For sone hope I we shulle ben alle merie.'

137. This Troilus ful sone on knees him sette

Ful sobrely, right by hir beddes heed,

955

And in his beste wyse his lady grette;

But lord, so she wex sodeynliche reed!

Ne, though men sholden smyten of hir heed,

She coude nought a word a-right out-bringe

So sodeynly, for his sodeyn cominge.

960