THE LESING MADE TO NAUPLIUS. Saidon the same kyng sone after pis ;- Of tresoure of the toune, for takyng with fos. 'Wold boune to pe bonke barly hom-seluy", Vne aboue to pe bordur, & bodyn þere all. enter : 12660 And Palamydon, pe prise kyng, put hym perto; Cast of his clothis cantly & wele, And his hose in hast, highit hym doun. When pe prinse was past to pe pit bothum, 12664 pe buernes on þe bonk bet hym with stonys, And euyn dang hym to deth in pe derk hole, Left hym per lyond, & lurkit to paire tentis.' Pus told was pe tale, & full tru made, 12668 To be nobill kyng Nawle, of his nayt sone,- 12672 With Othé his othir son, ordant belyue 413 Book XXXII. The same liars told Nauplius that Diomedes and Ulysses shortly afterwards wiled Palamedes to a pit, wherein, they said, much gold was hid. That, Palamedes, dreading no guile, offered to go down first. (fol. 193 b.) But as soon as dead with stones; Nauplius and Eax determine to avenge the death of Palamedes. Hit was told hym for tru, in tyme of pe wynter, They learn that 12676 pe grekis with hor grym ost were gon to be se, the Greeks are returning from Troy, Book XXXII. and must pass by their coasts. The king orders fires to be lit at night on the hills along the coast. The Greeks sailing past by night, see the fires, and make for land. Two hundred ships are dashed on the rocks; the treasures and all on board are lost. The crash and cry warn the vessels following; they (fol. 194 a.) make for the open sea, and are saved. Among those saved were Agamemnon, Diomedes, and Menelaus. Eax is chagrined by the escape of Agamemnon and Diomedes: and plans another mode of revenge. In sound for to saile, & seche to paire londis, With all pe tresour of troy, & pe toune leuyt: Be any wise in pis world, wend hom behode 12680 By þe cost in pe cuntre per kyng dwellit. ben þe kyng, thurgh þe kyth, comand his men Two hundreth hede schippis in a hond qwile ;— With all pe gold & pe godes, þat þai getyn hade. 12696 pe remnond, þat rode by pe rugh bonkis, Herd pe rurde & pe ryfte of þe rank schippis, 12700 All the skathes thai skepe of po skire hylles. Menelay the mighty, & mony other kynges; 12704 Thies passet the perellis of the pale ythes, Houit on the hegh sea, held hom o ferre. This Othe, I er said, the od sun of Naule, THE DECEIT AND REVENGE OF EAX.. This Othe, with ournyng, ordant belyue 12712 Letturs, by a lede pat he leell trist, To Agamynon gay wif, gert hym to beire, þat Clunestra was callid, as the clause tellus. To hir he certifiet sothely in his sad lettur, 12716 þat Agamynon had goten to his gay spouse, Of Priam a prise doghter, prayset full mekull: 12720 And ho mvn douteles be dede, & done fro hir right. 415 Book XXXII. He informs Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, that her husband had wed a daughter of Priam; and was bringing her home to be his queen instead of herself. He counsels pan he counseld Clunestra, er þat cas fell To be war of þat wegh, & wait on hir-seluyn. The lady leuit the lettur þat the lede sent, 12724 And ponkit hym proly with ponks in hir hert: and thanks Eax. She compast by course, in hir clene wit, How this vilany to venge, & voide of hir harme. OFF THE DETHE OF AGAMYNON AND HE EXILE OF When this worthy of wothe wan to his Clytemnestra, reame, 12728 Oute of perell and pyne of the pale ythes, owne, 12732 With a faynond fare vndur fals thoght. 12740 A doghter þat was dere, in hor derne play. on Agamemnon's but she had She loved a man named Ægisthus, by whom she had a daughter. Book XXXII. He is of low degree, yet she loves him more than Agamem non. She arranges with him to murder her husband while he sleeps. Agamemnon is murdered by Nawther comyn was pat kyde mon of no kyng riche, Ne duke þat was doghty, ne no derfe erle ; slepe, pan entrid this Engist, euyn as hym list, Ægisthus, who 12752 And, with a thricche in the throte, throtlet the afterwards becomes king of Mycense. Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, is sent by Talthybius to Idomeneus, lest Clytemnestra should murder him. (fol. 195 a.) Eax sends a letter to Egiale, the wife of Diomedes, stating that her husband had wed a daughter of Priam. kyng. When this Duke was dede, & done unto graue, This Engest, with Jolite to hir iuste spouse: 12760 Kyng Taltill hym toke for trist of his lyue, Mortheret hym with malice in the meane tyme. This Othe, I ere said, od son of Naule, 12768 To Egea, afturward egurly send, The dere wife of Dyamede, dernly a lettur: He hade puruait a prowde wife of Priames DIOMEDES AND EGIALE. 12772 This Egea, the gest sais, was a iust lady, 417 Book XXXII. To Polence, the prise kyng, vne a pure doghter, (Polynices, King (Kyng of Argonen cald in cuntres aboute) And hade a brother full bold, & barly no moo. 12776 ffaire on hir fader syde, as fell hom by chaunse, All the londes full large of the lefe kyng, Polence of price, pat was hir pure fadur, Lefte to po litle, as his leue heires. of Argos.) 12780 þan partid was prestly the prise Rewme of Argos was left by Argon, Polynices to Betwene Assandrus for-sothe, & his suster Egea. brother. To the terage of Troy with a tore ost; And er þai comyn to the company of pe clene grekes, 12788 There all semblet were sothely at þe same tyme, hai past by a perty of þe prouyns of Boys, Assandrus and conducting their forces to Troy, There þai bowet fro pe barge to pe banke syde, go into the 12792 To solas hom a season with sum of hor pepull. Thelaphus with tene toke hit to hert, þat þai light on his lond, & no leue hade: 12796 With a company clene, kyde men of armys. And kild of pere knightes to pe cold erthe. 12800 Mony dong to the dethe of his derf knightes: country of King Telephus. Provoked by this liberty, he attacks them. A fierce battle ensues, and many fall on both sides. (fol. 195b.) slain by There-at Thelaphus hade tene, & turnet belyue, Assandrus is dethe. 12804 þan Dyomede with dole drogh hym vp sone, |