‘Ha, wher was evere under the hevene

So noble a knyht as Jason is?’

And welnyh alle seiden this,

That Jason was a faie kniht,

For it was nevere of marines miht 3770

The Flees of gold so forto winne;

And thus to talen thei beginne.[181]

With that the king com forth anon,

And sih the Flees, hou that it schon;

And whan Jason cam to the lond,