190 STORY OF APOLLON1US OF TYRE.
Whan he to Tire cam home ayeine, That he to Tharse him hadde seine. Quaiuer Ap- Fortune hath ever be muable mmThars^re- And may no while stonde stable.
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For HOW it hlgheth, nOW it lOWCtll,
Now stant upright, now overthroweth, Now full of bliss and now of bale, !^ As in the telling of my tale
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m conten- Here afterward B. man may lere, ??eri§iŁ Which is a great routhe for to here.
This lord, which wolde done his best, Within himself hath litel rest And thought he wolde his place chaunge And seke a contre more straunge. Of Tharsiens his leve anone He toke and is to shippe gone. His cours he nam with saile npdrawe, "Where as fortune doth the lawe And sheweth, as I shall reherce, How she was to this lord diverse, The which upon the see she ferketh. The winde aros, the wether derketh, It blew and made such tempest, None anker may the ship arest, Which hath to-broken all his gere. The shipmen stood in such a fere, Was none that might him self bestere, But ever awaite upon the lere, Whan that they sholden drenche at ones. There was inough within the wones Of weping and of sorwe tho. The yonge king maketh mochel wo So for to se the ship travaile. But all that might him nought availe. The mast to-brake, the sail to-rofe, The ship upon the waves drofe, Till that they se the londes coste.