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{ "en": "To come and speak with us right swiftly,", "me": "To come, and speke with us hastily," }

{ "en": "And bring the woeful man when he comes.", "me": "And doon this woful man with him to come." }

{ "en": "For if he this monster overcomes,", "me": "For if he may this monstre overcome," }

{ "en": "He would be free; there is no other way.", "me": "Than were he quit; ther is noon other bote." }

{ "en": "Let us test him deeply, and let him say", "me": "Lat us wel taste him at his herte-rote," }

{ "en": "Whether, if a weapon he should have,", "me": "That, if so be that he a wepen have," }

{ "en": "He would dare his life protect and save,", "me": "Wher that he dar, his lyf to kepe and save," }

{ "en": "Fight with the fiend, and himself defend.", "me": "Fighten with this fend, and him defende." }

{ "en": "For in the prison which he must descend,", "me": "For, in the prison, ther he shal descende," }

{ "en": "You well know the beast has a place", "me": "Ye wite wel, that the beste is in a place" }

{ "en": "That is not dark, and has room and space", "me": "That nis nat derk, and hath roum eek and space" }

{ "en": "To wield an axe or sword or stave or knife,", "me": "To welde an ax or swerd or staf or knyf," }

{ "en": "So that, I think, he well might save his life;", "me": "So that, me thinketh, he sholde save his lyf;" }

{ "en": "If he should prove a man, he shall do so.", "me": "If that he be a man, he shal do so." }

{ "en": "And we shall make balls of hemp also", "me": "And we shul make him balles eek also" }

{ "en": "And wax, that when its jaws gape, then fast", "me": "Of wexe and towe, that, whan he gapeth faste," }

{ "en": "Into the beast’s throat he shall them cast", "me": "Into the bestes throte he shal hem caste" }

{ "en": "To quell its hunger and so foil its teeth;", "me": "To slake his hunger and encombre his teeth;" }

{ "en": "And right anon when this Theseus sees", "me": "And right anon, whan that Theseus seeth" }

{ "en": "The beast choking, he can on him leap", "me": "The beste achoked, he shal on him lepe" }

{ "en": "To slay him, before they further meet.", "me": "To sleen him, or they comen more to-hepe." }

{ "en": "The weapon shall the jailor ere that tide", "me": "This wepen shal the gayler, or that tyde," }

{ "en": "Secretly within the prison hide;", "me": "Ful privily within the prison hyde;" }

{ "en": "And as the house is crinkled to and fro", "me": "And, for the hous is crinkled to and fro," }

{ "en": "And has such complex ways to go –", "me": "And hath so queinte weyes for to go --" }

{ "en": "For it is shaped as a maze is wrought –", "me": "For hit is shapen as the mase is wroght --" }

{ "en": "I’ve a remedy for that in my thought,", "me": "Therto have I a remedie in my thoght," }

{ "en": "That with a clew of twine the way he’s gone", "me": "That, by a clewe of twyne, as he hath goon," }

{ "en": "The same way he may return anon,", "me": "The same wey he may returne anoon," }

{ "en": "Following ever the thread till out he’ll come.", "me": "Folwing alwey the threed, as he hath come." }

{ "en": "And when he the beast has overcome,", "me": "And, what that he this beste hath overcome," }

{ "en": "Then out of this dread away he may flee,", "me": "Then may he fleen awey out of this drede," }

{ "en": "And the jailor too with him may lead,", "me": "And eek the gayler may he with him lede," }

{ "en": "And at home advance him in his country", "me": "And him avaunce at hoom in his contree," }

{ "en": "Since so great a lord’s son is he.", "me": "Sin that so greet a lordes sone is he." }

{ "en": "This is my counsel if such he dare take.’", "me": "This is my reed, if that he dar hit take.\"" }

{ "en": "Why should I longer story of this make?", "me": "What sholde I lenger sermoun of hit make?" }

{ "en": "The jailor came and with him Theseus.", "me": "The gayler cometh, and with him Theseus." }

{ "en": "And when the thing had been settled thus,", "me": "And whan thise thinges been acorded thus," }

{ "en": "Down fell Theseus on bended knee:", "me": "Adoun sit Theseus upon his knee: --" }

{ "en": "‘The rightful lady of my life,’ quoth he,", "me": "\"The righte lady of my lyf,\" quod he," }

{ "en": "‘I, sorrowful man, condemned to death,", "me": "\"I, sorweful man, y-dampned to the deeth," }

{ "en": "I’ll not, while I still have life and breath,", "me": "Fro yow, whyl that me lasteth lyf or breeth," }

{ "en": "Part from you after this adventure,", "me": "I wol nat twinne, after this aventure," }

{ "en": "But in your service thus will I linger,", "me": "But in your servise thus I wol endure," }

{ "en": "And, as a wretch unknown, I’ll serve you", "me": "That, as a wrecche unknowe, I wol yow serve" }

{ "en": "For evermore until my days are through.", "me": "For ever-mo, til that myn herte sterve." }

{ "en": "I will forsake at home my heritage", "me": "Forsake I wol at hoom myn heritage," }

{ "en": "And, as I said, be at your court a page", "me": "And, as I seide, ben of your court a page," }

{ "en": "If you vouchsafe me that in this place", "me": "If that ye vouche-sauf that, in this place," }

{ "en": "You’ll grant that I receive such grace", "me": "Ye graunte me to han so gret a grace" }

{ "en": "As to have naught but my food and drink;", "me": "That I may han nat but my mete and drinke;" }

{ "en": "And, for my sustenance, work, as I think,", "me": "And for my sustenance yit wol I swinke," }

{ "en": "So that neither Minos nor another might –", "me": "Right as yow list, that Minos ne no wight --" }

{ "en": "Since he’s not seen me with his own sight –", "me": "Sin that he saw me never with eyen sight --" }

{ "en": "Recognise in me the man you save;", "me": "Ne no man elles, shal me conne espye;" }

{ "en": "So cannily and so well I’ll behave,", "me": "So slyly and so wel I shal me gye," }

{ "en": "And so disguise myself, act so humbly", "me": "And me so wel disfigure and so lowe," }

{ "en": "That in this world no man shall know me,", "me": "That in this world ther shal no man me knowe," }

{ "en": "So save my life, exist in the presence", "me": "To han my lyf, and for to han presence" }

{ "en": "Of you who show me all this excellence.", "me": "Of yow, that doon to me this excellence." }

{ "en": "And to my father shall I send further", "me": "And to my fader shal I senden here" }

{ "en": "This worthy man who is my jailor", "me": "This worthy man, that is now your gaylere," }

{ "en": "And reward him so that he shall be", "me": "And, him to guerdon, that he shal wel be" }

{ "en": "One of the noblest men in my country.", "me": "Oon of the grettest men of my contree." }

{ "en": "And, dare I say it, my lady bright,", "me": "And yif I dorste seyn, my lady bright," }

{ "en": "I am both a king’s son and a knight.", "me": "I am a kinges sone, and eek a knight;" }

{ "en": "I God will it so, if it might be", "me": "As wolde god, yif that hit mighte be" }

{ "en": "That you were in my country, all three,", "me": "Ye weren in my contree, alle three," }

{ "en": "And I with you to bear you company,", "me": "And I with yow, to bere yow companyee," }

{ "en": "That I tell no lie thereof, you’d see.", "me": "Than shulde ye seen yif that I ther-of lye!" }

{ "en": "And if I offer in a humble manner,", "me": "And, if I profre yow in low manere" }

{ "en": "To be your page, and serve you right here,", "me": "To ben your page and serven yow right here," }

{ "en": "If I do not serve as humbly in this place,", "me": "But I yow serve as lowly in that place," }

{ "en": "I pray to Mars that he give me such grace", "me": "I prey to Mara to yive me swiche a grace" }

{ "en": "That shameful death here on me might fall", "me": "That shames deeth on me ther mote falle," }

{ "en": "And death and poverty on my friends all;", "me": "And deeth and povert to my frendes alle;" }

{ "en": "And that my spirit by night might go", "me": "And that my spirit by nighte mote go" }

{ "en": "After my death and walk to and fro;", "me": "After my deeth, and walke to and fro;" }

{ "en": "That I may of traitor possess the name", "me": "That I mote of a traitour have a name," }

{ "en": "And my spirit walk to do me shame.", "me": "For which my spirit go, to do me shame!" }

{ "en": "And if I ever claim higher degree", "me": "And yif I ever claime other degree," }

{ "en": "Unless you vouchsafe to grant it me,", "me": "But-if ye vouche-sauf to yive hit me," }

{ "en": "As I have said, a shameful death I’ll die!", "me": "As I have seid, of shames deeth I deye!" }

{ "en": "And mercy, lady! Nothing more say I.’", "me": "And mercy, lady! I can nat elles seye!\"" }

{ "en": "A handsome knight was Theseus to see", "me": "A seemly knight was Theseus to see," }

{ "en": "And young, only twenty years and three;", "me": "And yong, but of a twenty yeer and three;" }

{ "en": "But whoso had seen his countenance", "me": "But who-so hadde y-seyn his countenaunce," }

{ "en": "Would have wept for pity of his penance;", "me": "He wolde have wept, for routhe of his penaunce;" }

{ "en": "And for which, Ariadne, in this manner,", "me": "For which this Adriane in this manere" }

{ "en": "Answered his offer and his demeanor:", "me": "Answerde to his profre and to his chere." }

{ "en": "‘A king’s son and a knight also,’ quoth she,", "me": "\"A kinges sone, and eek a knight,\" quod she," }

{ "en": "‘To be my servant and in such low degree,", "me": "\"To been my servant in so low degree," }

{ "en": "God forbid, would shame us women all,", "me": "God shilde hit, for the shame of women alle!" }

{ "en": "May He never let such fate on me fall!", "me": "And leve me never swich a cas befalle!" }

{ "en": "But send you grace of heart and skill also", "me": "But sende yow grace and sleighte of herte also," }

{ "en": "To guard yourself and bravely slay your foe,", "me": "Yow to defende and knightly sleen your fo," }

{ "en": "And let it be hereafter that I may find", "me": "And leve herafter that I may yow finde" }

{ "en": "You to me and my sister here so kind", "me": "To me and to my suster here so kinde," }

{ "en": "That I repent not the saving of your life.", "me": "That I repente nat to give yow lyf!" }