‘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,