That sum time were as godes y hold,

For aventours that thai dede and told.

This king sojurned in Traciens,

That was a cite of noble defens,

For Winchester was cleped[66] tho

Traciens, with outen no.

The king hadde a quen of priis,

That was y cleped dame Heurodis.

The fairest levedi[67] for the nones[68]

That might gon on bodi and bones,