He was to seen, fulfild of heigh prowesse;

For bothe he hadde a body and a might

To doon that thing, as wel as hardinesse;

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And eek to seen him in his gere him dresse,

So fresh, so yong, so weldy semed he,

It was [an heven] up-on him for to see.

92. His helm to-hewen was in twenty places,

That by a [tissew] heng, his bak bihinde,

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