I am a gentil-woman and a queen,

Ye wil nat fro your wyf thus foule fleen?

That I was born! allas! what shal I do?'

To telle in short, this noble queen Dido,

1310

She [seketh halwes], and doth sacrifyse;

She kneleth, cryeth, that routhe is to devyse;

[Coniureth him, and profreth him to be]

(390)

His thral, his servant in the leste gree;