And  other  while  but  a  jape.
But  netheles  it  is  so  shape,
That  Morpheus  by  night  alone
Appereth  unto  Alceone
In  likenesse  of  her  husbonde
Al  naked  dede  upon  the  stronde,
And  how  he  dreint  in  speciall
These  other  two  it  shewen  all.
The  tempest  of  the  blacke  cloude,
The  wode  see,  the  windes  loude,
All  this  she  met,  and  sigh  him  deien,
Wherof  that  she  began  to  crien
Slepend  a  bedde  there  she  lay.
And  with  that  noise  of  her  affray
Her  women  sterten  up  aboute,
Whiche  of  her  lady  were  in  doubte
And  axen  her,  how  that  she  ferde.
And  she  right  as  she  sigh  and  herde
Her  sweven  hath  tolde  hem  every  dele.
And  they.it  halsen  alle  wele
•And  sain,  it  is  a  token  of  good.
But  til  she  wist  how  that  it  stood,
She  hath  no  comfort  in  her  herte.
Upon  the  morwe  and  up  she  sterte
And  to  the  see,  where  as  she  met,
The  body  lay,  withoute  lete
She  drough,  and  whanne  she  cam  nigh
Starke  dede  his  armes  sprad  she  sigh
Her  lord,  fletend  upon  the  wawe,
Wherof  her  wittes  be  withdrawe.
And  she,  which  toke  of  deth  no  kepe,
Anone  forth  lepte  into  the  depe
And  wold  have  caught  him  in  her  arme.
This  infortune  of  double  harme
The  goddes  from  the  heven  above


CEIX  AND  ALCEON.
Beheld  and  for  the  trouthe  of  love,
Whiche  in  this  worthy  lady  stood,
They  have  upon  the  salte  flood
Her  dreinte  lorde  and  her  also
Fro  deth  to  life  torned  so,
That  they  ben  shapen  into  briddes
Swimmend  upon  the  wawe  amiddes.
