This king Allá had such compassióun, As gentle heart is full filled of pitý, That from his eyen ran the water down “Now hastily do fetch a book,” quoth he; “And if this knight will swearë, how that she This woman slew, yet will we us advise 1609 Whom that we will that shall be our justíce.” 1610

A Briton book, written with Evangiles, 1611 Was fetched, and on this book he swore anon She guilty was; and, in the meanëwhiles, An hand him smote upon the neckë bone, That down he fell at once right as a stone: And both his eyen burst out of his face In sight of ev’rybody in that place.