213. Ye shul eek seen so many a lusty knight

A-mong the Grekes, ful of worthinesse,

And eche of hem with herte, wit, and might

To plesen yow don al his besinesse,

That ye shul dullen of the rudenesse

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Of us sely Troianes, but-if routhe

Remorde yow, or vertue of your trouthe.

214. And this to me so grevous is to thinke,

That fro my brest it wol my soule rende;