than
apperteyned
to
suche
a
feest
.
And
as
for
the
surplus
that
he
sholde
do
as
it
pleased
hym
.
¶
How
the
Kynge
of
Castyll
espeused
the
quene
of
Algarbe
/
and
ledde
h●r
in
to
Castyll
/
with
her
yonge
sone
that
resembled
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
●●j
.
_●Ra●yously
the
Embassadours
thanked
the
que●e
/
and
her
noble
counsayll
/
saynge
that
they
wolde
gladly
tell
theyr
r●sponce
vnto
theyr
●orde
and
kynge
/
that
shall
be
well
contente
of
this
vnyte
.
And
then
at
theyr
requcit
they
were
ledde
before
the
quene
/
whome
they
thanked
/
&
●oke
theyr
〈◊〉
●ther
full
honourably
/
and
of
all
the
other
〈◊〉
.
And
after
that
they
had
taken
theyr
〈◊〉
/
vpon
the
〈◊〉
morowe
they
departed
.
But
ye
may
〈…〉
departed
/
the
quene
h●d
sent
them
many
〈…〉
gyftes
.
Of
theyr
waye
and
I
●urn●yes
I
can
not
〈◊〉
you
/
but
they
made
suche
dyl●gence
/
that
they
descended
in
the
towne
where
as
at
that
tyme
the
kynge
remayned
.
And
as
bryefly
as
they
myght
/
they
wente
towarde
the
kynge
/
that
allredy
was
aduertysed
of
theyr
retornynge
.
And
after
the
reuerence
done
/
they
recounted
to
hym
how
they
had
spedde
and
wroughte
/
wherof
the
kynge
was
meruayllously
Iocounde
/
and
at
that
tyme
he
was
delyvered
for
to
goo
theder
within
a
thre
wekes
/
or
a
moneth
for
to
espouse
the
quene
.
Aud
in
lykewyse
as
the
kynge
had
deuysed
/
so
it
was
accomplysshed
/
and
departed
from
Castyll
with
a
lytell
company
.
And
then
as
he
was
vpon
his
waye
/
he
sente
worde
to
the
quene
pronouncynge
his
comynge
.
The
whiche
receyued
hym
with
grete
melody
.
And
hastely
the
spousaylles
were
sumptuously
made
/
in
suche
a
wyse
as
apperteyneth
to
a
kyng
and
a
quene
.
The
yonge
Arthur
with
al
his
puyssaunce
made
good
chere
to
the
kynge
his
stepfader
.
Also
whan
the
kynge
behelde
hym
/
hym
thought
that
he
sawe
his
sone
Olyuer
/
for
to
aege
and
bygnesse
they
resembled
so
moche
that
they
coude
not
dyscusse
the
one
from
another
/
wherof
the
barons
that
came
with
the
kynge
was
gretely
abasshed
.
Soo
whan
the
weddynge
was
fynyshed
/
and
that
the
kynge
had
soiourned
there
a
moneth
or
two
/
he
commysed
in
his
stede
a
ryght
noble
knyght
/
to
be
protectour
of
the
realme
of
Algarbe
.
And
after
those
thynges
done
he
departed
/
&
ledde
with
hym
his
newe
quene
/
and
Arthur
her
sone
.
They
rode
so
longe
that
they
arryued
in
the
cyte
where
as
the
kynge
dyd
moost
remayne
/
and
were
receyued
with
grete
tryumphe
and
Ioye
.
The
kynge
commaunded
that
Arthur
sholde
haue
suche
estate
as
his
owne
sone
Olyuer
had
/
wherfore
fro
that
daye
forwarde
/
they
were
nourysshed
togyder
/
and
loued
●oo
perfoundly
togyder
that
it
myght
ne●er
be
lost
/
as
ye
shall
here
more
euydently
after
ensuynge
/
●nd
for
a
good
cause
why
/
for
they
resembled
so
moche
that
oftentymes
they
toke
one
for
another
.
¶
How
Olyuer
and
Arthur
were
commysed
to
a
noble
knyght
/
for
to
practyse
them
in
feates
of
armes
/
And
o●
the
Iustes
made
by
them
/
and
who
wanne
the
pryce
.
Capitulo
.
v.
IT
was
so
that
Olyuer
/
and
Arthur
began
for
to
waxe
grete
.
Wherfore
they
were
taken
from
the
kepynge
of
the
ladyes
.
And
gaue
to
them
a
ryght
prudent
/
and
valyaunt
knyght
/
for
to
demonstre
/
&
enduce
them
in
feates
of
armes
/
as
it
apperteyneth
to
kynges
sones
.
He
receyued
the
two
noble
chyldren
/
that
were
bothe
of
one
aege
/
and
of
one
beaute
/
and
instructed
them
in
all
good
m●●ers
.
Th●n
whan
they
began
for
to
haue
knowlege
/
they
loued
togyder
with
so
perfyte
loue
/
that
hey
made
a●ya●nce
togyder
of
fraternall
company
/
in
promysynge
〈◊〉
for
to
fayle
vnto
the
dethe
departed
them
/
for
consyderynge
the
wyll
of
theyr
lorde
/
that
kepte
them
bothe
so
rychely
/
&
put
in
theyr
vnderstondyng
that
it
sholde
be
impossyble
that
euer
theyr
grete
loue
sholde
fayle
.
The
kynge
and
the
quene
and
all
the
barons
of
the
countree
/
seynge
the
two
chyldren
so
perfyte
felowes
togyde●
/
and
loue
●o
inwardly
were
gretely
reioysed
/
and
thanked
oure
lorde
therof
with
mylde
hertes
/
yf
I
name
them
perfyte
with
out
ony
defaute
blame
me
not
/
nor
meruayll
you
not
of
it
/
for
certaynly
of
beaute
/
bounte
prudence
/
and
humylyte
/
that
ought
to
be
in
ony
noble
herte
/
was
in
tho
two
noble
men
.
They
may
dysportes
amonge
the
knyghtes
and
squyres
and
amonge
ladyes
and
damoyselles
/
as
in
dauncynge
/
and
dyuers
other
games
they
founde
none
that
myght
passe
them
/
as
for
dysportes
that
be
vsed
by
noble
men
in
tyme
of
peas
/
as
at
t●nnys
/
lepe
/
sprynge
/
wrastle
/
cast
the
stone
/
cast
the
bar●e
/
or
ony
other
games
/
none
wolde
compare
with
them
two
.
And
brye●●y
all
thynge
that
they
applyed
them
to
/
became
them
well
As
vnto
the
regarde
of
Iustes
/
and
tourneymentes
/
it
was
defended
them
by
the
kynge
theyr
fader
/
bycause
that
they
were
to
tendre
of
aege
as
at
that
tyme
.
Notwithstandynge
whan
the
kynge
sawe
that
they
were
puyssaunt
ynoughe
for
to
welde
armour
at
theyr
●ase
he
gaue
them
lycence
for
to
do
crye
a
Iustynge
/
and
a
turneyment
.
The
whiche
Olyuer
/
and
Arthur
made
for
to
be
cryed
/
that
thre
auenturous
knyghtes
sholde
Iu●e
agaynst
all
comers
/
the
whiche
sholde
fynde
them
there
the
fyrste
daye
of
the
lus●y
moneth
of
maye
in
complete
harneys
/
for
to
Iust
agaynst
theyr
aduersaryes
/
with
sharpe
speres
/
and
the
sayd
thre
champyons
sholde
Iust
.iij.
dayes
in
thre
colours
/
that
is
to
wete
/
in
blacke
/
gray
/
&
vyolet
/
and
theyr
sheldes
of
the
same
hewe
/
and
them
to
fynde
on
the
thyrde
daye
at
the
lystes
.
There
Iusted
dyuers
yonge
knyghtes
of
the
kynges
courte
.
And
the
Iustynge
was
more
asperer
of
those
yonge
knyghtes
tha●
euer
they
had
sene
ony
in
that
countree
/
and
by
the
reporte
of
the
ladyes
they
dyde
so
knyghtly
euerychone
that
it
was
not
possyble
for
to
do
better
as
them
thought
by
theyr
strokes
.
But
aboue
all
other
Olyuer
and
Arthur
his
loyal
felowe
had
the
bruyte
and
loos
.
The
Iustynge
endured
longe
/
it
was
meruayll
to
se
the
hydeous
strokes
that
they
delte
/
for
the
Iustynge
had
not
fynysshed
so
sone
/
but
that
the
nyght
separed
theym
/
neuerthelesse
the
aduersary
party
abode
tyll
the
torches
were
lyghte
.
But
the
ladyes
and
damoyselles
/
that
of
all
the
Iustynge
tyme
had
ben
there
were
wery
/
and
wolde
departe
/
wherfore
the
Iusters
departed
in
lyke
wyse
/
and
wente
and
dysarmed
theym
for
to
come
to
the
banket
or
feest
/
and
whan
that
the
banquet
was
fynysshed
and
done
/
the
daunces
beganne
.
And
there
came
the
kynge
and
the
valyaunt
knyghtes
of
armes
/
for
to
enquyre
of
the
ladyes
/
and
damoyselles
who
that
had
best
borne
him
as
for
that
daye
.
The
ladyes
whiche
were
all
of
one
accorde
/
&
agreement
/
sayd
that
Olyuer
and
Arthur
had
su●mounted
all
the
best
doers
of
that
Iourneye
.
And
bycause
that
Olyuer
/
and
Arthur
were
bothe
of
one
party
/
and
that
they
coude
fynde
but
lytell
dyfference
bytwene
theym
of
knyghthode
/
they
knewe
not
the
whiche
they
myght
sustayne
.
But
in
the
ende
they
sayd
that
Arthur
had
done
ryght
valyauntly
/
neuerthelesse
they
sayd
that
Olyuer
had
done
best
/
vnto
theyr
semynge
.
And
therfore
it
was
concluded
that
the
pryce
sholde
be
gyuen
vnto
Olyuer
/
as
for
the
best
of
them
of
within
.
And
another
noble
knyght
of
the
realme
of
Algarbe
/
that
came
with
the
quene
had
the
pryce
of
without
/
whan
the
pryce
of
the
Iustes
that
hadde
ben
made
/
was
broughte
before
Olyuer
by
two
fayre
damoyselles
he
waxed
all
rede
and
was
as
ashamed
at
that
present
tyme
&
sayd
that
〈◊〉
was
of
theyr
bounte
for
to
gyue
hym
the
pryce
and
not
of
his
deserte
/
neuerthelesse
he
receyued
it
/
and
as
it
was
of
custome
in
guerdonnynge
them
be
kyssed
them
.
And
sone
after
they
brought
the
wyne
and
spyces
/
and
thenne
the
daunces
and
the
feest
toke
an
ende
as
for
that
nyght
.
¶
How
the
quene
of
Castyll
beganne
to
be
amourous
of
her
sone
Olyuer
of
folysshe
loue
and
dyshonest
.
Capitulo
.
vi
.
THe
two
yonge
men
after
that
the
feest
was
fynysshed
/
and
the
leue
taken
/
they
wente
vnto
theyr
chambre
.
Olyuer
thynkynge
that
he
wolde
not
be
contente
with
that
pryce
.
And
Arthur
on
the
other
syde
sayd
that
he
wolde
do
so
moche
yf
he
myght
/
that
another
tyme
he
myghte
gete
the
pryce
/
but
not
for
enuye
of
the
honoure
of
his
felowe
.
But
good
courage
and
good
wyll
caused
hym
to
haue
those
thoughtes
.
On
the
other
partye
the
kynge
allredy
entred
in
to
his
chambre
for
to
go
vnto
his
rest
/
the
quene
also
thought
excessyuely
on
the
feest
that
she
had
sene
the
daye
tofore
.
And
in
especyall
on
the
two
yonge
knyghtes
was
all
her
thought
.
Of
the
whiche
the
one
of
them
was
her
owne
sone
/
the
whiche
ye
may
thynke
dyd
not
dysplease
her
/
and
sayd
vnto
herselfe
.
Lady
Mary
what
dure
and
aspre
strokes
I
haue
sene
them
gyue
and
receyue
to
daye
.
How
gentylly
it
became
the
kynges
sone
Olyuer
for
to
daunce
/
and
the
clothynge
that
he
ware
/
certes
that
lady
or
damoysell
sholde
be
well
happy
that
he
wolde
loue
.
In
these
thoughtes
she
wente
to
bed
and
fell
on
slepe
/
but
that
was
not
but
that
she
thought
in
her
slepe
that
she
sawe
hym
daunce
all
aboute
the
chambre
.
that
had
pleased
her
so
moche
the
daye
before
.
So
began
the
quene
for
to
entre
in
to
soo
grete
a
foly
that
it
neuer
lefte
her
/
and
that
was
grete
pyte
and
dommage
as
ye
shall
here
afterwarde
.
The
daye
spronge
/
and
at
the
houre
that
they
were
accustomed
for
to
ryse
in
the
courte
/
Olyuer
and
his
felowe
Arthur
arose
and
made
them
redy
in
the
same
wyse
that
they
were
accustomed
/
and
in
that
estate
they
wente
in
to
the
kynges
court
.
Whan
the
quene
sawe
them
/
she
made
them
better
semblaunce
/
&
better
chere
than
she
was
wonte
to
doo
/
and
called
the
kynges
sone
aboute
the
necke
/
and
badde
them
good
morowe
.
And
sayd
alowe
bytwene
her
tethe
.
Olyuer
my
frende
I
thynke
that
god
hath
made
you
for
to
be
loked
on
in
this
worlde
.
Olyuer
herde
it
well
/
and
meruaylled
him
moche
wherfore
she
sayd
it
/
for
he
wys●
not
whether
she
sayd
it
for
good
/
or
for
euyll
/
neuerthelesse
he
put
it
in
oubly
/
and
thought
no
more
vpon
it
.
¶
How
the
quene
gaue
Olyuer
for
to
vnderstande
that
she
loued
hym
/
and
that
she
desyred
for
to
synne
with
hym
And
how
olyuer
answered
her
couertly
/
and
all
to
honoure
.
Capitulo
.
vij
.
BY
space
of
tyme
this
passed
ouer
/
neuertheles
Olyuer
was
not
ashamed
to
be
amonge
ladyes
/
&
damoyselles
/
and
was
neuer
wery
of
Iustynge
and
turneynge
/
or
other
feates
of
armes
that
apperteyned
to
ony
noble
prynce
.
And
whan
that
he
knewe
of
ony
greate
assemble
/
he
wolde
not
haue
fayled
but
that
he
wolde
haue
ben
there●
whether
that
he
had
ben
ferre
or
nere
/
and
therfore
euery
body
had
grete
Ioye
of
hym
/
and
sayd
it
was
a
grete
reioysynge
to
the
kynge
of
Castyll
the
whiche
was
alredy
ferre
altred
in
aege
for
to
se
his
only
sone
&
heyre
so
replenysshed
in
all
vertuous
operacyons
/
but
fortune
the
whiche
is
maystresse
of
all
aduersyte
&
sorowes
aduychylled
his
consolacyon
/
&
separed
from
hym
his
electe
welfare
by
the
quene
his
wyfe
.
The
whiche
be
holdynge
the
gyfte
of
grace
that
nature
had
gyuen
hym
so
fayre
a
chylde
/
she
was
soo
taken
with
his
loue
that
it
is
meruayll
to
recounte
it
/
for
whan
she
was
by
herselfe
in
ony
secrete
place
alone
/
as
in
her
bedde
/
or
elles
where
she
sayd
full
often
.
Ha
a
Olyuer
ryght
fayre
creature
the
treasoure
of
my
thoughtes
.
I
Iowe
well
for
to
curse
thy
resplendysshynge
beaute
/
for
I
am
constrayned
for
thy
excellence
to
do
the
thynge
that
neuer
quene
dyde
/
for
I
must
habandon
the
loue
of
my
lorde
/
and
husbande
for
thyne
.
And
yf
that
thou
haue
not
compassyon
vpon
me
the
surplus
of
my
dayes
shal
be
in
anguyssh
and
dolour
In
this
wyse
the
quene
complayned
so
longe
/
that
Olyuer
and
his
felowe
came
for
to
se
her
.
Whome
she
receyued
with
Ioyous
semblaunt
.
And
whan
ony
persone
axed
her
wherfore
she
shewed
more
sygne
of
amyte
to
olyuer
than
she
dyde
to
Arthur
her
owne
sone
/
she
sayd
that
she
dyde
it
for
to
please
the
kynge
the
better
with
all
She
toke
Olyuer
by
the
hande
and
made
hym
by
force
for
to
sytte
downe
besyde
her
.
And
began
for
to
deuyse
with
hym
of
dyuers
maters
/
and
amonge
other
deuyses
she
demaunded
hym
by
the
fayth
of
his
body
/
yf
that
he
were
not
amorous
of
some
fayre
lady
.
And
he
sayd
naye
And
then
she
sayd
vnto
hym
Olyuer
my
loue
.
I
can
not
byl●ue
that
the
whiche
ye
haue
spoken
.
And
therfore
I
requyre
you
that
ye
tell
me
the
trouthe
in
what
place
she
remayneth
that
is
so
eurous
for
to
be
your
louer
.
Madame
answered
Olyuer
/
in
good
fayth
she
hathe
none
a
bydynge
.
For
there
is
so
many
excellent
ladyes
in
this
realme
/
that
I
can
not
tell
the
whiche
I
may
loue
.
And
also
I
doubte
to
be
refused
.
Wherfore
madame
I
know
well
that
ye
do
but
mocke
with
me
/
for
she
sholde
be
but
a
lytell
happy
for
to
haue
my
loue
.
For
I
am
not
a
man
that
as
yet
hathe
done
ony
thynge
/
wherof
I
oughte
to
enquyre
ony
lady
of
loue
.
And
therfore
vnto
this
houre
I
haue
not
done
so
moche
/
nor
wonne
/
wherfore
I
oughte
to
be
contente
.
The
quene
herynge
the
answer
of
the
yonge
knyght
/
was
sore
abasshed
.
For
the
more
that
she
deuysed
with
hym
/
the
more
she
founde
hym
constaunt
and
ferme
in
his
purpose
/
and
alwaye
she
contynued
in
her
folye
/
in
so
moche
that
Olyuer
apperceyued
a
parte
of
her
wyll
and
desyre
.
Wherfore
he
helde
his
peas
and
spake
not
so
moche
as
he
had
done
before
.
And
she
seynge
that
she
spake
no
more
sayd
vnto
hym
.
My
frende
yf
ony
grete
maystresse
requyred
you
of
loue
/
wolde
ye
refuse
her
/
certes
madame
sayd
he
.
I
am
not
soo
happy
/
nor
no
woman
so
folysh
/
for
to
requyre
me
of
loue
/
and
therfore
there
is
none
answer
.
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
sore
troubled
of
the
requestes
that
his
stepmoder
had
made
to
hym
.
And
how
the
he
prayed
to
our
lorde
/
for
to
reuoke
her
from
her
folys●●
/
and
corrupte
volente
.
Capitulo
.
viij
.
OLyuer
that
was
not
well
pleased
for
to
be
in
suche
deuyses
with
his
fayre
moder
/
made
to
his
felowe
a
sygne
that
he
sholde
calle
hym
the
whiche
dyde
so
/
and
sayd
.
My
broder
the
houre
passeth
that
we
sholde
go
there
as
ye
wote
of
/
and
therfore
I
put
you
in
remembraunce
.
Olyuer
answered
that
it
was
true
.
And
then
he
toke
his
leue
of
the
quene
/
the
whiche
dydde
strayne
his
fyngres
togyder
at
the
departynge
Olyuer
was
than
ryght
dyspleasaunt
bycause
that
he
knewe
her
in
suche
estate
/
but
he
durst
make
●o
semblaunt
vnto
his
felowe
/
for
drede
and
fere
/
that
he
wolde
haue
ben
to
dysplesaunt
.
So
as
they
were
out
of
the
quenes
chambre
/
the
quene
drew
herselfe
aparte
in
to
a
lytell
garderobe
/
and
lete
herselfe
fall
vpon
a
bedde
/
and
sayd
vnto
her selfe
.
My
loue
ye
be
not
soo
folysshe
/
but
that
ye
knowe
thaffayre
in
the
whiche
I
am
oppressyd
/
and
certaynly
it
shall
not
be
lefte
thus
/
for
to
morowe
ye
shall
haue
knowlege
of
all
my
sorowe
/
and
dysease
And
also
Olyuer
vpon
that
other
syde
/
was
in
grete
thought
as
well
as
the
quene
his
stepmoder
was
/
for
whan
he
was
in
his
lodgys
/
he
wente
in
to
his
chambre
all
alone
/
where
as
he
dyde
saye
knelynge
/
My
blessyd
creatour
thou
hast
formed
me
vnto
thy
semblaunce
/
and
hast
gyuen
me
indygne
more
beaute
than
I
am
worthy
for
to
haue
/
the
whiche
shall
because
of
my
destruccyon
/
yf
that
thou
by
thy
grace
put
not
〈◊〉
Wherfore
I
praye
the
that
thou
wouchesauf
for
to
kepe
the
honour
of
my
fader
/
and
me
/
and
that
I
be
not
occasyon
of
the
euyll
wyll
/
wherin
I
se
her
at
this
present
tyme
/
for
I
wyll
not
accorde
therto
for
to
deye
.
And
therfore
I
requyre
you
with
humble
herte
that
it
wyll
please
y●
for
to
take
her
out
of
that
dampnable
opynyon
/
and
that
thou
reduce
/
an
brynge
her
into
suche
estate
/
and
wyll
/
that
as
a
good
and
loyall
spouse
/
she
may
kepe
her
towarde
her
husbande
.
¶
How
the
quene
yet
agayne
declared
her
courage
to
Olyuer
/
the
whiche
was
/
that
she
wolde
that
he
sholde
do
her
dysordynate
wyll
/
and
the
fayre
answers
that
Olyuer
gaue
her
.
Capitulo
.
ix
.
ON
the
morowe
after
that
Olyuer
was
comen
in
to
his
faders
courte
/
aboute
the
houre
of
dyner
/
he
durste
not
leue
his
olde
custome
/
the
whiche
was
/
for
to
go
and
vysyte
the
quene
/
and
also
to
the
ende
that
none
sholde
apperceyue
his
affayre
.
In
contynent
as
he
had
salued
her
/
he
withdrewe
hym
in
to
the
thyckest
prees
of
the
ladyes
/
bycause
that
he
wolde
not
be
alone
with
the
quene
his
stepmoder
/
but
that
auaylled
hym
but
lytell
/
For
the
quene
without
ony
shame
wente
and
fetched
him
agayne
/
and
toke
hym
by
the
hande
/
saynge
that
she
wolde
speke
with
him
.
And
by
forse
whether
he
wolde
or
not
she
made
hym
for
to
sytte
downe
by
her
.
And
satte
thynkynge
/
and
musynge
a
grete
whyle
/
and
sayd
neuer
a
worde
.
Whan
the
quene
sawe
that
he
sayd
neuer
a
worde
/
she
was
halfe
ashamed
and
chaunged
coloure
/
and
sayd
to
hym
.
My
loue
haue
ye
no
remembraunce
of
the
deuyses
that
we
had
togyder
.
Truely
madame
sayd
Olyuer
.
My
memorye
is
so
small
/
that
I
haue
reteyned
but
lytell
/
or
nought
.
Ha
my
swete
herte
sayd
the
quene
I
suppose
that
your
vnderstondynge
is
not
so
dull
/
to
forgete
in
so
shorte
space
/
that
the
whiche
is
sayd
vnto
you
But
I
apperceyue
by
your
langage
/
that
ye
knowe
my
mynde
better
than
I
can
recorde
it
to
you
.
Madame
I
wote
not
what
ye
wolde
saye
.
Certaynly
sayd
she
my
loue
/
to
the
ende
that
ye
knowe
it
.
I
tell
you
that
I
wyl
be
yours
.
And
therfore
I
gyue
me
vnto
you
all
holly
.
It
is
not
of
newe
that
ye
be
lorde
ouer
me
/
and
of
my
wyll
/
But
fere
/
&
shame
hathe
caused
me
to
kepe
it
close
by
longe
space
of
tyme
.
Neuerthelesse
all
doubtes
put
abacke
I
put
you
in
memorye
that
I
am
not
of
your
kȳred
so
nere
/
but
hat
ye
may
do
all
your
pleasure
with
me
/
as
ye
wolde
do
to
your
lady
and
loue
/
and
I
also
of
you
in
lyke
wyse
/
wher
thrugh
we
may
haue
incōpreable
Ioy
and
solace
togyder
.
And
yf
that
my
fortune
be
so
vnhappy
/
that
my
request
be
not
vttred
I
shall
occyse
myselfe
And
therfore
my
loue
/
in
you
lyeth
my
lyfe
and
my
deth
whan
Olyuer
vnderstode
this
/
he
was
more
abasshed
than
euer
he
was
before
/
and
sayd
vnto
her
in
this
wyse
Madame
where
as
ye
say
that
ye
loue
me
I
thanke
you
hertly
and
as
for
that
/
that
ye
name
you
my
louer
/
it
can
not
be
no
gretter
than
it
is
as
for
my
parte
/
for
as
vnto
my
moder
/
and
maystresse
/
there
is
no
seruyce
but
that
I
wyll
do
it
at
your
commaundement
/
as
I
am
bounde
for
to
do
.
I
can
not
thynke
that
ye
be
so
chyldysshe
that
ye
wolde
loue
me
otherwyse
than
a
good
moder
sholde
/
and
ought
to
loue
her
chylde
.
For
I
holde
my selfe
for
suche
one
/
that
I
had
leuer
deye
than
for
to
do
ony
thynge
that
were
contrary
to
the
honour
of
the
kynge
my
fader
And
yf
that
I
dyde
otherwyse
/
the
houre
of
my
byrth
ought
well
to
be
cursed
.
¶
How
Olyuer
refused
all
the
requestes
of
his
fayre
stepmoder
.
And
how
she
menased
hym
vnto
the
dethe
.
Capitulo
.
x.
THe
quene
ryght
furyously
/
and
Irefully
brake
his
wordes
in
sayng
.
Olyuer
cursed
be
thy
beaute
/
whan
that
thou
arte
so
eleuate
in
pryde
/
to
refuse
suche
a
quene
as
I
am
/
but
fro
hens
forth
/
the
name
of
a
frende
that
was
gyuen
to
the
by
me
/
and
that
hathe
ben
fyxed
in
the
profoundenesse
of
my
secrete
thoughtes
/
and
also
the
reioycynge
of
my
herte
/
by
thy
grete
outragyous
cruelte
shall
be
torned
in
to
grete
amerenes
.
For
I
shall
name
the
my
mortall
enemye
/
as
one
that
is
a
destroyer
/
and
sleer
of
ladyes
.
For
thou
arte
a
murderer
of
me
/
and
shall
be
cause
of
my
deth
/
and
that
ryght
shortly
.
But
it
shall
not
be
with
out
the.
For
in
all
the
maners
/
and
facyons
that
can
be
/
vnto
me
possyble
I
shall
abredge
thy
lyfe
.
For
me
thynketh
that
it
is
reason
syth
that
I
must
dye
for
the
/
and
the
thou
arte
cause
of
my
dethe
/
that
thou
be
parteyner
of
my
dolour
and
anguysshe
/
notwithstandynge
I
praye
to
our
lorde
that
he
pardonne
the
/
the
innumerable
euyll
les
that
by
the
are
lykly
for
to
befall
.
And
then
she
sayd
vnto
hym
.
Aryse
of
my
quysshen
/
and
go
thy
waye
/
for
it
is
impossyble
to
me
/
for
to
be
here
in
the
presence
of
the
people
/
withoute
that
my
sorowe
shall
be
apperceyued
/
Olyuer
arose
and
toke
his
leue
of
the
quene
/
the
whiche
went
in
to
a
lytell
chambre
/
where
as
she
demeaned
her
sorowe
so
meruaylously
that
it
were
impossyble
for
to
●ecounte
/
and
tell
it
.
Olyuer
wente
towarde
the
kynge
&
salued
hym
.
Soo
after
that
he
had
ben
there
a
whyle
he
wente
vnto
his
place
/
and
his
felowe
with
hym
/
whiche
knewe
full
well
that
his
broder
made
not
soo
good
chere
as
he
was
accustomed
for
to
doo
/
and
demaunded
hym
what
meuyd
hym
/
that
he
was
so
sadde
.
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
wolde
not
tell
hym
/
he
thought
in
hymselfe
that
he
wolde
not
demaunde
hym
no
more
/
leste
that
he
sholde
be
dyspleased
with
hym
.
All
that
daye
Olyuer
abode
in
this
chambre
/
and
for
to
couer
the
better
his
dyspleasure
/
he
made
his
men
for
too
vnderstande
that
he
was
not
well
at
ease
/
and
that
he
was
a
lytell
dysmayde
For
the
whiche
thynge
his
felowe
Arthur
was
ryght
do
lent
/
and
sorowfull
/
but
it
was
impossyble
to
hym
for
to
amende
it
/
this
notwithstandynge
/
he
wolde
not
departe
from
hym
/
but
after
so●per
Olyuer
requyred
hym
that
he
wolde
go
towarde
the
kynge
/
and
the
ladyes
for
that
nyght
.
And
that
he
wolde
kepe
hym
without
makynge
ony
mensyon
of
his
sykenes
/
and
that
at
his
comynge
agayne
he
sholde
fynde
him
a
bedde
.
So
at
the
request
of
his
broder
he
was
contente
for
to
goo
/
and
sayd
to
hym
/
My
good
broder
Olyuer
it
is
your
wyll
that
I
shall
go
in
to
the
courte
/
and
bycause
that
it
shall
be
late
or
that
I
come
agayne
/
and
that
I
myght
happen
awake
you
I
hydde
you
good
nyght
.
And
I
pray
god
gyue
you
go
●e
rest
so
that
your
sykenesse
may
to
morowe
be
aledged
And
tolde
hym
that
he
wolde
not
lye
with
hym
the
nyght
Then
Olyuer
embrased
hym
/
with
the
teres
in
his
eyen
and
sayd
to
Arthur
that
he
abode
ouer
longe
.
Arthur
apperceyued
the
teres
in
his
eyen
/
wherfore
he
was
sore
abasshed
.
For
he
knewe
him
for
suche
a
man
/
that
he
dyscomforted
hym
not
for
a
lytell
thynge
/
neuerthelesse
he
made
no
semblaunt
/
but
departed
with
grete
lamentacy
on
.
Alas
yf
he
had
knowen
wheron
his
felowe
dyde
thynke
/
his
sorowe
wolde
haue
doubled
/
for
he
sawe
hym
not
after
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
hadde
bothe
suffred
many
aduersytees
/
as
ye
shall
here
more
playnly
afterwarde
.
¶
How
Olyuer
abode
all
alone
in
his
chambre
/
where
as
he
made
dyuers
complayntes
/
and
lamentacyons
/
and
of
the
lettre
that
he
wrote
vnto
his
felowe
Arthur
/
and
at
what
thynge
he
sholde
haue
knowlege
/
yf
he
hadde
ony
euyll
aduenture
.
Capitulo
.
xi
.
AS
Olyuer
sawe
that
he
was
left
alone
/
and
that
his
loyall
felowe
was
gone
/
he
abode
al
pensyf
/
and
sadde
.
And
sayd
vnto
his
chamberlayne
that
he
wolde
go
vnto
bedde
/
and
that
he
sholde
make
euery
body
to
auoyde
for
that
nyght
.
And
badde
his
chamberlayne
that
he
sholde
make
prouysyon
of
paper
/
and
ynke
.
So
whan
euery
body
was
departed
/
and
that
there
was
no
moo
lefte
with
in
the
chambre
but
his
chamberlayne
/
he
made
hym
redy
and
wente
to
bedde
.
And
then
he
badde
his
chamberlayne
that
he
sholde
go
his
waye
for
that
nyght
/
for
there
is
one
that
wyll
lye
with
me
/
the
whiche
wyll
not
be
knowen
.
The
chamberlayne
dyde
his
lordes
commaundement
/
and
departed
/
and
shytte
the
dore
after
hym
.
And
whan
that
Olyuer
saw
that
euery
body
was
auoyded
/
there
is
no
herte
may
thynke
/
nor
expresse
/
the
innumerable
lamentacyons
that
he
made
.
And
fyrste
of
all
the
grete
goodes
/
and
honour
/
that
in
that
countree
he
had
receyued
.
And
after
/
for
the
ryght
bytter
dolour
that
for
his
sake
were
lykly
for
to
come
/
as
well
vnto
the
kynge
his
fader
/
as
vnto
his
felowe
/
and
in
generall
al
them
of
the
kynges
courte
/
where
as
he
was
so
derely
byloued
This
notwithstandynge
he
concluded
in
hymselfe
that
he
wolde
departe
habandonnynge
londes
/
possessyons
/
and
honours
/
saynge
that
the
worldly
honours
/
were
nothynge
in
comparyson
of
the
spyrytuelles
/
the
whiche
hathe
neuer
ende
/
and
sayd
that
he
oughte
not
for
to
kepe
his
carcas
so
deyntely
/
that
was
ordeyned
in
this
worlde
for
to
be
wormes
mete
/
as
his
honour
and
his
soule
/
the
whiche
sholde
be
tormented
in
helle
/
yf
that
he
wold
byleue
the
dampnable
opynyon
of
his
fayre
moder
.
He
thought
in
hymselfe
that
it
were
better
for
hym
for
to
departe
be
tymes
/
than
ouer
late
/
for
he
had
no
more
trust
nor
confydens
in
the
quene
/
seynge
and
consyderynge
the
wordes
that
she
had
sayd
vnto
hym
.
Then
he
toke
the
paper
and
the
ynke
/
and
began
for
to
wryte
a
lettre
the
whiche
adressyd
vnto
his
felowe
.
In
the
whiche
after
the
gretynges
and
salutacyons
/
made
as
amyably
as
ony
myght
be
made
/
he
put
in
the
lettre
that
for
certayne
causes
he
was
departed
from
the
courte
in
praynge
hym
ryghte
debonayrly
that
he
wolde
pardon
hym
of
that
that
he
had
not
aduertysed
hym
of
his
departyng
/
for
certaynly
it
had
ben
impossyble
vnto
hym
/
for
to
haue
departed
in
his
presence
.
And
this
notwithstandynge
yf
that
he
were
ferre
from
his
syghte
/
yet
he
sholde
not
be
longed
from
his
herte
/
for
in
what
countre
/
or
in
what
place
that
euer
he
were
/
he
wolde
holde
hym
for
his
good
broder
/
&
frende
/
and
that
neuer
on
his
syde
he
wolde
forgete
him
Afterwarde
he
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
make
his
recommendacyons
ryght
humbly
vnto
his
fader
the
kynge
and
the
quene
/
and
vnto
all
theym
the
whiche
sholde
demaunde
after
hym
.
And
then
he
wrote
aboue
.
My
broder
bycause
that
I
wote
neuer
whan
I
shall
se
you
agayne
.
I
leue
with
you
this
lytell
glasse
/
the
whiche
is
ful
of
clere
water
as
ye
may
see
/
and
I
praye
you
that
ye
loke
euery
daye
ones
vpon
it
for
my
loue
/
for
yf
I
haue
ony
euyll
aduenture
/
that
water
that
is
in
the
glasse
shall
become
all
blacke
/
and
that
shall
sygnyfye
that
I
am
〈◊〉
some
euyll
aduenture
or
empesshement
.
And
then
my
loyall
broder
and
faythfull
felowe
I
beseche
you
that
for
the
grete
loue
and
amyte
/
that
we
haue
●ad
togyder
that
yf
so
happen
/
that
ye
wyll
departe
from
the
courte
of
my
fader
and
neuer
rest
tyll
that
ye
here
some
tydynges
of
me
.
My
broder
and
true
felowe
/
in
you●s
all
my
hope
and
trust
/
aboue
all
them
in
the
worlde
.
Of
her
thynge
my
broder
I
wote
not
what
to
wryte
to
you
/
but
that
ye
may
be
sure
that
I
shall
deye
yours
.
I
praye
to
oure
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
/
that
he
gyue
you
asmoche
good
/
and
grace
/
as
my
herte
desyreth
.
Amen
.
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
all
alone
without
ony
company
/
and
came
to
a
hauen
of
the
see
/
where
as
he
founde
a
shyp
all
redy
for
to
departe
/
in
the
whiche
he
put
hymselfe
/
with
an
Englysshe
knyght
that
he
founde
there
.
Capitulo
.
xij
.
ANd
whan
the
lettres
were
made
.
Olyuer
made
hym
redy
/
and
whan
he
was
redy
/
bothe
booted
/
and
sporred
/
and
his
swerde
by
his
syde
/
he
wente
in
to
his
stable
at
the
houre
of
mydnyght
whan
that
euery
body
was
retrayed
vnto
theyr
ynnes
/
for
it
was
a
place
all
alone
a
good
waye
from
the
kynges
courte
/
and
at
that
tyme
there
dwelled
no
body
nor
none
of
his
seruauntes
/
and
at
that
tyme
/
there
was
no
warre
in
the
realme
of
Castyll
/
but
all
peas
/
and
therfore
he
myght
the
better
/
and
the
more
secretely
do
his
wyll
/
so
he
toke
a
hors
the
whiche
that
semyd
hym
best
/
and
sadled
hym
/
and
then
he
lepte
vpon
hym
/
but
that
was
not
/
but
that
afore
his
departynge
/
he
put
the
lettre
and
the
glasse
in
his
chambre
in
the
moost
redyest
place
to
his
semynge
/
and
there
as
it
myght
sonest
be
founde
.
And
also
he
had
taken
a
lytell
purse
/
in
the
whiche
he
had
put
a
thousande
nobles
/
and
other
lytell
bagges
that
were
not
of
so
grete
value
/
but
what
of
syluer
/
and
other
thynge
/
they
were
worthe
as
moche
.
He
founde
the
gate
of
his
place
open
/
and
the
kynge
at
that
tyme
was
in
a
place
/
where
as
no
gates
were
shytte
.
Olyuer
rode
forthand
exployted
so
moche
with
his
ease
/
and
also
with
the
fayre
lyght
of
the
mone
/
that
he
passed
the
towne
lyghtely
.
And
whan
that
Olyuer
was
a
lytell
passed
the
towne
heretorned
his
ryght
heauteous
vysage
towarde
the
place
where
as
he
had
ben
nourysshed
and
sayd
.
〈◊〉
kynge
of
Casty●●
thou
les●s●e
in
this
ny●ht
thyn
onely
begoten
sone
.
〈…〉
ryghte
f●uctuous
●cal●●e
thou
lesest
thy
prynce
a●●
ryghtways
he●●e
.
〈◊〉
thou
my
broder
Arthur
thou
lesest
thy
fayth
full
f●lo●●e
.
And
there
he
toke
his
leue
of
them
all
in
sayge
.
〈…〉
and
〈◊〉
sel●s
and
thou
ryall
palay
〈…〉
taken
my
●ouryture
.
I
pray
to
〈…〉
preserue
all
them
that
ben
enhabytyng
ther●●
〈…〉
euyll
aduenture●
and
he
wyll
transporte
〈…〉
and
●yue
her
knowle●e
that
the
euyll
wyl
〈…〉
me
procedeth
〈◊〉
of
a
Iust
and
〈…〉
from
her
.
As
these
words
were
fynys
〈◊〉
he
returned
his
〈◊〉
in
to
the
〈…〉
wypynge
a
w●ye
the
〈◊〉
of
〈◊〉
face
and
of
his
clo●e
that
〈…〉
of
teres
that
he
〈…〉
neuer
●lynted
rydynge
〈…〉
me
to
a
lytell
vyl●●●
〈…〉
.
And
he
came
〈…〉
and
〈…〉
that
he
〈…〉
whiche
wolde
departe
from
thens
and
〈…〉
Englande
that
was
allredy
〈…〉
the
shyppe
and
dyuers
other
〈◊〉
that
wante
towarde
the
〈◊〉
Constantynople
.
Olyuer
demau●●
〈◊〉
of
the
〈…〉
/
yf
that
he
wolde
lette
hym
go
with
them
and
he
wolde
consente
hym
ryght
largely
for
his
fraught
.
But
the
mayster
marynere
answered
to
hym
/
that
he
wolde
not
.
Wherfore
Olyuer
was
ryght
sory
/
&
dyspleasaunt
/
but
at
the
instaunce
/
and
request
/
of
the
Englysshe
knyght
/
the
whiche
was
all
redy
aborde
/
he
was
content
.
And
then
Olyuer
gaue
the
mayster
of
the
shyppe
his
noble
courser
/
for
to
doo
with
hym
his
good
pleasure
.
And
after
that
Olyuer
had
gyuen
hym
his
courser
/
he
entred
in
to
the
shyppe
/
the
whiche
abode
but
for
the
tyde
/
and
whan
that
the
bye
tyde
was
comen
/
they
departed
.
The
gentyll
Olyuer
was
all
alone
for
he
had
no
knowlege
/
nor
none
acquayntaunce
with
no
body
within
that
shyp
/
but
by
the
suffraunce
of
god
almyghtye
/
he
acquaynted
hym
soo
with
the
Englysshe
knyght
/
that
they
were
so
good
frendes
&
loued
so
perfytely
togyder
/
that
he
myght
ryght
well
auaunt
hym
that
god
had
gyuen
hym
good
encountree
/
and
ryght
good
auenture
of
the
whiche
Olyuer
had
ryght
grete
necessyte
/
as
ye
shal
here
in
this
presente
hystorye
afterwarde
more
playnly
.
We
shall
leue
here
to
speke
of
the
noble
knyght
Olyuer
/
〈◊〉
hym
goo
in
the
garde
/
and
kepynge
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
/
and
of
the
wynde
/
and
of
the
see
/
and
that
the
wyll
of
his
inestimable
grace
cond●●●
hym
to
a
good
porte
and
hauen
.
Amen
.
How
Arthur
of
Algarbe
came
into
the
chambre
of
his
〈◊〉
Olyuer
the
〈…〉
grettes
/
and
lamentacyons
/
bycause
of
〈◊〉
sodayne
departynge
.
Capittulo
.
xiij
.
HEre
aboue
ye
haue
herde
of
the
departyng
of
the
noble
Olyuer
/
sone
of
the
Kynge
of
Castylle
.
Whan
it
was
daye
/
erly
in
the
mornynge
his
seruauntes
came
to
his
chambre
for
to
be
at
his
vprysynge
/
as
they
were
accustomed
.
And
whan
that
they
were
comen
theder
they
founde
the
garde
of
his
persone
without
the
dore
/
wherfore
they
meruaylled
gretely
.
In
the
meane
whyle
that
they
abode
afore
the
dore
/
and
that
the
hour
of
dyner
approched
nere
/
his
fyrst
chamberlayne
came
/
and
founde
this
company
afore
the
chambre
dore
/
the
which
as
yet
had
not
entred
in
to
the
chambre
wherof
he
was
abasshed
meruaylously
/
and
demaunded
what
tydynges
/
&
sayd
to
hym
that
Olyuer
had
bydden
the
euenynge
before
that
they
sholde
departe
/
and
axed
him
why
he
was
〈…〉
ouer
that
he
demaunded
hym
/
yf
that
they●
〈…〉
and
he
answered
.
I
was
not
there
to
〈…〉
nor
tell
you
whether
he
be
〈…〉
to
〈…〉
but
it
shall
be
well
done
that
〈…〉
and
to
he
dyde
/
but
none
answered
hym
〈…〉
whereas
was
no
body
/
so
they
were
〈…〉
meane
whyle
Arthur
that
had
〈…〉
came
for
to
se
in
what
estate
h●s
broder
had
borne
hym
that
nyghte
.
And
whan
that
he
knewe
that
none
of
them
hadbe
yet
entred
in
to
the
chambre
he
doubted
leest
his
felowe
hadde
some
grete
〈◊〉
bycause
of
the
sykenesse
of
th●
daye
afore
.
So
he
called
one
o●
the
squyers
of
his
chambre
that
ha●e
the
keyes
of
that
doore
/
in
the
same
wyse
as
Olyuer
hadde
/
for
they
twayne
had
neuer
but
one
chambre
/
and
made
to
open
the
chambre
dore
/
and
after
entred
all
alone
/
and
shytte
the
dore
after
hym
.
As
sone
as
he
was
in
the
chambre
/
the
fyrst
thynge
that
he
●yde
/
was
that
he
wente
streyght
vnto
the
bedde
where
as
he
founde
nobody
/
wherfore
he
was
●ore
abasshed
And
began
for
to
serche
all
aboute
/
as
well
at
the
draught
as
elleswhere
,
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
coude
not
fynde
hym
/
he
was
so
dyspleasaunt
that
he
wyst
not
what
to
saye
or
do
.
And
thus
as
he
sought
vp
and
downe
in
the
chambre
/
thynkynge
and
〈◊〉
vpon
this
thynge
/
he
〈◊〉
regarde
〈◊〉
syde
/
and
aspyed
the
lytell
glasse
of
his
felowe
/
that
he
had
s●ne
afore
tyme
/
so
he
approched
nere
/
and
toke
it
in
his
hande
●
and
in
takynge
it
/
he
apperceyned
the
lettre
/
and
he
sawe
euydently
that
he
su●er
〈◊〉
was
of
his
felowes
hande
wrytynge
/
and
〈◊〉
it
〈◊〉
began
for
to
rede
it
euer
.
And
whan
he
vn●●
〈◊〉
the
〈◊〉
of
the
lettre
yf
all
the
sorowes
/
and
〈◊〉
that
euer
he
had
in
his
lyfe
had
comen
to
〈…〉
yet
he
〈◊〉
not
haue
had
the.
C.
〈◊〉
the
dolour
and
anguyss●●
that
he
systayned
at
〈…〉
and
had
his
〈…〉
And
then
he
began
for
to
complayne
hym
so
dolefully
that
it
wolde
haue
molefyed
the
durest
herte
of
the
worlde
and
sayd
vnto
hymself
.
Alas
my
lorde
/
my
broder
/
and
my
faythfull
felowe
certaynly
I
byleue
not
but
and
ye
had
loued
me
so
profoundly
/
as
I
loue
you
ye
wolde
haue
gyuen
me
some
knowlege
of
your
departynge
.
And
truely
it
hadde
been
impossyble
for
me
to
haue
departed
from
you
as
ye
haue
departed
from
me
.
Alas
my
broder
I
knowe
you
for
suche
one
/
that
ye
be
not
departed
withoute
grete
occasyon
/
and
to
my
symple
wytte
I
dyde
you
neuer
tryspass●●n●●
deserued
agaynst
you
/
but
yf
that
your
pleasure
hadde
ben
that
I
myght
haue
knowen
somewhat
of
your
dyspleasure
/
&
yf
that
●t
be
possyble
to
me
for
to
knowe
it
sholde
deye
in
the
payne
/
but
that
ye
were
reuenged
at
your
owne
wyll
.
Ryght
noble
kynges
sone
the
prouysyon
sente
from
heuen
for
the
salute
of
this
countree
/
what
shall
your
fader
/
and
my
moder
saye
.
And
in
sayng
this
he
swowned
And
who
that
hadde
sene
hym
/
wolde
better
haue
Iuged
hym
deed
than
quycke
.
¶
How
the
kynge
of
Castyll
Olyuers
fader
came
in
to
the
chambre
/
and
of
the
grete
sorowe
that
he
made
whan
he
founde
hym
not
.
Capitulo
.
xiiii
.
ALl
the
noble
men
of
the
courte
that
abode
at
Olyuers
chambre
dore
seyng
that
they
had
no
tydynges
of
Arthur
/
that
was
entred
in
to
the
chambre
/
made
it
for
to
be
knowen
to
the
kynge
theyr
fader
/
and
the
fyrste
chamberla●●●
of
Olyuer
sayd
vnto
hym
.
My
souerayne
lorde
your
sone
Olyuer
was
yesterdaye
a
lytell
dyseased
/
&
made
to
auoyde
all
the
gromes
of
his
chambre
/
and
abode
all
alone
.
And
yet
at
this
houre
all
the
grome
of
his
chambre
/
was
without
the
dore
/
the
whiche
be
not
as
yet
entred
.
And
as
touchynge
my
parte
I
haue
knocked
at
the
chambre
dore
/
but
there
was
no
body
that
answered
me
.
Also
my
lorde
Arthur
his
broder
not
longe
ago
/
is
entred
/
but
we
haue
had
noo
more
tydynges
of
hym
than
afore
.
And
therfore
I
put
you
in
memorye
of
these
thynges
/
for
to
do
therwith
your
good
pleasure
.
Then
the
kynge
sayd
that
he
wolde
go
theder
in
his
persone
for
to
knowe
what
it
myght
sygnefye
.
And
came
vnto
the
chambre
dore
/
the
whiche
was
locked
/
but
he
made
it
to
be
opened
/
and
entred
in
to
the
chambre
with
lytell
company
/
And
incon●ynent
as
he
sawe
not
his
sone
Olyuer
vpon
his
bedde
/
he
doubted
well
that
there
was
some
what
that
wolde
not
please
hym
to
moche
.
And
as
he
loked
here
/
&
there
/
he
〈◊〉
Arthur
that
was
●yenge
vpon
y●
〈…〉
than
alyue
/
and
as
yet
he
was
〈…〉
.
And
whan
the
kynge
apperc●●●
〈◊〉
he
sayd
vnto
hym
.
My
frende
I
trow
that
thou
knowest
somewhat
that
I
knowe
not
/
and
in
saynge
that
he
approched
more
nerer
to
hym
/
and
sawe
that
he
〈◊〉
not
.
Then
he
layde
hande
on
hym
and
felte
that
there
was
some
lyfe
in
hym
/
and
therfore
he
made
to
put
wyne
/
&
brede
in
his
nose
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
he
came
to
hymselfe
.
And
whan
that
he
myghte
speke
he
〈◊〉
for
thy
parte
take
this
dyssolute
creature
.
And
〈◊〉
those
wordes
/
the
〈◊〉
fel●e
oute
of
his
〈…〉
whiche
was
redde
〈◊〉
the
kynge
/
in
grete
〈◊〉
and
wepynge
of
the
reder
.
And
whan
the
kynge
knewe
the
departynge
of
his
valyaunt
sone
Olyuer
that
he
loued
so
derely
.
It
was
not
possyble
to
hym
for
to
here
all
that
the
lettre
conteyned
/
for
whan
that
he
entred
in
to
the
mater
where
as
it
spake
of
the
departyng
of
his
sone
/
as
hye
as
he
stode
he
lete
hymself
fall
downe
to
the
erthe
.
It
was
grete
pyte
to
haue
ben
in
the
chambre
/
for
they
wyst
not
to
whome
they
myght
attende
/
eyther
to
the
fader
/
or
to
the
broder
/
or
to
the
seruauntes
for
all
that
whan
he
myght
speke
he
a●●ryed
and
sayd
.
O
ryght
myserable
kynge
/
wherfore
dothe
not
god
sende
to
the
the
dethe
/
truely
nothynge
sholde
be
to
me
〈…〉
the
dethe
/
nor
nothynge
so
dyspleasaunt
as
to
〈…〉
my
chylde
thou
made
thy
moder
to
dye
and
〈…〉
of
thy
faders
also
that
loueth
the
so
tenderly
.
〈◊〉
whiche
seynge
thy
ryghte
fayre
yong
he
〈…〉
.
¶
How
the
Kynge
sente
after
his
sone
Olyuer
/
&
of
〈…〉
and
of
them
of
the
〈◊〉
whan
she
〈…〉
.
xv
.
IN
suche
wordes
so
semblables
/
ledde
the
ryght
●olent
kynge
and
the
quene
/
the
grettest
sorow
that
myght
be
.
And
there
was
nothynge
myght
comforte
them
.
Neuertheles
a
lytell
whyle
after
the
kynge
wente
saynge
.
Alas
my
frendes
/
〈…〉
this
poore
/
and
desolute
kynge
/
and
fader
the
whiche
hathe
lost
all
his
Ioye
/
that
is
his
sone
/
〈…〉
I
beseche
you
euerycho●e
/
to
put
you
on
the
waye
for
to
here
some
tytynges
of
hym
/
or
yf
that
it
be
possyble
for
to
fynde
hym
/
for
whome
I
haue
so
moche
dolour
/
and
anguysshe
.
Then
the
moost
parte
of
theym
departed
at
the
commaundement
of
the
kynge
/
and
put
them
vpon
the
waye
/
and
for
to
make
shorte
processe
/
they
were
in
soo
many
places
/
and
countrees
/
that
it
is
meruayl
to
recounte
it
.
And
neuerthelesse
they
herde
no
tydynges
that
were
ony
thynge
pleasaunt
in
that
behalfe
.
And
therfore
they
retorned
towarde
the
kynge
/
vnto
whome
they
tolde
all
that
they
had
founde
.
And
whan
he
knewe
that
his
losse
was
vncurable
/
he
layde
hym
downe
in
his
bedde
all
melancolyous
.
They
that
behelde
him
/
thought
that
he
wolde
neuer
haue
rysen
from
thens
the
quene
seynge
the
grete
maladye
of
the
kynge
/
and
al
so
knowynge
that
all
these
euylles
proceded
from
her
/
the
grete
furour
/
and
angre
of
the
nyght
afore
/
was
chaunged
in
to
pyte
/
sorowe
/
and
dyspleasure
/
saynge
thus
.
O
vnhappy
and
cursed
woman
thou
arte
cause
of
the
exyle
and
losse
/
of
the
moost
fayrest
/
the
moost
gentyll
/
the
moost
wyse
and
the
moost
knyghtely
that
euer
was
in
Castylle
/
thy
desteny
ought
well
to
be
cursed
/
and
who
that
knewe
thy
case
/
they
ought
to
punysshe
the
ryght
bitterly
.
Alas
my
ryght
fayre
loue
Olyuer
/
and
my
ryght
dere
herte
for
to
be
drawen
with
horses
/
and
for
to
suffre
martyrdome
/
it
is
impossyble
for
me
to
amende
the
dyspleasure
and
iniurye
that
by
me
hathe
ben
spoken
vnto
you
/
as
she
that
was
not
maystresse
of
herfelfe
/
but
was
subgecte
by
my
fragylyte
to
wrathe
/
not
knowynge
thy
grete
bounte
and
loyalte
/
and
bycause
that
thy
losse
is
vncouerable
/
and
that
it
procedeth
from
me
/
and
of
my
cause
/
neuer
shall
I
haue
Ioye
.
And
as
infortuned
I
shall
vse
the
surplus
of
my
lyfe
in
praynge
our
lorde
that
he
wyll
kepe
thy
ryght
fayre
yongth
from
all
encomberaunce
.
Who
that
wolde
tell
the
complayntes
of
them
of
the
countree
/
it
wolde
be
to
longe
to
tell
it
/
and
therfore
I
holde
my
peas
/
and
reforneth
to
Olyuer
.
¶
Of
the
grete
fortune
that
happened
to
Olyuer
on
the
see
.
And
how
he
and
the
Englysshe
knyghte
were
preserued
from
drownynge
.
Capitulo
.
xvi
.
WE
haue
suffycyently
herde
spoken
here
afore
of
the
departynge
that
Olyuer
made
/
that
was
sone
and
heyre
of
the
kynge
of
Castyll
/
And
how
be
put
hym
vpon
the
see
/
where
as
he
was
two
monthes
/
or
there
aboute
.
It
be
fell
vpon
a
nyght
that
a
tempest
/
and
meruaylous
orage
toke
them
/
wherfore
it
was
force
to
the
shypmen
for
to
habandonne
theyr
shyppe
at
the
pleasure
of
god
/
vnto
whome
they
recommaunded
them
full
often
/
as
they
that
abode
but
his
mercye
.
In
that
estate
they
were
the
space
thre
dayes
/
in
ryght
grete
torment
.
And
the
tempest
was
so
hydeous
/
and
terryble
/
that
vpon
the
thyrde
daye
theyr
shyp
stroke
on
grounde
/
by
so
grete
force
that
it
claue
in
two
pyeces
/
and
all
were
perysshed
excepte
Olyuer
/
and
syr
Iohan
Talbot
.
Whiche
seynge
londe
/
the
whiche
was
not
ferre
of
/
tooke
some
comforte
.
For
whan
they
sawe
that
theyr
shyp
was
clouen
/
and
that
all
theyr
felysshyp
were
perysshed
/
they
sayd
that
it
was
better
that
they
put
themself
for
to
swymme
/
for
to
saue
theyr
lyfe
as
longe
as
it
myght
be
possyble
.
And
therfore
eche
of
them
in
makynge
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
/
and
recommaundynge
them
in
the
kepynge
of
our
lorde
/
le●te
in
to
the
see
/
and
began
for
to
swymme
/
trustynge
for
to
saue
themselfe
/
the
whiche
was
impossyble
for
them
/
yf
that
our
lorde
had
not
extended
his
grace
/
for
they
were
swymmynge
so
longe
/
that
there
was
neyther
of
them
but
that
he
lacked
breth
/
and
were
at
the
poynt
to
haue
ben
lost
.
And
also
the
water
was
so
colde
/
and
soo
aspre
that
yf
they
had
suffred
none
other
euyll
/
it
hadde
ben
in
oughe
for
to
haue
deyed
.
And
in
that
estate
they
lenthed
not
ferre
the
one
from
the
others
/
and
requyred
our
lorde
with
all
theyr
hertes
of
his
mercy
/
and
grace
/
and
that
he
wolde
haue
pyte
on
them
/
for
they
trusted
neuer
to
haue
escaped
Neuerthelesse
our
lorde
that
euer
purueyeth
for
his
true
seruauntes
/
scute
them
socour
/
for
they
were
all
abasshed
whan
that
that
sawe
by
theym
a
whyte
herte
/
the
whiche
Olyuer
toke
by
the
hor●●s
/
and
mounted
on
his
backe
.
Talbot
the
whiche
was
not
ferre
from
hym
/
gate
vp
behynde
Olyuer
.
And
in
the
estate
the
herte
bare
them
to
the
lande
/
and
then
he
vanysshed
awaye
/
&
then
eyther
of
them
as
well
as
they
myght
haue
laudes
and
thankynges
to
god
/
that
of
his
infynyte
grace
had
preserued
them
/
&
this
done
they
enforced
them
for
to
go
vnto
a
lytell
place
/
the
whiche
was
not
ferre
from
the
see
syde
.
This
place
was
a
gentylmans
of
the
countree
/
and
whan
he
sawe
them
in
that
plyte
/
he
had
grete
pyte
on
them
.
And
made
them
a
good
fyre
/
and
warmed
/
&
chaffed
them
ryght
well
/
&
layde
them
in
a
softe
bed
.
And
he
dyde
to
them
all
the
pleasure
that
he
coude
.
And
whan
that
they
were
a
lytell
amended
/
he
demaunded
theym
how
they
were
escaped
.
And
they
recounted
to
hym
all
the
daunger
/
and
peryll
that
they
had
ben
in
/
and
how
that
god
of
his
endlesse
grace
hadde
saued
them
by
myracle
/
Wherof
theyr
hoost
had
grete
meruayll
.
Notwithstandynge
he
byleued
them
ryght
well
/
for
he
wyst
well
that
there
was
nothynge
impossyble
to
god
/
wherby
we
may
haue
alwaye
memorye
herof
/
to
the
ende
that
yf
we
fynde
our self
in
ony
daunger
/
or
peryll
by
fortune
/
and
also
to
the
occasyon
for
to
flee
synne
/
for
whan
a
synner
gothe
to
commyt
synne
/
and
remembreth
the
mercy
/
and
puyssaunce
of
god
/
and
deuoutely
reclaymeth
the
ayde
of
our
lord
.
Then
god
permytteth
/
and
gyueth
them
suche
comforte
/
that
they
ben
delyuered
from
all
temptacyon
as
to
the
purpose
of
these
two
/
the
whiche
he
preserued
from
the
peryll
of
the
see
.
¶
How
the
knyght
that
was
Olyuers
felowe
deyed
/
and
of
that
the
whiche
happened
after
his
dethe
.
Capitulo
.
xvij
.
RYght
as
they
deuysed
.
Olyuer
demaunded
in
what
countree
they
were
in
.
And
they
tolde
hym
that
it
was
Englande
.
Wherof
the
knyght
that
was
with
Olyuer
/
was
moche
reioysed
/
notwithstandynge
that
he
was
sore
syke
.
And
enquyred
of
his
hoost
yf
he
knewe
not
a
knyghte
that
was
called
syr
Iohan
Talbot
.
He
answered
/
that
he
had
often
herde
speke
of
suche
one
/
but
he
neuer
sawe
hym
/
but
he
saed
that
his
pryncypall
abydyng
was
in
Caunterburye
/
as
they
sayd
all
aboute
/
and
sayd
that
he
was
but
twenty
myle
from
thens
.
Thenne
the
syke
knyght
sayd
vnto
hym
/
blessyd
be
god
that
hathe
brought
vs
he
ther
/
for
I
am
that
same
syr
Iohan
Talbot
/
that
I
spered
after
afore
/
and
my
dwellynge
is
in
the
cyte
of
Caunterburye
.
And
bycause
that
I
knowe
that
without
the
mercye
of
god
I
am
neuer
lyke
to
releue
of
my
maladye
and
also
that
I
fele
my
dethe
approcheth
.
I
beseche
you
that
ye
make
me
to
be
caryed
to
Caunterbury
/
to
the
ende
that
I
may
make
my
testament
/
&
ordynaunces
as
a
good
crysten
man
.
And
ye
shall
be
well
recompensed
.
Olyuer
seynge
this
knyght
soo
greuously
vexed
with
that
maladye
/
he
was
ryght
pensyf
/
and
sorowfull
/
as
he
the
whiche
knewe
not
whether
for
to
goo
/
or
resorte
.
And
then
the
gentyll
Olyuer
sayd
vnto
hym
.
My
lorde
/
and
my
frende
I
am
ryght
dyspleasaunt
of
your
maladye
/
&
bycause
that
I
haue
founde
with
you
so
good
company
I
shall
neuer
habandon
you
/
yf
that
it
please
you
/
tyll
the
tyme
that
I
haue
sene
as
our
lorde
wyll
expose
your
sykenes
/
for
as
for
my
parte
I
thanke
god
that
I
am
all
guarysshed
/
and
in
good
poynt
/
and
redy
●or
to
mounte
on
horsbarke
/
for
to
conueye
you
whether
that
ye
please
The
knyght
thanked
hym
full
humbly
/
and
sayd
that
al
his
volente
was
for
to
go
there
as
he
had
specyfyed
/
and
that
he
requyred
none
other
thynge
/
and
all
was
at
the
dyspence
of
his
hoost
/
and
wolde
take
nothynge
of
them
And
then
he
was
caryed
in
a
hors
bere
to
his
place
/
and
Olyuer
rode
with
hym
/
but
he
lyued
not
longe
after
he
was
comen
in
to
his
place
/
and
his
frendes
made
grete
sorowe
for
hym
/
but
after
his
dethe
they
shewed
him
but
lytel
sygne
of
amyte
/
bycause
of
moneye
that
he
oughte
te
a
burgeys
of
the
cyte
/
he
was
in
the
sentence
of
cursynge
/
vnto
the
tyme
that
the
burgeys
were
contended
/
&
he
had
ben
the
space
of
seuen
yere
in
that
sentence
/
as
he
the
whiche
had
not
wherof
to
paye
/
but
yf
that
he
sholde
haue
solde
ryght
largely
of
his
godes
/
for
to
haue
payed
his
dette
withall
/
and
in
suche
estate
he
deyed
/
wherfore
the
burgeys
was
not
content
but
yf
that
he
were
payed
that
the
knyght
were
put
in
holy
grounde
/
but
his
heyres
seynge
this
concluded
/
and
loued
better
for
to
burye
hym
in
the
prophane
/
and
vnhalowed
grounde
/
than
for
to
paye
his
derte
/
as
they
the
whiche
loued
not
the
soules
o●
theyr
frendes
/
so
well
as
they
dyde
the
goodes
moundaynes
.
¶
How
Olyuer
made
the
knyght
for
to
be
buryed
/
&
of
the
Iustes
that
were
publysshed
in
Englande
/
the
whiche
was
this
/
that
who
that
dyde
best
sholde
haue
the
fayre
Helayne
in
maryage
/
that
was
the
kynges
doughter
.
Capitulo
.
xviij
.
OLyuer
seynge
the
grete
falste
/
and
auaryce
of
the
frendes
of
that
deed
body
/
was
no
thynge
well
contente
with
them
.
He
dyde
all
the
dylygence
that
he
myght
that
he
were
buryed
/
as
wel
towarde
hym
that
he
oughte
the
good
to
/
as
to
them
that
sholde
paye
it
/
too
the
ende
that
the
knyght
the
whiche
he
had
knowen
in
his
lyfe
/
for
a
good
/
and
a
vertuous
man
/
myght
be
buryed
in
holy
grounde
/
but
it
was
impossyble
for
hym
to
fynde
ony
appoyntement
/
for
the
knyghtes
frend●s
wolde
not
do
nothynge
.
And
the
burgeys
sayd
that
he
wolde
do
nothynge
excepte
that
he
were
payed
all
alonge
/
that
whiche
was
his
duete
.
Olyuer
seyng
that
there
wolde
be
none
other
thynge
/
enquyred
what
the
some
of
the
deth
dyd
drawe
to
.
And
founde
that
it
drewe
to
a
.lx.
pounde
.
not
withstandynge
that
durynge
his
vyage
he
had
spente
a
good
parte
of
his
.
M.
nobles
/
that
he
had
but
lefte
alytell
more
than
halfe
/
yet
he
was
delybered
for
to
content
the
burgeysland
payed
hym
.
And
also
he
made
the
seruyce
of
the
knyght
ryght
honourably
/
for
whiche
cause
he
was
moche
praysed
of
euery
body
/
and
to
the
contrary
the
frendes
of
the
deed
bodye
/
was
moche
blamed
as
it
was
ryght
.
Olyuer
the
whiche
had
but
a
lytell
money
lefte
/
soiourned
a
lytell
space
of
tyme
in
Caunterburye
/
where
as
he
herde
tytynges
that
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
at
the
instaunce
of
his
subgectes
had
made
a
crye
of
a
torneyment
/
that
sholde
laste
thre
dayes
.
And
theder
myght
come
all
noble
men
.
And
he
that
sholde
doo
best
by
the
saynge
of
the
prynces
/
and
pryncesses
/
the
whiche
was
commysed
therto
/
sholde
haue
his
onely
doughter
in
maryage
/
yf
that
she
had
wyll
vnto
hym
.
The
whiche
doughter
at
that
present
tyme
/
was
holden
for
the
moost
fayrest
lady
that
was
in
all
the
monarchye
of
the
worlde
.
And
the
Kynge
her
fader
wolde
not
mary
her
to
noo
grete
prynce
/
bycause
he
wolde
not
haue
her
lenthed
fro
hym
.
For
he
loued
her
so
feruently
/
that
he
coude
make
no
good
chere
/
the
daye
that
he
sawe
her
not
.
Also
he
dyd
thynke
that
for
the
welfare
of
the
countree
/
it
was
more
necessarye
for
to
gyue
her
to
a
hardy
/
and
a
valyaunt
man
/
thought
that
he
were
poore
/
than
to
a
grete
lorde
/
that
had
not
those
vertues
.
And
also
as
touchynge
noblesse
and
r●●chesse
/
she
had
ynoughe
for
them
bothe
/
and
for
that
cause
he
had
made
crye
the
tor●eyment
/
that
the
moost
valyauntest
of
the
feest
/
sholde
haue
his
ryght
beauteuous
and
fayre
doughter
in
maryage
.
And
that
after
his
decesse
/
his
kyngdome
myght
falle
in
to
the
handes
of
the
valyaunt
knyght
/
and
lorde
/
for
to
kepe
and
defende
it
from
all
them
that
wolde
greue
it
.
There
were
foure
hondred
knyghtes
commysed
of
within
for
to
resyste
agaynst
all
comers
.
And
it
was
.xi.
monethes
syth
that
the
feest
had
been
publysshed
thrughe
all
the
realmes
crysten
.
This
not
withstandynge
vntyll
that
tyme
Olyuer
had
herde
no
tydynges
therof
/
and
there
was
no
more
but
.xv.
dayes
to
the
corneyment
/
wherfore
Olyuer
had
grete
dyspleasure
/
bycause
that
hym
thoughte
that
he
myght
not
come
theder
sone
ynoughe
/
&
also
bycause
that
he
had
but
lytell
moneye
for
to
go
theder
withall
Neuerthelesse
he
made
hymredy
for
to
be
there
/
in
the
best
wyse
that
he
myght
/
yf
that
our
lorde
sente
hym
not
some
empesshement
/
that
he
coude
not
go
.
And
fro
that
houre
he
beganne
for
to
fele
the
sparcles
of
loue
/
&
sayd
to
hymselfe
that
he
sholde
be
well
eurous
yf
that
after
his
grete
aduersyte
and
euylles
he
myght
attayne
vnto
so
hye
a
thynge
as
for
to
haue
her
in
maryage
/
of
whome
he
herde
speke
soo
moche
good
/
thrughe
the
vnyuersall
worlde
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
assaylled
by
theues
/
and
slewe
theym
/
and
of
that
whiche
happened
hym
vpon
his
waye
towarde
London
.
Capitulo
.
xix
.
OLyuer
hauynge
ryght
grete
desyre
&
wyll
for
to
be
with
the
other
at
the
tornaymente
aforesayd
/
consyderynge
that
the
terme
was
shorte
/
payed
and
contended
his
hoost
/
and
after
departed
frome
the
cyte
of
Caunterbury
/
all
alone
withouten
ony
company
towarde
the
cyte
of
London
.
Where
as
the
grete
/
and
solempne
feest
/
sholde
be
holden
.
And
therfore
dyuers
grete
lordes
were
comen
theder
all
redy
.
And
there
came
so
many
that
all
the
lodgynges
/
and
ynnes
were
full
.
Soo
as
Olyuer
exployted
hym
so
on
his
Iourneye
that
he
was
a
good
dele
auaunged
/
as
he
the
whiche
thought
that
he
sholde
neuer
come
theder
tyme
ynoughe
/
for
to
se
her
for
whose
loue
he
toke
that
Iourneye
/
and
so
he
passed
on
his
way
in
suche
thoughtes
/
and
in
those
thoughtes
he
came
into
a
lytell
busshy
wodde
/
somwhat
out
of
his
hye
waye
/
&
he
had
not
longe
gone
therin
/
whan
he
mette
.xv.
theues
the
whiche
were
armed
in
complete
harnays
/
and
cryed
to
hym
saynge
that
he
was
but
deed
/
and
he
was
enuyronned
with
them
or
euer
he
loked
vp
/
and
lefte
his
pen
sees
of
loue
.
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
coude
not
escape
without
medlynge
/
he
sette
his
hande
to
his
swerde
and
smote
one
of
them
vpon
the
heed
so
asprely
/
that
he
claue
hym
to
the
tethe
/
and
soo
fell
downe
deed
.
And
than
he
smote
on
the
ryght
hande
/
and
on
the
lefte
hande
/
so
impyteously
that
he
cutte
armes
/
and
hedes
/
in
a
suche
wyse
/
that
the
hardyest
of
them
durst
not
abyde
hym
a
buffet
/
for
he
had
sette
his
backe
agaynst
a
thycke
hedge
/
so
that
his
enemyes
myght
not
endommage
hym
behynde
And
for
to
make
it
shorte
he
dyde
so
moche
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
that
he
slewe
.xi.
of
them
/
and
the
remenaunt
fledso●e
wounded
.
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
that
he
was
delyuered
of
them
/
he
thanked
god
of
that
vyctorye
/
and
alyghted
of
his
hors
/
and
tayde
hym
to
a
tree
/
and
then
he
began
for
to
bynde
some
of
his
woundes
/
in
the
beste
wyse
that
he
myght
/
but
they
were
not
mortall
/
wherof
he
gaue
thankynges
to
god
.
And
so
as
he
toke
kepe
to
his
woundes
/
his
hors
brake
loose
/
for
he
had
not
tayed
hym
fast
.
And
so
wente
awaye
with
his
casket
of
moneye
the
whiche
was
at
the
arson
of
the
sadell
/
and
was
gone
all
redy
a
good
waye
or
euer
Olyuer
apperceyued
hym
.
Neuerthelesse
whan
that
the
apperceyued
hym
/
he
beganne
for
to
renne
after
hym
as
well
as
he
myghte
/
and
Olyuer
ranne
so
longe
/
and
so
fast
/
that
he
was
al●moost
bretheles
.
And
in
that
estate
the
hors
came
rennynge
bofore
the
place
where
one
of
the
theues
was
hydde
/
that
had
escaped
from
Olyuer
.
And
whan
the
sayd
thefe
saw
the
horse
/
he
knewe
hym
well
ynoughe
/
and
ranne
after
hym
/
&
toke
hym
/
and
incontynente
mounted
vpon
his
backe
/
and
rode
his
waye
with
casket
and
all
.
Whan
Olyuer
apperceyued
hym
/
he
knewe
well
ynoughe
that
he
had
lost
his
horse
/
and
his
casket
with
moneye
/
wherfore
ye
may
well
thynke
that
he
was
ryght
dysplesaunt
/
for
he
founde
hymselfe
without
moneye
/
and
also
in
a
straunge
countree
/
where
as
he
hadde
no
knowledge
/
and
whan
he
saw
that
all
was
lost
/
he
sayd
to
hymselfe
.
O
good
swete
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
I
requyre
the
comforte
this
poore
vnhappy
catyf
/
for
all
myn
esperaunce
and
hope
is
onely
in
the
for
I
se
well
that
fortune
is
contrary
to
me
/
and
that
yf
it
procede
not
of
thyn
infynyte
grace
/
myne
enterpryse
can
neuer
be
encheued
/
wherfore
good
lorde
I
put
me
totally
in
to
thy
grace
and
mercy
.
In
praynge
the
good
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
that
thou
dystinge
it
after
thyn
owne
wyll
/
for
lyghtly
I
can
not
haue
worse
than
I
haue
had
hetherto
/
wherof
I
thanke
the.
¶
How
a
knyght
came
for
to
comforte
Olyuer
/
and
of
the
promesses
that
they
had
togyder
.
Capitulo
.
xx
.
RYght
so
as
Olyuer
complayned
hym
of
his
mysauenture
/
there
came
a
man
to
hym
the
whiche
plucked
hym
by
the
slewe
dyuers
tymes
saynge
.
Olyuer
of
Castylle
be
nothyng
abasshed
bycause
that
I
take
you
out
of
youre
thought
Olyuer
lyfte
vp
his
heed
whan
he
herde
his
name
pronounced
/
and
wyst
not
whether
that
he
hadde
dremed
it
/
or
not
/
and
as
all
abasshed
in
makynge
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
sayd
vnto
hym
.
I
coniure
the
in
the
name
of
god
that
thou
do
me
no
harme
/
and
that
thou
tell
me
who
gaue
the
knowlege
of
my
name
.
The
man
that
semed
bothe
fayre
and
reuerent
sayd
.
My
frende
haue
no
doubte
of
me
/
for
I
am
a
crysten
man
/
and
byleueth
as
well
in
god
as
thou
doost
/
and
meruayll
the
not
yf
that
I
knowe
thy
name
/
for
thou
ought
to
knowe
that
the
feldes
hathe
syght
/
&
euery
wood
hathe
sowne
.
I
knowe
that
thy
dyspleasure
hathe
adnychylled
thyn
vnderstandyng
for
and
thou
had
thought
on
thy
fayte
/
thou
wolde
not
haue
made
thy
complaynt
so
hye
/
for
I
haue
herde
all
that
thou
hast
sayd
/
and
how
thou
hast
wyll
for
to
goo
to
the
torneyment
that
shall
be
holden
at
London
within
this
syxe
dayes
.
Also
how
thou
hast
ben
dysmounted
and
lost
thy
moneye
.
I
am
beholden
vnto
you
for
some
seruyce
and
pleasure
that
thy
moost
nerest
frendes
hathe
done
vnto
me
/
therfore
I
am
he
that
wyll
ayde
the
for
to
accomplys●he
thy
good
and
hyghe
enterpryse
/
in
praynge
our
sauyour
/
that
he
wyll
gyue
the
grace
well
for
to
fyenysshe
it
/
and
but
yf
it
holde
at
the
I
shall
furnysshe
the
of
armour
/
and
of
horses
/
so
well
that
it
shall
suffyce
the
But
it
shall
be
on
suche
a
condycyon
/
that
thou
shalt
promyse
me
that
of
all
that
thou
shalte
wynne
by
occacyon
of
the
torneyment
halfe
/
yf
it
be
my
pleasure
to
demaunde
it
/
and
take
it
.
Olyuer
seyng
the
offre
that
the
knyght
made
hym
/
sayd
vnto
hym
as
euyll
auysed
of
afterclaps
My
frende
yf
the
hour
be
suche
/
&
that
my
fortune
wyll
consente
that
thou
do
to
me
this
pleasure
.
I
promyse
that
vpon
the
parte
that
I
trust
to
haue
of
paradyse
/
that
yf
ony
good
come
to
me
by
occasyon
of
thy
seruyce
/
that
y●
shalte
be
perteyner
of
the
Iust
halfe
/
or
of
the
grettest
parte
/
yf
it
were
his
pleasure
for
to
demaunde
it
.
At
these
wordes
the
knyght
answered
/
it
suffyseth
/
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
remembre
hym
whan
tyme
wolde
requyre
it
.
And
after
those
wordes
were
fynysshed
the
noble
knyght
sayd
vnto
hym
.
Myne
owne
specyall
frende
Olyuer
meruayll
the
of
nothynge
of
that
that
thou
seest
but
kepe
alwaye
this
lytell
path
that
thou
fyndest
on
the
ryghte
hande
/
and
thou
shalt
fynde
an
hermytage
/
and
there
thou
shall
haue
tydynges
of
me
/
but
I
go
theder
/
but
there
I
sh●ll
fetche
the
whan
tyme
is
/
so
they
departed
/
and
Olyuer
wente
on
his
waye
/
and
prayed
the
knyght
to
remembre
hym
.
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
hermytage
/
and
of
the
langage
that
he
had
with
the
holy
hermyte
/
of
whom
he
was
confessed
.
Capitulo
.
xxi
.
IN
a
lytell
whyle
Olyuer
had
loste
the
syght
of
his
knyght
/
and
wyst
not
where
he
became
/
for
all
that
he
forgate
not
to
holde
the
waye
that
he
had
shewed
hym
/
and
soo
exployted
hym
that
he
came
to
the
hermytage
with
●ay
/
but
he
founde
the
dore
shytte
/
wherfore
he
knocked
soo
longe
that
the
good
hermyte
the
whiche
was
in
his
orysons
came
and
opened
the
dore
/
and
was
all
abasshed
/
for
he
was
not
a
customed
to
open
the
dore
at
that
tyme
a
daye
.
Whan
Olyuer
apperceyued
the
hermyte
/
he
salued
hym
/
and
the
good
man
rendred
hym
his
salute
In
demaundynge
hy
what
auenture
brought
hym
theder
at
that
tyme
a
daye
And
Olyuer
answered
hym
.
My
fayre
fader
I
praye
you
that
I
may
be
your
geste
and
clerke
for
this
nyght
/
for
I
knowe
none
other
place
here
aboute
/
where
as
I
myght
go
to
.
And
then
the
holy
man
sayd
vnto
hym
.
My
frende
the
hous
and
the
goodes
that
god
hath
gyuen
me
be
at
your
commaundement
.
Then
Olyuer
entred
into
the
chapell
/
and
souped
with
the
hermyte
/
that
gaue
hym
brede
and
water
ynoughe
/
in
saynge
to
hym
/
Syr
ye
be
not
vsed
to
suche
vy●aylles
/
but
and
ye
had
sayd
Saynt
Iulyans
pater
noster
/
ye
had
founde
better
lodgynge
/
notwithstandynge
take
it
in
pacyente
/
for
and
I
hadde
better
/
ye
sholde
haue
better
/
but
beware
that
ye
swere
not
.
In
suche
wordes
or
semblables
/
was
Olyuer
occupyed
the
moost
parte
of
the
nyght
.
And
whan
it
was
tyme
they
wente
to
rest
/
but
Olyuer
slepte
not
so
well
nor
so
longe
in
the
mornynge
/
as
yf
he
had
layne
on
a
fether
bedde
.
Whan
the
gentyil
Olyuer
apperceyued
the
daye
he
arose
/
and
ayded
the
hermyte
for
to
saye
masse
/
the
same
masse
dyde
Olyuer
here
with
grete
deuocyon
/
and
after
that
the
masse
was
fynysshed
/
he
confessed
hym
to
the
holy
hermyte
/
and
amonge
other
thynges
he
recounted
vnto
hym
of
the
knyght
that
he
hadde
founde
in
the
forest
/
and
how
that
he
had
called
hym
by
his
name
.
The
holy
hermyte
assayed
hym
saynge
.
My
fayre
broder
and
frende
/
ye
saye
that
all
the
salutacyons
that
he
hathe
made
vnto
you
/
hathe
ben
in
goddes
name
/
for
and
it
had
ben
ony
thynge
elles
but
good
/
he
wolde
not
haue
sente
you
hether
in
to
this
holy
place
/
notwithstandynge
that
I
am
indygne
.
Wherfore
me
semeth
that
ye
can
not
do
euyll
for
to
gyue
credence
to
it
.
It
is
parauenture
a
knyghte
of
this
countree
that
hathe
vnderstande
your
case
/
as
he
hathe
tolde
you
/
by
occasyon
that
ye
spake
soo
hye
/
And
the
best
counsayll
that
I
can
gyue
you
is
to
remyt
you
in
the
holy
garde
of
our
saueour
/
and
requyre
hym
that
he
wyll
defende
you
from
all
euyll
/
and
from
all
yllusyons
of
the
euyll
enemye
.
¶
How
Olyuer
of
Castylle
sawe
come
towarde
hym
dyuers
knyghtes
and
other
folke
in
grete
tryumphe
and
araye
.
Capitulo
.
xxij
.
SO
as
ye
haue
herde
/
soiourned
Oliuer
in
the
hermytage
with
the
good
holy
man
by
the
espace
of
thre
dayes
/
or
four
/
&
there
was
no
more
but
two
dayes
vnto
the
begynnynge
of
the
torneyment
.
This
hermytage
was
with
in
two
myle
of
London
.
And
whan
Olyuer
wente
for
to
dysporte
hym
without
the
wood
he
myght
se
the
cyte
all
at
full
/
and
the
place
where
as
the
torneyment
sholde
be
the
whiche
was
all
enclosed
aboute
/
and
there
he
sawe
them
assaye
theyr
sadelles
/
and
theyr
cousers
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
theyr
harneys
/
wherin
he
toke
no
grete
pleasure
bycause
he
doubted
that
his
knyght
sholde
forgete
hym
And
bycause
that
the
tyme
was
shorte
/
he
was
in
grete
doubte
/
and
repented
hym
sore
that
he
had
byleued
him
so
lyghtly
.
And
that
also
in
the
meane
whyle
that
he
had
soiourned
in
the
hermytage
/
that
he
had
not
gone
in
to
the
cyte
/
for
to
se
her
for
whose
loue
so
many
noble
men
put
themselfe
in
payne
and
Ieoperdye
/
and
of
whome
he
had
herde
so
moche
good
spoken
of
/
but
he
durste
not
habandonne
the
hermytage
/
lest
that
his
knyght
sholde
not
fynde
hym
in
defaute
/
saynge
that
he
was
not
there
as
he
hadde
appoynted
hym
to
abyde
.
And
in
that
estate
he
passed
the
two
dayes
.
And
whan
it
came
vnto
the
daye
that
euery
gentylman
and
lorde
oughte
for
to
be
&
fynde
hymself
vpon
the
lystes
/
and
ye
may
ymagyne
in
what
dolour
was
the
poore
Olyuer
.
And
yf
that
his
herte
was
sory
/
and
dyspleasaunte
/
no
body
ought
to
meruayll
them
/
for
he
stode
afore
the
dore
of
the
hermytage
alwaye
herke●●nge
yf
that
his
knyght
came
/
for
there
fell
not
a
leaf
/
but
that
he
wende
that
he
had
comen
/
he
abode
so
longe
that
he
was
out
of
all
esperaunce
and
hope
.
And
he
stode
in
that
estate
sore
musynge
/
he
herde
grete
noyse
of
ryders
amonge
the
leues
.
And
then
Olyuer
thought
that
it
was
some
grete
gentylman
that
rode
to
the
torneyment
/
as
the
other
lordes
dyde
.
And
then
he
kest
his
regarde
that
waye
where
he
herde
the
noyse
/
And
aspyed
to
the
nombre
of
fyftene
gentylmen
clothed
in
blacke
sa●sene●
.
And
the
surplus
of
theyr
habyllementes
was
of
the
same
colour
/
and
they
were
mounted
on
blacke
coursers
and
theyr
coursers
were
trapped
all
in
blacke
veluet
/
and
eche
of
them
hadde
a
spere
in
his
hande
/
that
was
couered
with
blacke
veluet
.
And
then
he
sawe
come
after
therin
ten
knyghtes
●abylyed
in
longe
gownes
of
blacke
veluet
and
furred
with
martres
/
and
●edde
after
them
a
courser
morell
/
the
whiche
hadde
●uskynges
of
clothe
of
golde
vp
to
the
bely
/
and
he
was
en●yronne●
with
xv
.
pages
mounted
vpon
coursers
of
the
same
colour
and
buskynges
of
the
same
colour
.
And
after
them
was
〈◊〉
score
pages
of
the
same
lyue●ay
/
reserued
that
it
was
clothe
.
¶
Of
the
grete
Ioye
that
Olyuer
had
whan
he
sawe
the
fayre
stedes
/
and
the
ryche
parementes
that
his
knyght
had
brought
to
hym
/
and
how
he
armed
him
/
&
of
the
ryche
pa●ciyon
of
the
fayre
Helayne
the
kynges
doughter
of
Englande
/
&
of
her
beaute
.
Ca.
xxiij
.
HIs
folke
clothed
and
habylyed
as
ye
haue
herde
afore
/
rode
vnto
the
hermytage
and
then
euery
body
●oued
and
abode
there
all
●oye
/
and
salued
Olyuer
that
was
afore
y●
bare
/
and
he
full
gentylly
rendred
to
them
theyr
salute
.
And
as
he
behelde
that
fayre
company
/
him
thought
that
the
knyght
with
the
longest
gowne
was
the
same
knyght
that
spake
vnto
hym
in
the
wood
/
wherof
he
was
ryght
gladde
/
and
wente
for
to
salue
hym
/
but
as
soone
as
the
knyght
apperceyued
hym
comynge
he
a●yghted
of
his
horse
/
and
came
agaynst
hym
/
and
after
he
sayd
to
hym
.
Olyuer
good
frende
these
men
that
ye
se
here
I
haue
brought
them
vnto
you
.
And
bycause
that
we
ben
comen
from
ferre
/
for
to
do
you
seruyce
and
honour
I
praye
you
that
ye
do
so
moche
at
his
●●●neyment
that
ye
haue
honour
/
and
that
we
lese
not
our
payne
.
Olyuer
answered
hym
ryght
curteysly
.
My
lorde
and
my
frende
/
ye
do
so
moche
for
me
/
that
I
can
neuer
rendre
you
the
guerdon
/
wherfore
suche
as
I
am
ye
may
commaunde
me
/
for
th●●●dy
is
yours
/
and
at
this
tyme
I
can
not
gyue
you
no
better
thynge
.
I
praye
to
god
that
he
gyue
me
grace
for
to
deserue
it
agaynst
you
/
and
that
he
gyue
me
strengthe
for
to
doo
as
well
as
I
haue
the
volente
/
These
wordes
fynysshed
the
knyght
sayd
to
hym
that
it
was
hye
houre
for
to
arme
hym
.
And
therfore
in
a
fayre
grene
place
that
was
afore
the
hermytage
/
there
was
a
chayre
brought
/
wherin
Olyuer
set
hym
for
to
take
his
refeccyon
/
and
then
after
they
armed
hym
dylygently
In
the
meane
whyle
that
he
armed
hym
/
the
ladyes
came
in
to
the
felde
/
and
brought
with
them
the
fayre
Helayne
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
and
ledde
her
in
to
the
pauelyon
that
for
her
was
ordeyned
/
and
it
was
hanged
with
tapysserye
of
clothe
of
golde
ryght
ryche
/
and
there
was
a
chayre
reysed
vp
on
hye
in
the
whiche
chayre
was
.x.
steppes
or
that
they
myght
come
to
the
syege
aboue
/
ouer
the
whiche
was
a
canape
of
purple
veluet
charged
full
of
grete
perles
oryentales
/
and
had
in
the
myddes
therof
a
Carbuncle
/
that
rendred
so
grete
lumere
that
it
was
meruayll
for
to
beholde
it
.
In
the
syege
aboue
as
I
haue
receyted
to
you
was
sette
the
excellent
Helayne
/
And
vpon
eche
of
the
forsayd
steppes
satte
two
Iuges
.
That
is
for
to
knowe
a
prynce
/
and
a
pryncesse
/
echone
after
his
degree
.
The
other
ladyes
and
damoyselles
the
whiche
was
there
without
nombre
/
put
theym
in
theyr
places
/
and
scaffoldes
that
were
for
them
ordeyned
/
and
ensygned
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
on
the
other
syde
was
a
grete
company
of
noble
and
valyaunt
knyghtes
and
lordes
of
this
realme
of
Englande
.
Ye
may
well
thynke
that
it
was
grete
tryumphe
and
grete
solace
for
the
men
of
armes
/
for
to
beholde
so
fayre
a
companye
aboute
the
noble
/
and
excellent
Helayne
/
and
euery
thynge
so
well
ordeyned
as
that
thynge
was
there
/
for
her
sake
/
the
whiche
was
so
rychely
apparaylled
that
non●
can
not
reherse
the
lyght
that
the
precyous
stones
rendred
that
were
about●
her
/
the
whiche
embelysshed
her
excellent
vysage
.
Who
that
hadde
sene
her
in
that
estate
/
he
wolde
haue
thought
that
she
hadde
ben
a
thyng
of
the
other
worlde
/
for
I
thynke
that
at
her
nayssaunce
and
byrthe
/
nature
had
put
all
her
excellence
/
and
grace
.
Yf
that
she
was
semely
of
body
/
and
excellent
of
vysage
/
it
was
nothynge
in
comparyson
towarde
the
gyftes
of
grace
/
where
with
she
was
endowed
/
for
all
excellence
/
and
bounte
/
honoure
/
&
humblenesse
/
doulsure
/
and
swetnesse
/
and
all
other
vertues
and
good
condycyons
that
in
ony
woman
of
noble
lygnage
apperteyned
/
florysshed
in
her
.
And
therfore
she
sholde
be
ryght
eurous
in
this
wretched
worlde
that
myght
attayne
vnto
so
hyghe
a
thynge
as
for
to
haue
for
his
parte
the
floure
and
lyesse
of
this
worlde
.
And
euen
thus
euery
body
put
hymselfe
in
payne
for
to
conquere
her
.
And
there
was
not
one
but
that
hym
semed
that
he
wolde
conquere
her
/
or
elles
deye
in
the
payne
.
¶
Of
the
grete
meruaylles
that
Olyuer
dyde
at
the
torneyment
aboue
them
all
.
Capitulo
.
xxiii
.
ANd
then
the
ladyes
were
not
soo
sone
in
the
scaffoldes
/
but
that
the
four
hondred
knyghtes
were
vpon
the
felde
/
redy
for
to
withstande
all
comers
/
as
ye
haue
herde
before
/
for
the
torneyment
sholde
last
thre
dayes
.
The
fyrst
daye
was
ordeyned
for
to
Iust
.
The
seconde
daye
for
to
torneye
/
not
as
they
do
nowe
a
dayes
/
but
with
sharpe
swerdes
/
and
not
rebatred
.
The
thyrde
day
was
for
to
fyght
on
fote
/
and
euery
body
myght
haue
an
axe
of
armes
/
and
a
swerde
aboute
hym
.
And
bycause
that
they
were
many
knyghtes
/
they
had
grete
place
/
they
with
out
had
knowlege
that
they
of
within
were
alredy
at
the
lystes
vpon
the
felde
/
and
all
the
ladyes
redy
for
to
beholde
them
whiche
sholde
do
best
/
euery
knyght
put
hym
in
deuoyre
for
to
Iuste
the
fyrste
.
Neuerthelesse
Olyuer
was
not
the
fyrste
/
for
there
was
many
there
afore
hym
As
the
kynges
sone
of
Scotlande
/
and
dyuers
kynges
of
Irlonde
/
and
many
other
prynces
/
and
grete
lordes
/
the
whiche
were
so
manerly
clothed
/
that
it
was
tryumphe
for
beholde
them
.
There
was
but
fewe
speres
broken
afore
Olyuers
comynge
.
And
whan
he
was
amonge
the
prece
he
smote
his
hors
with
the
sporres
/
and
made
his
hors
to
torne
soo
gentylly
/
that
euery
body
loked
vpon
hym
.
And
in
especyall
it
pleased
the
ladyes
moche
his
fyrst
entrynge
in
/
sayng
that
the
blacke
knyght
was
best
in
poynt
/
and
the
fayrest
armed
of
all
the
place
/
and
after
began
the
Iustes
/
and
euery
body
put
hym
in
payne
for
to
do
well
.
The
knyght
that
was
Olyuers
gouernour
sayd
vnto
hym
/
my
frende
beholde
vpon
this
scaffolde
the
fayre
lady
that
ye
shall
conquere
/
yf
that
it
holde
not
at
you
/
take
good
courage
/
and
thynke
for
to
doo
well
.
And
then
he
toke
a
spere
and
gaue
it
to
Olyuer
the
whiche
toke
of
it
no
regarde
/
for
he
had
fyxed
his
syghte
vpon
the
excellent
Helayne
.
And
soo
he
hadde
his
spere
in
the
rest
a
grete
whyle
/
without
ony
mouynge
from
one
place
/
as
he
that
that
thought
nothynge
on
it
.
And
so
as
the
knyght
behelde
hym
in
that
estate
/
he
sayd
vnto
hym
Olyuer
he
slepe
.
And
thenne
Olyuer
as
a
persone
that
is
awaked
out
of
his
slepe
/
smote
his
hors
with
the
sporres
without
auysynge
where
he
wente
/
and
the
fyrste
thynge
that
he
recountred
with
his
spere
/
that
was
ionge
and
stronge
meruaylously
/
was
a
post
that
helde
vp
a
scaffolde
/
and
vpon
that
scaffolde
was
moche
people
/
and
he
smote
it
downe
/
and
all
them
that
were
vpon
it
.
Then
there
was
grete
laughter
of
them
that
sawe
it
/
&
sayd
that
it
was
a
meruayllous
stroke
.
The
ladyes
excused
hym
/
saynge
that
he
had
not
clere
syghte
/
or
that
his
hors
was
not
at
his
wyll
.
Olyuer
was
ledde
backe
to
his
felowes
sore
ashamed
/
and
they
gaue
him
a
newe
spere
.
The
fyrst
that
he
encountred
with
was
one
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
named
Maquemor
/
the
whiche
was
smyten
downe
horse
and
all
.
Then
ye
sholde
haue
herde
the
heraudes
crye
/
see
the
auenturous
knyght
armed
in
blacke
/
that
with
one
onely
stroke
hathe
smyten
downe
a
.
C.
persones
/
&
with
the
seconde
stroke
a
kynge
/
ye
shal
se
him
do
meruaylles
of
armes
to
daye
.
Olyuer
herd
these
wordes
/
wherfore
he
put
hymselfe
in
payne
for
to
doo
well
.
And
there
was
none
that
myght
abyde
hym
a
stroke
with
a
spere
.
Neuerthelesse
euery
body
put
hymself
in
deuoyre
as
wel
within
as
without
/
but
aboue
all
Olyuer
bare
the
pryce
/
the
whiche
dyde
not
dysplease
the
fayre
Helayne
/
that
sayd
to
herselfe
/
that
and
he
were
as
knyghtly
vnarmed
/
as
he
was
armed
/
that
he
myght
be
the
floure
of
all
them
in
the
place
.
¶
How
Olyuer
retorned
in
to
the
hermyte
the
second
tyme
without
makynge
hym
to
be
knowen
/
and
how
he
was
abylled
in
newe
garmentes
.
Capitulo
.
xxv
.
IN
lyke
wyse
as
ye
haue
herde
endured
the
Iustes
vnto
the
nyght
separed
them
.
And
thenne
the
kynge
and
his
doughter
Helayne
retorned
in
to
the
cyte
.
And
then
the
Iusters
departed
for
that
nyght
.
And
the
moost
parte
of
the
knyghtes
of
the
torneyment
in
dysarmynge
theym
deuysed
of
the
blacke
knyght
/
saynge
that
they
had
grete
volente
for
to
se
hym
dysarmed
/
for
to
knowe
yf
he
were
as
semely
a
knyght
on
fote
/
as
he
was
on
horsbacke
/
&
yf
y●
his
gowne
became
hym
as
well
as
harneys
.
And
there
was
many
at
the
banket
/
the
whiche
wolde
not
haue
be
there
yf
they
had
not
thought
to
haue
fou●●e
hym
therefor
no
pryse
sholde
not
be
gyuen
vnto
the
last
daye
.
And
whan
it
came
to
the
daunces
/
and
that
Olyuer
was
not
there
/
euery
body
meruaylled
/
so
eche
dyde
the
best
that
he
coude
.
Olyuer
was
in
the
hermytage
by
the
counsayle
of
his
knyght
/
the
whiche
was
departed
from
hym
/
and
he
had
tolde
hym
that
without
doubte
he
wolde
retorne
vnto
hym
in
the
mornynge
betymes
/
wherfore
Olyuer
thanked
hym
/
and
abode
in
the
hermytage
that
nyght
/
in
thankynge
our
lorde
of
his
good
auenture
.
The
good
hermyte
made
hym
Ioyefull
chere
to
his
power
/
but
he
made
not
soo
good
chere
as
they
dyde
at
London
.
The
noble
Helayne
was
set
in
the
halle
/
in
the
same
wyse
that
she
was
sette
at
the
Iustes
/
to
the
ende
that
euery
body
myght
beholde
her
.
After
that
the
daunces
were
ended
they
brought
spyees
.
And
after
the
fayre
Helayne
was
conueyed
to
her
chambre
/
with
foyson
of
ladyes
/
and
so
the
feest
ended
for
that
daye
.
Nowe
ye
oughte
to
vnderstande
that
euery
persone
made
hym
the
best
at
case
that
he
myght
for
that
nyght
/
for
to
be
vpon
the
morowe
more
fressher
than
Olyuer
.
Soo
the
nyght
passed
and
the
daye
came
/
wherfore
euery
body
put
h●m
in
deuoyre
for
to
fynde
all
that
them
belonged
for
the
seconde
Iourney
And
whan
that
it
was
tyme
for
to
departe
.
Olyuer
apperceyued
a
grete
company
of
folke
/
all
habylyed
in
rede
/
in
the
same
estate
that
they
were
clothed
the
daye
afore
saue
that
it
was
rede
,
whan
they
approched
Olyuer
he
wente
and
salued
his
knyght
that
was
clothed
in
a
longe
ge●owne
of
cramosyn
/
and
behynde
him
was
Olyuers
hors
/
and
the
pages
of
the
daye
afore
/
were
clothed
in
satyn
cremosyn
.
The
courser
on
the
whiche
Olyuer
sholde
ryde
was
a
bayarde
.
And
the
horse
was
hosed
in
clothe
of
golde
●yght
ryche
.
¶
How
Olyuer
came
the
seconde
daye
to
the
turneyment
/
and
how
he
smote
downe
the
standarde
of
theym
of
within
.
Capitulo
.
xxvi
.
ANd
then
Olyuer
came
to
the
torneymente
and
was
the
fyrst
that
entred
in
to
the
felde
of
them
of
without
/
but
ye
may
well
thyuke
that
it
was
not
without
grete
beholdynge
of
the
ladyes
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
of
theym
of
within
/
ye
may
well
thynke
that
Olyuer
thus
accompanyed
as
ye
haue
herde
/
was
beholden
of
kynges
and
quenes
/
lordes
and
ladyes
/
and
of
all
them
that
were
there
presente
/
and
he
the
whiche
knewe
it
/
the
beste
wyse
that
he
myght
made
hym
lyghtest
for
to
be
armed
/
for
to
gyue
grete
st●okes
.
And
bycause
that
he
wolde
not
trauayle
the
hors
vpon
the
whiche
he
ought
for
to
werke
as
he
haddened●
therof
.
He
mounted
vpon
a
lytell
hors
that
was
ryght
well
accustomed
for
to
make
some
pleasaunt
thynge
before
the
ladyes
/
and
therfore
he
faylled
not
at
that
tyme
/
wherfore
the
sayd
Olyuer
was
beholden
of
euery
body
/
and
sayd
the
one
to
the
other
/
beholde
what
a
semely
knyght
he
is
/
for
by
symylytude
of
his
body
he
ought
well
for
to
encheue
a
hye
enterpryse
/
se
how
honestly
and
knyghtly
he
rydeth
/
for
he
remeueth
noo
moore
for
all
that
his
horse
can
do
/
than
yf
he
were
not
vpon
his
backe
.
Amonge
these
deuyses
/
the
kynges
sone
of
Scotlande
came
ryght
rychely
clothed
/
and
strongly
accompanyed
with
valyaunt
knyghtes
/
that
wolde
torneye
that
daye
with
hym
/
and
also
the
moost
parte
for
the
garde
of
his
persone
.
After
came
the
kyng
Maquen
or
and
two
other
kyng●s
of
Irlonde
/
of
whome
I
knowe
not
the
names
.
And
after
came
the
duke
of
Buroon
/
and
the
Erle
of
Flaundres
.
And
then
came
in
the
duke
o●
G●●cecetre
/
the
duke
of
Lanca●●e
/
the
duke
of
Bedforde
/
the
duke
of
Northf●lke
/
and
the
duke
of
Somerset
.
And
so
came
in
the
erle
of
Northumberlande
/
the
Erle
of
Le●●etre
/
and
the
erle
of
Salysburye
/
and
so
many
otherlordes
/
that
was
it
meruayll
.
Whan
all
these
prynces
/
and
lordes
were
assembled
/
&
that
they
sawe
there
came
no
moo
/
it
was
cryed
by
the
Kynge
that
euery
man
sholde
do
his
deuoy●●
.
Then
the
two
sygnes
/
that
is
to
knowe
that
of
within
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
that
of
withoute
began
for
to
approche
.
There
ye
myghte
haue
sene
cleue
many
basynettes
/
and
many
a
knyght
beten
downe
to
the
erthe
Olyuer
that
was
mounted
vpon
his
courser
/
helde
his
swerde
in
his
hande
/
wherwith
he
dyde
meruaylles
of
armes
/
he
wente
sekynge
them
that
hym
thought
were
the
moost
val●auntest
/
and
with
them
he
had
add
gladly
/
and
whan
he
hadde
remembraunce
/
or
leyser
to
loke
on
hye
/
and
that
he
myghte
beholde
the
fayre
Helayne
/
his
force
&
hardynesse
doubled
.
Wherfore
none
may
recounte
the
valyauntnes
&
feates
of
armes
that
he
dydde
/
Now
it
was
ordeyned
that
&
the
sygne
of
them
of
within
myght
by
force
of
armes
be
broughte
to
a
place
that
was
there
/
by
theyr
aduersary
party
/
that
the
torneyng
sholde
be
accomplysshed
.
Therfore
they
of
without
put
themselfe
in
payn
for
to
wynne
it
.
And
Olyuer
the
whiche
rested
neuer
in
one
place
/
and
to
whome
euery
body
made
waye
/
encountred
hym
that
bare
the
sygne
of
them
of
within
/
&
●aue
hym
suche
a
stroke
that
he
made
hym
bowe
his
heed
vpon
the
hors
necke
/
and
was
so
astonyed
that
he
hadde
almoost
fallen
to
the
erthe
/
and
Olyuer
retorned
his
stroke
thynkynge
for
to
haue
cutte
the
shafte
of
the
sygne
/
but
he
sounde
it
so
stronge
/
and
so
well
banded
with
●ron
/
that
he
coude
not
empayre
it
/
but
it
was
force
to
the
knyght
that
helde
it
/
for
to
lette
it
go
fro
hym
and
so
it
sell
to
the
erthe
/
then
ye
myght
haue
herde
gretes●
outes
on
bothe
partyes
/
&
they
of
within
put
themsel●e
in
●●●yre
for
to
reyse
vp
theyr
sygne
agayne
.
But
that
was
unpossyble
for
them
/
bycause
of
the
valyaunte
Olyuer
that
defended
it
/
with
the
good
helpe
that
he
had
of
his
partye
.
¶
How
Olyuer
retorned
in
to
his
hermytage
/
after
that
he
had
wo●●●
the
vyctorye
of
the
torneyenge
/
and
of
the
dyspleasure
that
the
kynge
and
his
doughter
had
bycause
of
the
deed
knyghtes
.
Capitulo
.
xxvii
.
AT
the
re●cowes
of
that
sygne
/
was
many
a
knyght
s●ayne
on
bothe
partyes
/
but
moore
of
them
of
within
/
than
of
without
/
wherof
the
kynge
was
not
well
content
for
to
se
his
men
dye
so
.
And
then
he
commaunded
to
two
or
thre
knyghtes
the
whiche
were
ordeyned
whan
there
moued
ony
deb●tes
/
that
they
sholde
put
them
in
payne
for
to
repease
them
/
to
go
hastely
and
departe
them
/
the
whiche
without
py●●
slewe
eche
other
.
They
dyd
the
kynges
commaundement
/
but
or
they
myght
come
to
the
place
where
the
debate
was
/
there
was
dyuers
m●ruaylous
strokes
gyuen
.
And
the
hystorye
sayth
that
a
v●●yaunt
knyght
of
within
whan
Olyuer
dyde
so
many
feates
of
arm●●
approched
to
hym
/
and
toke
his
swerde
in
bothe
his
handes
for
to
gyue
the
gretter
stroke
/
and
euen
so
as
he
hadde
bothe
his
armes
eleuate
for
to
smyte
Olyuer
.
Olyuer
apperc●yued
it
/
and
hasted
hym
for
to
smyte
fyrst●
/
and
gaue
hym
so
grete
a
stroke
that
he
made
to
fle
in
to
y●●elde/y●
swerde
with
bothe
his
armes
/
wherfore
all
they
that
sawe
it
meruaylled
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
the
kynge
began
for
to
blysse
hym
sayng
/
yf
this
rede
knyght
that
was
yesterdaye
clothed
in
blacke
lyue
longe
/
or
yf
the
fyghtynge
be
not
departed
/
he
wyll
make
dye
the
moost
parte
of
my
men
/
he
is
a
lyuynge
deuyll
se
how
his
swerde
dothe
cutte
/
he
hathe
done
soo
moche
/
that
it
is
of
the
same
colour
that
his
armour
is
of
.
The
knyght
that
he
hathe
smyten
downe
shal
neuer
cut
no
purse
.
In
that
estate
deuysed
the
kynge
/
and
on
the
other
parte
the
ladyes
hadde
alwaye
theyr
eyen
on
hym
/
but
the
fayre
●●elayne
had
not
the
courage
for
to
beholde
hym
/
bycause
of
the
effusyon
of
blode
of
her
gentyl
knyghtes
/
but
it
was
not
longe
after
/
but
they
were
departed
/
and
was
cryed
by
the
kynge
that
none
so
herdy
vpon
payne
of
dethe
for
to
torneye
ony
more
for
that
daye
.
And
therfore
euery
body
dyde
withdrawe
him
/
and
it
was
tyme
for
Olyuer
to
retorne
into
his
hermytage
/
whether
as
his
knyght
dyd
brynge
hym
/
and
thenne
toke
leue
of
hym
/
and
tolde
him
that
he
wolde
not
forgete
hym
the
nexte
morowe
.
The
kynge
and
his
excellent
doughter
retorned
in
to
the
n●ble
cyte
.
And
souped
that
nyght
in
the
fayre
He
ayns
chambre
/
the
whiche
was
not
wel●
at
case
bycause
she
hadde
sytten
soo
longe
/
and
also
for
the
slaughter
that
she
had
sene
/
wherfore
she
sayd
to
her
fader
.
My
lorde
my
fader
be
ye
not
dyspleasaunt
for
the
pyteous
syghte
that
was
to
daye
/
ye
make
your
men
to
deye
without
cause
.
I
byleue
not
that
it
is
for
me
/
for
and
I
knewe
it
I
sholde
rather
make
an
othe
neuer
to
be
maryed
/
wher
ore
I
beseche
you
that
ye
wyll
acco●de
me
that
they
Iust
or
torneye
/
no
more
in
the
facyon
that
they
haue
done
to
daye
.
The
kynge
answered
her
.
My
doughter
thynke
for
to
make
good
chere
/
and
take
no
thought
of
nothynge
/
for
of
this
that
is
happened
I
am
more
dyspleasaunt
than
ye
be
/
Therfore
I
shall
put
so
good
remedye
/
that
it
shall
not
happen
as
it
hathe
done
to
daye
.
And
thenne
,
he
gaue
her
good
nyght
/
in
saynge
that
he
sawe
well
that
she
had
no
talent
for
to
daunce
that
nyght
/
and
she
answered
naye
And
for
the
causes
aforesayd
there
was
〈◊〉
daunces
that
nyght
.
¶
How
Olyuer
came
to
the
torneyment
the
thyrde
tyme
/
and
hadde
the
honoure
aboue
them
all
by
his
grete
prowesse
/
and
how
the
Kynge
commysed
.xx.
knyghttes
for
to
brynge
hym
afore
hym
/
to
knowe
what
he
was
.
Capitulo
.
xxviii
.
WHan
the
kynge
was
in
his
chambre
he
enquyred
how
many
knyghtes
there
had
beslayn
&
founde
deed
of
them
of
with
in
to
the
nombre
of
.
xivi
.
&
of
them
of
without
.xv.
wherfore
the
kynge
was
moche
angrye
/
&
commaunded
that
.xlvi.
other
knyghtes
sholde
be
put
in
the
places
of
the
deed
knyghtes
/
and
yf
there
were
ony
hurte
that
myght
not
helpe
themself
on
the
morowe
/
that
they
sholde
put
in
other
.
The
thynge
was
done
so
/
and
vpon
the
morowe
the
Kynge
wente
in
to
his
scaffolde
/
where
as
he
dyned
/
and
the
fayre
Helayne
also
durynge
the
●yner
tyme
they
spake
of
nothynge
but
of
the
torneyenge
.
of
the
daye
past
.
And
the
kynge
sayd
that
he
was
ryght
dyspleasaunt
bycause
that
he
myght
not
se
hym
that
dyd
so
grete
dedes
of
armes
/
wherfore
he
commaunded
.xx.
knyghtes
that
they
sholde
haue
alwaye
regarde
to
hym
and
that
they
sholde
not
fayle
to
brynge
hym
to
the
banket
/
for
he
wolde
se
hym
.
He
commaunded
also
that
the
nombre
of
two
thousande
fyghtynge
men
were
armed
/
for
to
kepe
the
felde
from
all
debates
and
noyses
.
The
meane
whyle
the
maysters
stewardes
and
controllers
/
were
in
the
palays
makynge
all
thynge
redy
for
the
banket
and
feest
/
that
sholde
be
at
nyght
/
the
whiche
sholde
be
without
comparyson
of
al
that
euer
hadde
been
sene
in
this
realme
.
The
houre
approched
that
they
sholde
fynde
them
in
the
felde
.
And
the
foure
hondred
knyghtes
of
within
/
with
the
two
thousande
came
in
to
the
felde
/
wherof
some
of
them
hadde
leuer
haue
been
commysed
to
make
redy
the
feest
/
for
the
example
that
the
rede
knyght
had
gyuen
them
the
daye
afore
/
the
whiche
all
redy
dyd
arme
hym
/
&
was
comen
vpon
his
hors
clothed
in
whyte
and
all
his
folke
in
the
same
sute
/
in
the
same
manere
that
they
came
the
daye
afore
/
saue
that
they
had
ben
clothed
in
rede
/
and
soo
came
in
to
the
felde
on
horsbacke
/
&
put
hemselfe
besyde
the
kynges
sone
of
Scotlande
/
and
all
the
other
alyght
in
lyke
wyse
.
And
then
whan
all
were
assembled
/
the
kynge
badde
two
knyghtes
for
to
goo
loke
how
many
they
were
of
without
.
Then
they
wente
downe
/
and
tolde
the
Lordes
the
kynges
wyll
and
commaundement
.
Then
they
toke
a
gyrdell
and
made
them
for
to
passe
vnderneth
/
and
founde
that
they
of
without
were
well
foure
hondred
.
And
a
knyght
by
the
commaundement
of
the
kynge
sayd
that
euery
body
sholde
vngyrde
his
swerde
/
and
sayd
that
the
axe
suffysed
/
and
after
that
the
batayll
was
begonne
/
the
Kynge
sente
men
for
to
departe
them
/
and
badde
that
none
were
so
hardy
for
to
smyte
on
the
heed
with
the
trenchaunt
after
the
tyme
/
&
aduertysed
them
that
the
pryce
sholde
be
gyuen
at
nyght
/
to
hym
that
hathe
deserued
it
.
And
thenne
it
was
tolde
them
that
they
myght
begynne
whan
it
sholde
seme
them
good
.
Then
they
beganne
for
to
smyte
in
suche
wyse
that
it
was
a
goodly
syght
to
beholde
them
.
It
was
a
semely
syght
for
to
beholde
howe
Olyuer
demeaned
hym
with
his
axe
/
for
he
smote
so
puyssauntly
that
he
made
hym
awaye
large
ynoughe
.
Whan
they
approched
nere
the
one
smote
vpon
the
other
so
impetyously
that
it
was
meruayll
they
myght
stande
.
Olyuer
dremed
not
/
for
he
gaue
so
pesaunt
strokes
/
that
hym
that
he
hytte
a
ryght
he
made
hym
to
kysse
the
grounde
/
and
he
dyde
soo
moche
that
there
durst
not
abyde
afore
hym
/
soo
with
force
of
smy●ynge
/
his
axe
that
was
grete
and
longe
dyde
breke
And
whan
he
sawe
that
/
he
approched
hym
to
a
knyght
and
pulled
his
axe
out
of
his
handes
/
by
suche
a
myght
and
by
suche
a
chyualrous
puyssaunce
/
vertue
and
also
manere
that
whether
he
wolde
or
not
he
made
hym
kysse
the
grounde
.
Twayne
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
had
grete
enuye
at
Olyuer
/
bycause
they
sawe
the
pryce
coude
not
escape
hym
/
&
therfore
by
grete
dyspleasure
they
assaylled
Olyuer
/
the
whiche
defended
hym
so
valyauntly
/
that
he
cloue
one
of
them
to
the
tethe
.
The
kynge
seynge
that
it
myght
not
endure
without
grete
debate
/
sayd
that
it
suffysed
.
And
so
they
departed
whether
they
wolde
or
not
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
taken
by
the
knyghtes
that
the
kynge
had
commysed
/
and
how
his
seruauntes
vanysshed
awaye
/
and
after
how
he
founde
foyson
of
moneye
/
and
vestymentes
.
Capitulo
.
xxix
.
ANd
then
the
kynge
and
the
ladyes
retorned
in
to
the
cyte
/
&
euery
body
withdrewe
them
in
to
theyr
habytacyons
/
so
the
deed
kynges
body
was
borne
in
to
London
by
his
men
/
where
as
his
body
was
enseuelyd
/
and
put
in
a
hors
lyttere
couered
with
blacke
/
and
in
that
estate
/
in
grete
lamentacyons
was
ledde
in
to
his
realme
.
Olyuer
was
yet
in
the
felde
where
as
he
cryed
after
his
hors
but
none
answered
him
/
nor
he
coude
espye
none
of
them
that
came
with
hym
/
wherof
he
had
grete
meruayl
/
and
was
so
dyspleasaunt
that
he
wyst
not
what
to
do
/
not
with
standynge
his
armour
/
he
put
hym selfe
on
the
waye
towarde
the
hermytage
all
ashamed
/
saynge
that
he
sawe
well
his
euyll
au●nture
/
and
that
in
all
fortune
was
to
hym
contrarye
.
And
therfore
he
delybered
in
hym selfe
for
to
habandonne
the
good
that
myght
come
to
hym
by
occasyon
of
the
torneyment
/
and
not
for
to
make
hym
to
be
knowen
to
ony
persone
lyuynge
.
Euen
so
as
he
wente
thynkynge
on
his
euyll
aduenture
/
the
.xx.
knyghtes
that
by
the
kynge
were
commysed
/
and
ordeyned
for
to
haue
regarde
on
hym
/
soughte
hym
on
euery
syde
/
and
dyde
soo
moche
that
they
apperceyued
him
goynge
alone
Then
they
smote
theyr
horses
with
the
sportes
/
and
dyd
so
moche
that
they
ouertoke
hym
/
and
sayd
to
hym
.
Gentyll
knyght
lette
it
not
torne
you
to
dyspleasure
/
yf
that
we●
do
that
the
whiche
was
commaunded
vs
by
the
kynge
for
he
hathe
commaunded
vs
for
to
witholde
you
/
the
whiche
requyreth
you
/
that
it
wyll
please
you
/
for
to
be
this
nyght
at
the
daunces
/
and
at
the
banquet
/
and
therfore
by
hym
we
laye
handes
on
you
.
It
was
force
to
Olyuer
to
obeye
the
commaundement
of
the
kynge
.
And
therfore
all
ashamed
he
retorned
to
London
with
the
forsayd
knyghtes
.
But
durynge
the
waye
it
was
not
withoute
plesaunt
thoughtes
/
for
whan
he
bethoughte
hym
of
the
grete
pompes
/
and
ryche
habyllementes
that
he
had
durynge
the
other
dayes
/
and
now
he
founde
hym
alone
with
out
ony
knowlege
/
and
that
it
was
force
for
hym
to
be
at
the
banket
and
feest
with
the
other
/
without
gowne
/
or
other
clothynge
/
saue
in
his
harneys
/
but
yf
he
founde
some
that
wolde
lenne
hym
a
gowne
/
he
was
in
soo
grete
dyspleasaunce
/
that
he
wolde
haue
ben
a
.
M.
myle
thens
yf
it
hadde
ben
possyble
for
hym
.
In
that
estate
they
rode
tyll
they
came
to
London
/
and
dyslodged
one
of
the
xx
.
knyghtes
for
to
lodge
hym
/
and
demaunded
hym
in
what
place
they
wolde
fynde
his
seruauntes
/
for
to
sende
for
them
.
The
poore
Olyuer
all
ashamed
sayd
.
Certaynlye
I
can
not
tell
you
where
to
fynde
theym
/
but
for
this
nyghte
I
shall
be
mayster
/
and
varlet
.
As
they
were
in
these
deuyses
the
hostesse
came
to
Olyuers
persone
and
sayd
to
hym
alowe
.
My
lorde
it
is
not
longe
ago
syth
one
of
your
seruauntes
was
here
/
and
gaue
me
this
lytell
fardell
/
tellynge
me
that
your
clothes
were
in
it
/
and
hathe
layde
the
bogette
vnder
your
beddes
heed
For
all
your
seruauntes
ben
gone
/
and
ye
shall
fynde
them
nomore
.
And
tolde
me
that
the
knyght
that
ye
wote
of
/
recommaundeth
hym
to
you
/
and
putteth
you
in
memorye
of
the
promyse
that
ye
made
to
hym
/
the
whiche
prayth
you
that
ye
wyll
haue
it
in
remembraunce
Olyuer
herynge
his
hostesse
/
was
more
abasshed
than
euer
he
had
ben
and
feynynge
that
he
knewe
well
ynoughe
what
it
wolde
meane
/
wente
fyrst
to
his
beddes
heed
/
and
founde
the
bogette
that
his
hostesse
hadde
tolde
hym
of
/
and
founde
the
keye
in
the
locke
/
and
tasted
it
/
and
felte
wel
ynough
that
it
was
heuy
/
and
vndyde
it
/
and
in
lokynge
in
to
it
he
apperceyued
that
it
was
nothynge
but
golde
/
&
good
nobles
of
Englande
.
¶
How
Olyuer
founde
grete
fynaunce●
/
seruauntes
and
clothynges
/
and
how
he
was
broughte
in
to
the
Kynges
courte
with
grete
reuerence
of
the
knyghtes
that
had
taken
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xxx
.
OLyuer
that
founde
hymselfe
all
alone
in
his
chambre
/
sat
hym
downe
/
for
the
.xx.
knyghtes
hadde
taken
leue
of
hym
/
and
were
gone
for
to
dysarme
them
/
to
be
at
the
feest
/
&
seynge
that
he
had
tyme
ynoughe
/
beganne
for
to
tell
his
moneye
/
and
founde
that
there
was
.v.
M.
nobles
/
wherfore
he
thanked
god
and
the
noble
knyght
that
had
/
had
soo
good
remembraunce
on
hym
.
Whyles
that
he
put
vp
his
golde
in
to
his
bougette
/
entred
in
to
the
chambre
fyue
gentyll
squyers
clothed
in
whyte
satyn
&
.x.
varlets
clothed
in
whyte
clothe
/
whiche
salued
hym
saynge
.
My
lorde
/
your
mayster
stewarde
hathe
ben
here
this
after
none
/
and
hathe
gyuen
eche
of
vs
a
gowne
and
tolde
vs
that
it
was
your
lyueray
/
and
that
ye
shold
reteyne
vs
in
your
seruyce
/
and
therfore
we
come
towarde
you
to
knowe
and
it
be
y●ur
wyll
/
for
there
is
none
of
vs
but
that
he
hathe
good
mayster
/
for
some
be
the
Erle
of
Flaundres
men
/
and
the
other
the
dukes
of
Somerset
And
thus
eche
of
vs
hath
good
maysters
/
but
they
haue
as
many
seruauntes
as
theym
nede
the.
And
for
the
valyauntnesse
that
we
haue
sene
in
you
/
we
become
your
seruauntes
yf
it
be
your
pleasure
.
Olyuer
answered
them
and
sayd
.
My
frendes
of
your
grace
ye
saye
more
good
of
me
than
I
haue
deserued
.
Ans
as
I
vnderstande
eche
of
you
hathe
a
good
mayster
/
and
better
than
I
am
/
but
and
it
be
your
wyll
I
reteyne
you
all
.
And
to
morowe
syth
that
ye
be
men
of
knowlege
I
shall
enquere
of
your
estate
/
and
thenne
to
eche
of
you
I
shall
gyue
suche
estate
as
to
you
apperteyneth
.
One
of
the
seruauntes
sayd
to
hym
.
My
lorde
your
mayster
stewarde
hathe
ordeyned
me
your
palfreynere
/
therfore
ye
shall
tell
me
yf
it
please
you
what
I
shall
do
with
your
horses
.
For
I
haue
fyue
good
coursers
/
&
two
lytell
hobyes
ryght
fayre
/
of
whiche
he
badde
me
take
good
heede
.
And
bycause
that
it
is
ferre
to
the
courte
I
thynke
ye
wyll
not
g●
on
fote
therfore
yf
it
please
you
ye
shal
tell
me
whiche
of
your
horses
ye
wyll
haue
/
and
what
harneys
I
shall
put
vpon
hym
whether
that
of
veluet
crymosyn
/
or
that
of
beten
golde
&
yf
that
it
please
you
that
your
four
pages
shall
come
towarde
you
.
Olyuer
was
moche
abasshed
/
and
made
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
/
and
sayd
to
hym
.
My
frende
go
in
goddes
name
/
&
sadle
one
of
the
two
lytell
hobyes
whiche
thou
louest
best
/
and
put
on
hym
the
harnes
of
beten
golde
/
and
make
the
pages
come
with
two
torches
for
to
lyght
me
in
to
the
courte
.
And
then
Olyuer
commaunded
for
to
vndo
the
fardell
/
and
so
it
was
done
.
And
founde
thre
sortes
of
clotynge
for
hym
/
of
the
same
colours
that
he
hadde
worne
durynge
the
torneyment
/
that
is
to
wyte
/
blacke
/
rede
/
and
whyte
.
The
hosen
were
of
scarlet
/
the
gownes
of
veluet
/
the
doublettes
of
blacke
damaske
fygured
/
and
the
hatte
of
blacke
/
vpon
the
whiche
was
a
ryght
gentyll
and
ryche
ouche
of
stones
ryght
curyously
wrought
/
&
there
was
in
it
an
e
/
&
an
o
/
togyder
.
Wherfore
he
began
for
to
kysse
it
/
and
sayd
alowe
.
Fayre
fader
god
yf
that
thou
wylte
extende
soo
moche
thy
grace
on
me
/
that
my
fortune
were
suche
that
Olyuer
&
Helayn
myght
come
so
nere
togyder
as
these
two
lettres
/
I
sholde
be
moche
beholden
to
thanke
thy
grete
maieste
.
In
the
same
wordes
Olyuer
clothed
hym
/
and
founde
that
his
clothynge
were
so
well
made
for
hym
/
that
there
coude
none
amende
them
.
He
was
not
so
sone
clothed
but
that
his
hors
was
redy
abydynge
hym
at
the
dore
/
and
his
foure
pages
.
And
within
shorte
tyme
after
the
knyghtes
that
had
brought
hym
theder
/
came
for
to
fetche
hym
/
and
tolde
hym
that
it
was
hyghe
tyme
to
goo
in
to
the
courte
.
They
they
mounted
on
horsbacke
/
and
the
torches
were
lyghted
that
conduyted
them
in
to
the
courte
.
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
courte
of
the
ryght
noble
kynge
of
Englande
/
where
as
he
was
receyued
of
all
the
lordes
/
and
l●dyes
with
grete
Ioye
.
Ca.
xxxi
.
Whan
Olyuer
was
afore
the
gate
of
the
palays
he
began
for
to
smyte
his
hors
with
the
sporres
/
the
whiche
made
lepes
without
nombre
&
dyde
all
that
his
mayster
wolde
haue
him
do
/
he
made
fyre
to
sprynge
out
of
the
payment
in
suche
haboundaunce
that
euery
body
loked
out
at
the
wyndowes
to
beholde
hym
/
&
in
suche
estate
he
came
to
the
place
where
it
was
tyme
to
alyght
.
And
bycause
that
he
was
so
semely
a
knyght
/
there
was
grete
prece
to
be
holde
hym
.
There
was
so
huge
a
nombre
of
folke
that
with
grete
payne
he
myghte
descende
/
and
passe
forthe
/
The
tydynges
came
to
the
kynge
/
and
to
the
other
prynces
that
theder
were
comen
/
how
the
whyte
knyght
was
comen
/
and
mounted
vp
the
steyres
/
and
sayd
that
and
his
beaute
were
lost
/
that
in
all
the
worlde
it
myghte
not
be
recouered
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
these
tydynges
were
pronounced
to
the
ladyes
/
the
whiche
demaunded
what
maner
a
man
he
was
/
and
it
was
tolde
them
that
he
was
a
heed
of
werke
/
&
that
there
was
neuer
sene
a
more
fayrer
knyght
.
And
durynge
these
wordes
he
entred
in
to
the
halle
where
as
all
the
lordes
were
/
and
salued
the
kynge
The
whiche
by
semblaunt
made
hym
ryght
grete
chere
and
honour
/
and
so
dyde
all
the
other
lordes
/
the
whiche
sholdred
one
another
for
to
se
hym
/
for
his
excellente
be
aute
.
There
was
many
that
at
his
comynge
wolde
that
he
hadde
ben
a
thousande
myle
thens
/
and
in
especyall
they
that
hadde
done
best
nexte
hym
dyde
curse
hym
in
theyr
courage
/
but
his
physnamye
and
maneres
were
so
swete
/
that
he
sholde
haue
ben
ryghte
cursed
that
wolde
haue
done
hym
ony
harme
.
So
as
he
was
fested
on
euery
syde
/
the
ryght
fayr
and
good
Helayne
accompanyed
with
dyuers
grete
lordes
and
ladyes
came
in
to
the
hall
apparaylled
&
aourned
so
rychely
/
that
her
habyllementes
were
worthe
a
realme
/
for
there
was
neuer
sene
the
pareylles
or
lyke
.
Her
beaute
enlumyned
the
palays
/
the
whiche
exceded
all
natures
werke
.
And
thynke
not
that
that
Helayne
for
whome
Troye
receyued
soo
many
aduersytes
passed
this
.
But
bycause
that
comparysons
be
heynous
/
and
noysous
I
holde
my
peas
in
retornynge
to
my
purpose
.
The
fayre
Helayne
of
Englande
seynge
the
thought
of
her
lorde
and
fader
set
her
vpon
her
knees
/
and
made
to
hym
reuerence
and
honoure
as
it
apperteyned
.
The
kynge
her
fader
toke
her
by
the
hande
and
made
her
for
to
aryse
/
in
saynge
that
she
was
ryght
well
come
.
And
thenne
she
was
salued
of
all
the
other
k●yghtes
&
lordes
vnto
whome
she
rendred
echone
theyr
salute
after
theyr
qualyte
/
as
she
coude
do
full
well
.
Thenne
was
Olyuer
brought
afore
her
the
whiche
knewe
hym
as
sone
as
she
sawe
hym
.
For
he
was
easy
for
to
knowe
amongest
them
all
.
Wherfore
she
behelde
hym
voluntarylye
/
and
it
was
force
to
the
knyghtes
and
squyres
for
to
withdrawe
them
aparte
/
for
to
make
place
to
the
lad●es
and
gentylwomen
/
to
the
ende
that
they
myght
se
hym
the
better
at
theyr
cases
.
And
there
was
but
fewe
of
them
that
were
for
to
marye
/
but
that
they
thoughte
within
theymselfe
/
and
wolde
that
Olyuer
had
conquered
them
by
force
of
armes
/
as
well
as
he
hadde
done
the
fayre
Helayne
.
¶
How
in
secrete
the
pryce
was
ordeyned
for
Olyuer
by
the
Iuges
commysed
/
and
the
counsayll
of
the
kynge
approued
for
to
aduertyse
Olyuer
.
Capi.
xxxii
.
ALytell
whyle
after
these
thynges
d●uyse●
the
tables
were
spredde
/
and
incontynente
as
all
thynge
was
redy
the
trompettes
blewe
for
water
to
wasshe
theyr
handes
.
And
then
the
kynge
and
his
doughter
wasshed
/
and
all
the
other
lordes
in
generall
.
And
the
Kynge
made
to
enquere
of
Olyuer
/
of
his
kynne
/
and
what
he
was
/
and
of
what
marches
/
to
the
ende
that
the
honour
were
done
to
hym
after
his
estate
.
He
answered
to
them
that
demaunded
hym
that
he
was
a
poore
knyght
of
Spayne
/
&
not
of
a
hye
place
.
There
was
not
one
neyther
the
kyng
nor
the
other
/
but
that
men
semed
well
by
his
phys●amye
/
that
he
was
of
a
good
house
/
and
that
also
without
grete
puyssaunce
he
coude
not
haue
furnysshed
the
habyllementes
that
they
had
sene
hym
haue
durynge
the
f●●st
/
Whan
tyme
was
the
kynge
satte
hym
downe
at
the
table
/
and
with
hym
all
the
grete
lordes
and
ladyes
/
reserued
Helayne
/
that
was
sette
vp
on
hye
in
the
myddes
of
a
table
that
was
eleuate
/
to
the
ende
that
she
myght
be
sene
of
all
theym
in
the
halle
.
At
the
ryght
syde
were
the
prynces
Iuges
set
at
the
same
table
/
and
on
the
other
syde
were
the
.x.
pryncesses
at
the
same
table
.
Olyuer
wolde
not
sytten
downe
at
the
kynges
stable
.
Notwithstandynge
he
was
prayed
so
moche
/
and
commaunded
that
it
was
force
for
hym
to
obeye
.
There
was
other
tables
without
nombre
where
as
the
other
knyghtes
and
ladyes
were
sette
.
Who
that
wolde
deuyse
to
you
the
seruyce
and
the
mysteryes
that
was
there
/
it
sholde
be
to
longe
to
recounte
it
.
There
was
no
mete
that
replenysshed
them
so
sone
/
as
to
beholde
the
excellent
Helayne
/
she
was
the
repose
of
the
wery
/
and
the
couragynge
of
the
valyaunt
And
there
was
not
one
but
that
they
thought
that
god
hadde
made
her
for
to
shewe
his
hyghe
puyssaunce
.
This
feest
dured
so
longe
tyll
that
it
was
tyme
to
vnserue
/
&
there
was
none
of
them
all
that
thought
other
thynge
/
saue
to
make
good
chere
/
and
also
they
were
not
requyred
otherwyse
.
The
tables
taken
awaye
&
graces
gyuen
to
our
lorde
of
his
goodnes
/
the
daunces
began
/
and
incontynent
the
.x.
prynces
/
and
the
.x.
pryncesses
withdrewe
them
a
parte
in
to
a
lytel
chambre
for
to
knowe
who
had
done
best
/
and
they
were
in
grete
plete
.
The
one
helde
with
the
kynges
sone
of
Scotlande
/
and
the
other
〈◊〉
the
erle
of
Flaundres
/
&
the
other
with
the
good
duke
of
Somerset
.
But
the
moost
parte
helde
with
Olyuer
.
In
suche
wyse
that
there
was
none
of
theym
but
that
they
gaue
theyr
voyce
to
Olyuer
/
&
whan
the
kynge
thought
that
they
myght
well
haue
done
/
he
habandonned
the
daunces
and
came
towarde
them
/
&
demaunded
theym
what
thynge
that
they
had
done
.
One
of
theym
kneled
downe
&
sayd
.
Our
souerayne
lorde
ye
haue
of
your
gode
grace
commysed
vs
for
to
saye
fr●ly
the
trouthe
.
Also
we
haue
made
our
othe
that
we
shall
not
take
regarde
to
the
magnyfycence
of
the
lygnag●
nor
lordshyppe
/
And
vs
semeth
that
the
best
doer
of
all
this
assemble
hathe
ben
Olyuer
/
not
for
one
daye
alonely
/
but
for
all
the
the
dayes
/
&
we
sawe
neuer
knyght
do
suche
dedes
of
armes
as
he
hathe
done
/
therfore
we
aduertyse
you
therof
/
for
to
do
therwith
your
good
pleasure
.
The
kynge
answered
and
sayd
.
My
fayre
cosyns
/
and
my
good
frendes
/
and
you
my
fayre
ladyes
here
presente
I
here
well
ynoughe
what
ye
haue
sayd
/
and
knoweth
that
it
sholde
be
agaynst
reason
to
take
the
pryce
from
hym
that
hathe
deseruyd
it
.
And
truely
who
had
axed
me
myn
aduyse●
wolde
haue
sayd
the
same
that
ye
haue
tolde
me
/
but
fo●
all
that
ye
ought
to
knowe
that
this
is
not
a
lytell
thyn●
For
he
that
wynneth
the
pryce
/
wynneth
my
doughter
and
consequently
all
my
realme
for
to
be
kynge
ouer
yo●
al
after
my
decease
.
And
bycause
that
ye
gyue
the
pry●●
to
a
straunger
vnknowen
of
vs
all
I
wolde
vnder
cor●reccyon
soo
it
that
seme
you
good
/
that
he
were
aduertyse●
of
this
thynge
by
one
of
you
/
and
how
the
pryce
shall
b●
gyuen
to
hym
.
And
he
the
whiche
shall
aduertyse
hym
/
maye
saye
also
to
hym
/
that
I
am
delybered
for
to
make
vnto
hym
a
request
/
that
is
for
to
knowe
that
he
were
contente
for
to
abyde
a
yere
in
my
courte
afore
that
my
fayre
doughter
Helayne
be
gyuen
vnto
hym
/
for
to
know●
his
mures
and
condycyons
.
And
also
I
shall
promys●
hym
by
the
fayth
that
I
owe
to
knyghthode
that
durynge
that
tyme
I
shall
not
mary
her
/
&
yf
that
he
be
a
man
worthy
her
/
&
that
I
knowe
none
other
thyng
than
I
do
tyll
this
present
tyme
/
that
whiche
he
hathe
wonne
shall
not
be
taken
from
hym
.
And
also
I
shall
put
in
doubte
ryght
grete
lordes
that
been
here
/
and
yf
that
I
gaue
her
to
hym
in
theyr
presence
/
they
myght
conspyre
some
euyl
agaynst
his
pers●ne
/
wherby
ryght
grete
inconuenyentes
myght
come
to
hym
/
and
there
is
myn
aduyse
.
Whan
the
kynge
hadde
fynysshed
his
wordes
/
they
withdrewe
themsel●e
a
parte
.
And
founde
in
counsayll
that
the
kynge
had
sayd
ryght
well
/
and
sayd
it
sholde
be
wel
done
to
knowe
Olyuers
wyll
/
afore
that
the
request
were
made
on
hyghe
.
Bycause
that
it
sholde
be
shame
to
the
Kynge
yf
it
were
not
vnto
hym
accorded
.
Thus
there
is
no
thynge
but
good
/
and
the
kynge
hathe
no
wronge
to
knowe
afore
the
loue
.
¶
How
the
kynge
of
Englande
came
towarde
his
fayre
doughter
/
for
to
demaunde
her
to
whome
her
semed
that
the
pryce
ought
to
be
gyuen
/
and
of
her
answers
.
Capitulo
.
xxxiii
.
ONe
of
the
prynces
was
ordeyned
to
speke
to
Olyuer
/
wherfore
he
came
in
to
the
hall
where
as
the
ladyes
were
/
and
●oke
Olyuer
aparte
/
and
sayd
to
him
all
that
ye
haue
her
●e
afore
.
Olyuer
had
alwaye
doubte
of
the
thynge
/
by
cause
of
the
grete
multytude
of
lordes
that
were
there
/
to
whome
him
thought
they
wolde
soner
applye
than
to
hym
/
&
thought
as
well
that
yf
he
were
not
contente
that
it
sholde
be
force
to
hym
/
wherfore
he
answered
to
the
prynce
.
My
lorde
ye
mocke
with
me
for
I
haue
not
deserued
the
honour
that
ye
do
to
me
/
but
and
ye
speke
in
sadnesse
/
and
that
it
please
the
kynge
to
make
to
me
a
request
/
as
I
here
you
saye
.
I
tell
you
that
it
is
no
prayer
/
but
his
commaundement
to
the
whiche
I
wyll
not
dysobeye
/
and
sayd
no
more
/
nor
the
lorde
also
but
retorned
towarde
the
kynge
/
and
aduertysed
hym
of
that
whiche
he
hadde
founden
in
Olyuer
/
and
sayd
that
he
founde
neuer
a
more
dyscreter
man
/
nor
more
worthy
and
that
he
was
dygne
of
moche
good
.
And
the
Kynge
was
ryght
Ioyous
of
that
reporte
/
and
began
for
to
tell
in
what
maner
he
wolde
that
the
pryce
were
gyuen
/
and
who
sholde
bere
it
/
and
tolde
them
that
he
wolde
make
them
haue
knowlege
/
the
houre
that
the
pryce
sholde
he
gyuen
.
And
then
he
departed
and
came
to
the
daunces
where
as
he
founde
his
doughter
/
the
whiche
he
toke
by
the
hande
/
and
sayd
to
her
.
My
fayre
doughter
ye
muste
tell
me
to
whiche
of
these
lordes
that
ye
haue
s●ue
here
/
ye
haue
best
wyll
to
/
&
whiche
hathe
done
beste
by
your
aduyse
.
My
lorde
my
fader
I
haue
no
more
wyll
to
one
than
to
an
other
.
Ye
be
my
fader
reason
it
is
that
I
obey
to
you
/
for
your
pleasure
is
myne
/
and
also
me
thynketh
that
they
haue
all
done
so
well
that
none
can
amende
it
/
Then
the
kynge
demaunded
her
yf
that
she
wolde
be
as
well
contente
yf
Olyuer
hadde
the
pryce
/
as
yf
a
gretter
lorde
had
it
.
She
answered
/
it
is
a
fayre
thynge
to
do
ryghte
to
euery
body
.
Ye
be
wyse
and
knoweth
what
ye
haue
to
do
.
The
kynge
whiche
was
dyscrete
sente
for
the
pryce
/
the
whiche
was
brought
in
the
maner
that
foloweth
.
¶
How
the
pryce
of
the
torneyment
was
brought
to
Olyuer
by
dyuers
lordes
and
ladyes
/
and
what
it
was
.
Capitulo
.
xxxiiii
.
THere
came
fyrste
many
torches
/
and
offycers
for
to
make
place
.
After
came
a
Kynge
of
armes
rychely
clothed
holdyng●
on
hyghe
with
bothe
his
handes
a
grete
and
massysse
cheyne
of
golde
/
charged
&
enryched
with
precyous
stones
.
After
hym
came
two
fayre
ladyes
/
clothed
in
lyke
habyllementes
/
the
whiche
became
them
so
well
that
it
was
a
pleasaunt
syght
to
beholde
them
.
These
ladyes
were
accompanyed
with
four
knyghtes
clothed
in
lyke
wyse
/
and
eche
of
the
ladyes
were
on
the
ryght
hande
of
two
knyghtes
.
And
in
suche
estate
they
came
afore
the
kynges
persone
/
to
whome
they
dyde
the
reuerence
as
it
apperteyned
.
And
then
they
demaunded
hym
yf
it
were
his
good
pleasure
that
the
pryce
were
gyuen
.
And
he
answered
ye
.
Then
they
began
to
walke
aboute
the
halle
/
and
came
to
the
place
where
as
Olyuer
was
hydde
amonge
the
prece
.
To
whome
the
Kynge
of
armes
sayd
that
he
sholde
come
forth
/
and
that
it
was
to
hym
that
they
wolde
speke
/
and
after
that
he
was
comen
forth
the
kynge
of
armes
sayd
to
hym
in
this
wyse
.
Carbuncle
and
gemme
of
all
prowesse
and
hardynesse
/
the
kynge
our
souerayne
lorde
/
and
the
ladyes
of
this
company
/
by
the
grete
and
hyghe
faytes
of
armes
that
in
you
hath
been
shewed
/
and
comen
to
theyr
knowlege
/
dothe
presente
to
you
this
noble
cheyne
/
in
gyuynge
you
the
pryce
of
the
thre
dayes
with
tryumphe
and
glorye
/
aboue
al
them
that
theder
hathe
ben
comen
/
or
founde
them
there
.
I
make
you
no
mensyon
of
my
ryght
redoubted
maystresse
/
and
lady
Helayne
bycause
that
the
Kynge
my
souerayne
lorde
make
y●
to
you
a
request
/
that
is
that
the
ryght
that
ye
can
demaunde
of
her
by
the
crye
that
was
publysshed
by
his
commaundement
/
that
it
wyll
please
you
for
to
be
contente
&
〈…〉
dyfferre
and
abyde
vntyl
a
yere
be
passed
.
And
he
dothe
promyse
you
that
enduryng
that
whyle
/
my
lady
Helayne
his
dought●●
shall
not
be
maryed
/
and
then
he
shall
do
so
moche
towarde
you
that
ye
shall
be
well
contente
/
For
she
shall
be
appareylled
for
you
/
euen
as
she
sholde
be
at
this
presente
tyme
/
for
he
wolde
not
take
fro
you
for
no
thynge
/
that
the
whiche
ye
haue
deserued
.
Oliuer
with
a
symple
voyce
all
rubycunde
answered
that
he
had
not
deserued
the
honour
that
they
presented
hym
/
but
syth
that
it
was
the
kynges
good
pleasure
/
and
the
lordes
and
ladyes
/
he
sholde
be
a
grete
fole
/
and
mysproude
to
refuse
it
.
As
for
the
surplus
touchynge
the
kynges
requestes
/
he
answered
that
his
requestes
were
commaundementes
/
in
praynge
yf
that
he
had
wonne
ony
thynge
that
it
sholde
not
be
taken
from
hym
.
For
he
was
well
in
wyll
for
to
take
it
/
yf
it
fell
to
hym
.
This
notwithstandynge
he
was
well
contente
that
the
kynges
wyll
were
accomplysshed
/
and
to
abyde
a
yere
.
And
thanked
the
kynge
/
and
the
ladyes
that
had
made
hym
that
present
.
And
toke
the
chayne
of
golde
and
put
it
aboute
his
neck
And
then
they
demaunded
hym
his
name
/
and
surname
he
made
hymself
Olyuer
/
but
he
sayd
that
his
surname
myght
not
be
knowen
at
that
present
tyme
.
And
bycause
that
the
heraude
coude
not
tell
how
to
gyue
his
name
in
knowlege
that
the
pryce
was
gyuen
to
/
he
beganne
for
to
crye
in
this
maner
wyse
To
this
blacke
/
rede
/
and
whyte
knyght
/
the
floure
of
chyualrye
/
that
by
force
of
armes
hathe
obteyned
the
laste
tryumphe
of
the
torneyment
hathe
ben
delyuered
the
pryce
.
¶
How
Olyuer
requyred
the
kynge
of
Englande
that
he
wolde
reteyne
hym
of
his
courte
/
&
that
he
myght
k●●ue
afore
his
doughter
/
the
whiche
he
vttred
hym
.
afore
all
his
barons
.
Capitulo
.
xxxv
.
THen
was
Olyuer
ledde
afore
the
kynge
/
the
whiche
he
thanked
humbly
of
the
grete
honour
that
he
had
done
to
hym
without
deseruynge
/
and
besought
hym
for
to
haue
alwaye
memorye
of
hym
/
and
of
his
promyse
that
he
h●o
made
hym
/
and
to
reteyne
hym
of
his
courte
.
The
kynge
answered
in
saynge
that
he
wolde
do
it
with
ryght●
good
wyll
/
&
that
suche
estate
as
he
wolde
demaunde
/
sholde
be
delyuered
hym
/
and
with
that
that
he
sholde
not
fere
hym
/
but
that
he
wolde
haue
me
morye
of
hym
/
&
that
bycause
of
the
pryce
that
was
his
he
sholde
lese
nothynge
.
Syr
sayd
Olyuer
I
can
not
tel
you
how
ye
vnderstande
it
/
truely
I
can
nothynge
lese
/
of
what
wherof
I
had
neuer
nothynge
/
but
I
holde
you
for
so
valyaunt
that
ye
wyll
not
go
agaynst
your
worde
ye
gyue
me
for
to
chese
and
take
suche
estate
as
shal
please
me
/
wherfore
I
thanke
you
.
¶
And
therfore
I
praye
you
that
ye
wyll
be
contente
that
I
be
squyre
keruer
afore
my
lady
your
doughter
.
And
the
Kynge
answered
in
refusynge
hym
/
and
sayd
that
his
doughter
was
not
accustomed
for
to
be
serued
of
a
knyght
.
Notwithstandynge
he
requyred
and
prayed
so
moche
that
the
kynge
was
contente
that
his
wyll
were
fulfylled
.
Neuerthelesse
that
he
was
worthy
to
haue
had
a
gretter
estate
than
that
/
Then
he
made
hym
to
ryse
and
toke
hym
by
the
hande
/
&
ledde
hym
towarde
his
doughter
/
and
then
commaunded
her
that
she
sholde
kysse
hym
/
bycause
that
hym
semed
that
Olyuer
had
well
deserued
it
/
and
at
the
leest
yf
that
he
had
no
more
honour
but
that
for
to
content
him
the
better
.
The
fayre
Helayne
in
accomplysshynge
the
wyll
of
the
Kynge
her
fader
/
toke
Olyuer
by
the
hande
that
was
alredy
on
his
knee
/
and
kyssed
hym
in
touchynge
her
mouthe
agaynst
his
.
This
kysse
thrugh
perced
the
herte
of
Olyuer
and
his
entraylles
/
and
entred
and
lodged
in
the
moost
secretest
place
of
his
herte
/
and
neuer
after
departed
/
that
done
she
made
Olyuer
to
aryse
/
the
whiche
thanked
her
.
After
the
daunces
were
begonne
agayne
/
and
endured
a
grete
space
of
tyme
/
and
after
came
the
wyne
and
spyces
/
and
whan
euery
body
had
dronke
and
that
it
was
oure
for
to
go
to
bedde
/
the
grete
prynces
/
&
lordes
toke
leue
of
the
kynge
/
and
of
the
fayre
Helayne
/
for
to
retorne
on
the
morowe
in
to
theyr
countrees
/
and
thanked
the
kynge
of
the
grete
chere
and
honour
that
he
had
done
to
them
in
his
courte
.
The
kynge
prayed
hym
that
they
wolde
yet
abyde
a
daye
or
twayne
.
But
they
wolde
not
abyde
but
badde
hym
adew
.
And
whan
it
came
that
the
kynges
sone
of
Scotlande
toke
his
leue
of
the
fayre
Helayne
/
he
sayd
to
her
alowe
as
in
reprochynge
/
that
he
was
ryght
Ioyous
that
she
was
soo
well
assygned
.
Helayne
that
was
not
folysshe
/
vnderstode
well
that
all
that
he
hadde
sayd
/
proceded
of
enuye
/
wherfore
she
helde
her
styll
and
sayd
nothynge
/
but
toke
leue
of
hym
&
of
all
the
other
/
the
whiche
wente
in
to
theyr
lodgynges
&
on
the
morowe
departed
.
The
kynge
Maquemor
of
Irlande
/
and
another
that
was
his
neyghbour
for
ony
prayer
that
the
kynge
dyde
make
/
wolde
not
come
to
the
feest
but
all
euyll
contente
were
departed
/
without
takynge
leue
/
for
the
dyspleasure
that
they
had
of
the
dethe
of
the
kynge
of
Irlande
theyr
frende
/
and
that
the
kynge
had
made
therof
so
lytell
accounte
.
And
affermed
&
promysed
the
one
to
the
other
that
yf
it
were
possyble
for
them
whan
they
were
comen
in
to
theyr
countree
/
that
the
kynge
of
Englande
sholde
repente
hym
to
late
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
reteyned
of
the
Kynges
courte
and
kerued
afore
his
doughter
/
and
made
his
othe
.
Capitulo
.
xxxvi
.
OLyuer
badde
good
nyght
to
the
kynge
and
to
his
fayre
doughter
Helayne
/
and
consequentlye
to
all
the
other
.
And
he
was
conueyed
to
his
lodges
/
by
dyuers
gentylmen
of
the
kynges
courte
/
that
all
redy
had
grete
volente
for
to
be
acquaynted
with
him
.
Olyuer
comen
in
to
his
lodges
/
made
theym
for
to
drynke
/
and
then
he
thanked
them
for
the
trauayll
that
they
had
taken
for
hym
/
&
sayd
to
them
.
My
lordes
I
wyll
be
from
hensforth
your
seruaunt
/
broder
/
and
felowe
.
And
yf
there
be
ony
thynge
that
I
may
do
for
you
/
there
is
none
of
you
but
that
ye
shall
fynde
me
redy
at
nede
.
Then
they
all
departed
/
saue
one
gentyll
squyre
/
the
whiche
Olyuer
reteyned
with
hym
/
for
to
lye
with
hym
/
&
also
to
the
ende
that
he
sholde
haue
the
more
acquayntaunce
with
the
lordes
of
the
courte
.
The
nyght
passed
and
the
daye
came
.
And
whan
it
was
tyme
.
Olyuer
arose
and
clothed
hym
in
newe
robes
/
that
he
had
made
make
all
the
nyght
.
And
was
led
to
the
courte
by
his
squyre
/
and
founde
the
kynge
that
was
alredy
at
the
masse
/
the
whiche
fynysshed
/
the
kynge
commaunded
that
Olyuer
sholde
be
ledde
towarde
his
fyrst
knyght
chamberlayne
/
the
whiche
he
had
ordeyned
for
to
speke
to
hym
.
Whan
Olyuer
was
comen
/
the
fyrst
chamberlayne
sayd
to
hym
Olyuer
my
frende
the
kyng
hath
ordeyned
me
for
to
receyue
your
othe
/
and
that
I
gyue
to
you
retynue
of
.xx.
horses
.
And
yf
it
be
your
pleasure
for
to
serue
my
lady
his
doughter
as
ye
haue
requyred
/
as
well
ye
may
do
it
/
as
yf
ye
were
of
lesse
estate
.
Olyuer
thanked
the
kynge
/
and
made
his
othe
.
And
as
he
the
whiche
thoughte
neuer
tyme
ynoughe
for
to
se
her
that
had
gyuen
hym
that
gracyous
kysse
/
requyred
that
for
that
daye
he
myght
kerue
afore
her
/
and
so
he
was
ledde
into
her
chambre
/
where
as
Helayns
table
was
spredde
/
the
whiche
made
no
longe
taryenge
but
came
.
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
her
/
he
gaue
her
good
morowe
/
And
she
rendred
hym
his
salute
ryghte
curteysly
/
and
behelde
hym
gladly
.
And
then
she
sat
her
downe
at
the
table
.
Where
as
Olyuer
began
for
to
kerue
afore
her
.
And
in
castynge
vp
her
eyen
demaunded
hym
yf
that
it
was
his
wyl
for
to
kerue
afore
her
.
Olyuer
answered
/
madame
it
is
my
pleasure
for
to
do
you
all
the
seruyce
that
I
can
/
so
that
it
torne
you
not
to
dyspleasure
.
Olyuer
my
frende
sayd
she
nay
/
but
I
thanke
you
/
how
well
that
I
had
wolde
that
ye
had
deported
you
of
this
offyce
/
but
syth
that
it
is
youre
wyll
/
it
is
well
myne
.
So
Olyuer
kerued
afore
his
fayr
maystres
all
alonge
the
dyner
/
but
it
was
not
withoute
foyson
of
regardes
and
lokes
.
Whan
the
table
was
vp
/
he
was
a
lytell
whyle
with
the
ladyes
/
and
then
he
wente
towarde
the
kynge
/
to
whome
they
had
tolde
that
Olyuer
dyde
serue
at
his
doughters
dyner
/
&
sayd
that
he
was
the
gentyllest
seruaunt
that
euer
they
had
sene
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
surprysed
of
the
loue
of
Helayne
and
cutte
his
fyngre
in
seruynge
her
.
Ca.
xxxvii
.
THese
thynges
dyde
passe
/
and
Olyuer
was
a
grete
whyle
in
the
courte
so
well
beloued
that
all
that
knewe
him
sayd
good
of
hym
.
The
kynge
hymselfe
coude
not
prayse
hym
ynoughe
/
&
sayd
often
that
Olyuer
was
bothe
fayre
&
good
/
saynge
that
he
and
his
doughter
were
wel
serued
The
fayre
Helayne
in
lyke
wyse
seynge
the
graces
and
beautees
that
god
and
nature
had
endowed
that
yonge
knyght
with
/
dyde
prayse
hym
strongly
in
her
herte
/
but
she
made
no
semblaunt
for
doubte
of
some
folke
.
For
ye
knowe
well
ynoughe
that
they
say
oftener
the
euyll
than
the
good
/
for
all
that
whan
they
demaunded
her
/
she
sayd
that
she
sawe
nothynge
in
him
but
all
good
/
and
that
he
was
a
ryght
gracyous
knyght
/
&
in
suche
estate
he
had
put
hym
in
the
grace
of
all
them
that
knewe
hym
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
at
the
begynnynge
had
ben
conspyred
dyuers
enuyes
agaynst
his
persone
/
but
by
the
grete
wysdome
&
doulcenesse
that
remayned
in
hym
/
he
had
subdued
&
ouercome
his
euyl
wyllers
/
in
suche
wyse
that
euery
body
loued
hym
.
Also
none
can
not
recorde
to
you
the
newe
thynges
that
were
begonne
/
enterprysed
/
and
acheued
by
him
/
as
well
Iustynge
as
other
dyspertes
and
playes
Ye
haue
well
herde
how
Olyuer
had
receyued
a
kysse
of
his
excellent
maystresse
/
and
I
haue
also
tolde
you
that
he
kepte
it
so
well
/
that
he
lost
it
not
whan
he
wolde
/
for
loue
in
a
shorte
space
had
defaced
his
Ioye
and
lyesse
/
&
with
that
helde
hym
so
streyte
in
his
bondes
that
he
coude
not
ete
nor
drynke
/
slepe
nor
rest
in
bedde
/
and
he
was
not
at
his
ease
nor
peas
the
houre
that
he
hadde
lost
the
syght
of
his
lady
and
maystresse
.
And
was
not
in
no
place
but
that
hym
thought
that
he
sawe
the
representacyon
of
his
excellente
lady
afore
his
eyen
.
In
suche
estate
he
was
a
space
of
tyme
/
and
in
suche
wyse
he
aduychylled
/
hym
that
he
became
in
suche
estate
that
he
cared
no
more
of
noo
good
dede
.
T
hystorye
sayth
that
on
a
tyme
as
he
kerued
afore
his
maystres
at
the
table
as
he
that
was
not
mayster
ouer
hymselfe
began
to
beholde
her
/
and
in
beholdynge
her
he
made
many
syghes
of
loue
that
proceded
from
his
herte
.
Then
the
fayre
Helayne
apperceyued
that
he
thought
strongely
vpon
her
/
and
she
had
no
thynge
kerued
afore
her
for
to
ete
.
For
Olyuer
had
gyuen
her
none
/
wherfore
she
sayd
by
dyuers
tymes
.
Olyuer
my
frende
I
wolde
ete
gladly
yf
ye
gaue
me
wherof
Olyuer
that
thought
on
other
thynges
herde
her
not
at
the
fyrst
tyme
.
And
whan
his
vnderstandynge
was
comen
agayn
/
all
ashamed
he
began
for
to
serue
/
and
as
he
that
had
no
thought
on
that
whiche
he
dyde
/
cut
his
fyngre
●ll
moost
of
.
Wherfore
he
departed
from
thens
incontynent
/
and
gaue
another
to
serue
.
Helayne
apperceyuynge
these
thynges
knewe
&
apperceyued
clerely
the
thought
of
Olyuer
/
wherof
she
was
nothynge
gladde
/
whan
she
sawe
hym
in
suche
poynt
for
her
loue
.
¶
How
Olyuer
layde
hym
downe
in
his
bedde
soore
syke
/
and
how
that
Helayne
was
syke
also
for
hym
/
&
of
theyr
complayntes
/
and
how
Helayne
gate
leue
of
her
fader
go
to
vysyte
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
xxxviii
.
OLyuer
comen
in
to
his
lodgys
entred
all
alone
in
to
his
chambre
/
and
layde
hym
downe
vpon
his
bedde
/
in
complaynynge
hym
so
pyteously
/
that
it
was
grete
pyte
for
to
here
.
He
cursed
the
god
of
loue
that
had
wounded
hym
so
profoundly
with
his
hambynge
darte
and
bounde
hym
in
his
bandes
soo
vyolently
/
wherfore
he
sawe
appertely
that
he
must
nedes
deye
/
for
he
abode
none
allegeaunce
/
nor
mercye
of
his
anguysshous
maladye
.
Ha
kynge
of
Englande
sayd
Olyuer
yf
thy
worde
had
ben
verytable
/
as
a
kynges
ought
to
be
/
I
had
not
fallen
in
this
extremyte
that
I
am
nowe
in
.
Thus
as
ye
haue
herde
demeaned
Olyuer
his
sorowe
by
longe
space
of
tyme
/
and
contynued
so
in
that
he
was
greuously
sycke
/
and
layde
hym
downe
in
his
naked
bedde
.
Wherof
the
Kynge
and
all
they
of
the
courte
were
ryghte
dyspleasaunt
.
And
the
kynge
vysyted
hym
ryght
famylyerly
/
and
made
hym
to
be
sumptuously
kepte
/
and
taken
heede
to
of
his
physycyons
.
But
aboue
all
them
that
were
dolaunt
/
the
noble
Helayne
passed
/
notwithstandynge
she
made
no
semblaunt
outwarde
.
And
on
a
tyme
as
the
physycyens
came
to
her
/
as
it
is
theyr
custome
for
to
vysyte
prynces
and
prencesses
/
she
demaunded
them
how
Olyuer
dyde
/
and
yf
that
he
amended
not
.
They
answered
naye
/
and
sayd
that
they
had
grete
doubte
of
his
lyfe
Whan
Helayne
herde
these
tydynges
she
was
so
dolent
that
she
myght
scarsely
susteyne
herselfe
.
Then
she
with
drewe
her
in
to
her
garderobe
/
and
gaue
them
to
vnderstande
that
she
was
sycke
/
&
therfore
she
layde
her
downe
on
her
bedde
/
&
made
her
to
be
couered
/
for
to
couer
the
better
her
dole
.
And
whan
the
ladyes
were
voyded
/
she
began
to
saye
with
a
softe
voyce
.
O
god
almyghtye
creatour
of
heuen
and
erthe
/
the
whiche
after
thy
pleasure
dysposeth
all
erthely
thynges
.
And
thou
ryght
doulce
quene
of
heuen
/
lady
of
the
worlde
/
and
empresse
of
helle
also
truely
as
thou
bare
.ix.
monthes
in
thy
blessyd
flankes
the
veray
sone
of
god
thyn
espouse
/
and
that
conceyued
hym
a
vyrgyn
/
and
delyuered
hym
a
vyrgyn
/
and
y●
arte
aduocate
and
refuge
of
all
desolate
creatures
I
beseche
the
that
thou
wylte
counsayll
me
vnhappy
and
vnfortuned
woman
.
O
gloryous
vyrgyn
Marye
wherfore
hathe
thy
blessyd
sone
gyuen
me
soo
moche
beaute
for
to
be
cause
of
the
dethe
of
the
moost
fayrest
/
and
moost
valyauntest
knyght
that
euer
was
sene
/
the
whiche
am
in
dygne
of
this
grace
.
Wherfore
I
beseche
the
that
thou
kepe
this
gentyll
knyght
/
the
whiche
hathe
not
my
soone
me
in
no
maner
of
the
worlde
/
wherby
I
sholde
put
hym
in
this
ryght
daungerous
peryll
/
and
that
thou
dysdeyne
not
for
to
tell
me
myn
honour
saued
/
how
that
I
myght
gyue
hym
allegeaunce
of
his
maladye
.
Whyles
that
she
complayned
so
to
god
and
to
our
lady
/
a
lyghte
sompne
toke
her
/
wherthrughe
she
was
constrayned
to
slepe
.
In
her
slepe
her
semed
that
our
lady
spake
to
her
and
sayd
.
Helayne
my
sone
&
I
haue
herde
thy
request
The
knyght
for
whome
thou
hast
prayed
is
sycke
to
the
dethe
.
And
bycause
that
thou
arte
cause
of
his
maladye
/
thou
must
be
cause
also
of
his
guarysshynge
and
helthe
/
go
towarde
thy
fader
and
demaunde
hym
lycence
for
to
●o
se
hym
/
&
whan
thou
shalte
be
there
/
put
hym
in
memorye
that
the
yeres
ende
approcheth
nere
/
&
that
thou
shalte
haue
so
good
mynde
on
hym
/
that
it
shall
suffyse
hym
.
Helayne
a
waked
ryght
Ioyous
of
her
vysyon
/
and
in
thankynge
god
and
our
lady
arose
/
and
wente
towarde
her
fader
/
the
whiche
gaue
her
leue
to
go
vysyte
Olyuer
/
and
so
she
wente
theder
with
a
lytell
company
.
And
whan
she
was
entred
in
to
the
chambre
/
she
approched
towarde
the
bedde
where
as
Olyuer
was
/
that
alredye
had
lost
his
knowlege
/
and
with
the
teres
in
her
eyen
named
hym
her
frende
/
in
demaundynge
hym
how
he
dyde
.
Olyuer
knewe
the
voyce
of
his
may●●●esse
/
and
lyfte
vp
his
eyen
in
makynge
a
lytell
syghe
anguysshous
/
for
other
thynge
coude
he
not
answere
.
Helayne
apperceyued
that
he
had
but
lytell
knowlege
/
wherfore
she
approched
more
nerer
/
and
sayd
with
a
lowe
voyce
.
Alas
my
frende
what
lacke
ye
/
wyll
ye
leue
me
a
wydowe
/
do
ye
not
knowe
that
the
ende
of
the
twelue
monthe
approcheth
By
my
trouth
my
frende
your
maladye
doth
greue
me
so
sore
that
ye
can
not
byleue
it
/
wherfore
I
pray
you
that
ye
wyll
thynke
for
to
guarysshe
you
/
and
yf
there
be
ony
thynge
that
I
can
do
for
you
/
tell
it
me
.
And
euen
so
god
helpe
me
myn
honoure
salued
/
I
knowe
no
man
for
whome
I
wolde
do
more
than
for
you
.
¶
How
Olyuer
after
that
the
fayre
Helayne
had
vysyted
hym
came
to
the
courte
/
and
of
the
messenger
of
the
Kynges
of
Irlande
/
sente
to
the
Kynge
of
Englande
/
for
to
defye
hym
of
fyre
and
blode
.
Capitulo
.
xxxix
.
AS
Olyuer
herde
the
swete
voyce
of
his
maystres
that
recomforted
hym
so
swetely
/
he
forced
hym
for
to
speke
/
and
with
grete
payne
thanked
her
/
and
with
payne
myght
he
absteyne
hym
from
saynge
that
she
was
cause
of
his
dethe
/
and
as
she
that
loued
hym
/
sayd
to
hym
/
Fayre
syr
thynke
for
to
waxe
hole
/
and
come
to
the
courte
For
vpon
my
fayth
ye
shall
be
ryght
welcome
.
Then
she
toke
leue
of
hym
and
retorned
/
and
it
was
neuer
a
daye
after
/
but
that
she
shente
for
to
knowe
how
he
dyde
/
and
with
that
she
sente
hym
ryght
largely
of
her
wynes
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
within
shorte
tyme
he
was
strounge
ynoughe
for
to
promayne
hym
aboute
his
chambre
/
as
he
that
had
had
a
good
physycyen
in
his
maladye
.
And
it
was
not
longe
after
that
he
wente
in
to
the
courte
/
and
whan
he
felte
hymselfe
that
he
was
entyerly
hole
/
he
serued
his
maystres
as
he
had
done
before
The
whiche
made
hym
greter
chere
than
she
was
accustomed
to
do
.
In
suche
wyse
that
Olyuer
was
more
beauteuous
than
euer
he
had
been
afore
.
Helayne
that
apperceyued
that
Olyuer
was
out
of
daunger
/
put
hym
in
remembraunce
of
the
regrettes
and
complayntes
that
she
had
made
for
hym
durynge
his
maladye
/
wherof
Olyuer
had
his
heed
dyuers
tymes
sore
troubled
.
¶
It
happened
vpon
a
whytsontyde
/
on
the
whiche
daye
he
helde
open
courte
.
And
there
was
the
moost
parte
of
the
lordes
of
Englande
assembled
/
euen
so
as
he
was
at
dyner
/
and
his
doughter
sette
besyde
hym
/
came
a
messanger
afore
the
table
/
the
whiche
began
for
to
saye
.
That
same
god
all
puyssaunt
/
that
gouerneth
all
thynges
/
gyue
honoure
and
glorye
&
good
aduenture
to
the
hyghe
and
puyssaunt
prynces
/
&
my
souerayne
lordes
the
seuen
kynges
of
Irlande
/
by
whome
I
am
sente
hether
/
and
that
he
confounde
the
crowne
of
Englande
/
the
whiche
is
not
worthy
to
be
named
Kynge
.
Now
herken
tyraunt
what
I
haue
in
charge
for
to
saye
to
the
by
the
kynges
of
Irlande
.
They
sende
the
worde
by
me
/
and
defyeth
the
of
fyre
and
bloode
/
and
that
they
wyll
depose
the
of
thy
realme
/
as
he
that
is
not
worthy
for
to
holde
it
Some
of
them
hathe
ben
comen
to
thy
courte
for
to
knowe
more
playnly
thy
gouernynge
/
wheras
they
haue
apperceyued
thy
grete
crude
lyte
and
tyrannye
/
and
howe
that
by
thy
synguler
and
dampnable
wyll
/
hathe
accomplysshed
thy
tyrannye
on
colde
bloode
withouten
ony
cause
reasonable
/
wherfore
thou
arte
cause
of
the
effusyon
of
blode
humayne
/
and
of
the
semblable
crysten
.
And
therfore
take
heede
to
that
whiche
thou
hast
to
do
.
For
I
tell
the
that
they
ben
alredy
descended
on
thy
grounde
/
and
shall
do
suche
Iustyce
on
the
as
apperteyneth
.
¶
How
Olyuer
after
that
the
messanger
hadde
fynysshed
his
wordes
/
requyred
the
kynge
of
Englande
for
to
gyue
hym
men
of
armes
/
and
that
he
wolde
goo
agaynst
them
/
the
whiche
was
vttred
vpon
hym
with
a
good
wyll
.
Capitulo
.
xl
.
FYnysshed
the
wordes
of
the
messanger
/
the
kynge
enclyned
his
heed
/
and
sone
after
lyft
it
vp
agayne
/
and
began
to
rolle
his
eyen
/
&
to
bende
his
browes
in
suche
wyse
that
here
sembled
a
man
extracte
oute
of
his
mynde
/
Whan
the
messenger
sawe
the
kynge
make
suche
chere
/
he
wolde
with
a
good
wyll
haue
ben
in
his
moders
bely
.
There
was
none
that
answered
/
for
the
courte
at
that
tyme
was
to
troubled
that
it
was
grete
meruayll
to
beholde
it
/
for
all
they
in
the
halle
kepte
scylence
/
and
sayd
neuer
a
worde
.
Whan
the
valyaunt
Olyuer
sawe
all
the
companye
so
sore
abasshed
for
so
lytel
a
thynge
/
as
hym
semed
/
he
sette
hymselfe
on
his
knees
before
the
kynges
persone
/
and
all
ashamed
beganne
for
to
speke
and
sayd
Ryght
myghtye
Emperour
&
redou●ted
syr
.
I
beseche
you
that
your
ryall
mayeste
be
not
dysmayed
agaynste
me
/
yf
that
I
auaunce
me
to
speke
soner
than
I
oughte
to
do
.
Syr
ye
haue
herde
the
iniuryes
that
these
caytyfs
kynges
of
Irlande
hathe
unposed
on
you
by
the
saynge
of
the
herauldes
.
And
for
bycause
that
I
knowe
you
soo
valyaunt
and
so
puyssaunt
/
and
with
that
that
ye
hadde
leuer
deye
than
it
sholde
abyde
thus
without
vengynge
you
on
your
enemyes
/
that
alredy
ben
entred
in
to
your
realme
/
wherfore
I
supplye
me
in
all
humylyte
that
vnto
me
yonge
man
/
notwithstandynge
that
I
am
not
dygne
/
and
that
I
haue
lytell
sene
vnto
this
present
tyme
that
ye
wyll
do
me
that
honoure
for
to
gyue
me
a
certayne
nombre
of
men
of
armes
/
suche
as
your
good
pleasure
shal
be
/
and
that
ye
shall
fynde
by
the
delyberacyon
of
your
good
counsayll
/
for
to
go
agaynste
these
vnhappy
folke
/
that
withoute
cause
wyl
vsurpe
youe
lordshyppe
.
¶
The
kynge
answered
vnto
Olyuer
and
sayd
Olyuer
I
shall
counsayll
me
on
the
request
that
ye
make
to
me
after
dyner
/
and
after
I
shall
make
you
to
knowe
my
wyll
.
And
then
he
commaunded
that
the
messaunger
of
the
Kynges
of
Irlande
sholde
be
sette
to
dyner
.
And
soo
it
was
done
.
Whan
the
kynge
was
rysen
from
the
table
/
he
assembled
his
counsayll
.
And
then
was
gyuen
an
answere
to
the
messanger
that
he
sholde
saye
to
his
maysters
that
they
myght
be
well
sure
that
the
Kynge
doubted
theym
but
lytell
/
and
that
he
hadde
good
wyll
for
to
kepe
his
herytage
/
&
that
yf
they
myghte
wynne●●
that
it
sholde
be
theyres
/
but
by
the
pleasure
of
god
it
sholde
not
happen
so
/
and
then
they
gaue
some
gyfte
vnto
the
messanger
.
And
then
the
sayd
messanger
departed
and
retorned
towarde
the
kynges
of
Irlande
that
alredy
were
entred
into
the
realme
of
Englande
/
to
whome
he
tolde
the
answere
that
he
had
receyued
.
And
then
the
kynge
of
Englande
accorded
to
Olyuer
his
request
/
for
the
grete
valyauntnesse
that
he
had
sene
hym
do
afore
tymes
.
And
gaue
to
hym
.x.
thousande
men
of
armes
/
the
whiche
comen
he
toke
leue
of
the
kynge
/
and
the
kynge
gaue
hym
foure
thousande
nobles
at
his
departynge
/
the
whiche
Olyuer
toke
in
good
thanke
.
But
afore
that
he
departed
from
the
cyte
he
dystrybued
it
vnto
the
poore
men
of
armes
that
had
nede
therof
/
and
more
to
/
and
he
dyde
soo
moche
that
they
spake
of
nothynge
but
of
his
grete
largesse
/
wherfore
he
gate
the
loue
of
euery
body
.
And
in
the
maner
departed
after
that
he
had
taken
leue
of
his
may
stresse
/
the
whiche
commaunded
hym
vnto
god
.
And
he
spedde
hym
so
well
on
his
Iourneye
that
he
came
with
in
thre
myle
of
his
enemyes
.
And
whan
it
came
to
theyr
knowlege
they
reysed
vp
theyr
syege
that
they
had
layde
aboute
a
stronge
place
/
and
putte
theym
all
vpon
a
playne
in
fayre
ordenaunce
redy
to
abyde
bataylle
.
Olyuer
in
lyke
wyse
prayed
and
requyred
all
his
men
for
to
do
well
/
in
shewynge
theym
that
they
sholde
haue
more
honoure
without
comparyson
/
yf
ony
good
aduenture
happened
them
/
than
yf
the
kynge
were
there
in
his
persone
/
and
eche
of
them
promysed
to
do
his
deuoyre
.
And
in
that
good
wyll
they
approched
so
nere
theyr
enemyes
that
they
myght
se
them
clerely
/
the
whiche
were
foure
agaynst
one
man
.
But
they
were
not
men
of
suche
chap
for
the
moost
parte
were
comune
men
and
euyll
armed
at
all
poyntes
.
¶
How
Olyuer
after
that
he
was
departed
from
London
in
armes
came
afore
a
towne
that
was
besyeged
of
the
Irysshemen
/
and
how
he
fought
with
them
and
vaynquysshed
them
.
Capitulo
.
xlj
.
RYght
so
as
these
two
hoostes
approched
to
gyder
/
ye
myght
haue
herde
suche
a
noyse
that
it
was
hydeous
to
here
/
and
whan
it
came
to
the
strokes
gyuynge
/
ye
sholde
haue
sene
sheldes
c●ouen
/
and
helmes
&
hauberkes
broken
/
stedes
and
knyghtes
smyten
downe
/
hedes
and
armes
cut
of
/
and
many
one
pulled
downe
that
neuer
rose
after
.
Olyuer
wente
thrughe
the
batayll
maulgre
all
his
enemyes
/
and
dyde
suche
dedes
of
armes
that
he
made
hym
to
be
knowen
within
a
lytell
stounde
of
euery
body
/
wherfore
they
fledde
afore
hym
and
made
hym
waye
.
For
all
that
he
hytte
he
smote
downe
/
none
can
not
reherse
vnto
you
the
meruaylous
strokes
that
he
gaue
/
for
bothe
his
frendes
and
his
enemyes
were
all
abasshed
to
beholde
them
.
He
escryed
as
hye
as
he
myght
/
yf
the
kynges
of
Irlande
be
here
I
shall
make
them
crownes
.
One
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
that
was
a
valyaunt
man
tooke
a
grete
spere
in
his
hande
and
came
towarde
Olyuer
/
Olyuer
that
sawe
hym
come
pulled
a
spere
frome
hym
that
was
nexte
hym
/
and
smote
his
hors
with
the
sporres
and
mette
togyder
so
strongly
that
it
was
not
in
the
horses
puyssaunce
to
susteyne
them
/
wherfore
bothe
fell
to
the
erthe
/
but
the
kynge
neuer
arose
after
/
for
Olyuer
had
perced
his
hauberke
and
smyten
hym
to
the
herte
/
wherof
it
was
grete
dommage
/
for
he
was
a
valyaunte
man
.
Then
ye
sholde
haue
sene
Englysshmen
and
Irysmen
renne
to
the
socoure
of
theyr
lordes
and
there
was
slayne
moche
people
on
bothe
sydes
.
Olyuer
was
on
sote
amongest
his
enemyes
where
as
he
smote
on
the
ryghte
hande
and
of
the
lefte
hande
/
and
dyde
suche
dedes
of
armes
that
it
was
grete
meruayll
.
His
cuttynge
swerde
made
his
enemyes
to
flee
afore
him
.
For
all
that
maulgre
them
all
he
mounted
on
his
hors
/
and
then
beganne
the
batayll
more
fyers
and
more
aspre
than
it
hadde
ben
of
all
the
daye
afore
.
And
in
that
same
bataylle
/
Olyuer
with
his
propre
handes
toke
two
of
the
moost
grettest
Kynges
of
Irlande
.
And
then
after
that
Olyuer
with
grete
payne
perced
the
hoost
and
dyde
soo
moche
that
in
despyte
of
all
his
enemyes
/
he
came
vnto
the
chyef
standarde
of
the
Irysshmen
/
the
whiche
by
force
of
armes
he
smote
downe
to
the
grounde
/
and
with
one
stroke
he
smote
of
his
heed
that
bare
the
standarde
/
&
so
he
deyed
/
Thenne
ye
sholde
haue
sene
Irysshemen
gretely
abasshed
whan
they
sawe
theyr
chyfe
standarde
fall
to
the
erthe
they
toke
grete
payne
for
to
rere
it
vp
agayne
/
but
they
coude
not
.
And
fynably
/
by
the
valyauntnesse
of
Olyuer
and
the
courage
that
he
gaue
his
men
the
Irysshemen
were
dyscomfyted
/
and
so
they
fled
.
The
chase
endured
more
than
two
myle
/
and
there
was
soo
many
slayne
that
it
was
a
pyteous
syght
for
to
beholde
it
/
and
euery
body
saued
hym
that
myght
.
And
than
they
came
by
nyghte
and
by
dare
to
theyr
shyppes
/
and
in
grete
hast
they
entred
in
to
theyr
shyppes
/
and
sayled
in
to
Irlande
where
as
they
tolde
theyr
pyteous
dyscomfyture
that
gaue
grete
dyscomforte
vnto
all
theym
of
that
countree
.
Olyuer
made
to
sowne
the
retreyte
/
to
the
ende
that
none
wente
ferder
forthe
/
wherfore
euery
body
retorned
.
And
whan
it
came
to
repasse
by
the
waye
where
as
the
batayll
was
done
/
and
sawe
the
grete
effusyon
of
blode
/
there
was
none
of
them
but
that
theyr
hertes
abhorred
.
And
Olyuer
hymselfe
had
the
teres
in
his
eyen
and
sayd
.
My
blessyd
creatour
I
praye
the
that
by
thy
grete
mercye
thou
wylte
pardon
me
the
effusyon
of
blode
of
these
crysten
men
.
Neuerthelesse
take
that
Olyuer
sayd
these
wordes
/
yet
he
was
ryght
Ioyous
and
gladde
of
the
vyctorye
/
and
gaue
louynges
and
thankynges
to
almyghty
god
/
with
a
good
herte
.
In
that
maner
they
came
vnto
the
towne
that
hadde
ben
assyeged
afore
of
the
Irysshemen
/
where
as
they
were
receyued
with
grete
tryumphe
and
Ioy
and
with
processyon
of
all
the
chyrches
/
and
all
the
belles
were
rongen
at
his
entrynge
.
And
they
gaue
Olyuer
grete
gyftes
/
the
whiche
he
gaue
vnto
his
men
/
and
in
lykewyse
of
all
the
butyn
that
he
had
wonne
he
wolde
haue
nothynge
.
After
he
sente
for
the
capytaynes
of
his
armye
/
and
whan
they
were
comen
he
sayd
to
them
/
fayre
lordes
ye
knowe
the
vyctorye
that
god
of
his
grace
hathe
gyuen
to
vs
agaynst
oure
enemyes
.
And
therfore
it
sholde
be
good
to
sygnefye
these
tydynges
to
the
Kynge
our
soueraylle
lorde
.
Wherfore
I
praye
you
that
the
dede
bodyes
maye
be
nombred
/
to
the
ende
that
we
maye
wryte
to
hym
the
more
certaynlye
.
It
was
tolde
hym
that
the
kynge
sholde
haue
shortlye
tydynges
/
for
it
sholde
be
to
longe
to
abyde
the
tellynge
of
them
.
But
as
it
semed
them
they
myght
not
fayle
to
wryte
.xx.
M.
of
theyr
enemyes
deed
/
without
puttynge
other
nombre
/
and
fewe
of
theyr
men
.
¶
How
Olyuer
sente
worde
to
the
Kynge
of
Englande
of
theyr
vyctorye
.
And
of
the
enterpryse
that
Olyuer
made
to
go
into
Irlande
.
Capitulo
.
xlii
.
ANd
whan
the
lettres
were
made
by
Olyuer
and
by
the
lordes
/
they
were
gyuen
vnto
a
messaunger
/
and
badde
hym
make
all
dylygence
that
he
coude
/
the
whiche
he
dyde
/
and
whan
he
was
comen
to
London
he
presented
them
to
the
kynge
/
and
whan
the
kynge
hadde
redde
them
alowe
/
ye
may
well
thynke
that
he
was
ryght
Ioyous
and
gladde
.
And
therfore
he
made
theym
for
to
be
redde
on
hyghe
/
and
whan
it
came
to
the
knowlege
of
them
of
the
courte
/
there
was
none
but
that
he
thanked
god
.
And
the
Kynge
commaunded
that
these
tydynges
sholde
be
publysshed
all
aboute
.
And
after
mounted
on
horsbacke
and
dyuers
other
lordes
in
his
companye
and
so
came
to
the
cathedrall
chyrche
of
Poules
in
the
whiche
he
,
gaue
louynges
/
and
praysynges
to
oure
lorde
/
and
to
the
valyaunte
Olyuer
.
¶
I
retorne
here
to
Olyuer
the
whiche
assembled
al
the
gretest
of
his
armye
/
&
demaunded
them
yf
they
had
ony
talent
to
doo
a
good
thynge
/
And
they
answered
ye
&
that
it
sholde
not
holde
at
them
Then
Olyuer
sayd
/
my
lordes
frendes
and
felowes
god
hathe
gyuen
vs
so
fayre
auenture
that
we
can
neuer
thanbe
him
ynoughe
.
Therfore
me
semeth
seynge
oure
good
begynnynge
yf
that
it
stycke
not
at
you
we
maye
do
yet
some
good
thynge
.
For
ye
ought
for
to
knowe
that
there
was
neuer
men
more
abasshed
than
our
enemyes
were
whan
they
knewe
the
veryte
how
it
wente
/
that
one
of
theyr
kynges
was
slayne
/
and
the
other
twayne
taken
/
and
with
this
all
theyr
men
of
warre
slayne
/
in
whome
they
affyed
them
.
And
thus
then
as
me
semeth
seynge
that
we
be
not
ferre
from
theyr
marches
/
yf
that
we
put
vs
in
to
theyr
countree
hastely
/
afore
that
theyr
grete
anguysshe
and
sorowe
were
passed
/
and
without
gyuynge
them
leyser
to
thynke
on
theyr
affayres
/
we
sholde
fynde
them
so
vnpurueyde
/
that
in
them
sholde
be
lytell
resystence
/
and
there
is
myne
aduyce
vnd●r
correccyon
/
for
as
me
semeth
yf
that
we
myght
conquere
this
countree
ye
sholde
be
worthy
to
haue
grete
louynge
and
recommendacyon
/
and
shall
be
dynge
neuer
to
be
put
out
of
memorye
amonst
the
noble
&
valyannt
men
.
Those
capytaynes
herynge
the
wordes
of
Olyuer
preysed
hym
moche
in
theyr
hertes
/
and
well
semed
theym
that
that
whiche
he
had
sayd
proceded
of
a
hyghe
and
noble
courage
/
therfore
all
of
one
accorde
without
longe
counsayl
sayde
vnto
hym
.
Olyuer
we
ben
departed
for
to
serue
the
Kynge
agaynst
his
enemyes
/
and
the
after
/
and
therfore
we
telle
you
that
where
someuer
ye
wyll
go
/
we
shall
folowe
you
as
they
that
wyll
lyue
and
deye
with
you
/
and
neuer
too
fayle
you
.
¶
Olyuer
seynge
the
affeccyon
of
those
noble
men
towarde
hym
/
and
the
good
wyll
that
they
hadde
/
to
do
the
kynge
seruyce
/
thanked
them
/
in
offrynge
vnto
them
bothe
body
and
goodes
.
How
Olyuer
entred
in
to
Irlande
and
assyeged
a
kynge
/
the
whiche
was
socoured
of
foure
other
kynges
/
that
the
sayd
Olyuer
dyscomfyted
.
Capitulo
.
xliij
.
BY
this
maner
was
concluded
the
vyage
in
to
Irlande
/
and
toke
in
the
towne
as
many
pauelyons
and
tentes
as
they
myghte
gete
/
and
all
thynge
that
was
necessarye
for
theyr
vyage
/
and
departed
from
thens
/
and
toke
with
them
a
thousande
men
on
horsbacke
/
and
as
many
on
fote
/
without
theyr
nombre
.
And
also
they
toke
with
them
as
moche
artyllerye
&
other
habyllementes
of
warre
as
that
they
myght
well
haue
without
dysgarnysshynge
of
the
towne
/
and
it
was
tolde
them
afore
theyr
departynge
/
by
them
that
had
charge
for
to
bury
the
deed
folke
that
they
had
founde
deed
of
theyr
enemyes
.xxiiij.
M.
and
of
theyr
men
.xij.
C.
wherfore
theyr
frendes
were
ryght
dyspleasaunt
.
And
they
assembled
shyppes
and
entred
into
the
see
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
in
shorte
tyme
they
were
oute
of
the
realme
of
Englande
/
and
entred
in
to
Irlande
where
as
they
began
for
to
do
moche
harme
/
and
founde
but
fewe
places
that
resysted
agaynst
them
/
for
they
be
not
so
stronge
as
these
of
this
regyon
.
They
that
were
taken
by
force
had
no
mercy
but
that
they
slewe
them
all
.
They
that
dyde
yelde
them
to
theym
afore
that
they
besyeged
them
/
were
taken
to
mercye
.
And
with
this
they
fered
so
sore
theyr
enemyes
/
that
the
moost
parte
of
them
yelded
them
or
they
came
to
them
.
Then
the
kynges
of
the
countree
that
were
escaped
fro
the
batayll
were
soo
sore
abasshed
that
they
coude
not
put
no
consayll
to
theyre
affayres
/
for
theyr
folke
were
yet
full
of
sorowe
/
bycause
of
the
dolorous
fortune
that
hadde
happened
theym
.
Wherfore
they
habandonned
all
in
the
wyll
of
god
/
and
alonely
fortefyed
the
places
where
as
they
wolde
retray
them
/
but
this
was
not
but
that
they
gaue
often
assaultes
and
scarmoshes
to
the
Englyshmen
ryght
subtyllye
gouerned
on
theyr
syde
/
wherthrughe
there
was
many
men
slayne
on
bothe
partyes
.
And
in
suche
wyse
by
successyon
of
tyme
that
the
moost
parte
yelded
them
to
them
And
the
ryche
themself
helped
for
to
warre
agaynst
theyr
lordes
.
In
that
estate
they
wente
and
assyeged
a
place
/
where
as
one
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
was
/
that
hadde
ben
newe
crowned
.
And
was
his
sone
that
Olyuer
dyd
slee
at
the
torneyment
.
The
whiche
they
assaylled
ryght
quyckely
/
and
boystously
/
and
there
was
done
on
the
one
syde
and
on
the
other
grete
dedes
of
armes
For
they
that
were
within
the
castell
defended
them
vygorously
/
soo
that
they
receyued
that
daye
but
lytell
dommage
.
The
kynge
Maquemor
was
aduertysed
of
these
,
thynges
/
and
how
the
fyege
was
afore
the
place
of
his
cousyn
.
Wherfore
he
was
ryght
dyspleasaunt
.
And
swore
by
his
crowne
that
it
sholde
not
abyde
se.
He
assembled
as
moche
folke
as
he
myght
.
And
then
he
the
thyrde
kynge
came
for
to
aryse
the
syege
.
Olyuer
was
aduertysed
of
all
these
thynges
/
wherfore
he
put
hymselfe
on
the
felde
for
to
abyde
them
.
And
lefte
a
partye
of
his
folke
for
to
kepe
the
syege
.
He
put
his
folke
in
ordynaunce
/
and
abode
his
enemees
all
redy
for
to
fyght
/
the
whiche
a●ode
not
longe
or
that
they
came
.
And
whan
they
sawe
that
Olyuer
was
alredy
on
the
felde
/
they
knewe
well
that
they
coude
not
escape
without
medlynge
.
And
then
they
put
theyr
folke
in
ryght
fayre
ordenaunce
/
and
began
for
to
shote
gonnes
and
Olyuer
and
his
folke
remeuyd
not
/
but
abode
them
with
ferme
fote
/
and
with
one
crye
receyued
them
at
the
poyntes
of
theyr
swerdes
&
speres
.
And
there
was
slayn
at
the
fyrst
recountre
dyuers
men
on
bothe
partyes
.
Full
many
ladyes
lost
theyr
lordes
/
and
many
chyldren
were
faderles
/
and
full
many
maydens
lost
theyr
louers
there
Olyuer
cutte
of
hedes
and
armes
in
suche
maner
that
neuer
man
dyde
more
dedes
of
armes
than
he
dyde
.
Not
withstandynge
the
Irysshmen
solde
theyr
lyues
ryghte
derely
/
as
men
replenysshed
with
prowesse
/
for
as
them
semed
and
they
lost
that
batayll
/
that
in
lyke
wyse
they
sholde
lese
theyr
countree
/
wherfore
theyr
courage
doubled
and
dyde
as
well
as
they
myght
.
In
that
estate
dured
the
batayll
almoost
vnto
theyr
nyght
/
but
in
the
ende
the
Irysshemen
were
dyscomfyted
/
as
they
that
myghte
not
endure
the
●adde
strokes
of
the
Englysshemen
.
¶
The
pursuyte
dured
not
longe
bycause
of
the
nyghte
The
Kynge
Maquemor
and
two
other
kynges
were
taken
/
wherof
Olyuer
was
ryght
gladde
/
for
he
had
alredy
fyue
/
and
so
there
was
no
moo
lefte
but
two
/
wherof
there
abode
one
enclosed
in
the
place
where
the
syege
was
whan
the
nyght
was
comen
Olyuer
in
his
tente
made
the
Kynges
prysoners
to
be
seruyd
ryght
honourably
.
And
on
the
morowe
he
made
to
crye
that
euery
body
sholde
put
hym
in
payne
for
to
do
his
deuoyre
to
take
the
place
.
Then
ye
sholde
haue
sene
many
a
valyaunt
knyght
and
squyre
/
and
men
of
armes
go
to
the
assaulte
but
they
of
within
defended
them
soo
valyauntly
that
it
was
grete
meruayll
.
And
the
kynge
sayd
that
he
hadde
leuer
deye
than
for
to
yelde
hym
in
to
the
handes
of
his
enemyes
/
and
to
hym
that
hadde
slayne
his
fader
.
¶
How
the
castell
and
place
where
as
one
of
the
Kynges
of
Irlande
was
in
was
taken
.
Capitulo
.
xliiij
.
EUen
so
as
ye
haue
herde
endured
the
syege
by
longe
space
of
tyme
afore
the
castell
.
Durynge
the
whiche
tyme
Olyuer
made
often
the
kynge
of
Englande
to
knowe
of
his
demeanynge
And
sente
hym
often
worde
that
he
sholde
haue
noo
doubte
of
them
/
for
they
had
nothynge
but
good
The
artellerye
that
was
there
endommaged
strongely
the
castell
/
and
so
moche
that
a
grete
parte
of
the
walle
was
smyten
downe
/
and
then
it
was
assaylled
at
that
syde
.
Olyuer
was
in
that
assaulte
and
bare
hym
so
valyauntly
that
he
was
the
fyrste
that
entred
in
/
wherfore
al
his
men
folowed
hym
.
And
at
that
tyme
was
the
castell
wonne
/
and
the
kynge
taken
.
But
afore
that
he
was
taken
he
dyde
grete
dedes
of
armes
/
and
all
the
other
were
slayne
.
Olyuer
departed
from
thens
/
and
lefte
good
garnyson
there
.
He
put
hym
on
the
waye
for
to
goo
conquere
the
realme
of
the
sone
of
hym
that
he
hadde
slayne
in
the
fyrst
batayll
.
But
that
same
kynge
abode
not
his
comyng
/
but
came
agaynst
Olyuer
without
ony
armoure
at
all
/
berynge
in
his
hande
a
braunche
of
Olyue
in
the
sygne
of
peas
.
And
whan
he
sawe
Olyuer
he
sayd
to
him
O
ryght
valyaunt
conquerour
/
afore
whome
nothynge
can
endure
/
by
the
furoure
of
thy
swerde
thou
haste
subdued
seuen
kyngdomes
/
and
hast
the
kynges
prysoners
wherfore
I
knowe
that
my
persone
alonely
can
not
resyste
agaynste
thy
persone
and
puyssaunce
.
Therfore
I
come
and
yelde
me
at
thy
wyll
/
and
do
offre
me
and
my
realme
for
to
serue
the.
Olyuer
thanked
hym
and
tooke
hym
by
the
hande
/
&
sayd
that
he
sholde
soupe
with
hym
that
nyght
.
Then
Olyuer
commaunded
that
the
tentes
sholde
be
pyght
in
a
fayre
grene
felde
that
was
no
ferre
from
them
/
by
the
whiche
dyuers
ryuers
and
fountaynes
passed
by
/
wherfore
the
place
was
more
delectable
.
Olyuer
commaunded
that
the
kynges
that
had
been
prysoners
of
longe
tyme
/
the
whiche
were
abyden
in
a
stronge
for
tresse
not
ferre
from
them
sholde
be
brought
to
hym
/
and
made
to
saye
to
his
cooke
that
he
sholde
make
redy
the
souper
in
the
best
maner
that
he
coude
/
for
he
wolde
feest
the
seuen
kynges
in
his
pauylyon
.
And
whan
the
houre
of
souper
approched
/
he
made
them
to
sytte
downe
at
a
table
/
and
souped
rychely
.
After
souper
Olyuer
made
auoydaunce
/
and
sayd
vnto
the
seuen
kynges
howe
that
they
were
prysoners
/
not
to
come
of
them
/
but
at
the
plesure
and
wyll
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
that
they
hadde
so
vylaynously
offended
and
made
grete
doubte
that
he
wolde
punysshed
them
greuously
as
it
apperteyned
/
&
tolde
them
that
they
sholde
be
ledde
to
hym
on
the
next
morowe
/
and
that
they
sholde
thynke
on
that
that
they
wolde
doo
/
for
to
amende
the
offence
that
hadde
ben
done
by
them
.
¶
How
Olyuer
after
dyuers
thynges
/
sente
for
to
denounce
his
comyng
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
and
of
the
honour
that
was
done
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xlv
.
SOne
after
dyuers
wordes
came
the
spyces
&
the
wyne
/
&
after
they
wente
vnto
bedde
vnto
the
morowe
/
that
euery
body
by
the
commaundement
of
the
capytayns
made
them
redy
to
departe
and
soo
euery
thynge
packed
&
trussed
they
retorned
towarde
London
.
And
than
Olyuer
called
vnto
hym
a
ryght
valyaunt
knyght
and
one
of
the
capytaynes
Englysshe
/
to
whome
he
prayed
moche
curtaysly
that
he
wolde
goo
towarde
the
kynge
&
denounce
to
hym
theyr
comynge
/
and
that
he
coude
tell
hym
the
thynges
better
than
ony
coude
wryte
theym
.
The
knyght
in
accomplysshynge
the
wyll
of
Olyuer
put
him
selfe
on
the
waye
&
he
dyde
so
moche
that
within
a
lytell
space
he
arryued
at
London
/
and
salued
the
kynge
/
and
made
the
recōmaundacyons
ryght
humbly
frome
Olyuer
and
all
his
felowes
/
and
than
he
began
to
tell
hym
how
they
were
on
the
waye
to
retorne
/
and
that
the
seuen
kyngedomes
of
Irlande
were
conquered
/
and
put
in
the
obeyssaunce
of
his
septre
.
And
that
Olyuer
brought
hym
the
seuen
kynges
prysoners
for
to
doo
with
them
his
good
pleasure
.
And
began
to
deuyse
hym
of
the
valyaunce
that
he
had
sene
Olyuer
do
/
and
that
with
payne
it
was
credyble
that
the
whiche
he
hadde
sene
Olyuer
accomplysshe
.
And
sayd
syre
after
god
and
his
holy
moder
gyue
thankynges
vnto
the
ryght
valyaunt
knyght
Olyuer
/
for
by
his
ryght
arme
ye
haue
obtayned
vyctory
of
all
your
enemyes
.
And
certaynly
I
thynke
that
neuer
god
gaue
to
no
man
so
moche
goodnesse
as
he
hath
gyuen
to
this
same
.
The
kynge
herynge
those
Ioyous
tydynges
was
so
replenysshed
with
Ioye
that
he
was
a
longe
space
or
that
he
myght
speke
.
Neuerthelesse
sone
after
he
enbraced
the
knyght
and
sayd
.
My
frende
ye
be
ryght
welcome
I
thanke
god
/
the
armes
/
and
the
swerde
of
the
ryghte
gentyll
knyght
/
of
the
Ioyous
tydynges
that
ye
brynge
me
.
And
after
commaunded
hym
for
to
tell
it
on
hyghe
.
So
he
began
for
to
recounte
it
more
lenger
than
he
hadde
done
to
the
kynges
persone
.
And
alwaye
pray
synge
and
louynge
Olyuer
/
saynge
that
it
was
a
thynge
of
the
other
worlde
/
and
not
for
to
byleue
to
theym
that
had
not
sene
it
.
These
tydynges
were
sone
spredde
aboute
in
the
ladyes
chambres
/
and
came
to
the
eeres
of
the
fayre
Helayne
that
was
moche
Ioyous
of
that
whiche
she
herde
/
and
her
thought
that
and
he
hadde
ben
kynge
and
she
quene
/
that
all
the
worlde
sholde
haue
been
the
better
.
Wherfore
her
courage
blamed
strongly
her
fader
bycause
that
he
kepte
from
so
gentyll
a
knyght
that
y●
whiche
was
due
to
hym
.
The
kynge
enquyred
and
demaunded
the
daye
of
his
comynge
/
and
made
to
ordeyne
a
ryghte
grete
feest
at
theyr
comynge
.
He
commaunded
all
the
grete
lordes
and
prynces
of
his
realme
for
to
be
there
And
whan
it
came
that
Olyuer
approched
nere
the
Cyte
/
all
the
prynces
wente
agaynst
hym
/
and
there
was
none
of
them
but
that
they
dyde
hym
honoure
and
reuerence
.
The
kynge
hadde
ordeyned
that
he
sholde
be
ledde
in
grete
tryumphe
thorughe
the
cyte
.
And
therfore
the
strete●
were
hanged
/
and
the
fyres
alyghted
/
and
the
belles
rougen
on
all
sydes
.
¶
Also
the
processyons
on
all
sydes
wente
agaynste
hym
to
the
gate
of
the
cyte
.
And
whan
〈◊〉
apperceyued
the
processyons
he
alyghted
of
his
〈◊〉
and
consequently
all
the
grete
lordes
that
dydde
hym
that
honoure
.
And
in
that
estate
they
came
vnto
the
cathedrall
chyrche
of
Poules
where
as
they
gaue
than●
kynges
and
louynges
to
almyghty
god
and
to
our
lady
And
then
they
mounted
on
horsbacke
/
and
then
Olyuer
sente
the
seuen
kynges
prysoners
in
to
the
places
that
we
reordeyned
for
them
.
And
he
all
armed
wènte
towarde
the
kynge
/
the
whiche
he
salued
ryght
humbly
.
Whan
the
kynge
apperceyued
hym
he
wente
agaynst
hym
/
and
began
for
to
kysse
hym
&
colle
hym
saynge
/
my
ryght
swete
frende
/
blessyd
be
the
fader
that
engendred
the
/
and
the
moder
that
bare
the.
And
thanked
be
my
blessyd
lorde
that
euer
gaue
the
wyll
for
to
come
in
to
this
countre
the
whiche
at
this
presente
tyme
is
so
gretely
honoured
and
redoubted
by
thy
swerde
.
I
praye
to
god
that
he
gyue
me
space
for
to
deserue
it
to
you
warde
Olyuer
answered
to
hym
.
Syr
thanke
our
lorde
/
and
after
the
valyaunt
men
that
ye
gaue
to
me
/
and
not
me
/
for
take
that
I
haue
done
the
best
that
I
can
/
yet
I
haue
not
deserued
the
honoure
that
ye
do
to
me
.
The
kynge
answered
that
he
was
aduertysed
of
euery
thynge
/
and
commaunded
hym
to
go
and
dysarme
hym
.
And
whan
the
houre
of
souper
sholde
approche
that
he
sholde
retorne
/
&
that
he
sholde
brynge
with
hym
the
seuen
kynges
/
for
he
wolde
soupe
with
them
in
his
palays
.
Olyuer
wente
towarde
his
maystres
/
to
whome
the
kynge
hadde
commaunded
/
that
all
the
honoure
that
she
coude
make
hym
/
that
she
sholde
do
it
.
And
therfore
whan
she
sawe
Olyuer
come
to
warde
her
/
she
wente
agaynste
hym
and
toke
hym
by
the
hande
and
kyssed
hym
in
saynge
that
he
was
ryght
welcome
/
and
that
she
was
glad
of
his
welfare
/
but
bycause
that
the
souper
tyme
approched
that
he
sholde
●etche
the
kynges
prysoners
/
he
abode
not
longe
there
/
but
toke
leue
and
wente
in
to
his
lodgynge
.
¶
How
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
courte
accompanyed
/
of
the
seuen
kynges
prysonets
/
of
whiche
he
made
a
present
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
.
Capitulo
.
xlvj
.
WHan
that
Olyuer
was
dysarmed
/
and
habylled
of
newe
clothes
/
he
came
ryght
well
accompanyed
of
noble
men
o●
the
kynges
courte
/
that
had
grete
desyre
for
to
please
hym
/
in
to
the
lodgys
of
the
seuen
kynges
the
whiche
he
salued
/
and
sayd
to
them
that
the
Kynge
his
lorde
wolde
speke
with
them
and
soupe
with
them
/
they
sayd
that
they
wolde
go
gladlye
/
and
mounted
on
horsbacke
/
and
Olyuer
also
with
them
that
conduyted
them
.
And
whan
they
entred
in
to
the
courte
dyuers
lordes
/
and
prynces
of
Englande
came
agaynst
them
that
dyde
lede
them
to
warde
the
kynge
/
the
whiche
whan
he
lawe
them
in
his
chambre
/
he
remeuyd
not
from
his
place
/
that
other
bowynge
theyr
knees
lowe
ynoughe
.
And
whan
they
approched
nere
the
kynge
/
the
kynge
toke
of
his
hatte
and
in
marchynge
thre
or
foure
paas
agaynst
them
/
sayd
that
they
were
ryght
welcome
.
And
whan
he
had
salued
them
all
/
he
began
for
to
deuyse
with
them
of
dyuers
thyng●s
pleasaunt
withoute
makynge
ony
mencyon
of
warre
.
And
so
longe
they
were
in
these
deuyses
that
the
houre
of
souper
was
comen
/
and
the
water
blowen
.
The
Kynge
of
Englande
had
ordeyned
that
thre
tables
sholde
be
sette
in
the
halle
.
One
more
eleuate
and
hygher
than
the
other
.
And
at
that
table
the
kynge
satte
hym
downe
/
and
commaunded
Olyuer
for
to
sytte
with
hym
/
the
whiche
durst
not
dysobeye
the
kynges
commaundement
.
And
therfore
all
ashamed
he
satte
him
downe
/
and
there
was
no
moo
.
After
he
commaunded
that
the
Kynges
of
Irlande
sholde
be
sette
.
The
mayster
controller
that
knewe
well
ynoughe
what
he
sholde
do
/
made
them
for
to
sytte
at
the
seconde
table
/
and
all
the
other
prynces
the
which
were
without
nombre
satte
at
the
thyrde
table
/
and
were
ryght
sumptuously
seruyd
.
¶
How
the
kynge
of
Englande
gaue
his
fayre
doughter
vnto
Olyuer
in
guerdon
and
rewarde
of
the
hye
seruyces
that
he
had
done
to
hym
.
Capitulo
.
xlvij
.
RYght
as
they
hadde
souped
/
and
that
the
tables
were
taken
vp
/
&
graces
rendred
vnto
god
/
the
kynge
commaunded
for
to
go
fetche
his
fayre
dougter
Helayne
/
to
the
ende
that
the
daunces
were
begonnen
.
And
the
noble
&
valyaunt
knyght
Olyuer
wente
for
to
fetche
his
goodly
and
excelleut
maystres
.
And
whan
that
she
was
comen
and
that
she
had
salued
her
fader
/
she
salued
after
the
seuen
kynges
/
euen
so
as
she
coude
full
well
do
it
/
and
the
other
lordes
ensewynge
.
Then
were
the
daunces
begon
the
whiche
the
kynge
behelde
gladly
.
And
in
beholdynge
Olyuer
daunce
/
he
thought
in
hym selfe
how
it
sholde
be
possyble
for
to
rendre
to
hym
the
guerdon
of
his
seruyce
And
thoughte
soo
moche
that
a
more
gretter
thynge
he
myghte
not
gyue
hym
than
his
doughter
/
that
afore
he
had
wonne
by
force
of
armes
/
but
bycause
that
he
hadde
taken
her
from
hym
/
parauenture
he
wolde
haue
dysdayne
for
to
take
her
agayne
/
wherfore
he
concluded
for
to
speke
to
hym
after
the
daunces
in
the
presence
of
all
them
that
were
there
/
or
that
wolde
be
there
.
And
euen
soo
as
he
had
thought
it
he
dyde
it
.
And
whan
all
was
faylled
/
and
that
his
doughter
was
comen
for
to
gyue
hym
good
nyghte
.
He
made
to
be
sayd
to
her
that
whan
she
sholde
be
in
her
chambre
/
that
she
sholde
not
hye
her
vnto
bedde
The
whiche
dyde
euen
so
.
After
he
called
Olyuer
in
the
presence
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
and
of
the
other
prynces
and
lordes
that
were
there
.
Olyuer
my
frende
I
begyn
for
to
haue
knowlege
of
my
caas
/
and
how
that
of
longe
tyme
I
haue
with
holden
that
whiche
ought
to
be
yours
/
that
is
my
doughter
.
That
the
whiche
dyde
moue
me
therto
was
bycause
that
I
knewe
not
/
so
playnly
your
estate
as
I
do
nowe
.
But
truely
and
Helayne
were
quene
of
all
the
worlde
I
wolde
thynke
her
wel
bestowed
onyou
/
as
to
the
moost
valyauntest
knyght
of
the
worlde
Thus
I
then
knowynge
all
these
thynges
shall
gyue
to
you
the
moost
derest
thynge
that
I
haue
/
that
is
my
doughter
/
yf
it
please
you
for
to
take
her
to
your
wyfe
.
Wherby
after
my
deth
ye
may
be
kynge
of
Englande
/
the
whiche
wolde
be
ryght
happy
to
haue
suche
a
lorde
.
Then
fynysshed
the
kyng
his
wordes
.
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
that
the
kynge
had
fynysshed
his
wordes
/
he
sette
hym
on
bothe
his
knees
/
and
began
to
saye
these
wordes
.
Ryght
honourable
lorde
/
truely
there
is
no
seruyce
but
of
a
kynge
for
I
may
wel
auaunte
me
/
that
with
lytell
deseruynge
I
haue
the
gretest
guerdon
that
euer
hadde
man
/
wherof
I
gyue
louynges
to
god
and
to
you
graces
and
thankes
/
nor
neuer
poore
man
as
I
am
hadde
the
hondrethe
parte
of
the
honour
that
ye
do
to
me
.
I
praye
to
god
that
he
gyue
me
grace
to
deserue
it
vnto
your
hyghnesse
.
For
by
you
my
name
shall
be
chaunged
/
and
they
that
shall
here
speke
of
this
mater
/
shall
name
me
the
seruaunte
hyghly
guerdonned
.
¶
How
the
kynge
made
Olyuer
for
to
aryse
that
was
on
his
knees
/
and
of
the
gracyous
wordes
that
he
sayd
to
his
daughter
/
and
how
Olyuer
handfest
her
.
Capitulo
.
xlviij
.
THen
the
kynge
commaunded
Olyuer
for
to
aryse
/
and
sente
for
his
doughter
.
And
whan
she
was
comen
/
he
toke
her
by
the
hande
and
leddeher
to
hym
and
sayd
.
My
frende
se
here
my
doughter
that
I
gyue
you
to
your
wyfe
/
in
acquytynge
my
promesse
.
Olyuer
thanked
hym
ryghte
humblye
.
The
poore
Helayne
that
of
al
this
knewe
nothynge
/
was
more
abasshed
than
euer
she
had
ben
afore
/
and
began
for
to
chaunge
coloure
/
wherby
her
beaute
was
nor
mynysshed
.
Whan
the
kyng
sawe
her
in
that
estate
/
he
sayd
to
her
.
My
ryght
dere
doughter
I
haue
all
troubled
you
as
semeth
me
/
whan
I
haue
gyuen
you
to
a
man
without
knowynge
your
wyll
.
But
by
the
helpe
of
god
he
shall
do
nothynge
to
you
but
that
ye
may
well
suffre
and
endure
/
as
I
deme
.
Then
Olyuer
began
for
to
laughe
at
the
wordes
that
the
kynge
had
sayd
.
Wherfore
Helayne
was
more
ashamed
than
she
had
ben
afore
The
archebysshop
that
was
in
the
halle
dyde
handfeste
them
.
Then
began
for
to
speke
by
the
kynges
commaundement
an
au●cyent
knyght
/
the
whiche
adressyd
his
wordes
vnto
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
and
sayd
to
them
that
the
kynge
his
souerayne
lorde
for
the
loue
of
the
solemp
nyte
that
sholde
be
on
the
morowe
/
and
also
for
the
loue
of
Olyuer
/
he
was
contente
to
rendre
to
them
theyr
realmes
/
quyte
theyr
raunsons
/
and
sende
them
agayne
in
to
theyr
countrees
without
ony
dommage
/
by
suche
moyen
/
that
eche
of
them
sholde
do
hym
homage
/
and
holde
of
hym
theyr
landes
.
With
this
that
as
often
as
the
kynges
good
pleasure
sholde
be
for
to
sende
for
them
/
in
warre
/
or
in
peas
/
that
they
sholde
come
and
serue
him
.
And
fro
thens
forth
to
holde
hym
for
theyr
souerayne
lorde
/
They
knowynge
that
of
two
euylles
it
is
the
beste
to
eschewe
the
worste
/
accorded
to
the
kynges
request
/
&
dyd
homage
vnto
the
kynge
of
Englande
.
¶
And
after
these
thynges
/
and
that
they
had
daunced
ones
aboute
for
the
espousayles
euery
body
wente
to
bedde
/
but
Olyuer
slepte
not
that
nyght
/
but
watched
al
that
nyght
/
as
he
that
wolde
with
a
good
wyll
haue
ben
a
daye
elder
/
&
thanked
god
of
his
goodnes
.
For
hym
semyd
that
he
was
lyfte
out
of
his
euyll
aduenture
/
and
so
passed
the
nyght
.
And
whan
the
daye
was
comen
and
that
it
was
tyme
for
hym
to
aryse
/
the
kynge
that
knewe
well
ynoughe
that
Olyuer
coude
not
haue
his
gownes
made
so
soone
/
sente
hym
/
thre
or
foure
gownes
of
clothe
of
golde
beten
.
And
whan
Olyuer
was
apparaylled
/
all
the
prynces
and
lordes
came
and
fetched
hym
/
and
fyue
kynges
of
Irlande
came
/
and
the
other
twayne
abode
for
to
accompany
the
fayre
Helayne
.
¶
How
Olyuer
wedded
the
fayre
Helayne
/
and
of
the
solempnyte
of
the
espousaylles
.
Capitulo
.
xlix
.
RYght
sone
after
that
all
these
thynges
were
redy
.
Olyuer
came
in
to
the
courte
accompanyed
as
ye
haue
herde
afore
/
&
wente
to
the
portall
of
the
chapell
/
where
as
he
founde
the
Arche bysshop
redy
.
They
hadde
not
been
longe
there
whan
that
they
herde
comynge
to
them
grete
foyson
of
trompettes
/
and
mynstrelles
/
and
began
for
to
sowne
/
and
come
to
warde
the
chapell
after
them
/
and
there
came
dyuers
kynges
and
herauldes
of
armes
/
and
after
came
the
Usshers
And
after
theym
then
came
Helayne
aourned
as
it
apperteyneth
to
a
bryde
/
and
to
a
lady
of
so
ryall
a
lygnage
.
She
was
accompanyed
of
dyuers
ladyes
and
damoyselles
that
folowed
her
.
And
with
this
she
was
on
the
ryght
hande
of
two
kynges
.
And
came
a
softe
paas
vnto
the
place
where
as
Olyuer
abode
her
/
And
they
hadde
not
ben
longe
there
whan
the
kynge
came
/
at
whose
comynge
they
were
wedded
.
The
seruyce
was
done
.
The
tables
were
layde
/
&
then
they
set
them
to
dyner
after
that
the
ladyes
were
retorned
frome
the
chambres
.
Who
that
wolde
deuyse
to
you
the
scruyce
of
the
sayd
dyner
/
the
gyftes
that
were
gyuen
as
well
on
the
one
syd●
as
on
the
other
/
it
sholde
be
to
longe
a
thynge
to
recounte
.
The
yonge
men
of
the
kynges
courte
that
neuer
were
dyfferent
to
no
thynge
that
was
for
Iustes
made
crye
a
Iustynge
for
the
after
dyner
/
where
as
the
ladyes
were
.
Also
a
torneyment
was
cryed
.xvj.
agaynst
xvi
.
that
was
a
ryght
fayre
syght
to
se.
Olyuer
Iusted
not
bycause
he
sholde
not
be
defouled
/
&
to
the
ende
that
he
sholde
be
fresshe
for
to
daunce
at
nyghte
/
but
he
was
mounted
on
a
grete
courser
and
dyde
meruaylles
.
He
serued
one
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
that
for
to
do
hym
honoure
Iusted
/
and
foure
of
the
other
also
.
And
dyde
soo
well
that
twayne
of
the
fyue
had
the
pryce
/
one
within
/
and
the
other
without
.
And
it
was
gyuen
theym
or
that
they
departed
from
the
tyltes
/
as
they
that
hadde
done
best
.
And
after
that
euery
body
was
comen
to
the
courte
the
ladyes
were
clothed
in
newe
gownes
.
And
then
they
wente
to
the
banquet
that
was
alredy
apparaylled
.
Yf
they
were
well
seruyd
it
is
no
nede
to
demaunde
it
.
For
there
was
neuer
a
fayrer
feest
in
England
/
after
that
of
the
grete
torneyment
/
that
had
ben
afore
.
And
whan
it
was
after
the
banquet
the
daunces
began
/
and
Olyuer
ledde
the
fayre
Helayne
at
the
daunces
/
that
euery
body
sawe
gladly
.
For
all
the
worlde
sayd
that
they
had
neuer
sene
a
more
fayrer
couple
of
folke
togyder
.
After
that
the
daunces
had
endured
a
longe
space
of
tyme
/
the
farre
&
noble
Helayne
was
ledde
vnto
bedde
.
And
then
wyne
&
spyces
were
broughte
.
The
whiche
Olyuer
abode
not
/
For
he
was
alredy
in
his
chambre
where
as
he
dysabylled
hym
.
And
whan
he
knewe
that
the
bryde
was
a
bed
/
incontyn●nt
he
put
hym
on
the
waye
towarde
the
chambre
.
And
whan
he
was
there
he
chased
all
the
ladyes
out
excepte
one
.
And
came
towarde
the
table
where
as
the
banquet
was
on
/
and
kest
it
to
the
erthe
/
to
the
ende
that
he
sho●de
not
be
awaked
/
then
he
came
to
the
dore
/
and
locked
it
/
and
wente
to
bedde
to
her
that
of
longe
tyme
he
hadde
loued
/
&
she
hated
hym
not
/
wherfore
they
were
the
better
contente
togyder
/
and
of
the
surplus
I
holde
my
peas
.
But
the
hystorye
sayth
that
vpon
that
same
nyght
they
engendred
a
chylde
male
/
the
whiche
dydde
sythe
moche
good
/
and
exalted
our
crysten
fayth
agaynst
the
sarasyns
/
in
vengynge
the
dethe
of
our
lorde
Ihesucryst
.
¶
How
Olyuer
was
vertuous
in
appesynge
stryfes
/
and
noyses
/
and
how
his
wyfe
was
gre●e
with
a
sone
/
the
whiche
was
named
Henry
.
Capitulo
.
L.
WHan
it
came
to
the
kynges
knowlege
that
Olyuer
had
casten
downe
the
table
that
the
banker
was
on
/
he
began
for
to
laughe
.
And
sayd
that
he
had
ryght
well
wrought
/
wherfore
no
body
wolde
not
medle
for
to
entre
in
the
chambre
/
&
was
not
awaked
of
no
body
vnto
the
moro
we
/
at
a
.xi.
of
the
clocke
/
and
that
the
kynge
had
dyned
/
the
whiche
came
vnto
the
chambre
dore
/
and
beganne
for
to
call
them
/
and
sayd
that
it
was
daye
&
tyme
for
to
ryse
/
Olyuer
the
whiche
slepte
not
came
in
his
sherte
and
opened
the
dore
to
the
kynge
/
the
whiche
entred
alone
/
and
came
vnto
his
doughters
bedde
/
where
as
he
conforted
her
as
well
as
he
myght
.
In
saynge
that
he
knewe
it
well
of
longe
ago
that
she
was
to
yonge
for
to
slepe
with
the
men
.
The
whiche
answered
nothynge
vnto
hym
for
ony
thynge
that
he
coude
doo
.
Wherfore
he
toke
leue
of
her
/
&
sayd
to
her
that
she
was
euyll
contente
with
hym
sythe
that
she
wolde
not
speke
to
him
.
After
that
he
was
departed
/
the
ladyes
came
and
toke
her
vp
.
Thenne
whan
she
was
redy
she
wente
to
masse
/
but
this
was
not
without
foyson
of
regardes
of
dyuers
lordes
and
ladyes
/
the
whiche
with
one
accorde
Iuged
that
she
halted
not
.
The
masse
was
sayd
/
and
the
dyner
passed
/
the
whiche
was
ryghte
plenteuous
of
all
goodes
.
And
the
kynge
helde
open
courte
by
the
space
of
.xv.
dayes
/
after
the
whiche
all
the
lordes
toke
leue
of
hym
.
And
the
kyng
abode
in
his
symple
estate
/
reserued
that
Olyuer
had
his
estate
as
a
kynges
sone
/
and
reteyned
dyuers
gentylmen
of
his
courte
The
kynges
of
Irlande
toke
theyr
leue
for
to
retorne
home
/
In
offrynge
them
alwaye
at
the
kynges
pleasure
/
&
Olyuers
/
for
god
had
gyuen
hym
suche
grace
that
euery
body
loued
hym
.
The
debates
and
dyscordes
amonge
the
gentylmen
.
Olyuer
appeased
to
his
power
.
The
poore
knyghtes
by
his
largesse
were
made
ryche
.
He
was
the
defendour
of
wydowes
and
Orphelyns
/
and
to
his
power
to
all
dyscomforted
and
dyssolute
he
gaue
comforte
and
counsayle
.
Shortly
all
vertues
that
were
possyble
to
be
in
a
mannes
mortall
body
/
florysshed
in
this
ryght
valyaunt
and
gentyll
knyght
/
in
suche
wyse
that
euery
body
louyd
hym
&
blessyd
his
comynge
.
And
helde
the
kynge
for
wyse
and
prudent
that
so
sone
coude
knowe
his
condycyons
/
and
that
he
had
so
kepte
his
doughter
to
mary
her
so
vertuously
/
without
thynkynge
on
couetyse
/
so
the
kynge
lyued
in
grete
ease
within
his
courte
/
&
in
grete
louynge
and
glorye
without
.
And
was
so
moche
fered
and
redoubted
that
none
durst
do
hym
dyspleasure
/
but
was
mayster
and
lorde
of
all
his
neyghbours
.
The
fayr
&
good
Helayne
that
was
with
chylde
was
not
of
lesse
recommendacyon
ayenst
her
/
for
all
vertues
that
a
woman
ought
for
to
haue
habounded
in
her
.
It
happened
that
after
that
she
had
borne
her
terme
/
she
was
delyuered
of
a
payre
sone
/
the
whiche
was
named
at
the
fonte
stone
Henry
.
And
this
chylde
gaue
so
moche
Ioye
to
the
kynge
/
and
to
all
them
of
the
realme
that
it
was
metuayll
But
that
same
chylde
wyst
and
knewe
that
he
ought
yet
to
be
the
moost
derest
holden
of
all
the
other
.
For
he
was
one
of
the
best
and
valyauntest
knyghtes
that
euer
was
Neuerthelesse
he
was
not
kynge
of
Englande
/
for
he
deyed
yonge
/
wherof
it
was
grete
dommage
.
¶
A
longe
tyme
dyde
passe
and
so
moche
that
the
fayre
Helayne
was
with
chylde
agayne
/
the
whiche
was
delyuered
of
a
fayre
doughter
/
the
whiche
was
ryght
solempnelye
baptysed
and
she
was
named
Clarysse
.
The
fayre
Helayne
and
Olyuer
were
so
assotted
and
doted
on
theyr
chyldren
that
it
was
a
grete
meruayll
/
and
I
am
not
abasshed
.
For
they
ought
well
to
be
so
.
The
moder
hadde
them
alwaye
bytwene
her
armes
/
and
myght
not
forgo
the
syght
of
them
.
It
was
the
passe
tyme
of
Olyuer
/
for
the
realme
of
Englande
was
in
peas
/
and
wyst
not
wherin
to
occupye
hym
saue
to
goo
on
huntynge
/
and
haukynge
/
and
for
to
make
good
chere
.
¶
How
Olyuer
wente
on
huntynge
/
&
of
the
vysyon
of
his
wyfe
the
whiche
she
tolde
vnto
him
.
Capi.
lj
.
OLyuer
passed
his
tyme
Ioyously
/
soo
as
ye
haue
herde
.
¶
It
happened
that
the
hunters
made
hym
to
knowe
that
the
grettest
wylde
bore
that
euer
was
sene
/
was
in
the
forest
fyue
myle
thens
.
Olyuer
that
loued
well
huntynge
was
ryght
Ioyous
/
and
sayd
that
he
wolde
go
ryght
gladly
/
wherfore
on
an
after
none
he
departed
from
the
cyte
/
&
lodged
hym
in
a
vyllage
by
the
forest
where
the
wylde
bore
was
in
.
That
nyght
his
wyfe
dremed
a
meruaylous
dreme
/
for
her
thought
that
she
was
on
huntynge
with
her
lorde
/
and
that
she
sawe
a
Tygre
meruaylously
grete
/
that
with
his
teeth
/
and
his
nayles
deuoured
Olyuer
/
and
bare
hym
awaye
she
wyste
not
where
Of
his
vysyon
all
trymblynge
the
fayre
Helayne
awaked
/
and
coude
not
slepe
after
that
.
And
on
the
morowe
she
sente
worde
to
her
lorde
/
&
requyred
hym
that
he
wolde
not
hunte
as
for
that
daye
/
for
and
he
dyde
her
herte
Iuged
her
that
he
sholde
haue
some
hurte
.
Olyuer
herynge
the
message
of
his
wyfe
dyde
no
thynge
but
laughe
/
for
hym
semed
the
dremes
were
but
fantasyes
/
wherfore
he
sente
worde
to
his
wyfe
that
she
sholde
make
gode
chere
/
&
that
he
wolde
brynge
her
some
venyson
/
then
he
mounted
on
horsbacke
and
wente
to
the
forest
/
and
vncoupled
the
houndes
/
and
began
for
to
hunte
.
Then
Olyuer
put
hym
in
to
the
forest
/
and
folowed
the
houndes
/
wherfore
he
dyde
folye
.
For
yf
he
had
byleued
the
counsayll
of
his
wyfe
/
it
had
not
happened
to
hym
as
it
dyde
For
so
as
he
folowed
the
houndes
as
nere
as
he
myghte
the
wylde
bore
came
that
was
on
fote
/
and
trauersed
afore
hym
.
Olyuer
that
was
welhorsed
smote
hym
with
the
sporres
/
and
ranne
after
.
And
he
dyde
so
moche
that
he
had
lost
all
his
men
within
a
lytell
whyle
.
Alas
yf
he
had
knowen
of
the
euyll
aduenture
/
he
wolde
not
haue
putte
hym
so
soone
in
the
forest
/
but
as
he
that
toke
no
hede
rode
on
alwaye
without
kepynge
ony
waye
/
so
as
his
euyll
aduenture
ledde
hym
.
O
kynge
of
Englande
truely
of
a
longe
tyme
thou
shalte
not
se
thy
fayre
sone
Olyuer
/
nor
thou
ryght
fayre
Helayne
of
a
longe
tyme
thou
shalt
not
se
thy
lorde
and
husbande
.
¶
How
the
Kynges
sone
of
Irlande
/
of
whiche
Olyuer
had
slayne
his
fader
at
the
torneyment
/
founde
Olyuer
all
alone
from
his
men
/
&
toke
hym
prysoner
/
and
of
the
grete
sorowe
that
was
made
for
hym
.
Capitulo
.
lij
.
AFore
that
Olyuer
apperceyued
that
no
body
dyde
folowe
hym
/
he
was
ferre
from
his
folke
.
And
whan
he
founde
hymselfe
alone
/
he
blewe
his
horne
/
but
none
answered
hym
Wherfore
he
put
hym
on
the
waye
in
an
vnhappy
houre
.
For
the
more
that
he
wente
forwarde
/
the
ferder
he
was
from
them
.
Thus
as
he
wente
so
the
wylde
bore
that
was
ferre
from
hym
/
came
amongest
a
company
of
men
that
passed
thorughe
the
forest
/
the
whiche
wente
to
London
.
And
the
chyef
was
one
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
that
same
that
Olyuer
had
slayne
the
fader
of
at
the
torneymente
.
As
he
sawe
the
wylde
bore
/
with
suche
houndes
as
he
had
he
folowed
/
and
ranne
soo
moche
in
the
forest
that
they
recountred
Olyuer
whiche
was
all
alone
.
Then
Olyuer
auaunced
hym
and
salued
the
kynge
/
but
the
kynge
dysdayned
to
speke
to
hym
.
And
he
escryed
to
his
men
saynge
/
here
is
the
murderer
that
hathe
slayne
my
fader
.
Wherfore
I
do
pray
you
that
ye
wyll
take
him
alyue
/
for
I
can
not
auenge
me
better
than
at
this
tyme
.
And
whan
Olyuer
herde
these
wordes
he
sethande
to
his
swerde
/
and
defended
hym
ryght
valyauntly
.
But
in
the
ende
whether
he
wolde
or
not
he
was
taken
.
And
the
kynge
made
a
hode
all
close
to
be
put
on
his
heed
/
to
the
ende
that
he
sholde
not
be
knowen
/
and
in
that
estate
he
made
hym
to
be
ledde
to
a
porte
of
the
see
where
as
he
was
put
in
a
shyp
and
ledde
in
to
a
fortresse
of
Irlande
that
was
that
same
kynges
.
In
the
whiche
Olyuer
was
put
in
pryson
full
of
vermyne
/
and
had
brede
and
water
ones
a
daye
.
Abydynge
the
retornynge
of
the
kynge
/
that
sholde
do
Iustyce
on
hym
at
his
pleasure
.
And
to
the
ende
that
his
treason
were
not
knowen
/
he
retorned
not
/
but
wente
to
London
towarde
the
kynge
his
souerayne
lorde
/
the
whiche
he
founde
gretely
dyscomforted
/
for
he
had
herde
no
tydynges
of
Olyuer
the
whiche
was
soughte
on
all
sydes
.
O
what
pyteous
and
innumerable
lamentacyons
was
made
whan
the
trouthe
was
knowen
that
he
coude
not
be
founden
.
Certaynlye
neuer
so
grete
dolours
was
not
demeaned
in
no
countre
The
good
kynge
sayd
.
Ha
ryght
noble
realme
thou
hast
wel
lost
the
floure
of
thy
crowne
/
and
the
moost
parte
of
thyn
armoure
.
Alas
my
ryght
swete
sone
thou
was
he
that
trauaylled
whan
I
reposed
me
/
&
he
by
whome
I
was
redoubted
/
and
he
by
whome
I
was
obeyed
/
and
he
by
whome
I
lyued
in
rest
and
in
surete
.
¶
These
regrettes
were
nothynge
in
comparyson
to
the
pyteous
lamentacyons
that
his
doughter
made
.
She
myght
neyther
ete
nor
drynke
/
but
had
layde
her
on
a
bedde
as
she
had
bendeed
/
in
suche
wyse
that
all
they
that
sawe
her
had
grete
pyte
on
her
.
And
whan
she
myght
speke
she
escryed
saynge
.
My
blessyd
creat
our
wherfore
dydde
thou
euer
gyue
me
hym
/
that
in
his
departynge
dothe
eue
me
in
so
grete
doloure
/
and
dystresse
vpon
the
erthe
/
certes
yf
it
were
thy
blessyd
pleasure
I
wolde
be
in
his
company
/
then
she
complanyed
her
vnto
the
blessyd
vyrgyn
Marye
in
saynge
.
Ryght
swete
vyrgyn
mary
moder
of
god
what
may
I
haue
done
to
the
/
that
thou
hast
separed
me
fro
the
syght
of
my
ryght
amyable
lorde
and
husbande
that
so
derely
loued
me
.
With
suche
or
semblable
wordes
the
ryght
fayre
Helayne
meuyd
all
theym
aboute
her
/
that
they
coude
not
comforte
her
.
¶
I
shall
leue
her
to
speke
of
the
kynge
of
Englande
and
his
doughter
/
&
all
theym
of
his
realme
demeanynge
theyr
sorowe
.
And
shal
speke
of
them
of
the
realme
of
Castylle
/
and
of
Arthu●
Kynge
of
Algarbe
/
and
Regente
of
Castylle
.
¶
How
Arthur
Kynge
of
Algarbe
and
Regent
of
Castyll
made
an
enterpryse
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
liij
.
WE
haue
herde
here
before
how
Olyuer
was
departed
from
Castylle
/
and
of
the
meruaylous
dule
that
the
good
kynge
demeaned
bycause
of
his
departyng
/
the
whiche
neuer
lette
hym
vnto
the
dethe
/
for
within
shorte
space
it
made
hym
fynysshe
his
dayes
/
and
lyucd
not
longe
after
the
departynge
of
his
sone
.
For
the
whiche
cause
Arthur
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
and
felowe
of
Olyuer
/
by
the
consente
of
dyuers
lordes
of
the
countree
/
was
chosen
for
to
be
Regente
of
Castylle
vnto
the
retornynge
of
Olyuer
.
And
by
cause
that
the
affayres
of
the
realme
of
castyll
be
gretter
than
they
of
Algarbe
the
whiche
is
but
a
lytell
countree
.
Arthur
helde
hym
moost
in
Algarbe
.
And
forgate
neuer
to
vysyte
the
glasse
of
his
felowe
.
And
soo
moche
that
he
apperceyued
that
the
sayd
glasse
was
suche
as
the
lettre
specyfyed
.
That
is
for
to
knowe
that
the
water
was
troubled
and
gretely
obscure
.
In
suche
wyse
that
it
was
almoost
lyke
ynke
.
And
whan
Arthur
apper
ceyued
it
suche
/
with
grete
haboundaunce
of
teres
he
began
for
to
saye
in
this
maner
.
O
ryght
noble
ryght
valyaunt
&
loyall
felowe
/
I
se
well
that
ye
haue
some
grete
empesshynge
/
or
some
euyll
aduenture
/
or
in
fermyte
of
body
wherfore
I
am
ryght
dyspleasaunt
.
And
bycause
that
at
a
nede
one
knoweth
his
frende
I
make
auowe
to
god
and
promyseth
hym
by
the
fayth
that
I
owe
vnto
hym
/
and
to
the
crowne
that
I
bere
/
that
euen
as
secretely
as
ye
departed
from
this
realme
/
shall
I
departe
also
.
Nor
neuer
as
longe
as
I
lyue
shall
I
not
reste
/
tyll
that
I
knowe
whether
that
ye
be
a
lyue
or
deed
.
Then
in
wypynge
his
eyen
/
he
departed
out
of
the
chambre
/
and
came
in
to
a
halle
.
And
commaunded
to
make
lettres
for
to
assemble
all
the
thre
estates
/
and
all
the
prynces
of
the
countree
.
And
whan
they
were
all
assembled
/
he
began
for
to
shewe
them
and
sayd
that
it
was
not
possyble
for
hym
to
gouerne
bothe
the
realmes
well
that
he
had
in
his
charge
.
And
therfore
his
wyll
was
for
to
commyse
some
dyscrete
prynce
in
his
stede
to
be
Regent
of
Castyll
.
For
he
wolde
retorne
in
to
that
of
Algarbe
/
bycause
that
he
loued
it
more
/
for
bycause
that
it
was
his
propre
herytage
/
and
that
it
was
the
place
of
his
byrthe
.
Therfore
he
wolde
knowe
of
them
/
yf
it
were
theyr
good
pleasure
that
he
resygned
his
estate
at
his
dyscrecyon
to
the
moost
wysest
as
him
semed
.
Or
yf
they
wolde
chese
one
after
theyr
dyscrecyon
and
counsayll
.
They
answered
.
Ryght
puyssaunt
kynge
of
Algarbe
we
haue
not
holden
you
for
Regente
/
but
for
kynge
vnto
the
comynge
of
Olyuer
as
ye
do
knowe
/
for
we
neuer
founde
you
dysobeyssaunt
.
And
also
there
is
none
of
vs
but
that
we
wolde
do
you
as
sone
pleasure
as
to
our
souerayne
lorde
.
Your
wyll
and
departynge
is
full
greuous
vnto
vs
.
But
syth
it
is
so
that
we
can
not
kepe
you
/
chese
whiche
of
vs
it
shall
please
you
and
gyue
hym
your
stede
.
For
we
shall
holde
youre
eleccyon
.
For
all
that
we
shall
neuer
haue
man
soo
dcre
as
you
.
Arthur
thanked
them
/
&
dyde
chese
a
good
prynce
that
was
ryght
vertuous
for
to
be
regente
.
And
then
he
toke
leue
of
them
in
grete
wepynges
.
And
then
he
toke
a
certayne
nombre
of
men
with
hym
/
and
he
dyde
somoche
that
within
a
shorte
space
he
came
in
to
his
realme
/
and
whan
he
was
there
/
he
recommaunded
to
his
conestable
all
the
gouernaunce
of
his
countree
.
And
after
commaunded
al
his
men
to
obeye
to
hym
/
and
sayde
that
he
wolde
ge
in
to
a
place
all
alone
/
the
whiche
was
not
ferre
of
.
And
that
with
the
grace
of
god
he
wolde
not
tarye
longe
.
This
done
he
departed
in
a
fayre
mornyng
and
wente
his
waye
withouten
ony
company
/
saue
of
god
alonely
/
to
whome
I
praye
that
he
be
in
his
garde
/
for
grete
nede
he
hadde
therof
/
as
ye
shal
here
here
after
warde
.
¶
How
Arthur
departed
/
and
put
hym
on
the
waye
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
/
and
of
the
aduentures
that
he
had
.
Capitulo
.
liiii
.
IN
suche
maner
as
ye
haue
herde
departed
the
valyaunt
and
gentyll
Arthur
from
his
countree
.
And
began
for
to
serche
tydynges
of
his
felowe
/
as
he
that
hadde
wyll
neuer
for
to
reste
tyll
that
he
had
herde
tydynges
of
hym
.
The
fyrste
countree
that
he
arryued
in
was
Portyngale
/
in
the
whiche
he
founde
nothynge
that
was
pleasaunt
vnto
hym
.
After
he
sought
the
remenaunt
of
Spayne
/
and
came
in
to
that
of
Fraunce
/
and
wente
so
moche
on
one
syde
and
other
that
he
came
to
Calys
/
where
as
he
founde
men
that
wente
in
to
Englande
/
and
therfore
he
mounted
on
the
see
for
to
go
theder
.
Ye
maye
well
thynke
that
he
was
longe
in
serchynge
the
countrees
that
ye
haue
herde
aboue
.
In
this
meane
whyle
Olyuer
his
felowe
was
alwaye
in
pryson
/
with
brede
and
water
/
and
often
bette
as
he
that
had
neuer
hope
to
departe
thens
.
And
desyred
nothynge
but
the
dethe
.
¶
As
Arthur
was
on
the
see
for
to
go
in
to
Englande
/
there
happened
a
wynde
contrary
to
aryse
on
the
see
/
and
droue
them
in
to
the
marches
that
the
maryners
knewe
not
atte
that
presente
tyme
.
But
whan
that
they
had
longe
beholden
&
sene
it
/
they
apperceyued
that
it
was
one
of
the
countrees
and
realmes
of
Irlande
/
the
ferdest
from
that
of
Englande
.
Whan
Arthur
herde
saye
that
it
was
one
of
the
realme
of
Irlande
/
he
prayed
them
that
they
wolde
set
hym
a
lande
/
for
as
hym
semyd
/
as
sone
myght
he
here
tydynges
of
the
whiche
he
soughte
/
as
in
another
countree
/
so
as
he
dyde
by
the
wyll
of
god
euen
so
as
ye
shall
here
.
Whan
Arthur
was
on
grounde
/
he
wente
on
fote
in
praynge
our
lorde
for
to
adresse
hym
on
his
waye
.
He
was
well
the
space
of
two
monethes
in
that
countree
.
And
whan
he
wolde
haue
ony
thynge
he
muste
make
some
sygne
/
or
elles
they
coude
not
vnderstande
hym
.
He
hadde
neyther
hors
nor
mule
for
to
ryde
on
/
wherfore
he
wente
on
fote
/
and
soo
longe
he
wente
that
on
a
daye
he
founde
hymselfe
in
a
thycke
forest
/
in
the
whiche
dyuers
wylde
beestes
dydde
remayne
.
They
had
wel
made
hym
sygne
that
he
sholde
not
entre
in
to
that
forest
but
he
had
not
vnderstonden
them
.
He
wente
all
the
daye
alonge
the
forest
withoute
fyndynge
of
ony
aduenture
.
The
nyght
toke
hym
wherfore
it
was
force
to
hym
for
to
slepe
.
And
whan
it
came
vpon
the
morowe
/
he
put
hym
on
the
waye
ryght
euylly
broken
his
faste
.
And
he
had
not
longe
gone
whan
he
apperceyued
a
grete
and
an
horryble
lyon
strongly
oppressyd
with
hongre
.
For
he
had
founde
no
praye
of
longe
tyme
.
Wherfore
whan
Arthur
sawe
and
apperceyued
that
he
came
towarde
hym
he
appareylled
hym
for
to
fyghte
for
he
was
armed
at
all
poyntes
/
and
also
he
had
a
good
swerde
.
He
toke
of
his
mauntell
and
wounde
it
aboute
his
arme
/
and
then
he
drewe
out
his
swerde
/
and
kyssed
the
hyltes
/
in
recommaundynge
hym
to
god
/
and
wente
towarde
the
lyon
/
that
doubted
hym
but
lytell
.
For
whan
it
came
to
approche
he
gaue
him
suche
a
stroke
with
his
pa●●es
that
he
rente
his
cloke
/
and
mo
than
a
hond●eth
mayles
of
his
haubergon
.
And
it
was
force
to
Arthur
for
to
fall
to
the
erthe
/
but
as
a
valyaunt
knyght
he
gate
hym
on
his
fece
.
And
incontynent
he
began
for
to
assayll
the
lyon
ryght
asprely
.
And
whan
the
lyon
●elte
●ymself
hurte
/
he
began
for
to
caste
a
crye
so
meruaylous
that
all
the
forest
dyde
rynge
of
it
.
And
Arthur
recouered
another
stroke
/
and
sette
it
so
well
on
that
he
smote
of
his
hede
/
and
so
the
lyon
deyed
.
¶
How
Arthur
beynge
in
the
forest
was
assaylled
of
another
meruaylous
beest
/
of
the
whiche
he
was
vyetoryous
.
lv
.
AS
Arthur
sawe
that
he
was
delyuered
of
the
lyon
/
he
thanked
god
with
a
meke
herte
/
and
whan
it
came
vnto
the
nyght
and
that
he
founde
hym
not
out
of
the
forest
/
noo
more
than
yf
he
hadde
not
remeuyd
out
of
one
place
/
he
was
moche
dyspleasaunt
/
as
he
that
of
all
the
daye
had
not
eten
/
but
his
comforte
was
whan
he
thoughte
vpon
saynt
Iohan
Baptyst
that
lyued
by
rotes
/
and
hym
semyd
that
he
sholde
be
ryght
meschaunt
yf
he
myght
not
lyue
with
suche
vytaylles
for
a
space
of
tyme
.
So
he
began
for
to
serche
aboute
the
forest
/
and
began
for
to
cete
herbes
and
rotes
suche
as
he
founde
by
so
grete
appetyte
for
hongre
/
that
he
had
neuer
eten
capon
in
his
countree
that
had
semed
hym
so
good
.
And
whan
the
nyghte
came
he
put
hym
on
a
lytell
tree
/
for
drede
of
dombe
beestes
.
Then
within
the
nyght
whan
the
mone
was
fayre
and
clere
/
he
herde
a
thynge
come
a
ferre
that
made
soo
grete
a
noyse
that
it
was
a
hydeous
thynge
to
here
for
in
his
waye
he
smote
downe
all
that
he
mette
to
the
erth
And
whysteled
soo
hye
that
it
thrughe
perced
Arthurs
eres
.
The
whiche
whan
he
herde
that
meruayll
/
he
began
for
to
blysse
hym
/
in
recommaundynge
hym
vnto
god
,
praynge
hym
for
to
be
his
defendour
agaynst
that
beest
that
he
sawe
comynge
.
And
euen
so
as
he
recommaunded
hym
to
god
/
this
meruaylous
beest
came
towarde
the
tree
that
he
was
mounted
on
/
and
smote
the
tree
with
his
tayle
so
empyteously
that
he
fell
downe
to
the
erthe
/
whan
the
poore
Arthur
founde
hymselfe
on
the
grounde
/
yf
that
he
had
fere
and
drede
I
am
nothynge
ameruaylled
/
and
I
thynke
well
that
he
wolde
haue
been
in
his
countree
agayne
with
a
good
wyll
.
But
as
a
valyaunte
knyght
he
prayed
god
that
he
wolde
haue
mercy
on
his
soule
.
For
he
thought
that
his
laste
daye
had
ben
comen
and
sette
hande
to
his
swerde
for
to
defende
hym
/
yf
the
beest
assaylled
hym
.
For
he
had
no
wyll
for
to
delyuer
the
fyrst
assaulte
the
beest
was
passed
wherof
Arthur
was
ryght
Ioyous
/
but
within
a
whyle
the
beest
retorned
to
warde
hym
agayne
in
enuyronnynge
hym
Th●n
he
made
hym
to
torne
thre
or
foure
tornes
/
and
made
hym
for
to
fall
agaynst
a
tree
so
harde
that
it
lacked
but
lytell
that
the
herte
of
the
valyaunt
Arthur
dyde
byrste
.
¶
Arthur
was
not
so
soone
vp
but
that
the
beest
was
besyde
hym
and
he
as
wyse
lenyd
agaynst
a
tree
.
And
whan
the
beest
thought
for
to
haue
smyten
hym
/
he
smote
the
tree
/
wherfore
he
endommaged
hym
but
lytell
or
nought
.
But
her
tethe
was
longe
and
cuttynge
meruaylously
/
wherwith
she
strayned
hym
in
suche
wyse
that
yf
it
hadde
not
ben
the
tree
that
he
helde
hym
by
/
he
sholde
nothynge
haue
resysted
.
For
alredy
he
was
so
sore
wounded
that
he
had
nothynge
on
hym
but
that
it
was
perced
.
He
reuenged
hym
valyauntly
and
gaue
hym
grete
and
sadde
strokes
but
she
hadde
so
harde
a
skynne
that
in
no
wyse
he
myght
dommage
it
.
The
synke
of
her
alonely
greued
Arthur
as
moche
as
all
the
remenaunt
.
The
whiche
whan
he
sawe
the
beest
that
for
nothynge
that
he
had
done
she
was
as
fresshe
as
she
was
at
the
begynnyng
of
the
medlynge
/
he
began
for
to
reclayme
our
lorde
/
in
praynge
him
that
he
wolde
haue
pyte
on
his
creature
/
and
sayd
.
¶
Ha
my
ryght
swete
lorde
and
felowe
by
the
cause
I
shall
fynysshe
here
my
lyfe
/
but
and
I
hadde
sene
the
afore
my
dethe
.
I
sholde
ende
the
surplus
of
my
lyfe
with
a
better
wyll
.
¶
How
Arthur
lyenge
in
the
woode
all
hurte
/
appered
to
hym
an
auncyent
knyght
the
whiche
helyd
him
/
and
after
told
vnto
hym
the
place
where
as
Olyuer
was
prysoner
in
.
Capitulo
.
lvj
.
IN
complaynynge
hym
the
beest
kepte
hym
soo
straytlye
that
he
smote
hym
downe
to
the
erthe
vnder
hym
/
and
helde
hym
so
fast
with
his
nayles
that
all
that
he
had
holde
of
was
in
pyeces
/
in
suche
wyse
that
Arthur
myght
not
remeue
hym
.
For
all
that
oure
lorde
the
whiche
neuer
forgeteth
his
frendes
at
theyr
nede
/
forgate
not
this
gentyll
knyghte
/
nor
wolde
not
suffre
the
losse
of
hym
.
For
the
beest
that
helde
hym
so
straytlye
/
lete
goo
her
holde
that
she
helde
with
her
feete
/
for
to
take
hym
with
the
●ethe
to
deuoure
hym
/
but
whan
Arthur
felte
his
armes
delyuered
/
he
that
had
yet
his
swerde
smote
hym
vnder
the
na●yll
/
the
whiche
was
not
so
harde
as
the
backe
/
and
thrysted
hym
to
the
herte
.
And
whan
the
beest
felte
hym
wounded
/
in
castynge
a
grete
crye
lete
hym
fall
to
the
erthe
.
And
Arthur
that
felte
hym
delyuered
/
gaue
hym
so
many
strokes
that
he
slewe
hym
.
It
was
not
longe
after
that
the
daye
came
/
but
that
recomforted
hym
nothynge
for
he
myght
not
from
one
place
/
as
he
that
abode
but
he
dethe
/
bycause
of
the
woundes
that
he
had
receyued
.
And
thus
as
he
was
in
daunger
as
ye
haue
herde
/
yet
agayne
he
herkened
towarde
the
forest
/
and
apperceyued
a
thynge
comynge
towarde
hym
/
wherfore
he
thoughte
better
to
haue
ben
deed
than
afore
.
Therfore
he
sayd
/
Ryghte
gloryous
vyrgyn
Mary
be
myn
aduocate
/
and
that
ye
wyll
to
daye
present
my
poore
soule
afore
the
face
of
thy
blessyd
sone
.
For
I
se
will
that
the
houre
is
comen
that
I
must
departe
out
of
this
worlde
.
That
thynge
approched
more
nerer
and
nerer
.
And
whan
he
was
all
moost
at
hym
.
Arthur
knewe
that
it
was
a
man
clothed
in
whyte
whiche
began
for
to
saye
Kynge
of
Algarbe
god
salueth
the.
And
whan
Arthur
herde
hym
named
kynge
/
he
made
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
and
sayd
vnto
hym
/
arte
thou
a
thynge
of
the
other
worlde
.
I
thynke
that
thou
arte
transmysed
from
god
/
syth
that
by
hym
thou
hast
salued
me
.
For
other
wyse
thou
coude
not
haue
knowen
my
name
/
And
therfore
I
praye
the
that
thou
haue
pyte
on
me
/
&
that
thou
do
so
moche
that
I
may
be
aledged
of
my
hurtes
/
and
that
I
maye
be
put
out
of
this
forest
wherin
I
haue
had
so
moche
to
suffre
.
This
man
answered
to
him
Arthur
thou
hast
not
fayled
for
to
say
that
I
am
of
god
For
so
it
is
.
And
thynke
that
I
am
comen
for
your
aledgemente
.
Then
he
alyghted
of
his
hors
/
and
fatte
hym
downe
on
the
erthe
besyde
hym
/
&
drewe
out
of
his
purse
a
boxe
of
golde
full
of
precyous
oyntementes
/
with
the
whiche
oyntement
he
anoynted
and
touched
all
his
woundes
/
and
gaue
hym
a
rote
for
to
ete
.
And
incontyneute
as
he
hadde
tasted
of
it
/
he
was
as
hole
and
safe
as
euer
he
hadde
ben
.
Wherfore
his
medecyne
clothed
in
whyte
dyde
bydde
hym
that
he
sholde
thanke
god
/
by
whome
he
was
sente
theder
.
Arthur
dyde
so
as
he
had
commaunded
hym
/
and
gaue
louynges
to
god
.
Thenne
the
whyte
man
made
hym
for
to
mounte
vpon
his
hors
behynde
him
and
sayd
to
hym
that
he
sholde
put
hym
out
of
the
forest
And
then
in
goynge
he
sayd
to
hym
.
Kynge
of
Algarbe
/
I
knowe
well
wherfore
that
thou
arte
departed
out
of
thy
countree
.
It
is
for
to
leke
Olyuer
of
Castylle
thy
felowe
wherfore
I
shall
tell
you
tydynges
.
Knowe
that
after
his
departynge
he
arry●ed
in
the
realme
of
Englande
/
whereas
he
hathe
gouerned
hym
so
well
that
by
his
prowesse
he
hathe
wonne
the
onely
doughter
of
the
kynge
the
whiche
is
one
of
the
fayrest
ladyes
of
the
worlde
/
but
〈…〉
fortuned
to
hym
/
for
a
kynge
of
Irlande
the
whiche
loued
hym
not
/
bycause
he
had
slayne
his
fader
/
hathe
taken
hym
prosoner
/
and
hathe
put
hym
in
a
dongeon
/
where
as
he
suffreth
as
moche
mysery
as
ony
man
is
possyble
for
to
suffre
.
But
haue
no
doubte
of
his
lyfe
.
For
he
shall
neuer
deye
vnto
the
tyme
that
thou
hast
casten
hym
out
/
and
yf
that
I
had
to
counsayll
the
/
and
that
thou
wolde
byleue
me
/
I
wolde
counsayll
the
for
to
goo
fyrste
to
London
/
for
to
comforte
the
kynge
and
his
doughter
.
For
thou
knowest
that
thou
resemblest
Olyuer
/
&
that
it
is
all
one
thynge
/
wherfore
Helayne
shall
thyn●●
that
thou
arte
her
lorde
/
and
shall
guarysshe
bycause
of
thy
comynge
/
and
truely
yf
that
thou
haste
the
not
thou
shalte
neuer
se
her
/
for
she
is
syke
vnto
the
dethe
/
go
and
lye
with
her
to
the
ende
that
they
byleue
the
better
that
thou
arte
Olyuer
/
but
beware
the
well
thou
thynke
not
on
vylanye
/
nor
dys●●onoure
/
for
thou
sholde
offende
to
gretely
.
And
after
that
thou
seest
her
in
the
waye
of
helthe
departe
the
and
come
vnto
this
forest
/
for
thou
shalte
here
tydynges
of
me
here
.
In
these
deuyses
he
ledde
hym
out
of
the
woode
/
and
made
hym
descende
/
then
Arthur
sette
hym
on
his
knees
/
as
afore
a
holy
thynge
and
than
k●d
hym
/
but
incontynent
he
lost
the
syght
of
hym
without
knowynge
where
he
became
.
¶
How
Arthur
by
the
counsayll
of
the
whyte
knyght
wente
towarde
the
kynge
of
Englande
at
London
/
And
of
the
Ioye
that
they
made
hym
thykynge
that
it
hadde
ben
Olyuer
.
Capitulo
.
lviij
.
AS
Arthur
founde
hym
alone
in
his
waye
/
he
thanked
god
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
he
came
to
the
see
/
where
as
he
founde
a
shyp
that
wente
in
to
Englande
/
and
entred
in
to
it
/
&
whan
he
was
in
Englande
/
the
fyrst
towne
that
he
entred
in
was
Brystowe
/
where
as
he
was
knowen
for
Olyuer
.
And
incontynent
the
tytynges
were
spred
all
aboute
.
And
some
adressyd
them
vnto
London
/
and
came
and
tolde
the
kynge
.
The
whiche
whan
he
knewe
it
/
he
was
so
replenysshed
with
Ioye
/
and
his
herte
soo
close
with
Ioye
/
that
he
hadde
letten
hymselfe
fall
to
the
erthe
/
yf
some
of
his
seruauntes
had
not
susteyned
hym
but
for
all
that
they
must
bere
hym
to
bedde
/
where
as
he
was
a
space
of
tyme
without
ony
knowlege
.
Neuerthelesse
he
felle
a
slepe
/
and
whan
he
was
awaked
he
demaunded
of
them
of
his
chambre
yf
it
were
true
that
Olyuer
was
alyue
/
and
yf
he
dyde
come
.
They
answered
hym
ye
/
wherof
he
was
ryght
gladde
/
and
thanked
god
but
afore
he
knewe
not
whether
that
they
had
tolde
it
him
or
yf
that
he
had
dremed
it
.
Thus
as
they
were
in
these
deuyses
came
a
squyre
and
knocked
at
the
chambre
dore
that
sayd
that
they
sholde
axe
the
kynge
yf
he
wolde
see
Olyuer
/
the
whiche
wolde
come
shortely
/
for
he
was
not
more
than
a
myle
of
.
The
kynge
sente
sone
for
his
horses
and
mounted
vpon
hym
/
for
to
goo
agaynst
hym
.
In
lyke
wyse
euery
body
wente
in
to
the
feldes
/
for
to
se
hym
that
was
so
moche
desyred
.
And
whan
Arthur
apperceyued
the
people
that
came
agaynst
hym
/
the
teres
were
in
his
eyen
/
and
began
for
to
bewayle
his
fe●owe
.
And
dyde
so
moche
that
he
approched
the
kynge
/
and
whan
the
kynge
apperceyued
hym
that
he
had
not
sene
of
thre
yere
before
/
hym
semeth
that
it
is
none
other
but
Olyuer
and
also
to
al
the
other
of
his
companye
/
wherfore
with
bothe
his
armes
abrode
he
ranne
to
hym
/
and
beganne
for
to
embrace
hym
so
strongly
that
it
was
meruayl
/
but
he
myght
not
speke
one
worde
to
hym
.
And
whan
that
he
myght
speke
/
he
sayd
that
he
was
ryght
welcome
/
&
that
he
had
done
grete
almesse
for
to
retorne
and
comforte
this
realm●
that
was
so
replenysshed
with
dolour
bycause
of
his
departynge
.
Arthur
answered
to
hym
.
My
lorde
that
the
whiche
hathe
ben
done
/
was
done
agaynst
my
wyll
/
nor
other
thynge
I
maye
not
saye
/
but
by
the
pleasure
of
god
I
shall
●yue
more
Ioye
and
lyesse
vnto
this
realme
bycause
of
my
retornynge
/
than
euer
there
was
sorowe
for
my
departyng
.
And
am
more
redyer
for
to
do
you
seruyce
than
euer
I
haue
ben
.
Wherof
I
doo
thanke
god
.
¶
How
Arthur
came
and
vysyted
Helayne
/
the
whiche
hadde
wende
that
he
had
ben
Olyuer
her
husbande
/
and
of
the
solempnyte
that
was
made
.
And
howe
that
he
laye
with
her
withouten
vylanye
.
Capitulo
.
lviij
.
AFter
these
deuyses
Arthur
salued
the
noble
men
that
were
in
the
kynges
companye
/
and
generally
al
the
other
/
but
there
came
so
many
/
that
it
was
not
possyble
for
them
for
to
entre
in
to
the
cyte
.
Wherfore
it
was
force
for
them
for
to
brynge
a
grete
and
a
hye
chayre
of
Cypres
/
vpon
the
whiche
Arthur
mounted
/
to
the
ende
that
he
were
sene
on
euery
syde
/
for
to
contente
the
people
the
better
.
Then
it
was
cryed
that
euery
body
sholde
retorne
/
&
after
Arthur
mounted
vpon
horsbacke
.
And
whan
he
entred
in
to
London
/
none
can
not
deuyse
to
you
the
Ioye
that
was
made
on
euery
syde
/
the
stretes
were
hanged
ladyes
and
damoyselles
were
at
the
wyndowes
/
the
noyse
was
so
grete
that
it
was
meruayll
for
to
here
.
And
in
sygne
of
more
gretter
Ioye
/
bothe
more
and
lesse
cryed
Te
deum
laudamus
.
And
whan
they
approched
the
palays
Helayne
that
was
strongly
syke
/
herde
that
noyse
where
as
she
laye
/
and
demaunded
what
it
was
/
but
none
durst
not
tether
/
for
fere
leest
that
the
sodayne
Ioye
sholde
haue
ben
to
grete
.
Wherfore
they
abode
the
maystres
that
dyde
tell
a
ferre
what
it
was
.
Whan
she
knewe
it
wher
handes
Ioyned
vp
to
heuen
she
beganne
for
to
thanke
god
in
saynge
.
O
redempt
our
of
humayne
lygnage
I
rendre
to
the
graces
and
thankes
/
whan
that
afore
my
dethe
I
maye
se
hym
that
hathe
put
me
in
soo
grete
doloure
.
¶
Come
now
dethe
whan
that
thou
wylte
/
for
I
shall
abyde
the
Ioyously
/
syth
that
I
knowe
that
my
souerayne
lorde
is
comen
/
it
can
not
greue
me
.
The
fayre
and
good
Helayne
hadde
grete
talent
for
to
see
hym
that
she
wende
hadde
ben
her
husbande
/
but
Arthur
was
in
grete
thought
how
he
myght
demeane
hym
towarde
the
wyse
of
his
felowe
.
For
all
that
whan
his
botes
were
of
/
he
wente
towarde
Helayne
for
to
knowe
how
she
dyde
/
And
whan
she
sawe
hym
/
she
was
a
grete
whyle
or
that
she
myght
speke
.
But
whan
that
she
myghte
speke
/
she
sayd
that
she
dydde
well
syth
that
she
sawe
hym
in
good
helthe
.
The
oure
of
souper
came
/
and
therfore
Arthur
toke
leue
of
her
/
and
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
make
gode
chere
/
and
that
she
wolde
thynke
for
to
make
her
hole
The
ladyes
and
damoyselles
of
the
cyte
of
London
were
somoued
to
souper
/
&
there
was
made
a
meruaylous
Ioye
/
but
yet
it
sholde
haue
been
more
gretter
yf
it
hadde
not
ben
for
Helaynes
maladye
.
And
it
was
defended
by
the
kynge
that
none
sholde
werke
of
viij
.
dayes
but
eche
●nenst
hym
made
the
feest
as
grete
as
they
myght
.
Arthur
by
the
counsayll
of
the
medecyns
/
was
excused
for
to
lye
with
Helayne
bycause
of
her
maladye
/
wherof
he
was
Ioyous
without
makynge
ony
semblaunt
/
but
with
in
shorte
space
she
gate
vp
and
founde
guaryson
&
helth
And
so
moche
that
within
a
lytell
tyme
the
physycyens
gaue
hym
leue
for
to
lye
with
her
/
soo
as
he
dydde
.
And
whan
he
was
in
bedde
with
her
/
he
remeuyd
not
oute
of
his
place
/
but
the
fayre
Helayne
dyde
not
so
/
for
she
that
of
longe
tyme
had
not
had
the
embrasynge
of
her
lorde
/
began
for
to
approche
/
but
Arthur
drewe
backe
and
sayd
to
her
/
my
loue
withdrawe
you
in
to
your
place
agayne
for
I
haue
made
auowe
that
neuer
by
embracynge
/
nor
otherwyse
I
shall
touche
your
body
tyll
that
I
haue
payed
a
pylgrymage
that
I
haue
promysed
vnto
saynt
Iames
/
wherfore
I
praye
you
that
ye
be
contente
/
and
after
I
shall
come
to
you
agayne
/
for
as
sone
as
I
may
I
wyll
paye
it
/
and
after
by
the
grace
of
god
we
shal
make
good
chere
.
Helayne
herynge
Arthurs
wordes
dyde
his
commaundement
In
saynge
to
hym
that
it
was
well
reason
for
to
holde
that
whiche
he
ha●
promysed
to
god
and
to
Saynt
Iames.
Then
she
began
for
to
deuyse
a
ferre
with
hym
/
in
demaundynge
hym
where
as
he
had
ben
/
Arthur
badde
her
that
she
sholde
not
speke
to
hym
/
for
she
myght
not
knowe
it
/
wherfore
Helayne
deported
her
at
that
tyme
.
¶
How
Arthur
vnder
the
vmbre
for
to
goo
to
Sayne
Iames
/
departed
for
to
fynde
his
felowe
Olyuer
/
&
of
the
whyte
knyght
that
ledde
hym
nere
where
as
he
was
.
Capitulo
.
lix
.
IN
suche
estate
was
Arthur
well
the
space
of
a
mone
/
he
in
the
kynge
of
Englandes
courte
the
whiche
made
hym
as
good
chere
and
honoure
.
as
he
wolde
haue
done
to
Olyuer
/
thynkynge
that
it
hadde
ben
he
/
and
also
dyde
Helayne
/
&
all
the
other
.
And
whan
he
sawe
that
Helayne
had
ouercomen
her
maladye
/
and
that
there
was
no
more
daunger
/
he
came
towarde
the
kynge
and
sayd
to
hym
that
he
dyde
owe
a
vyage
to
Saynt
Iames
/
and
that
he
muste
nedes
do
it
withouten
ony
companye
/
wherfore
he
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
be
contente
that
he
myght
go
alone
/
and
that
he
wolde
retorne
agayne
as
shortely
as
he
myghte
.
The
kynge
asked
hym
yf
that
he
was
wery
of
his
wyfe
alredy
/
and
he
answered
nay
.
After
he
toke
his
leue
of
the
kynge
for
to
departe
/
and
on
the
morowethe
kynge
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
not
tary
/
and
also
that
he
sholde
take
some
company
with
hym
/
but
Arthur
wolde
not
do
nothynge
/
and
so
departed
all
aloue
after
that
he
had
taken
his
leue
of
the
fayre
Helayne
/
and
promysed
he●
that
he
sholde
retorne
ryght
shortly
.
He
dyde
soo
moche
that
he
arryued
in
the
forest
where
as
he
had
founden
the
whyte
knyght
.
Neuertheles
he
durst
not
entre
/
for
fere
of
the
wylde
beestes
/
and
therfore
he
abode
the
trouthe
of
his
knyght
there
.
And
he
was
there
soo
longe
that
he
apperceyued
him
comynge
.
Then
Arthur
salued
hym
/
and
he
rendred
to
hym
his
salute
.
Thenne
he
made
hym
to
mounte
vp
behynde
hym
/
and
sayd
to
hym
.
My
frende
Arthur
hast
thou
good
wyll
for
to
haue
agayne
thy
felow
/
darest
thou
put
the
in
auenture
for
to
recouer
hym
.
Truely
layd
Arthur
there
fs
nothynge
but
that
I
wolde
do
it
for
to
recouer
hym
.
Now
I
shall
tell
the
sayd
the
knyght
/
thou
arte
armed
at
all
pyeces
/
wherfore
thou
ought
to
be
the
more
hardyer
.
I
aduertyse
the
that
the
kynge
that
holdeth
Olyuer
in
pryson
/
is
a
good
myle
from
his
place
with
a
lytell
company
.
There
is
from
hens
theder
.xxxiij.
myle
/
and
there
is
but
thre
knyghtes
with
him
all
a
fote
/
but
and
I
thought
that
thou
durst
fyght
with
them
all
foure
for
to
gete
agayne
thy
frende
.
I
sholde
lede
the
theder
in
a
lytell
space
.
Arthur
thanked
hym
/
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
do
so
.
The
knyghte
smote
the
hors
with
the
sportes
/
and
he
had
not
so
sone
done
it
/
but
that
in
a
moment
he
was
there
as
the
kynge
was
.
Then
he
shewed
hym
to
Arthur
and
sayd
.
Arthur
descende
adowne
for
yonder
is
thyn
enemye
/
and
yf
that
thou
recouer
Olyuer
/
tell
hym
that
the
knyghte
clothed
in
whyte
dothe
salue
hym
/
the
whiche
dyde
brynge
the
heder
.
¶
How
Arthur
toke
the
kynge
that
helde
his
felowe
in
pryson
/
and
how
that
he
delyuered
hym
.
Ca.
lx
.
INcontynent
Arthur
alyght
/
and
toke
leue
of
the
knyght
/
the
whiche
vanysshed
sone
awaye
/
&
Arthur
dyde
so
moche
that
he
approched
to
the
kynge
.
And
incontynent
he
escryed
hym
to
the
dethe
/
and
then
he
sette
hande
to
his
swerde
&
gaue
one
of
his
knyghtes
suche
a
stroke
/
that
he
cloue
him
to
the
tethe
.
The
seconde
he
smote
of
his
harme
and
his
sholder
.
The
thyrde
he
kest
downe
deed
.
The
kynge
had
but
a
shorte
dager
wherwith
he
defended
hym
valyauntlye
/
but
in
the
ende
he
fledde
/
and
Arthur
folowed
hym
&
gaue
him
so
grete
a
stroke
with
the
platte
of
his
swerde
that
he
smote
hym
downe
astonyed
/
&
then
he
sayd
to
him
A
fals
traytour
kynge
/
thou
canst
not
denye
but
that
y●
hast
the
kynge
in
thy
pryson
/
wherfore
enforce
the
for
to
rendre
hym
to
me
/
or
elles
I
make
auowe
to
god
I
shal
smyte
of
thy
heed
.
The
kynge
cryed
hym
mercy
and
sayd
/
O
noble
knyght
saue
my
lyfe
and
I
shall
rendre
hym
to
the
agayne
.
Arthur
promysed
him
that
he
wolde
saue
his
lyfe
/
so
that
he
wolde
sende
hym
to
hym
incontynente
/
&
that
he
wolde
promyse
hym
to
lette
them
go
safe
.
¶
The
kynge
promysed
hym
that
he
wolde
do
so
.
And
then
he
departed
all
mate
/
and
dyscomfyted
/
and
he
dyde
so
moche
that
he
came
in
to
his
castell
.
And
incontynent
as
he
was
there
/
he
commaunded
that
Olyuer
sholde
be
drawen
out
.
Whan
Olyuer
was
afore
hym
he
sayd
.
Kynge
I
pray
the
that
thou
slee
me
afore
that
I
entre
in
agayn
in
pryson
.
The
kynge
sayd
to
hym
that
it
wente
not
soo
/
for
a
knyght
hathe
acquyted
thy
pryson
/
and
I
promysed
hym
to
sende
the
to
hym
.
Thenne
he
badde
gyue
hym
newe
clothes
/
so
as
it
was
done
/
and
then
he
gaue
hym
leue
/
but
at
the
departynge
he
sayd
.
Olyuer
I
se
my
dethe
approche
/
syth
that
I
delyuer
the
/
and
I
haue
well
deserued
it
.
Neuertheles
yf
prayer
maye
haue
place
.
I
beseche
the
for
to
pardon
me
.
Olyuer
that
was
more
sympler
than
a
mayden
/
sayd
to
hym
.
My
frende
that
that
ye
haue
done
to
me
/
hathe
ben
withouten
cause
/
for
all
that
I
promyse
you
that
as
for
me
I
shall
neuer
tell
no
body
of
the
Iniurye
that
ye
haue
done
to
me
/
but
&
it
be
knowen
by
other
/
&
that
some
make
you
warre
/
I
wyll
not
helpe
you
.
The
kynge
thanked
hym
and
sayd
that
he
wolde
abyde
tyll
than
.
They
mounted
bothe
on
one
hors
all
alone
withouten
other
companye
.
And
wente
so
moche
that
they
founde
Arthur
.
¶
Olyuer
knewe
hym
sooner
than
Arthur
dyde
hym
.
Wherfore
he
set
fote
on
grounde
and
ranne
to
hym
with
stratched
armes
and
embraced
him
.
Who
that
hadde
sene
the
knowlege
of
these
two
faythful
felowes
/
he
sholde
haue
had
a
harde
herte
yf
he
hadde
not
wepte
.
They
helde
eche
other
embraced
with
out
ony
speche
.
Olyuer
seynge
his
felowe
that
myghte
not
speke
/
he
had
his
herte
sofull
of
Ioye
and
pyte
that
he
myght
to
nothynge
but
kysse
hym
and
colle
hym
.
On
the
other
syde
Arthur
that
sawe
the
fayre
face
in
whiche
the
ladyes
toke
theyr
solace
for
to
beholde
it
so
pale
with
prysonynge
where
as
he
hadde
ben
in
/
hadde
not
lesse
sorowe
than
Olyuer
.
For
all
that
he
was
the
fyrst
that
spake
and
sayd
.
My
ryght
swete
lorde
&
felowe
/
this
Iourneye
hathe
ben
fore
desyred
on
my
partye
.
I
gyue
louynges
to
god
that
I
haue
founde
you
.
A
whyte
knyght
hathe
brought
me
hether
/
the
whiche
salueth
you
/
&
charged
me
to
tell
it
you
.
Olyuer
answered
hym
.
Arthur
my
broder
by
your
bounte
&
loyalte
ye
haue
done
so
moche
for
me
/
that
I
can
neuer
rendre
you
to
guerdon
.
I
praye
to
god
that
he
rendre
you
the
rewarde
/
for
I
am
not
suffycyent
for
to
do
it
.
¶
How
Olyuer
and
Arthur
departed
frome
〈◊〉
realme
of
Irlande
/
and
toke
theyr
waye
towarde
London
.
And
how
Olyuer
by
Ire
kest
Arthur
downe
of
his
hors
/
bycause
that
he
hadde
layne
with
his
wyfe
.
Capitulo
.
lxj
.
THis
notwithstandynge
that
they
bothe
shold
haue
done
dyspleasure
to
the
kynge
of
Irlande
that
was
there
present
/
for
all
that
he
s●ynge
the
knowlege
and
loue
that
they
shewed
/
demaunded
theym
yf
that
they
wolde
that
he
sholde
gyue
to
eche
of
theym
a
good
courser
/
but
thenne
they
sayd
naye
/
but
and
he
wolde
gyue
to
them
the
hors
that
he
rode
on
/
he
sholde
do
them
a
grete
pleasure
/
and
that
it
sholde
suffyse
at
that
tyme
for
them
bothe
.
The
kynge
●●yd
that
he
was
contente
/
and
gaue
hym
theym
These
tweyne
mounted
vpon
hym
/
and
Arthur
rode
afore
/
for
he
was
a
lytell
wounded
.
And
so
they
put
them
on
the
waye
/
and
dyde
soo
moche
that
they
arryued
in
Englande
.
But
afore
that
they
were
there
ye
maye
well
thynke
that
they
had
dyuers
wordes
togyder
/
and
eche
of
them
demaunded
of
others
tydynges
.
Whan
they
came
in
to
Englande
Olyuer
shaued
his
berde
to
be
the
more
gentyller
But
they
wolde
haue
none
other
hors
/
but
that
same
that
they
were
comen
on
/
and
concluded
to
tell
the
trouthe
of
theyr
aduenture
/
without
declarynge
the
place
of
his
prysonement
/
and
also
without
gyuyng
ony
knowlege
of
whens
they
were
/
nor
whome
.
And
they
of
Englande
were
all
abasshed
to
se
these
two
men
vpon
one
horse
/
&
semblable
.
And
sayd
that
Olyuer
had
broughte
one
of
his
brederne
from
saynt
Iames
/
but
they
coude
not
knowe
whiche
was
Olyuer
.
Thus
as
●e
may
here
the
two
felowes
approched
within
a
myle
of
London
And
soo
as
they
deuysed
Olyuer
demaunded
Arthur
yf
euer
he
hadde
ben
at
London
.
And
he
sayd
ye
more
than
a
monethe
/
by
the
counsayll
of
the
whyte
knyght
▪
for
to
comforte
the
kynge
/
and
the
lordes
of
the
realme
/
and
also
for
to
gyue
helthe
vnto
Helayne
his
wyfe
/
the
whiche
at
that
presente
tyme
was
syke
vnto
the
dethe
/
and
that
he
hadde
made
them
for
to
byleue
that
he
was
Olyuer
/
Olyuer
demaunded
hym
howe
that
he
hadde
gouerned
hym
towarde
his
wyfe
.
And
Arthur
sayd
to
hym
that
he
hadde
layne
with
her
.
And
whan
Olyuer
these
herde
tydynges
/
he
put
out
of
remembraunce
the
seruyce
that
his
felowe
hadde
done
vnto
hym
/
and
as
hastye
and
full
of
furour
/
he
kest
Arthur
downe
that
was
mounted
afore
hym
/
so
rudely
without
more
enquerynge
/
that
he
brake
one
of
his
legges
in
fallynge
.
Then
he
lepte
in
to
the
sadell
and
passed
forthe
on
his
waye
without●
ret●●●nynge
hym
/
or
makynge
semblaunt
of
ony
thynge
/
and
whan
he
was
passed
he
wyst
not
what
he
sholde
do
for
to
retorne
and
slee
hym
.
But
he
thought
with
in
hymselfe
that
he
sholde
mysdo
to
gretely
/
seynge
the
loue
that
hadde
ben
afore
tyme
bytwene
them
.
And
also
the
grete
seruyce
that
he
had
done
for
hym
/
as
to
haue
taken
hym
oute
of
that
place
so
full
of
myserye
/
from
whiche
he
sholde
neuer
haue
departed
yf
he
had
not
ben
.
Wherfore
he
concluded
that
for
all
these
seruyces
he
wolde
leue
hym
his
lyfe
/
but
this
was
not
but
that
he
thought
that
he
hadde
done
his
wyll
with
his
wyfe
/
and
gaue
hymselfe
meruayle
howe
that
in
so
noble
a
herte
myght
lodge
so
moche
treason
.
¶
How
Olyuer
dem●aned
grete
sorowe
for
the
dyspleasure
that
he
had
doone
vnto
Arthur
his
felowe
withouten
cause
.
Capitulo
.
lxij
.
OLyuer
rode
longe
in
these
thoughtes
.
And
whan
he
came
to
the
courte
/
and
that
the
tydynges
came
to
the
kynge
/
and
to
Helayne
that
Olyuer
was
comen
agayne
/
they
were
all
abasshed
/
for
they
knewe
well
that
in
so
shorte
a
space
as
he
hadde
been
out
that
he
coude
not
haue
ben
there
.
Neuerthelesse
they
were
ryght
gladde
&
Ioyous
.
And
the
kynge
made
hym
grete
chere
whan
he
sawe
hym
.
But
with
payne
he
●oude
knowe
hym
bycause
he
was
so
lene
/
and
demaunded
hym
what
sykenes
he
had
syth
his
departynge
/
and
who
had
put
hym
in
suche
estate
.
For
as
hym
semyd
he
sawe
neuer
man
so
sore
chaunged
in
so
shorte
space
.
And
Olyuer
sayd
to
hym
that
neuer
syth
his
departynge
he
had
had
helthe
.
Fayre
sone
sayd
the
Kynge
ye
be
comen
in
to
this
countree
for
to
helpe
you
.
And
then
he
demaunded
hym
why
he
hadde
not
ben
at
saynt
Iames
/
as
he
had
tolde
them
at
his
departynge
.
Olyuer
sawe
well
that
his
felowe
had
made
them
to
byleue
at
his
departynge
that
he
wente
to
saynt
Iames
/
wherfore
he
sayd
.
My
lorde
my
malydye
hathe
hathe
letted
me
/
and
yf
it
please
god
/
whan
that
I
am
hole
I
may
do
it
better
with
myn
ease
/
and
with
gretter
company
.
whan
it
came
after
souper
/
he
toke
the
sonest
leue
of
the
kynge
that
he
myght
/
as
he
that
hadde
grete
wyll
for
to
lye
with
his
wyfe
the
whiche
was
so
●●cellente
/
and
that
of
longe
tyme
he
had
not
sene
her
to
whome
he
coude
none
euyll
wyll
of
ony
thynge
that
was
happened
her
/
nor
that
his
felowe
had
done
.
For
he
knowe
wel
that
she
coude
not
do
withall
/
and
that
ygnoraunce
made
her
for
to
do
it
thynkynge
that
it
had
ben
he
.
whan
he
was
a
bedde
with
his
wyfe
/
he
began
for
to
colle
her
and
kysse
her
/
wherof
she
was
all
abasshed
&
sayd
.
My
lorde
ye
haue
forgeten
the
promesse
that
ye
made
to
Saynt
Iames
Olyuer
demaunded
her
what
it
was
/
and
how
quod
she
/
doo
ye
not
thynke
on
that
ye
haue
layne
with
me
more
than
a
monethe
withouten
touchynge
of
me
/
and
that
of
all
that
whyle
I
myght
not
haue
of
you
one
onely
kysse
/
and
ye
tolde
me
that
it
myght
not
be
tel
that
your
vyage
were
done
I
haue
herde
you
saye
that
ye
haue
not
ben
there
/
and
therfore
I
praye
you
my
dere
lorde
yf
that
ye
haue
promysed
ony
thynge
to
god
/
that
ye
wyll
holde
it
.
Olyuer
demaunded
her
of
euery
thynge
so
ferforthe
/
that
he
apperceyued
the
loyalte
of
his
felowe
wherefore
tenderly
wepynge
he
withdrewe
hym
abacke
from
his
wyfe
/
and
of
all
that
nyghte
he
slepte
not
/
but
sayd
to
hymselfe
that
he
was
the
moost
vnhappye
/
that
euer
was
borne
of
moder
.
And
that
the
euelles
and
trybulacyons
that
he
had
endured
had
not
doone
hym
the
hondreth
parte
of
dyspleasure
that
he
had
at
that
present
tyme
And
sayd
that
and
his
felowe
had
ony
hurte
/
that
he
sholde
neuer
haue
Ioye
and
that
yf
he
were
deed
that
he
sholde
●lee
hymselfe
/
for
had
well
deseruyd
it
.
¶
How
Olyuer
departed
from
London
and
came
to
the
place
where
as
he
had
lefte
his
felowe
/
and
cryed
hym
mercy
.
Capitulo
.
lxiij
.
REcydently
he
abode
in
that
doloure
and
dystresse
tyll
it
was
daye
/
and
incontynente
as
it
was
day
●he
arose
&
made
to
sadell
his
hors
vpon
the
whiche
he
mounted
and
dyde
so
moche
/
that
he
arryued
in
the
place
where
as
he
had
lefte
Arthur
/
and
whan
he
founde
him
not
he
began
for
to
serche
hym
on
euery
syde
/
and
as
he
wente
heder
/
and
theder
/
he
herde
towarde
the
wood
a
voyce
that
conplayned
hym
ryght
bytterly
/
wherfore
he
wente
thederwarde
.
And
whan
he
approched
nere
there
/
he
knewe
that
it
was
his
felowe
/
that
with
ryght
grete
payne
had
with
drawen
hym
oute
of
the
waye
vnder
a
tree
.
And
whan
Olyuer
sawe
hym
he
set
fote
on
grounde
.
And
truely
he
had
soo
grete
doloure
that
he
myght
not
susteyne
hymself
And
I
thynke
yf
that
god
had
not
helped
hym
/
that
he
had
fallen
in
dyspayre
/
and
smyten
hymselfe
thrughe
the
body
with
his
swerde
that
he
hadde
drawen
oute
.
And
the
fyrste
worde
that
he
sayd
to
his
felowe
was
suche
in
castynge
hymselfe
on
his
knees
afore
hym
/
with
the
naked
swerde
in
his
hande
.
¶
Alas
my
broder
beholde
this
caytyfe
in
pyte
/
the
whiche
hathe
so
greuously
offended
t●e
/
wherfore
take
this
swerde
and
slewe
me
/
&
with
all
my
herte
I
pardon
the
/
for
the
surplus
of
my
lyfe
shall
be
in
dystresse
and
sorowe
.
Arthur
seynge
his
felowe
so
meke
hym
towarde
hym
sayd
.
My
ryght
dere
broder
/
&
loyall
felowe
I
praye
to
god
that
the
pardon
you
/
and
I
doo
.
And
thynke
that
it
is
a
thynge
more
possyble
for
to
deuyde
all
the
thynges
that
god
hathe
made
/
than
to
departe
the
loue
of
vs
twayne
/
tyll
the
dethe
.
Whan
Olyuer
herde
hym
speke
so
humbly
/
he
wolde
gladly
haue
ben
deed
.
And
coude
not
tell
what
to
do
saue
to
wepe
perfoundely
besyde
hym
.
Wherfore
Arthur
prayed
hym
for
to
loke
how
that
he
myght
be
hadde
thens
/
for
h●
su●●●ed
/
&
had
suffred
the
nyghte
afore
so
moche
dolour
bycause
of
his
hurte
that
it
was
meruayll
.
And
then
Olyuer
axed
hym
yf
that
he
myght
abyde
so
longe
/
tyll
that
he
hadde
ben
at
a
lytell
vyllage
nere
them
for
to
fetche
a
charette
/
Arthur
sayd
ye
/
and
prayed
him
for
to
hye
hym
Olyuer
wente
and
made
suche
dylygence
that
within
a
shorte
space
he
brought
one
/
vpon
the
whiche
he
put
hym
/
and
in
this
wyse
he
was
brought
to
London
sore
syke
/
and
Olyuer
was
in
it
also
for
to
bere
hym
companye
.
And
made
for
to
be
gyuen
hym
a
house
/
and
seruauntes
.
After
that
this
was
done
Olyuer
made
all
the
kynges
physycyens
and
surgyens
for
to
come
/
the
whiche
put
Arthur
in
poynt
.
And
they
dyde
so
moche
that
within
shorte
tyme
he
wente
aboute
the
chambre
.
Olyuer
that
vysyted
hym
of
ten
tolde
to
his
wyfe
how
●uery
thynge
wente
/
and
had
ben
/
and
that
by
the
space
of
a
moneth
another
man
had
layne
with
her
/
the
whiche
was
all
abasshed
/
and
swore
to
hym
that
in
no
maner
of
the
worlde
he
had
not
touched
her
/
not
asmoche
as
to
kysse
her
.
The
kynge
in
lyke
wyse
dyde
demaunde
of
Olyuer
what
maner
a
man
he
was
/
that
he
hadde
brought
in
suche
wyse
theder
.
And
Olyuer
sayd
vnto
hym
that
it
was
one
of
his
good
felowes
/
the
whiche
hadde
ben
nourysshed
with
hym
sythe
his
yo●ghthe
.
And
thenne
Olyuer
beganne
for
to
recounte
vnto
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
the
grete
loyalte
/
and
also
loue
that
he
had
to
hym
/
&
in
lyke
wyse
how
that
he
had
layne
with
his
wyfe
and
the
maner
how
that
he
had
conduyted
hym
and
after
the
payne
/
&
trauayle
that
he
had
suffred
for
to
put
hym
out
of
pryson
where
as
he
was
in
And
of
the
grete
valyaū●yses
that
he
hade
done
for
that
cause
t●en
he
recounted
the
pyteous
guerdon
&
rewarde
that
he
had
gyuen
hym
wherefore
he
prayed
the
kynge
that
he
wolde
honoure
hym
as
moche
or
more
than
hym selfe
.
For
he
was
more
worthy
it
than
he
.
¶
How
Arthur
after
that
he
was
heled
passed
ouer
the
s●e
/
and
had
vengeaunce
on
the
kynge
that
had
kepte
Olyuer
prysoner
.
Capitulo
.
lxiiij
.
THe
kynge
was
gretely
abasshed
/
and
sayd
that
it
was
one
of
the
meruaylous
hystoryes
that
euer
he
hadde
herde
/
&
sayd
to
Olyuer
that
he
coude
neuer
do
him
so
moche
honour
/
but
that
he
ought
to
doo
hym
more
/
and
also
yf
that
he
loued
hym
wel
/
he
sholde
do
nothynge
but
that
he
oughte
to
do
.
For
neuer
broder
had
done
for
another
that
that
he
had
done
for
hym
/
wherfore
he
coude
not
to
moche
deserue
it
.
And
that
as
touchynge
his
parte
he
wolde
doo
hym
as
moche
honour
as
sholde
be
possyble
to
hym
/
and
sente
for
his
chamberlayne
/
and
his
mayster
stewarde
/
and
other
gouernours
/
and
commaunded
them
that
suche
and
semblable
estate
as
his
sone
Olyuer
had
/
sholde
be
gyuen
to
Arthur
.
And
began
for
to
tell
them
all
alonge
that
y●
whiche
Olyuer
had
rehersed
to
hym
/
reserued
that
he
made
no
mencyon
how
that
Arthur
hadde
layne
with
his
doughter
/
the
whiche
was
not
a
thynge
for
to
recounte
/
for
it
was
a
desloyalte
/
but
the
kynge
kepte
hym
well
from
tellynge
of
it
/
bycause
that
there
was
/
and
is
many
folke
/
the
parauenture
wolde
sooner
haue
thoughte
euyll
than
good
/
wherfore
he
deported
hym
.
¶
After
the
kynges
commaundement
all
thynges
were
ordeyned
as
he
had
deuysed
.
And
dyuers
knyghtes
and
squyres
were
reteyned
of
Arthurs
housholde
/
the
whiche
began
for
to
gete
vp
/
and
the
kynge
vysyted
hym
ryght
often
.
Also
dyde
the
fayre
Helayne
/
that
made
no
semblaunte
of
nothynge
.
And
soo
moche
passed
on
these
thynges
that
Arthur
was
heled
.
And
whan
it
came
that
he
myghte
walke
aboute
in
the
courte
/
and
haue
acquayntaunce
with
the
noble
men
that
remayned
therin
/
euery
body
began
for
to
loue
hym
/
bycause
of
the
humblenes
that
he
was
replete
with
.
And
the
kynge
hymself
loued
hym
almoost
as
moch●
as
Olyuer
his
sone
in
lawe
.
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
was
in
the
grace
of
euery
body
/
he
forgate
not
the
wronge
that
the
kynge
of
Irlande
hadde
done
to
his
felowe
/
wherfore
he
demaunded
hym
on
a
daye
yf
that
he
hadde
ony
wyll
for
to
auenge
hym
.
And
Olyuer
sayd
naye
/
and
sayd
that
he
had
perdonned
hym
.
And
how
quod
Arthur
haue
ye
so
feble
a
courage
that
ye
dare
not
auenge
you
on
your
enemye
/
by
the
fayth
that
I
owe
to
god
/
it
shall
not
abyde
soo
.
And
then
all
euyll
contente
he
came
towarde
the
kynge
/
&
tolde
hym
all
alonge
in
what
pryson
Olyuer
hadde
ben
in
/
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
gyue
hym
men
for
to
auenge
Olyuer
/
for
he
knewe
well
that
Olyuer
hadde
no
talente
for
to
doo
it
.
Whan
that
the
kyng
herde
Arthur
speke
so
/
he
toke
it
more
greuously
at
his
herte
than
Arthur
dydde
/
wherfore
he
sayd
to
hym
.
My
fayre
frende
lette
my
sone
haue
his
wyll
/
for
it
may
be
that
he
hathe
made
some
promesses
afore
that
he
yssued
oute
of
pryson
.
Ye
be
well
the
man
for
to
auenge
hym
without
ony
more
that
he
medle
hym
therof
.
And
then
the
kynge
reysed
vp
a
grete
armye
of
the
whiche
Arthur
was
the
chyef
Capytayne
/
the
whiche
were
not
soo
sone
arryued
in
Irlande
but
that
the
Kynge
theyr
enemye
the
whiche
had
knowlege
of
theyr
comynge
/
gaue
them
batayll
/
where
as
was
slayne
dyuers
men
vpon
bothe
sydes
/
but
fynally
the
Irysshmen
were
dyscomfyted
/
and
the
kynge
fledde
/
&
was
assyeged
in
one
of
his
places
/
that
was
not
well
garnysshed
with
vytaylles
/
wherfore
it
myght
not
holde
longe
.
So
whan
he
sawe
that
he
had
noo
more
mete
/
and
that
it
was
force
for
to
yelde
hym
/
as
a
valyaunt
man
he
sayd
that
he
had
leuer
deye
in
the
felde
in
auengynge
his
dethe
with
the
cuttynge
of
his
swerde
on
his
enemyes
/
than
for
to
yelde
〈◊〉
theyr
volente
/
and
prayed
the
lytell
folke
that
he
had
for
to
do
well
/
and
then
armed
them
and
made
to
open
the
gates
of
th
fortresse
in
smytynge
on
theyr
enemyes
/
and
slew
many
at
the
fyrste
bronte
/
but
there
was
soo
many
men
agaynst
them
that
they
coude
not
escape
.
And
fynably
the
kynge
and
all
his
men
were
slayne
.
After
his
dethe
all
his
realme
yelded
them
/
and
were
contente
for
to
haue
suche
a
lorde
as
the
kyng
of
Englande
wolde
assygne
them
.
¶
How
Arthur
fell
in
a
grete
maladye
/
and
of
the
dyspleasure
that
Olyuer
had
.
Capitulo
.
lxv
.
THese
thynges
done
Arthur
and
his
company
retorned
in
to
Englande
/
where
as
they
were
fested
of
the
kynge
/
of
Olyuer
/
and
of
all
that
other
lordes
.
And
the
kynge
gaue
Arthur
the
realme
of
Irlande
that
he
had
●onquered
of
newe
.
And
the
Irysshemen
were
sent
for
/
the
whiche
came
and
dyde
hym
homage
&
feate
/
wherby
Arthur
was
more
puyssaunt
than
afore
/
but
this
was
not
but
that
he
demaunded
often
of
Olyuer
what
thynge
dydde
meue
hym
that
he
made
him
not
to
be
knowen
/
for
then
euery
man
wolde
haue
made
hym
better
chere
/
and
the
kynge
wolde
haue
ben
ryght
Ioyous
/
for
to
haue
maryed
his
doughter
so
hyghlye
.
Notwithstandynge
that
it
suffysed
him
Also
he
tolde
hym
how
that
after
his
departynge
his
fader
had
neuer
Ioye
/
and
thought
that
angre
hadde
put
hym
to
dethe
/
wherfore
Olyuer
wepte
ryght
strongely
for
the
dethe
of
his
fader
/
for
hym
semed
yf
that
he
were
deed
/
that
it
was
for
his
sake
/
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
not
as
ye
tell
what
he
was
/
for
it
was
yet
tyme
ynoug●●
for
to
make
them
to
be
knowen
/
and
that
whan
that
it
sholde
please
them
they
myght
do
it
.
Arthur
that
wolde
all
that
his
felowe
wolde
/
dydde
not
dysobeye
hym
in
nothynge
Also
Olyuer
made
to
bere
more
honour
vnto
hym
than
to
hymselfe
/
and
pleased
hym
the
moost
that
he
myght
.
Truely
the
two
loyall
felowes
made
so
many
nowe
thynges
that
all
they
of
the
realme
reioysed
them
Al
theyr
thoughtes
was
but
for
to
make
good
chere
and
Ioyous
&
that
the
whiche
the
one
wolde
the
other
wolde
also
/
and
theyr
two
hertes
were
more
agreynge
than
theyr
semblaunce
/
that
was
all
one
thynge
Thus
as
ye
here
they
passed
the
tyme
in
Ioy
/
but
forture
that
is
moder
of
all
●rybnlacyon
had
enuye
of
the
goodnes
of
these
two
loyall
brederen
and
perfyte
felowes
/
for
in
a
shorte
tyme
all
theyr
laughynges
and
Ioyes
were
chaunged
in
to
wepynges
and
lamentacyons
/
for
Arthur
was
soo
greuously
syke
that
the
physycyens
iuged
hym
but
deed
but
he
was
not
so
happy
for
to
deye
/
at
euery
tyme
that
he
wysshed
it
.
His
sekenes
was
without
comparyson
of
all
them
that
euer
hadde
ben
sene
/
for
in
a
maner
of
wormes
descended
from
his
braynes
/
the
whiche
ete
all
his
face
/
wherby
he
was
so
strongely
dysfygured
/
that
there
was
neuer
man
more
.
Out
of
his
body
yssued
so
grete
a
stynke
/
that
none
myght
approche
hym
saue
Olyuer
/
that
at
euery
thynge
was
aboute
hym
/
and
wolde
not
departe
fro
hym
.
He
sente
for
all
the
maystres
surgyens
on
euery
syde
/
and
prayed
theym
yf
that
they
coude
fynde
ony
remedy
for
his
fayre
broder
that
they
sholde
spare
for
nothynge
.
And
fynably
none
coude
put
no
remedye
to
it
/
And
this
sykenes
he●de
Arthur
so
longe
that
he
was
blynde
.
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
hym
so
blynde
that
he
semed
better
deed
than
alyue
/
he
mayde
ryght
grete
sorowe
/
so
moche
that
euery
body
hadde
pyte
on
hym
.
Often
Olyuer
sayd
vnto
Arthur
/
my
broder
yf
there
be
ony
thyng
that
ye
knowe
that
I
may
do
for
to
helpe
you
/
spare
it
not
for
vpon
my
fayth
I
wolde
be
the
poorest
man
in
the
worlde
/
so
that
ye
had
your
helthe
.
¶
Of
the
dreme
and
vysyon
that
Olyuer
had
by
four
〈◊〉
&
in
lykewyse
it
semed
to
Arthur
that
his
helthe
was
in
the
power
of
Olyuer
his
felowe
/
and
that
he
must
do
it
for
to
hele
hym
.
Capitulo
.
lxvj
.
MY
broder
and
faythfull
felowe
sayd
Arthur
ye
doo
me
more
good
than
I
haue
deserued
wherfore
I
thanke
you
/
and
pray
you
that
ye
wyll
pray
to
god
for
to
sende
dethe
to
me
for
and
it
were
his
wyll
I
wolde
fayne
be
out
of
this
myserye
.
¶
It
happened
that
Olyuer
slepte
vpon
a
nyghte
/
and
dremed
that
it
was
well
possyble
to
fynde
helthe
for
his
felowe
.
And
Arthur
dremed
in
lyke
wyse
that
it
was
in
Olyuers
power
for
to
hele
hym
/
and
they
had
this
vysyon
foure
dayes
togyder
/
wherof
Olyuer
was
●ore
ameruayled
.
He
came
to
se
his
felowe
and
declared
to
him
his
dreme
/
and
his
felowe
sayd
that
dremes
were
but
abusyon
/
notwithstandynge
he
tolde
hym
that
by
thre
dayes
he
had
dremed
/
and
hym
thoughte
that
a
thynge
sayd
to
hym
that
he
myght
hele
hym
/
and
none
other
.
Olyuer
sayd
to
hym
wolde
to
god
that
it
were
in
my
power
for
to
hele
you
/
for
and
I
myght
do
it
/
ye
sholde
be
shortly
hole
/
or
elles
I
praye
to
god
that
he
neuer
gyue
me
his
paradyse
.
Whan
it
came
to
the
nyght
and
that
Olyuer
wente
to
bedde
/
he
sette
hym
on
his
knees
afore
his
bedde
prayng
our
lorde
that
he
wolde
gyue
hym
knowlege
of
that
vysyon
/
that
soo
often
tymes
had
happened
hym
.
And
with
this
that
he
wolde
tell
hym
in
what
maner
that
he
myght
hele
his
felowe
.
Then
he
layde
hym
downe
/
and
he
was
not
soo
sone
a
slepe
but
that
a
voyce
sayd
to
hym
so
hyghe
that
he
awaked
.
Olyuer
thy
felow
may
not
be
heled
tyll
that
he
drynke
of
the
bloo●●
of
two
Innocentes
/
sone
and
doughter
/
the
whiche
must
be
slayne
/
and
theyr
blode
medled
togyder
/
and
thenne
gyue
it
hym
to
drynke
/
but
he
must
not
knowe
of
it
whan
he
shal
drynke
it
/
for
and
he
knewe
it
he
wolde
not
drynke
it
for
nothynge
.
Whan
Olyuer
herde
this
he
was
al
abasshed
and
thought
for
to
haue
resoned
hym
ferder
forthe
/
but
the
kynge
was
gone
and
sayd
nomore
.
Helayne
had
herde
nothynge
of
all
this
.
Upon
the
morowe
he
wente
to
se
his
felowe
as
he
was
accustomed
/
and
axed
hym
how
he
had
done
that
nyght
.
Arthur
knewe
hym
by
his
voyce
/
for
he
had
lost
his
syght
/
and
prayed
him
for
to
approche
to
hym
.
And
whan
he
felte
hym
he
enbraced
hym
sayng
My
ryght
swete
broder
ye
be
my
dethe
and
my
lyfe
/
for
a
voyce
hathe
tolde
me
this
nyght
that
it
is
possyble
for
you
to
hele
me
/
nor
other
thynge
coude
I
not
knowe
.
Olyuer
sayd
to
hym
what
he
wolde
well
that
it
were
so
/
&
then
he
departed
fro
thens
/
and
after
that
he
had
herde
masse
/
he
withdrewe
hym
aparte
in
to
alytel
chambre
/
and
began
for
to
thynke
on
that
whiche
he
had
herde
on
the
nyghte
afore
/
then
he
sette
hym
on
his
knees
before
an
ymage
of
the
gloryous
vyrgyn
Marye
/
the
whiche
he
had
of
custome
for
to
salue
/
and
began
for
to
saye
thus
/
Ryght
gloryous
vyrgyn
Marye
I
praye
the
that
by
thy
pyte
thou
wylte
counsayll
this
vnhappy
.
I
haue
my
felowe
syke
the
whiche
hathe
done
so
moche
for
me
that
I
can
neuer
deserue
it
.
It
hathe
ben
sayd
to
me
whether
it
is
by
god
or
not
/
that
who
sholde
sle
two
chyldren
a
sone
and
doughter
/
and
that
theyr
blode
were
medled
to
gyder
/
and
that
it
were
gyuen
hym
to
drynke
/
that
he
sholdehele
.
Ryght
swete
lady
I
haue
two
chyldren
/
a
sone
&
a
doughter
of
kynges
blode
.
¶
Neuerthelesse
yf
that
I
knewe
that
I
sholde
not
offende
the
hyghnesse
of
thy
sone
and
the
/
I
sholde
slee
my
two
chyldren
/
for
to
rendre
to
my
broder
his
helthe
.
¶
How
Olyuer
for
to
gyue
helthe
&
guaryson
to
his
felowe
/
slewe
his
two
chyldren
for
to
haue
the
bloode
that
Arthur
myght
drynke
it
.
Capitulo
.
lxvij
.
Whan
Olyuer
had
made
thus
his
complaynte
to
the
vyrgyn
Marye
/
&
that
he
had
had
dyuers
ymagynacyons
/
as
well
of
the
loue
that
he
had
to
his
chyldren
/
as
the
whiche
he
had
to
his
felowe
/
he
concluded
for
to
slee
his
two
chyldren
for
the
loue
of
his
felowe
/
saynge
●he
hadde
nothynge
more
dere
than
his
felowe
/
and
that
the
loue
that
he
loued
his
two
chyldren
with
/
was
nothynge
for
to
compare
to
that
the
whiche
he
loued
his
felowe
with
/
Wherfore
he
departed
fro
his
chambre
/
and
came
in
to
that
of
his
two
chyldren
.
And
whan
he
was
entred
he
commaunded
all
the
ladyes
for
to
auoyde
oute
/
the
whiche
dyde
his
commaundement
.
And
whan
he
founde
hymselfe
alone
he
shytte
the
chambre
dore
/
and
bare
a
basyn
/
and
a
naked
swerde
in
his
hande
vnto
the
bedde
of
the
two
chyldren
the
whiche
slepte
/
and
were
not
yet
rysen
/
Whan
he
approched
nere
the
bedde
/
he
lyfte
vp
the
couerlette
/
and
founde
them
slepynge
ryght
swetely
.
The
lytell
sone
that
was
of
the
aege
of
.v.
yere
awaked
/
and
in
contynente
as
he
sawe
Olyuer
/
nature
taught
hym
for
to
make
hym
chere
/
and●
in
smylynge
named
hym
fader
The
doughter
that
was
the
yonger
neuer
lefte
slepynge
whan
the
sayd
Olyuer
sawe
them
/
he
consydered
whiche
of
them
two
he
sholde
slee
fyrste
/
&
bycause
that
the
sone
began
for
to
speke
to
hym
/
he
hadde
soo
grete
pyte
in
his
herte
that
he
recu●ed
abacke
/
&
for
all
the
worde
he
wolde
not
haue
smyten
them
/
and
then
he
sayd
to
hymselfe
How
many
nature
fayle
so
moche
for
to
suffre
the
fader
for
to
slee
his
chylde
.
Nor
how
may
there
be
soo
moche
cruelte
in
a
man
for
to
consente
to
murdre
.
Alas
the
fayre
&
good
Helayne
/
what
pyteous
tydynges
shall
come
vnto
your
eeres
/
whan
that
ye
shall
knowe
that
I
haue
slayne
your
chyldren
/
what
shall
ye
saye
.
Certaynly
your
pyteous
herte
may
not
endure
it
.
And
with
that
that
ye
lese
your
chyldren
/
ye
shal
lese
your
husbande
also
/
for
he
dare
not
abyde
in
this
realme
for
the
fere
of
your
fader
that
shall
put
hym
to
dethe
/
for
he
is
well
worthy
.
And
certes
the
〈◊〉
beestes
hathe
more
reason
than
I
haue
/
vnto
whome
nature
dothe
teche
for
to
kepe
theyr
fruyte
to
the
dethe
/
and
truely
I
ought
for
to
resemble
vnto
them
I
oughte
to
put
me
in
peryll
of
dethe
for
to
saue
my
chyldren
/
but
thus
it
shall
not
go
.
And
in
saynge
this
he
approched
to
the
bedde
/
and
yet
lyfte
vp
the
couerlet
agayne
/
and
drewe
hym
by
the
arme
and
sayd
.
Unhappy
chyldren
/
ye
ought
well
for
to
curse
your
fader
/
and
his
lyf
whan
he
hathe
engendred
you
and
put
you
in
this
worlde
from
whiche
ye
must
departe
.
Thus
saynge
full
dolorously
with
the
teres
descendynge
a
longe
his
face
/
and
the
swerde
in
his
hande
redy
for
to
smyte
/
nature
&
reason
put
afore
hym
that
it
sholde
be
to
grete
dommage
/
&
cruelte
.
And
lyberalyte
sayd
to
the
contrary
/
that
for
to
rendre
helthe
to
his
felowe
he
coude
not
do
to
moche
/
the
whiche
he
byleued
/
and
in
puttynge
all
feres
behynde
/
with
one
stroke
he
smote
of
bothe
theyr
hedes
/
and
then
he
put
the
basyn
vnderneth
/
and
receyued
as
meche
blode
as
he
myght
haue
/
and
thenne
he
layde
them
in
theyr
bedde
agayne
/
and
the
hedes
in
theyr
places
soo
as
they
hadde
ben
alyue
.
He
toke
a
mauntell
with
the
whiche
he
couered
it
/
and
so
bare
it
/
in
lockynge
the
dore
after
hym
and
toke
the
keye
with
hym
/
to
the
ende
that
non●
shold
entre
to
know
what
was
done
.
¶
How
Olyuer
in
a
basyn
of
syluer
brought
the
blode
of
his
two
chyldren
to
his
felowe
/
and
made
hym
to
drynke
it
/
and
was
all
heled
.
Capitulo
.
lxviij
.
OLyuer
all
alone
holdynge
the
basyn
in
his
handes
came
in
to
the
chambre
of
his
felowe
and
made
to
auoyde
all
them
that
were
there
/
and
then
after
he
toke
a
lytell
pot
●ull
of
the
blode
that
was
yet
all
hote
/
and
gaue
it
to
his
felowe
Arthur
for
to
drynke
/
that
knewe
nothynge
what
it
was
.
And
the
hystorye
maketh
mencyon
that
as
sone
as
he
had
tasted
of
it
all
the
vermyne
of
his
heed
fell
of
.
And
with
this
he
keste
oute
all
the
vapours
of
his
body
/
in
suche
wyse
that
he
felte
hymselfe
of
all
poyntes
heled
/
saue
the
flesshe
that
was
eten
of
his
vysage
was
not
so
sone
comen
agayne
.
But
Olyuer
by
thre
or
foure
tymes
wasshed
it
/
and
gaue
hym
the
surplus
for
to
drynke
so
moche
that
he
had
agayne
his
syght
and
his
helthe
And
whan
Arthur
felte
hymselfe
heled
/
he
kneled
downe
for
the
kysse
the
feete
of
his
felowe
.
And
Olyuer
that
was
gladde
of
the
guaryson
and
helth
of
his
felowe
sayd
to
hym
.
My
frende
gyue
thankynges
to
god
/
and
after
to
my
chyldren
the
whiche
I
haue
slayne
for
thy
helthe
/
And
to
the
ende
that
thou
byleue
it
the
better
to
there
the
basyn
that
is
yet
all
blody
of
theyr
blode
.
Arthur
herynge
and
seynge
this
meruayll
/
hadde
so
grete
abhomynacyon
/
and
was
soo
meuyd
at
his
herte
/
that
with
payne
it
can
be
specyfyed
/
and
sayd
to
hym
.
¶
Ha
ha
Olyuer
how
may
there
rest
so
grete
cruelte
and
tyrannye
in
a
mannes
herte
as
in
thyn
/
that
hathe
slayne
thy
two
chyldren
for
me
that
am
a
straunge
man
/
and
nothyng
of
thy
kynne
Truely
I
wolde
be
deed
/
so
that
it
hadde
not
happened
so
to
the.
Olyuer
sayd
to
hym
my
frende
I
was
theyr
fader
/
and
seynge
that
I
haue
put
them
to
dethe
/
thou
arte
nothynge
culpable
/
for
it
was
not
at
thy
request
/
wherfore
holde
the
contente
.
But
my
ryght
loyall
felowe
there
is
another
thynge
/
for
it
is
nedefull
that
the
departynge
of
vs
twayne
be
made
.
Wherfore
I
recommende
my
wyfe
vnto
the
/
and
praye
the
that
thou
wylte
comforte
&
helpe
her
.
For
I
knowe
well
that
she
shall
haue
grete
nede
of
helpe
whan
she
shall
knowe
that
the
whiche
is
happened
.
All
the
golde
of
the
worlde
sholde
not
kepe
me
yf
the
kynge
knewe
it
.
Wherfore
it
is
force
for
me
for
to
departe
/
and
go
in
to
suche
a
place
where
neuer
tydynges
shall
be
herde
of
me
/
and
where
as
I
maye
serue
god
al
the
remenaunt
of
my
lyfe
for
to
purge
my
vyces
&
synnes
whyles
that
Olyuer
spake
to
his
felowe
/
the
lady
that
had
the
kepynge
of
the
two
chyldren
had
been
at
Helayne
and
complayned
her
strongely
of
that
/
that
she
knewe
not
in
what
estate
the
chyldren
were
/
and
excused
her
saynge
that
and
there
came
ony
euyll
to
them
/
that
it
was
by
the
sayd
Olyuer
.
¶
Of
the
grete
myracle
that
god
dyde
to
Olyuer
for
his
loyalte
/
in
reysyng
his
two
chyldren
to
lyfe
that
he
hadde
slayne
.
Capitulo
.
lxix
.
OLyuer
thought
that
it
sholde
be
a
thynge
in
humayne
for
to
se
his
two
chyldren
by
heded
/
wherfore
he
wente
in
to
the
chambre
where
as
they
were
/
for
to
haue
put
them
in
a
place
where
neuer
tydynges
sholde
haue
ben
herde
of
them
.
And
this
wolde
he
do
afore
his
departynge
.
Whan
he
had
lyfte
vp
to
the
couerlet
/
he
opened
the
wyndowe
that
was
shytte
for
to
se
them
more
playnly
/
and
then
he
came
towarde
his
chyldren
with
the
teres
in
his
eyen
/
and
in
castynge
his
regarde
on
them
/
he
apperceyued
that
they
hadde
lyfe
/
and
played
bothe
togyder
.
¶
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
this
myracle
/
for
pure
Ioye
he
fell
in
a
swowne
to
the
erthe
.
And
whan
he
was
arysen
he
enbraced
and
kyssed
them
a
.
M.
tymes
/
and
thenne
he
sayd
.
¶
O
innumerable
puyssaunce
of
god
that
no
man
can
comprehende
I
rendre
vnto
the
praysynges
&
thankes
/
of
the
goodnes
that
thou
hast
done
to
me
poore
synner
/
in
shewynge
thy
grete
pyte
and
mercye
.
He
toke
his
two
chyldren
in
his
armes
and
lapped
them
in
a
clothe
all
blody
.
And
the
fyrste
that
he
encountred
was
his
felowe
.
Arthur
to
whome
he
sayd
.
Broder
reioyse
the
/
goo
and
se
the
kynge
/
and
do
so
moche
that
he
folowe
me
to
the
chyrche
that
I
go
to
.
In
lyke
wyse
my
wyfe
and
all
them
of
the
courte
that
ye
may
fynde
.
Then
Olyuer
passed
forth●
all
alone
thrughe
the
stretes
/
and
he
dydde
soo
moche
that
he
came
to
the
cathedrall
chyrche
of
Poules
where
as
he
commaunded
that
all
the
belles
sholde
be
rongen
/
to
the
ende
that
all
manere
of
folke
sholde
come
theder
.
He
mounted
on
hye
for
to
be
herde
of
euery
body
And
then
he
began
for
to
saye
whan
he
sawe
that
the
kynge
was
comen
/
and
that
the
chyrche
was
full
of
folke
.
Ryght
puyssaunt
kynge
of
Englande
thou
hast
maryed
thy
doughter
to
a
man
vnknowen
/
for
ye
knowe
that
I
neuer
reherced
to
you
of
my
lygnage
/
notwithstandyng
thynke
that
my
condycyons
be
not
so
hye
and
soo
vertuous
as
they
ought
to
be
/
and
that
apperteynethe
to
my
lygnage
/
the
whiche
is
ryall
/
for
I
am
sone
of
a
kynge
and
of
a
quene
/
and
at
this
presente
tyme
kynge
of
Castyll
.
But
neuer
syfh
the
decesse
of
my
fader
/
and
that
the
realme
is
fallen
to
me
I
haue
not
been
there
But
my
wyll
is
nowe
for
to
getheder
/
and
make
me
to
be
crowned
kynge
and
my
wyfe
quene
.
Wherfore
I
beseche
you
noble
kynge
that
ye
wyll
accompany
me
and
youre
daughter
theder
/
for
it
is
reason
that
I
retorne
better
accompanyed
than
I
came
forthe
.
Notwithstandynge
that
I
had
taken
leue
of
the
ryghte
puyssaunce
Kynge
of
Algarbe
/
my
faythfull
felowe
that
is
there
.
I
lefte
hym
a
lettre
by
the
whiche
I
prayed
hym
that
yf
he
sawe
the
water
of
a
glasse
that
I
had
lefte
hym
chaunge
his
coloure
/
that
he
sholde
put
hym
in
quest
after
me
/
for
I
sholde
than
haue
nede
of
helpe
.
He
forgate
it
not
/
for
he
loked
so
moche
that
he
sawe
it
chaunge
/
and
it
was
at
the
houre
that
I
was
taken
in
Irlande
.
Whan
he
apperceyued
it
/
he
that
is
a
kynge
redoubted
/
and
regente
of
Castyll
in
abydynge
of
my
retorne
/
hathe
habandonned
landes
and
possessyons
/
and
all
other
thynges
for
my
loue
/
and
all
alone
without
ony
company
put
hym
on
the
waye
/
and
made
auowe
to
god
that
he
sholde
neuer
rest
tyll
that
he
hadde
herde
tydynges
of
me
.
¶
How
Olyuer
afore
the
kynge
of
Englande
and
the
other
barons
of
the
realme
/
tolde
his
ad●entures
and
meruaylous
fortunes
.
Capitulo
.
lxx
.
AFter
Olyuer
began
for
to
recounte
all
the
aduentures
of
Arthur
/
as
well
of
them
of
the
forest
/
as
of
that
other
/
and
how
that
he
hadde
foughten
with
the
kynge
of
Irlande
/
&
four
of
his
knyghtes
that
helde
hym
in
pryson
/
&
dyde
so
moche
by
force
of
armes
that
he
dyde
vaynquysshe
hym
/
and
slewe
his
men
.
And
after
sayd
in
this
maner
contyne
wynge
by
conclusyon
.
By
the
moyen
of
my
broder
&
loyall
felowe
Arthur
I
am
delyuered
from
the
place
where
as
I
sholde
neuer
haue
yssued
out
.
And
in
guerdon
of
all
these
thynges
I
broke
one
of
his
legges
.
Now
it
is
happened
after
all
these
thynges
that
he
hath
had
a
meruaylous
sykenes
/
not
foure
houres
ago
.
And
so
as
I
desyred
some
thynge
that
myght
hele
hym
.
It
happened
me
to
haue
a
vysyon
/
and
was
tolde
to
me
that
who
that
wolde
gyue
hym
a
drynke
of
the
blode
of
two
Innocentes
/
sone
and
doughter
medled
togyder
/
that
he
sholde
haue
helthe
.
So
it
is
happened
for
to
gete
him
helth
that
with
this
swerde
I
haue
slayne
my
propre
chyldren
/
and
byheded
them
for
to
rendre
to
hym
his
helthe
/
the
whiche
he
hathe
/
wherfore
I
gyue
thankynges
vnto
our
sauyour
.
And
after
that
I
sawe
hym
heled
I
thought
for
to
haue
departed
from
this
realme
.
But
yet
I
came
in
to
her
chambre
for
to
se
my
chyldren
that
I
had
slayne
/
the
whiche
by
the
wyll
of
our
lorde
that
hathe
extended
his
grace
/
and
pyteous
mercy
on
me
poore
synner
/
hath
founde
them
alyue
/
and
playnge
the
one
with
the
other
Wherfore
faders
and
moders
that
hathe
chyldren
/
thynke
in
what
doloure
I
was
in
whan
I
put
them
to
dethe
And
what
Ioye
that
I
haue
herde
whan
I
se
them
reuyued
.
Then
he
toke
his
two
chyldren
and
afore
all
the
people
shewed
them
alyue
/
lapped
in
the
clothe
that
was
all
bebledde
of
theyr
blode
.
Wherfore
all
they
that
were
the
represent
/
were
mouyd
with
inwardly
pyte
/
that
with
wepynges
and
lamentacyons
they
made
a
grete
bruyte
The
kynge
wepte
for
grete
Ioye
and
pyte
.
The
poore
Helayne
that
sawe
her
chyldren
so
/
myghte
not
supporte
herselfe
but
fell
in
a
swowne
.
And
whan
she
was
comente
herselfe
/
she
came
to
her
chyldren
in
shewynge
to
them
moderly
loue
/
&
she
coude
not
be
fulfylled
with
kyssynge
/
and
pyteous
remuneracyon
.
Bryefely
it
was
a
pyteous
thynge
for
to
be
in
that
chyrche
/
for
some
wepte
for
Ioye
and
the
other
for
pyte
.
And
whan
the
sorowe
was
a
lytell
aswaged
the
kynge
al
wepynge
came
and
enbraced
Olyuer
saynge
.
¶
Noble
kynge
blessyd
be
our
lorde
whan
he
hathe
gyuen
me
the
puyssaunce
for
to
mary
my
doughter
so
nobly
/
as
to
a
kynge
that
is
extracte
of
so
noble
a
lygnage
.
Ye
recounte
vnto
vs
the
moost
meruaylous
tale
that
euer
was
herde
in
ony
countree
.
And
ye
maye
well
ymagyne
that
they
that
shall
here
it
after
vs
shall
saye
thus
for
for
euermore
the
compaynye
of
you
and
of
your
broder
as
longe
as
the
worlde
shall
endure
ought
to
be
recounted
for
the
not
semblable
that
euer
was
herde
or
that
shall
be
.
¶
How
Olyuer
sente
Arthur
in
to
Castyll
/
for
to
notyfye
his
comynge
.
And
how
the
kynge
of
Englande
accompanyed
Olyuer
in
to
Castylle
.
Capitulo
.
lxxi
.
THe
myracle
was
publysshed
thrughe
the
real
me
of
Englande
.
And
after
all
these
thynges
they
beganne
for
to
make
Ioyous
feestes
in
welcomynge
the
kynge
of
Castylle
that
was
than
knowen
.
And
euery
body
sayd
that
the
kynge
was
happy
for
to
haue
maryed
his
doughter
soo
And
sayd
that
it
was
meruayll
that
he
had
kepte
hym
〈◊〉
longe
close
.
The
kynge
of
Englande
sente
for
the
lordes
and
ladyes
of
his
countree
.
And
helde
one
of
the
gretest
feestes
that
euer
he
had
made
.
Olyuer
prayed
theym
all
that
they
wolde
accompanye
hym
in
to
Castylle
to
be
at
his
coronacyon
.
And
they
accorded
hym
all
/
and
the
kynge
hymselfe
sayd
that
he
wolde
go
with
hym
/
and
Olyuer
thanked
hym
.
And
after
prayed
the
kynge
of
Algarbe
his
felowe
that
he
wolde
do
soo
moche
as
to
goo
in
to
Castylle
for
to
denounce
his
comynge
.
Arthur
sayd
that
he
wolde
do
it
gladly
.
He
departed
from
Englande
well
accompanyed
/
and
dyde
soo
moche
that
they
arryued
in
Castylle
/
where
as
he
tolde
the
comynge
of
the
kynge
/
&
of
his
wyfe
the
kynge
of
Englandes
doughter
.
Whan
the
tydynges
were
denounced
that
,
he
was
comen
/
and
that
Olyuer
came
after
/
euery
body
thanked
god
/
and
apparaylled
them
for
to
receyue
hym
in
the
moost
honourablest
wyse
that
they
myghte
.
They
of
the
realme
assembled
them
/
and
by
counsayll
ordeyned
for
to
make
feest
▪
from
the
fyrste
towne
of
the
realme
where
as
he
sholde
entre
/
vnto
the
laste
that
he
sholde
passe
by
.
And
all
at
the
expence
of
the
realme
.
Whan
Olyuer
thought
that
his
felowe
myght
be
well
in
Castyll
/
he
made
that
the
kynge
was
contente
to
departe
.
And
departed
from
London
the
fayrest
/
and
the
moost
noble
companye
/
and
the
best
in
poynt
that
euer
was
sene
vpon
a
daye
.
Helayne
was
accompanyed
of
ladyes
and
damoyselles
in
suche
wyse
that
it
was
grete
pleasure
for
to
beholde
theym
of
theyr
Iourneys
I
can
not
deuyse
to
you
/
but
they
dydde
soo
moche
that
they
arryued
in
Spayne
/
where
as
they
were
feested
of
all
the
grete
lordes
that
they
passed
by
.
And
whan
they
approched
nere
Castylle
.
Arthur
and
all
the
grete
lordes
came
agaynst
them
.
And
welcomed
theym
ryght
gracyouslye
/
and
Ioyously
in
thankynge
god
of
theyr
comynge
.
Then
they
made
reuerence
to
theyr
lorde
/
&
to
theyr
newe
quene
also
.
The
whiche
semed
them
the
fayrest
lady
that
euer
they
had
sene
.
Also
they
salued
the
kynge
of
Englande
in
offrynge
them
to
his
seruyce
/
And
whan
they
were
entred
in
to
the
fyrst
towne
of
the
realme
/
the
stretes
were
hanged
/
&
pagentes
vpon
scaffoldes
/
and
there
was
soo
many
other
playes
that
they
wyst
not
the
whiche
they
myght
beholde
.
The
ladyes
were
in
the
wyndowes
soo
rychely
clothed
that
it
was
meruayll
.
And
whan
it
came
that
they
entred
in
to
the
prynces
place
/
all
that
they
had
sene
afore
was
nothynge
to
that
y●
whiche
they
sawe
there
.
They
were
so
wel
seruyd
at
souper
that
it
was
m●ruayle
.
And
fynablye
in
all
the
townes
that
they
passed
by
they
founde
newe
thynges
and
alwaye
better
and
better
.
From
the
begynnynge
of
the
realme
all
the
companye
were
at
the
good
Olyuers
expences
.
In
that
estate
they
came
vnto
the
cyte
of
Vaudolytys
/
where
as
they
founde
the
olde
quene
of
Castyll
Olyuers
stepmoder
/
&
Arthurs
owne
moder
/
the
whiche
at
the
request
of
her
sone
Arthur
/
was
comen
oute
of
the
realme
and
countree
of
Algarbe
for
to
saye
vnto
the
fayre
Helayne
that
was
newe
quene
/
that
she
was
welcome
/
and
to
Olyuer
semblably
.
Also
in
that
same
Cyte
was
the
moost
ryalte
as
in
the
pryncypall
cyte
.
¶
And
whan
it
came
that
they
were
descended
at
the
palays
/
the
quene
Arthurs
moder
came
agaynst
them
strongely
accompanyed
with
●adyes
and
damoyselles
/
&
welcomed
the
newe
quene
/
&
also
the
kynge
of
Englande
her
fader
.
And
on
the
morowe
Olyuer
was
crowned
/
&
he
layne
also
And
at
the
dyner
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
the
kynge
of
Casty●●●
/
the
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
&
the
two
other
quenes
were
set
at
one
table
/
&
all
.v.
were
crowned
.
¶
Here
it
deuyseth
how
the
kynge
and
that
other
lordes
and
ladyes
dyde
departe
.
And
how
the
whyte
knyght
appered
to
Olyuer
/
and
oppressed
him
for
to
holde
his
promesse
/
whiche
was
for
to
gyue
hym
the
halfe
of
his
wynnynge
bycause
of
the
torneyment
.
Ca.
lxxij
.
AFter
these
thynges
and
that
the
kynge
of
Englande
hadde
ben
there
by
the
space
of
two
monethes
/
he
demaunded
Olyuer
yf
that
he
wolde
not
retorne
in
to
Englande
/
and
he
answered
hym
naye
.
And
sayd
that
he
was
more
at
his
ease
in
his
realme
that
had
been
so
longe
without
a
kynge
/
than
for
to
retorne
in
to
Englande
.
Then
the
kynge
concluded
to
departe
/
and
Olyuer
conueyed
hym
out
of
his
realme
.
And
whan
it
came
that
they
sholde
take
leue
the
kynge
of
Englande
sayd
to
hym
.
My
sone
and
my
frende
Olyuer
I
recommaunde
vnto
you
my
doughter
your
wyfe
/
and
I
pray
you
yf
that
I
haue
nede
that
ye
wyll
forgete
not
me
.
And
Olyuer
sayd
to
hȳnaye
/
and
that
as
often
and
as
many
tymes
as
he
sholde
haue
to
do
with
hym
that
he
sholde
fynde
hym
redy
.
And
so
they
toke
leue
/
and
the
kynge
of
Englande
wente
towarde
Englande
/
&
the
kynge
of
Castylle
retorned
/
in
to
his
countree
/
where
as
he
founde
his
broder
Arthur
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
the
whiche
wolde
retorne
in
to
his
countree
/
and
ledde
agayne
his
moder
that
tooke
leue
of
the
kynge
without
makynge
ony
mencyon
of
ony
thynge
that
had
happened
afore
.
And
whan
he
founde
hymselfe
alone
/
and
was
delyuered
of
all
straunge
men
/
he
vysyted
his
realme
/
and
made
his
ordynaunces
soo
fayre
and
so
good
that
euery
body
was
contente
.
He
with
helde
dyuers
lordes
of
the
realme
of
Castylle
of
his
courte
/
with
some
of
Englande
that
were
abyden
with
hym
.
And
as
he
had
ben
there
a
whyle
he
was
knowen
of
all
the
noble
men
/
that
loued
hym
as
theyr
lyfe
.
They
were
all
reioysed
of
the
two
fayre
chyldren
that
they
had
/
the
whiche
dyde
encr●ase
in
aege
/
in
condycyons
/
and
in
beaute
that
it
was
meruayll
.
And
whan
it
came
to
the
knowlege
of
them
of
the
countree
of
the
fayre
myracle
that
had
happened
/
all
the
worlde
was
abasshed
how
he
had
/
had
the
courage
for
to
●lee
them
/
for
they
knewe
wel
as
to
there
garde
of
the
myracle
that
the
puyssaunce
of
god
is
so
grete
that
none
can
comprehended
it
.
Thus
as
ye
here
the
kynge
of
Castylle
lyued
in
Ioye
with
his
fayre
and
good
spou●e
/
resours
of
all
his
sykenesses
and
aduentures
/
and
aledgynge
of
all
his
dolours
.
Euery
body
loued
and
dreded
hym
so
moche
that
neuer
kynge
of
Castylle
was
soo
obeyed
of
his
subgectes
.
It
happened
on
a
somer
da●e
aboute
foure
a
cloke
that
the
daye
was
fayre
and
clere
/
and
as
the
kynge
of
Castylle
slepte
with
his
wyfe
/
a
thynge
came
and
knocked
at
the
chambre
dore
soo
meruayllous
strokes
that
it
hadde
almoost
broken
the
dore
.
The
kynge
awaked
and
demaunded
what
it
was
.
That
same
thynge
answered
open
the
dore
&
thou
shalte
se
/
or
elles
I
shall
breke
it
.
Whan
the
kynge
herde
hym
speke
soo
he
put
on
his
sherte
/
and
toke
his
naked
swerde
in
his
hande
and
came
and
opened
the
dore
.
It
was
not
soo
soone
open
but
that
he
knewe
that
it
was
his
knyght
/
that
at
his
nede
had
alwaye
socoured
and
seruyd
hym
.
And
yet
he
was
clothed
in
the
whyte
gowne
that
he
hadde
at
the
houre
that
he
departed
fro
hym
.
Whan
the
kynge
sawe
hym
he
toke
hym
in
his
armes
and
sayd
.
My
frende
ye
be
welcome
.
And
he
answered
/
welcome
or
yll
come
/
yet
am
I
comen
/
and
not
for
to
tell
you
ony
thynge
that
is
pleasaunt
.
The
kynge
sayd
that
he
coude
saye
nothynge
that
sholde
dysplease
hym
/
for
he
had
good
remembraunce
of
the
promesse
that
he
had
made
to
hym
/
and
was
redy
for
to
holde
it
.
¶
Here
it
maketh
mencyon
of
the
sayd
whyte
knyght
And
of
the
grete
dolour
that
Olyuer
and
his
wyfe
demeaned
for
theyr
chyldren
/
of
whiche
the
whyte
knyghte
toke
the
sone
for
his
parte
/
and
of
other
mysteryes
of
the
quene
.
Capitulo
.
lxxiiij
.
THey
entred
bothe
in
to
the
chambre
where
as
they
founde
Helayne
a
bedde
/
that
was
all
a
basshed
whan
she
sawe
the
knyght
clothed
in
whyte
entre
in
to
the
chambre
.
¶
The
kynge
badde
her
aryse
/
soo
as
she
dydde
/
and
whan
Oly.
she
was
redy
/
the
knyght
prayed
the
kynge
that
he
wolde
kepe
his
promesse
/
and
that
he
wolde
kepe
his
fayth
/
The
kynge
Olyuer
hadde
then
all
the
thynges
redy
and
apparaylled
.
For
it
was
of
longe
tyme
purueyed
in
abydynge
the
whyte
knyght
/
and
had
departed
all
these
thynges
〈◊〉
wayne
/
and
began
for
to
saye
vnto
the
knyghte
in
this
maner
.
My
frende
I
shall
begynne
at
the
Iewelles
of
my
wyfe
without
the
clothynge
that
hathe
ben
estymed
a
mylyon
of
golde
/
lo
there
the
keye
take
the
whiche
that
ye
wyll
/
for
all
his
departed
in
halfe
/
&
my
treasoure
in
lyke
wyse
ye
shall
chese
the
whiche
halfe
that
ye
wyll
.
After
the
mouable
goodes
of
my
hous
that
I
am
serued
with
/
I
thynke
that
ye
haue
but
lytell
to
do
with
them
/
saue
the
vessell
.
And
that
vpon
his
fayth
he
hadde
departed
in
two
all
that
he
hadde
wonne
and
moore
to
/
for
the
moost
parte
of
his
treasour
proceded
of
the
realme
of
Castylle
/
and
that
and
he
had
euer
ony
thynge
of
that
of
Englande
/
he
sholde
be
lorde
of
the
Iust
halfe
as
he
hadde
promysed
hym
.
The
knyght
sayd
that
he
was
not
contente
and
sayd
to
hym
.
¶
Kynge
ye
leye
to
me
of
that
whiche
ye
saye
/
for
ye
do
not
departe
it
so
to
me
as
ye
haue
promysed
.
Haue
ye
not
wonne
wyfe
and
chyldren
The
kynge
sayd
ye
.
Then
sayd
the
knyghte
I
oughte
to
haue
parte
.
¶
Whan
the
kynge
vnderstode
hym
he
set
hym
on
his
knees
/
&
prayed
hym
with
Ioyned
handes
that
he
wolde
leue
hym
his
chyldren
/
and
that
he
wolde
gyue
hym
the
halfe
of
his
realme
and
with
that
the
resydue
of
his
treasoure
.
In
lyke
wyse
the
poore
Helyayne
in
grete
humylite
with
the
teres
in
her
eyen
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
haue
pyte
on
her
/
and
on
her
burden
/
and
that
he
were
contente
for
to
take
that
the
whiche
her
husbande
dyde
ossre
hym
/
by
suche
moyen
that
the
chyldren
sholde
abyde
to
them
.
The
knyght
sayd
to
hym
.
Dame
I
wyll
do
nothynge
for
you
nor
for
none
other
.
And
yf
that
ye
wyll
not
do
it
/
it
is
well
in
my
power
for
to
make
you
recompence
it
full
derely
.
Then
the
kynge
commaunded
the
moder
for
to
fetche
her
chyldren
/
the
whiche
she
dyde
and
founde
them
a
bedde
and
made
them
t●ary●
/
and
clothed
them
/
and
then
broughte
them
.
Whan
the
kynge
sawe
them
he
demaunded
the
knyght
yf
that
he
wolde
be
contente
for
his
realme
&
his
treasoure
for
to
rendre
to
hym
his
chyldren
/
yf
prayer
myght
haue
ony
place
.
The
knyght
sayd
naye
.
Now
sayd
the
kynge
syth
that
it
gothe
thus
/
chese
whiche
that
ye
loue
best
.
The
knyght
layd
that
he
wolde
haue
the
sone
/
bycause
that
he
knewe
that
he
loued
hym
best
.
The
kynge
all
wepynge
toke
his
sone
by
the
hand●
and
gaue
hym
to
the
knyght
saynge
/
My
sone
and
my
chylde
I
recommaunde
the
in
to
the
garde
of
our
lorde
/
the
pleasure
of
thy
yongthe
hathe
lytell
endured
me
.
Who
that
than
had
sene
the
poore
Helayne
take
leue
of
her
chylde
/
he
sholde
haue
had
a
harde
herte
yf
that
he
had
not
wepte
/
and
Helayne
wepte
haboundauntly
saynge
.
Chylde
ryall
wherfore
haue
I
borne
the
whan
that
I
must
be
consentyng
of
thy
p●rdyccyon
O
ryght
noble
realmes
of
Englande
and
of
Castylle
to
daye
ye
shall
lese
your
kynge
and
lorde
.
After
this
the
knyght
wolde
haue
halfe
of
the
fayre
Helayne
/
the
which
thynge
Olyuer
coude
not
vnderstande
how
it
myght
be
but
yf
that
he
sholde
slee
her
/
wherfore
he
commytted
the
dede
to
the
knyght
.
And
then
the
knyght
answered
vnto
hym
that
he
was
noo
murderer
of
ladyes
/
and
alsoo
that
it
was
no
reason
that
he
sholde
paye
hym
with
his
hande
/
for
he
knewe
well
that
he
must
paye
hym
hymsel●e
that
the
whiche
he
had
promysed
hym
/
and
then
sayd
/
yf
that
thou
hye
the
not
it
shall
mysthynke
vs
bothe
.
Whan
Olyuer
sawe
that
he
myght
haue
none
other
thynge
/
he
came
towarde
his
wyfe
&
set
hym
on
his
knees
in
praynge
her
that
she
wolde
pardon
hym
her
dethe
.
The
good
helayne
sayd
that
she
wolde
pardon
hym
with
good
herte
and
then
she
embrased
hym
in
saynge
.
Ryght
noble
kynge
the
dyfference
is
grete
of
the
Ioyous
acquayntaunce
that
we
had
fyrste
togyder
/
at
the
tyme
that
ye
were
called
Olyuer
.
Hathe
ryghte
dolourous
departynge
that
todaye
shall
be
made
of
vs
two
.
After
that
she
hadde
sayd
these
wordes
/
she
made
her
orysons
to
god
and
to
the
virgyn
Mary
/
in
cryenge
mercy
to
god
for
all
her
synnes
/
&
that
he
wolde
put
her
soule
in
the
glorye
of
paradyse
/
&
that
yf
her
lorde
had
done
ony
synne
for
to
slee
her
/
that
he
wolde
pardon
hym
.
And
whan
she
had
ended
her
prayers
and
sayd
her
orysons
/
she
came
towarde
her
lorde
and
husbande
/
and
kyssed
hym
with
the
teres
descendynge
from
her
eyen
/
and
sayd
that
she
was
redy
for
to
abyde
the
dethe
.
Wherfore
she
toke
leue
of
hym
/
and
of
her
two
chyldren
/
and
sette
her
vpon
her
knees
with
her
handes
ioyned
towarde
heuen
/
in
recommaundynge
her
vnto
god
.
As
she
that
abode
but
the
stroke
of
dethe
.
Whan
the
kynge
sawe
her
in
that
estate
as
a
man
halfe
oute
of
●is
wytte
approched
and
in
lyftynge
vp
his
swerde
wolde
haue
●louen
her
in
two
py●ces
.
¶
How
the
knyght
had
pyte
on
Olyuer
hauynge
knowlege
of
his
loyalte
/
and
quyted
hym
all
.
And
then
he
made
hym
to
be
knowen
hym
/
and
tolde
him
what
he
was
.
Capitulo
.
lxxiiij
.
WHan
the
knyght
sawe
this
pyteous
aduenture
/
he
lete
not
the
swerde
auale
a
downe
/
for
he
withelde
his
arme
&
sayd
/
abyde
kynge
that
I
maye
speke
to
you
/
&
to
you
quene
/
here
me
speke
.
Then
the
began
for
to
say
&
demaunde
the
kynge
/
yf
that
he
had
no
remembr●unce
of
a
knyght
that
was
named
syr
Iohan
Talbot
the
whiche
was
deed
in
his
company
in
the
sentence
of
cursynge
.
And
yf
that
he
remembred
hym
not
how
that
he
payed
the
dette
to
the
purgeys
/
and
made
hym
to
be
buryed
.
The
kynge
answered
ye
.
And
I
tell
the
sayd
the
knyghte
that
I
am
that
same
knyghte
/
and
that
same
that
serued
the
at
the
torneyment
of
Englande
/
and
bycause
that
thou
hast
done
me
pleasure
/
I
rendre
to
the
all
thy
moneye
/
and
all
hooly
thy
fynaunce
that
thou
haste
gyuen
me
.
And
in
lykewyse
I
rendre
to
the
thy
sone
/
and
quyte
the
in
lyke
wyse
the
halfe
of
thy
wyfe
/
that
whiche
I
haue
done
hathe
ben
for
to
assaye
the
and
thy
fraūchyle
.
To
the
surplus
I
shall
tell
the
wherfore
at
the
fyrste
daye
of
the
torneyment
I
clothed
that
in
blacke
/
that
was
sygnefyaunce
of
the
obscur●te
that
I
was
in
.
The
seconde
daye
that
was
in
rede
/
sygnefyed
my
paynes
in
purgatorye
.
The
last
daye
in
whyte
/
sygnefyed
my
saluacyon
/
for
so
as
the
whyte
is
vyrgyn
/
for
it
was
neuer
soylled
by
steynynge
/
wherby
it
is
pure
and
clene
.
In
lyke
wyse
I
am
so
at
this
presente
tyme
/
for
by
the
and
by
the
cause
/
I
am
aledged
of
all
my
doloure
/
and
now
I
go
in
to
the
holy
glorye
of
paradyse
/
to
se
the
presence
of
my
creatoure
that
is
the
reioysynge
of
the
saued
/
wherfore
I
take
leue
of
the
/
for
there
as
I
go
thou
mayst
not
come
yet
/
but
be
thou
sure
that
I
shall
praye
for
the.
Then
he
vanysshed
awaye
/
and
in
theyr
presence
he
mounted
in
to
heuen
gloryously
in
castynge
the
beames
of
his
clerenes
vpon
the
wyndowe
that
the
kynge
and
the
quene
lened
vpon
The
whiche
in
a
lytell
whyle
was
oute
of
theyr
syghte
.
¶
Then
they
fette
them
vpon
theyr
knees
in
rendrynge
graces
to
theyr
creatour
/
and
after
that
they
had
made
they●●ryso●s
in
thankynge
god
/
they
began
for
to
make
the
one
to
the
other
ryght
pyteous
acquayntaunce
/
soo
moche
and
by
suche
maner
as
yf
the
quene
had
ben
arysen
from
dethe
at
that
s●ame
houre
.
The
kyng
of
Castyll
that
neuer
had
receyued
one
goodnes
/
but
that
he
hadde
receyued
ten
euylles
agaynst
it
/
lyued
in
Ioye
with
his
ryght
welbeloued
wyfe
/
and
had
neuer
dyspleasure
after
that
/
●aue
all
Ioyes
vnto
the
houre
of
his
dethe
.
Helayne
was
strongely
seke
for
the
fere
that
she
had
hadde
d●rynge
the
whiche
maladye
Arthur
came
in
to
Castyll
for
to
se
Olyuer
/
to
whome
Olyuer
made
ryghte
grete
chere
/
and
sone
after
that
Helayne
gate
vp
/
the
whiche
was
cause
of
more
gretter
Ioye
/
and
all
Ioye
&
myrthe
was
in
the
realme
of
Castylle
/
there
was
no
spekynge
of
nothynge
saue
to
make
good
chere
.
The
sone
and
the
doughter
of
the
kynge
were
alredy
grete
/
in
so
moche
that
the
doughter
was
redy
for
to
be
maryed
.
Wherfore
the
kynge
sayd
vpon
a
daye
to
the
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
my
broder
I
haue
but
one
felowe
in
all
the
worlde
/
and
that
is
you
For
ye
may
wel
auaunte
you
that
ye
be
parsonere
of
the
goodes
that
god
hathe
gyuen
me
.
And
therfore
as
vnto
my
broder
I
wyll
tell
vnto
you
myn
aduyse
.
Fynably
ye
be
to
mary
&
as
yet
hathe
no
wyfe
/
wherfore
I
am
gretely
ameruaylled
that
ye
haue
abyden
soo
longe
.
I
haue
two
chyldren
a
sone
and
a
doughter
/
and
by
my
fayth
yf
that
I
thoughte
that
ye
were
contente
for
to
mary
you
/
I
wolde
gyue
you
my
doughter
in
maryage
/
and
therto
reloke
and
my
doughter
dothe
please
you
/
&
yf
that
ye
thynke
that
she
is
for
you
.
I
gyue
her
to
you
.
Or
yf
that
it
semeth
you
better
elles
where
take
it
.
Ye
maye
saye
he
repryuely
your
wyll
/
for
the
loue
that
I
haue
to
you
maketh
me
for
to
saye
thus
to
you
.
¶
How
Olyuer
of
Castylle
gaue
his
doughter
in
maryage
to
his
felowe
Arthur
of
Algarbe
/
and
of
the
dethe
of
Olyuer
and
of
Helayne
his
wyfe
.
Ca.
lxxv
.
ANd
whan
that
Arthur
Kynge
of
Algarbe
herde
,
the
kynge
of
Castylle
speke
so
humbly
he
thanked
hym
in
saynge
that
he
dyde
to
hym
more
honoure
than
apperteyned
to
him
/
and
syth
that
it
was
his
pleasure
for
to
gyue
him
his
do●ghter
/
that
he
sholde
be
ryght
vngracyous
for
to
refuse
her
.
Whan
the
kynge
of
Castylle
vnderstode
that
his
felowe
hadde
grete
wyll
for
to
atteyne
to
this
maryage
/
he
sente
incontynent
after
all
the
noble
men
of
his
countree
.
And
whan
they
were
all
assembled
he
made
the
spousaylles
of
Arthur
and
his
doughter
so
grete
and
so
plenteous
of
all
goodes
/
that
it
coude
be
noo
more
.
And
this
feest
endured
a
longe
tyme
.
In
the
whiche
whyle
tydynges
came
in
to
Castylle
that
the
kyng
of
Chyppres
was
assyeged
of
the
infydeles
/
and
requyred
the
kynge
of
castylle
of
helpe
and
socoure
/
and
also
all
the
other
crysten
prynces
.
Whan
this
tydynges
came
to
the
knowlege
of
the
yonge
prynce
the
kynges
sone
/
he
made
a
requeste
to
his
fader
that
he
wolde
gyue
him
leue
and
ayde
for
to
goo
to
the
whiche
he
accorded
/
and
gaue
hym
a
grete
armye
but
he
retorned
neuer
after
agayne
/
as
treateth
more
at
longe
the
cronycles
of
Castylle
.
For
after
that
he
hadde
delyuered
the
realme
of
Chyppres
of
theyr
enemyes
/
he
wente
in
to
Turky
where
as
he
conquered
dyuers
realmes
that
he
made
for
to
be
Crystenned
.
And
yf
that
he
had
not
deyed
yonge
/
he
had
ben
a
man
for
to
haue
conquered
the
moost
parte
of
the
worlde
.
The
kynge
of
Algarbe
ledde
his
wyfe
in
to
his
countree
.
And
thre
yere
after
his
departynge
/
a
ryght
greuous
maladye
toke
the
Kynge
of
Castylle
by
the
wyll
of
oure
lorde
that
of
these
thynges
dysposeth
at
his
pleasure
/
and
was
so
syke
that
Helayne
his
wyfe
/
as
she
that
abode
not
but
his
dethe
sente
for
the
kynge
of
Algarbe
/
the
whiche
was
not
so
sone
arryued
/
but
that
the
kynge
of
Castyll
passed
oute
of
this
worlde
in
grete
wepynges
and
lamentacyons
of
all
his
subgectes
and
frendes
/
and
generally
of
his
men
and
all
them
that
knewe
hym
.
And
whan
the
tydynges
were
pronounced
to
Helayne
/
maulgre
all
them
that
k●●te
her
she
came
to
se
her
lorde
that
was
deed
/
&
whan
she
was
entred
in
to
the
chambre
and
that
she
approched
the
body
/
she
escryed
on
hye
.
A
ryght
puyssaunt
kynge
how
I
se
thy
fayre
face
pale
/
by
the
dethe
anguysshous
/
and
thy
furyous
armes
affebled
/
and
in
saynge
this
she
lete
her selfe
fall
vpon
the
body
/
and
she
arose
neuer
after
/
for
of
doloure
her
herte
dyde
breke
and
deyed
.
Wherby
the
doloure
was
redoubled
.
¶
The
poore
kynge
of
Algarbe
demeaned
so
grete
dole
that
it
was
pyte
for
to
se.
And
made
innumerable
lamc̄tacyons
so
moche
that
it
sholde
be
to
longe
to
recounte
it
.
In
lyke
wyse
the
quene
of
Algar
became
for
to
see
her
fader
&
her
moder
that
were
deed
/
&
she
made
so
grete
dole
that
with
grete
payn
she
myght
be
comforted
.
Bothe
the
deed
bodyes
were
buryed
in
one
tombe
/
the
whiche
was
ryght
pyteous
to
beholde
.
¶
How
Olyuers
sone
deyed
in
turky
/
&
how
Arthur
was
kynge
of
Englande
and
of
Castylle
.
Ca.
lxxvii
.
SOne
after
that
the
grete
dole
had
been
in
Castylle
/
Olyuers
sone
that
atte
the
tyme
was
theyr
kynge
was
enprysonned
by
some
●●rasyns
in
the
marches
of
Turky
/
but
that
was
not
but
that
a●ore
his
prysonynge
he
had
been
crowned
of
thre
realmes
that
he
had
conquered
/
and
by
cause
that
there
was
no
moo
apperteynynge
heyres
in
castyll
than
the
quene
of
Algarbe
Arthurs
wyfe
/
they
made
her
quene
/
and
crowned
her
husbande
kynge
of
the
countree
/
in
doynge
to
hym
fayth
and
homage
.
¶
Alytell
whyle
after
came
tydynges
to
the
kynge
of
Castylle
and
of
Algarbe
/
that
the
Kynge
of
Englande
grandfader
of
his
wyfe
was
decessed
.
And
that
the
Duke
of
Glocestre
that
was
cousyn
germayne
to
the
Kynge
of
Englande
/
had
made
hym
to
be
crowned
kynge
of
the
realme
.
Wherfore
he
sente
in
to
Englande
for
to
knowe
and
it
were
by
the
consente
of
the
noble
men
of
the
countree
And
for
to
knowe
yf
that
he
sholde
not
be
receyued
for
kynge
as
reason
wolde
.
It
was
answered
to
hym
nay●
/
wherfore
he
assembled
a
grete
company
of
folke
/
and
with
grete
puyssaunce
came
and
descended
in
Englande
/
and
dyde
so
moche
by
force
of
armes
/
after
dyuers
grete
bataylles
/
that
he
that
sayd
hym
kynge
was
taken
and
put
in
pryson
/
where
as
he
neuer
yssued
oute
after
.
After
he
made
hym
to
be
crowned
kynge
as
reason
wolde
/
and
the
Englysshemen
receyued
hym
for
theyr
lorde
/
and
soo
he
was
kynge
of
Englande
/
of
Castylle
/
and
of
Algarbe
/
&
also
he
was
kynge
of
one
of
the
realmes
of
Irlande
.
The
surplus
of
his
dayes
he
lyued
in
grete
prosperyte
and
encreasynge
of
all
goodes
.
He
had
thre
chyldren
of
his
wyfe
two
sones
and
one
doughter
/
that
after
his
decesse
they
helde
his
lordshyppes
.
The
eldest
was
kynge
of
Englande
and
of
Irlande
/
and
the
other
kynge
of
Castylle
/
and
his
doughter
was
maryed
to
the
kynge
of
Portyngale
/
and
he
had
with
her
the
realme
of
Algarbe
/
that
yet
apperteyneth
to
hym
.
The
two
sones
gouerned
well
&
wysely
theyr
realmes
.
And
were
redoubted
/
and
full
dere
holden
of
theyr
subgectes
and
neyghbours
.
After
/
the
dethe
of
the
Kynge
theyr
fader
/
and
of
the
quene
theyr
moder
.
The
surplus
of
theyr
dayes
they
lyued
holyly
in
seruynge
god
and
the
gloryous
vyrgyn
Marye
.
Then
they
passed
out
of
this
worlde
ryght
gloryously
/
god
for
his
holy
grace
haue
mercy
on
theyr
soules
.
And
gy●e
gode
lyfe
and
longe
/
and
encreasynge
of
all
goodnes
vnto
all
them
that
this
hystorye
shall
rede
or
here
redde
/
and
that
wryteth
it
or
maketh
it
to
be
wryten
/
and
also
to
all
them
that
shall
se
it
.
Amen
.
¶
The
epylogacyon
of
the
booke
.
The
last
Ca.
ARystotle
the
phylosophre
sayth
that
the
thynges
that
be
separed
be
vndersto●den
&
knowen
more
dystynctely
/
for
the
whiche
cause
the
table
hathe
ben
made
and
put
in
the
begynnynge
of
this
presente
boke
for
to
vnderstande
it
the
better
.
And
bycause
that
it
sholde
seme
to
dyuers
that
some
passyues
of
t
hystorye
by
symplytude
of
impossylyte
ought
not
to
be
byleued
for
a
trouthe
/
for
the
meruayll
that
is
sayd
.
To
the
declaracyon
of
the
passages
of
t
hystorye
by
maner
of
epylogacyon
this
laste
chapytre
is
c●mprysed
.
And
to
the
regarde
of
Olyuer
and
Arthur
that
were
so
lyke
/
the
dyffyculte
is
not
to
grete
/
for
whan
the
two
chyldren
be
of
one
aege
/
and
of
one
felte
complexc●on
hauyng
some
symylytude
of
vysage
/
&
corsage
/
facylly
one
may
be
taken
for
another
/
namely
bycau●e
they
be
nourysshed
togyder
/
spekynge
all
one
langage
clothed
in
semblable
clothes
/
instructe
vnder
one
mayster
/
holdynge
and
kepynge
all
one
maner
of
doynge
and
countenaunce
/
all
this
rogyder
/
and
dyuers
other
thynges
make
the
them
be
sayd
semblable
.
¶
To
the
regarde
of
the
quene
that
was
esprysed
of
the
loue
of
Olyuer
/
it
was
but
fragylyte
naturall
of
women
that
foloweth
sensualyte
agaynst
honoure
.
¶
Touchynge
the
water
of
the
glasse
that
ought
to
●roub●e
at
Olyuers
daunger
/
by
this
ye
must
not
vnderstande
that
it
was
water
elementall
in
his
nature
/
but
bycause
that
Olyuer
was
all
vertuous
/
&
that
his
vnder
standynge
was
all
gyuen
to
good
/
and
to
loue
god
/
perseuerynge
in
good
and
vertuous
operacyons
/
and
fleynge
all
vyces
and
synnes
/
god
permysed
that
Arthur
had
knowlege
of
the
aduersytees
happened
to
Olyuer
his
felowe
by
the
chaungynge
of
the
water
of
the
sayd
glass●
/
by
the
prayer
of
his
felowe
Olyuer
made
vnto
god
/
euen
so
as
he
had
wryten
in
the
lettre
/
and
all
this
to
the
ende
that
of
them
were
memorye
afterwarde
/
for
to
knowe
the
puyssaunce
of
god
/
and
the
meruayles
that
on
them
he
wolde
shewe
/
as
on
his
frendes
&
good
crysten
men
/
and
●or
to
gyue
example
vnto
the
other
.
¶
Almoche
as
it
toucheth
of
the
fortunes
happened
vnto
Olyuer
and
Arthur
/
as
well
on
the
see
as
on
the
lande
it
is
but
a
thynge
naturall
/
and
of
semblable
happeneth
often
by
the
dysposycyon
of
the
weder
/
but
that
whan
that
they
were
presetued
from
deth
/
that
was
the
wyll
of
god
/
and
thynges
myraculous
that
were
shewed
on
them
.
¶
To
the
regarde
of
the
whyte
knyght
that
appered
so
to
Olyuer
/
and
gaue
hym
comforte
and
ayde
in
his
nedes
/
god
had
sente
hym
in
rewardynge
hym
in
this
worlde
of
the
grete
goodnesse
and
werkes
of
myserycorde
that
he
hadde
accomplysshed
in
procurynge
the
absolucyon
of
that
same
knyght
that
was
holden
for
accursed
.
¶
Where
as
it
toucheth
that
Olyuer
was
taken
by
one
of
the
kynges
of
Irlande
/
and
retayned
prysoner
/
and
after
delyuered
out
of
pryson
by
Arthur
/
god
caused
all
this
/
to
the
ende
that
the
kynge
of
Irlande
that
vniustely
and
without
cause
was
enemye
of
his
her●●
and
traytour
/
for
alredy
by
iust
warre
he
had
made
to
hym
homage
/
and
to
the
kynge
of
Englande
/
the
whiche
put
him
in
his
realme
agayne
/
abode
not
vnpunysshed
in
this
same
worlde
of
his
euyll
and
traytourous
wyll
/
to
the
ende
that
all
traytours
take
ensample
by
hym
/
and
kepe
them
from
falsynge
of
theyr
othe
.
¶
To
the
regarde
that
Arthur
coude
not
be
heled
but
yf
he
dranke
of
the
blode
of
two
Innocentes
/
sone
&
doughter
/
god
had
done
it
and
gyuen
it
to
vnderstande
by
reuelacyon
for
to
preue
the
loyalte
and
true
loue
of
these
two
felowes
/
as
we
rede
of
Abraham
that
was
contente
for
to
make
sacrefyce
of
his
sone
Ysaac
vnto
god
/
in
lyke
wyse
Olyuer
was
soner
contente
to
hele
his
felowe
by
sleynge
of
his
chyldren
/
than
for
to
se
hym
deye
/
and
it
maye
be
that
his
chyldren
were
deed
/
and
after
reuyued
/
or
elles
that
god
couered
the
murdre
and
semed
to
Olyuer
that
they
were
deed
/
soo
as
it
semed
to
the
Iewes
that
Moyses
had
hornes
/
yet
had
he
none
.
¶
And
asmoche
as
it
toucheth
that
Olyuer
was
contente
for
to
slee
his
wyfe
the
quene
for
to
kepe
his
promesse
vnto
the
whyte
knyght
Syr
Iohan
Talbot
/
to
whome
he
hadde
promysed
the
halfe
of
his
wynnynge
at
the
torneyment
/
he
was
so
grounded
and
resolued
in
loyalte
that
of
his
promyse
he
coude
not
nor
durst
not
excuse
hym
.
As
we
haue
of
kynge
Herode
that
loued
of
saynt
Iohan
baptyst
/
but
yet
he
wolde
kepe
his
promyse
to
his
doughter
and
make
hym
to
be
byheded
/
than
to
fayle
and
breke
the
fayth
of
his
othe
.
¶
And
bycause
that
to
god
is
nothynge
impossyble
/
he
hathe
done
for
oure
doctryne
dyuers
myracles
that
ben
worthy
of
memorye
perpetuall
/
as
the
hystorye
specyfyeth
here
afore
/
made
to
the
praysynge
of
god
and
of
his
gloryous
moder
/
and
to
the
honour
of
the
noble
men
/
and
to
the
felycyte
of
all
loyall
&
true
louers
.
to
the
example
of
pacyentes
/
to
the
hope
of
the
cheualrous
/
and
to
the
ferrylyte
and
occupacyon
of
the
tyme
salutarye
.
Amen
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
hystorye
of
Olyuer
of
Castylle
/
and
of
the
fayre
Helayne
doughter
vnto
the
kynge
of
Englande
.
Inprynted
at
London
in
Flete
strete
at
the
sygne
of
the
sonne
by
Wynkyn
de
Worde
.
The
yere
of
oure
lorde
.
M.
CCCCC
.
and
.xviij.
W
C
Wynkyn
.
de
.
Worde
.