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{ "en": "Do as Tereus did, and lose his name,", "me": "Doon so as Tereus, to lese his name," }

{ "en": "Nor serve you as a murderer does his victim,", "me": "Ne serve yow as a mordrour or a knave," }

{ "en": "Faithful but a short while shall you have him –", "me": "Ful litel whyle shul ye trewe him have," }

{ "en": "This will I say although it were my brother –", "me": "That wol I seyn, al were he now my brother," }

{ "en": "Unless, so be it, that he may have no other.", "me": "But hit so be that he may have non other." }

{ "en": "By proof as well as by authority,", "me": "eve as wel as by auctoritee," }

{ "en": "Wicked fruit does come from wicked tree,", "me": "That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree," }

{ "en": "And that you may find, if you so allow.", "me": "That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow." }

{ "en": "But to that end I’ll speak this tale for now:", "me": "But for this ende I speke this as now," }

{ "en": "To tell you of false Demophon.", "me": "To telle you of false Demophon." }

{ "en": "One falser in love I heard of never none,", "me": "In love a falser herde I never non," }

{ "en": "Unless it were his father Theseus.", "me": "But-if hit were his fader Theseus." }

{ "en": "‘God, of his grace, from such men keep us!’", "me": "\"God, for his grace, fro swich oon kepe us!\"" }

{ "en": "Thus may those women pray who may hear.", "me": "Thus may thise women prayen that hit here." }

{ "en": "Now to the substance of this matter here.", "me": "Now to theffect turne I of my matere." }

{ "en": "Destroyed is of Troy all the city;", "me": "Destroyed is of Troye the citee;" }

{ "en": "This Demophon comes, sailing on the sea,", "me": "This Demophon com sailing in the see" }

{ "en": "Towards Athens, to his palace large;", "me": "Toward Athenes, to his paleys large;" }

{ "en": "With him come many a ship and many a barge", "me": "With him com many a ship and many a barge" }

{ "en": "Full of his folk, of which full many a one", "me": "Ful of his folk, of which ful many oon" }

{ "en": "Is wounded sore, and sick, and woebegone.", "me": "Is wounded sore, and seek, and wo begoon." }

{ "en": "And they have at the siege long there lain.", "me": "And thay han at the sege longe y-lain." }

{ "en": "Behind him blows a wind and then a rain", "me": "Behinde him com a wind and eek a rain" }

{ "en": "That drives so hard, his sail might not stand;", "me": "That shoof so sore, his sail ne mighte stonde," }

{ "en": "He’d like, more than all the world, to land,", "me": "Him were lever than al the world a-londe," }

{ "en": "The tempest so pursues him to and fro.", "me": "So hunteth him the tempest to and fro." }

{ "en": "So dark it was, he could nowhere go;", "me": "So derk hit was, he coude nowher go;" }

{ "en": "And with a wave broken was his rudder.", "me": "And with a wawe brosten was his stere." }

{ "en": "His ship damaged now in such a manner", "me": "His ship was rent so lowe, in swich manere," }

{ "en": "The carpenter could not the harm amend.", "me": "That carpenter ne coude hit nat amende." }

{ "en": "The sea at night like a torch it burned", "me": "The see, by nighte, as any torche brende" }

{ "en": "Madly, and tossed them up and down", "me": "For wood, and posseth him now up now doun," }

{ "en": "Till Neptune his compassion found,", "me": "Til Neptune hath of him compassioun," }

{ "en": "Thetis, Thaumas, Triton, and them all,", "me": "And Thetis, Chorus, Triton, and they alle," }

{ "en": "Allowing him thus to make his landfall", "me": "And maden him upon a lond to falle," }

{ "en": "In a place where Phyllis was the queen,", "me": "Wher-of that Phillis lady was and quene," }

{ "en": "Licurgus’ daughter, fairer to be seen", "me": "Ligurgus doghter, fairer on to sene" }

{ "en": "Than is the flower in the bright sun.", "me": "Than is the flour again the brighte sonne." }

{ "en": "Barely has Demophon to the land won,", "me": "Unnethe is Demophon to londe y-wonne," }

{ "en": "Weak, and weary, and his folk wasted", "me": "Wayk and eek wery, and his folk for-pyned" }

{ "en": "By weariness and hunger debilitated;", "me": "Of werinesse, and also enfamyned;" }

{ "en": "And almost to death he himself driven.", "me": "And to the deeth he almost was y-driven." }

{ "en": "His wise folk council have him given", "me": "His wyse folk to conseil han him yiven" }

{ "en": "To seek help and succour from the queen,", "me": "To seken help and socour of the queen," }

{ "en": "And see what his fortune there should be,", "me": "And loken what his grace mighte been," }

{ "en": "And benefit therein from circumstance", "me": "And maken in that lond som chevisaunce," }

{ "en": "To keep him from woe and from mischance,", "me": "To kepen him fro wo and fro mischaunce." }

{ "en": "For sick is he and almost unto death;", "me": "For seek was he, and almost at the deeth;" }

{ "en": "He can scarcely speak or draw his breath,", "me": "Unnethe mighte he speke or drawe his breeth," }

{ "en": "And waits near Rhodope, so he may rest.", "me": "And lyth in Rodopeya him for to reste." }

{ "en": "When he could walk he thought it best", "me": "Whan he may walke, him thoughte hit was the beste" }

{ "en": "To go to the court and seek for succour.", "me": "Unto the court to seken for socour." }

{ "en": "Men knew him well and did him honour,", "me": "Men knewe him wel, and diden him honour;" }

{ "en": "For of Athens duke and lord was he", "me": "For at Athenes duk and lord was he," }

{ "en": "As Theseus his father used to be,", "me": "As Theseus his fader hadde y-be," }

{ "en": "Who in his time was of great renown,", "me": "That in his tyme was of greet renoun," }

{ "en": "No man so great in city there and town,", "me": "No man so greet in al his regioun;" }

{ "en": "And like his father too in face and stature", "me": "And lyk his fader of face and of stature," }

{ "en": "And false of love; for it was in his nature.", "me": "And fals of love; hit com him of nature;" }

{ "en": "As Reynard the fox does, so the fox’s son", "me": "As doth the fox Renard, the foxes sone," }

{ "en": "By nature will adopt his father’s custom", "me": "Of kinde he coude his olde faders wone" }

{ "en": "Without experience, as a drake will swim,", "me": "Withoute lore, as can a drake swimme," }

{ "en": "Raised in captivity, when brought to the brim.", "me": "Whan hit is caught and caried to the brimme." }

{ "en": "This honourable Phyllis gives him cheer,", "me": "This honourable Phillis doth him chere," }

{ "en": "Liking well his bearing and his demeanor.", "me": "her lyketh wel his port and his manere." }

{ "en": "But as I’m sated with writing here before", "me": "But for I am agroted heer-biforn" }

{ "en": "Of all those who were in love forsworn,", "me": "To wryte of hem that been in love forsworn," }

{ "en": "And wish to hasten on with my legend –", "me": "And eek to haste me in my legende," }

{ "en": "Which to perform God the grace me send –", "me": "Which to performe god me grace sende," }

{ "en": "Therefore I pass on briefly in this wise.", "me": "Therfor I passe shortly in this wyse;" }

{ "en": "You have heard what Theseus did devise", "me": "Ye han wel herd of Theseus devyse" }

{ "en": "In his betrayal of fair Ariadne", "me": "In the betraising of fair Adriane," }

{ "en": "Who kept him from his bane, out of pity.", "me": "That of her pite kepte him from his bane." }

{ "en": "Well, in short, so does this Demophon", "me": "At shorte wordes, right so Demophon" }

{ "en": "The same way, the same path he’s gone", "me": "The same wey, the same path hath gon" }

{ "en": "As did his false father Theseus.", "me": "That dide his false fader Theseus." }

{ "en": "For unto Phyllis has he sworn thus,", "me": "For unto Phillis hath he sworen thus," }

{ "en": "To wed her, and her his troth plight,", "me": "To wedden her, and her his trouthe plighte," }

{ "en": "Yet stolen from her all the goods he might,", "me": "And piked of her al the good he mighte," }

{ "en": "Once he is whole and sound and has his rest;", "me": "Whan he was hool and sound and hadde his reste;" }

{ "en": "And does with Phyllis what he thinks best;", "me": "And doth with Phillis what so that him leste." }

{ "en": "And I could, if it pleased me so", "me": "And wel coude I, yif that me leste so," }

{ "en": "Tell of all his doings to and fro.", "me": "Tellen al his doing to and fro." }

{ "en": "He said that to his country he must sail,", "me": "He seide, unto his contree moste he saile," }

{ "en": "Their wedding to prepare there without fail,", "me": "For ther he wolde her wedding apparaile" }

{ "en": "As fitting to her honour and his also.", "me": "As fil to her honour and his also." }

{ "en": "And openly he took his leave to go", "me": "And openly he took his leve tho," }

{ "en": "And swore to her he would not there sojourn,", "me": "And hath her sworn, he wolde nat soiorne," }

{ "en": "But in a month he would again return.", "me": "But in a month he wolde again retorne." }

{ "en": "While yet in Thrace he issued his orders", "me": "And in that lond let make his ordinaunce" }

{ "en": "Like a true lord, and he had homage there,", "me": "As verray lord, and took the obeisaunce" }

{ "en": "Well and familiarly, and his ships prepared", "me": "Wel and hoomly, and let his shippe dighte," }

{ "en": "Then home he went: the shortest way he fared;", "me": "And hoom he goth the nexte wey be mighte;" }

{ "en": "But unto Phyllis yet returned he not.", "me": "For unto Phillis yit ne com he noght." }

{ "en": "And she had such sore suffering in her thought,", "me": "And that hath she so harde and sore aboght," }

{ "en": "Alas, that as the stories then record", "me": "Allas! that, as the stories us recorde," }

{ "en": "She brought about her own death with a cord", "me": "She was her owne deeth right with a corde," }

{ "en": "When she knew Demophon had her betrayed.", "me": "Whan that she saw that Demophon her trayed." }

{ "en": "Yet to him first she wrote and deeply prayed", "me": "But to him first she wroot and faste him prayed" }

{ "en": "That he would come and deliver her from pain,", "me": "He wolde come, and her deliver of peyne," }