Be so it be to his plesance.
And thus upon here aqueintance[627]
He tolde hire pleinly as it stod,
Of Rome how that the gentil blod 1180
In Barbarie was betraied,
And therupon he hath assaied
Be werre, and taken such vengance,
That non of al thilke alliance,[628]
Be whom the tresoun was compassed,
Is from the swerd alyve passed;