[Tale of Midas.]
Bachus, which is the god of wyn,[1462]
Acordant unto his divin[1463]
Hic loquitur contra istos Auaros. Et narrat qualiter Mida Rex Frigie Cillenum Bachi sacerdotem, quem rustici vinculis ferreis alligarunt, dissoluit, et in hospicium suum benignissime recollegit; pro quo Bachus quodcunque munus Rex exigere vellet donari concessit. Vnde Rex Auaricia ductus, ut quicquid tangeret in aurum conuerteretur, indiscrete peciit. Quo facto postea contigit quod cibos cum ipse sumere vellet, in aurum conuersos manducare non potuit. Et sic percipiens aurum pro tunc non posse sibi valere, illud auferri, et tunc[1464] ea que victui sufficerent necessaria iteratis precibus a deo mitissime postulauit.
A Prest, the which Cillenus hihte,[1465]
He hadde, and fell so that be nyhte
This Prest was drunke and goth astraied,
Wherof the men were evele apaied[1466]
In Frigelond, where as he wente.
Bot ate laste a cherl him hente