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Apollonius of Tyre
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930[Qualiter Rex et Regina in maritagium filie sue cum Appolino consencierunt.]
How the king and queen consented to the marriage of their daughter with Appolinus.
931 The king ne wolde noght bewreie
932The conseil for no maner hihe,
933Bot soffreth til he time sihe:
934And whan that he to chambre is come,
935He hath unto his conseil nome
936This man of Tyr, and let him se
937The lettre and al the privete,
938The which his dowhter to him sente:
939And he his kne to grounde bente
940And thonketh him and hire also,
941And er thei wenten thanne atuo,
942With good herte and with good corage
943Of full Love and full mariage
944The king and he ben hol acorded.
945And after, whanne it was recorded
946Unto the dowhter hou it stod,
947The yifte of al this worldes good
948Ne scholde have mad hir half so blythe:
949And forth withal the king als swithe,
950For he wol have hire good assent,
951Hath for the queene hir moder sent.
952The queene is come, and whan sche herde
953Of this matiere hou that it ferde,
954Sche syh debat, sche syh desese,
955Bot if sche wolde hir dowhter plese,
956And is therto assented full.
957Which is a dede wonderfull,
958For noman knew the sothe cas
959Bot he himself, what man he was;
960And natheles, so as hem thoghte,
961His dedes to the sothe wroghte
962That he was come of gentil blod:
963Him lacketh noght bot worldes good,
964And as therof is no despeir,
965For sche schal ben hire fader heir,
966And he was able to governe.
967Thus wol thei noght the love werne
968Of him and hire in none wise,
969Bot ther acorded thei divise
970The day and time of Mariage.