| | Be ordenaunce thourgh out the cyte large | |
| 1710 | Hangynge with cloth of gold & not with sarge | |
| | Ful like a lord this nobyl duke gan ryde | |
| | Thyse two thebans on eyther syde | |
| | And aftir rood the quene and Emely | |
| | And aftir hem of ladyes another company | |
| 1715 | And aftir hem comunes eche aftir his degre | |
| | And thus they passe thurgh the cyte | |
| | And to the listis come they betyme | |
| | Hit is not of the day yet fully pryme | |
| | When set Theseus was riche on highe | |
| 1720 | Ipolita the quene and Emelie | |
| | And other ladies in degrees abowte | |
| | Vnto the setes passeth al the rowte | |
| | And aftirward thurgh the yates of Marte | |
| | Arcite and eke the hundred of his parte | |
| 1725 | With baner reed is entred right anon | |
| | And in that selue moment Palamon | |
| | Is vnder venus estward in that place | |
| | With baner and hardy chere of face | |
| | In al the worlde to seke vp and doun | |
| 1730 | So euene withoute variacioun | |
| | Ther nere suche companyes tweye | |
| | For ther was non so wyse that coude seye | |
| | That ony hadde of other auauntage | |
| | Of worthinesse ne estate ne of age | |
| 1735 | So euen were they chosen forto gesse | |
| | And in two raungis feire they hem dresse | |
| | And when that her names red were euerichon | |
