2009[Qualiter Artestrate Pentapolim Rege mortuo, ipsi de regno epistolas super hoc Appolino direxerunt: vnde Appolinus vna cum vxore sua ibidem aduenientes ad decus imperii cum magno gaudio coronati sunt.]

2010 Whan al this thing is don and ended,

2011This king, which loved was and frended,

2012A lettre hath, which cam to him

2013Be Schipe fro Pentapolim,

2014Be which the lond hath to him write,

2015That he wolde understonde and wite

2016Hou in good mynde and in good pes

2017Ded is the king Artestrates,

2018Wherof thei alle of on acord

2019Him preiden, as here liege lord,

2020That he the lettre wel conceive

2021And come his regne to receive,

2022Which god hath yove him and fortune;

2023And thus besoghte the commune

2024Forth with the grete lordes alle.

2025This king sih how it was befalle,

2026Fro Tharse and in prosperite;

2027He tok his leve of that Cite

2028And goth him into Schipe ayein:

2029The wynd was good, the See was plein

2030Hem nedeth noght a Riff to slake,

2031Til thei Pentapolim have take.

2032The lond, which herde of that tidinge,

2033Was wonder glad of his cominge;

2034He resteth him a day or tuo

2035And tok his conseil to him tho,

2036And sette a time of Parlement,

2037Wher al the lond of on assent

2038Forth with his wif hath him corouned,

2039Wher alle goode him was fuisouned.

2040Lo, what it is to be wel grounded:

2041For he hath ferst his love founded

2042Honesteliche as forto wedde,

2043Honesteliche his love he spedde

2044And hadde children with his wif,

2045And as him liste he ladde his lif;

2046And in ensample his lif was write,

2047That alle lovers myhten wite

2048How ate laste it schal be sene

2049Of love what thei wolden mene.

2050For se now on that other side,

2051Antiochus with al his Pride,

2052Which sette his love unkindely,

2053His ende he hadde al sodeinly,

2054Set ayein kinde upon vengance,

2055And for his lust hath his penance.