| Cam ridynge the god of armys Marce | |
| His cote armur was of cloth of tarce | |
| Cowchid with perlis white rounde and grete | |
| His sadyl was of brent gold newe y bete | |
1305 | A mantelet on his shuldris hangynge | |
| Bret ful of rubyys bright as fyre spryngyng | |
| His brighte cryspe heris lyke ryngys were ronne | |
| And that was yelow & glitered as the sonne | |
| His nose was high his yen bright and grym | |
1310 | His lippis rounde his colour sanguyn | |
| A fewe frakelis in his face were spreynt | |
| Betwix yelow and somdeel blak meynt | |
| And as alioun he lokyd aboute faste | |
| Of . xxv . yeer of age I hym caste | |
1315 | His berd was wel begonne forto sprynge | |
| His throte was as a trompe sownynge | |
| Vp on his hed he weryd of laurer grene | |
| A garlond fressh and lusty forto sene | |
| Vpon his hed he baar for his dedwyte | |
1320 | An egle as ony lily whit | |
| An hundred knyghtes hadde he with hym there | |
| Al armed sane her hedis and al her gere | |
| Were richely arayed in alle maner thingis | |
| Trustith wel that erlis dukes and kyngis | |
1325 | Were gadred in this nobyl companye | |
| For loue and encrece of cheualrye | |
| Aboute this kyng ther ronnen on euery part | |
| Wel many tame liouns and libart | |
| And in this wyse the lordis alle and som | |