Some of hawthorn, and some of woodbind,

And many mo, which I had not in mind.

And so they came, their hors freshly stering

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With bloody sownës of hir trompës loud;

Ther sy I many an uncouth disgysing

In the array of these knightës proud;

And at the last, as evenly as they coud,

They took their places in-middes of the mede,

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