Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

'•^SoIll, (b) the Stor IE OF THEBES. 37So wo?;zmanly, so goodly & benygneIn al her poort, be many dyuers signe,He vnto hir^ be ordre wold not spare 1325His auenturis fully to declare ;In Thebes first, touching his massage,And al the hil of the woode ^ rage,Of his woundes and his hurtes soreIt were but veyn to reherce it mor. 1330Hou Tydeus ^vas refresshed in the castel of the lady.By and by he told her eu^ry del,The which in soth she liked neu^re a del,But hadde routh and compassiomiOf his meschief, wroght be fals treso//n,Byddyng in hast that he shuld hir^ swe. 1335And wommanly, as her thoght[e] dwe,To a chambre she ladde hym vp alofte.Ful wel beseyn ;Richely abouten apparayledther-in a bed right softe,With cloth of gold ; al the floor yrayled 1340Of the same, both in lengths & brede.And first this lady, of her wowmanhede,Hir^ wymmen badde, as goodly as they kan.To be attendaz/nt on this wounded man.And whan he was vnarmed to his sherte, 1345She made first wassh his woundes smerte,And serche hem wel with dyuers instrumentzV,And made ^ fett[en] sondry oynement/j,And leches ek, the best[e] she koude fynde,Ful craftely to staunche hem & to bynde. 13501Trin. MSS. ' wode,' 'woode'; Ar. ' wood.'in Trin. MSS. ; Ar. ' mad.'