| And haddest golde ynough and Emelye | |
| No man mighte glade Theseus | |
| Sauynge his olde fader Egeus | |
1975 | That knew this worldis transmutacion | |
| As he hadde seen it chaunge vp and doun | |
| Ioye aftir woo and wo aftir gladnesse | |
| And shewde hym ensaumple and liknesse | |
| Right as ther deyde neuer man quod he | |
1980 | That he ne loued in erthe in som degre | |
| Right so ther lyued neuer man he seyde | |
| In al this worlde that som tyme he deyde | |
| This worlde is but a thorow fare ful of wo | |
| And we be pylgryms passinge to and fro | |
1985 | Deth is an ende of euery worldis sore | |
| And ouer al this yet sayde he mykyl more | |
| To this effect ful wisely to enhorte | |
| The pepyl that they sholde hem recomforte | |
| Duke Theseus with al his besy cure | |
1990 | Caste now where the sepulture | |
| Of good arcite may best y makyd be | |
| And eke most honourably in his degre | |
| And at the laste he took conclusion | |
| That there as first arcite and Palamon | |
1995 | Hadde for loue bataylle hem between | |
| That in that selue groue swete and green | |
| There as he hadde his amerous desirys | |
| His complaynt and for loue his hote firys | |
| He wolde make a fire in the whiche the office | |
2000 | Funeral he mighte fully accomplice | |