| 2090 | And thries with here speris clateringe | |
| | And thries how the ladyes gan crye | |
| | Ne how that led was homward Emelye | |
| | Ne how arcite is brent to asshen cold | |
| | Ne how the lich wakis were y hold | |
| 2095 | That ilke nyght ne how the grekis pleye | |
| | The wake pleyes kepe I not to seye | |
| | Whiche wrastelith best naked with oyl anointed | |
| | Ne who that bare hym best at the poynt | |
| | I wil not telle al how they goon | |
| 2100 | Hom to attenes when the pley is doon | |
| | Bnt shortly to the poynt than wol I wende | |
| | To make of my long tale an ende | |
| | B | E proces and be lengthe of certeyn yeris | |
| | Al stynt is the mornynge and the cheris | |
| 2105 | Of grekis be on general assent | |
| | Than semyth me there was a parlement | |
| | At attenes vpon certeyn poynt and caas | |
| | And among the whiche poyntis spokyn was | |
| | To haue with certayn contrees aliaunce | |
| 2110 | And haue fully of Thebes obeissaunce | |
| | For whiche this nobil Theseus anon | |
| | Leet sende aftir gentyl Palamon | |
| | Vnwist of hym what was the cause and why | |
| | But in his blake clothis sorowfully | |
| 2115 | He cam at his comaundement an hye | |
| | Tho sent Theseus for Emelye | |
| | Whan they were set and pees was al the place | |
| | And Theseus abiden hath a space | |
