820

For if that Jove had [but] this lady seyn,

Tho Calixto ne [yet] Alcmenia,

Thay never hadden in his armes leyn;

Ne he had loved the faire Europa;

Ye, ne yet Dane ne Antiopa!

825

For al their bewtie stood in Rosiall;

She semed lich a thing celestiall

In bowntè, favor, port, and semliness,