PYRRHUS AND THE SONS OF ACASTUS. "Thus I skope fro the skathe with skyrme of And with wawes of the water wagget to bonke: 13544 The salt water sadly sanke in my wombe, hat I voidet with vomettes by vertu of goddes, 13548 There tynt haue I truly myche tried goode. 443 Book XXXV. that he had lost everything, and And now me bus, as a beggar, my bred for to must now beg thigge At doris vpon dayes, þat dayres me full sore: Till I come to my kyth, can I non othir. 13552 Iff ye haue ferkit any fode to pis frith now, his way home. He beseeches them for food: Bes gracius, for goddes loue, ges me som they bid him part !" "ffolow vs pan furth," po fre to hym saide, "Thou shalt haue meite for a mele to mirth the with-all." 13556 þan se þai besyde, in the same tyme, follow them. A hart appears before them: Melanippus pursues it, leaving his A grete herte in a grove, goond hym one. ffell vnto fote, & his fole esyt, 13564 And hym-selfe on the soile set hym onone. pan Pirrus full prestly puld out his swerd, Thus britnet pat bold the brethir, his Emes, brother to accompany Pyrrhus slays him. (fol. 207 b.) Melanippus returning is also slain. Book XXXV. Pyrrhus hastens Pyrrhus tries to slay Acastus: Thetis prevents him, and intercedes for his life. 13572 And fraynet at hym fuersly where the freike was. "Here at hond is pat hery," the hend to hym saide: pen he gird to pe gome with a grym swerde, And slogh hym downe sleghly by sleght of his 13576 Pirrus full prestly pen past to his shippe, Pirrus to the prise kyng pertly onswart ;- Prisoner to Pirrus, pat pertly me toke." 13584 Aschatus fraynet pe freke on his faith þen, done?" "He is wery of pe whaghis," pe whe to hym sayde, "And here romys on pe rocis to rest hym a 13588 pen þai drogh to pe dike, per pe duk lay, Pirrus swappit out his sword, swange at þe Wold haue britnet pe bu[e]rne in hys breme yre. 13592 pen come Tetid full tit, toke hym in armys, His graundam full graidly grippit hym onone, Wyf, as I wene, to worthé Pelleus, 13596 And doghter to pe duke, pat he dere wold. ACASTUS SAVED BY PELEUS. 13600 þat were pin emys full nobill, nayt men of will; And now Aschatus with skath wold skirme to be deth, hat is my fader so fre, and þi first graunser." þen Pirrus full pertly to pat prise saide :— 13604 "Has not þi fader full foule flemyt myn ayell, 445 Book XXXV. (fol. 208 a.) Pyrrhus promises to spare his life if Peleus Pelleus, of his promys, þin awne prise husbond. desires him to If he will spare hym to spill, I spede me perto." 13608 Pelleus come prestly, praid for þe kyng: "Hit suffis," he saide, "pe slagh of his childur, be bold, þat were britnet on pe bent syde." ben acord was per knyt po kyngis betwene, 13612 ffull frenchip and fyn festnyt with hond. þer þai setyn on pe soile, po souerans togedur, The two kyngis full kant, and þe clene qwene, And Pirrus, pe pert knyght, prudly besyde. 13616 Aschatus þen skepe furth with his skire wordis, do so. Peleus pleads for Acastus. Peace is concluded, and they become friends. hat was kyng of pe cost by conquest til pen:- Acastus, now "I am febyll and vnfere fallyn into elde, Any rem forto rewle, or to ryde furth : 13620 My sons now are slayn, & slungyn to ground, hat I had purpost pis prouyns playnly to haue. Now lengis per no lede, pat by lyne aw, be soile and be septur sothly to weld, 13624 But Pirrus, of prowes pertist in armys. Dernyst & derne, myn awne dere cosyn, I releshe þe my ryght with a rank will, "And my ryght I renonse to pat rynk sone, be terrage of tessayle and be tryed corone." 13632 pen ros pþai full radly, raght vnto horse, Wanen vp wightly, wentyn to towne. that his sons are slain, yields his realm to Pyrrhus. Peleus also resigns the government of Thessaly to Pyrrhus. Book XXXV. (fol. 208 b.) Pirrus full prestly a prati mon sende, Bade his nauy come nere, negh into hauyn. Acastus commands his subjects to acknowledge Pyrrhus as their king. (MS. has "after pai were.") Pyrrhus is OFF THE CORONYNG OF PYRRUS AND OF HIS DETHE. 13636 The souerayn hym-selfe, when he segh tyme, Aschatus, to all men afterward send Thurgh the cité fro hym-selfe, & the syde lond, bat yche lede to be lord lyuely shuld come, 13640 With honour & homage, (as pe right ayre,) Proffer vnto Pirrus, as paire prise lorde. ffayne were po freikes and the folke all, The secund day suyng, as said is of olde, pan be fauer & frenship, þat fell to hym after, All the londis and the lordship, pat longed to 13652 And his cuntre keppit in couert & pes To the last of his lyf, as a lord shuld. Here I turne from my tale, & tary a qwile, Till hit come me be course to carpe of hym ferre. Idomeneus, king 13656 When Idumius was ded, doghty of hond, of Crete, dies, and is succeeded by his sons, Merion and Laertes. (fol. 209 a.) pat I told of tomly in tymis before, Two sones of hym-selfe suet hym after, In his realme for to reigne, as his right ayres: 13660 Merion, a myld & mighty, was one, And Laertus by lyne was his leue brother. 13664 And after course of our kynd closit his dayes. THE ABDUCTION OF HERMIONE. pat Nausica had, pat noble nam vnto wife, Doghter of the du kyng, doghty Antenor, 13668 He gate on þat gay vne a gode sone, hat Dephebus duly was demyt to nome. Now I pas will to Pirrus by proses agayne, Of his dedis to deme, & his dethe after. 13672 Ascatus pe skete, for skath of his sones, Miche water he weppit of his wan chekis, Gert bryng hom to burgh, birit hom faire In a precius plase, so Pirrus comaundit. 447 Book XXXV. Telemachus and THE POETE OF FORTUNE. 13676 Wen a mon is at myght, & most of astate, All þe world at his will, weghis to serue, 13680 pen fortune his fall felli aspies, Vnqwemys his qwate, & pe qwele turnys; 13684 So Pirrus was prise, pruddest of kyngis, Had welth at his will, be worthiest of grice. hat Orestes pe rynke richeli had weddit, Pyrrhus becomes enamoured of Hermione, wife of Orestes. 13692 So he sped hym by spies, & spense of his gode, He causes her to hat pe lady fro hir lord lyuely he stale, Orestes pe riche, that regnyt hir with. 13696 Pirrus with that proude presit to be temple, Weddit þat worthi, & as wif held. ben Orestes full ryfe had myche rank sorow, elope with him to Thessaly, and there weds her. |