to him be the thanks for my success.

And yf that ony lusty terme I wryt

He haith the thonk yerof, and this endit.

EXPLICIT PROLOGUS, ET INCIPIT PRIMUS LIBER.

ARTHUR AT CARLISLE.

[BOOK I.]

[Fol. 5 b.]

Quhen [that] tytan, withe his lusty heit,

[336] Twenty dais In to the aryeit

When Titan, being in Aries, had apparelled the fields,