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The riche quene of that lond

In her castell̴ toure gan stond

And be-held in⁾-to the see.

‘Sone,’ she said to a knyght,

f. 118b.

‘Yonder of shippis I haue a sight, 2600

For sothe, a grett meyne.’ [2701]

The Queen

The quene said: ‘Verament,

I se the armes of sir Torent,

I wott well̴, it is he.’

He answerid and said tho: 2605

‘Madam, I will̴, that it be so,

God gefe grace, that it so be!’

2605-7 put before 2602-4 MS.