A worthi king of hih lignage,

P. ii. 314

A noble kniht eke of his hond,

So was he kid in every lond,

Of Trace he hihte Tereüs;

The clerk Ovide telleth thus. 5570

This Tereüs his wif hom ladde,

A lusti lif with hire he hadde;

Til it befell upon a tyde,

This Progne, as sche lay him besyde,