(164)

That she myght no further ffare: [1991]

‘Of one poynt,’ she sayd, ‘is my care,

As I do now vnderstond,

So my children⁾ crystenyd were,

Though they be with beestes there, 1895

Theyre liffe is in goddus hond.’

The King of Jerusalem sees the leopard and child.

The kyng of Ierusalem⁾ had bene

At his brothers weddyng, I wene,

That was lord of all̴ that lond.

As he com homward on his way, 1900

He saw where the liberd lay [2001]

With a child pleyand.

1892. she s.] om. MS.