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She gives Torrent a white steed

Forthe sche browght a whyt sted,

As whyt as the flowyr in⁾ med,

Ys fytte blac ase slon.

‘Leman⁾, haue here thys fole,

That dethe ys dynt schalt þou not thole, 460

Whyll̴ thow settyste hyme appon⁾,

And yf thow had persewyd be

And hadyst ned fore to fle,

Fast for to gone.

which the King of Nazareth had sent her.

The kyng of Nazareth sent hym me, 465

Torrent, I wet-saffe hym on the,

f. 84a.

For better love may I none.’

458. slo MS.

460. thole] haue MS.

461. settythe MS.

462. p’revyd (!) MS.

465. So Fragm. I (F. I); The kyng of Portynggalle seyd: ‘So mot I the MS.

466. hym on] so F. I; of MS.