Bot of the chaste men also
It was commended overal:
And forto speke in special 6370
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Touchende of men, ensample I finde,
Hic loquitur, qualiter Phyrinus, iuuenum Rome pulcherrimus, ut illesam suam conseruaret virginitatem, ambos oculos eruens vultus sui decorem abhominabilem constituit.
Phyryns, which was of mannes kinde[499]
Above alle othre the faireste
Of Rome and ek the comelieste,
That wel was hire which him mihte