Whan bodiliche thurst him hente
Nota hic qualiter potus aliquando sicienti precibus adquiritur. Et narrat in exemplum quod, cum Bachus de quodam bello ab oriente repatrians in quibusdam Lubie partibus alicuius generis potum non inuenit, fusis ad Iouem precibus, apparuit ei Aries, qui terram pede percussit,[742] statimque fons emanauit; et sic potum petenti peticio preualuit.
In strange londes where he wente.
This Bachus Sone of Jupiter
Was hote, and as he wente fer 400
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Be his fadres assignement
To make a werre in Orient,
And gret pouer with him he ladde,
So that the heiere hond he hadde