And  by  hire  beddes  hed  she  made  a  mew,'
And  covered  it  with  velouettes*  blew,
In  signe  of  trouth,  that  is  in  woman  sene ;
And  all  without  the  mew  is  peinted  grene,
In  which  were  peinted  all  thise  false  foules,
As  ben  thise  tidifes,*  tercelettes,  and  owles ;
And  pies,  on  hem  for  to  cry  and  chide.
Bight  for  despit  were  peinted  hem  beside.
Thus  lete  I  Canace  hire  hauk  keping.
I  wol  no  more  as  now  speke  of  hire  ring,
Til  it  come  eft  to  purpos  for  to  sain.
How  that  this  faucon  gat  hire  love  again
Repentant,  as  the  story  telleth  us,
By  mediation  of  Camballus
The  kinges  sone,  of  which  that  I  you  told.
But  hennesforth  I  wol  my  processe  hold
To  speke  of  aventures,  and  of  batailles,
That  yet  was  never  herd  so  gret  mervailles.
First  wol  I  tellen  you  of  Cambuscan,
That  in  his  time  many  a  citee  wan:
And  after  wol  I  speke  of  Algarsif,
How  that  he  wan  Theodora  to  his  wif,
For  whom  ful  oft  in  gret  peril  he  was,
,  Ne  had  he  ben  holpen  by  the  hors  oi  bras.
And  after  wol  I  speke  of  Camballo,
That  fought  in  listes  with  the  brethren  two
For  Canace,  er  that  he  might  hire  winne,
And  ther  I  left  I  wol  again  beginne.
1  Lap,  2  Knew  not.
3  Cage.  ^  Velvets.
<  Mentioned  also  in  the  Legend  of  Good  Women,  vs.  154,  as  an  incon>
stantbird.
THE  FRANKELEINES  PROLOGUE.
10986-11016.
