'suche marvayles / fortuned than [This line is in Stowe's hand. Bodl.

638, lf 115, bk, leaves a blank too.]

I trowe a-rede/ my dremes eveñ

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Loo thus hyt was / thys was my sweven
E thoght thus / that hyt was May

Thorgħ syngynge / of her Armonye
For Instrument / nor melodye

Was nowhere herde / yet halfe so swete
Nor of a-corde / halfe so mete

For ther was noon of hem that feyned
To synge for eche of hem hym peyned
To fynde out of mery crafty notys
They ne spared / not her throtys
And soothe to seyn/ my chambre was
Ful wel depeynted / and with glas
Were al the wyndowes / wel y-glasyd
Ful clere / and nat an hoole y-crasyd
That to be-holde/hyt was grete Ioye
For holy al / the story of Troye
Was in the glasynge / y-wroght thus
Of Ector/and of kynge Priamus
Of Achilles / and of kynge lamedoñ
And eke of Medea / and of Iason

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Meñ/hors/houndes / and other thynge
And al men speke / of huntynge

How they wolde slee / the hert with strengthe

And how the hert / had vpon lengthe

So moche embosed / y not now what
Anoon ryght/ whañ I herde that

How that they wolde / oñ huntynge gooñ
I was ryght' glad / and vp anooй
Tooke my hors and forthe I went
Out of my chambre / I never stent
Til I come to the felde withoute
Ther ouertoke y/ a grete route
Of huntes/and eke of foresterys
With ma[n]y1 Relayes / and lymerys
And hyed hem/ to the forest faste
And with hem / so at the laste
I asked oon/ladde A lymere
Say felowe whoo / shal hunte here
Quod I/ and he answered ageyn
Syr/themperour / Octouyen

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Therwyth the hunte / wonder faste
Blewe a forleygne at the laste

I was go walked / fro my tree
And as I went/ther came by mee

A whelpe that ffavned me / as I stoode
That hadde y-folowed / and koude no goode
Hyt come and crepte / to me as lowe
Ryght as hyt had / me y-knowe

Hylde doun hys hede / and ioyned hys erys
And leyde al smothe/ doun hys herys

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