| | Hath done you kepe and in that same stounde | |
| | Al sodenly she swapt doun to grounde | |
| 1100 | And in her swoune so sadly holdith she | |
| | Her childryn two whan she gan hem brace | |
| | That with greet sleyghte and greet difficulte | |
| | The childryn from here arm gon they race | |
| | O many a tere of many a pitous face | |
| 1105 | Doun ran of hem that stodyn there beside | |
| | Vnnethe aboute here mighte they abyde | |
| | Walter her gladith and her sorow slakith | |
| | She risith vp and basshith from her traunce | |
| | And euery wight her ioye and feste makith | |
| 1110 | Til she hath caught ayeen her contenaunce | |
| | Walter doth her so feithful plesaunce | |
| | That it was deynte to se the chere | |
| | Betwene hem two syn they be met in fere | |
| | Thyse ladyes whan they her tyme sey | |
| 1115 | Haue takyn here and in to chambir anon | |
| | And stripen here out of her rude aray | |
| | And in a cloth of gold that bright shoon | |
| | With a croune of many a riche stoon | |
| | Vp on her hed in to the halle they brought | |
| 1120 | And there she was honoured as she ought | |
| | Thus hath this pitous day a blisful ende | |
| | For euery man and woman doth his might | |
| | This day in mirthe and reuel to spende | |
| | Til on the welkyn shoon the sterrys light | |
| 1125 | For more solempnyte in euery mannys sight | |
| | This feste was and of gretter costage | |
