wolde wepe; that other goth debonairely in the hous as a tygre
of Inde.
[But al-be-it] so that the godhed of Mercurie, that is cleped the
brid of Arcadie, hath had mercy of the duke Ulixes, biseged with
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dyverse yveles, and hath unbounden him fro the pestilence of
his ostesse, [algates] the roweres and the marineres hadden by this
y-drawen in-to hir mouthes and dronken the wikkede drinkes.
They that weren woxen swyn hadden by this y-chaunged hir
mete of breed, for to eten [akornes of okes]. Non of hir limes ne