And I with my swerde, as fast a coude be,

With all my force cut of his hedes thre.

Whan I had so obteyned the victory,

Unto me than my verlet well sayd:

You have demaunded well and worthely:

My greyhoundes lepte and my stede than brayde,

And than from ferre I saw, well arayed,

To me come ryding thre ladyes swete;

Forth than I rode and did wyth them mete.

The fyrst of them was called Veryte,