To love, thou miht so per cas
Ben ydel, as somtime was 1240
A kinges dowhter unavised,
Til that Cupide hire hath chastised:
Wherof thou schalt a tale hiere
Acordant unto this matiere.
[Tale of Rosiphelee.]
Of Armenye, I rede thus,
Ther was a king, which Herupus
Was hote, and he a lusti Maide