The day approacheth of their returning, That evereach an hundred knights should bring, The battle to darraine 596 as I you told; And to Athens, their covenant to hold, Hath ev’reach of them brought an hundred knights, Well armed for the war at allë rights. And sickerly 597 there trowed 598 many a man, That never, sithen 599 that the world began, For to speaken of knighthood of their hand, As far as God hath maked sea and land, Was, of so few, so noble a company. 600 For every wight that loved chivalry, And would, his thankës, 601 have a passant