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 PRESERVED IN 
 
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 EDITED BY 
 
 JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. 
 
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 SECRETARY OF THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AND OF THE 
 
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 KEEPER OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MITSEIIM, 
 ETC. ETC. ETC. 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS, 
 
 WITH HIS KIND PKltMISSION, 
 
 MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The manuscript, from which the following early 
 English metrical romance is now for the first time 
 printed, is a folio volume on paper of the fifteenth 
 century, formerly in the possession of Dr. Farmer, 
 and now preserved in the Chetham Library at 
 Manchester. An account of the entire contents 
 of this volume is given in a small catalogue of the 
 MSS. in that library recently published;* and it is 
 not therefore necessary to describe the MS. more 
 minutely in this place, further than to remark that 
 it somewhat resembles in language and other cha- 
 racteristics the MS. in the Public Library at Cam- 
 bridge, from which Mr. Wright printed the tale of 
 " Jack and his Step-Mother." It is very incor- 
 rectly written, and the copy of the romance of 
 Torrente of Portugal, which occupies eighty-eight 
 pages of the book, contains so many obvious 
 blunders and omissions, that it may be conjectured 
 
 * 12tno. 1842, published by J. R. Smith. I communicated a 
 more pavticular account of the manuscript under consideration 
 to the Society of Antiquaries, which was read during the last 
 session, (Feb. 17th.)
 
 VI PREFACE. 
 
 with great probability to have been written down 
 from oral recitation. 
 
 With the exception of a few short fragments of 
 a printed edition in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 
 which the reader will find in the Appendix to the 
 present work, no other copy of this romance is now 
 known to exist, nor have we any allusions to it, or 
 any data whatever on which to found a conjecture 
 as to the date of its composition. It is probably, 
 like the second copy of the romance of Horn, a 
 modernized version of an older English romance, 
 which was itself translated from the French. I 
 have not been able to discover any traces of the 
 French original ; but there are some singular allu- 
 sions to its origin in the poem itself. I allude to 
 the frequent references to the " book of Rome," — 
 
 " As the boke of Rome tellus." 
 
 There can be little doubt that this is a travesty 
 by some rude minstrel, or copyist of the old phrase, 
 " the Roman,'' frequently occurring in middle 
 English poetry. — 
 
 " Heres now how the Romance sais." (Laurence Minot, p. 33.) 
 
 The term Roman (the origin of our modern word 
 Romance,) was applied to signify the French lan- 
 guage, in which most of the old romances were 
 originally written.
 
 PREFACE. Vll 
 
 The romance of Torrent is not in itself one of 
 the most interesting class, although curious in its 
 details, and valuable to the philologist. It is a 
 rambling poem of adventures, without much plot ; 
 and, in fact, belongs to that genus of romances, 
 which Chaucer intended to ridicule in his Rhyme 
 of Sir Thopas. There are, however, in our poem, 
 a few remarkable allusions, particularly that relating 
 to Veland, one of the heroes of the Northern 
 mythology, who is likewise mentioned in the ro- 
 mance of Horn, but in no other known English 
 poem,^though we have three allusions to him in 
 Anglo-Saxon, and he is frequently mentioned in 
 the early German and French romances. 
 
 The Berkshire local tradition of Way] and Smith, 
 is derived from the Scandinavian legend of Veland, 
 a fact not generally known. Wayland Smith is 
 said to have taken up his abode in the Valley of 
 the White Horse, in the midst of a number of up- 
 right, but, rude and misshapen stones. There he 
 is said to shoe all horses brought thither, provided 
 a piece of money be left upon one of the stones. 
 Sir Walter Scott has transferred this legend to the 
 sixteenth century, in his novel of " Kenilworth," 
 and this circumstance rendering the subject more 
 generally interesting, I am tempted to give here a
 
 VUl PREFACE. 
 
 brief account of the Scandinavian version of the 
 history of this redoubtable artificer. 
 
 The giant Vade, or Selande, had a son named 
 Velant, who, at the age of nine years, was placed 
 with a famous smith of Hunaland, called Mimit, 
 in order to learn the art of forging iron. After 
 leaving him three winters in Hunaland, Vade took 
 him to a mountain called Kallona, the interior of 
 which was inhabited by two dwarfs, who had the 
 reputation of being more skilful in the working of 
 iron than any other dwarfs,* or ordinary mortals. 
 They manufactured swords, casques, and cuirasses, 
 and were great adepts in the working of gold and 
 silvei', of which they made numberless trinkets. 
 Vade agreed with the dwarfs that they should teach 
 his son Velant, in the space of twelve months, all 
 the arts of which they were masters ; and for which 
 they were to receive as a recompense a golden 
 mark. Velant soon learned all that the dwarfs 
 thought proper to teach him ; and when his father 
 returned, at the expiration of the appointed time, 
 to take him away, the dwarfs offered to give him 
 
 "* The Finlanders are often designated in the Sagas as dwarfs, 
 and even sorcerers. They were of a very diminutive stature, and 
 generally lived in the caverns of the mountains ; hence their double 
 appellation of dwarfs and necromancers.
 
 PREFACE. IX 
 
 back the golden mark, and teach his son as much 
 again as he had already learned, if he should be 
 allowed to remain under their care another year. 
 Vade consented ; but the dwarfs, quickly repenting 
 the bad bargain they had made, added this condi- 
 tion, that if, upon the appointed day, Vade did not 
 appear to take away his son, they should be at 
 liberty to kill him. To this Vade also gave his 
 assent ; but, before his departure, he took his son 
 aside, shewed him a sword, which he concealed in 
 a certain spot at the foot of the mountain, and said 
 to him, " If I should not arrive on the appointed 
 day, sooner than allow yourself to be killed by those 
 dwarfs, take this sword and put an end to your own 
 existence, in order that my friends may say, I gave 
 to the world a man, not a girl." Velant promised 
 to do so, and re-entered the mountain, where he 
 soon became so skilful in the art of working metals, 
 that the dwarfs became jealous of his superiority. 
 Towards the close of the twelve months, Vade the 
 giant set out for the mountain, where he arrived 
 three days before the expiration of the time. But 
 finding the entrance to the interior of the mountain 
 not yet open, and being very much fatigued with 
 his long journey, he fell asleep. During his slumber 
 a violent storm arose, a part of the mountain gave 
 way, and buried poor Vade under its fragments.
 
 X PREFACE. 
 
 The day fixed upon for his appearance being 
 come, the dwarfs issued from the mountain, but 
 could perceive no traces of Vade the giant. His 
 son Velant, after in vain searching for him, ran to 
 where the sword was concealed, took it, and hiding 
 it under his garments, followed the dwarfs into the 
 mountain. He there killed them, instead of him- 
 self, took possession of their tools, loaded a horse 
 with as much gold and silver as he could carry, 
 and set out on his return to Denmark. Being 
 stopped in his progress by a river, he cut down a 
 tree, hollowed out its trunk, stowed his treasures 
 into it, made a cover for it which made it imper- 
 vious to the water, and getting into it himself, closed 
 the lid, and committed himself to the mercy of the 
 waves. 
 
 One day that the King of Jutland and his court 
 were out on a fishing party, on the nets being 
 drawn, there was found in one of them a singularly 
 shaped trunk of a tree. In order to find out what 
 it contained, they were going to break it to pieces, 
 when suddenly a voice issued from the trunk, com- 
 manding the workmen to desist. On hearing 
 which, the workmen ran away precipitately, crying 
 out that there was a sorcerer hid in the piece of 
 timber. In the meantime Velant opened the door 
 of his prison ; and on coming out, told the king
 
 PREFACE. X^ 
 
 that he was no sorcerer, and that if he would spare 
 his life and his treasure, he would render the king 
 the most signal services. The king assented. 
 Velant entered the royal service, and his charge 
 was to take great care of the knives, which were 
 ever)' day placed before the king at table. One 
 day, w hile he was washing these knives in the river, 
 one of them fell out of his hands, and sunk to the 
 bottom. Fearing to lose the royal favour, he went 
 secretly to the forge belonging to the king's smith, 
 and made a knife exactly similar to the one that 
 had been lost. The first time the king made use 
 of this knife at dinner, it not only cut the bread, 
 but went clean through the wood of the table ! 
 After this, and more wonderful feats with weapons 
 of his construction, Velant passed for the most 
 skilful workman in the kingdom, and manufactured 
 for the king many precious articles in gold and 
 silver. 
 
 So far the Icelandic Vilkina Saga, which enters 
 into the subject much more at length. For further 
 particulars connected with the history of the legend, 
 I may refer the reader to the fifth volume of the 
 Transactions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 
 of France, 8vo. Paris, 1823, p. 217, and to 
 Depping's dissertation on "Veland le Forgeron," 
 8vo. Paris, 1833.
 
 XU PREFACE. 
 
 It only remains for me to offer my best thanks 
 to the Rev. C. G. Hulton, Librarian of Chetham 
 College, who kindly afforded me every assistance 
 while transcribing the manuscript; and to Sir 
 Frederic Madden, who most liberally lent me his 
 own transcript of the romance, made in the autumn 
 of 1835. I ought to add that when I made my 
 transcript, I was not aware that a copy had pre- 
 viously been taken by a gentleman, whose very 
 superior knowledge both of the language and the 
 subject would have produced an edition of this 
 romance much more satisfactory than the present 
 one. 
 
 J. O. HALLIWELL. 
 
 35, Alfred Place, 
 July 7th, 1842.
 
 ^ JTorrnit of i^ortuaal. 
 
 Here hygynneth a good tale of Torrente of 
 Portyngale. 
 
 God, that ys worthy and bold 
 Heven and erthe have in hold, 
 
 Fyld, watyr, and wynde, 
 Yeve use grace hevyn to wyne, 
 And brynge us owt off dedly synne, 
 
 And in thy servyse to ende ! 
 
 A stounde and ye wolle lyst be-dene. 
 Ale dowghtty men that evyr hathe byn, 
 
 Wher so that they lende, 
 I schalle yow telle, ore I hense pase, 10 
 
 Off a knyght that dowghtty wase, 
 
 In Rome ase elarkys ffynde.
 
 In Portynggalle, that ryche londe, 
 An erelle that wase wonande, 
 
 That curtese wase and dowghtty ; 
 Sone aftyr he had a sone, 
 The feyerest that on fot myght gon, 
 
 Tyrrant men seyd he hyght. 
 
 Be t)Tiie he wase xviij. yer old, 
 
 Of deddes of armys he wase bold, 20 
 
 To felle bothe kyng and knyght ; 
 And now commythe dethe appon a day 
 And takythe hys father, ase I yow sey, 
 
 For God ys most of myght. 
 
 The kyng of Portynggalle wase fayne ; 
 Towarde hjnn he takythe Torrayne, 
 
 That dowghtty ys in dedde ; 
 And ther he fesomnyd in hys hond 
 A good eyrldom in that lond, 
 
 Bothe forest and downe. 30 
 
 The kyng hathe a dowghttyr feyer ase flowyr, 
 Dyscenyr wase her name, 
 
 Worthyest in wede. 
 When Torrent had of her a syght, 
 More he lovyd that swet wyte 
 
 Than alle ys fathyrys londe.
 
 For love of thys lady deyr, 
 In dede of armys far and nere 
 
 Aventorres gan he take ; 
 With heve tymbyr and o\^r-r)-de, 40 
 
 Ther myght no man hys dent abydde, 
 
 But to the erthe he them stroke. 
 
 Her father and other knyghttes mo 
 Had farly how he ryd soo, 
 
 And on a day to hyme spake : 
 He seyd, " Torrent, howe may thys byne, 
 That thow dysplesyst thes knyghttes kene, 
 
 And ordurres non vvolle take ?" 
 
 Torrent sayd, " So mot I the, 
 
 And other sayment wolle I bee 50 
 
 Ore I take ordor of knyght." 
 The he sware be hevyn kyng, 
 Ther wase told hym a wondyr thyng 
 
 In hys chambyr to nyght. 
 
 " For the love of my doughter dere, 
 Thow makyst good far and nere, 
 
 In dedde of armys bryght ; 
 And w}'t thow wylle, so God me save ! 
 Thow schalle here wpie, yf thow her have, 
 
 Be thow nevvr so wyttht." 60
 
 Torrent sayd, " Be Marre dere ! 
 And I were off armyse clere, 
 
 Yowr dowghthyr me leve were." 
 The kyng seyd, " Yf yt be soo, 
 Ore vij. ye re be ago, 
 
 More schalle we here. 
 
 " Durst thow, for my dowghttyr sake, 
 A poynt of arrays for to take, 
 
 Withowt helpe of fere ?" 
 Than seyd Torrant, " So God me sped ! 70 
 
 With anny man that syttythe on stede, 
 
 Other far ore nere." 
 
 Therof the kyng for tene wax wode ; 
 " Yf thow wylt make thy body good, 
 
 Be trew and hold thy contenaunce." 
 Tho seyd Torrant, " So God me sped ere ! 
 And I wyst in what sted they were. 
 
 Fore no man wokl I chaunce." 
 
 " Into the Grekes see a mylle 
 
 Ther lyghttythe a gyant mauyle, 80 
 
 Fulle evylle thow dourst hyme stond. 
 My fayer forestes fellythe downe he, 
 And ryche castelles in that contre, • 
 
 No ston lettythe he stond."
 
 Terrent sayd, " Be Marre biyght ! 
 Yt ys gret sorrow that he hathe syght, 
 
 The de\7lle of Helle hym blynd." 
 The knyght sayd, " PericuJa more be-dew[n]e, 
 Thou darryst fulle evylle with thy ey him sevv[n]e, 
 
 He wold felle the with hys wynde." 90 
 
 " Now, be my trowthe," seyd Torrent than, 
 " As I ame a jentylman, 
 
 Yf I may hym fynd, 
 Won fot wolle I not fro hym pase, 
 Thow he be stronger than Samson wase, 
 
 Or anny man of kynd." 
 
 Hys squyer^'s they momyd sore, 
 Withowt fere that he schold fare 
 
 To that gret jorney. 
 With the gyant heygh for to fyght; 100 
 
 Begonmese that gyant hyght, 
 
 That fynddes fare for aye. 
 
 To arme hyme Torrant goos, 
 
 Hys good stede with him he takythe, 
 
 Withowt squyer that day ; 
 He takythe leve at lorddys hend, 
 And on hys wey than he wynd, 
 
 For hym alle they prayd.
 
 LytyJIe vvyst Desonelle that jente, 
 
 For whos love that he went, 110 
 
 To fyght with that knave. 
 Now God, that dyed appon a rode, 
 Strengithe hym bothe bone and blod, 
 
 The fyld for to have ! 
 
 He that sehalle wend soche a wey, 
 Yt were nede for hym to pray 
 
 That Jeshu hym schuld save. 
 Yt ys in the boke of Rome, 
 Ther was no knyght of Kyrstendome 
 
 That jomey durst crave. 120 
 
 Vj. days rydythe he 
 
 By the cost of the feyer see, 
 
 To seke the gyant kene : 
 By the cost as he rode. 
 In a forest longe and brode, 
 
 And symly wase to se[n]e. 
 
 Hey sperrys ther he fonde, 
 And gret olyvys growonde, 
 
 Coverd in levys smale ; 
 Sone wase he ware, ase y yow say, 130 
 
 Uppon a mounteyn ther he laye, 
 
 On slepe ase I wene.
 
 Torrent on kne knelyd he, 
 And besowght Jeshu so fre, 
 
 That bowght hym with hys blod : 
 " Lord, ase thow dyd lyght for Mare ! 
 Let me never take velony, 
 
 And gef me of thy fode ! 
 
 *' Serttes, yf I hym slepyng slone, 
 
 Manfulle ded were yt none, 140 
 
 For my body, be the rode." 
 Tho Terrant blewe hys bugelle bold, 
 To loke that he awake wold, 
 
 And sythe ner hyme rode. 
 
 So fast aslepe he wase browght, 
 
 Hys hornys blast awoke hyme nowght. 
 
 He swellyd ase dothe the see. 
 Torrent saw he wolle not wake. 
 He rejTiyd hys sted unto a stake, 
 
 Ase a jentylleman in fere. 150 
 
 So hy he sayd wase the mounteyne, 
 Ther mygh no horse wyne hym ageyn. 
 
 But yf he nowyd wold be ; 
 Thowe the wey nevyr so wykkyd were, 
 On hys wey gan he fare. 
 
 In gret peraylle went hee.
 
 Torent went to that mounten, 
 He put liys spere hyme ageyne, 
 
 " Aryse, fellow !" gan he saye. 
 " Who made the so bold here to dwelle, 160 
 
 My lordes frethe thus to felle ? 
 
 Amendes the behovythe to pay." 
 
 The gyant rysythe ase he had byn wod, 
 And redyly by hyme stode, 
 
 Besyd hyme on a lay ; 
 And seyd, " Sertes, yf I leve, 
 Soche a wed I wolle the geff, 
 
 To meve the evyr and ay." 
 
 Thow the chyld were nevyr so yonge, 
 
 The fyndes spere sparrythe hyme nothyng, 1 70 
 
 Jeshu, the holttes horee ; 
 Who had fare and nere byne, 
 And never had of fytyng seyn, 
 
 He myght a lernyd there. 
 
 The gyant the fyrst stroke to hym he cast, 
 His good schyld alle to-brast 
 
 In schevyres spred wase there ; 
 Tho coud not he better ryd, 
 But stond stylle tylle one were ded, 
 
 The gyant lefte hym ther. 180
 
 Torrent undyr hys spryt he spred, 
 And abowght the body he hyme hente, 
 
 As far as he myght last ; 
 " A ! fellow ! w^lt thow so ?" 
 And to the grownd gan they goo, 
 
 Of the mounteyn bothe downe gan they pase. 
 
 Ase the boke of Rome tellys, 
 They tomyd xxxij. tymys, 
 
 In armys walloyng fast. 
 Yt tellythe in the boke of Rome, 190 
 
 Evyr ase the gyant above come, 
 Hys guttes owt of hys body rane. 
 
 At the fot of the mounteyn 
 
 Ther lay a gi'et ragyd ston serteyn, 
 
 Yt nyhed ys schuldyr bon ; 
 Ther to that gyant felle that tyd, 
 And also hys ryght syd, 
 
 Ase he herd in Rome. 
 
 Thorrow hyme that mad man, 
 
 Torrent sone abovyn wane, 200 
 
 And fast he gan warke, 
 With a knyflPe feyere and bryght. 
 Torrent with alle hys myght 
 
 Ther with he gard hyme dwelle. 
 B 2
 
 10 
 
 Torent kiielyd on hys kne, 
 To Jeshu Cryst prayd he, 
 
 That hathe thys world to wyld ; 
 " Lord, lovyd, evyr lovyd, thowe be ! 
 The feyer fyld thow hast lent me !" 
 
 Upp bothe hys handes held. 210 
 
 " Alle onely withowt any knave, 
 Of the fynd the maystry to have, 
 
 Of hym to wyn the fyld." 
 Now ys ther none other to say, 
 Of hyme he wane the fyld that day,* 
 
 I pray God hyme schyld. 
 
 Torrent went uppe ageyne 
 To the mount, ase I gan sayne, 
 
 The londes to se far and nere ; 
 In the see a myle hyme tho5t 220 
 
 An hold wase rychyly wrowt, 
 
 In that lond wase not here perre. 
 
 The see wase ebbyd, I yow sey. 
 Torrent thether toke the way, 
 
 Werry allethow he were ; 
 And ther he fownd ryche wayes, 
 Towrres endentyd with presyos stonys, 
 
 Schynyng ase crystalle clere. 
 
 * This line and flie precoditig one are repeated twice in the 
 manuscript, which is evidently a mere clerical error.
 
 11 
 
 The gattys off yron ther he fond, 
 
 Therin Torrent gan wonde, 230 
 
 A nyghtes rest therein he toke ; 
 And at the hale-dore ther wase 
 A lyon and a lyonasse, 
 
 Ther men betwene them twayne. 
 
 Fast etyng ase ye may here, 
 Crystyn thow thow they were, 
 
 Hys browys began to blowe ; 
 And wit yow wille, Lord God yt wote, 
 He durst goo no fote, 
 
 Lest they wold hyme sle. 240 
 
 Torrant stod and beheld, 
 
 And prayed to God that ale may wyld 
 
 To send hyme harborrow good ; 
 Sone hard he within a whalle 
 The syghpig of a lady smalle, 
 
 Sche weppte ase sche were wod. 
 
 Sche mornyd sore, and sayd, " Alas ! 
 That evyr kynges dowghthyr wase 
 
 Over come of so jentylle blod ! 
 For now ame I holdyn here 250 
 
 In lond with a fjnides fere." 
 
 Torrent hard wher he stod.
 
 1-2 
 
 " Dere God !" seyd Torrant than, 
 " Yff ther be anny Crystyn man 
 
 In thys hold of ston, 
 That woUe, for the love of God of myght, 
 HarbouiTovv a jentylman thys nyght, 
 
 For I ame but on." 
 
 " Seynt Marry !" seyd that lady clere, 
 
 " What Crystyn man axithe harburrow here ?" '260 
 
 Nere hym anon sche gothe. 
 " I wold harburrow the fulle fayne, 
 But a gyant wylle the slayne ;" 
 
 To hym sche mad here mone. 
 
 " Say me now, fayer lady, 
 
 Who owte thys plase schalle hyght. 
 
 These tourres that are so feyer and bryght ?" 
 Ther sche seyd, " be hevyn kyng ! 
 Here ys a gyant dwellyng, 
 
 That meche ys of myght. 270 
 
 " Be my trowthe, and he the see, 
 W^ere ther xx. l}^ys in the, 
 
 They dethe than wylle he dyght. 
 Jeshu Cryst gef me grace, 
 To hyde the in some preve plase, 
 
 Owt of the fjTides syght !
 
 13 
 
 " E\'yr me tliynkythe be thy tale, 
 The song of the burdes smale 
 
 On slepe hathe hyme browght." 
 " Ye," seyd Torrent, " ore he be wakyn, 280 
 
 I schalle the telle soche a tokyn, 
 
 Of hym thow have no thowght. 
 
 " But wolddes thow for thy gentre, 
 Do the lyonnys downe lye. 
 
 That they nye ine nowght." 
 By the hande sche gane hym tane. 
 And led hym in bewte them twayne ; 
 
 Ryght ase sche wold they wrowght. 
 
 The lady wase ne\^T so adrad. 
 
 Into the hale sche h^nm lad, 290 
 
 That lemyred ase gold bryght ; 
 Sche byrlyd whyt wyne and rede, 
 "^Make use myrre agejne ower dedd, 
 
 I wot welle yt ys so dyght !" 
 
 " Be my trowthe !" seyd Torrent, 
 " I wole be thy warrant. 
 
 He comythe not here thys nyght. 
 On soche a slepe he ys browght, 
 Alle men of lyve wakythe hym nowght, 
 
 But onely God alone." 300
 
 14 
 
 Blythe then wase that lady jent, 
 For to onharnes Torrent, 
 
 That dowghtty wase and bold ; 
 " Forsothe," sche seyd, " I wot wher ys 
 The kpiges sone of Prevense, 
 
 Fast put in hold. 
 
 " In a dongon that ys dym, 
 
 Fowyre good erylles sonnys be with hyme, 
 
 Ys fet in fere and fold. 
 The gyant wan theme in a tyde, 310 
 
 Ase they rane be the watyr syd, 
 
 And put them in preson cold. 
 
 " In an yron cage he hathe them done." 
 Torrent went thether sone, 
 
 " Are ye yet levand ?" 
 The kynges sone askyd than, 
 " Yf ther were anny Crysten man 
 
 Wold bryng use ow of bond," 
 
 " Lord !" he seyd, " God Allemyght ! 
 
 I had levyr oii a day to fyght, 320 
 
 Than alle my fathyrys lond." 
 With an iryn malle styff and strong 
 He brake upe an yron dore or longe, 
 
 And sone the keyes he fond.
 
 15 
 
 Owt he toke thys chyldyryn fyve, 
 The feyrest that were on lyve 
 
 I hold in anny sted. 
 The lady wase fulle glad ; 
 Sche byrlyd whyt wyn and redd, 
 
 And sethyn to soper sone they yed. 330 
 
 " Lordes," he seyd, " syn yow are her, 
 I red yow mak ryght good cher, 
 
 for now ys alle thy nede.'' 
 Thus he co\'}a*d owt of care ; 
 God, that sofryd wounddes sore, 
 
 Grante use to sped welle ! 
 
 Lorddes and ye wol lythe. 
 
 The chyldyr namys I wolle telle blythe, 
 
 Here kyn how they were me told ; 
 The k)Tiges sone, that dowghtty wase, 340 
 
 Wase clepyd Verdownys, 
 
 That dowghtty wase and bold. 
 
 The kynges dowghttyr of Gales lond, 
 Elyonere, I undyrstond, 
 
 That worthy wase in hold. 
 And an erylles son that hyght Torren, 
 Another Jakys of Berweyne, 
 
 The forthe wase Amyas bold.
 
 16 
 
 Into hys chambyr sche hyme led, 
 
 Ther gold and sylvyr wase spred, 350 
 
 And asur that wase blewe ; 
 In yron ther he gan stond, 
 Body and armys lygand, 
 
 In powynt to trusse and goo. 
 
 Into a stabylle sche hym led, 
 Eche toke a fulle feyer sted, 
 
 They were to goo. 
 And wote ye welle and undyrstond. 
 Had byn the gyant belevand, 
 
 They had not partyd soo. 360 
 
 They wolle not to bed gan, 
 
 Tylle on the morrow the day spronge, 
 
 Thus awey to fFare. 
 Torrant sperryd the gattys i-wyse, 
 AUe that he lyst he clepyd hys, 
 
 The keys and thyng he bare. 
 
 The lyon at the dore, 
 
 Wase led to her mayster that wase befor, 
 
 Un hym they fed them ther ; 
 Upp won of the horse that wase ther levyd, 370 
 Un hym thei trussyd the gyanttes hed. 
 
 Thus helpt hym God ther.
 
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 But ore iij. wekes wer commyn to end, 
 To Portynggalle gan he wend, 
 
 Ther ase the kyng gan lye ; 
 The porter ther sawe he stood, 
 He fled awey ase he were wod, 
 
 fflyngyng ase a fynd. 
 
 " Syr Kyng," he seyd, " be Goddes dede ! 
 Torrant bryngythe a devylle ys hed, 380 
 
 Ther with he woUe yow present." 
 
 * * * * * 
 
 Desonelle seyd, " Porter be stylle !" 
 In hys walke ther ase he went. 
 
 The kyng to the gatys gan pase, 
 Gret lordes that ther wase, 
 
 Bothe kuyghtes and squyerres, 
 Lordes wase fulle sore adred. 
 Fore the lyonys that he had, 
 
 They durst not come hyme nere. 390 
 
 The kyng seyd, " I wylle hym kysse. 
 Durst I for thy bestes i-wysse." 
 
 Torrent dyd them ly ther : 
 And kyssyd the kyng with joy and blyse 
 And aftyr other lordes of hys. 
 
 And aftyr other ladyes jent.
 
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 Messengyres to the weye. 
 
 To the kyng of Provyns I to sey, 
 
 Hys sone ys owt of hold. 
 Yoyng Torrent of Portynggalle ^00 
 
 Hathe browght hym owt of balle, 
 
 And slayne the jeyant bold. 
 
 The kynges messenger, so mot I the, 
 " I wolle gefF the towynnys thre, 
 
 For the talles thow hast me told." 
 Lytylle and mykylle that ther were, 
 Alle they mad good cher. 
 
 Her prynse fayne se wold. 
 
 That they than to Gales yede, 
 
 Yeftys to were hym no ned, 410 
 
 Then downys had they ; 
 Ase they seylyd on a tyde, 
 At Perrown on the see syd, 
 
 The kyng of Pervynse seyd, " So mot I the ! 
 Yftles schalle they not be, 
 
 That dare I sothely sey." 
 The kyng of Gales proferd hym feyer, 
 " Wed my dowghttyr and myn eyer, 
 
 Whensoevyr thow may." 420
 
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 The kyng of Pervense seyd, " So mot I the ! 
 Thys seson yeftles schalle thow not be, 
 
 H ave here my ryng of gold ; 
 My sword that so wj-lle ys wrowyt, 
 A better than yt know I nowght 
 
 Within Crystyn mold. 
 
 " Yt ys ase glemyrryng ase the glase, 
 Thorrow Velond wroght yt wase, 
 
 Bettyr ys non to hold. 
 I have syne sum tyme in lond ; ^ 430 
 
 Loke thow hold yt with fulle hond, > 
 
 Whoso had yt of myn hond, 
 
 I fawffht therfor I told." 
 
 S 
 
 Tho wase Torrent blythe and glad, 
 The good swerd ther he had, 
 
 The name wase Adolake. 
 A gret maynerlet he make, 
 That lest alle a fortnyght. 
 
 Whoso wille hys met take. 
 
 Evyry man toke ys leve, ase yow say, 440 
 
 Homward to wend ther wey, 
 
 Every man to take ys rest ; 
 Tylle yt befelle uppon a day, 
 Ase they went be the wey, 
 
 The kyng to hys dowghttyr spake.
 
 20 
 
 " Ye schalle take hed of a jeentylleman, 
 A feyer poyut for yow he wane, 
 
 Desonelle, at the last." 
 " Syr," sche seyd, " be hevyn Kyng ! 
 Tylle ye me told, I knewe nothyiig, 450 
 
 For whoys love yt wase." 
 
 " Desonelle, so mot I the ! 
 Yt wase for the lowe of the 
 
 That he trovylled so fast. 
 I wame yow dowghttyr, be the rode, 
 Yt ys for yow bothe good, 
 
 Therto I red yow trust." 
 
 Forthe sche browght a whyt sted. 
 As whyt as the flowyr in med, 
 
 Ys fytte blac ase slo. 460 
 
 " Leman, have here thys fole. 
 That dethe ys dynt schalt thou not have. 
 
 Why He thow settythe hyme appon. 
 
 And yf thow had perrovyd be, 
 And hadyst ned fore to fie, 
 
 Fast for to gone." 
 The kyng of Portynggalle seyd, " So mot I the ! 
 Torrent, I wel saffe of the. 
 
 For better love may I none."
 
 21 
 
 Aftyrward uppon a tyd, 470 
 
 Ase the went be the watyres syd, 
 
 The k)Tig and yong Torrent, 
 The kyng wold fayne that he wer ded, 
 And hym wyst in what maner, 
 
 How he schuld be schent. 
 
 A false lettyr mad the kyng, 
 
 And dyd messengyres forthe yt bryng, 
 
 On the rever ase they went, 
 To Torrent trew ase stylle, 
 Yf he love Desonelle wylle, 480 
 
 Get her a facon jent. 
 
 Torrent the letter began to red, 
 The kjTig lestyned and nere yed, 
 
 Ase he yt nevyr ad syne. 
 " Syr," he seyd, " what may thys be ? 
 Loo, lord, come ner and see, 
 
 Abowght a facon schene. 
 
 " I ne wot, so God me sped. 
 In what lond they ne bred." 
 
 The kyng answerd, I wene, 490 
 
 " In the forrest of Maudlen, 
 Ther be hawkes, ase I herd seyne, 
 
 That byn of lenage gene."
 
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 And than seyd the kyng ontrew, 
 " Yf tliow get hawkys of gret valew, 
 
 Bryng on of them to me." 
 Torrent seyd, " So God me save ! 
 Yf yt betyd that I may have, 
 
 At yowr wylle they schal be." 
 
 Hys squyeres bode he ther, 500 
 
 Aftyr hys armor for to far, 
 
 In the fyld byddythe he. 
 They armyd hym m hys wed, 
 Tho he bestrod another sted. 
 
 And forthe than rod hee. 
 
 Torrent toke the wey ageyn 
 Into the forest of Mawdleyn, 
 
 In the wyldsome way ; 
 Berrys he sawe stondyng. 
 And wyld bestes ther goyng, .510 
 
 Gret lyonys ther he fond. 
 
 In a wod that wase thyke, 
 Yt drew nerehand nyght, 
 
 And in the dawnyng of the day ; 
 Harkyn, lordes, what I schalle sey, 
 He and hys squyer partyd they, 
 
 Carfulle they were that day.
 
 23 
 
 At the schedyng of a rome, 
 Eche partyd other frome, 
 
 Forsothe, ase I undyrstond ; 520 
 
 Torrent toke a dulful wey, 
 Downe in a depe valey, 
 
 Besyd a welle strong. 
 
 A lytylle before mydnyght, 
 Of a dragon he had syght, 
 
 That grysly wase to syght ; 
 He had hym nowght to were, 
 But hys schyld and his spere, 
 
 That wase in hys squyeres hond. 
 
 Torrent knelyd on hys kne, 530 
 
 To Jeshu Cryst prayd he, 
 
 " Lord, mykylle of myght ! 
 Syne I wase in meche care, 
 Let me newyr owt of hys world fare, 
 
 Tylle I have or take other of knyght. 
 
 " Ase 1 ame falsely hether sent, 
 Wyldsom weyes have I went, 
 
 With fyndes for to fyght. 
 Now, Jeshu, for thy holy name, 
 Ase I ame but man alone, 540 
 
 Than be my helpe to nyght !"
 
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 Ase Torrent Jeshu gan pray, 
 He herd the dragon ther he lay, 
 
 Undyrnethe a colwd, 
 Of an on he wase stronge, 
 Hys tayle wase vij. yerdes long. 
 
 That aftyr hyine he drewe. 
 
 Hys wyngges was long and wyght ; 
 To the chyld he toke a flyght, 
 
 With an howge swayne ; 550 
 
 Had he nether schyld me spere, 
 But prayd to God he schold h}Tne were, 
 
 For he wase in dred i-nowthe. 
 
 On the tayle an hed ther wase, 
 That byrnyd bryght as anny glase, 
 
 In fyer whan he was dyght ; 
 Abowght the schyld he lappyd yt ther, 
 Torrent the bowght asondyr schere, 
 
 Thurrow the grace of God almyght 
 
 As the boke of Rome tellythe, 560 
 
 Of hys taylle he cut iiij. elles. 
 
 With hys swerd so bryght. 
 Than cryed the lothely thyng, 
 That alle the dalle began to ryng. 
 
 That the gyant hard wyght.
 
 25 
 
 The gyant seyd, " I undyrstond 
 There ys sum Crystyn man nere hond, 
 
 My dragon here I cry. 
 By him that schope bothe watyr and lond ! 
 Alle that I can se before me stond, 570 
 
 Dere schalle they abye. 
 
 " Me thynkythe I here my dragon schowt, 
 
 I deme ther be some dowghtty man hym abowght, 
 
 I trow to long I ly. 
 Yf I dwelle in my pylle of ston, 
 And my chefT foster were gone, 
 
 A false mayster were I." 
 
 Be the gyant wase redy dyght, 
 Torrent had slayne the dragon ryght ; 
 
 Thus gan God hyme scheld. 580 
 
 To the mownteyne he toke the wey, 
 To rest hyme alle that day, 
 
 He had mystyr to be kyllyd. 
 
 Tylle the day began to spryng, 
 FowUys gan myrre to syng, 
 
 Bothe in frethe and in feld. 
 Leve we now of Torrent there, 
 And speke we of thys squyer more, 
 
 Jeshu hys sole fro belle schyld !
 
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 Hys squyer rod alle nyght, 590 
 
 In a wod that wase fulle tyght, 
 
 With meche care and gret fare, 
 For to seke hys lord Torrent, 
 That wysly wase from hyme sent ; 
 
 And he wyst nevyr whethyr ne wher. 
 
 He durst nevyr cry ne schuot, 
 For wyd bestes were hym abowght 
 
 In the holttes hore ; 
 A lyty whylle before the day, 
 He toke into a ryde wey 600 
 
 Hymeself to meche care. 
 
 Forthe he rod, I undyrstond, 
 Tylle he an hey wey fond, 
 
 Withowtyn any delay ; 
 Also fast ase he myght fare, 
 Fore berrys and apyes that ther were, 
 
 Lest they wold hym byght. 
 
 The sone arose and schone bryght, 
 Of a castylle he had a syght, 
 
 That wase bothe feyer and whyte. 
 The gyant hem se and ny yed, 6 1 
 
 And seyd, " fellow, so God me sped ! 
 
 Thow art welcom to me.
 
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 " What dost thow here in my forest ?" 
 " Lord, to seke an hawkys nest ; 
 
 Yff yt yowr wyl be." 
 " The behovythe to ley a wede." 
 To an oke he hym led, 
 
 Gret ruthe yt wase to se. 
 
 In iiij. quarteres he hym drewe, 
 
 And every quarter uppon a bowe ; 6*20 
 
 Lord ! soche ways toke hee. 
 Ase Torrent in the mounteyn dyd ly, 
 Hym thowght he hard a reufulle cry, 
 
 Gret fere ther hyme thowght. 
 
 " Seynt Marre !" seyd the chyld so fer, 
 " Where vyr my jentylle squyer myght be, 
 
 That I with me to wod browght." 
 On he dyd hys harnes ageyne, 
 And worthe on hys sted serteyne, 
 
 And thetherward he sowght. 680 
 
 And wot yow wylle, I undyrstond, 
 In fowre quartyres he hym fownd, 
 
 For other wyse wase yt nowght. 
 The gyant lenyd to a tre, 
 And behyld Torrent so free, 
 
 Forsothe, ase [I] yow seye.
 
 28 
 
 Thys fend wase ferly to fygbt, 
 Rochense seythe the boke he hyght ; 
 
 Ther wase a dredfulle fraye. 
 To the chyld than gan he smyght; 640 
 
 " A ! theff ! yeld the astyt, 
 
 As fast as thow may." 
 
 " What r" seyd Torrent, " art thow wood ? 
 God that dyed on the rood, 
 
 GefF the evylle happe thys day !'* 
 He rawght Torrent soche a rowght, 
 Hys steddes brayne he smot owte, 
 
 So mykylle he began. 
 
 Torrent tho a good sped, 
 
 Ase fast abowte an eche went, 650 
 
 Ase swefte ase he might ryne ; 
 He gathyred som of hys gere, 
 Bothe hys schyld and hys spere, 
 
 Nere hym yod he than. 
 
 Bacward than be a brow5, 
 Twenty fote he garde hyme goo, 
 
 Thus erthe on hym he wane. 
 Yt solasyd 'J'orrant than. 
 When he sawe hyme bacward rend, 
 
 Downe be a mounteyn of Perowne. 660
 
 29 
 
 Stomlyng thurrow frythe and fen, 
 Tylle he com to a depe thorne, 
 
 Ther myght non hym schere. 
 Torrent wase glad, and folowyd fast, 
 And hys spere on hym he brast, 
 
 Good Adyloke yed hyme nere. 
 
 The fynd in the watyr stod, 
 
 He fawte ageyne ase he were wod, 
 
 AUe the day in fere ; 
 Tho nere hond wase the day gone, 670 
 
 Torrent wase so werry than. 
 
 That on hys kne knelyd he. 
 
 *' Helpe, God, that alle may ! 
 Desonelle have good day !" 
 
 Fro hym he cest hys schyld. 
 Jeshu wold not he were slayne, 
 To hym he sent a schowyr of rayne, 
 
 Torrent fulle wylle yt kelyd. 
 
 The fynd saw he wase ny mate, 
 
 Owt of the watyr he toke the gate, 680 
 
 He thowght to wyne the fyld. 
 Thoo wase Torrent fFresse and good, 
 Nere the fynd sore he stod, 
 
 Cryst hym save and see !
 
 30 
 
 The fynd fawt with an yron staif ; 
 The fyrst stroke to hym he gaffe, 
 
 He brast hys schyld on thre. 
 Torrent undyr hys staff rane, 
 To the hart he baryd hym than, 
 
 And lothely cry gane he. 690 
 
 To the g[r]ovvnd he felle ase tyght ; 
 And Torrent gan his hed of smyght, 
 
 And thus he wynnythe the gr6. 
 Torrent knelyd on the grownd. 
 And thankyd God that ylke stownd, 
 
 That soche grace hyme send. 
 
 Thus ij. journeys in thys woo, 
 With hys handes slow gyantys too, 
 
 That meny a man hathe schent. 
 Torrent forthe frome hyme than yod, 700 
 
 And met hyme xxiiij. fotte, 
 
 Ther he lay on the bent. 
 
 Hedles he left hym there, 
 
 Howt of the fyld the hed he bare, 
 
 And to the castelle he went. 
 To thys castelle he gan fare, 
 Ther fond he armor and other gere, 
 
 A swerd that wase bryght.
 
 31 
 
 To the towre he toke the wey, 
 
 Ther the gyantes bed lay, 710 
 
 That rychyly wase dyght; 
 At the beddes hed he fond 
 A swerd worthe an erllys lond, 
 
 That meche wase of myght. 
 
 On the pomelle yt wase wret, 
 Fro a prynce yt wase get, 
 
 Mownpolyardus he hyght. 
 The sarten withowt lese, 
 A schefF chambyr sche hym chesys, 
 
 Tylle on the morrow day. 720 
 
 To the stabulle tho' he yod ; 
 There he fond a nobylle sted, 
 
 Wase comely, whyt and grey. 
 The gyanttes hed gan he take, 
 And the dragonnys wold he not forsake. 
 
 And went forthe on hys wey. 
 
 He left mor good in that sale, 
 Then wase within alle Forty nggalle, 
 
 Ther ase the gyant laye. 
 Tho he rod bothe day and nyght, 730 
 
 Tylle he come to a castelle bryght, 
 
 Ther ys lord gan dwelle. 
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 32 
 
 The kyng ys gone to the gate, 
 Torrent on kne he fond thereat, 
 
 Schort talle for to telle. 
 " Have thow thys in thyn hond. 
 No nother hawkys ther I fond, 
 
 At Mawdlenys welle." 
 
 The kyng ase, " so have I blyse ! 
 
 Torrent I trowe sybbe ys 740 
 
 To the dewelle of helle. 
 Here besyd dwellythe won on lond, 
 Ther ys no knyghtes dynt may stond, 
 
 So stronge he ys on grond.'' 
 
 " Syr," he sayd, " fore Sen Jame ! 
 What ys the gyantes name, 
 . So evyr Good me sped !" 
 " Syr," he seyd, " so mot I the ! 
 Slogus of Foulles, thus hyte hee, 
 
 That wyt ys undyr wede." 750 
 
 Lytylle and mykylle, lese and more, 
 Wondyr on the heddes thore, 
 
 That Torrent had browght hem whome. 
 " Lordes," seyd he, " be sen Myhelle ! 
 Syr kyng, but ye love hyme wylle, 
 
 To yow yt ys gret schame."
 
 33 
 
 Torent ordeynyd prystes v. fyve, 
 To syng for hys squyerys lyve, 
 
 And inenythe hym by name. 
 Therfor the lady whyt as swane, 760 
 
 To Torrant here lord sche went than, 
 
 Here hert wase to him tane. 
 
 Lettyrres come hetherward 
 To the kyng of Portynggalle, 
 
 To ax hys dowghttyr derre, 
 Fro the kyng of Aragon, 
 To wed her to hys yongeest son, 
 
 The lady that ys so clere. 
 
 For Torrent schuld not her have. 
 
 To hyme fyrst he here gafe, 770 
 
 To the messenger ; 
 And hys fast ageyn dyd pase, 
 Whyle Torrent an huntyng wase, 
 
 Therof schuld he not be ware. 
 
 On a morning ther ase he lay, 
 The kyng to the quene gan sey, 
 
 " Madame, for cherryte ! 
 Thow art oftyn hold wyse, 
 Now wolle ye telle me yowr devyce, 
 
 That how I may govern me ? 780
 
 34 
 
 '* The ryche kyng hatlie to me sent, 
 For to aske my dowghttyr gente, 
 
 That ys so feyer and fre." 
 " Syr," sche seyd, " so God me save ! 
 I red yow let Torrent her have, 
 
 For best worthy ys he." 
 
 He seyd, " Madame, were that feyer, 
 To make an erlles sone myn eyer ? 
 
 I wille not, by Sen Jame ! 
 Tliere he hathe done maystres thre, 790 
 
 Yt ys swerd, yt ys not he, 
 
 For Hatheloke ys ys name." 
 
 " Lord, he myght fulle wylle sped, 
 A knyghtes dowghttyr wase hyrae bed, 
 
 Ase whyt ase swalles bone. 
 And yf ye warne hyme Desonelle, 
 And that therof here telle, 
 
 Therof wylle speke schame." 
 
 " Madam, unto thys tyd, 
 
 Ther lythe a gyant here besyd, 800 
 
 That many a man hathe slayne. 
 I schalle hyght hym my dowghttyr dere, 
 To fyght with that fyndes fere, 
 
 Thus he holdythe hyme in trayne.
 
 35 
 
 " But I schalle make myn comnant so, 
 That there schalle non with hyme go, 
 
 Squyerne swayne." 
 " Syr," sche seyd, " so mut I the ! 
 To sore bestad hathe he be, 
 
 And wylle commyn ageyne." 810 
 
 Tho the belles began to ryng, 
 Upe rose that ryche kyng, 
 
 And the lady in feree ; 
 And aftyrward they went to mase, 
 As the law of Holy Chyrge wase, 
 
 With nettes and soleinnyte. 
 
 Trompettys on the walle gan blowe, 
 Knyghtes semi yd on a rowe, 
 
 Gret joy wase to see. 
 Torrent a syd bord began, 820 
 
 The squyeres nexte hym than, 
 
 That good knyghtes schuld be. 
 
 Ase they sat the myddes the mete, 
 The kyng wold not foreget, 
 
 To Torrent the kyng gan sey : 
 He seyd, " Torrent, so God me sped ! 
 Thow woldes fayne my dowghttyr have, 
 
 And hast lovyd her many a day."
 
 36 
 
 " Ye, be trouthe !" seyd Torrent than, 
 
 " And yf that I were a ryche man, 800 
 
 Right glad, par ma fay." 
 " Yf thow durst, yar ma fay, 
 A poynt of armys undyrtake, 
 
 Thow broke her wille fore ay." 
 
 " Ye," seyd Torrent, " ar I gan rage, 
 Sekyrnes ye schalle me make 
 
 Of yovvr dowghttyr hend ; 
 And aftyrward my ryght ys, 
 Before xxvij. knyghtes," 
 
 And alle were Torrentes frenddes. 840 
 
 " Now, good seris," gan Torrant say 
 " Bere wittnes herof som daye, 
 
 Ageyne yf God me send." 
 Torrent seyd, " so mot I the ! 
 Wyst I where my jorney schold [be], 
 
 Thether I me dyght." 
 
 The kyng gaff by me an answere, 
 " In the lond of Calabur ther 
 
 Wonnythe a gyant whyte ; 
 And he ys bothe strong and bold, 8.50 
 
 Slochys he hyght, i the told, 
 
 God send the ways ryght."
 
 37 
 
 Than quod Torrent, " have goo day ! 
 And or I come ageyn, I schalle asay 
 
 Whether the fynd can fyght." 
 The wold he no lenger abyde, 
 He toke ys wey for to ryght 
 
 On a sted of great valewe. 
 
 Into a chambyr he gothe, 
 
 Hys leve of Desonelle he toke, 860 
 
 Sche wepte alle men myght rewe. 
 He seyd, " lady, be stylle ! 
 I schalle come ageyn than tylle, 
 
 Thurrovv helpe of Marry trewe." 
 
 Thus he worthe on a stede ; 
 In hys wey Cryst hyme sped ! 
 
 Fore he yt nothyng knewe. 
 He toke hym a redy wey, 
 Thurrow Provyns he toke the wey, 
 
 As hys jorney felle. 870 
 
 Tylle the castelle be the see 
 And hy stret heldythe hee, 
 
 Ther the kyng dwellyd. 
 To the porter he gan seye, 
 " Wynd in fellow, I the pray, 
 
 And thy lord than tylle.
 
 38 
 
 " Pray hym on won nyght in hys sale 
 To harburrow Torrent of Portynggalle, 
 
 Yf ys wille to bee." 
 The porter dyd hys commandment, 880 
 
 To the kynge he ys wente, 
 
 And knelyd uppon his kne. 
 
 " God blyse the, Lord, in thy sale ! 
 Torrent of Portynggale 
 
 Thus sendythe me to the. 
 He praythe yow, yf he myght, 
 To harburrow hym thys won nyght, 
 
 Yf yowr wille yt bee." 
 
 The kyng swere be hym that dyed on tre, 
 
 " There ys no man in Crystyante 890 
 
 More welcome to me !" 
 The kyng arose, and to the gat yod, 
 Lordes and other knyg[ht]es good, 
 
 That were glad of hys commyng. 
 
 Into the hale he hyme browght, 
 Ryehe met spare they nowght 
 
 Before Torrent fore to bryng. 
 " Syr," sayd the kyng,, *' I pray thee, 
 Where be thy men oiF armys free, 
 
 That with the schuld wynd." 900
 
 39 
 
 " Syr, to a lord I must ryde ; 
 My squyer hongythe be my syde, 
 
 No man schalle with me wend." 
 " Sir," seyd the kyng, " I pray the, 
 Where schalle thy ded of armys bee, 
 
 Yf yt be thy wylle ?" 
 
 " Ser,'' he seyd uttyrly, 
 " At Calabur sekyrly, 
 
 I ame alle redy ther tylie. 
 With a squyer, that welle can ryde, 910 
 
 Fast be the see-sydde 
 
 Sehuld we pley ower fyle. 
 
 " And wot ye wylle and undyrstond, 
 Ther schalle no knyght come nere hond, 
 
 Fore dred of denttes ylle." 
 The kynges seyd, " be Goddes ore ! 
 " I rede that thou come not there, 
 
 Fore why I wylle the seye. 
 
 *' Meche folke of that centre 
 
 Come hether for soker of me, 920 
 
 Bothe be nyght and day : 
 There ys a gyant of gret renowne, 
 He dystrowythe bothe sete and towyn, 
 
 And alle that evyr he may.
 
 40 
 
 " And ase the boke of Rome dothe telle, 
 He wase get of the devvelle of helle, 
 
 As hys moder on slepe lay." 
 The kyng seyd, "be Seynt Adryan, 
 I rede another jentylleuiane 
 
 Be there and have degrc. 930 
 
 " I have a dowghttyr that ys me dere, 
 Thow schalt here wed to thy fere, 
 
 I wille geve here in hande." 
 " Gramarcy !" seyd he thane, 
 " With my tonge so have I wrowght, 
 
 To breke my day than wille 1 nowght. 
 
 " Nedys me behovythe ther to bee." 
 
 " In Goddys name!'" the kyng gane sayne, 
 
 "Jeshusend the wille ageyne! 
 
 Lord so mekylle of myghte !" 940 
 
 Menstrelles was them amonge, 
 Trompettes, harpys, and myrre songe, 
 
 Delycyous nottis on hyght. 
 
 When tyme was, to bed they wente ; 
 On the morrow rose Torrente, 
 
 And toke leve on kyng and knyght, 
 And to a redy weyye, 
 Be a see-syd as yt laye, 
 
 God send hym gattes ryght !
 
 41 
 
 A hye stret hathe he none, 'J)50 
 
 Into Calabur he ys gone, 
 
 Within to days ore iij. ; 
 Loo! come ther folkes hym ageyne, 
 Fast folloyng with cart and wayne, 
 
 Fro-ward the sytte. 
 
 "Dere God!" seyd Torrent nowe, 
 
 " Leve folkes, what ellythe yow nowe, 
 
 Soo fast fore to flee." 
 " There ys a gyante here besyde, 
 In all thys countre fare and wyde, 960 
 
 No mane on lyve levythe hee." 
 
 " Dere God !" sayd Torrant thane, 
 
 " Where schalle I fynd that lothly man ?'' 
 
 Then they answered hym ageyne, 
 " In a eastylle besyd the see ; 
 Slongus soo hyght hee, 
 
 Many a man had he slayne. 
 
 '* We wot wille where he ys, 
 Before the knyghthode of Hongrys, 
 
 He wille not thus gone, 970 
 
 Tylle he have the ryche kyng 
 To hys presone for to bryngg, 
 
 To be lord of hymeself alone."
 
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 Tho wold he no lenger abyd, 
 But to the sytte gan he ryde, 
 
 As fast as he myght fare ; 
 Here barys felle and broke downe, 
 And the gattes of gret renowne 
 
 Stondyng alle baree. 
 
 Men of armys stond hyme ageyne, 980 
 
 Mo than fifty had he slayne, 
 
 With gryme wounddes and sare. 
 When Torrent of hym had a syght, 
 Thowe Desonelle be nevyr so bryght, 
 
 He wille reve hym hys chaffer. 
 
 Torrent in the storrope stod, 
 
 And prayd to God that dyed on rode, 
 
 "Lord! ase thow schalt all wyld at wyle, 
 Gyff me grace to wynd the fyld, 
 Undernethe spere and schyld, 990 
 
 That thys fynd hym yeld 
 
 Anon to me tylle. 
 
 " A man schalle but onnys dyee ; 
 I wille fyght whille I may dryee:" 
 
 He mad nobylle cher : 
 When he had Jeshu prayd of grace, 
 He wyscheyd hyme a battelle plase, 
 
 Ther as hym lyst were.
 
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 Torrent hys spere asay began, 
 
 Bothe schyld and spere than, 1000 
 
 That they were sekyr and good. 
 Aftyr that, within a throwe, 
 Hys good home gane he bio we, 
 
 The gyant sawe wher he stodde. 
 
 Slongus of Flonthus staryd than, 
 
 Quod Torrent, "yf thow be a gentylle-man, 
 
 Or come of gentylle blod, 
 Let be thy beytyng and thy ermyght, 
 And come prove thy strenghe on me; 
 
 Therefor I sowght the be the rodde. 1010 
 
 The gyant sayd, " be the roode ! 
 Dewelle of helle send the fode, 
 
 Hither to seche me. 
 By the nose I schalle the wryng, 
 Thow berdles gadlyng, 
 
 That alle helle schalle thow see." 
 
 The wey than to hym toke, 
 
 And on hys bake her bare a croke, 
 
 Wase X. fot long and thre : 
 And thow he never so gret were, 1020 
 
 Torrent thowght not fare to fare, 
 
 Tylle wone of them ded bee.
 
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 Thoo wold Torrent no lenger byd, 
 Tylle the theff gan he ryde 
 
 Ase fast ase evyr he may. 
 The theff had non ey but on ; 
 Soehe sawe I never none, 
 
 BIyther be nyght and be day. 
 
 Thurrow Goddes helpe and Sentawsden,* 
 
 The spere anon he toke to hym : 1030 
 
 God send hym the ryght wey ! 
 Than the theff begane to rere, 
 Alle that in the sytte were 
 
 Ovyr the wallys they laye. 
 
 Thow the fyndes ey were owte, 
 Fast he leyd hym abowte 
 
 Alle that somyrres nyght : 
 He set ys backe to an hylle, 
 That Torrent schuld not come hym tylle, 
 
 So meche that the theff could of fyght. 1040 
 
 He bled so sore, I undyrstond, 
 Hys croke felle owt of hys hond, 
 
 Hys dethe to hyme ys dyght. 
 Torrent to hyme rane with a spere, 
 Thurrow the body he gan him bere ; 
 
 Thus helpe hym Gotl of myght ! 
 • i. e. St. Austin.
 
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 That alle in the sytte were 
 Mad fulle nobille chere, 
 
 That thys fynd wase dedde : 
 fForthe they ran with stavys of tre, 1050 
 
 Torrent seyd, " so mot I the, 
 
 " Kepe hole hys hed." 
 
 " Yf yt be broke, so God me sped, 
 Yt ys wylle the worse to lede ;" 
 
 That seson they dyd ase hyme bad; 
 Yt ys solas evyr among, 
 Mo than thre hundred on a throng, 
 
 Whan that he was dede. 
 
 Than the kyng of Calaber ayen hym went, 
 Torrent be the bond he hent, 1060 
 
 To the halle he gan hym lede ; 
 And comaunded squiers tho 
 Of her harnes for to do, 
 
 And cloth hym in another wede. 
 
 Waytes on the w-alle gan blowe, 
 Knyghtis assemled on a rowe, 
 
 And sith to the deyse they yede ; 
 "Sir," quod the kyng, ''of whens are ye?" 
 " Of Portingale, Sir,"' said he, 
 
 " I com heder to sech my deth." 1070
 
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 ffuUe curtesly the kyng gan say f 
 Torrent said on the other day, 
 
 " Wylle ye wend with me, 
 A litulle here beside to passe, 
 There as the geauntes dwelling was 
 
 His maner now for to see." 
 
 To the castelle gan they gone, 
 Richer saw they never none, 
 
 Better myght none be. 
 " Sir," he said, " be God Allemyst ! 1080 
 
 ffor thou hym slew that is dight, 
 
 I vouche it save on the. 
 
 " I yeve the, ser, of alle my lond, 
 And thereto an erledome of lond, 
 
 fforsoth ye shalle it have. 
 Omage thou shalte none ifyne, 
 But evermore to the and thyne, 
 
 ifrely, so God me save," 
 
 Lordys, and ye liston wold, 
 
 What was clepud the rich hold, 1090 
 
 The castelle of Cardon. 
 Two days or thre dwellith he there. 
 And sith he takyth the way to fFare, 
 
 Both at knyght and knave.
 
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 By the kyng of Provens he gan gane, 
 That he had oute i-tane 
 
 His son uppon a day. 
 Gentilmen were blith and ffayn, 
 That he in helth was comyn agayn, 
 
 That they myght with hym play. 1100 
 
 Thereof herd he sertayn[ly], 
 That Desonelle wedid shold be 
 
 With an uncouth aray. 
 And listonyth, lordis, of a chaunce, 
 Howe he lefte his countenaunee, 
 
 And takyth hym armes gay. 
 
 Byfore the kyng he fell on kne, 
 
 " Good lord," he said, " for charite ! 
 
 Yeve me order of knyght : 
 I wott welle ye are leryd, 1110 
 
 My lordys dowghter shalle be wed 
 
 To a man off myght." 
 
 " Sir," he said, " I trow she mone, 
 To the Prynce of Aragon ; 
 
 Gete the armes bryght." 
 " Swith," he seith, " that this be done, 
 That thou be there and wyn thy shone, 
 
 By this day sevynnyght."
 
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 Sir Torrent ordenyth liym a sheld, 
 
 It was ryche in every fFeld; 1120 
 
 Listenyth what he bare : 
 Of azure a squier off" gold, 
 Richely lett on mold. 
 
 Listonyth what he ware : 
 
 A dragon lying hym besyde, 
 Hys mouth grennyng fulle wyde, 
 
 Alle ffyghtyng as they were ; 
 The creste that on his hede shold stond, 
 Hit was alle gold shynand, 
 
 Thus previd he hym there. 1130 
 
 Lordys assembelid in sale, 
 Welle mo than I have in tale, 
 
 Or ellis gret wonder were; 
 There herd i-telle ffor certayn, 
 That Desonelle wed shold be than, 
 
 That was hymselfe ff'ulle dere. 
 
 And whan he herd of that ffare, 
 Wars tydingis than were thare, 
 
 Might he none gladly here. 
 He wold not in passe, 1140 
 
 Tille the myd mete was, 
 
 The kyng and meny a knyght.
 
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 As they salt at theyre glade, 
 In at the halle dur they rade, 
 
 In armes ffeyre and bryght ; 
 With a squier that is fFre, 
 Up to the lady ryduth he, 
 
 That rychely was i-dight. 
 
 " Lordys," he said, " among you alle, 
 
 I chalenge thre coursus in the halle, 1150 
 
 Delyver it me with right." 
 The kyng of Aragon sett her bye, 
 And he defendid her nobely, 
 
 " I wylle none delyver the." 
 
 His son said, " so muste I thryve, 
 There shalle no man just for my wifFe, 
 
 But yf youre wylle it be. 
 ffor her love did I never no dede, 
 I shalle to day, so God me spede, 
 
 Behold and ye shalle se." 1160 
 
 " Alas !" said Desonelle the dere, 
 " flfulle longe may I sitt here, 
 
 Or Torrent chalenge me," 
 Trumpettes blew in the prese, 
 Lordys stond on reugis, 
 
 Ladyes lay over and beheld.
 
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 The prynce and Torrent than 
 Eyther to other gan ren, 
 
 Smertely in that flPeld : 
 Torrent sett on hym so sore, 1 1 70 
 
 That hors and man down he bore, 
 
 And alle to-sheverd his sheld. 
 
 So they tombelid alle in flPere, 
 That afterward of vij. yere 
 
 The prynce none armes myght weld. 
 Torrent said, " so God me save ! 
 Other two coursus wylle I have, 
 
 Yf ye do me law of lond." 
 
 Gret lordys stond stylle, 
 
 They said nether good ne ylle, 1180 
 
 ffor tynding of his hond. 
 The prynce of Aragon in they barre. 
 With litulle worshipp and sydes sare, 
 
 He had no fote on ffor to stond. 
 
 Thus thes lordys justid aye ; 
 Better he had to have be away, 
 
 Suche comffort there he ffound. 
 He wold not in passe, 
 Tille they at myd-mete was, 
 
 On the other day at none. 1190
 
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 His squiers habite he had, 
 Whan he to the deyse yad, 
 
 Withoute couped shone ; 
 And the hede on the bord he laid, 
 " Lo ! Ser kyng, hold this," he said, 
 
 " Or ellis wroth we anon." 
 
 They sett stille at the bord, 
 None of hem spake one word, 
 
 They spake nether ylle ne good ; 
 But ryght that he had done, 1200 
 
 Torrent at the sydebord stode, 
 
 " Lystonyth, lordynges, gentille of blood, 
 
 " fFor the love of God allemyght, 
 The kyng heyght me his doughter dere, 
 To ffyght with a ffendys ffere. 
 That wekyd was and wight ; 
 
 " To wed her to my wyffe, 
 
 And halfFe his kyngdome be his lifFe, 
 
 And after his days alle his ryght. 
 Lokyth, lordys, you among, 1210 
 
 Whether he do me ryght or wrong :" 
 
 Tho waried hym both kyng and knyght.
 
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 Tho said the kyng of Aragon i-wys, 
 " Torrent, 1 wiste nothing of thys, 
 
 A gret maister arte thou !" 
 The kyng sware be Seynt Gryffen, 
 " With a sward thou shalte her wynne, 
 
 Or thou have her nowe. 
 
 " ffor why, my son to her was wed, 
 
 Gret lordys to churche her led, 12*20 
 
 I take wittnes of you alle ; 
 Kyng Calamond have good day, 
 Thou shalt i-bye it and I may, 
 
 To God I make avowe." 
 
 The emperoure of Rome ther was, 
 Betwene these kynges gan he passe. 
 
 And said, " lordys, as sone, 
 This squier that hath brought this hede, 
 The kyng had wend he had the dede, 
 
 And aventurly gan he gone ; 1230 
 
 " I rede you take a day of restys, 
 And do it uppon two knyghtes, 
 
 And let no man be slayn." 
 Gret lordys that were thare. 
 This talis lovid at that fare, 
 
 And (irdenyd than an(*n.
 
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 To the kyng com was, 
 To send unto Sathanas, 
 
 ifor a geaunt that hight Gate ; 
 fFor to make hym knyght to his hond, 1240 
 
 And sease hym in alle his lond ; 
 
 The messingere toke the gate. 
 
 Gret othes he swai'e hym than, 
 
 That he shold ffjght but with one man, 
 
 And purvey hym he bad ; 
 Iryn stavis two or thre, 
 ffor to ffyght with Torrent ffre. 
 
 Though he thereof ne wott. 
 
 Than take counselle of kyng and knyght, 
 
 On lond that he shold not ffyght, 1250 
 
 But ffar oute in the see ; 
 In an yle long and brod, 
 A gret payn there was made, 
 
 That holdyn shold it be. 
 
 If Gate slew Torrent that ffre ys, 
 Halfe Portyngale shold be his, 
 
 To spend with dedys ffre ; 
 And yf ser Torrent myght hym overeom, 
 He shold have halfe Aragon, — 
 
 Was better than suche thre. 1260
 
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 The gyaunt shipped in a while, 
 And sett hym oute in an yle, 
 
 That was grow both grene and gay ; 
 Sir Torrent com prekand on a stede, 
 Richely armed in his wede, 
 
 " Lordyngys," gan he say, 
 
 " It is semely ffor a knyght 
 Uppon a stede flPor to ffyght." 
 
 They said sone, " nay, 
 He is so hevy he can not ryde ;" 1270 
 
 Torrent said, " eville mat he betyde, 
 
 ffalshode woo worth it aye !" 
 
 " Sir, takyth houselle and shrefte !" 
 To God he did his hondys lifte, 
 
 And thankid hyra of his sond ; 
 " Jeshu Cryste, I the praye, 
 Send me myght and strengith this day, 
 
 Ayen the ffend to stond ! * 
 
 To the shipp ser Torent went, 
 
 With the grace God had hym sent, 1280 
 
 That was never ifayland ; 
 AUe the lordys of that contre, 
 fFrome Rome unto the Grekys se, 
 
 On lond stode and beheld.
 
 Whan ser Torrent into the ile was brought, 
 The shipmen lenger wold tary nought, 
 
 But hied hem sone ageyn ; 
 The giaunt said, " so must I the, 
 Sir, thou art welcom to me, 
 
 Thy deth is not to-layn !" 1290 
 
 The ffirste stroke to hym he yave, 
 Oute of his hand flew his staff; 
 That thefe was fuUe fayn : 
 
 Tho ser Torrent went nere Gate, 
 
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 He thought he wold hym have slayn. 
 
 The thefF couth no better wonne ; 
 Into the see rennyth he sone, 
 
 As fast as he myght ffare : 
 Sir Torrent gaderid good cobled stonys, 1300 
 
 Good and handsom ffor the nonys, 
 
 That good and round were. 
 
 Meny of them to hym he caste, 
 He threw stonys on hym so faste, 
 
 That he was sad and sore ; 
 To the ground he did hym felle, 
 Men myght here the fend yelle, 
 
 Halfe a myle and more.
 
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 Sir Torent said as he was wonne, 
 
 He thankid Jeshu, Maryes son, 1310 
 
 That Kyng that sent hym my5t ! 
 He said, " lordys, for charite, 
 A bote that ye send to me. 
 
 It is nerehand nyght." 
 
 They reysed a gale with a saylle, 
 The geaunt to lond for to traylle, 
 
 Alle men wonderid on that wight. 
 Whan that they had so done, 
 They went to ser Torent fulle sone, 
 
 And shipped that comly knyght. 1320 
 
 The emperoure of Rome was there. 
 Of Provens and of Calabere yare, 
 
 And other kynges two or thre : 
 They yave Ser Torent that he wan, 
 Both the erth and the woman, 
 
 And said welle worthy was he. 
 
 Sir Torent had in Aragon, 
 The riche cite of Cargon, 
 
 And alle that riche contre ; 
 Archbeshoppes, as the law felle, 1330 
 
 Departid the prynce and Dissonelle, 
 
 With gret solempnite.
 
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 ffor Ser Torent the fend did falle, 
 Gret lordys honoured hym alle, 
 
 And for a doughty knyght hyra tase. 
 The kyng said, " I understond, 
 Thou hast fought ffor my doughter and my lond, 
 
 And welle wonne her thou hase." 
 
 He gave to ser Nycholas de Barr, 
 
 A grett erldome and Amarr, 1340 
 
 That abbey of hym redith ; 
 ffor Jhesus love, moch of myght, 
 That hym helpith day and nyght, 
 
 Whan he to the battelle yede. 
 
 Lordys than at the laste, 
 Echone on theyre way paste, 
 
 And ever)' man to his ; 
 The Queue of Portingale was ffayn, 
 That ser Torent was com agayn, 
 
 And thankyd God of this. 1350 
 
 Than said the kyng, " I understond 
 
 Thou hast fought for my doughter, and my lond, 
 
 And art my ward i-wys ; 
 And I wylle not ageyn the say, 
 But abyde halfe yere and a day, 
 
 And broke her welle with blis." 
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 Torent said, " so muste I the, 
 Sith it wylle no better be, 
 
 I cord with that assent ;" 
 After mete, as I you telle, 1360 
 
 To speke with mayden Desonelle, 
 
 To her chamber he went. 
 
 The damyselle so moche of pride, 
 Set hym on her bed-syde, 
 
 And said, " welcom verament." 
 Such gestenyng he aright, 
 That there he dwellid alle ny5t. 
 
 With that lady gent. 
 
 Sir Torent dwellid thare 
 
 Twelffe wekys and mare, 1370 
 
 Tille letters com hym tille, 
 ff'ro the kyng of Norway, — 
 ffor Jhesus love he did hym praye, 
 
 Yf it were his wylle, 
 
 He shold com as a doughty knyght, 
 With a geaunt for to ffyght, 
 
 That wylle his londys spylle ; 
 He wold hym yeve his doughter dere, 
 And halfe Norway, ffar and nere, 
 
 Both be hold and be hylle. 1380
 
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 Sir Torent said, " so God me save, 
 Inough to lyve uppou I have, — 
 
 I wylle desire no more ; 
 But it be for Jhesu is sake, 
 A poynt of armes for to take, 
 
 That hath helpid me beffore. 
 
 " I yeve the here, oute of my bond, 
 To thy doughter alle my lond, 
 
 Yf that I end there ;" 
 And whan he toke his way to passe, 1390 
 
 Mo than fFyfty with hym was. 
 
 That fals to hym were. 
 
 Syr Torent to the lady went, 
 ffulle curtesly and gent, 
 
 " Denoselle, have good day, 
 I muste now on my jornay, 
 
 A kyngis lond for to fend. 
 
 " Thes gold rynges I shalle yeve the, 
 Kepe welle, my lady ffre, 
 
 Yf God a child us send." 1400 
 
 She toke the ryngis with moche care, 
 Thries in sownyng felle she thare. 
 
 Whan she saw that he wold wend.
 
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 Shipp and takylle they dight, 
 Stede and armour ffor to ffyght, 
 
 To the bote they bare ; 
 Gentilmen that were hend 
 Toke her leva at theyre frend, 
 
 With hym fFor to fare. 
 
 Kyng Colomond is not to layn, 1410 
 
 He wold that he cam never agayn, — 
 
 Therefore God yefF hym care. 
 So within the ffyfty dayes, 
 He come into the lond of Norways, 
 
 Hard contre ffound he thare. 
 
 Thus ser Torrent forsoth is fare, 
 A noble wynd drefFe hym thare, 
 
 Was blowyng oute of the weste ; 
 Of the coste of Norway they had a sight, 
 #*#*** 1420 
 
 Of sayling they were alle preste. 
 
 So flPeyre a wynd had the knyght, 
 A litulle beffore the mydnyght, 
 
 He rode be a foreste ; 
 The shipmen said, " we be shent, 
 Here dwellith a geaunt verament, 
 
 On his lond are we sett!"
 
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 The maistershipmen said, " nowe 
 I rede we take down sayle and rowe, 
 
 While we have this tyde ; 1430 
 
 " Sir," he said, " be God Allemyght, 
 The giant lieth here every nyght, 
 
 On the mowntayn here besyde. 
 
 " My lord the kyng wylle not ffyght, 
 Tille he of you have a sight, 
 
 On you ys alle his pryde !" 
 Sir Torrent said, " here my bond, 
 Sith we be ryven on this lond, 
 
 To nyght wylle I ryde." 
 
 Sir Torent arm yd hym anon, 1440 
 
 And his knyghtes everyehone, 
 
 With sheld and spere in bond ; 
 The shipmen said, " as mut I thryve, 
 I rede that every man other shryve. 
 
 Or that we go to the lond." 
 
 Sir Torent said, " as God me spede, 
 We wille firste se that ffede, 
 
 My lord was never fleand ! 
 Gentilmen, made chere good, 
 ifor Jhesu love that died on rood, 1450 
 
 He wille be our waraunt."
 
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 In a forest can they passe, 
 
 Of Brasille, saith the boke, it was. 
 
 With brovves, brod and wyde ; 
 Lyons and berys there they ffound, 
 And wyld bestes aboute goand, 
 
 Reysing on every side. 
 
 Thes men of armes with trayn, 
 To the shipp they flew agayn, 
 
 Into the see at that tyde ; 1460 
 
 ffast from land row they began, 
 Above they left that gentilman, 
 
 With wyld bestis to have byde. 
 
 The shiptnen of the same lond 
 Ryved up, I understond, 
 
 In another lond off hold ; 
 There the kyng hymselfe lay, 
 To the chamber they toke the way, 
 
 And fals talis hym told. 
 
 ffor he wold not the geaunt abyde, i470 
 
 ffor alle this contrey feyre and wyde, 
 
 Thou5 he yeff it hym wold ; 
 " Sir kyng, ye have youreselfe 
 Erlis ten or twelfe, 
 
 Better know I none.
 
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 ** Send youre messingeris fFar and wyde, 
 ffor to ffelle the geauntes pride, 
 
 That youre doughter hath tane." 
 " I had lever to have that knyght, 
 With hym is grace of God Allemyste, 1480 
 
 To be here at his bane !" 
 
 fFulle litulle wist that riche kyng, 
 Of ser Torrentes ryding 
 
 In the forest alle alone ; 
 Thorou5 helpe of God that with hym was, 
 ffro the wyld bestis gan he passe, 
 
 To an hye hylle. 
 
 A litulle while before the day, 
 He herd in a valey 
 
 A dynnyng and a yelle ; 1490 
 
 Theder than riduth he 
 To loke what thing it my5t be, 
 
 What adventure that befelle. 
 
 It were two dragons stiff and strong, 
 Uppon theyre lay they sat and song, 
 
 Beside a depe welle ; 
 Sir Torent said thanne, 
 To God that made man, 
 
 And died uppon a tree,
 
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 " Lord, as thou mayst alle weld, 1500 
 
 Yeve me grace to wyn the feld, 
 
 Of thes ffendys ontrewe !" 
 Whan he had his prayers made, 
 Pertely to hem he rade, 
 
 And one thorou5oute he bare. 
 
 Thus sped the knyght at his coniyng, 
 Thorough the helpe of hevyn kyng, 
 Lord lovid muste thou be ! 
 The other dragon wold not flee, 
 
 But shotith alle his myght; 1510 
 
 He smote Aire, that lothely thing, 
 As it were the lightnyng, 
 
 Uppon that comly knyght. 
 
 Therefore Ser Torent wold not lett. 
 But on the dragon fast he bett, 
 
 And overcome that foule wight ; 
 Tho anon the day sprong, . 
 ffowles rose, mery they song, 
 
 The Sonne arose on hy5e. 
 
 Torent of the day was fulle blithe, 1520 
 
 And of the valey he did hym swith. 
 
 As fast as ever he may : 
 To a mowntayn he rode ryght. 
 Of a castelle he had a sight, 
 
 With towrys hy^e and gay.
 
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 He come into an hy5e strete, 
 ffew folke gan he mete, 
 
 To wish hym the way ; 
 To the gatys tho he rode, 
 fFulle craftely they were made, 1530 
 
 Of irun and eke of tree. 
 
 One tre stonding there he fFound, 
 Nyne oxen of that lond, 
 
 Shold not drawe the tre ; 
 The giaunt wrought up his walle, 
 And laid stonys gret and smalle, 
 
 A lothely man was he ! 
 
 " Now," quod Torrent, " I wot whare 
 My squire be ffro me to fare, 
 
 Ever waried thou be ! 1540 
 
 Lord God, what is beste, 
 So Jhesu me helpe, est or weste, 
 
 I can not rede to done. 
 
 " Yf I to the shipp fare, 
 And no shipmen ffynd thare. 
 
 It is long sith they were away ; 
 Other wayes yf I wend, 
 Wyld bestis wylle me shend, 
 
 fFalshede woo worth it aye.
 
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 " I ffyght here, Jliesu, for thy sake ! 1560 
 
 Lord, to me kepe thou take, 
 
 As thou best may !" 
 Down hght this gentille knyght, 
 To rest hym a litulle wight, 
 
 And unbrydelid his stede. 
 
 And let hym bayte hym on the ground 
 And aventid hym in that stound, 
 
 Therof he had gret nede. 
 The gyaunt yode and gaderid stone. 
 And sye where the knyght gan gone, 1570 
 
 Alle armed indede. 
 
 And wot ye welle and not wene, 
 Whan eyther of hem had other sene, 
 
 Smertely rerid her dede ; 
 fFor that ser Torent had hym sene, 
 He worth uppon his stede, I wene, 
 
 And Jhesu prayd he tille. 
 
 *' Mary son, that here my bone, 
 As I am in venturus sad come. 
 
 My jurnay than fulleffylle !" 1580 
 
 A voys was fro hevyn sent, 
 And said, " be bhth, ser Torent, 
 
 And yeve the nothing ylle,
 
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 " To ffyght with my Lordys enemy ; 
 Whether that thou lyve or dye, 
 
 He wylle quyte the thy mede !" 
 Be that the giaunt had hym dight, 
 Cam ageyn that gentille knyght. 
 
 As bold as eny bere. 
 
 He bare on his nek a croke, 1590 
 
 Woo were the man that he overtoke, 
 
 It was twelfe fFete and more ; 
 *' Sir," he said, " fFor charite, 
 Loke curtes man that thou be, 
 
 Yf thy wylle ware. 
 
 " I have so fought alle this nyght, 
 With thy ij. dragons wekyd and wight, 
 
 They have belt me fulle sore !" 
 The geaunt said, " be my fay, 
 Wors tydinges to me this day, 1 600 
 
 I myght not goodly here. 
 
 " Thorough the valey as thou cam, 
 My two dragons hast thou slayn. 
 
 My solempnite they were ; 
 To the I have fulle good gate, 
 flfor thou slow my brother Gate, — 
 
 That thou shalte by fulle dere,''
 
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 Betwene the giaunt and the knyght, 
 Men myght se buffettes right, 
 
 Whoso had be there ; 1610 
 
 Sir Torent yave to hym a brayd, 
 He levid that the aungelle said, 
 
 Of deth yave he no dynt. 
 
 Into the brest he hym bare, 
 His spere-hede lefte he thare. 
 
 So eville was hitt mynt ; 
 The giaunt hym ayen smate 
 Thorough his sheld and his plate, 
 
 Into the flesh it sought. 
 
 And sith he pullith at his croke, 1620 
 
 So fast into the flesh it toke, 
 
 That oute my5t he gete it nought ; 
 On hym he hath it broke, 
 Glad pluckys there he toke, 
 
 Set sadly and sore. 
 
 Sir Torent stalworth satt, 
 Oute of his handys he it gatt. 
 
 No lenger dwellid he there ; 
 Into the water he cast his sheld, 
 Croke and alletogeders it held, 1630 
 
 fFare after howsoever it ffare.
 
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 The geaunt folowid with alle his mayn, 
 And he come never quyk agayn, 
 
 God wold that so it ware ; 
 Sir Torent bet hym there ; 
 Tille that this fend did were, 
 
 Or he thens wend. 
 
 On hym had he hurt but ane, 
 
 But lesse myght be a mannus bane, 
 
 But God is fulle hend ; 1640 
 
 Thorough grace of hym that alle shalle weld, 
 There the knyght had the feld. 
 
 Such grace God did hym send ! 
 
 Be than it nyed nerehand ny5t, 
 To a castelle he rode right, 
 
 Alle nyght there to lend ; 
 In the castelle found he nought, 
 That God on the rode bought, 
 
 High uppon a toure. 
 
 As he caste aside lokyng, 1650 
 
 He saw a lady in her bed syttyng, 
 
 White as lylye fflowre ; 
 Up arose that lady bryght. 
 And said, " Welcom, ser Knyght, 
 
 That fast art in stoure."
 
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 " Damyselle, welcom mut thou be, 
 Graunt thou me for charite, 
 
 Of one nyghtis socoure !" 
 " By Mary," said that lady clere, 
 " Me forthinkith that thou com here, 1660 
 
 Thy deth now is dight ! 
 
 *' fFor here dwelhth a geaunt, 
 He is clepud Weraunt, 
 
 He is of the deville betaught ; 
 To day at morn he toke his croke, 
 ffbrth at the yates the way he toke, 
 
 And said he wold have a draught. 
 
 " And here be chambers two or thre. 
 In one of hem I shalle hide the, 
 
 God the save ffrome harmes right I" 1670 
 
 " Certayn," tho said the knyght, 
 " 'I'hat theffe I saw to nyght 
 
 Here beside a slate. 
 
 "He was a ferly freke in ffyght, 
 With hym faught a yong knyght, 
 
 Ech on other laid good lode ; 
 Methought welle as he stode, 
 He was of the fendus blood, 
 
 So rude was he made.
 
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 " Dame, yf thou leve not me, 1680 
 
 Com nere and thou shalt se 
 
 Which of hem abode." 
 Blith was that lady bryght 
 fFor to se that sight ; 
 
 With the knyght went she. 
 
 Whan she cam where the geaunt lay, 
 " Sir," she said, " par ma ffay, 
 
 I wott welle it is he ; 
 Other he was of God Allemyght, 
 Or Seynt George, oure lady kny5t, 1690 
 
 That there his bane hath be. 
 
 " Yf eny Cryston man smyte hym down, 
 He is worthy to have renown 
 
 Thoroughoute alle Crystiaunte." 
 " I have wonder," said the knyght, 
 " How he gate the lady bryght 
 
 flro my lord the kyng." 
 
 " Sir," she said, " verament, 
 As my fader on huntyng went, 
 
 Erly in a mornyng ; 1 700 
 
 fFor his men pursued a dere, 
 To his castelle that stondith here, — 
 
 That doth my hondys wryng.
 
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 *' This giaiint hym toke, wo he be ! 
 fFor his love he gevith hym me, 
 
 He wold none other thinge." 
 fforth she brought bred and wyne, 
 fFayn he was for to dyne. 
 
 This knyght made noble chere, 
 
 Though that he woundid were, 1710 
 
 With the geaunt strong ; 
 Sir Torrent dwellid no longer thare, 
 Than he iny5t away fare, 
 
 With that lady bryght. 
 
 *' Now, Jeshu, that made helle, 
 Send me on lyve to Desonelle, 
 
 That I my trouth to plight !" 
 Tho sye they be a forest syde. 
 Men of amies ffaste ride, 
 
 On coursers comly dight. 1720 
 
 The lady said, " so must I thee. 
 It is my fader is com for me, 
 
 With the geaunt to ffyght;" 
 An harood said anon right. 
 Yon I se an armed knyght. 
 
 And no squier but hym one.
 
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 " He is so long of bone and blood, 
 He is the geaunt, be the rode, 
 
 Som seith he riduth uppon." 
 " Nay," said the Kyng, " verament, 1820 
 
 It is the knyght that I after sent, 
 
 I thanke God and seynt John ! 
 
 *' fFor the geaunt slayn hath he, 
 
 And wonne my doughter, welle is me ! 
 
 Alle his men are tane !" 
 Wott ye welle, with joy and blis 
 Sir Torent there reeevid ys, 
 
 As doughty man of dede. 
 
 The kyng and other lordys gent, 
 
 Said, "w^elcom, Sir Torent, 1830 
 
 Into this uncouth lond!" 
 Into a state they hym brought, 
 Lechis sone his woundis sought, 
 
 They said, " so God hem spede I 
 
 " Were there no lyve but ane, 
 His lifFe they wylle not undertane, 
 
 fFor no gold ne fFor mede." 
 The lady wist not or than, 
 That he was hurt, that gentilman, 
 
 And sith she went hym tylle. 1840
 
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 She sought his woundus, and said thare, 
 " Thou shalte lyve and wel fare, 
 
 Yf the nothing evylle ; 
 My lord the kyng hath me hight, 
 That thou shalt wed me, ser knyght, 
 
 The fforward ye to fulleffylle. 
 
 " Damyselle, loo here my hond ! 
 And I take eny wyflPe in this lond. 
 
 It shalle be at thy wylle." 
 Gendres was that ladyes name, 1850 
 
 The geauntes hede he brought hame, 
 
 And the dragons also. 
 
 Mene myght here a myle aboute, 
 How on the dede hedys they did shoute, 
 
 ffor the shame that they had hem wrought ; 
 Both with dede and with tong, 
 ffyfte on the hedys dong, 
 
 That to the ground they sought. 
 
 J?ir Torrent dwellid thare 
 
 Twelfe monythis and mare, 1860 
 
 That ffurther my^t he nought; 
 The kyng of Norway said, " nowe, 
 ffals thevis, woo worth thou, 
 
 fFerly sotelle were ye.
 
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 " Ye said the knyght wold not com ; 
 Swith cute of my kingdome, 
 
 Or hangid shalle ye be !" 
 His squiers that fro h)Tii fled, 
 With sore strokys are they spred, 
 
 Uppon the waniie see. 1870 
 
 And there they drenchid every man, 
 Save one knave that to lond cam, 
 
 And woo begone is he ; 
 The child to lond that God sent, 
 In Portyngale he is lent, 
 
 In a riche town. 
 
 That hath hight be her day, 
 And ever shalle, as I you say, 
 
 That town of Peron ; 
 Byfore the kyng he hpn sett, 1880 
 
 ffulle welle thy men, lord, they grett, 
 
 And in the see are they drowned. 
 
 Desonelle said, " where is Torent ?"' 
 " In Norway, lady, verament :" 
 
 On sownyng felle she down ; 
 As she sownyd, this lady myld, 
 Men my5t se tokenyng of her child, 
 
 Sterying on her right syde.
 
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 Gret ruth it was to telle, 
 
 How her maydens on her felle, 1890 
 
 Her to cover and to hide ; 
 Tho the kyng said, " my doughter do way, 
 By God, thy myrth is gone for aye, 
 
 Spousage wylle thou none lede ! 
 
 " Therefore thou shalt into the see, 
 And that bastard within the, 
 
 To lerne you ffor to ride." 
 Erlis and barons that were good, 
 Byfore the kyng knelid and stode, 
 
 ffor that lady free. 1900 
 
 The queue her moder on knees felle, 
 " ffor Jeshu is love, that haroed helle. 
 
 Lord, have mercy on me ! 
 That ylke dede that she hath done. 
 It was with an erlis sonne, 
 
 Riche man i-nough is he. 
 
 " And yf ye wylle not let her lyve, 
 Right of lond ye her yeve, 
 
 Tille she delyvered be." 
 This lady dwellith there, 1910 
 
 That she delyvered were. 
 
 Of men children two.
 
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 In poyntes they were gent, 
 
 And like they were to Ser Torent, 
 
 ffor his love they sufFerid woo ; 
 The kyng said, " so mutt I thee, 
 Thou shalte into the see, 
 
 Withoute wordys moo ! 
 
 " Every kyngis doughter fFer and nere, 
 
 At the shalle they lere, 1920 
 
 Ayen the law to do." 
 Gret ruth it was to se, 
 Whan they led that lady iFree, 
 
 Oute of her faders lond. 
 
 The quene wexid tho nere wood, 
 fFor her doughter, that gentille ffode, 
 
 And knyghtis stode wepand ; 
 A cloth of silke gan they ta, 
 And partyd it betwene hem twa. 
 
 Whan they clepud that lady yeng. 1930 
 
 An hunderid felle in sownyng. 
 At Peron on the sond, 
 
 Down knelid that lady clene ; 
 *' Jhesu Cryste that com up here, 
 On this strond, as I wenyd, 
 
 That we may crystonyd bene."
 
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 She said, " knyghtis and ladyes gent, 
 Grete welle my lord ser Torrent, 
 
 Yeff ye hym ever sene !" 
 The wynd rose ayen the nyght, 1 940 
 
 ffro lond it blew that lady bryght, 
 
 Uppon the see so grene. 
 
 Wyndes and wedors have her drevyn. 
 That in a strest be they revyn, 
 
 There wyld bestis were ; 
 The see was eb and went her fFroo, 
 And lefte her and her children two, 
 
 Alone withoute ffere. 
 
 Her one child woke and began to wepe, 
 
 The lady awoke oute of her slepe, 1950 
 
 And said, " be stille, my dere ; 
 Jhesu Cryst hath sent us lond ; 
 Yf there be any Cryston man nere bond, 
 
 We shall have som socoure here." 
 
 The carefulle lady was fulle blith, 
 Up to lond she went swith. 
 
 As fast as ever she myght ; 
 Tho the day began to spryng, 
 ffoulles arose and mery gan syng 
 
 Delicious notys on hight. 1960
 
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 To a mowntayn went that lady free, 
 Sone was sche warr of a cite, 
 
 With towriis ffeyi'e and bryght ; 
 Therefore i-wys she was fulle fayn, 
 She sett her down, as I herd sayn. 
 
 Her two children ffor to dight. 
 
 Uppon the low, the lady ffound 
 
 An erber wrought with mannus hond, 
 
 With herbis that were good ; 
 A grype was in the mowntayn wonne ; 1970 
 
 Away he bare her yong son. 
 
 Over a water-fflood. 
 
 Over into a wyldernes, 
 
 There Seynt Antony ermet was. 
 
 There at his chapelle stode ; 
 The other child down gan she lay, 
 And on the ffoulle did shoute and crye, 
 
 That she was nerehond wood. 
 
 Up she rose ageyn the roughe, 
 
 With sorefulle hert and care inoughe, 1980 
 
 Carefulle of blood and bone ; 
 She sye it myght no better be, 
 She knelid down uppon her kne, 
 
 And thankid God and Seynt John !
 
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 There come a libard uppon his pray, 
 And her other child bare away, 
 
 She thankid God there ! 
 And his moder Mai*ybryght, 
 This lady is lefte alone ryght, 
 
 The sorow she made there ! 1990 
 
 That she rayght no further fFare, 
 " Of one poynt is my care. 
 
 As I do now understond ; 
 So my children crystenyd were, 
 Though they be with beestes there, 
 
 Theyre liffe is in Goddus bond." 
 
 The kyng of Jerusalem had bene 
 At his brothers weddyng, I wene, 
 
 That was lord of alle that lond ; 
 As he com homward on his way, 2000 
 
 He saw where the liberd lay, 
 
 With a child pleyand. 
 
 Torrent had yeve his lady ringes two, 
 And every child had one of tho, 
 
 Hym withalle to save ; 
 The kyng said, " be Mary myld, 
 Yonder is a liberd with a child, 
 
 A mayden or a knave."
 
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 Tho men of armes theder went, 
 
 Anon they had theyre hors spent, 2010 
 
 Her guttys oute she rave ; 
 ffor no stroke wold she stynt, 
 Tille they her slew with speris dynt. 
 
 The child myght they not have. 
 
 Up they toke the child yong. 
 And brought it beffore the kyng, 
 
 Add undid the swathing band ; 
 As his moder beffore had done, 
 A gold ryng they ffound sone, 
 
 Was closud in his hond. 2020 
 
 Tho said the kyng of Jerusalem, 
 
 " This child is come of gentille teme, 
 
 Whereever this beest hym ffound." 
 The boke of Rome berith wytnes, 
 The kyng hym named Leobertus, 
 
 That was hent in hethyn lond. 
 
 Two squiers to the town gan flyng. 
 And a noryse to the child did bryng, 
 
 Hym to kepe ffrome grame; 
 He led it into his own lond, 2030 
 
 And told the queue how he it ffond, 
 
 By a water streme. 
 
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 Whan the lady saw the ryng, 
 She said, withoute lettyng, 
 
 " This child is com of gentille tenie ; 
 Thou hast none heyre thy lond to take, 
 ffor Jhesu love, thou woldist hym make 
 
 Prynce of Jerusalem." 
 
 Now in boke as we rede. 
 
 As Seynt Antony about yede, 2040 
 
 Byddyng his orysoun ; 
 Of the gripe he had a sight, 
 How she flew in afflight. 
 
 To her birdus was she boun. 
 
 Betwene her clawes she bare a child, 
 He prayed to God and Mary myld, 
 
 On lyve to send it down ; 
 That man was welle with God Allemy^t, 
 At his fote gan she light. 
 
 That foule of gret renown. 2050 
 
 Up he toke the child thare, 
 To his auter he did it here. 
 
 There his chapelle stode ; 
 A knave child there he fFound, 
 There was closud in his hond 
 
 A gold ryng riche and good.
 
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 He bare it to the cit6 grett, 
 There the kyng his fader lett. 
 
 As a lord of jentille blood ; 
 ffor he wold save it ffro dede, 2060 
 
 A grype flew above his hede, 
 
 And cryed as he were wood. 
 
 This holy man hied him tyte 
 To a cite with touris white, 
 
 As fast as he may : 
 The kyng at the gate stode, 
 And other knyghtes and lordys good, 
 
 To se the squiers play. 
 
 The kyng said, " be Mary myld, 
 
 Yonder comyth Antony my child, 2070 
 
 With a gr}^on gay : 
 Som of his byrdus take hath he, 
 And bryngith hem heder to me, 
 
 Gretferly had thaye." 
 
 The kyng thereof toke good hede 
 And ageyn his sonne he yede 
 
 And said welcom ye be. 
 " ffader," he said, " God you save ! 
 A knave child ffound I have, 
 
 Loke that it be dere to the. 2080
 
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 " fFrome a greffon he was refte, 
 Of what lond that he is lefte, 
 
 Of gentille blood was he : 
 Thou hast none heyre thy lond to take, 
 fFor Jhesu love thy sonne hym make, 
 
 As in the stede of me." 
 
 The kyng said, " yf I may lyve, 
 Helpe and hold I shalle hym yeve, 
 
 And receyve hym as my son ; 
 Sith thou hast this lond forsake, 2090 
 
 My riche londys 1 shalle hym take, 
 
 Whan he kepe them can." 
 
 To a ffont they hym yave. 
 And crystonyd this yong knave, 
 
 fFro care he is wonne ; 
 The holy man gave him name, 
 That Jeshu shild hpn ffrome shame, 
 
 Antony fice Greffoun. 
 
 "ffader, than have thou this ryng, 
 
 I ffound it over this swete thing, 21(K> 
 
 Kepe it yf thou mny ; 
 It is good in every sight, 
 Yf God geve grace that he be knyght. 
 
 Other be nyght or forme of day."
 
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 Let we now this children dwelle, 
 And speke we more of Desonelle, 
 
 Her song was welaway ; 
 God that died uppon the rode, 
 Yff grace that she mete with good ! 
 
 Thus disparlid are thay. 2110 
 
 This lady walkyd alle alone, 
 Amonge wyld bestis meny one, 
 
 Ne wanted she no woo ; 
 Anon the day began to spryng, 
 And the fFoules gan to syng, 
 
 With bliss on every bow3e. 
 
 " Byrdus and bestis aye woo ye be ! 
 Alone ye have lefte me, 
 
 My children ye slough !" 
 As she walkid than alone, 2120 
 
 She sye lordys on huntyng gone, 
 
 Nere hem she yede fulle sone. 
 
 This carfulle lady cried faste. 
 Than she herd this homes blaste. 
 
 By the yatis gone ; 
 But into a wildernes, 
 Amongist beests that wyld was, 
 
 ffor drede she shold be slone.
 
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 Tille it were under of the day, 
 
 She went in that wilsom way, '2130 
 
 Into a lond playn ; 
 The kyng of Nazareth huntid there, 
 Among the hertis that gentille were ; 
 
 Thereof she was fulle ffayn. 
 
 They had ferly kyng and knyght, 
 Whens she come that lady bryght, 
 
 DwelUng here alone : 
 She said to a squier that there stode, 
 "Who is lord of most jentille blood ?" 
 
 And he answered her anon, 2140 
 
 " Thys ys the lond of Nazareth : 
 Se where the kyng gethe, 
 
 Of speche he is fulle bone : 
 Alle in gold coverid is he." 
 "Gramercy, ser," said she, 
 
 And nere hym gan she gone. 
 
 Lordys anon ageyn her yode, 
 ffor she was com of gentille blood, 
 
 In her lond had they bene ; 
 " God loke the ! lady fFree, 2150 
 
 What makist thou in this contre ?" 
 
 " Sir," she said, " I wene.
 
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 " Seynt Katryn I shold have sought, 
 Wekyd weders me heder hath brought 
 
 Into this fforest grene ; 
 And alle is dede, I understond, 
 Save myselfe that com to lond, 
 
 With wyld beestis and kene. ' 
 
 " Welcom," he said, " Desonelle, 
 
 By a tokyn 1 shalle the telle, 2160 
 
 Onys a stede I the sent ; 
 Lady gent, ffeyre and ffree, 
 To the shold I have wed id be, 
 
 My love was on the lent !" 
 
 Knyghtis and squiers that there were, 
 They horsid the lady there. 
 
 And to the cite they went ; 
 The queue was curtes of that lond, 
 And toke the lady be the bond. 
 
 And said, " welcom, my lady gent ! '2170 
 
 " Lady, thou art welcom here. 
 As it all thyn own were, 
 
 Alle this ffeyre contree " 
 " Of one poynt was my care, 
 And my two children crystonyd were, 
 
 That in the wood were reft ffro me."
 
 " Welcom art thou, Desonelle, 
 In my chamber for to dwelle, 
 
 Inough therein shall ye see." 
 Leve we now that lady gent, 2180 
 
 And speke we of ser Torrent, 
 
 That was gentille and ffre. 
 
 The kyng of Norway is fulle woo, 
 That Ser Torent wold wend hym ffro, 
 
 That doughty was and bold ; 
 " Sir," he said, "abyde here. 
 And wed my doughter that is me dere." 
 
 He said, in no wise he wold. 
 
 He shipped oute of the kynges sale, 
 
 And ryved up in Portingale, 2190 
 
 At another hold ; 
 Whan he herd telle of Desonelle, 
 Swith on sownyng there he felle, 
 
 To the ground so cold. 
 
 The fals kyng of Portingale 
 Sparid the yatis of his sale, 
 
 ffor Torent the fFree ; 
 He said, " be Mary clere. 
 Thou shalt no wyfe have here, 
 
 Go sech her in the see ! 2200
 
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 " With her she toke whelpis two, 
 To lerne to row wold she go." 
 
 " By God, thou hest !'' quod he ; 
 " Kyng Colomand here my hond, 
 And I be knyght levand, 
 
 I-quytt shalle it be!" 
 
 Torent wold no longer byde, 
 But sent letters on every side, 
 
 With fForce theder to hye; 
 Theder com oute of Aragon, 2210 
 
 Noble knyghtes of gret renown, 
 
 With grett chevalrye. 
 
 Of Provyns and Calaber also, 
 Were doughty knyghtes meny moo, 
 
 They come alle to that crye ! 
 Kyng Calomond had no knyght, 
 That with Ser Toi*ent wold fyght, 
 
 Of alle that satt hym bye . 
 
 There wold none the yatis deffend, 
 
 But lett Ser Torent in wend, 2220 
 
 With his men every chone ; 
 Swith a counselle yede they to, 
 WTiat deth they wold hym do, 
 
 ffor he his lady had slone.
 
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 " Lordis," he said, " he is a kyng, 
 Men may hym nether hede ne heng." 
 
 Thus said they everychone ; 
 They ordeyned a shipp alle of tree, 
 And sett hym oute into the see, 
 
 Among the wawes to gone. 2230 
 
 Gret lordis of that lond, 
 Assentid to that comland, 
 
 That hold shold it be ; 
 In the havyn of Portyngale, 
 There stode shippes of hede vale, 
 
 Of irun and of tree. 
 
 A bote of tre they brought hym befforn, 
 ffulle of holis it was boryn, 
 
 Howselle and shryfte had he ; 
 Sir Torent said, " be Seynt John, 2240 
 
 Seeh thou gave my lady none, 
 
 No more men shall do the !" 
 
 The shippmen brought Ser Colomond, 
 And sent hym fforth within a stound, 
 
 As fFar as it were ; 
 Wott ye welle and understond, 
 He come never ayen to lond, 
 
 Such stormes ffound he there.
 
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 Gret lordys of renown 
 
 Betoke Ser Torent the crown, ^'iSO 
 
 To rejoyse it there ; 
 Loo ! lordys of every lond, 
 ffalshode wylle have a foule end, 
 
 And wylle have evermore. 
 
 Sir Torent dwellid thare 
 flPourty days in moche care, 
 
 Season for to hold ; 
 Sith he takith two knyghtes, 
 To kepe his lond and his rightes, 
 
 That doughty were and bold. 2260 
 
 He said, " madam," to the quene, 
 " Here than shalle the lady bene, 
 
 To worth as ye wold." 
 He purveyd hym anon. 
 To wend over the see fome, 
 
 There God was bought and sold. 
 
 And ye now wille liston a stound, 
 How he toke armes of Kyng Calomond, 
 
 Listonyth what he bare. 
 Off asure as ye may se, 2270 
 
 With sylver shippes thre, 
 
 Whoso had be thare.
 
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 fFor Desonelle is love so bryght, 
 His londis he takyth to a knyght, 
 
 And sith he is home to fare ; 
 " Portyngale ! have good day, 
 ifor sevyn yere,par ma ffay ! 
 
 Peraventure somdele more." 
 
 Sir Toreiit passid the Grekys flood, 
 
 Into a lond bothe riche and good, 2280 
 
 5*0110 evyn he toke the way ; 
 To the see of Quarelle, 
 As the boke of Rome doth telle, 
 
 There a soudan lay. 
 
 There he smote and set adown, 
 And gave asaute into the town, 
 
 That welle the storye says : 
 So welle they vetelid were, 
 That he lay there two yere, 
 
 And sith into the town went they. 2290 
 
 And tho Ser Torent ffbund on lyve, 
 He comaudid with spere and knyfFe, 
 
 Smertely dede to be ; 
 He said, " we have be here, 
 Moche of this two yere, 
 
 And onward on the thrid.''
 
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 Alle the good that Ser Torent wan, 
 He partid it among his men, 
 
 Sylver, gold and ffee ; 
 And sith he is boun to ride, 2300 
 
 To a cite there besyde, 
 
 That was worth such thre. 
 
 A soudan sent to Ser Torent than. 
 With honger that thes people be slayn, 
 
 Alle thes folke of this cite ; 
 Yf ye thinke here to lye, 
 Ye shalle have wyne and spycery, 
 
 Inough is in this countre. 
 
 There he stode and smote adown, 
 
 And leyd sege to the town ; 2310 
 
 Six yere there he lay, 
 By the vi. yere were alle done. 
 With honger they were alle slone. 
 
 That iu the cite lay. 
 
 Now God do his soul mede, 
 On the soudan he had a dede, 
 
 Uppon every Good firyday ; 
 Jhesu sent hym strengith inough, 
 With dynt of sword he hym slough, 
 
 There went none quyk away. 2320
 
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 Down knelid that knyght, 
 
 And thankid God with alle his my5tj 
 
 So ought he welle to say : 
 The cite that Ser Torent was yn, 
 Worldely goodis he left theryn, 
 
 To kepe it nyght and day. . 
 
 Sevyn yere at the cite he lay, 
 
 And had batelle every Good ffryday, 
 
 Uppon the Sarzins bryght ; 
 Sith he buskyd hym to ride, 2330 
 
 Into a lond there besyde, 
 
 Antioche it hight. 
 
 And be the vij. yere were gone, 
 The child that the liberd had tane, 
 
 fFound hym his fille of ff'yght ; 
 The kyng of Jerusalem herd telle, 
 Of this lord good and felle, 
 
 How doughtyly he hym bare. 
 
 Uppon his knyghtes can he calle, 
 
 Ordeyn swith among you alle, 2340 
 
 ftor nothing that ye spare ; 
 They buskyd hem oute of the land, 
 The nombre off ffyfty thousand, 
 
 Agevn Torent ffor to ffare.
 
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 The kyng of Jerusalem said thus, 
 " My dere son, Hobertious, 
 
 That thou be bold and wight ; 
 Thou shalt be here and defend the lond, 
 fFrom that fals traytours hond, 
 
 And take the ordre of a knyght." 2350 
 
 He gave hym armes or he did passe, 
 Right as he ffound was, 
 
 Of gold he bare bryght ; 
 A liberd of asure blay, 
 A child betweene his armes tway : 
 
 flPuUe woo was her that it ought. 
 
 Sir Torent wold no longer abyde, 
 But thederward gan heride, 
 
 And to the feld were brought, 
 Two knyghtes that were there in stede, 2360 
 
 Many a man did they to blede. 
 
 Such woundis they wrought. 
 
 There durst no man com Torent nere, 
 But his son as ye may here, 
 
 Though he knew hym nought ; 
 Alle to nought he bet his shild, 
 But he toke his fader in the feld. 
 
 Though he thereof eville thought.
 
 96 
 
 Whan Ser Torent was takyn than, 
 
 His men fled than every man, 2370 
 
 They durst no longer abyde ; 
 Gret ruth it was to behold, 
 How his sword he did uphold 
 
 To his son that tyde. 
 
 To Jerusalem he did hym lede, 
 His actone and his other wede, 
 
 Alle be the kyngis side ; 
 " Sir," he said, "have no care, 
 Thou shalt ly ve and wel fare, 
 
 But lower ys thy pryde !" 2380 
 
 ffro that Ser Torent was hem brought, 
 Doughty men uppon him sought, 
 
 And in preson they hym throu5e ; 
 His son above his hede lay. 
 To kepe hym both ny5t and day, 
 
 He wist welle that he was strong. 
 
 Thus in preson as he was. 
 Sore he si3ed and said, "alas !" 
 
 He couth none other songe ; 
 Thus in bondys they held hym thare, 2390 
 
 A twelfmonyth and somdele mare, 
 
 The knyght thought ffulle long.
 
 97 
 
 In a mornyng as he lay, 
 To hymselfe gan he say, 
 
 " Why lye I thus alone ? 
 God, hast thou forsakyn me ? 
 Alia my truste was in the, 
 
 In lond where I have gone ! 
 
 '* Thou gave me my5t ifor to sflee 
 
 Dragons two other thre, •2400 
 
 And giauntes meny one ! 
 And now a man in wekid lond 
 Hath myn armour and stede in hond, 
 
 I wold my lifFe were done !" 
 
 His sone herd hym say soo, 
 And in his hert was fulle woo, 
 
 In chamber there he lay ; 
 " Sir," he said, " I have thy wede, 
 There shalle no man rejoyse thy stede, 
 
 Yf so be that 1 may. 2410 
 
 " By oure lady Seynt Mary ! 
 Here shalt thou no lenger lye, 
 
 Nether be day ne be ny^t ; 
 As I am curtesse and hend, 
 To the kyng I shalle wend, 
 
 ffor thy love and pray this ny5t !" 
 
 F
 
 98 
 
 On the morow whan he rose, 
 The prynce to the kyng gose, 
 
 And knehd uppon his kne ; 
 " Sir," he said, " ffor Goddus sonne, 2420 
 
 The knyght that lyeth in the dungeon, 
 
 Ye wold graunt hym nie. 
 
 " 1 hard hym say be hym alone, 
 Many geauntes had he slone, 
 
 And dragons ij. or thre." 
 The kyng said, " be my ffay, 
 Re warr he scape not away, 
 
 I vouch him save on the !" 
 
 The prynce into the preson went, 
 
 Torent by the hond he hent, 2430 
 
 And toke hym oute of his bondys cold ; 
 To the castelle he brought hym sone, 
 And light ffettouris did hym uppon, 
 
 ffor brekyng oute off hold. 
 
 The kyng said, " be my ffaye, 
 And he ever scape away, 
 
 ffulle dere he shalle be sold !" 
 " Sir," he said, " par ma ffay, 
 ^^ e wylle hym kepe and we may, 
 
 Thereof be ye bold !" 2440
 
 99 
 
 tFor he was curtes knight and free, 
 At the mete sett was he, 
 
 By the kyng at the deyse : 
 " Sir thou haste i-bene 
 At justis and at tornementes kene, 
 
 Both in warr and in peas. 
 
 " Sith thy dwelHng shalle be here. 
 That thou woldist my son lere, 
 
 Hys tymber fFor to asay." 
 " Sir," he said, " I understond 2450 
 
 AfFter the maner off my lond, 
 
 I shalle withouten lese." 
 
 The castelle court was large within, 
 They made ryngis fFor to ren, 
 
 None but they alone ; 
 Every of hem to other rode, 
 ffeyrer turmentes than they made 
 
 Men sye never none. 
 
 The prynce in armes was fulle preste, 
 
 Thre shaftys on his fader he breste, 2460 
 
 In shevers they gan gone ; 
 Sir Torent said, " so mut I thee, 
 A man of armes shalle thou be, 
 
 Stalworth of blood and bone !"
 
 100 
 
 Harroldj^s of amies cryed on hight, 
 The prynce and that other knyght, 
 
 No more juste shalle thay ; 
 But lordys of other lond, 
 Kverv one to other ffond, 
 
 And sith went theyre way. 2470 
 
 Sixe wekys he dwellid there, 
 Tille that alle delyvered wei^e, 
 
 That in the cite were ; 
 Tho they hehl a gestonye, 
 With alle maner of inynstralsye, 
 
 Tylle the sevynth day. 
 
 Lord is with alle other thing, 
 Toke leve at the kyng, 
 
 Home theyre ways to passe ; 
 That tyme they gave Torent to the floure, 2480 
 And the gre with moch honowre, 
 
 As he welle worthy was. 
 
 The kyng said, " I shalle the yeve 
 Liffe and lyvelode whille I lyve, 
 
 Thyn armour as it was :" 
 Whan he sye ffeyre ladyes wend. 
 He thought on her that was so hend, 
 
 And sighed and said, " alas !"
 
 101 
 
 The kyng of Nazareth home went, 
 
 There that his lady lent, 2490 
 
 In his own lede : 
 " Sir," she said, " ffor Goddus pite, 
 What gentilman wan the gre ?" 
 
 He said, " so God me spede ! 
 
 *' One of the fFeyrest knyghtis. 
 That slepith on somer nyghtes, 
 
 Or walkyd in wede ; 
 He is so large of lym and lith, 
 Alle the world he hath justid with, 
 
 That come to that dede." 2500 
 
 " Good lord," said Desonelle, 
 " ffor Goddus love ye me telle. 
 
 What armes that ye bare !" 
 " Damyselle also muste I the, 
 Sylver and asure beryth he, 
 
 That wott I well thare. 
 
 " His creste is a noble lond, 
 A gyaunt with an hoke in bond, 
 
 This wott I welle he bare ; 
 He is so stiff at every stoure, 2510 
 
 He is pry nee and victoure, 
 
 He wynneth the gree aye where.
 
 102 
 
 " Of Portyngale a knight he ys, 
 He wanne the town of Raynes, 
 
 And the cite of Quarellis ; 
 At the last jurney that he was sett, 
 The prynce my broders son was gatt, 
 
 And in his hond he flPelle. 
 
 " The prynce of Grece leth nere, 
 
 There may no juster be his pere, 2520 
 
 fforsoth as I you telle, 
 A dede of armes I shalle do crye, 
 And send after hym in hye." 
 
 Blith was Desonelle. 
 
 This dede was cried fFar and nere, 
 The kyng of Jerusalem did it here, 
 
 In what lond that it shold be ; 
 He said, " sone, anon right, 
 Dight the and thy Cryston knyght, 
 
 fForsothe theder wille we." 2530 
 
 Gret lordys that herith this crye, 
 Theder come richely, 
 
 Everyman in his degre ; 
 The kyng of Grece did assigne, 
 With hym come Antony fliz Greffon, 
 
 With moche solempnite.
 
 103 
 
 '' The kyiig of Nazareth sent me, 
 That there shold a justynge be, 
 
 Of nieny a Cryston knyght ; 
 And alle is fFor a lady clere, 2540 
 
 That the justyng is cryed ffar and nere, 
 
 Of men of armes bryght." 
 
 Gret joye it was to here telle, 
 
 How thes kynges with the knyghtis felle. 
 
 Come and semlend to that ffyght ; 
 There come meny another man, 
 That thought there to have to done, 
 
 And then to wend her way. 
 
 When they come to the castelle gent, 
 
 A roalle ffyght verament '2530 
 
 There was, the sothe to say; 
 Trompes resyn on the walle, 
 Lordys assembled in the halle, 
 
 And sith to souper yede thay. 
 
 They were recevid with rialte, 
 Every man in his degre. 
 
 And to her logyng went her way ; 
 The lordys resyn alle be-dene. 
 On the morow as I wene. 
 
 And went masse ffor to here. 2560
 
 104 
 
 And fFurthennore withoute lent, 
 They wesh and to mete went, 
 
 ffor to the ffeld they wold there ; 
 After mete anon right, 
 They axid hors and armes bryght, 
 
 To horsbak went thay in fFere. 
 
 Kynghtis and lordys revelid alle, 
 And ladyes lay over the castelle walle, 
 
 That semely to se were ; 
 Than everyman toke spere in hond, 2570 
 
 And everych to other ffound, 
 
 Smert boffettes they yeldyd there. 
 
 The prynce of Jerusalem and his brother, 
 Everiche of hem ran to other, 
 
 Smertely in the feld ; 
 Though Antonyffygryffon yonger were, 
 His brother Leobertus he can down bere; 
 
 Sir Torent stode and beheld. 
 
 " Be my trouth," said Torent thanne, 
 
 " As I am a Cryston man, 2580 
 
 I-quytt shalle it be ;" 
 And hent a tymber gret and long, 
 Torent bestrode a stede strong, 
 
 And to hym rode he.
 
 105 
 
 Torent so sore to hym rode, 
 That he bare hym to the ground. 
 
 And let hym lye in the ffeld ; 
 There was no man hy5e ne lowe, 
 That myght make Torent to bowe, 
 
 Ne his bak to bend. 2590 
 
 They justyd and turneyd there, 
 And everyman ffound his pere, 
 
 There was caught no dethis dyut ; 
 Of alle the justis that there ware, 
 Torent the floui*e away bare. 
 
 And his sonnys in that tyde. 
 
 And on the morow whan it was day, 
 Amonge all the lordys gay. 
 
 That worthy were in wede, 
 Desonelle wold no lenger lend, 2600 
 
 But to Ser Torent gan she wend. 
 
 And on her kne she knelid. 
 
 She said, " welcom, my lord Ser Torent !" 
 " And so be ye, my lady gent ;" 
 
 In sownyng than felle she ; 
 Up they coveryd that lady hend, 
 And to mete did they wend. 
 
 With joye and solempnite. 
 F 2
 
 106 
 
 Dame Desonelle besought the kyiig, 
 
 That she myght withoute lesyng '2610 
 
 Sytt with Torent alone : 
 " Yes, lady, be hevyn kyng. 
 There shall be no lettyng, 
 
 fFor welle worthy is he, be Seynt John !" 
 
 Tho they washid and went to mete, 
 And rially they were sett, 
 
 And servid worthely verament ; 
 Every lord in the halle, 
 As his state wold beflFalle, 
 
 Were couplid with ladyes gent. '26'20 
 
 But of alle ladyes that were there sene, 
 So ffaire myght there none bene, 
 
 As was Dame Desonelle ; 
 Thes two kyngis that doughty ys, 
 To the cite come i-wys 
 
 With moche meyne. 
 
 To the castelle they toke the way, 
 There the kyng of Nazareth lay, 
 
 With hym to speke on high ; 
 At none the queue ete in the halle, 26.'30 
 
 Amongist the ladyes overalle, 
 
 That couth moche curteyse.
 
 107 
 
 Desonelle wold not lett, 
 By Ser Torent she her sett, 
 
 Thereof they had wonder ; 
 Whan eyther of hem other beheld, 
 Off care nothyng they ffeld, 
 
 Bothe her hertes were blithe. 
 
 Gret lordys told she sone, 
 
 What poyntes he had for her done ; 2640 
 
 They began to be blithe ; 
 And how her in the see did her do, 
 With her she had men childre two. 
 
 They waried hym felle sithe. 
 
 " Sir kyng, in this wildernes, 
 
 My two children fro me revid was, 
 
 I may no lenger hem hide ; 
 The knyght yave me I'ynges two, 
 Everich of hem had one of thoo, 
 
 Better saw I never none. *2650 
 
 " A gryffon bare the one away, 
 A liberd the other, par ma ffay, 
 
 Down by a roche of stone !" 
 Than said the kyng of Jerusalem, 
 " I ffound one by a w-ater strerae. 
 
 He levith yet with blood and bone !''
 
 108 
 
 The kyng of Grece said, " my brother, 
 Antony my son brought me another :" 
 
 She saith, " soth be Seynt John !" 
 The kyng said, " sith it is so, "2660 
 
 Kys ye your fader bothe, 
 
 And axe hym his blessyng !'' 
 
 Down they knehd on her kne, 
 
 " Thy blessing, ffader, for charite !" 
 
 " Welcom, children yong!" 
 Thus in armes he hem hent, 
 A blither man than Ser Torent 
 
 Was there none levyng. 
 
 It was no wonder thou^e it so were, 
 
 He had his wiffe and his children there, '2670 
 
 His joye began to spryng ; 
 Of alle the justis that were thare, 
 Away the gre his sonnys bare. 
 
 That doughty were in dede. 
 
 Torent knelid uppon his knee, 
 
 And said, " God yeld you, lordys free, 
 
 Thes children that ye have ffed ; 
 Ever we wille be at youre wille, 
 What jurney ye wille put us tylle, 
 
 So Jhesu be oure spede !"' 26^50
 
 109 
 
 " With that the kyng thre, 
 
 Into my lond wille wend with me, 
 
 iFor to wreke our stede." 
 They graunted that there was, 
 Gret lordys more and lesse, 
 
 Bothe knyght and squiere. 
 
 And with Desonnelle went 
 Al the ladyes that were gent, 
 
 That of valew were ; 
 Shippis had they stiff and strong, 2690 
 
 Maistis gret and sayles long, 
 
 Hend as ye may here. 
 
 And markyd into Portingale, 
 Whan they had pullid up her saylle. 
 
 With a wynd so clere ; 
 The riche quene of that lond. 
 In her eastelle toure gan stond, 
 
 And beheld into the see. 
 
 " Sone," she said, to a knyght, 
 
 " Yonder of shippis I have a sight, '2700 
 
 fforsothe a grett meyne." 
 He answerid and said tho 
 " Madam, I wille that it be so, 
 
 God gefe grace that it so be !"
 
 110 
 
 The quene said, " verament, 
 I se the armes of Ser Torent, 
 
 I wott welle it is he." 
 A bhther lady my.^t none be, 
 She went ageyn hym to the see, 
 
 With armd knyghtes kene. '2710 
 
 Torent she toke by the bond, 
 " Lordys of uncouth lond, 
 
 Welcom muste ye bene !'' 
 Whan she sye Desonelle, 
 Swith in sownyng she felle, 
 
 To the ground so kene. 
 
 Torent gan her up ta, 
 
 " Here bene her children twa, 
 
 On lyve thou shalt hem see." 
 In the castelle of Portyngale '2720 
 
 Arose trumpes hede vale, 
 
 To mete they went on hye. 
 
 He sent letters iFar and nere, 
 The lordys that of valew were, 
 
 They come to that gestonye ; 
 The emperoure of Rome, 
 To that gestonye he come, 
 
 A noble knyght on hy_^e.
 
 Ill 
 
 Whan alle thes lordys com ware, 
 
 Torrent weddid that lady clere ; 2730 
 
 A justyng did he ci-ye : 
 So it ffelle uppon a day, 
 The kyng of Jerusalem gan say, 
 
 " Sir, thy sonne I ffound, 
 
 " Lying in a liberies mouth. 
 And no good he ne couth, 
 
 Dede he was nerehond ! 
 Wold thou that he dwellid with me, 
 Tille that I dede be. 
 
 And sith rejoyse my lond ?" 2740 
 
 Before lordys of gret renown, 
 Torent gave hym his son ; 
 
 The kyng of Grece said, " Ser knyght, 
 I yefF thy son alle my right, 
 To the Grekys flood I plight, 
 
 Wouch thou save he dwelle with me ?" 
 
 " Yea, Lord, so mut I thee, 
 * * * » 
 
 God yeld you alle this good !" 
 ffor Ser Torent was stiif in stoure, 2730 
 
 They chose hym ffor Emperoure, 
 
 Beste of bone and blood.
 
 112 
 
 Gret lordys that there were, 
 fFourty days dvveUith there, 
 
 And sith her way they yode ; 
 He yave his sonnys, as ye may here, 
 Two swerdys that were hym dere, 
 
 Ech of hem one had they. 
 
 Sith he did make up tyed 
 
 Chirchus and Abbeys wide, 2760 
 
 fFor hym and his to praye ; 
 In Rome this Romans berith the crown, 
 Of alle kerpyng of renown, 
 
 He leyth in Rome in a feire abbey. 
 
 Now Jhesu Cryst that alle hath wrought, 
 As he on the rode us bought. 
 
 He geve us his blessing ! 
 And as he died for you and me, 
 He graunt us in blisse to be, 
 
 Oute of this world whan we shalle wend ! 
 Amen. 2770 
 
 Explicit Torent of Portyngale.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 [Ill Douce's Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxforil are 
 preserved six fragments of an early printed edition of the 
 preceding romance, supposed to come from Pynson's press, 
 but no perfect copy is I believe known to exist. I here insert 
 copies of them in the order in which they are preserved.] 
 
 I. 
 
 Thus the lady dwelled there 
 
 Tyll that she delyuered were 
 
 Of men chyldren two 
 
 Of all poyntes were they gent 
 
 Lyke were they to Sir Torent 
 
 For his loue sufFred they wo 
 
 The kynge sayd so mote I the 
 
 'I'hou shalt into the se 
 
 Without wordes mo 
 
 Every kynges doughter fer and nere 
 
 At the they shall lere 
 
 Agaynst right to do 
 
 Great ruthe it was to se 
 
 Whan they led that lady fre 
 
 Out of hir faders lande 
 
 The quene hir moder was nere wode
 
 114 
 
 For hir doughter that gentyll fode 
 
 Knyghtes stode wepynge 
 
 A clothe of sylke toke they tho 
 
 And departed it bytwene the chyldren two 
 
 Therin they were wonde 
 
 Whan they had shypped that gentyll thynge 
 
 Anone she fell in swownynge 
 
 At Peron on the sonde 
 
 Whan that lady was downe fall 
 
 On Jesu Cryste dyd she call 
 
 To defende hir with his honde 
 
 RightfuU God ye me sende 
 
 Some good londe on to lende 
 
 That my chyldren may cr)'stened be 
 
 She sayd ladyes fayre and gent 
 
 Great well my lorde Sir Torent 
 
 Yf euer ye hym se 
 
 The wynde arose on the nyght 
 
 Fro the londe it blewe that lady bryght 
 
 Into the se so grene 
 
 Wyndes and weders hathe hir dryuen 
 
 That in a forest she is aryuen 
 
 Where wylde bestys were 
 
 The se was ebbe and went hem fro 
 
 And left hir and hir chyldren two 
 
 ne without any fere 
 
 Hir one chylde began to wepe 
 The lady awoke out of hir slepe
 
 115 
 
 And sayde be styll my dere 
 
 Jhesu Crjste hathe sent vs lande 
 
 Yf there be any Crysten man at hande 
 
 We shall haue socoure here 
 
 The carefuU lady then was blythe 
 
 To the londe she went full swythe 
 
 As fast as she myght 
 
 Tyll the day began to sprynge 
 
 Foules on trees merely gan synge 
 
 Delicyous notes on hyght 
 
 To a hyll went that lady fre 
 
 Where she was ware of a cyte 
 
 With toures fayre and bryght 
 
 Therof I wys she was fayne 
 
 She let hir downe as I herd sayne 
 
 Hir chyldren for to dyght. 
 
 II. 
 
 Than sayde [the] kyn[g] vntrue 
 And ye fynde hawes of great value 
 Brynge me one with the 
 Torent sayd so God me saue 
 Yf it betyde that I any haue 
 At your wyll shall they be 
 To his squyer bade he thare 
 After his armoure to fare 
 In the felde abode he 
 They armed hym in his wede
 
 116 
 
 He bestrode a noble stede 
 
 Torent toke the way agayne 
 
 Unto the forest of Maudelayne 
 
 In a wylsome way 
 
 Berys and apes there founde he 
 
 And wylde bestis great plentc 
 
 And lyons where they lay 
 
 In a wode that is tyght 
 
 It drewe towarde the nyght 
 
 By dymmynge of the day 
 
 Lysten lordes of them came wo 
 
 He and his squyer departed in two 
 
 Careful! men then were they 
 
 At a shedynge of a rome 
 
 Eyther departed other frome 
 
 As I vnderstande 
 
 Torent taketh a dolefuU way 
 
 Downe into a deep valay. 
 
 in. 
 
 The kynge of Nazareth sent hym me 
 
 Torent I wot saue hym on the 
 
 For better loue I none 
 
 Afterwarde upon a tyde 
 
 As they walked by the ryuers syde 
 
 The kynge and yonge Torent 
 
 This lorde wolde fayne that he dede were 
 
 And he wyst nat on what manere
 
 117 
 
 Howe he myght hym shent 
 A fals letter made the kynge 
 And made a messangere it brynge 
 On the ryuer syde as they went 
 To Torent that was true as stele 
 If he loued Dyssonel wele 
 Gete hir a faucon gent 
 Torent the letter began to rede 
 The kynge came nere and lystened 
 As thoughe he it neuer had sene 
 The kynge sayde what may this be 
 Lorde it is sent to me 
 For a faucon shene 
 I ne wote so God me spede 
 In what londe that they brede 
 The kynge sayde as I herde sayne 
 In the forest of Maudelayne. 
 
 IV. 
 
 By the se syde as it lay 
 
 God sende hym gatys ryght 
 
 An hye waye hath he nome 
 
 Into Calabre is he come 
 
 Within two dayes or thre 
 
 So he met folke hjTu agayne 
 
 Fast comynge with carte and wayne 
 
 Frow^arde the se 
 
 Dere God sayd Torente now
 
 118 
 
 Good folke what eyleth you 
 
 That ye thus fast fle 
 
 There lyeth a gyaunte here besyde 
 
 In all this londe brode and wyde 
 
 No man on lyue leueth he 
 
 Dere God sayd Torente then 
 
 Whereuer be that fendes den 
 
 They answered hym anone 
 
 In a castell in the see 
 
 Slogus they sayd hyght he 
 
 Many a man he hath slone 
 
 We wote full well where he doth ly 
 
 Byfore the cyte of Hungry. 
 
 V. 
 
 For why I wyll the saye 
 
 Moche folke of that countre 
 
 Cometh heder for socoure to me 
 
 Bothe by nyghte and by daye 
 
 There is a gyaunte of grete renowne 
 
 He destroyeth bothe cyte and towne 
 
 And all that he may 
 
 As bokes of rome tell 
 
 He was goten with the deuyll of iiell 
 
 As his moder slepynge lay 
 
 The kynge sayde by Saynt Adryan 
 
 I rede another gentylman 
 
 Be there and haue the degre
 
 119 
 
 I haue a doughter that me is dere 
 
 7'hou shalte wedde her to thy fere 
 
 And yf it thy wyll be 
 
 Two duchyes in honde 
 
 I wyll gyue her in londe 
 
 Gramercy syr said he 
 
 With my tonge I haue so wrought 
 
 To breke my day wyll I nought 
 
 Xedes me behoueth there to be 
 
 On Goddes name the kynge gan sayne 
 
 Jhesu brynge the saffe agayne 
 
 Lorde moche of myght 
 
 Mynstralsy was them amonge 
 
 With harpe fedyll and songe 
 
 Delycyous notes on hyghe 
 
 Whan it was tyme to bed they vvente 
 
 And on the morowe rose Torente. 
 
 And toke leve of kynge and knyght 
 
 And toke a redy way. 
 
 VI. 
 
 And the good squyres after h[ym] 
 That knyghtes sholde le 
 
 As they were amyddes theyr 
 
 The kynge wolde not forgete 
 
 To Torente than sayd he 
 
 He sayd so God me saue 
 
 Fayne thou woldest my dough[ter haue]
 
 120 
 
 Thou hast loued her many a [daye] 
 
 Ye by my trouthe sayd Torente 
 
 And 1 were a ryche man 
 
 Ryght gladly by my faye 
 
 If thou durst for her sake 
 
 A poynte of armes vndertake 
 
 Thou broke her vp for ay 
 
 Ye sayde he or I go 
 
 Sykernes thou make me so 
 
 Of thy doughter hende 
 
 Ye and after all my ryghtes 
 
 By vij. score of hardy knyghtes 
 
 Al they were Torentes frende 
 
 Now good lordes I you praye 
 
 Bere wytnes of this day 
 
 Agayne yf God me sende 
 
 Torente sayd so may I the 
 
 Wyst I where my jorney shold [be] 
 
 Thyder I wolde me dyghte 
 
 llie kynge gaue hym an answ[ere] 
 
 In the londe of Calebre 
 
 There wonneth a g}faunte wyghte 
 
 Slogus he hyght as I the tolde 
 
 God sende the that waye ryghte. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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 handsome volume, royal folio, half crimson morocco, top edges 
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 Castles ( The) and Mansions of the Lothians, illustrated 
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 Marlborough Gems- — The Collection of Gems formed by 
 
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 N'ash's Mansions of England in the Olden Time, 104 
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 The Costumes of all Nations, Ancient and Modern, 
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 Gaelic N'anies of Plants, Scottish atid Irish, Collected and 
 
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 Keltic {John S.) — A History of the Scottish Highlands, 
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 Essay on Highland Scenery by Professor Wilson, coloured illus- 
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 IVorks, edited, with Memoir, Notes, and full Glossary, by John 
 Small, M.A., F.S.A. Scot., illustrated with specimens of manu- 
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 ' In barbarous age. 
 Gave rude Scotland Virgil's page,' — 
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 Lyndsafs {Sir David, of the Mount, i4go-i§68) Poetical 
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 Estimate of the Scottish Nobility during the Minority of 
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 Genealogical Memoirs of the Families of Colt and Coiitts, 
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 Scotia-o7iicon of John de Fordun, from the Contemporary 
 
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 Life of Saint Coluniba, founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, 
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