English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

by J. J. Jusserand

How kyng Charlis and Rowlond fawght

With Sarzyns nold they be cawght,

Of Tristrem and of Ysoude the swete

How they with love first gan mete,

Of kyng John and of Isombras,

Of Ydoyne and of Amadas,

Stories of diuerce thynggis

Of pryncis, prelatis, and of kynggis,

Many songgis of diuers ryme,

As english, frensh, and latyne.”[248]