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