Peter Alphonse

“ Forsoth he had in the same felawship a felawe of high vertu, a man the whiche with symilitude and liknes of vertu chosen, asked hym as in friendship thei myghten come. He nat denyed, an oth [2] halwed and rightfully to swere friendship and covenaunt affermed and stidefastly to be comuned [3] and commune to wynnyng and losse. [And he] bitooke and lad that exul his felaw in to his Citee. Forsoth willyng with hym to comune, his wif separat brought he [4] to host, nor [5] shewed hym his house. ”

“ Whan he forsoth of that counsail the house fallen and broken of a poore man to his house a litel straite way she perced [19] under erth from that (f. 137) oon [20] house into that other [21] and had his free comyng and goyng whan that he wold. And whan this sufficed nat to theym, they toguyder saiden as to bien felawshipped in weddyng and Matremony and articulerly in thiese wordis: [22] "Mi lord is thi felaw; say thow to hym forwhi thow camst from thi cuntrey in wifes right and forwhi that it is yowr maner and Saracyns lawe nat as to take a wif [23] but of the yift of a lawful man. ”

“ Svche a knyght of his cuntrey of many hasty enemyes convict of his prevy synnes iuged to the deth, but withe kynges saieng and of the people knowen soone from the people was he exiled. And forwhi he left to hym no friend owther in the cuntrey or in thendis of the cuntrey, fled fer of wher nat only the act of his wikkednes but moche wors it was to hem purposed an vnknowen name with a laudable novelte thold cruelte and mansuete and the vndouted intemperat strength to converte and turne. ”