It fell per chance upon a day

P. i. 359

A Rovere of the See was nome,

Which many a man hadde overcome 2370

And slain and take here good aweie:

This Pilour, as the bokes seie,

A famous man in sondri stede

Was of the werkes whiche he dede.

This Prisoner tofor the king

Was broght, and there upon this thing