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THK KINGIS QUAIR.
That, for gladness^ and confort1 of the sight,
And with the tiklyng of his hete and light,
The tender floum opnyt thame and sprad ;
And, in thaire nature, thankit him for glad.
22 No^t fere passit the state of Innocence,
Bot nere about the nowme?- of jew thre,
Were It causit throu hevinly Influence
Off goddis will, or othir casualtee,
Can I no^7d say ; bot out of my contree,
By thain? avise that had of me the cure,
Be see to pas, tuke I myn aue^ture.
23 Puruait of all that was vs necessarye,
Witfi wynd at will, vp airly by the morowe,
Streight vnto schip, no longere wold we tarye,
The way we tuke, the tyme I tald to-forowe;
With mony “ fare wele ” and “ sanct lohne to borowe ”
Off falowe and frende; and thus wit/i one assent
We pullit vp saile, and furth oure wayis went.
24 Vpon the wawis weltering to and fro,
So infortunate was vs that fremyt day,
That maugre, playnly, quhethir we wold or no,
With strong hand, [as] by fors*;, schortly to say,
Off Inymyis takin and led away
We weren all, and bxoght in thain? contree;
Fortune It schupe non othir wayis to be.
25 Quhare as In strayte ward and in strong prisouw,
So fer-forth, of my lyf the heuy lyne,
W/t^out confort, in sorowe abandoun,
The secund sisters lukit hath to twyne,
Nere by the space of jerA twis^2 nyne;
1 Confort, in the margin, is substitutedfor frescheness^.
2 Read twies (the usual Chaucerian dissyllabic form).