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The Regnes helde / & wt hire pro pre honde
That there nas kyngi nce / in al þ t lond
That he nas glad / if he þ t grace fond
That she ne wolde / vp on his land verreye
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Witħ hire they made / alliaunce / by bonde
To ben in pees / and lete hire ride & pleye
Ne hī biforñ / the Romayn Galien
Ne dursten neuer e / ben so corageous
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Ne noon Ermyn / ne noon Egipcien
Ne Surrien / ne Corrected from: nō nō Arrabien
W Inne the feldes / þ t durst wt hire figħ t
Leest þ t she wolde hē / wt hire handes slen
Or wt hire meyne / putten hē to fligħ t
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As Eyres / of here fadres Regnes alle
Here names were / as Persiens hē calle
But ay fortune hatħ / in hire hony / galle
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This mygħ ty Quene / may no while endure
Fortune / out of hire regne / mad hire falle
To wrecchednesse / and to mysauenture
Of Rome / come in to handes tweye
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He shope vp on this Quene / to do vengeaunce
And wt hise legions / he toke his weye
Toward Cenobie / & shortly for to seye
He mad hire flee / and atte laste hire hente
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And wan the lond / & home to Rome he wente
Hire Char / that was / wt gold wrougħ t / & perre
This gret Romayn / this Aurelian
Hatħ wt hī ladde / for þ t men shulde it se
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Biforñ his Triumphe / walketħ she
W gilt cheynes / on hire nekke hangynge
Corovned was she / as after hire degree
And ful of Perre / charged hire clothynge
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Now gauretħ al the peeple / on hire / allas