A kinges sone in armes wel to do,

And been of good condiciouns ther-to;

For greet power and moral vertu here

Is selde y-seye in [o persone] y-fere.'

25. 'In good feith, that is sooth,' quod Pandarus;

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But, by my trouthe, the king hath sones tweye,

That is to mene, Ector and Troilus,

That certainly, though that I sholde deye,

They been as voyde of vyces, dar I seye,