Ayein that ilke wrong al one 2990

Thei wolde stonden in debat:

And thus the man and noght the stat

The Frensche schopen be her miht[797]

To grieve. And fell ther was a kniht,

Sire Guilliam de Langharet,

Which was upon this cause set;

And therupon he tok a route

Of men of Armes and rod oute,

So longe and in a wayt he lay,[798]