[And with a wawe brosten was his stere].
His ship was rent so lowe, in swich manere,
That carpenter ne coude hit nat amende.
The see, by nighte, as any torche brende
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[For wood], and [posseth] him now up now doun,
Til Neptune hath of him compassioun,
And Thetis, [Chorus], Triton, and they alle,
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And maden him upon a [lond] to falle,