| | For whiche Diane wroughte hym care & wo | |
| 1215 | There saw I many another wonder story | |
| | The whiche me list not drawe in memory | |
| | This goddesse on an hert high is sete | |
| | With smale houndis aboute her fete | |
| | And vndernethe hir feet she hadde a mone | |
| 1220 | Wexynge it was and sholde wane sone | |
| | In gawdy grene her statu clothed was | |
| | With bowe in hond and arowes in caas | |
| | Here yen cast she ful lowe a doun | |
| | There pluto hath his derk regioun | |
| 1225 | A womman trauelynge was here beforn | |
| | But for hir child so longe was vnborn | |
| | Ful pitously Lucyna gan she calle | |
| | And sayde help for thou maist best of alle | |
| | Wel coude he peynte liuely that it wroughte | |
| 1230 | With meny a floreyn he thyse huwis boughte | |
| | N | Ow ben thise listis maad & Theseus | |
| | That at his grete cost hath arayd thus | |
| | The templis and the auters eueridel | |
| | Whan it was don it likyd hym wel | |
| 1235 | But stynte I wil of Theseus alite | |
| | And speke of Palamon and of arcite | |
| | The day approchith in here attourneyynge | |
| | That euerich sholde an hundrid knightes brynge | |
| | The bateylle to darreyne as I you tolde | |
| 1240 | And til Theseus here couenaunt forto holde | |
| | Hath euerich of hem brought an hundrid knightes | |
| | Wel I armed for the werre at al rightes | |
