1739[Qualiter, sicut deus destinauit, pater filiam inuentam recognouit.]

1740 With that he sobreth his corage

1741And put awey his hevy chiere.

1742Bot of hem tuo a man mai liere

1743What is to be so sibb of blod:

1744Non wiste of other hou it stod,

1745And yit the fader ate laste

1746His herte upon this maide caste,

1747That he hire loveth kindely,

1748And yit he wiste nevere why.

1749Bot al was knowe er that thei wente;

1750For god, which wot here hol entente,

1751Here hertes bothe anon descloseth.

1752This king unto this maide opposeth,

1753And axeth ferst what was hire name,

1754And wher sche lerned al this game,

1755And of what ken that sche was come.

1756And sche, that hath hise wordes nome,

1757Ansuerth and seith, "My name is Thaise,

1758That was som time wel at aise:

1759In Tharse I was forthdrawe and fed,

1760Ther lerned I, til I was sped,

1761Of that I can. Mi fader eke

1762I not wher that I scholde him seke;

1763He was a king, men tolde me:

1764Mi Moder dreint was in the See."

1765Fro point to point al sche him tolde,

1766That sche hath longe in herte holde,

1767And nevere dorste make hir mone

1768Bot only to this lord al one,

1769To whom hire herte can noght hele,

1770Torne it to wo, torne it to wele,

1771Torne it to good, torne it to harm.

1772And he tho toke hire in his arm,

1773Bot such a joie as he tho made

1774Was nevere sen; thus be thei glade,

1775That sory hadden be toforn.

1776For this day forth fortune hath sworn

1777To sette him upward on the whiel;

1778So goth the world, now wo, now wel:

1779This king hath founde newe grace,

1780So that out of his derke place

1781He goth him up into the liht,

1782And with him cam that swete wiht,

1783His doghter Thaise, and forth anon

1784Thei bothe into the Caban gon

1785Which was ordeigned for the king,

1786And ther he dede of al his thing,

1787And was arraied realy.