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

.Nor///. (b) the STORIE of THEBES. 39Hou Tydeus repeyred hym to Arge al forwoundyd.But what shuld I rehercen owther telle 1380Of his repeir, the coostes or the pleyns,The craggy Roches or the hegh mounteyns,Or al the maner of his hoom-co/;2mynge,Of the metyng nor the \velco;^2mynge ?Nor the loye that Adrastus made, 1385Nor how his sustre & his wif were glade,Nor how that they (wherto shuld I write ?)Enbraced hym in her Armes white,Nor the gadryng about hym & the pres,Nor of the sorowe that Polymytes 1390Mad in hym-silf, to sen hym so soor wounded,His greuous hurtes, his soorys ek vnsouwded,His dedly look, and his face paleOf alle this to gynne a newe taleIt were in soth^ a maner ydylnesse 1395how hym-silf in ordre did expr^sse,First how that he in Thebes hath hym born,Nor how the kyng falsly was forsworn,Nor of the awayt nor tvesoun that he sette,Whan fyfty knyghtes on the way hym mette, 1400As 56 han herd al the maner howe,With-oute ^which my tale is long ynowe.But Adrastus maad men to secheIn euery Coost, for many diu^rse leche,To come in hast and make no tarying^, 1405Vpon a peyne, be biddyng of the kyng(?,To don her craft that he wer recured.And of his force in eu^ry part assured.iSo in Trin. MS. O. 5. 2 ; Ar. ' With-out/