There stode a dragon, of fyne golde so pure,

Upon his tayle of myghty fortitude,

Wretched and skaled al wyth asure,

Havyng thre hedes divers in fygure,

Whych in a bathe of the sylver grette

Spouted the water that was so dulcette.

Besyde whiche fountayne, the moost fayre lady

La Bel Pucel was gayly syttyng;

Of many floures fayre and ryally

A goodly chaplet she was in makynge.