1030

We, that weren in prosperitee,

Be now disslaundred, and in swich degre,

No lenger for to liven I ne [kepe]!'

(110)

And, with that worde, he brast out for to wepe

So tendrely, that routhe hit was to sene.

1035

[This fresshe lady, of the citee quene],

Stood in the temple, in her estat royal,