To my matiere therupon

Telle in what wise Agamenon,

Thurgh chance which mai noght be weived,

Of love untrewe was deceived.

An old sawe is, ‘Who that is slyh

In place where he mai be nyh, 1900

He makth the ferre Lieve loth’:

Of love and thus fulofte it goth.

Ther while Agamenon batailleth

To winne Troie, and it assailleth,