taken metes of the handes of folk that yeven it hem, and dreden
hir [sturdy] maystres of whiche they ben wont to suffren betinges:
yif that hir horrible mouthes ben be-bled, that is to seyn, of bestes
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devoured, hir corage of time passed, that hath ben ydel and rested,
repeyreth ayein; and they roren grevously and remembren on hir
nature, and slaken hir nekkes fram hir chaynes unbounde; and
[hir mayster], first to-torn with blody tooth, assayeth the wode
wrathes of hem; this is to seyn, they freten hir mayster. And the
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