| | To haue victory of them or they of me | |
| | So that I haue my lady in myn armys | |
| 1390 | For though so be þt mars be grete god of armys | |
| | Your vertu is so greet in heuene aboue | |
| | That yf yow list I shal haue my loue | |
| | Thy tempyl wol I worship euermo | |
| | And on an auter were I ryde or go | |
| 1395 | I wil do sacrefice and firis bete | |
| | And yf ye wil not so my lady swete | |
| | Than praye I the to morow with a spere | |
| | That arcite me thorow the herte bere | |
| | Than recke I nat whan I haue lost my lif | |
| 1400 | Though that arcite wynne here to his wyf | |
| | This is the effect and the ende of my prayer | |
| | Yeue me my lif my blissed lady dere | |
| | Whan that the orison was don of palamon | |
| | His sacrefice he did and that anon | |
| 1405 | Ful petously with alle circumstaunces | |
| | Alle telle I not as now his obseruaunces | |
| | And al the statu of venus shoke | |
| | And made a signe wherby he took | |
| | That his prayer acceptid was that day | |
| 1410 | For though the figure shewde delay | |
| | Yet wiste he wel that grauntyd was his bone | |
| | And with glad herte he wente hym hom sone | |
| | The thirde hour equal that Palamon | |
| | Began to venus tempil forto gon | |
| | V | P roos the sonne & vp roos Emely | |
| | And to the tempil of diane gan hye | |
