“Alas,” quoth one, “my lord wee are betrayde:”

“How so,” quoth I, “the dukes are gone their waies?”

“Th’haue[1285] barde the gates, and borne away the kayes.”

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While he thus spake, there came into my minde

This fearefull dreame, whereout I waked was:

I saw a riuer stopt with stormes of winde,

Wheare through a swan, a bull, and bore did passe,

Fraunching the fysh and fry, with teath of brasse,

The riuer dryde vp saue a title streame,