164 Which that thy fadir heeld 10 in reste and pees, 17 18 16 14 169 30 I dyd hym reverence, for I ought to do so, 6 I crowched and kneled before hym anon, "I wot not what thou meanest," gan he say. 40 8 Wold do for me ought, although I shold dye. A fayre cloth they gan for to sprede. 50 5 cease • leave 16 willingly possession 17 behooves 18 make use of 19 crowd 20 perverse * Probably not by Lydgate. 1 crowd 2 fast 3 Court of Common Pleas then 5 reward 6 a striped cloth ⚫ hasten Then I convayd me into Kent, For of the law wold I meddle no more; Because no man to me tooke entent,1 2 I dyght me to do as I dyd before. Now Jesus, that in Bethlem was bore, Save London, and send trew lawyers there mede! For who-so wantes mony with them shall not spede! FROM THE STORY OF THEBES How falsly Ethyocles leyde a busshement in the way to have slayn Tydeus At a posterne forth they gan to ryde 4 By a geyn path, that ley oute a-side, Secrely, that no man hem espie, IIIO Only of tresoun and of felonye. 7 Havyng no man to wisse 1 hym or to gye.15 But at the last, lifting up his hede, Toward eve, he gan taken hede; 16 1120 Ther was treson and conspiracye How Tydeus outraged fifty knyghtes that lay in awayt for hym And of al that he no-thyng ne sette,20 List 21 nat onys a-syde to dyverte, 1130 But kepte his way, his sheld upon his brest, And cast his spere manly in the rest, 1 heed 2 prepared myself 3 ambush 4 convenient 5 purely because of 8 slain 9 not at all 6 greater advantage aware in his thought 7 the same 10 arranged, formed 11 like 12 till 13 drew 14 direct 16 burnished 17 around 18 journey 19 hinder cared nothing for it 21 wished 15 guide 20 he 2 1 9 11 10 8 1140 1151 And the first platly 1 that he mette Thorgh the body proudely he hym smette, That he fille ded, chief mayster of hem alle; And than at onys they upon hym falle On every part, be compas envyroun. But Tydeus, thorgh his hegh renoun, His blody swerde lete about hym glyde, Sleth and kylleth upon every side In his ire and his mortal tene; 3 That mervaile was he myght so sustene Ageyn hem alle, in every half besette;' But his swerde was so sharpe whette, That his foomen founde ful unsoote." But he, allas! was mad light a foote, Be force grounded,' in ful gret distresse; But of knyghthod and of gret prouesse Up he roos, maugre alle his foon,10 And as they cam, he slogh " hem oon be oon, Lik a lyoun rampaunt in his rage, And on this hille he fond a narow passage, Which that he took of ful high prudence; And liche 12 a boor, stondyng at his diffence, As his foomen proudly hym assaylle, Upon the pleyn he made her blode to raylle Al enviroun, that the soyl wex rede, Now her, now ther, as they fille dede, That her lay on, and ther lay two or thre, So mercyles, in his cruelte, Thilke day he was upon hem founde; And, attonys 14 his enemyes to confounde, Wher-as he stood, this myghty champioun, Be-side he saugh, with water turned doun, An huge stoon large, rounde, and squar; And sodeynly, er that thei wer war, As 15 it hadde leyn ther for the nonys,10 Upon his foon he rolled it at onys, That ten of hem 17 wenten unto wrak, And the remnaunt amased drogh 18 a-bak; 1170 For on by on they wente to meschaunce.19 And fynaly he broght to outraunce 20 Hem everychoon, Tydeus, as blyve,21 16 13 1160 The longe dayes and the nyghtis eke I wold bewaille my fortune in this wise, For quhich, agane distresse confort to seke, My custum was on mornis for to ryse Airly as day; O happy exercise, By the come I to joye out of turment! Bewailing in my chamber thus allone, Unto the wyndow gan I walk in hye,18 1 succeeded, fared 2 pledge 5 sinned 6 since 7 nature 8 say pity 11 if 12 planned 13 torture 15 tired out 16 haste 17 food 3 assured 9 should 195 203 210 4 where 10 had 14 living person's I kest, behalding unto hir lytill hound, That with his bellis playit on the ground; Than wold I say, and sigh there-with a lyte, 370 "A! wele were him that now were in thy plyte!" An-othir quhile the lytill nyghtingale, That sat apon the twiggis, wold I chide, And say ryght thus; "Quhare are thy notis smale, That thou of love has song this morowe-tyde? Seis thou noght hire that sittis the besyde? For Venus sake, the blisfull goddesse clere, Sing on agane, and mak my lady chere." 378 Off verry forss 19 behuvit hir to byd, And to and fro upone that rever deip 1 bearing 2 liberality 3 intelligence well 6 these 7 stellified 8 received 9 dies 11 while 12 again 17 she 18 swim 13 frog 14 Esop whom 10 ceased 15 did 16 to 19 of very necessity 32 crying |