| 1330 | Been on the sunday to the cyte com | |
| | Aboute prime & in the town a light | |
| | This Theseus this duke this worthy knyght | |
| | When he hadde brought hem in to the cyte | |
| | And ynned hem euerich at his degre | |
| 1335 | He festith hem and doth hem gret labour | |
| | To ese hem and to do hem al honour | |
| | That man ne woman ne no maner wight | |
| | Of none astat so coude amende it | |
| | The mynstralcye the seruise at the feste | |
| 1340 | The grete giftis to the most and lest | |
| | The riche aray of Theseus Paleys | |
| | Ne who fat first ne last vp on the deys | |
| | Or what feirest or best daunsynge | |
| | Or whiche of theym can best daunce or synge | |
| 1345 | Ne who most felingly speketh of loue | |
| | What hawkys sitte on the perchis aboue | |
| | What houndis lyen in the slour a doun | |
| | Of all this make I no mencion | |
| | But of the effect that thynketh me best | |
| 1350 | Now comyth to the poynt herken yf ye list | |
| | T | He sonday at night or day began to springe | |
| | Whan Palamon herde the larke synge | |
| | Al that it were not day be houris two | |
| | Vnto the temple purposeth he to go | |
| 1355 | With hool herte and with an high corage | |
| | Is risen to wende on his pilgremage | |
| | To the blisful Sithea benigne | |
| | I mene venus honourable and digne | |
