He let do yoken grete foxes,

And with gret salt the lond he siew.

But Nauplus, which the cause kniew,[1250]

Ayein the sleihte which he feigneth

An other sleihte anon ordeigneth. 1840

And fell that time Ulixes hadde

A chyld to Sone, and Nauplus radde

How men that Sone taken scholde,

And setten him upon the Molde,

Wher that his fader hield the plowh,