›e Are. Hauberks er broken, and helmes reven, Styf strakes war thar gyfen; Thai foght on hors ftifly always, The batel was wele more to prays; Bot at the laft fyr Ywayne On his felow kyd his mayne, So egerly he fmate him than, He clefe the helme and the herne pan": Naman lyfand met he. Whan thai come to the kaftel zate, In he folowed fast tharate: So in Minot's Poems. MSS. Cott. GALB. E. ix. ut fupr. And fum lay knoked out their hernes. While fir Ywaine remains in this perilous confinement, a lady looks out of a wicket which opened in the wall of the gateway, and releases him. She gives him her ring, A quylte ful nobil lay tharon, Richer faw he never none, &c. Here he is fecreted. In the mean time, the Lord of the castle dies of his wounds, and is magnificently buried. But before the interment, the people of the castle search for fir Ywayne. Half his ftede thar fand thai a e That within the zates lay; Bot the knight thar fand thai noght: Or els he cowth of weche craft And foght him in the maydens hall, h Sir Ywayne faw ful wele al that, For thai ne myght wreke thair lord bane. And fone thar efter come the Bere'; A lady folowd white fo mylk, In al that lond was none fwilk: Sho wrang her fingers, outbrafte the blode, Hir fayr har scho alto drogh, Sho wepe with a ful dreri voice. Of the dole of that fayr lady, &c. Sir Ywayne defires the damfel's permission to look at the lady of the deceased knight through a window. He falls in love with her. She paffes her time in praying for his foul. Unto his faul was fho ful hulde ': Opon a fawter al of gulde', To fay the fal-mas' faft fho bigan. The damfel", whose name is Lunet, promises fir Ywaine an interview with the Lady. She ufes many arguments to the Lady, and with much art, to fhew the neceffity of her marrying again, for the defence of her castle. |