it shall be), That, soon after the midnight, Palamon By helping of a friend brake his prisón, And fled the city fast as he might go, For he had given drink his gaoler so Of a clary, 426 made of a certain wine, With narcotise and opie 427 of Thebes fine, That all the night, though that men would him shake, The gaoler slept, he mightë not awake: And thus he fled as fast as ever he may. The night was short, and fastë by the day That needës cast he must 428 himself to hide. And to a grovë fastë there beside With dreadful foot then stalked Palamon. For shortly this was his opinión, That in the grove he would him hide all day, And in the night then would he take his way To Thebes-ward, his friendës for to pray