| | But natheles this mayde bright of hewe | |
| | Fro foot to hed they clothid her newe | |
| | Her heris they kempt that lay vntressid | |
| 380 | Ful rudely and with her fyngris smale | |
| | A croune on her hed they haue y dressid | |
| | And set hir ful of owches grete and smale | |
| | Of here aray what sholde I make a tale | |
| | Vnnethe the pepyl her knew for her fairnes | |
| 385 | Whan she translatid was in suche riches | |
| | This markis hath her spousid with a ryng | |
| | Brought for the same cause and than her set | |
| | Vp on an hors snow white ful wel amblyng | |
| | And to his Paleis or he lengir let | |
| 390 | With ioyful pepil that her ladde and met | |
| | Conueyed her and thus the day they spend | |
| | In reuel til the sonne gan descende | |
| | And shortly forth this tale forto chace | |
| | I say that to this newe Markesse | |
| 395 | God hath suche fauour sent of his grace | |
| | That it ne semyd be no liklynes | |
| | That she was born and fed in rudenes | |
| | As in a cyte or in an oxis stalle | |
| | But norisshed in an Emperours halle | |
| 400 | To euery wight she woxen is so dere | |
| | And worshipful that folk there she was bore | |
| | And from hir birthe knew her yeer by yere | |
| | Vnnethe trowid they but durste haue swore | |
| | That to Ianycul of whiche I spak before | |
| 405 | She deughter was as by coniecture | |
