Was trewe man, wit-uten faile;
Wis man of red, wis man of dede,
And men haueden of him mikel drede.
[Fol. 205, col. 1.]
“He may hire alþer-best[e] yeme,
Til þat she mowe wel ben quene.”
[*] Read— “Bi [ihesu] crist,” &c, to fill up; but this is doubtful; see l. 1112.
Þe king was payed of that Rede;
The king sends for chalice and paten,
A wol fair cloth bringen he dede,