Whan Troilus hath sent after Pandare.

41. This Pandare, that of al the day biforn

Ne mighte have comen Troilus to see,

Al-though he [on his heed] it hadde y-sworn,

For with the king Pryam alday was he,

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So that it lay not in his libertee

No-wher to gon, but on the morwe he wente

To Troilus, whan that he for him sente.

42. For in his herte he coude wel devyne,