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Torrent hys spere a-say be-gane,

Bothe schyld and spere than⁾, 1000

That they were sekyr and good.

Torrent blows his horn.

Aftyr þat, with in a throwe,

Hys good horne gane he blowe.

The gyant sawe, wher⁾ he stodde:

The Giant Slongus, of Flonthus,

Slonges of Flonthus staryd than⁾; 1005

Quod Torrent: ‘Yf thow be a gentyll̴ man⁾

Or come of gentyll̴ blod,

Let thy beytyng and thy Ermyght be,

And come prove thy strenghe on me,

Therfor I sowght the, be the Rodde.’ 1010

1008. Let be thy b. a. t. erm. MS.