whyle that thilke Agamenon desirede to yeven sayles to the

Grekissh navye, and boughte ayein the windes by blood, he unclothede

him of pitee of fader; and the sory preest yiveth in

sacrifyinge the wrecched cuttinge of throte of the doughter; that

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is to seyn, that Agamenon let cutten the throte of his [doughter] by the

preest, to maken allyaunce with his goddes, and for to han winde

with whiche he mighte wenden to Troye.

[Itacus], that is to seyn, Ulixes, biwepte his felawes y-lorn, the

whiche felawes the ferse Poliphemus, ligginge in his grete cave,