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- Edition: Pericles
Apollonius of Tyre
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1575[Qualiter Appolinus in regno suo apud Tyrum existens parliamentum fieri constituit.]
How Appolinus, staying in his kingdom at Tyre, summoned a parliament.
1576 Thus was this false treson hidd,
1577Which afterward was wyde kidd,
1578As be the tale a man schal hiere.
1579Bot forto clare mi matiere,
1580To Tyr I thenke torne ayein,
1581And telle as the Croniqes sein.
1582Whan that the king was comen hom,
1583And hath left in the salte fom
1584His wif, which he mai noght foryete,
1585For he som confort wolde gete,
1586He let somoune a parlement,
1587To which the lordes were asent;
1588And of the time he hath ben oute,
1589He seth the thinges al aboute,
1590And told hem ek hou he hath fare,
1591Whil he was out of londe fare;
1592And preide hem alle to abyde,
1593For he wolde at the same tyde
1594Do schape for his wyves mynde,
1595As he that wol noght ben unkinde.
1596Solempne was that ilke office,
1597And riche was the sacrifice,
1598The feste reali was holde:
1599And therto was he wel beholde;
1600For such a wif as he hadde on
1601In thilke daies was ther non.