[1288] Bot tak his forton thar for to abyd.

The sun goeth up.

Vp goith the ſon, vp goith the hot morow;

The thoghtful king al the nycht to ſorow,

[Fol. 17.]

That ſauch the day, vpone his feit he ſtart,

Arthur goeth forth.

[1292] And furth he goith, diſtrublit in his hart.

A quhill he walkith in his penſyf goſt,

He hears that a clerk has arrived,