the meet was ready: and the time of the day was come to go to dyner/ the father came with a basin and an ewyr. and the mother with a towel saying sir. Sir all thing is ready/ please it you to wash: and when the king saw that: he smiled and said to himself Now is the song of the nightingale true. for my father and my mother should gladly fulfil as I said: if I myself would there/ to consent and suffer them. But he would not suffer them to do him that service: saying/ your age is to be honoured: and therefore I will not of it. and called unto him one of his servants the which served him thereof. Than said the knight/ ye will not suffer us to do it to our honour: for we are not worthy thereto. The king said. Have not I said that for the honour of your a/ goe I forbear it: when the king was set at the table. he set his mother on the right hand of him/ and his father on his left side. and they asmuch as they might beheld his up sage and countenance. The dinner ended  
¶ the king entered in to a chamber/ and made the knight with his lady to come in to him: and commanded all other to a void and go out/ and when they were thus a/ loan: the king said unto them. have ye no children. They answered we have neither son ne daughter. And the king said had ye never none. The knight answered we have had one son: but he is long a go deed. The king asked of what death died he. The knight said: a natural death. though said the king. if I may otherwise know that he died. than are ye found with a default. though asked the knight. My lord wherefore inquere ye thus after our son? The king answered. that do I not with out cause/ and therefore I wool know of what death he died: and if ye wool not tell me I shall cause you to die a shameful death when they heard that they fill to ground up on their knees afore him and asked him mercy and forgiveness of their lives. The king would not suffer them to kneel/ but shortly took them and said. To that intent came I not to your house to eat your breed and to betray you/ but say me the truth & ye shallbe saved. for it is yeven me to understand that ye have put him to death. & if that come in judgement ye must die a shameful death. Than said the knight. ford pardon me of my life & I shall show you the verraye truth. The king said: fear not/ for I shall do you no harm. though said he. sovereign lord we had a son only that was wise and lettered and right well understand. And upon a time as he stood afore us & served at the table. There came a nightingale that right sweetly sang whose song he began to interpret & tell us what it meant/ and said. This bird singeth/ that I shall be come so great and mighty a lord that it shallbe to your honour & advancement in such wise: the ye my father shallbe glad to hold the basin with water to wash in mine hands. and my mother ye towel if I wool suffer it. And when I herd that: I was fore moved and took and cast him into the see for to drown. though said the king: what evil might have come to you/ if he had been made so great & mighty/ me thinketh it should have been your honour and proufyt. The knight said lord it was no reason but a woodness. The king answered: that was a great foolishness of you that ye would do against the ordinance and will of god. But now ye shall know for troth that I am your son that ye cast into the see/ and god of his great mercy & goodness hath saved me: and by his grace hath brought me to this state and dignity. And the father and mother hearing that with fere and joy replenished fill flat to the ground: whom he friendly and loving/ lie took up/ saying fear not: butt rather be glad and joyous/ for ye shall no thing suffer/ but my evaltation shallbe your glory and joy and profit for ever/ and kissed both his father and mother with great joy and gladness. though began the mother to weep. Than said the king weep not/ but be of good comfort and cheer. for in my realm shall ye be taken and honoured above me during my life: in all things. and took