¶ Here beginneth th'history of the noble right valiant & worthy knight Paris/ and of the fair Vyenne the daulphyns daughter of viennese/ the which suffered many adversities because of their true love or they could enjoy the effect thereof of each other/  
IN the time of king Charles of France the year of our lord Ihesu christ MCClxxj/ was in the land of viennese a rich baron daulphyn and lord of the land that was named sir Godefroy of alaunson & was of the kings kindred of france/ the which daulphyn was right mighty and a great lord both in havoyr and in lands/ & was a right wise man/ in so much that for his great wisdom he was much made of/ both of the king of france & of all the lords & barons of his court/ so that no thing was done in the said royalme but that he was called thereto/ & had to his wife a moche fair lady which cleped was dame dyane which was of so great beauty that she was well worthy & dign to be named after that fair star that men call diane that appyereth & showeth a little afore the day/ and also she was replenished of all nobleness & gentleness that a lady may or aught to have/ The said daulphyn then and this noble lady dyane were seven year to guider without issue that moche they desired to have/ and prayed our lord both night & day that they might have children pleasant and ready to his divine service/ and our lord thorough his benignity heard their prayer/ and after his pleasure gaf unto them the viii year of their marriage a right fair daughter for the which/ great gladness ● joy was made thorough all the daulphyns land/ and the child was baptized with great honour & joy/ & in token of great love they named her vienne by cause the city where she was borne in was called vienne/ and this daughter was delivered unto a noble lady for to be nourished with her/ the which lady was of the said city and had a little daughter of the age of vienne the which was named ysabel/ & so the fair vyenne was nourished with the same ysabel from her tender age unto many year after/ & so great love was between them both that they called each other sisters/ & the fair vienne grew and increased ever in sovereign beauty & gentleness/ so that the renomee of her excellent beauty flourysshed not only through all france but also through all the Royame's of england & other contrees/ It happened after she was xv year of age that she was desired to marriage of many knights & great lords/ & at that time was in the daulphyns court among many his knights/ a noble man of ancient lineage & of fair lands/ the which was well beloved of the daulphyn & of all the lords of the land and was called sir james/ this noble man had a moche fair son that had to name Paris/ & his father made him to be taught in all good custommes/ and when he was xviij year of age he was addressed to the discipline of arms/ & demeaned himself so nobly & worthily in all manner deeds of chivalry that within a short time after he was doubed knight by the hand of the said lord daulphyn/ ¶ No fayte of knighthood ne none adventure of chivalry happened after but that he found himself at it in so much that the renomee of him ran through all the world & men said he was one of the best knights that might be found in any country/ & held himself right clean in arms and lived chastened & joyfully/ & had ever about him fowls hawks and hounds for his disport to all manner of hunting suffisant enough for a duke or for an earl/ and through his prowess and hardiness he was acquainted & known of many other great lords/ and among all other he was greatly and lovingly acquainted with a young knight of the city of vienne that height Edward/ and were both of one age and moche loved each other/ and as two brethren of arms went ever to guider there as they knew any jousting or appertyse of arms to be had for to get honour/ ¶ And weet it well that beside their worthiness in arms they were good musycyens playing upon all manner Instruments of music/ and could sing very well/ but Paris passed in all ponytes his fellow Edward/ notwithstanding Edward was amorous all ready of a noble lady of the court of braban/ but Paris as yet knew nought of amorouste but not long after Venus the gods of love fired his thought with the heart unto a noble young lady/ that is to wete the fair vienne the daulphyns daughter of viennese that was his lyege lord/ & the more he growed toward his flowering age the more he was esprised & brenning of her love for the grrte beauty that was in her/ But Paris thought ever in his heart that this love was not well likely ne cordable/ ¶ For he was not of so high lineage as the noble maiden vienne was of/ & therefore Paris kept his love secret that none should perceive it safe Edward his trusty fellow to whom he broke & showed his council And the fair vienne perceived not that paris was amorous of her/ nor paris also durst neither show nor say nothing to her of it/ but the more that he saw her the more grew the fire of love within himself/   

¶ How Paris and Edward his fellow played with divers Instruments by night tofore the chamber of vienne/  
paris thenne & edward with one accord disposed themself for to give some melodious mirth to the noble maid vyenne/ and with their musycal Instruments/ as recourders/ they go by night time to guider toward that part of the castle where as the fair vienne lay in her chamber/ and there they sang full sweetly and swooned melodiously their musycal Instruments and pipes/ and certain the melody of their songs and the sown of their Instrument was so pleasant & so sweet that it passed all other melody/ And when the daulphyn and his wife & the fair vienne their daughter heard this sweet and melodious sown/ as well of man's wyces as of divers Instruments they had great joy and took great pleasure at it & had great desire to know what they were that so great solace and joy made tofore their castle/ and for to wete & know what they were the daulphyn assigned a day of a feast at the which he sent for all manner minstrels in his land/ charging them upon great pain that they should come for to play before him and his barons in his castle of vienne/ & ●ohan they were all come they played and sang in their best wise/ but ●mong them were not found though minstrels that the lord daulphyn sought fore/ whereof he was sorrowful & desired more to know what they were than he did afore/ And when vienne heard all the minstrels of the bond that swooned at the feast she said to ysabel her damoysel & privy fellow/ by my faith sweet sister these minstrels playen nought to the regard of them that were wont to come before our chamber/ & me dysplayseth moche that I may not know them/ for certainly they come not hither for nought/ for they love other you or me/   

When the daulphyn understood his daughters words he willing to please her said unto her that if it were possible she should know what they were that so sang every night before her chamber/ wherefore he ordained x men of arms and commanded them to hide themself privily there as the sown was heard/ & that they should bring to him other by force or otherwise them that made that sweet melody/ Now came the night that the ij young knights Paris & Edward that no thing knew of thembusshement that was laid for them came with their Instruments toward the castle & there they began to sing & swooned their Instruments so melodiously that great pleasure it was to here/ & when they had song and would have returned thither as they were come fro/ the x knights leapt & came forth and sa●●wed them curtoyslle saying that they needs must come with them for to speak with their lord the daulphyn/ then said Paris to them/ Fair lords abide a little while/ if it please you & of us ye shall have an/ answer Then went Paris & edward a part and spoke to guider/ ye see fair brother said Paris to Edward in what party we be now and I would not that ye should have by me any dysplay sir nor harm/ but so much I tell you that or I should suffer me to be led tofore the daulphyn I had liefer die/ therefore fair brother advise we what is best for to do/ & edward hearing paris words said/ brother mine have no fere of no thing and let us do as ye will/ then said they to the x men of arms lords through your courtesy suffer us to return thither as we came fro/ for we be at my lord the daulphyns pleasure & of all the lords & barons of his court but in any manner as for this time we may not fulfil his commandment/   

When the said x men of arms saw the ij knights dysobeyssaunt/ they answered to them ye shall now come to him other with your will or by force/ and began to pull out their swords & came against the two young knights that naked were from all arms safe their swords and their bowclers/ wherewith they covered them and so manfully deffended their bodyees that they hurt & wounded sore all the ten armed men in so much that they made them all to void and flee fro the place whether they would or not/ ¶ And on the morrow early the ten men of arms came tofore the daulphyn all wounded and sore hurt/ And they recounted to him how two young men only had arrayed them so and how they needs must flee for fere of their lives/ whereof the daulphyn was right angry to see them so sore hurt & took great displeasure of it/ and thought well that the said two young knights were of great strength and virtue/ wherefore he commanded an hundred men to be ready for to espy & take them the night following if they came again charging that none hurt should be done to them/ but after their song done/ they should be brought unto him/ but this enterprise came to none effect/ for the two young knights came not again but kept all that they had done secret/ when the fair vyenne saw that she might not know what these minstrels were she thought they were some great lords that were amorous of her/ & she & her damoysel ysabel spoke of none other thing than of these minstrels and had great pleasure to talk of them/ Paris seeing he durst not say nor show the great love that he had to the fair vyenne/ thought he would hide his courage from her/ wherefore he took acquaintance with the bishop of Saint Laurence the which learned him holy scripture/ The daulphyn then seeing his daughter full tryste & pensyful for this that she might not know the said minstrels that so melodiously played tofore her chamber/ he ordained a jousting place within his city of vienne and made lists and scaffolds to be set up & sent his heralds in france in england and in normandy to anounce & show unto all knights and gentlemen that would do faytes of arms and of chivalry for love of all ladies and damoiselles/ that the jousts should be holden the first day of may/ in the city of vienne/ And he that should do best in arms/ should have of the Daulphyns daughter a shield of crystalle of great valurr/ and a garland with roses and flowers of fyn gold/ And weet ye well that vienne the noble and fair maiden was right glad of the jousts that her father ordained for her sake/ from great talon and desire she had to know him that was so amorous of her/ and she thought he would be at the said first day of may at vienne/  
¶ After the messengers that had pronounced the jousts were comen again to the city of vienne/ the most part of the knights and gentlemen of the Royame's of France of england and of Normandye made them ready for to come to the city of Vyenne to the said jousts/ ¶ And in especial many noble barons of the royalme of england & of france that amorous were of the fair vienne for the renomee of her great beauty/ came to the said jousts with rich and noble array/ among whom was johan duke of graunson nephew to the king of france Edward the kings son of england/ Anthony son to the earl of Provence/ Gherard the marquis son of Mountferat/ and wyllyam son to the duke of Carnes/ Paris thenne knowing this noble assemble and the jousts that should be the first day of M●y thought in himself whether he should go thither or not/ but the great love that he had to the fair vienne constrained him thereto/ Nevertheless he took council of Edward his fellow the which answered to him/ if ye go I will hold you company thither/ but we must depart secretly that we be not known/ and anon they made ready their harnoys & purveyed them of good horses which they harnessed all in whit/ & none other token they had on them whereby they might be known safe that they were arrayed all in whit & one like that other/ The day of the jousts thenne approached & all the lords & barons afore said came ij days before the feast to the city of vienne where the daulphyn for love of them did do make a noble scaffold where as the fair vienne was richly arrayed/ & all that saw her were amarveled of her/ great beauty To that feast came many noble knights & squires clothed and arrayed richly after the guise of their country/ & there were many minstrels playing upon all manner Instruments/ & many good syngars which the noble maid vienne hearkened full well For her heart was only set to think how she might know him that was her lover/ paris thenne came thither and was ordained for to serve at the daulphyns table where vienne sat/ & weet ye well that full graciously and courteously he served and carved before her/   

¶ How Paris gate the pries of the jousts in the city of Vyenne/  
When the day was comen that the lords knights & gentlemen should just for love of the ladies/ Paris & Edward go to a secret place where they armed them secretly and sin came to the lists with their badges & tokens and were horsed and armed full richly and well/ Alle other knights there were known by their arms/ but the two whit knights were unknown/  
The daulphyn then commanded that every one should muster or the jousting began along the field tofore the ladies & damoiselles/ and so they mostred riding tofore the scaffold of the fair vienne & were so nobly & richly armed & arrayed/ and so godly men they were that every one said/ the flower of knighthood may now be seen in this place/ a among all other princes Edward of england was most amorous of all & right renowned in arms/ The pucelle Vyenne soing all these noble knights/ said to her damoysel ysabel/ Fair sister which of them all think you that most doth for the love of me/ & ysabel answered/ honourable lady me seemeth he that beareth the lion of gold in his arms doth more for your love than the other/ Certes said vienne yonder two whit knights that bear none arms in their sheldes are more to my fantasy than any of the other alway/ we shall see now what they can do/ Thenne were the knights ready to do fayte of arms/ And first an hardy & valiant knight that bore in his arms a crown of gold began the first course/ & against him ran the good knight edward paris fellow & recountered each other so vigorously that they broke both their spears/ many other met each other suddenly giving great strokes/ some were overthrown to the earth & some broke their spears worthily & kept their sterops right valiantly/ the other recountered each other so manfully that both horse and man were cast to the ground/ For every man did his best to get worship there/ Edward the kings son of england bore him full well and had the better upon many a knight there/ but the strong knight paris broached his horse toward him/ and met him so vigorously that at end he overthrew him & had the better of him whereof he gate great worship and was much praised for his great prowess/ This jousting lasted till souper time/ & when that even came many of them were weary of the joust & rested them/ but paris did thenne more of arms showing his marvelous prowess than he had done of all that day in so much that none durst approach him ne with stand his appertyse in arms/ & so much he did that th'honour & pries of the joustes rested & abode in him that day/   

How the shield of crystal & the garland with flowers of gold were yeven to Paris as to the best doer in faytes of arms/  
THe feast ended/ great worship & loenge abode to the ij knights with the whit arms/ and Paris was led unto the scaffold there as vyenne was the which delivered him the shield of crystal & the garland with flowers of gold that she held in her hand/ & then paris with Edward his fellow departed thence in the secretest wise that they could and went to unarm them to the place where they first armed themself/ The ●●●ons and knights that were there spoke well of the prowess & of the chivalry of the knights with the whit arms so that the daulphyn & the other great lords had great desire to know what they were & to have their acquaintance/ but they departed so secretly fro the field that no man knew where they were become nor what way they took   

AFter all this was thus done the knights returned in to their contrees speaking ever of the ryal feast and cheer that the daulphyn had done to them/ & of the prowess of the whit knights & of the right sovereign beauty and noblesse of vienne/ And in the mean while there moved a strife betwixt the barons & knights of Frawnce and of england For some were there that were amorous of the daughter of the duke of normandy/ and some were that loved and bore out the bealute of the sister of the king of england/ saying she was fairer than Vyenne was/ and other were there that held contrary opinion saying that the daulphyns daughter vyenne passed in beauty all other women in the world/ and for this reason was great debate & strife betwixt the knights of france & them of england for the beauty of these three damosels/ ¶ Ever multiplied & grew more the bruit and the renomee of the daulphyn by cause of the jousts and tournoyment done in his city of vienne/ whereof he had great joy/ for they had be much honourable and pleasant to all knights/ And Vyenne ever thought in her self who might he be that had gotten the worship and pries of the jousts and said to ysabel/ Never trust me dear sister but the knight to whom I have yeven the shield of crystal and my garland is he that so sweetly sang for the love of me tofore our chamber/ for mine heart giveth it me/ and by my faith sister he is full noble and worthy/ & in all his deeds right courteous and gentle as we might have seen whylere wherefore I say you my sweet sister that in him I have put the rote of mine entire heart/ my will and all my love/ nor never I shall have pleasure ne joy unto the time that I know what he is/ for my love is all his/ & of what so ever estate he be of I never shall take mine heart fro him/ ¶ then began she to wail and sigh for the love of him full tenderly/ for till now she had not felt the sparkles of love that sprang out of her heart/ but paris knew nothing hereof that she desired to have him & to know what he was/ but he kept his love secret in his heart/ For he durst not show it unto her wherefore he led his life in great tristesse and sorrow he went ever in the fellowship of the bishop of saint Laurence & made semblant of nothing And james the father of Paris that had seen the noble feast and the ryal joustes in the city of vienne/ weening to him that his son paris had not been there was full sorry & had gr●te displeasure of it and said/ Fair son Paris I am in a great malencolye & in a thought for you that ye be not so joyful ne merry as ye were wont to be/ here afore time I saw you ever ready to the jousts and to all manner faytes of chivalry for to get honour/ & I now see you all changed sin ye took acquaintance with this bishop for loath I were to see you become a man of religion as I fear he will bring you to/ and right wroth I am that ye were not at that noble and ryal tournoyment that hath be holden in vienne for the sake of all the ladies of this land/ wherefore dear son I pray you to take heed to yourself that ye lose not your good renomee/ your worship ne the praising also that ye gate afore time/ and that ye spend not your youth in yo●enesse/ And Paris hearing all this answered no thing to his father but abode still pensyf●●ll thinking on the beauty of vyenne/   

NOw saith th'history that as ye have herd above a great strife befell among the knights aforesaid for the love of the three damoyse●les afore said/ For the earls son of Flaundres was greatly wroth for this cause with the Duc of brennes and had beaten & hurt sore each other so that none might make the peace betwixt them/ For either of hem maintained & bore out the beauty of his lady ¶ It happened then that five knights hardy and valiant came forth the which said that they were ready to fight and for to prove by force of arms that Florye the duke's daughter of Normandye was the fairest damoysel of all the world/ And incontinent start up five other knights that said & maintained that cou●taunce the kings sister of england was the fairest/ And forthwith other v knights rose up that mayntened and upheld the beauty of vienne above all other women in the world in so much that this debute came to the knowledge of the king of France which said that hereof might grow a great trouble and discord among his barons & other lords/ So sent he word to them that they should come toward him and that he should give such a sentence upon their strife that they all should be thereof content/ the which message p●●sed them well and came 〈◊〉 toward him assoon as they might/ And when they were come tofore the king they spoke of their strife/ But anon the king ordained a jousts for the lou● of the said three ladies/ & made his m●undement that they all should co●e with their arms and horse for to joust the viii day of september in the city of paris/ and they that should do best in arms at that day they should have the pries & the worship of the feast and the lady on whose beauty they held with should be reputed and holden for the fairest damoysel of all the world/ The king of France thenne sent word to the faders of the foresaid three ladies praying them to come at same feast and that either of them should bring with him a present of richesse the which three presents should be yeven in the worship of their three daughters to the best doer in arms in token of victory/ And thus the king of england first sent for his sister Constau●ce a fair crown of gold all set with pearls and precious stones of great value/ The duke of Normandye for love of his daughter Florye sent a right fair garland set with divers pearls & precious stones much rich and of great estimation/ And the daulphyn for love of his daughter vyenne sent a moche rich collar of gold all environed with precious stones of, divers colours/ the which was worth a right great treasure/ And these three jewels were delivered to the king of France/ The foresaid knights thenne made them ready and appareled all things according to the jousts/ & in rich array came all to the city of Paris/ and weet ye well that in France was not seen afore that day so great noblesse of barons and knights as were there assembled/ for there were the most high princes & barons of england of France and of Normandye and either of them did set all his wit and en●endement to uphold and bear out that they had purposed and said/ and every baron gave his livery that they should be known each fro other/ & the bruit & renomee was that my lady constance should have th'honour of that feast for this that many a fair and hardy knight made them ready to maintain the quarrel of her beauty/ but nevertheless either of these three parties hoped to have the worship of the feast/ & paris that was in vienne the city/ and that well knew the great apparel of this feast/ took council of Edward his fellow whether he should go to paris or not/ And Edward counseled him to go thither/ so that he went secretly/ & said if ye go thither secretly and if god give you grace that ye get the worship of the feast/ great weal & good shall come to you thereby/ and if ye go and be known the. daulphyn and the other lords shall not praise you so much as they should if ye were unknown for cause that ye be not of so great lineage as they be/ another is if ye go openly and that my lady vienne happeth to have th'honour of the feast by your prowess/ she shall nought be set by/ considering the other great lords that shall be there proceeding your degree/ & if she get the worship of the feast by a knight unknown the love and honour shall grow the more in her courage toward him that thus hath done for her sake/ wherefore I council you to go thither in the most secretest wise that ye may/ for my trust is that ye shall get great worship there/ and but if ye go/ trust me I shall make myself ready to go thither for you/ For I will be loath to s●e the beauty of my lady vyenne to be rebuked At these words granted Paris to go to the said jousts/ and when he was ready & ha●● all things according to a noble knight he departed in the secretest manner that he might toward the city of paris wh●re as the king of France made great provision of all manner meats and of all other things necessary to such a ryal fe●te/ And in the mids of the city of paris he ordained the place where the knights should joust and did do make many fair scaffolds for the ladies and damoiselles to be set on/ for to be hold the jousting/ Also he did do make three banners full fair and rich/ the first banner was whit/ and there was written upon it in letters of gold/ vyenne daughter to my lord godfroy of alenson daulphyn of viennese/ the second banner was read/ and was written thereon in letters of gold/ constance the kings sister of england/ The third banner was whit and in letters of gold was written thereon/ Florye daughter to the duke o● nor●andye/ and these iij banners were pight up at the three corns of the field/ and weet ye that so great press was there that the people took their place upon the scaffolds ij days afore the feast for to see the great people & the fair ordinance that there was/   

When it was so that the lords were ready of all things that were necessary/ and were departed fro their contrees they assembled all at paris the xiv day of september/ and never tofore was seen so great a company of nobles/ For fro all parties was comen great chivalry/ the sum for to do arms/ and the other for to see the feast which was much sumptuous and noble/ & when the day assigned came of the jousts/ On. the morning early he did do set these three Ioya●●● or jewels in the banners/ the which shone and resplendysshed moche marvelously for the number of pearls & precious stones that were in the banners/ Now it should be overlong to recite of the barons and of the knights that were in that journey/ For many were comen thither fro the royalme of spain/ of aragon and of many other contrees for to prove their strength and persons/ and for to maintain the barons that m●yntened the three ladies maidens/ Of whom we shall rehearse of the pryncypallest here after the shortest wise we may/ And when it came in the morning that every man was armed & appareled in the field/ and that the king of France was set in his hrete scaffold/ and began to say all aloud and much marvelously/ that all the people might here and understand/ Knights and barons that been here for to do the fayte of arms go ye everich under that banner that he will maintain for the love of his lady/ and we give in commandment that this field be of love and of courtesy/ as i● to you appert●yneth/ how be it we will well that each of you do valiantly his arms and his chivalries for that damosel which he will maintain/ And he that shall win the field shall have the pries and th'honour of the feast/ and that lady or damoysel shall be maintained and allowed for the most fair damoysel of the world/ and shall have the pries and th'honour of them of england of France & of Normandye/ and that to this no man be so hardy to gainsay upon the pain to lose his life/ And yet after this he said/ ye see here a fair crown the which the queen of France hath ordained/ to th'end that it be delivered to the father of the damoysel that shall have the pries and honour of the field and of the jousts/ And the knight that shall get the pries and th'honour of the jousts shall have all the three banners and the three jewels that been in them/ & commanded that the banner of Normandye should first make his muster/ & next the banner of constance and then that of Vyenne/ ¶ And first under the banner of Normandye were they that follow/ that is to weet johan son of th'earl of Flaunders/ Phelyp of bavyers nephew of the king of France/ Edward son of the duke of bourgoyne/ johan earl of Armynak/ Balaxe brother of the marquis of Saluce Geffroy duke of pycardy/ And after them came many other well armed & habylled/ After came the banner of constance/ the which accompanied johan son of the duke of bremeos/ Gastamons' of gastre brother of the earl of foyes/ Anthonye alegre son of the duke of Carnes/ Larer nephew of the duke of bourgoyne/ The honourable johan of braban/ Solomon de launson brother of th'earl of the march/ and after them came many other barons and knights/ and thenne after came the banner of the fair calabre/ the which accompanied Hugh son of the duke of Bourbon/ Edward son of the king of england/ William son of the duke of barry/ antony son of the count of province/ Paris son of sir jaques of vienne/ Dormando of monferrant son of the marquis/ three sons of the duke of Carnes/ johan perilous duke of normandy/ & after them came many other barons and knights well armed & well horsed/ And when the muster was made/ every banner returned in to his place/ which much noble and marvelous thing was it to see and to behold the noblesse of the barons & knights so well horsed and armed as they were/ And the daulphyn and sir jaques father of Paris were comen for to see the feast & the jousts/   

¶ How Paris won the pries at the jousts in the city of Paris/  
When thenne it came to the hour of tierce began the jousts/ and came in to the field much nobly armed johan son of th'earl of flanders/ & again him came johan son of the duke of calais & coped to guider so fiercely that they broke their spears/ and johan son of th'earl of flanders tumbled to th'earth under his horse/ & after against johan de breunes came Edward son of the duke of bourgoyne/ These ij knights beat down puissantly johan de breunes/ unto the time that there came against him johan perilous duke of normandy/ which smote him with so great force that he overthrew him under his horse & broke his arm & put him in such estate that he wist not whether it was day or night/ and against johan perilous came Anthonye alegre son of the duke of carves/ and did so moc●● prowess with his person that he conquered johan perilous and v other knights mighty men of his party whom he smote to the earth by force of arms/ After came against anthony alegre Geffroy of pycardy and smote anthony in such wise that he fell to the earth/ & uj other strong knights of his party/ and after did so marvelous feats of arms/ that every man said that he had th'honour of the field/ And thenne came the free knight paris against geffroy bearing low his spear/ & they gave so great strokes that the knights and horses went all to th'earth/ wherefore the king said/ that sith both two were thrown to the earth/ that they should return again to the jousts/ & paris with a great desire consented/ and so both returned & came running/ And Paris gaf to geffroy so great a stroke/ that his horse slode and then geffroy overthrew to the earth/ but by cause that the horse slode it was said that the horse was cause that he overthrew/ For moche they maintained geffroy and said that he was not vanquished/ & that it should be well done that they should just again/ And by cause that Paris was not known there was none that maintained him ne sustained/ nevertheless the king of france knew well that geffroy was vanquished loyally & well/ For he had well seen the adventure/ & would do no wrong unto the knight which was of great strength and might/ and anon sent to him an herald which said to him in the name of the king of france/ that the king had well seen & well knew that Paris had vanquished his knight/ notwithstanding if he would yet ones return to the just by his noblesse that he should do himself great honour And then Paris made his answer saying that the beauty of my lady vyenne was so great that in all the world was none to her like/ that if it pleased the King I am ready for to furnish the jousts for his love against the knight yet another time/ and to just till that geffroy should be vanquished/ & that was without any gain saying/ & the herald returned and told it to the king/ whereof the king was well content & said that the knight ought to be some great lord/ For he was of great valoyr and puissance and spoke much sweetly and courteously/ And after Paris changed and took another horse/ which Edward his fellow had made ready for him & returned to the justes/ & smote to guider with so great might/ that by very force Mary went to th'earth under his horse right evil hurt/   

then when it came toward even the jousts were so great thick and strong that all the three parties as well of one as of other were thrown down to the earth/ that there abode no more of the party of vienne but paris alone/ and of the party of normandy three knights strong and puissant and they were Balaxo brother of the marquis of Saluces/ johan son of the earl of Army nack/ and phelyp of bauyere/ & of the party of constance other three strong & mighty/ that is to weet johan of braband/ la●er nephew of the duke of bourgeyn/ and Solomon dalanson brother of the count de la march and they said that the justes should abide till on the morn/ for they were much weary/ and when paris saw that they would have returned/ he fewtred his spear/ and there came against him balaxo brother of the marquis of saluces/ And Paris at the first stroke struck him down to the earth under his horse/ and in like wise did to the other v/ and much nobly & valiantly he wan th'honour of the justes and of the field/   

¶ How the king commanded that the three banners with the in jewels should be given to Paris champion of vyenne/  
THe joustes finished Paris wan the beauty of his lady the fair vyenne/ and he was led to the scaffold where as the king was/ & the other great lords & knights & there were delivered to him the three banners & the three jewels that were in them/ & Paris showed them through all the field/ in sign that the said vienne had gotten th'honour for to be the fairest damosel that was in all the world by the same young knight/ and when Paris had the three fair banners and the three rich jewels/ he and Edward his fellow departed out of the city of paris and out of france the most secret wise that they might/ & returned in to dalphyne/ Paris returned in to the company of the foresaid bishop of Saint Laurence/ as he had not been at the feast/ & alway he demanded tidings of the justes that were made in france/ and who had th'honour of the jousts/   

When the feast was made all the barons & knights that were there had 〈◊〉 desire to know who was 〈◊〉 that so valiantly & so nobly 〈◊〉 won the journey & the honour of the justes for to do to him worship/ but they could never know him/ whereof they had great displeasure/ & said that the knight was of great wisdom/ by cause he would not be known/ And after this the barons & knights took leave of the king/ and returned in to their lands all discomforted/ by cause they had not gotten the honour of the feast/ and yet were they more angry by cause they knew not to whom the honour was given of the feast ne of the justes/ The king of France which moche loved the dolphin made to him great feast & much great honour/ And the king delivered to him the crown that the queen had given/ for to give to her that should have the honour of the jousts/ to th'end that he should give it unto his daughter vienne in sign & token that she was the most fair damoysel of the world/ & when all this was done/ the dolphin and the father of paris returned in to dolphin in moche great honour and gre●e joy/ when vienne knew that her father came she came and met him as she was accustomed/ then when the dolphin saw her/ he kissed her & set on her heed the crown which the king had given him/ and told to her how she had gotten the honour for to be the most fairest damosel of the world/ and loo here is the fair crown that the queen of france sendeth to you in token that ye have gotten the honour/ Not withstanding fair daughter/ that ye have had many contrary thereto/ but ye have had a good deffendour & right strong and hath well quited him in your need/ For of each party were abiden three knights much strong and p●yssaunte/ and on your party was left but one knight only which vanquished all the other/ without any token/ and is departed all secretly that no man knew him ne the king of france hath no knowledge of him/ but he hath borne away with him the three banners & the iij jewels that were in them & also the pries & th'honour of the feast/ wherefore sweet & fair daughter ye wot never to whom to give thankings of so much honour as hath be done for you/ but I pray to god of heaven & to the glorious virgin mary/ that it please him to give to him good & honour/ joy & excellence & in all his feats victory/ like as he is chief & heed of all honour and of all chivalry in this world For I never saw ne heard of knight that so graciously and so courteously bore him in his arms & in his chivalries/ And when vyenne heard sp●ke of these tidings/ & saw the great honour & pries that she had gotten and all was comen by this noble knight/ she said to ysabeau her damoysel/ My sister said I not to you well but late/ that I was beloved by the most noble and valiant knight of france/ & and by my faith my sweet sister/ this is he that so sweetly song & that wan the justes in this city & bare with him the shield of crystal & my garland/ and went his way so that no man might know him/ advise you well fair sister what hanour is comen to me by his prowess & by his bounty/ I may well be sorry & dolent/ when I may not know who he is/ & mine heart is much heavy & mine entend●ment that I never can find the moyen to see & know him/ and yet she said/ Certes my sweet sister ysabeau/ I believe that my days be short/ & that I shall die of some cruel & false death for the great displeasure that I have continually in my heart/ for I can none other thing do but weep & wail/ & alway to continue in sorrowful life & heavy but none apperceived it but only her damoysel ysabeau/   

THe father of paris which had been with the dolphin in that feast had not seen there his son Paris/ whereof he had great sorrow in his heart/ for he had seen that he was accustomed to be in all noble justes/ but then he saw him go with the bishop of saint Laurence/ and disposed him not to do arms as he was woned/ wherefore he said to him on a day My son I had hoped to have had in the great consolacyo●/ but now thou byngest me in to great heaviness and displeasure/ when I see that thou wilt not depart from this bishop wherefore I pray the that thou leave him/ & do so that it may be to me pleasant and to the honest/ Paris heard him well/ but he gaf not a word to answer The father of Paris seeing this went to his secret fellow Edward and said to him/ I see well that the great amity & love that ye have to my son/ and know ye for certain that I have in my heart great melancholy when I remember that Paris hath had great honour & fame of chivalry/ and now I see that he gooth all with this bishop/ and letteth his hawks/ his hounds and horse to die for hunger/ wherefore I pray you that ye will give me some council/ which am so meschant that I die for sorrow/ And when he had said these words/ Edward had pity of him/ & comforted him the best wy●e he could/ and departed fro him/ and went straight to his fellow Paris and said to him I know well that love constraineth the so strongly/ that thou hast no power over thyself/ wherefore thy life may not long endure/ And also thy father and thy friends been evil content against thee/ and I say to the that for to be virtuous and valiant it pleaseth moche to god/ And for the love of one woman thou dost much displeasure to thy father/ And also for no person what somever he or she be/ thou oughtest not to lose the weal & renomee that thou hast of chivalry/ It appyereth not in thee/ that thou hast ovy virtue or courage/ wherefore I pray the that thou wilt do some thing that it may be pleasant to thy father which hath desired & prayed me that I should so say to thee/ when paris had heard all this/ he answered to edward and said to him/ I know well that these things that thou hast said to me been virtuous & honest/ but they been to me grievous/ for to put me from the thoughts in which I am continually/ Nevertheless I pray the that thou give me council what is best that I do/ then said edward it should well please me/ if it were thy pleasure that we should go in to braband/ For it is uj months passed that I have not seen my lady/ & there shall we do arms/ by which we may get fame and honour/ & paris agreed thereto saying that he was content if it pleased him so to do/ & incontinent they made ready their harnoys & horses and all things necessary to them/ & or Paris departed he put in his chamber all the things & pryses that he had won by chivalries & closed them fast in his chamber/ & delivered the key to his mother & prayed her moche dearly that she should not open it/ ne suffer that any person should enter therein/ And after they went toward Braband/ where as they did great feats of chivalry & jousts whereof they gate great honour and worship/ and were much praised of ladies and damoisels/ And paris made countenance for to have abiden in braband for the love of edward but his heart drew unto the fair Vyenne/ whom he so much loved in his heart secretly/   

¶ How diane and vienne her daughter wenten to visit the father of Paris the which was seek/  
NOw it happened that during this time that Paris and Edward duel ledden in Braband/ the father of Paris fell in to a sickness of foures or access/ And the cause came of the thought that he had of ●ys son Paris/ And he being seek the dolphin went on a day to see him/ and demanded the cause of his malady/ and comforted him the best wise that he could/ and after returned home/ and said to his wife/ that it were well done that she should go see and visit messyre jaques which was seek/ And forthwith incontinent my lady dyane/ her daughter Vyenne and ysabeau her damoysel with a great company went to the castle of Sir jaques/ and salued him much nobly as it well appertained/ & the best wise that they might ¶ And when they were in the chamber where messyre jaques was and lay/ Dame diane demanded him of his sickness And messire jaques said that all his disease came for his son Paris/ by cause he lost so his time/ and that he went always with the bishop of Saint laurence/ whereof I fear me that he shall become a man of religion/ I have no more children but him/ I wot not what I shall do with the goods that god hath given to me/ And my lady diane comforted him and said that his son was moche well beloved of the doulphyn/ & that he had much great amity of many great lords/ barons & knights/ & also she said that among all things he should ordain for his health/ & after all this the mother of paris prayed her that it might please her to come see the castle/ and she answered that she much desired it then the mother of paris showed her all the castle/ & led her in to an hall all full of arms and abylemens' of war for to fight in battle/ After she lad her in to anothrr hall where as were many hawks/ faulcens/ and many other fowls of chase/ And after in to many other halls & chambers richly arrayed which were over long to rehearse/ And after the mother of Paris showed unto her the chamber of Paris where that he slept/ wherein were many abylments/ which should well suffice the chamber of a great prince And in the said chamber were two great standards covered after the guise of France/ That one was full of clo●he of gold and silk/ and that other of harnoys and of many other things/ then said Vyenne to y●abeau/ by my faith fair sister I have no great marvel of th●s young knight Paris though of him be made great mention/ For th'ordinance of these things show well that he is of great valour/ And in beholding of these things she saw a coverture of an horse all white/ And her seemed that it was the same that the knight b●re that wan the pries of the jousts that was made in the city of Vyenne/ and that had the shield of crystal & the garland which she told to ysabeau And ysabeau answered to her/ never think ye so/ For all day been made semalable covertures and tokenes white/ whereof ye may well be deceived/ Vyenne enforced all way her self to t●ke better heed/ and of the great joy that she had she said to her mother/ Madame I am a little crazed and suddenly taken/ wherefore if it please you I would fain rest a little in this chamber/ and let me be all alone with my sister ysabeau/ for I will have none other/ and anon each body avoided out of the chamber/ and ysabeau did shit the door that none might come in/ ¶ then said vienne now we shall see if we may find any thing that we may have better knowledge of/ For mine heart saith yes/ After that they had searched and visited all the chamber/ they came on a side of the chamber where they fond a little door/ of which hinge a little key by a thwonge/ and anon they opened the door and entered therein And there was a little chamber which was xii foot long/ and was an oratory/ where as was the majesty of our Lord Ihesu christ upon a little altar and at each corner was a canstyke of silver/ and thither came Paris for to make his sacrifice when he aroos/ and when he went to his bed/  
¶ And there were the three banners that the noble knight Paris had won in the city of Paris/ And the three jewels of the three damoiselles afore said/ And in the same place was also the shield of Crystal and the garland that Vyenne delivered to him when he wan the pries at the jousts in the city of vienne/ And all these he kept secret in that place/ And when vienne saw these things/ she was sure that Paris was he whom she had so much desired to know/ and that so much honour had done to her/ and for the great joy that she had/ she set her down on the ground/ and there abode a great while/ and could not speak a word/ And after she spoke to ysabeau/ & said my sweet sister/ blessed and praised be our lord of this good journey/ For me thinketh I should never depart out of this chamber/ Alas I have so long abiden to know/ who he was that so sweetly played in his Instruments so nigh unto me/ and now he is so far/ & then ysabeau began to reprove her and said to her/ Sweet lady I pray you that ye say ne do any thing which might torn you to folly/ and be ye ruled by wisdom and reason/ For not withstanding that paris have so much good & virtues/ yet ye ought to consider that he is not equal to you in lineage ne in estate/ For I know well that many noble & puissant lords have demanded you in marriage/ & love you & do great things for you/ and also th'honour of Paris which is your vayssal and subject is not equal ne worthy unto you/ ¶ Then vienne was much angry on ysabeau and began to say/ A very god I am well discomforted and deceived by thee/ that thus again sayest me of him that I so long have desired to know/ Alas I had supposed that in no thing ye would have dysplaysed me/ And in good faith I say to thee/ that this man I will love and demand/ and I promise the in good faith/ that if thou any more gainsay me I shall slay myself/ and then thou shalt be caus● of my death/ For I will not lose him that I have so long loved/ but I say to the for truth/ that if thou ever say to me such words of my friend paris/ that thou shalt never after have space to say them again another time/ for if thou considerest well his noble conditions and custommes/ thou shouldest praise him better than thou dost/ And knowest thou not well that the king of france would that it had cost him half his Royame's that his son Lowies were as valyaunte as paris is/ ¶ And also there be many notable lords that desire to know his nam●/ and to have his amity/  
¶ then take heed and behold by my faith if ever thou saw man that might be compared to him/ certainly all virtues been in him/ And sith that fortune hath brought me to his love/ he is worthy to have my love/ and yet more than is in me/ And have I not reason & cause thenne to love him/ which hath done to me so great good and honour and doubting no peril of his person/ and is it not well great worship to my father to have for vaissal and subject the best knight that is in all the world For in all the world is no knight that I would forsake paris fore/ ne oone that hath done so moche for me/ And thus to speak of the feats of Paris she doude not stint/  
¶ then came two/ damosels knocking at the chamber door saying/ Vyenne ye must come to my lady/ And ysabeau sprang out saying that she should come anon/ And vyenne seeing that she must needs depart fro thence said to ysabeau/ My sister sith we must depart hens let us take some of these jewels/ and we shall keep them secretly till that Ptries be comen and we shall see what countenance he shall make in himself ¶ then they took the colyer and the white banner of vienne and other jewels and hid them under their clothes/ and went in to the chamber of messyre jaques/ but vyenne desired greatly to speak with pari● and thought long or he came home/ And in the mean while messire jaques recovered of his malady and became all hool whereof Vyenne had great joy but she durst not show it/   

¶ How Paris and Edward returned out of braband/  
AFter certain time that Paris had be in Braband with his fellow Edward/ he desired strongly to see the fair vyenne/ For the love of her distrained him much strongly/ ¶ Nevertheless he durst not tell it to his fellow/ to th'end that he should take no displeasure of his departing/ And soon after the space of v days Paris received a letter that his father was seek/ & thenne he said to Edward/ Right dear brother & fellow/ pleaseth it you to wete that my father is sore seek/ & me seemeth it were good that we departed if ye consent but I pray you that ye take no desplayryr in this departing/ for if it please god we shall soon return/ And edward seeing the just reason of Paris and his good will/ said to him that he was well content & pleased/ wherefore incontinent they departed out of braband and came in to the city of vienne/ of whose coming messyr jaques had sovereign pleasure specially/ by cause he had herd that Paris his son had done valiantly feats of arms/ ¶ Now it happened that when Paris was arrived at home with his father like as he was accustomed/ allway tofore or he went to his ●edde/ he went to make his orisons and prayers/ and after he advised if he lacked any thing/ and fond that though things that he loved best were taken away/ whereof he was much angry/ and quasi half in despair in such wise that all the night he could not sleep And when it came i● the morning he came to his mother and said/ Mother how is it that ye have not kept my chamber close and shit/ For I lack certain things which I would not gladly lose/ and have for them great dysplaysir/ To whom his mother answered/ My son by my faith there never entered therein person/ but on a time when your father was seek came my lady diane and her daughter vyenne/ and when they had visited your father/ they went all about for to see this castle/ and then they entered in to your chamber/ But I can not think that they took any thing for they tarried not long/ safe only vienne which tarried only alone safe her damoysel/ by cause she was evil at ease at her heart/ wherefore my son I pray you to take no displeasure/ And then Paris said to himself/ if none other thief have taken it safe she I shall not be discovered/ Nevertheless I wot never if Vyenne hath taken it away for any thing/ ¶ And after he arrayed himself and clad him much nobly/ & went to do the reverence to the daulphyn/ and to dame diane/ And after to Vyenne their daughter/ And the dolphin received him much courteously/ ¶ And the daulphyn demanded him tidings and of many other things/ ¶ And when the fair lady Vyenne saw paris of the great desire that she had to see him/ and of the great love that she bore to him/ all her ch●re was coloured like a fresh rose in the month of may/ and could not be content ne filled to behold her fair love and friend Paris/ And the more she beheld him/ the more grew and increased her love toward him ¶ And Paris being tofore the dolphin on his knee much humbly durst not book on Vyenne/ But in his heart he had great pain/ And who had well by holden him/ had well seen in his visage his thought/ And after that the dolphin had demanded him of that it plase him Paris took leave of the dolphin and of my lady diane & of vienne their daughter & returned home to his faders house/   

AFter a few days Vyenne in such wise as love distrained her said to her damoysel ysabeau/ my sister know ye for troth that me seemeth that paris is much pensive/ and I believe that it is for his things which he findeth not in his oratory/ me seemeth it is ●este that we let him have knowledge that we have them/ Isabeau answered/ it were well done so/ but that it be done honestly and secretly/ Thenne said vienne I shall advise the manner After certain days vyenne said to her mother/ Madame I let you weet that I am a little charged in my conscience/ & I would fain confess me to some good person/ And it is told me that the bishop of saint laurence is a moche honest man & devout/ wherefore madame I pray you to send for him that I might speak with him/ And my lady diane seeing the good will of her daughter sent for to fetch the bishop/ And vyenne confessed her to him much devoutly speaking alway of our lord & of his commandments/ & after that she was confessed/ she prayed the bishop that he would come again on the morn/ for she fond great comfort in his words/ & that she would tell him some things in great secret/ And on the morn the bishop came again to vyenne/ & vyenne said to him thus/ My ghostly father some things have been taken away in a place/ the which longen to paris son of messyre jaques/ And the person that hath them hath thereof conscience/ And therefore I pray you as much as I may/ that by your benignity ye say to him that if he may/ he come to morn hither wy●h you/ & the bishop which advised him no thing of th'intention and thought of vyenne said that he should bring him without fault/   

¶ How vienne dyscowerd her courage to Paris  
ON the morn the bishop came much diligently & brought paris with him/ And vyenne salewed paris without to make any semblant of love/ and paris rendered his salewes ● again much humbly/ And then Vyenne withdrew her fro the bishop and the other/ and said to paris It is not long sith ye were gone in to braband/ and that I accompanied my lady my mother for to go visit your father which then was seek/ & we saw and beheld all the castle until we came to your oratory & there I saw certain jewels which moche well pleased me and I took them & have kept them until this present time/ And I shall now render them to you again/ & therefore I pray you that if I have done any displeasure or maad any default that ye will pardon me/ for I promise to you by my faith that I have done it for none evil/ To whom paris answered humbly and with great reverence & said much courteously/ Madame by your courtesy ye came to visit my father/ of which visitation not only my father/ but awl our friends have received great & sovereign honour/ wherefore mine excellent lady/ my father/ my mother/ and I been all yours/ and all that we have also/ And if by adventure your ladyship had any pleasure to take of my jewels/ I ensure you by my faith/ that mine heart hath therein moche greater pleasure than heart of man may think and yet more should have if the said jewels were better the half than they be/ so thenne I pray you right honourable damoysel that ye will pardon me For not all only these jewels which been of little value but my father my mother and I been all yours/ and all ready to obey to your service/ and know ye verily that it is not long sithen/ that the said jewels were by a french knight given to me/   

then said Vyenne ye need not to say to me fro whence these jewels been comen/ For I know them as well as ye/ And vienne said/ I merua●●le me greatly how ye so long have hid your love fro me/ I pray you as much as I may/ and by the faith that ye have toward me that ye say to me the truth of that which I shall demand you/ for much I desire it to know/ ¶ then said Paris right honourable damoysel/ ye ought not to pray me/ where ye have power to command me/ For all that/ your ladyship shall please to demand me/ I shall say to you the troth with good heart & good will/ then said vienne I will first that ye say the truth/ that if ye were he/ that in such a year came every night singing and swooning Instruments so sweetly tofore my chamber/ After I will that ye tell me if ye wan the justes that were made the first day of may in this city/ And if ye bore away the shield of crystal and the chape●let which I have seen in your oratory/ After I will that ye say to me/ if ye wan the justes the xviij day of september which were made in the city of paris/ where as were so many noble knights & barons/ & if ye had gotten there the iij banners which I have seen in your oratory/ & I pray you that ye tell to me/ if ye have done to me such service/ for such things ye ought not to hide/ And if by adventure ye have done them for the love of my father or of his court/ we be much holden to you & be bound to thank you/ And if by adventure for any lady or for the love of me ye have done it/ I thank you as much as I may/ and it is well reason that ye therefore be rewarded/ And yet said Vyenne to Paris/ know ye for truth/ that it is long sith that I have desired to know/ & yet desire strongly to know it/ wherefore if ye will do me any pleasure/ I pray you that ye say to me the truth/ without leaving of any only thing or word/   

then said paris much humbly with great shamefastness that he had to utter the folly that he had enter prised/ Right honourable and fair lady I am not worthy to be named him which hath done this/ which it hath pleased you to demand of me/ but notwithstanding that I be a man of little estate I humbly supply you that in case ye shall find displeasure in my words that it please you to pardon me/ and that ye take no displeasure in that I shall say/ for your noblesse shall not be the lass in valour/ For my caas enforceth me to say that/ which is to me folly to think/ then Paris all shamefast and in great reverence kneeling upon his knee said/ Right worshipful damoysel paris your Indign servant is he of whom ye have spoken & demanded/ & shall to you obey and serve in all things that ye have me demanded/ For sith that I have had any remembrance/ my will & my thought hath be submised to your person and shall be as long as I shall live/ then said vyenne/ Paris my sweet friend it is not now time that I make answer to your words/ for it should be overlong to recount/ But that not withstanding I will well that ye know that your love destrayneth me so strongly/ that there is no thing in the world that I love so moche as you/ wherefore abide in good hope joyously/ for if it please god ye shall s●e that th●s which I sa● shall be true/ then said paris/ Madame who may think the joyouste in which I am by your answer which is to me right sweet/ For I never supposed to have had so sweet an answer of you/ but for to have endured in pain & in languishing/ For not only to me/ but unto a king should be over moche to have your love/ & I pray god that I may do such things as may be to you pleasant/ and that I never live to do to you thing that should desplayse you/ ne torn you to melancholy/ & thus departed that one fro that other in greater love than tofore/ and took term to see each other again as hastily as they might/ and vienne returned more joyously than she showed/ and went in to her mothers chamber/ and after the bishop departed/ & paris accompanied him unto his palace and took leave of him/ & returned home unto his faders lodging/ & after told to edward his fellow/ all the parliament that he had had with vyenne/ & Edward said to him/ fair brother and friend/ herein is no jape ne truffs/ but I pray you that ye do your things secretly for there been many false tongues And Vyenne was moche more joyous than she had been accustomed/ and Paris also/ And the said Paris & edward his fellow made great chivalries & did great arms/ which were much pleasant to the fair vyenne/ then it happened that after certain time seeing the dolphin that his daughter was come to xv year of age/ treated for to give to her an husband/ And many times he had been required of many noble princes but by cause he had but her only and no more sons ne daughters/ uneath he would consent And in treating thus of marriage Paris heard some things whereof he was sore annoyed in himself/ and thought/ why think not I to have this noble lady which is so much desired of so many noble princes & barons/ and sore bewailed himself/ and did so moche that he spoke to vienne and said/ O sweet Vyenne/ where is your fair and agreeable promise that ye made to me when I departed fro you/ and how may it be/ that your father speaketh for to mary you/   

When vienne heard Paris speak in this manner/ she said to him paris if my father speak to me of marriage/ it is no great marvel/ for I may not defend him/ Nevertheless I have not consented to any marriage/ And ye know well that marriage is nothing worth/ without the consenting of both parties/ wherefore I pray you to be content/ for I promise to you that I shall never have man in marriage but you/ and I would that it should be shortly accomplished if it pleased god/ honestly & justly and not in sin ne in ordure/ Therefore I will that ye assay one thing/ which shall be moche difficile to do and right perilous/ but nevertheless it byho●eth that it be done/ thenne said Paris/ honourable lady/ that which shall please you to command me/ I shall accomplish it with good heart though I should die/ & than said Vyenne/ I will that incontinent ye say to your father/ that he go to my lord my father/ and require him that he give me in marriage to you/ and that herein there be no deffaute/ & when Paris heard the will & desire of vienne/ he was quasi all abashed & said/ Right honourable lady & how/ will ye that I die thus/ I pray you if it please you/ that it be not do/ Then vyenne said set ye so little by me/ that ye will not enterprise this/ Alas where is your intendment/ Certes it must needs be done/ incontinent Paris answered/ worshipful lady/ sith it pleaseth you/ I shall accomplish your commandment though I should die therefore an hundred thousand times & thus took leave of vienne and went to his father incontinent and said to him/ dear father alway ye have showed to me great love/ wherefore I beseech all mighty god that he reward you like as I desire/ dear & honourable father I would pray you of one thing/ and by cause it is doubtous I will that ye promise it to me tofore I say it to you/ for else I will not say it unto you/ & his father said to him/ My son there is nothing in the world that I may do for thee/ but I shall accomplish it by the grace of god/ therefore say to me thy pleasure & will/ & then paris told to his father a part of the privity and promise that he had with vyenne/ by cause he should with the letter will do that/ which he would require him/ then said paris to his father/ the prayer that I pray & require you is/ that it please you to say to the dolphin/ that he give to me his daughter to wife and in marriage/ And I humbly beseech you that herein ye will not fail me/ & messire jaques hearing his son thus speak/ almost he was fro himself for the great folly that he said to him/ & he said in reproving him that he never should speak more of that fayte/ for he would not die for his daughter/ and that he should demand of him some other thing/ for it were great folly to speak to him of such a thing/ And paris said worshipful father/ as much perilous is it to me as to you/ therefore I am not abashed thugh ye refused to do it/ But love enforceth and constraineth me so strongly/ that I am half confused/ and am as well content that he do it not/ as to do it/ but that ye do your devoir only/ and so long paris prayed his father/ that be promised him to do it/   

¶ How messire jaques demanded of the doulphyn his daughter vienne in marriage for his son Paris/  
then went messire jaques to the dolphin all changed of colour and said to him/ My right redoubted and sovereign lord a certain request is made to me/ which I must say unto you/ the which me seemeth is of passing little reason/ and therefore it must be at your mercy/ and in case ye find therein displeasure/ that ye pardon me/ and to take no regard to my great folly/ The doulphyn trusting in the great wisdom of messire jaques granted him to say what somever he would/ then said messire jaques/ Myn high and sovereign lord/ Paris my son hath prayed me so much that I should require of you vyenne your daughter to be his wife/ the which thing is not only to say/ but also to think great presumpsyon and great folly/ but the love of my son constraineth me so strongly/ that by force I must say it to you/ And suddenly the dolphin was moved in great felony/ and would not suffer him to end his words/ but reproved him much hardly saying/ vylayne & vassal that thou art/ how keepest thou my worship/ by god I shall well chastise you/ that ye shall never think such things/ and commanded him that incontinent he should depart thence/ and that never been his son should come in his sight/ wherefore messire jaques departed thence much rebuked holding down his heed/ and returned in to his house/ & told to his son Paris all that had be said and done between him & the Doulphyn/ whereof Paris thanked much his father/   

THe dolphin went in great thought through the palace having great indignation and all angry in so much that none durst speak to him ne come in his way/ and he being thus in this manner he sent for his daughter vyenne & made her to come to him/ and said to her/ we have had words of great displeasure/ This villain messyre jaques hath said to us that we should give you to wife and in marriage to his son Paris/ Advise you what wisdom it were/ by god or that I should do it/ I would rather make you a nun or a menchon/ & it shall not be long to/ but that ye shall be highly married/ so that ye shall hold you conde●●e/ & here I swear to you that if it were not for the great services that he hath done to me incontinent I should do smite of his heed/ & when vienne saw her father in so great anger against messyre jaques & his son/ she sent for to seche Edward for to come speak to her/ & when Edward was come Vyenne said to him/ Edward it is so that my father is much angry against messire jaques & against paris whereof I have great displeasure & have great doubt that my father will do some harm to Paris/ & therefore I will that ye say to him/ that he keep himself in the most secretest wise that he may/ and I shall also see the manner if I may appease his felony and anger/ then edward incontinent took leave of vienne/ & went & said to paris all that vienne had said to him & said fair brother/ me seemeth that it were good that ye departed out of this country for to absent you for a space of time For it may be that to the dolphin shall long endure his anger/ as I understand by that which vienne hath said to me/ then answered Paris/ sith that ye have counseled me so I shall so do/ not withstanding that it shall be to me a sorrowful & an heavy departing/ but ere I depart I shall take leave of Vyenne though I should die/   

then Paris did so moche that he spoke unto vienne on a dark night at a low window/ where as they might well say what they would/ I am certain said vienne that my father hath will to hurt you/ whereof I live in great melancholy/ For in all the world is no thing that I love so moche as you/ & if by adventure ye die I will not live/ then said paris/ honourable lady it seemeth me best that I depart fro hens a certain time till my lord your father be more peased & hath passed his evil will/ how be it/ that it shall be to me a moche sorrowful thing to withdraw me fro you/ For my life shall be much heavy/ Nevertheless I shall ac●omplysshe your will in all that ye shall command me/ what somever come thereof/ And vyenne seeing the good will of paris after many words she said to him/ Paris my friend I know well the great love that ye bear to me/ & sith it so is/ I swear to you by my faith/ that ye shall never depart fro this city without that I go with you/ For it is my will/ wherefore assoon as ye may/ make you ready of all things necessary/ and/ find ye the manner that we may escape out of the royalme of france/ and that we may go in to some other lordship/ where as we may live joyously and surely Nevertheless tofore or we depart from hens I will that ●e promise two things/ The first is/ that ye touch not my body unto the time that we be lawfully married/ The second is that ysabeau part in all the goods that we shall have/ and other thing will I not as for this present time/ but that only our departing may be shortly/ and I shall purvey some jewels & money for our necessity/ and all this Paris promised to her/ and each departed fro other for tadresse such things as to them should be necessary/   

When Paris was departed fro vienne he went to a man named george and said to him/ George my friend alway I have trusted in you/ and have alway loved you/ wherefore I pray you now that to this that I shall say you ye fail me not/ for I promise you ye shall not lose thereby/ and George promised to him to do all that shall be to him possible with ryght● good heart/ & then Paris said to him/ know ye for cartayn that I have wrath & rancour to a man of this to●●ne for certain displeasure that he hath done to me/ wherefore I will slay him/ and incontinent as I have slain him/ I will depart out of the royalme of France/ wherefore I pray you that ye will go to Aygues mortes/ & that ye there make ready a galley furnished of all things necessary till that we be arrived there as we would be/ And also I pray you that ye do ordain fro hens to aygues mortes fro v mile to v mile alway good horses ready to th'end that we may surely refresh us if it be need/ & also I will that ye do this as secretly as ye may/ and loo here is money enough for to furnish these said things/ George said/ I shall do all this gladly/ And incontinent made him ready/ & when he came to aygues mortes he hired a galeye/ and established all the passages/ and did well all that paris had charged him/ & came again/ and told to paris how he had purveyed all that he had charged him/ whereof paris was much joyous/ & anon paris went and told to Vyenne that all things that she had commanded were done And thenne they concluded that the next night following that at a certain hour each of them should be ready/ thenne he took leave of her and went home/ and bad George to take two horse out of his stable/ and that he should saddle them and abide him without the city in a certain place till he should come/ & Edward the fellow of Paris wist no thing of all this/ whereof he was much abusshed and marvelously angry when that he knew it/   

¶ How paris lad away vienne and ysabeau by night/  
When Paris was purveyed of money and of all other things being to them necessary/ he went alone the secretest wise that he might and came to the place emprised at the hour taken/ and he made a token which vienne knew And anon vienne and ysabeau clad them in man's array & wepen out of the castle by a fauce port/ and so came these two damoiselles to the place where as paris was alone/ which awaited upon their coming/ & incontinent they departed and went where as their horses were whom they took & road as fast as they might/ and george road alway tofore by cause to know well the way/ and whiles they thus road/ aroos a storm with a great rain which endured till on the morn at night/ and then they arrived nigh unto a little town/ but they entr●d not by cause they would not be known/ and went & lodged them in a little church nigh unto the town/ where they fond a chaplain which received them gladly the best wise he might/ & then when the night came Paris and the chaplain slept in a little house joining to the church/ George and paris servant slepten in the stable with the beasts/ And vyenne & esau slepten in the church/ and in the morning early they went lightly to horseback/ & road till they came nigh unto a river/ which was risen high by cause of the rain that had fallen/ then paris was much angry by cause he saw well that it was much perilous/ & said to George/ that he should search & advise some good place where they might pass over/ & george withdrew him a little from them/ and chaas a place which thought him good/ and took the river with his horse/ And when he was in the mids of the stream his horse failed him that he was drowned and his horse also/ ¶ Paris seeing that george was drowned was much sore abashed/ and durst make no semblant/ by cause that fair vienne should have no me lancolye/ And after Vyenne demanded of Paris where george was becomen/ and paris answered to her/ that he had sent him for to search some good passage/ and they would torn in to the church again till George were comen/ And vyenne answered to him that it pleased to her well so to do/ For she had great doubt and fere for to pass the water/ ¶ And when they were in the church/ Paris was much afeard to abide long in that place/ for he saw that it was/ not sure/ wherefore he demanded the chaplain/ if they might in any wise pass that water/ And the chaplain said not in three days till the water were decrepit and availed/ ¶ And paris said to him that he should go in to the town to seche and see if he might find any men that would make a bridge so that they might pass And that he should spare for no money/ For I shall pay to them as much as they will have/ & the chaplain said that he should do his best/ Thus did Paris no thing but think how they might pass the river/ Now leave we Paris and torn we to the doulphyn/ which had lost his fair daughter vyenne/   

¶ How the doulpyn did do search and seche vienne by his servants/  
ON the morn that vyenne was lost & departed fro the house of her father/ & that the dolphin knew it/ he supposed to have gone out of his wit/ & all the court was troubled/ & sent hastily men on horseback & a foot by divers parties the most secretly that he might/ & prayed them that they should bring home to him vienne quick or deed/ It happened by adventure that one of his men a foot that was sent to seche Vyenne came in to the town where as the chaplain was comen to seek men to make the bridge/ The footman demanded every man if they had seen two damoiselles which were fled fro the doulphyns court/ Thenne the chaplain said to him that it was not long sith such twain departed with other men ¶ And the man supposed that the said chaplain had said it in jape or in mocking/ And said that the dolphin was much angry/ and had sworn that if any man or woman knew where they were and showed it not/ that he should make them to lose their hedes/ And when the chaplain heard these words he remembered him of them that were hid in his house/ And in great dread said to him/ that he should tarry there a little/ & that for the love of my lord doulphyn he would gladly seche for them/ and assoon as he might find tidings of them he should let him wite/ And so departed fro thence/ and returned home again/ and told all this to paris/ and what he had herd in the town/ saying also that he doubted that it was for them of his company/ wherefore he said to him furthermore/ sir I pray you that ye depart from hens/ and suffer not that I lose my life/ but take ye the best council ye can/ For there been thirty men on horseback that seek you/ when Paris heard him say this it needeth not to demand if he were heavy and melancholious/ and for the great sorrow that he had he changed all his colour/ And he said to the chaplain/ I pray you that ye tarry a little & I shall make you an answer/ & then Paris went to vyenne/ for to tell to her all this feat/ And when vienne saw him enter/ and so changed in his colour said to paris/ what tidings bring ye which are so pale and your colour changed/ I pray you as heartily as I can that it please you to tell me/ then Paris said to her The tidings that I bring been evil for you and for me/ For shortly shall be accomplished our adventure/ and therefore ● I will slay myself/ and also he said complaining/ O god how my life is sorrowful and heavy to have brought this excellent lady as ye are in such danger/ O good god why gave thou not to me the death tofore or that I fet her out of her faders house/ O alas my father and my mother what shall be fall of you/ when the dolphin shall know/ that I have stolen from him his daughter/ ¶ O my good fellow Edward why counseled not I with the tofore or I had done this folly And after he returned to vyenne saying/ and what shall fall of you my lady/ when your father shall see you/ Certes I think that how cruel that he be/ when he shall see your noble person/ his heart shall not suffer to do you any harm/ O god almighty do to me that grace that I only may bear the pain of this faith & none other/ O lady unhappy was that day for you and for me when first ye had acquaintance of me/ And when Paris had finished his complaint/ he told to Vyenne all that the chaplain had said to him/ And forthwith as a person despaired/ took his sword and would have riven it through his body/ And Vyenne as virtuous and valiant took to her heart/ and took the sword fro him and comforted him and said/ ¶ O free knight/ my joy/ my life/ and my solace/ what will ye do/ know ye not well/ that who that sleeth himself wytyngly/ sleeth the soul and the body/ and if ye die/ I assure you I shall die also/ and so shall ye be cause of my death as well as of your own O Paris where is your wisdom and your prowess/ Now when ye should have most strength & most virtuous courage ye be afeard/ O my knight this is no new thing that the persons that lyven in this world have tribulations/ of what somever lineage they be/ Certes this is not the courage of one so valiant knight as ye be/ For now whom that ye ought to comfort/ she must now comfort you/ And therefore my fair brother and friend I pray you as much as ye may/ that incontinent ye depart fro hens/ and that ye go your way/ and if ye do not so I shall slay myself with your sword/ For your departing is as grievous to me/ as mine shall be to you/ but it by hoveth to eschew of two evils the wrose/ And also ye ought to consider one thing/ that not withstanding the great fault and trespaas that I have made to my father/ yet therefore he shall not put me to death/ considered the great love that he hath a●way had toward me/ and if ye were taken/ I wot well that ye and I should both die/ And yet I have good hope/ that mine intention shall come unto a good end/ For be ye sure though he never pardon me/ I shall never have other husband but you and that I promise you by my faith/ But all way of one thing I pray you/ that for none other lady ye forget not me/ And when ye shall be in another country write unto me of your adventure/ And to th'end that ye the better remember me loo here is a ring of gold with a diamond/ the which I pray you that ye will keep for the love of me   

¶ How Paris departed from Vyenne/ and left her in the church/  
AFter much other language paris kissed vyenne with great sighs and thoughts/ and she comforted him the best wise she might/ in praying our lord Ihesu christ that in short time she might see him/ like as her heart desired most of any thing that was in the world/ And then Paris departed fro Vyenne with great sorrow and heaviness/ And took his way with his servant till he came to the river wh●re they could not tofore have passed/ and as despaired doubted no thing but entered the●m/ and the water was so availed that they passed without any peril/ And they road two days without any meet/ for they durst not pass through any town/ And they passed till they came to aygues mortes/ And there he found the galeye that george had hired/ which anon he took/ and so long sailed and rowed till that they arrived at Gene/ Paris made marvelous countenances in the galeye/ that all they that were therein/ had supposed he had be a fool/ for allway he was pe●syf/ and ymagynatyf/ and unneath would speak ne say a word/ ¶ Then when he was at gene he hired him a lodging & lived there in great heaviness & sorrow/ Now leave we to speak of Paris and return we to vyenne which abode in the chapelayns house   

¶ How vienne was found in the church by a footman/ and how she was brought again to her father/  
When Paris was departed fro vienne she abode alone with ysabeau making the greatest sorrow of the world that it was a great pity to behold/ like as she had as leef to die as to live/ And when she was well weary of weeping/ and that it was force that she must return to the mercy of her father the doulphyn/ she appeased her self/ And anon the chaplain went for to seche the footman and brought him in to the ●hyrche/ And when Vyenne saw him/ she knew him well/ For she had oft-times seen him in her faders house/ And this man said to her all his charge/ & that many knights were out for to seche her/ And Vyenne said to him go & tell them that thou hast founden me here/ & bring them hither/ then the man went & fond the knights that then were comen in to the town/ and told to them how he had founden her/ & that they should come with him & he would bring them to the place where she was/ when the knights herd these tidings anon each made great haste till they came to her/ thenne when they were tofore vyenne they salued her and said to her that the dolphin had do seek her in divers countries/ and after they comforted her/ and said that she should not be afeard of her father/ for he would do to her no displeasure/ for be shall have so great joy/ when he shall see you/ that he shall pardon you and appease his ire/  
¶ And than incontinent they went to horseback/ and brought forth the chaplain with her to th'end that he should excuse her tofore her father/ and told how she was pure and clean of her body/   

NOw saith ●hystory that when Vyenne was comen tofore her father the doulphyn/ he made toward her heavy and evil ●here/ But not withstanding Vyenne kneeled down on both her knees to the earth saying and in weeping/ Redoubted father I see well and know in myself that I have mesprysed and failed toward you/ whereof I have great displeasure/ Nevertheless foolish love hath enforced me to love him/ which is well worthy to be beloved of the most greatest lady of the Royame's of france allway seen the nobleness that is in him/ For I ween that in all the world is none to him like ne pareylle/ ¶ And also I think that I am not the first that have trespassed by semblable reasons/ wherefore redoubted father I am in your mercy/ and take of me vengeance/ such as shall please you/ and to me chastisement/ and example to other Nevertheless I will well that ye know and that I ●swere by my soul/ that I am as pure and clean of my body as I was▪ that day that I departed fro hens/ And loo here is the chaplain which can say to you the truth/ And then the chaplain told how she came with in men of whom that one was a moche fair knight young & courteous the which I believe is drowned in passing a river/ And they were in mine house/ and the two damoiselles slept to guider in the church/ and the knight slept with me/ And the other two slept in the stable with the horses/ then when the dolphin heard these tidings he had right great playsyr/ of which he made no semblant/ and gave to the chaplain moche money & g●●te yefts/ and bad him return/ ¶ After the dolphin took vienne by the hand/ in reproving her moche greatly/ and lad her in to her mothers chamber with ysabeau/ for her mother was seek of the great sorrow that she had for her daughter/ and there the mother blamed them both two/ And ysabeau said that vienne was as pure and clean of her body as she was the day that she departed/ Alas said the doulphyn/ thou hast put us in the most greatest shame of the world And I promise that all they that have consented thereto shall be well punished/ ●nd in especial that evil traitor Paris which is cause of all this fayte and if ever I may have him I shall make dogs devour him and also both ye twain shall suffer therefore great penitence/ then said vienne weeping/ I see well and know that ye have entencion to do to me moche grief and harm/ and I see well that my life shall not long endure/ Therefore I swear to you in good faith/ that there is no man in the world that I so much love as I do him whom ye so menace and thretene/ For in him I have my thought & courage without ever to fail him/ and if ye shortly give to me my penance/ so much shortly shall be my death/ And if ye suffer me to endure it long/ so moche more shall I bear it/ and my soul shall be the more sure to fore almighty god/ & know ye for certain that for him and his love I am ready to die/ Thenne the dolphin issued out of the chamber in great indignation/ and commanded that the father of Paris should be put in an evil prison/ And that all his goods should be taken fro him/ And also that vienne & ysabeau should be enclosed in a chamber/ and that well little meet should be given to them/ and moche he menaced and threatened them/ and thus they abode a long time in that chamber/ and continually Vyenne dreamed of Paris/  
¶ And when she might have any space to speak to Edward fellow of Paris/ she required him that he should search if he might have any tidings of paris/ and that he should let her know thereof/ ¶ In this manner vyenne passed her time in great sorrow & in great thought all way desiring for to here some tidings of that noble knight Paris/   

When Vyenne had been a great time in this manner/ The doulphyn bythought him that then his daughter Vyenne had been well chastised/  
¶ And thennne the Doulphyn father of Vyenne ordained that she came out of prison/ And thenne he purposed to give to her an husband/ and set her in her first estate/ whereof all the court was much joyous/ and in especial Edward fellow of Paris/ ¶ And after certain time the dolphin wrote to the Earl of Flaunders that he would do mary his daughter vyenne whereupon he required him that he would give to him council in this matter/ For it was unto him chargeable/ And during the time that vienne was out of prison her heart was never in rest/ but ever she was heavy and sorrowful for her sweet and faithful friend paris/ whom she might not see/ and knew not whether he were deed or a live/ And when the dolphin saw her so heavy/ On a day he said to her/ My sweet daughter/ wherefore be ye so sorrowful/ give yourself to playfyr/ For as to me I remember no more the things passed/ And there is no thing in the world that ye demand me but I shall do it for you/ And then vyenne which had not forgotten Paris said to him/ Honourable father if I were sure of the things passed that they were forgotten by you/ I should be more sure than I am/ but I believe firmly/ that ye have them yet in your remembrance/ For ye hold alway messyre jaques in prison the father of Paris/ which is not culpable of any part of this deed ne cause/ And if ye would do to me so much grace that ye would pardon him and render to him all his goods & things I should be much joyous/ And the doulphyn for the pleasure of his daughter said to her/ that it well pleased to him/ and Incontynt the dolphin did do deliver messyre jaques out of prison/ and did do return to him all his goods and things that had be taken from him/ whereof messyre jaques had great pleasure/ for if he had abiden longer in prison he had be deed for hunger/ for there was none that comforted him but edward/ which comforted him the best wise he might/ & gave to him daily that which was necessary for his life/ when vienne knew that messyre jaques was out of prison/ she was much joyful and had great pleasure/ Nevertheless all the consolation of vienne was when she might speak with edward of her love Paris/ And thus she passed her time in right great pain and heaviness the best wise she might/   

When the Earl of flanders had red the letters of the dolphin & understood that he would mary his daughter vyenne which was of the age of xv year/ he trayted that she should have of two barons that one/ that is to weet the son of the king of england/ or the son of the duke of bourgoyne/ which then had great renommed in france/ and that was for the great prowess that was in him/ and the said earl made this said treaty/ & sent word unto the doulphyn/ that him seemed best that the son of the du● of bourgoyn were best for ●yr/ by cause that it should be great pleasure to the King of france/ and that he was a noble knight and of great prowess/ and when the dolphin had received these letters fro th'earl of Flaunders/ he sent to the king of france to wite of him which should best please him of these two princes aforesaid that should have his daughter For whom that he would should have her/ whereof the king had great pleasure/ and reputed it to him great honour/ And he sent to him word/ that it should please him best that he married with the son of the duke of bourgoyn his nephew/ and in so doing he should do to him right great pleasure/ and would do as much for him when time and place requireth/ And seeing the doulphyn the will of the king of france sent word to th'earl of flanders/ that he had counseled with his barons/ & also that it was the will of the king of france that his daughter should be married to the son of the duke of bourgoyne/ And then th'earl laboured so moche in this matter that he made the said son of the duke to agree as for his party/   

¶ How Paris sent a letter to his fellow Edward/  
NOw let us leave to speak of this matter/ and return we unto Paris which abode in the city of gene moche heavy/ and whiles this marriage was in trayty Paris dwelled in gene out of all joys and pl●ysaunses worldly/ & all for the love that he had to the fair vienne whom he had so moche at his heart/ And abode alway in his lodging alone/ and became so devout and so humble toward god/ that it was great marvel/ and also for the good countenances that he made/ he was moche well beloved of all the people of the city and they held him for a noble man/ and said he must needs be the son of a great lord/ And Paris being in this manner had great desire to have tidings of vienne/ and what was her adventure/ And anon ●●dry ●ed two letters/ that one to his father/ & that other to his fellow Edward/ Of which the letter to his father said in this manner/   

Right dear & honourable sir and father please it you to wete that I am much sorrowful and heavy of my cruel adventure/ and also I endure great heaviness/ sorrow and affliction/ doubting that for me ye have suffered great pain and tribulation/ and I late you weet that I am at genes/ & dwell in a lodging alone deposed fro all joys and consolations mundane/ For mine intendment is to serve god and our lady fro hens forth/ & purpose that ye shall see me no more/ for I will depart & go through the world to seche holy pilgrimages/ And if by adventure I shall die tofore that ye shall see me/ I pray you that it may please you that I die not in your evil will/ but humby by seek you that it please you to pardon me/ and to give to me your benedyctyon/ Also dear sir and father I pray you & supply that my dear brother and fellow Edward ye will take in my name and place/ and that he be commanded as your son in stead of me/ as well in your heritage as in other things/ and the grace of the holy ghost be with you/ Recomaunde me to my mother etc/ And the letter of Edward said thus/   

Dear and special brother and singular friend edward the peril of pa●ris and of his adventure is poursyewed of all evil and cruel fortune/ I command me to you as much as I may say or think Nevertheless like as we have been accustomed to write letters of love and of chivalry/ Now I must write letters anguishous of sorrow and of evil fortune/ for alas I am unhappy all alone in a strange country/ & exiled fro all joys and fro all pleasure/ and out of all worldly pleasance thinking night & day on the bele vyenne/ the which I think that for me hath suffered mortal sorrow/ and I say to you that if I knew that for me she suffered pain and sorrow I should be in despair/ for I am worthy for to be punished cruelly for that fayte & none other wherefore I pray god and all his saints that she may be kept from all evil/ and give her grace to prosper in all good and honour like as she is worthy and mine heart desireth/ ¶ My dear brother & fellow the most dear things that I love in this world is first the fair and sweet vyenne/ & next you to whom I pray you if it may be in any wise that ye will say to her in my name/ how that I am living in genes/ Passing my life moche heavy and sorrowful for th'absence of her noble person/ and for the cruel & evil fortune that hath poursyewed me/ and also say ye to her that I cry her mercy/ & that it may please her to pardon me/ if by me she have any displeasure and god knoweth mine entency on/ & in what tribulation I live And sith that it hath not play said to our lord/ that we accomplish not our desire & will/ we aught to bear it patiently/ And also ye shall say to her/ that I pray and supply her as much as I may that she yet take no husband/ unto the time that she shall see th'end of our adventure/ & after this I pray you dear brother of the consolation of my father & my mother/ and that ye be to them as a son/ For seeing the love that alway we have had to guider/ I have written to my father/ that in the stead of me he take you for his son/ and that after his life/ he will leave to you his heritage/ for so moche brother & fellow I pray & bysoche you that ye be to them humble and obeissant/ & the better part shall be yours/ and if by adventure ye write to me any letter let the letter be kept in my faders house/ the holy ghost have you in his keeping/ And he delivered this letter to a courrour which within few days was at vienne/ and secretly delivered his letters to edward the good knight/ when Edward had received these letters and knew that paris was a live/ he had right as great joy as any man could think or believe/ Nevertheless he held the courrour secretly in his house to th'end that the dolphin should not know thereof/ and when he had heard the letters/ he went to the house of messyre jaques the father of the noble paris & said to him/ ¶ Messyre jaques I bring to you this letter/ And when messyre jaques had red the letter/ 〈◊〉 could not be sacyat of reading/ he took so great pleasure therein/ ¶ After that he had red it at his pleasure/ he prayed Edward to write to him an answer well at large of all that was byfallen sith his departing/ & this done edward departed fro him/ & went unto beale vyenne/ whom he fond moche heavy and sorrowful for her love and friend paris/ and Edward said/ honourable lady/ & how is it/ that ye be thus heavy/ and vienne said to him/ alas fair brother Edward/ I have good reason and cause to be heavy For mine heart abideth thinking day & night on my good knight Paris/ and I know not whether he be alive or deed/ of which thing I much desire to know/ For if he be deed I am cause thereof/ And certes if he be deed I may not live after him/ if our lord would do so moche grace that he be a live/ fain would I know in what land he is/ to th'end that I might send to him a little money/ so that he have no necessity for his person/ And edward said to her/ Madame what will ye give me/ if I tell te you good tidings and sure of him/ ¶ then said Vyenne/ by my faith there is no thing that I have in this world/ which I may give with mine honour/ but that I shall give it to you Thenne said Edward/ loo here is a letter which he hath sent to me/ and when vienne saw the letter she opened it and red it all allonge/ & when she had red it she had so great joy/ that her seemed god had appeared to her/ and the joy that she had in her heart showed well in her visage/ For sith that she departed fro paris she had not so good visage ne cheer as she had thenne & when the solace had enough endured Edward said to her Madam give to me again my letter/ that I may make to him an answer/ And Vyenne said it pleaseth me much that ye make to Paris my sweet friend an answer/ but surely the letter shall remain with me/ then he said/ Madame have ye not promised to give to me that thing that I shall demand you/ yes said she/ then edward said I desire ne will have none other thing/ but that ye give to me my letter/ for assoon shall I give to you my life/ but and if ye will demand any other thing/ I will well/ Thenne said Edward I am content that the letter abide with you/ & after he ordained another letter to Paris which said in this manner/   

¶ How Edward● sent answer of his letter to Paris/ which abode in the city of genes/  
Right dear brother friend and fellow paris/ your father and your mother great you well/ the which have suffered for you moche disease/ pain and displeasure/ and in especial your father which hath long been in prison/ & all his goods were taken fro him/ and also I certify you that by the grace of god and at the request and prayer of Vyenne/ the doulphyn hath pardonned him all his evil will/ and delivered him out of prison & restored to him all his goods again/ And please it you to weet fair brother that vienne hath had so moche joy and so great pleasure when she had knowledge that ye were a live/ that it is wonder to believe/ For all her consolation was for to have tidings of you/ & she recommaundeth her to you as much as she may/ & hath much great desire to see you & also prayeth you not to withdraw you fro her ne fro that country/ ●ut that ye write oft to her of your estate/ And she sendeth to you an exchange of three thousand floryns/ of which she will that ye take your pleasure & joy/ for all her hope is in you/ Also ye shall understand that she hath be kept in prison a certain time/ but thanked be god she is now out/ Also I have showed to her your letter/ which she retaineth/ and after that she had red it/ I might never have it again/ but she said/ that she had liefer to lose all that she had/ than the said letter & ye shall know that the dolphin treateth a marriage for her the which is the son of the duke of bourgoyn/ & he hopeth fro day to day/ that it shall be accomplished/ Nevertheless I trust so moche in vienne/ seeing that which she hath said to me/ that she will never have other husband but you/ wherefore live ye forth joyously in hope/ dear brother I thank you as I can or may for the presentation that ye have done for me/ your soul be with god/ to whom I pray that he keep you in his holy ward & protection etc/ when this letter was written he delivered it to the courrour/ which made hasty journeys so that he arrived at genes/ where as the good knight Paris dwelled and abode/   

When the noble paris had red the letter/ & knew that vienne had been in prison/ almost for sorrow he was out of his wit cursing his evil fortune/ & after he cursed the day that he was borne & much discomforted himself/ & also he cursed the doulphyn saying/ O cruel father and uncunning/ how may your heart suffer to put in prison her that is so noble a creature/ which is full of all virtues/ that is the fair vyenne/ which is no thing cause of this fayte/ For I myself only have done it/ & aught to bear alone the penance/ alas & wherefore did not god to me so moche grace/ that I had be taken in stead of her/ O fair vienne what have I do for you/ which have suffered so moche pain for me/ Thus he made a great while his sorrow in weeping strongly/ After Paris saw that the fair vienne was returned in to her first estate/ whereof he was much joyous/ & when he had received the exchange that vienne had sent him he hired a moche fair house & clad him honestly & richly & took acquaintance & amity with the greatest & best of the city/ in so much they did him much good and honour/ & thus dwelled paris a great while/ always remembering in his heart the love of vienne/ for allway his love increased/ And every month they wrote letters each to other/ of which here is made no mention/ for it should be over long to rehearse/ & torn we here in to flanders for the fayte of the marriage of the excellent vyenne/   

NOw saith th'history that when th'earl of Flaunders had accorded the marriage with the duke of bourgoyn he made ready his son and appareled him of company and of horses/ and let it be known to the doulphyn/ that he should make ready all thing necessary/ & that he should hastily send to him his son/ when the dolphin heard these tidings/ that he/ whom he so much desired should come he was much joyous/ and incontinent did do make ready many great & marvelous feasts/ & during the same did do make ready his son the duke of bourgoyne/ horses and people for to accompany him which was a fair thing to see/ ¶ And after sent him to th'earl of flanders/ which received him with great joy & with great honour & feasted him two days/ and delivered to him his son in his company/ and sent him to the doulphyn/ & when the dolphin knew their coming/ he did do make ready to receive him/ and when they were by a day journey nigh unto vienne/ he road out with moche great chivalry/ & received them with much great joy and pleasure/ & each made great feast to other which were over long to recount/ Nevertheless tofore that the dolphin came to the son of she duke of bourgoyn/ he & his wife entered in to the chamber of vienne to whom the dolphin said/ Fair daughter it was the play sir of god that I & your mother were to guider seven year without having any child/ and in the viii year our lord comforted us with you/ in whom we have all our affection/ For we have neither son ne daughter but only you/ ne suppose never to have/ so we trust that by you we have one/ It is true ●hot so as god will and hath ordained we will assemble you to a moche honouble marriage/ the which to us pleaseth moche/ for I ensure you the daughter of the King of France hath much desired to have him/ that ye shall have/ for god hath endowed him with so much good & honour as heart of knight may have/ thus to the pleasure of god/ & of the virgin mary/ we have made the marriage of the son of the duke of bourgoyne & of you/ wherefore we pray you/ that thereto ye will give your good will & pleasure/ and also that ye will have the marriage agreeable/ Then vyenne answered to her father/ Honourable father & lord I wot well that this that ye intend is for my weal & profit/ But not withstanding that I be in age for to mary/ & that in this marriage I should receive honour more than I am worthy/ Nevertheless I shall not yet be married for if we have not this man/ if it please god we shall have another as good or better/ And think ye not mine honourable lord/ that I say this for any excusation/ but it is sithen xv days that I have be evil disposed of my person/ & the malady that I have causeth me to take no pleasure for to be married/ For I have avowed unto god never to be married to this man ne to none other/ as long as I shall be in this malady/ ¶ Then thought the dolphin that vienne said it for shamefastness/ Nevertheless he travailed her every day with fair words that she should consent to this marriage/ but it availed nothing all that he did/ for the will of her was more in paris than in any man of the world/   

then on the morn the son of the duke of bourgoyne/ & the son of the earl of Flaunders entered in to the city of vienne/ whereof the dolphin had great joy & pleasure/ and this feast endured well fifteen days/ that they did no thing/ but dance/ sing/ and did other divers playsyrs/ and during this feast the dolphin said to the son of the duke of bourgoyn to th'end that he should think none evil by cause he abode so long or he might espouse his daughter/ ¶ Fair son I pray you & beseech that ye take you to pleasure and joy/ And grieve you no thing of this long abiding here/ for certain my daughter is so seek/ that uneath she may speak/ which doth to her great displeasure and shame/ for fain she would be out of her chamber/ And then the son of the duke of bourgoyn as he shalt mente but good faith/ believed it lightly/ Nevertheless the dolphin did nothing night ne day/ but admonested his daughter one time in fair words/ and another time in menaces/ but in no wise he could make his daughter to consent/ And commanded that she should nothing have but breed & water and vienne abode one day so in this manner/ and all this did the dolphin/ to th'end that she should consent to the marriage/ and alway he did to her more harm & pain/ & vienne was alway more hard/ and ferther fro his desire/ whereof the dolphin had much great displeasure/ and not without cause/ & seeing the Doulphyn that his daughter was so Indurate/ he thought that by some good moyen he would send home again the son of the duke of bourgoyn for he doubted that if he abode long/ that this feat might be discovered/ and he gave to him fair jewels/ and after said to him/ Fair son I will that ye take no displeasure in that I shall say to you/ Me seemeth well that at this time this marriage may not go forth of you and of my daughter/ for after that I see/ & as me seemeth the will of god is further than I would at this time/ For he will not that the marriage of you and of my daughter take now effect/ wherefore I have right great displeasure in my heart only for the love of you/ then the son of the duke of gehēne seeing that at that time he might do no thing/ took leave of the dolphin and returned in to his country by cause that Vyenne was not in health/ and promised that assoon as he might know that she should be hool/ he would return for to accomplish the marriage like as the dolphin had promised to him/   

¶ How the dolphin did do enprysonne vyenne by cause that she would not consent to the marriage to the son of the duke of bourgoyne/  
AFter certain days that the son of the Duke of bourgoyn was departed fro the city of vienne/ the doulphyn for great displeasure that he had did do come tofore him the master jailer of his prison/ and did do make within his palace a little prison dark and obscure/ and he did do put vienne and ysabeau in to that prison/ and commanded that they should have nothing to eat but breed and water/ and one damoysel in whom the dolphin trusted should bring it to them And in this manner vienne & ysabeau passed their time in great sorrow/ And think not that for this prison/ the heart of vienne would in any wise consent to the will of her father/ but always increased with her the will toward her sweet friend Paris/ and with sweet words she comforted ysabeau saying/ My dear sister abash you not for this darkness/ for I have confidence in god/ that ye shall have yet moche wealth/ For my fair sister/ It is a moche right full thing that for the good knight paris which for me suffereth so moche pain/ that I suffer this for him/ and also I say to you that all the pains of this world be nothing grievous to me when I think on his sweet visage/ And in this manner that one comforted that other/ in speaking all day of the valiant knight Paris/   

¶ How the son of the duke of bourgoyn departed fro his country for to come see the fair lady Vyenne/  
When the son of the duke of bourgoyne had abiden long time in his country/ On a day he had great thought of vienne/ & that was for the great beauty of her/ and it displeased him moche that at his being there he had not seen her/ and so concluded to go & see her/ and it was not long after that he came to the dolphin and the dolphin received him much gladly and with great honour/ then prayed he the dolphin that it might please him to show to him vienne also seek as she was/ For in the world was nothing that he so much desired to see as her/ And the doulphyn seeing the will & desire of him would no longer hide his courage/ but said to him/ My fair son by the faith that I own to god/ I have had great desire that this marriage should be made/ but my daughter for this present time will take no husband ne be married wherefore I have great displeasure and that for the love of you/ & to th'end that ye know/ that it holdeth not on me/ I swear to you that sith ye departed fro this town/ I have done her to be kept in a prison dark and obscure/ and hath eaten nothing but breed and water only/ and have sworn that she shall not go out of prison till she shall consent to have you in marriage/ And thus I pray you that ye take no displeasure/ if at this time ye see her not/ for ye may not fail to have great marriage/ in caas that this fail you and then he answered/ honourable sir I pray you moche heartily/ sith that it is so/ that ere I return I may speak to her/ and I shall pray her as much as I shall mow/ and shall see if by any manner I may convert her fro her will/ then said the dolphin he was content/ then he sent to his daughter clothing and vestiments for to cloth her/ and also meet for to eat/ For in two months she had eaten but breed and water/ whereof she was much feeble/ and that showed well in her visage/ & thus he did by cause she should consent to the marriage/ And then it was concluded/ that the son of the duke of bourgoyn should come see her & speak with her/ and then when Vyenne saw this and had re●●yued all & knew that the son of the duke of bourgoyn 〈…〉 speak with her she 〈…〉 her damoysel/ fair 〈…〉 how my father & mother we●● by these vestiments & this 〈◊〉 that I should eat to deceive me and put me fro my purpoos/ but god forbid that I should do so/ & then she took the hen/ & said to her that brought it/ sith it pleaseth to the son of the duke to come & speak to me/ say ye to him that he may not come these iij days/ & when he cometh that he bring with him the bishop of Saint laurens/ She that had brought to her the hen said all this unto the dolphin and to dame ●y●ne her mother/ ¶ Then vienne took the two quarters of the hen and put them under her arm hooles/ and held them there so long/ that they stonken moche strongly/ ¶ And when it came to the third day/ the bishop of Saint Laurence and the son of the Duke of Bourgoyne camen for to see vyenne/ and or they entered they opened a treylle which gave light in to the prison/  
¶ Then when the son of the duke saw Vyenne in the prison he said to her by great pity that he had/ Noble vienne how will ye die thus for hunger so foolily by your own default/ ¶ And know ye not well that your father hath given you to me to have to my wife/ wherefore I live in great pain/ and in moche great sorrow for the duresse of your courage/ whereof ye do right great sin/ And doubt ye not that god punisheth you for thinobedience that ye do to your father and to your mother/ wherefore I pray you fair Vyenne to tell to me for what cause ye will not have me in marriage to your husband/ Doubt ye that when ye shall be with me/ that ye may not serve god as well as ye now do that suffer this pain/ I promise you by my faith that ye shall have playsaunces and liberties in all the manners that ye shall con demand/ then I pray you that ye will not here die so dolorously/ and if ye will not do it for the love of me/ yet at the lest do it for the love of your father and of your mother which live for you in great sorrow and in great heaviness/ wherefore ye ought to have pity on them/   

When Vyenne had heard these words she was quasi abashed and said sir saving your honour I am married/ how be it ye know him not whom I have in mine heart/ And also I know and grant right well that ye be worthy to have one moche greater and more high a lady than I am/ and I la●e you weet that for him that I desire I should suffer more pain than I feel/ And therefore I pray you that fro hens forth ye speak to me no more of this matter/ And also I am so evil disposed in my person that if it endure in me/ my life shall not be long/ and if it were honest I should show it you and than should ye see how it standeth with me/ Nevertheless approach ye ner to me/ & ye shall the better believe me/ And the son of the duke of bourgoyne & the bishop of saint laurence approached unto vienne/ fro whom issued so great a stench/ that uneath they might suffer and endure it/ which savour came fro under her arm holes of the two quarters of the hen/ which were rotten/ And when vienne saw that they had felt enough of the stench she said to them/ lords ye may now know enough in what adventure I am disposed/ then they took leave having great compassion on her/ And they said to the dolphin that vienne was thenne half rotten and that she stank/ and deemed in themself that she might not live long/ qnd that it should be great damage of her death for the sovereign beauty that was in her/ And incontinent the son of the duke of bourgoyn took his leave of the doulphyn/ and returned in to his country/ and recounted to his father the life of vienne/ whereof all they that heard him had great pity in their heart/   

When the dolphin saw that the marriage was broken/ by the default of his daughter Vyenne/ he swore that she should never depart fro thence/ but if she would consent to his will/  
And so she abode long time in that prison where she had great thought and sorrow for her sweet and true friend paris/ & her desire was on no thing but for to here tidings of paris her love/ But in the estate that she was in/ no man might bring her tidings/ And Edward the fellow of Paris seeing that Vyenne abode in so great pain/ and that none durst speak to her/ he had in his heart great sorrow/ & was much moved of great pity/ and also for the great love that he had to paris/ And concluded to make a chapel in the church that touched the palace of the dolphin and in a corner he did do dig so deep that it was nigh to the fundament of the prison/ where in vienne was/ and by cause he would not have the thing disclosed/ he would that they should dig no ferther/ and when the chapel was achieved and finished/ Edward all alone digged himself so far/ that he made an hole/ by which he spoke to vyenne when he would which cave was made so secretly that no man might apperceive it/ So it happened on a day Edward beheld vyenne through this hole/ & salued her/ & then when vienne herd him & knew him/ she had so great joy & consolation/ that she seemed that she was risen fro death to life/ & the first tidings that Vyenne demanded of him were if he knew any tidings of paris & edward told to her that it was not long sith/ that he had received a letter fro him/ wryton at genes/ then said vyenne all weeping to him/ alas when shall the day come that I shall see him/ & that done I would be content that god should do his will of me/ for none other thing I desire in this world/ Alas fair brother what seemeth you of my life & of this fair chamber in which I dwell in/ certainly I believe verily/ that if paris knew it/ that for his love I suffer thus moche sorrow/ that the heart of him should swelte for sorrow/ and after she told to Edward the parliament that she had with the son of the duke of bourgoyne/ & also of the hen/ & prayed him that he would send word of all this to paris & that she recommended her to him/ & also that she had none other hope in this world but in him/ Edward brought to her every day fro thenne forthon meet & drink/ & all that was necessary to her/ for her life/ & comforted her with fair words the best wise he might/ & Edward wrote all plainly to paris/ how for hunger she should have been deed/ ne had he been/ which daily purveyed for her all that was to him necessary/ and he wrote to him all the manner that Vyenne had holden with the son of the Duke of Bourgoyne And that this fair lady Vyenne desired no thing in this world but for to see him only And also that she prayed him that he should not depart out of the country that he was in/   

When the noble Paris had received the letter fro Edward and knew that vienne abode in prison/ it is no need to demand if he had great despaysyr/ & almost was in such caas/ as to l●se his wit for sorrow/ And on that other pa●●e he had great dread that she should be married in eschewing of the great harm & pain that she suffered/ and herein he was pensive night and day/ saying to himself/ I see well that I may not escape but that vienne must needs be married/ and by that moyen her love and mine shall fail/ Alas now see I well that now me behooveth no hoop ne trust/ Alas caitiff and unhappy what shall befall of me/ I shall go so far/ that fro her I may never here tidings/ ne also she fro me/ and after this he began again his complaint saying/ O veray god of heaven wherefore hast thou not done to me so moche grace/ that in the stead of her I might suffer the pain that she suffereth for me/ ¶ O cruel fortune full of cruel torment/ and what hath vyenne done or made that she must suffer so grievous penance/ Alas were it not more reason/ justice and cause that I which have done all this evil bear the punition/ certes yes/   

¶ How Paris sent a letter to Edward his fellow/  
AFter that he had made his complaint/ he wrote a letter unto Edward/ doing him to wite how he had sovereign sorrow for vyenne which was in prison/ and he thanked him of the goodness and diligence that he had done toward her/ in praying him that he never would fail her/ but continually aid and help her/ ¶ And after he wrote to him how for very displeasure and melancholy he would go in to some strange country/ And that fro than forthon he should send to him no more letters/ And that he never reiche for to here more tidings fro him/ no more than of a deed person/ ¶ Then when Edward had received these letters fro Paris and knew that he wold ●straunge him fro that country of genes/ and would go in to a strange country he was much wroth and sore agryeved/ ¶ And then incontinent paris went and told it to the father and mother of Paris/ whereof they took so great sorrow that they supposed to have lost their wit/ And after edward went and told it also to vyenne/ whereof it needeth not to demand the great sorrow that she, had/ for it was so great and overmuch/ that if edward had not comforted her/ she had been deed/ And then she complained to ysabeau saying that sithen she never intended to here tidings of her love Paris she was right well content to die and that she would never more have pleasure of no thing that was in this world/ and that thenne she would that she were deed/ And ysabeau comforted her alway   

¶ How paris went to ship at venyse/ for to go to the holy sepulchre in Iherusalem/  
AFter that pari● had sent the letter to Edward In continent he departed fro genes with his servant/ and went to venyse where he took shipping/ and sailed so far that he came to alexandria/ where he abode a space of time/ & after in that country he informed him & learned the way to the mount of calvary and of Iherusalem/ and how he might pass surely/ And afterward Paris concluded to go in to that country a pilgrimage/ but tofore or he took his way/ he learned for to speak the language of moors/ And when Paris could well speak mouryske/ he and his varlet took the way toward ynde/ And● so far laboured by their journeys/ that they arrived in the land of prester johan/ In which he dwelled a long time And in that while high beard grew long/ and after he took the habit of a more/ and also learned all the custommes and manners of the country/ And he had all way fast byleue in our lord Ihesu christ/ and in the glorious virgin mary his sweet mother/ And thus abiding in this manner he had great will to go to Iherusalem to the holy sepulture/ for to see the holy sayntuaryes/ & for tacoomplysshe the holy pilgrimage/ Thenne when he was in Iherusalem/ he set all his courage in devotion/ & bycam so devout that it was marvel/ and prayed continually our lord that by the merit of his passion he would give to him salvation of his soul/ & consolation for his body & also for fair vyenne/ & after he departed fro thence and went in to Egypte/ and arrived in the country of the sultan/ & his money began to fail/ & hired him a little house wherein he dwelled much heavy and sorrowful for his Infortune/ And also he had great displeasure when he saw other triumph and wax boards/ Now it happened on a day that paris went to play and disport him out of the town in the fields/ and there met with the faulconuers of the sultan/ which came fro hawking/ and among them was ●ne falcon moche seek/ and that falcon the sultan loved best of all the other/ then demanded Pary● of the fawconner what sickness the falcon had/ And the fawconner said to him that he wys● not/ then said paris truly if he continue in the malady that he hath he shall not live 〈◊〉 days/ but if ye do that 〈◊〉 shall say to you/ and if he be not ho●e therewith he shall never be hole/ Thenne said the fawlconner to him/ I pray you that ye will tell me what I shall do for I ensure you faithfully/ that if ye may make him hole/ it shall mow avail you and me also and that I promise you/ for the soldan had liefer lose the best city that he hath than this falcon/ then Paris went and sought certain herbs/ and gave them to the fawlconner and bade him to bind them to the feet of the falcon/ and so he did/ and soon after the falcon amended and became as hole as ever he had be tofore/ whereof the soldan was much joyous/ and for love of thy falcon/ the soldan made the fawlconner a great s●rd in his court/ then the falconer seeing that by the moyen of paris he had gotten this lordship/ he did to him much pleasure/ & showed to him as great amity and friendship as be had been his brother/ & brought him in the grace of the soldan/ and was received in to his court/ & the soldan loved him so well/ that he gaf to him great office/ and maintained him in great honour/ ye shall understand that in this time reigned a moche holy pope/ the which was named Innocent/ and was a moche holy person & devout/ And it pleased so him that he gaf out a croysee/ against the false miscreants & heathen men/ to the end that the name of our lord Ihesu christ were more sayntefyed and enhanced through out all crystyente/ And therefore was maked a great council among the cardinals and prelate's/ & was concluded by their parliament that this croysee should be written to the king of france/ and to other kings christian/ duke's/ Earls and other great lords/ and so was it done/   

¶ How the dolphin came toward the king of France/  
When the king of france had received the letters fro the pope/ incontinent he sent for the doulphyn of viennese/ that he should come and speak with him/ the which incontinent came at his commandment/ then the king said to him/ Sir Godefroy/ we have made you to come hither/ for ye be one of the most wisest of our court/ & also ye be of our lineage/ And we late you weet that our holy father the pope hath written to us that he hath yeven a croysee against the mescreauntes wherefore we for the love and reverence of god intend for to go thither/ Nevertheless we have advised/ that ye should go first in to thoo parties/ & we pray you for the love and reverence of god that ye take on you the charge for to espy the contrees and also the passages/ then the dolphin said/ I am ready & appareled to do your commandment with good will/ But how shall I mow do it for to pass surely among the heathen people/ For if they apperceive in any wise that I go for to espy their country/ I shall not con escape/ but that I must die by cruel death if god keep me not/ then said the king ye may go and your company surely clothed in habit of pylgryms/ for ye know well that this is not the first time/ that many christian men have been in the holy land/ wherefore I pray you yet eft once that in the name of Ihesu christ that ye make you ready for to go thither/ and take with you of our knights as many as it shall please you/ ¶ Then the dolphin seeing the will of the king/ and that incontinent he must depart/ he sent letters to his wife/ that he would go in to the holy land to seche the holy sayntuaryes & pilgrimages/ and prayed her that she much wisely should govern his land/ & that vienne his daughter should not escape out of prison till he returned for in short time he would come again/   

¶ How the Doulphyn took his shipping for to go in to Iherusalem/  
AFter that the dolphin had taken his ship/ & passed in to Surrye and damask/ to Iherusalem and in many other places/ & had advised and espied moche wisely and well all the country/ And inquired of the christian men that dwelled there many things/ without discovering his will and intent/ Nevertheless some evil christian men for to get money told it unto the soldan of babylon/ ¶ Then when the soldan knew it/ he maked no semblant/ but incontinent he made all the passages to be kept where as the pylgryms went by in such manner as the dolphin was taken & all his company with him in a place called Ramon not far fro Iherusalem/ which was brought tofore the soldan/ and he ordained that the dolphin should be tormented and pined/ The doulphyn seeing himself in such a point said that they should not torment him/ and he would say to them the truth/ & thus he recounted to the soldan how the Pope had given out a croysee against them/ & how he was comen to espy the country/ when the soldan saw this/ he said that he would advise him of what death he would do him to death/ in manner that all other should take ensample/ And commanded that anon he should be led in to alysandrye/ & there to be put in to an hard prison/ and also that none should give to him but breed and water/ then the dolphin was brought in to Alysandrye/ & was put in to an hard and strong tour/ & there he suffered a miserable life/ and had keepers that kept him night and day/ Thus was the doulphyn in great sorrow/ thinking never to issue out of the prison but deed/ Nevertheless the Pope and the king of France/ did oft times great pain to have him out by finances/ but they might not have him/ ¶ For the soldan said that he should do on him such punition/ that all other should take ensaumple●/ Now let us leave to speak of the doulphyn/ and return we to Paris that knew no thing of these tidings   

NOw recounteth th'history that paris was in babylone like as ye have tofore heard/ which knew no thing of this fayte/ So it happened that by adventure ij freres religious sought thindulgences of the holy land & aryveden in babylone/ where they would see the signory & the puissance of the sultan/ For then the sultan held him in babylon with moche great puissance/ These two freres were of these parties/ which being in the parties it happened as they went in the town paris fond them/ then paris salued them & demanded of these parties and said to them in this manner/ After that I have herd say among you christian men ye have a Pope/ the which is much strong & puissant/ And also ye have many kings/ & great lords/ & so great towns cities and castles/ that I have marvel how ye suffer that we that be not of your law have the signory of the holy land which ought to appertain to you as ye say/ And when the freres had herd Paris thus speak/ they were sore afeard/ And one of them answered in the language of moure/ For they wist none other but paris was a moure/ & so did all they of the country/ & he said to him/ Sir I believe well that ye have herd say/ that in our parties been assembled great companies of people & men of war for to come in to these parties/ by cause that our holy father the Pope/ hath granted out a croysee/ and in the time whiles our men of war assembled/ the king of france which is the greatest of crystyente/ sent a noble baron which is named the doulphyn of viennese for to visit and espy these parties/ then he being in these parties/ the soldan set men in such places where as the pylgryms were accustomed to pass/ And suddenly he did do tak● him in a city named Ramon/ and after sent him in to Alysandrye/ and there set him in an evil prison/ wherein I suppose that he be deed/ and thus for this cause/ the faith was discovered/ then said Paris how is that lord named/ then said the frere/ he is named godefroy of Allaunson dolphin of viennese/ And when paris heard this he was moche abashed/ but he made no semblaunter/ And thought in his heart/ that his adventure might yet come to good and effect/ then he demanded them of many things/ and said to them/ that he would more speak to them another time/ and demanded them where they were lodged/ and they told him more for dread than for love/ for they thought he would have done to them some harm/   

When Paris was departed fro the freres/ he was moche pens if how and in what manner he might go in to alexandria for to see the doulphyn/ & how he might get him onte of prison/ and so much he thought on his fayte/ that he purposed to go to the hostry where the freres were lodged/ and so went thither/ & when the freres saw him/ they were sore afeard then paris took them by the hands/ and lad them to solace through the city speaking of many things alway in the language of moure/ & said to them/ I have great desire to see that christian knight which is in alexandria For I have alway had good will to the christian men/ peradventure I might yet well help him/ & if ye will come with me I promise you by my law/ that I shall make you good cheer/ & doubt ye nothing/ and then when the freres heard him thus speak they wist not what to answer/ they had so great fere/ Nevertheless they trusting in the mercy of god/ they promised him/ that they should go with him/ though they should die/ & prayden god in their courage that he would grant grace that he might come out of prison/ then Paris had great pleasure of the answer of the freres & wend never to see the hour/ that he might be with the doulphyn for to see the end of his adventure/ and so departed fro the fretes/ and went straight to the faulconner of the soldan with whom he had great knowledge/ & said to him/ Seynour I thank you of the great honour/ courtesy & gentleness that ye have do to me/ & please it you to wite that I will depart fro hens in to alysandrye/ and I promise to you that for your love I shall not tarry long/ but that I shall return hither again/ And by cause I am there unknown/ and that I never was there/ I pray you right humbly/ that I might have a mandment ●f the soldan/ that he command to the governors that I may go thorough all his land surely/ For ye know well that one may not keep him over well fro evil people/ Therefore I pray you and require that ye will get me such a mandment/ and also that ye will command me humbly to the good grace of my lord the soldan/ and forthwith the faulconner went to the soldan and made his request for Paris/ & incontinent the soldan granted him all his desire/ saying that it much desplaysed him/ of the departing of paris & if he would abide & dwell in his court he would make him a great lord/ then the falconer said/ dear sir he hath promised me/ that in short time he shall return/ then the soldan did do make the mandment like as he would devise/ charging all his lords officers & subgettes of towns cytres & castles of his land that they should do to him great honour/ & that they should give & deliver to him all that should be necessary to him without taking any money or any other thing of him/ And also the soldan gave to Paris many rich clothes & vestiments of cloth of gold and of silk/ and also he gave to him great treasure/ praying him that he should not long tarry/ but hastily return again/ & promised him that he should make him a great lord/ and delivered his mandment/ the which was sealed with the proper seal of the soldan/ and signed with his own hand   

When Paris had received all these things that the soldan had given to him/ he took leave of him and of his court & went with the freres in to alexandria/ incontinent after he was comen he showed the mandment to the admiral/ the which anon after he had seen it did great honour to Paris/ and delivered to him a fair lodging purveyed of all things necessary/ and delivered another to the freres/ Thadmiral came every day to see paris in his lodging for to do him honour and company/ and went & road to guider thorough the city/ and by cause that Paris was richly clad/ every man made to him great honour and said that he seemed well to be the son of some great moure And on a day as they road in the city they passed forth by the tour where as the dolphin was in prison/ ¶ then Paris demanded of the admiral what tour it was that was so fair/ Thenne he told to him that it was a moche cruel prison & terrible In which the soldan held a prisoner a great lord & baron of the theste/ which was comen for tespye these contreyes'/ Thenne said paris I pray you let us go see him/ & the admiral said he should gladly/ Thenne they alighted fro their horses/ & entered in to the prison/ and when paris saw the doulphyn/ he had in his heart great displeasure/ by cause of the miserable & sorrowful life that he suffered/ & Paris demanded of the keepers what man he was/ And they said/ that he was a great baron of France/ Then said paris/ understandeth he mourysshe/ and they said nay/ but that notwithstanding if he would speak to him/ that they should find tour●hem●n ●nough/ then said Paris he would return another day for to demand of him of the parties of the west/ & prayed th'admiral to give commandment to the keepers/ that as oft as be sh●●d come/ that they should show him to him/ & incontinent he commanded like as paris had desired/ & then they departed/ & a few days after paris returned and came to the prison and brought one of the freres with him that could speak mouryske/ & when they were within the prison/ paris said to the frere that he should salue him courteously/ Nevertheless the frere knew no thing that paris could speak french/ then the frere said to the doulphyn/ that that lord was come for to visit him/ & that he loved well christian men/ & that he was well in the grace of the soldan/ and that he trusted is moche in him as in any man of his country/ & thus the frere demanded many things of the doulphyn in the name of paris/ and said if he might do for him he would gladly   

When the dolphin heard the religious frere thus speak in the person of the moure/ he was much abashed in his courage/ byseching our lord that he would put him in such courage & good will for to bring him out of prison Paris desired to here tidings of the fair vienne said to the frere/ that he should ask of the doulphyn if he had any wife or children/ then the dolphin began to weep/ & said that he had a wife/ & a daughter holden for the fairest of France/ whom he held in prison because she would take no husband/ then paris began to comfort him by the mouth of the frere/ saying that he should take all in patience/ & god should yet once deliver him out of prison/ by which words the dolphin was so rejoiced & joyous/ that him seemed that god had appeared to him/ & the dolphin said to the frere that it was great pity that the moure was not christian/ & prayed our lord that he would give to him puissance to keep him in that good will that he had & so departed that one fro that other moche comforted/ then paris said to the keepers that he had found so great pleasure in the prisoner/ that he would oft times come for to dyspo●te him and they said when it pleased him he should return & be welcome/ and then paris said to the freres that were in that place if I thought to be sure of you/ I think well to find the moyen to bring this prisoner out of prison/ & the freres were much admarveled of this which paris had said to them/ and they said to him/ by the faith that we own to our god/ that of us ye need not to doubt/ & in caas that ye be in will let us assay but it must be done secretly/ for ye see well how many keepers been there continually/ Thenne said Paris I shall give to you good council and remedy of all this/ but I will have two things/ The first thing is I will that ye go with me/ That other is that he shall give to me my living honourably in his country/ for I am in great doubt when I have delivered him/ and shall be in his country that he will set nought by me/ and I can no mestyer ne craft/ and so I might be well deceived/ Therefore if he will assure me/ & that he will give to me a gift such as I shall demand him when I shall be in his country/ I shall deliver him & shall leave my country for love of him/ & ye may see in what estate I am/   

On the morn Paris and the freres came in to the prison & the frere recounted all this to the doulphyn/ & when the dolphin understood this/ him thought that god bore him away/ & said/ I thank god & this moure of the good will that he hath toward me/ For I never did him service ne pleasure wherefore he ought to do so much for me/ Nevertheless I hope that is the pleasure of god that he shall deliver me out of prison/ I am ready to swear upon the body of Ihesu christ or I ever depart from hens/ that assoon as I shall be in mine own land I shall maintain him in more greater estate/ than he ne is here and I will that he do all his will of all my land/ for it shall suffice to me only that I have a ryving for me and my wife/ and I shall do all that he will/ and so say ye to him on my behalue/ And then the frere told all to paris that which the dolphin had said and promised to do/ and to th'end that paris should be more sure/ he said to the frere that he should bring to fore him the body of our lord Ihesu cryst/ and that tofore him he should swear to hold all that he promised/ and the frere told it to Paris/ and the dolphin swore it tofore Paris to accomplish all that he had promised And when he had sworn/ to the end that Paris should be the better content/ the doulphyn received the precious body of our lord Ihesu Cryst/ saying that it should be to the damnation of his soul/ in caas that he accomplished not all that he had promised when they should be in his land/ and when this was do paris and the freres departed fro the doulphyn/ and went to the port/ for to wite if there were any fuste that would come hitherward/ and by adventure they fond a fuste/ and Paris with the freres spoke to the patron/ and promised him a M besaunts of gold if they would let have passage five persons/ The Patron seeing the great treasure/ said to them that he was content/ but he would have half at the port/ and said to them/ lords I pray you make you ready/ For in caas that the moures of this land fond us we should be all deed ¶/ then said Paris make yourself all ready/ for this night at midnight I shall come/ And after this Paris returned to his lodging & did do make ready moche victual and the best wines that he could gete & he with the freres made provision of all other things and mantellies and towellies/   

When all was ready paris went to the keepers of the prison and said/ I thank you many times of the playsyrs that ye have done to me/ I will now depart fro hens for to return to my lord the soldan/ but for your love I will soup with you this night and pray you that we may soup to guider/ & they answered that it well pleased them for his love then Paris sent for the victual & for the win/ and after it was come/ they souped to guider/ And the keepers which had not been accustomed to drink win/ drank so moche that they all were drunk/ & incontinent loyed them down to sleep/ & slept so fast/ that for no thing they could not awake them/ & when paris saw that/ he said to the freres/ that they should unfeter the doulphyn/ & that they should open the yates of the prison/ & if any of the keepers awake I shall slay him/ then the freres began to unfetter the dolphin with great dread/ praying god to be their aid and help/ And when the dolphin was loose he clad him like a moure After Paris slew all the keepers one after another by cause if they awoke they should not come after them/   

This done/ the doulphyn with paris and his varlet/ and the two freres camen to the port/ and hastily entered in to the fuste which was all ready/ and wound up their sail/ and by the help of god began so fast to sail that with in few days they arryveden in a place that then was christian and there the dolphin went a land by cause he was much grieved and annoyed as well of the see/ as for the harm that he had suffered in prison/ and there borrowed money/ and fro thence came in to cypress/ where was a king which had dwelled in the court of the king of france The which as soon as he knew that the doulphyn of viennese was come/ he went to meet him and prayed him that he would come and lodge in his palace/ And the dolphin went thither/ whereof the king had great joy/ & there he made him great chyere/ for many times they had seen each other in the kings court of France/ and after the king demanded him of his adventure/ & the dolphin recounted it to him all along/ and because of the coming of the dolphin he made much great feast/ and received him much highly/ and made him to sojourn there as long as it pleased him/ And when the dolphin had sojourned there at his pleasure/ he took leave of the king and of all his court/ thanking him moche of the great pleasure that he had done to him/ The king seeing that the dolphin would depart/ he gave to him great yefts/ and did do arm two galleys which accompanied him/ and brought him upon the see/ and had so good wind that in few days after they brought him in to aygues mortes/   

When the dolphin was arrived/ the knights of the doulphyne heard it anon/ and forthwith made them ready & went to horseback & met with him at aygues mortes/ & there received him in great honour/ & so came forth the right way to vyenne/ and for joy of his coming/ all they of the city made a moche noble and marvelous feast/ which endured well fifteen days/ & the pleasure & joy was so great among them by cause they had recowerd their lord/ that no man should and could have thought it/ Paris in all this wise never changed his vesture ne clothing but continually went to mass/ and by the commandment of the doulphyn the people did him great reverence & honour/ so moche that paris was ashamed thereof/ and spoke no thing but mouryske/ And he had a great beard/ and made to no person of the world any knowledge/ and after a while of time/ the doulphyn for t'accomplish that he had promised to paris by the frere/ did do say to paris and do demand if he would have the signory of his land and country/ For he was all ready for t'accomplish that/ which he had promised/ And Paris made to him answer/ that he should keep still his land/ then the dolphin did do demand him if he would have his daughter vyenne/ and paris made the frere to say ye/ for that pleased him well/ And then they went to her/ ¶ Then when they were tofore Vyenne the frere spoke first Madam ye know well that my lord your father hath been a great while in prison/ and yet should have been/ ne had have been/ this moure/ which hath saved him/ putting his person in right great peril and danger for the love of my lord your father/ And thus ye may well know how moche he is holden to him/ & by cause hereof your father is subget to him ever/ wherefore your father prayeth you that upon all the pleasure that ye will do for him/ that ye will take him for your husband/ And he shall pardon all the displeasure that ever ye did to him/ when the frere had finished his words/ vyenne answered to him saying/ The bishop of saint laurence knoweth well that is here present that it is long sith that if I ●●old have be married/ I might have been married with more honour unto my father/ than unto this moure/ for the son of the duke of borgoyne had espoused me if I would have consented but god hath put me in such a malady/ that I may not long live in this world/ & every day my malady increaseth & so enpayreth me that I am half rotten wherefore I pray you to say to my father that he hold me excused/ for at this time I will not be married/ then they took their leave of vienne & recounted all this to the doulphyn/ Thenne the dolphin said to the frere that he should say it to the moure/ & so the frere told it all to paris/ and then paris which was afeard to lose the love of vienne/ went for to see her in the prison with the frere & the bishop of saint laurence/ then when Paris saw vienne in that disposition/ he had much great sorrow & great marvel/ and then he made the frere to salue her in his name/ and vienne answered unto his greeting right courteously/ & the frere said in the name of paris/ Madame ye know well I have delivered your father out of prison/ whereof ye ought to have singular pleasure/ & yet he should have been there if I had not have been and helped him out/ & he pardoneth you with good heart and good will all the desplaysyrs that ever ye did against his pleasure/ And prayeth you that ye take me for your husband/ and will that we have the lordship of the doulphyne/ and therefore I pray you/ that neither ye nor I lose not this honour/ ¶ And yet more though this were not/ ye ought not to disobey the commandments of your father/ ¶ And then vyenne answered to the frere as to the person of Paris saying/ I know well that ye have delivered my father out of prison/ Not withstanding my father shall have such regard against you that ye shall lose no thing/ ¶ And I wot well that ye be a man of great lineage/ & are thorthy to have a greater lady than I am/ But the bishop of saint Laurence which is present knoweth well that for the malady that I am in/ I may not long live/ & thenne said the frere in his name this is by cause I am a moure that ye refuse me/ I promise you that I shall become christian/ but I think well that if ye knew who that I am/ and what I have left for to bring your father out of prison/ that ye would praise me more than ye do/ know ye for certain that your father shall be pariured/ for he hath promised that ye shall be my wife whereof ye shall have blame/ therefore if it please you grant ye him his will/ then said vyenne/ lord I have herd say much good of you/ & that ye be he that have done so moche for my father/ but nevertheless in the malady in the which I am/ none aught to council me to take an husband/ For my life may not long endure/ and by cause that ye may know that I say troth approach ye ner to me/ & ye shall feel and smell in what disposition I am of my person/ And then they approached ner to her/ and vienne had put two quarters of an hen under her two arm hooles/ and there issued so great stench that the bishop ne the frere might not suffer it/ Nevertheless the▪ stench was to paris a good odour/ for he smelled it not & said I wot not what ye smell/ for I feel none evil savour/ And they marveled strongly/ by cause he felt not the odour/ And the frere said in paris name/ For this odour shall I never leave you & I assure you I shall never depart fro hens until ye have consented to that your father will/ and vienne answered much angrily & said by the faith that I own to god I shall rather run with my heed against the wa●●e that I shall make my brain issue out of my mouth/ & so shall ye be the occasion of my death/ Thenne said the frere ye shall not so do madame/ For I promise you fro hens forth/ that I shall never speak more to you/ sith that it is not your will ne plesyr/ but at lest of one thing I pray you/ that this night ye advise you/ and I shall return to morn for to have of you an answer/ and ye shall take council of your fellow/ and I pray to god that ye may be well counseled/ and all these things said the frere in the name of paris to vyenne/ And after they took their leave of vienne/ and said all to the doulphyn/ whereof he was then much disposed/ and bad the frere to tell it all unto Paris for to excuse him/ and that he should not leye the blame on him/ ¶ And when they were departed fro vyenne/ she said to ysabeau/ My fair sister/ what seemeth you of the wisdom of my father/ that thinketh that I should take this moure to my husband/ and have refused the son of the Duke of bourgoyne/ but god forbid that ever in my life I have other lord than Paris to mine husband/ whom I hope yet to have/ & ysabeau said/ Certes Madam I wot not what to say of your father which would give you to a moure in marriage/ I have thereof great thought/ for he hath said that he shall return to morn to see you/ and hath said that ye should remember and advise you/   

¶ How Paris came to see vienne in the prison/ and how she knew him/  
ANd on the morn betimes Paris clad him moche more richly than he had be accustomed/ & gird with a moche rich sword/ and came to the prison with the frere and the frere said to her/ Madame we been returned for to know your good answer/ and your intention/ And vyenne answered/ lords mine intention is that I shall never break my promise that I have made/ For I have avowed that I shall never take husband/ ne go out of this prison/ but deed save him to whom I have promised/ and therefore return ye in good time ¶ then said the frere/ by my faith I wot not what to say/ for it is great damage that ye suffer so moche sorrow & pain/ and sith it is thus your will & that ye will none otherwise do/ Nevertheless the moure prayeth you/ that it may please you to do to him so much grace/ that sith ye will not take him in marriage/ that ye will were this ring for the love of him/ Now this ring was the same ring that vienne gave to paris when he departed fro her in the house of the chappelayn/ and vienne by cause they should no more come again took the ring/ & when she had received the ring/ paris said to the frere/ I pray you that ye tarry a little without/ For I will see what countenance she will make of the ring/ and the frere said gladly/ Nevertheless he marveled moche/ and incontinent the frere went out/ and vienne began to behold the ring/ and when paris saw that vienne beheld the ring so strongly/ he began to speak in his plain tongue/ and said/ O moche noble lady why be ye so much admeruayled of that ring/ then said vyenne/ Certes to my seeming I saw never a fairer/ ¶ then said paris/ Therefore I pray you that ye take therein pleasure for the more that ye behold it the more ye shall praise it/   

When Vyenne heard the moure thus speak/ thenne she was more amarveled than tofo●●/ and was as a person all abashed and said/ Alas am I enchanted/ & what is this that I see and here speak And in saying these words she would have fled for fere out of the prison/ by cause she heard the moure so speak/ then said paris/ O much noble lady vienne/ marvel ye no thing/ ne have ye no doubt/ lo here is paris your true servant/ and vienne was thenne abashed more than tofore/ Certes said she this may not be but by work enchanted/ & paris said/ Noble lady it is none enchanted work/ For I am your servant paris which left you with ysabeau in such a church/ & there ye gave to me the diamond which now I have delivered to you and there ye promised to me that ye would never take husband but me/ and be ye no thing amarveled of the beard ne of the vesture that I were/ for they take away the knowledge of me/ & many other words said paris to vyenne/ by which she knew clearly that he was paris and for the sovereign love that she bore to him/ & for the great joy that she had/ she began to weep in his arms/ and tembrace and kiss him much sweetly/ and there they comforted each other with sweet words/ & so abode long time/ vyenne could not enough kiss him & embrace him/ and also paris demanded of her of her adventure/ & she told him all/ And of all this ysabeau had nothing heard of/ for she was fast a sleep by cause she had watched all the night before/ and for the great joy and sweetness that paris & vyenne demeaned between them she awoke/ and when she saw vienne being embraced with the moure she said/ Madame what is this that ye do/ have ye lost your wit/ that so embrace this moure/ hath he enchanted you that ye suffer him so familiar with you/ and is this the faith that ye keep to paris/ for whom ye have suffered so moche pain & sorrow/ and vienne said/ Sweet sister say ye no such words/ but come & take your part of the solace that I have/ for also well have ye founden good adventure as I have/ See ye not here my sweet paris/ whom so much we have desired/ then ysabeau approached ner to him & beheld him well and saw that it was paris/ and she went & kissed him/ & demeaned so much great joy between them three/ that there is no person in the world that might say ne think it/ but so abode a great while in this soulas and joy/ till at last paris spack/ Sweet vyenne it behooveth that we go hens tofore my lord the dolphin your father/ For now fro hens forth it is necessary that he know all our fayte/ Nevertheless I pray you to say nothing/ till I desire you/ and all three came out of the prison/ and sonde the frere which marveled greatly and all they to gydre went to the doulphyn/ which had sovereign pleasure when he saw them And nevertheless he was much abusshed how his daughter was so come/ and then paris said to the frere/ Say ye to the doulphyn that I have converted his daughter to his will and to mine/ & that it please him that she be my wife/ & the frere said so/ then the dolphin said to his daughter/ will ye take this man for your husband/ which hath delivered me out of prison in great peril of his person/ then demanded vienne of Paris if he would that she should speak/ and paris said ye/ And then Vyenne said to the doulphyn/ My father I am ready to do your commandment and his/ and pray you to pardon me & to give to me your benedyctyon/ and when she said thus/ her father pardonned her and gaf to her his blessing & kissed her/ then said vienne loo here is my good friend Paris whom I have so much desired/ and for whom I have suffered so moche pain & sorrow and father this is he that so sweetly song and floyted/ and that wan the jousts in this city/ and bare with him the shield of crystal and my garland/ & also this is he that wan the jousts in the city of paris and won there the three banners with the iij jewels/ and went away with them without knowing of any man/ And also he hath delivered you out of prison putting his life in jeopardy for you/ and when the dolphin understood all this he was marvelously glad and joyous/ After all this paris went to his father/ & when he saw him and knew that he was his son paris/ whom he had so long desired to see/ he embraced him & kissed him/ & for the joy that he had he could not speak a word and after all the other lords & knights ran for tembrace & kiss him/ and after this joy Paris father said to the doulphyn/ ¶ My lord please it you that I may borrow my son home to my house for to see his mother and his fellow Edward/ ¶ then said the doulphyn it pleaseth me right well only for this day/ For to morn I will that the marriage of him & my daughter be made & solemnized here/ And then messyre jaques went with his son unto his house/ And when he was there/ verily his father/ his mother/ and his fellow Edward wist not where they were for joy and pleasure that they had and that was no wonder/ for they had no more children but him/ and he should wed the daughter of their lord/ and also Paris was in that time become a valiant knight/ and full of all beauty/ and for many reasons it was no marvel though they had in him great joy and pleasure/ & Edward demanded of him of his adventure/ & many other things/ And he recounted and told him all/   

¶ How Paris espoused and wedded vienne/ and of the feast that was there made/  
then on the morn the dolphin gaf his daughter in marriage to paris And the feast was much noble and sumptuous/ For moche people were comen thither for to see the feast/ and it endured fifteen days/ And the pleasure and solace which was done for the love of Paris and of vienne was so great/ that uneath it may be believed/ which paris and Vyenne lived to guider a great while in right great consolation and pleasure/ but after thaccomplysshement of the marriage/ the father and mother of paris liveden not long after in this world/ and Paris had by Vyenne his wife three children/ that is to weet two sons & one d●ughter/ And the doulphyn ordained for them much noble matrimony/ And paris after the death of his father and his mother would that Edward his dear fellow should be herytyer of all the goods that his father left and gave to him ysabeau to his wife/ which lived to guider long time in great love and concord/ And soon after the dolphin & his wife dieden/ And then was Paris doulyhyn and had the possession of all the signory/ the which lived with vienne in this world forty year and led a good and holy life/ in so much that after th'intendment of some men they be saints in heaven/ & they died both in one year/ And semblably Edward and ysabeau died both twain in one year/ Therefore let us pray unto our lord that we may do such works in this world/ that in such wise we may accompany them in the perdurable glory of heaven Amen/    

¶ Thus endeth th'history of the noble and valiant knight paris/ and the fair vienne daughter of the doulphyn of viennese/ translated out of french in to english by William Caxton at westminster finished the last day of August the year of our lord MCCCClxxxv/ and imprinted the nineteen day of december the same year/ and the first year of the reign of king Harry the seventh/ ¶ Explicit ꝑ Caxton