Bot yit dorste he noght seie nay, 1370
Bot swor and seide he schal fulfille[1604]
Hire hestes at hire oghne wille.
Qualiter Dionisia Thaysim, vt occideretur,[1605] Theophilo seruo suo tradidit, qui cum noctanter longius ab vrbe ipsam prope litus maris interficere proposuerat, Pirate ibidem prope[1608] latitantes Thaisim de manu Carnificis eripuerunt, ipsamque vsque Ciuitatem Mitelenam ducentes, cuidam Leonino scortorum ibidem magistro vendiderunt.[1609]
The treson and the time is schape,
So fell it that this cherles knape[1606]
Hath lad this maiden ther he wolde[1607]
Upon the Stronde, and what sche scholde
Sche was adrad; and he out breide
A rusti swerd and to hir seide,