Explicit Torent of Portyngale.
THE FRAGMENTS.
I. 1
[The King of Portugal plots Torrent’s death.]
Desonell gives Torrent a Horse
[T].... est hym vp.... 462
..... chent be for to fle
..... ly ivyll he gone 464
which the King of Nazareth had sent her.
The kynge of Nazareth sent hym me,
Torent, I wot-saue hym on the,
For better loue I none!’ 467
Afterwarde vpon a tyde,
As they walkyd by the ryvers syde,
The kynge and yonge Torent, 470
The King
This lorde wolde fayne, that he dede were
And he wyst nat, on what manere,
Howe he myght hym shent. 473
treacherously
A fals letter made the kynge
And made a messangere it brynge,
On the ryuer syde as they went, 476
asks Torrent to get Desonell a Falcon
To Torent, that was true as stele,
If he loued Dyssonell wele,
Gete hir a faucon gent. 479
Torent the letter began to rede,
The kynge came nere and lystened,
As thoughe he it neuer had sene. 482
The kynge sayde, ‘what may this be?’
‘Lorde, it is sent to me
For a faucon shene; 485
I ne wote, so God me spede,
In what londe that they brede.’
The kynge sayde, ‘as I herde sayne, 488
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from the Forest of Magdalen.
In the forest of Maudelayne 491
FRAG. 2. TORRENT GOES TO THE FOREST OF MAUDELAYNE.