835[Qualiter filia Regis Appolinum ornato apparatu vestiri fecit, et ipse ad puelle doctrinam in quampluribus familiariter intendebat: vnde placata puella in amorem Appolini exardescens infirmabatur.]

836 And whanne it was amorwe lyht,

837Unto this yonge man of Tyr

838Of clothes and of good atir

839With gold and Selver to despende

840This worthi yonge lady sende:

841And thus sche made him wel at ese,

842And he with al that he can plese

843Hire serveth wel and faire ayein.

844He tawhte hir til sche was certein

845Of Harpe, of Citole and of Rote,

846With many a tun and many a note

847Upon Musique, upon mesure,

848And of hire Harpe the temprure

849He tawhte hire ek, as he wel couthe.

850Bot as men sein that frele is youthe,

851With leisir and continuance

852This Mayde fell upon a chance,

853That love hath mad him a querele

854Ayein hire youthe freissh and frele,

855That malgre wher sche wole or noght,

856Sche mot with al hire hertes thoght

857To love and to his lawe obeie;

858And that sche schal ful sore abeie.

859For sche wot nevere what it is,

860Bot evere among sche fieleth this:

861Thenkende upon this man of Tyr,

862Hir herte is hot as eny fyr,

863And otherwhile it is acale;

864Now is sche red, nou is sche pale

865Riht after the condicion

866Of hire ymaginacion;

867Bot evere among hire thoghtes alle,

868Sche thoghte, what so mai befalle,

869Or that sche lawhe, or that sche wepe,

870Sche wolde hire goode name kepe

871For feere of wommanysshe schame.

872Bot what in ernest and in game,

873Sche slant for love in such a plit,

874That sche hath lost al appetit

875Of mete, of drinke, of nyhtes reste,

876As sche that not what is the beste;

877Bot forto thenken al hir fille

878Sche hield hire ofte times stille

879Withinne hir chambre, and goth noght oute:

880The king was of hire lif in doute,

881Which wiste nothing what it mente.