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The kyng, whene þis counsell was done,
Ine hys hall pryvely ryght sone
Enteryt, ande ine-to full mony
Of weete teres ryght sorowfully
Brest out, for rytht moche dysese
Ande doloure, ine hys hert þat wese;
Inne-to hys thought haffande þat whyles
Of tratorye the wyckede wyles
Of Anthenore ande Eneas
Inne-to þat wofull wyckede case,
Ande þat hys sonnes all hath he
Tynt, þat war of gret bounte,
Ande also he hath mekle skaithes;
And now one neide, þat hyme more lath is:
The thyng so frawarde with hyme stondys,
It byhuffyt hyme frome þar hondes
Redempe hyme the which to hyme dyde
So gret dysese ande slaughtre kyde,
Ande þar for hys redempcioune,
As by skill ande ageynes resoune,
They woll haue all hys golde awey
That he gadrede hath mony day,
Ande at the last he, spoylit all
Of hys goodes, both gret & small,
Inne-to depnes of povertee
Byhuffyt hyme dyrenyt to be;
Bot gode, seyde he ine-to þat stryve,
Myght (he) be mayde sekyre of hys lyve!
And so longe Pryame wyst rytht nought
What he myght do: so was it wrought—
Sene of Necessyte he streyngnede
Was, to folow þare wyles feynede
Which yharnyt hys wndoynge
With þar strenthes ine alkyne thynge.—
The queyne Eleyne, þat wyst how so
Troyiens the tretty with (!) to mo
As lykede þe gregeois, for to pas
To pees, ande how þat Eneas[OMITTED]
Wyth Anthenore, sche ine the nyght,
Whene away was the dayes lyght,
Went to Anthenore full pryvely
Ande preyede hyme right tentyfly
That he for hyr walde trete þe pece
With Menelayus, þat whyle wes
Hyre lorde, þat for hys gret renowne
He by Reconsylyacioune
Walde mak of hyr for þe mercye
Of hys grete pitte anerly
She myght of hyme atteyne of pees
Grace, of the anent hyre sece (!).
Which thing Anthenor thonkfully
Hyght for hyre to trete fullely.
Ande so Heleyne hyr leue has tone
And to hyr kynges palace gone.—
Ine meyne-tyme Glawcus honorabily,
The kynges sone, they gert burye.
Of the corps of Pantysylya
The troyiens to purpos kane ta
That it sholde not þar erdyt be
Bot sholde be sende ine hyr cuntre,
Eftre þat þe pece tretyt were,
Honorabilly for to be there
Buryede, as þe bodye of a queyne; —
Ande that thrught kynge Phylymeyne
Was þane so ordanyt for to be,
With hole consent of the Cite. —
Anthenore þane ande Eneas
To þe gregeois castris gane pas:
Wher with they thre þat chosene were,
Of thynges of the Cite there
They haue tretede rytht secretly,
As forspokene was holely;
(&) of the Reconsyliacioune
Of queyne Eleyne, was ine þe toune,
Frome Menelay, hyr lorde, perfaye
Grace at lykyng obtenyt thay.
Wherfore gregeois has Vlixes
Statute ande als Dyomedes,
With Anthenor ande Enea
As legates to þe toune to ga.
Which bene entrede ine the toune:
Thrught all þe rewes wp ande doune
The peple Joye ande solace maide,
Eftere ine it thay entrede hade,
For-why, sene they war kynges two
Ande ryght wondre discreit also,
They trowede all of the Cite
The pees for to completet be.
Wpone þe morow ine the dawynge,
At maundement of Pryame kynge
Inne the palais all þe troyiens
For speche generaly come attones: