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Torrent then besieges another heathen City for 6 years.

There he stode and smote adown⁾

And leyd sege to the town⁾,

Six yere there he lay. 2205

By the VI yere were all̴ done,

All its folk die of hunger.

With honger they were all̴ slone,

That in the Cite lay.

The Soudan sent to sir Torent than⁾,

With honger that thes people be slan, 2210

All̴ the folke of this Cite; [2311]

‘Yf ye thinke here to lye,

Ye shall̴ haue wyne and spycery,

I-nough is in this contre.’

2209. The] A MS.

2209-14 put before 2203-8 MS.

2210. slayn MS.

2211. thes MS.