Incipit prohemium Secundi Libri.

[1]. Out of these blake wawes for to sayle,

O wind, O wind, the weder ginneth clere;

For in this see the boot hath swich travayle,

Of my conning that unnethe I it stere:

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This see clepe I the tempestous matere

Of desespeyr that Troilus was inne:

But now of hope the [calendes] biginne.

2. O lady myn, that called art [Cleo],