Servant in love, and lord in marriáge. Then was he both in lordship and servage? Servage? nay, but in lordship all above, Since he had both his lady and his love: His lady certes, and his wife also, The which that law of love accordeth to. And when he was in this prosperity, Home with his wife he went to his country, Not far from Penmark, 3237 where his dwelling was, And there he liv’d in bliss and in solace. 3238 Who couldë tell, but 3239 he had wedded be, The joy, the ease, and the prosperity, That is betwixt a husband and his wife? A year and more lasted this blissful life, Till that this knight, of whom I spakë thus, That of Cairrud 3240 was call’d Arviragus, Shope
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