meruaylled / and prayde hym that he shold brynge hym in / Thenne the angel cam in and salewed the old tho∣bye and said / Ioye be to the alewaye / And thobye said / what Ioye shal be to
and was honorably buryed in the cy∣te of nynyue / he was lvj yere old whan he lost hys syght & whan he was lx yere old he receyuyd hys syght a∣gayn / The resydue of hys lyf was in
to the bourdel / and forgate the gospel vpon me / And anon the fowle womā said goo hens thou old man for thou art an angele of god / touche me not / ne come no ner me /
felawshyp and sawe hym playe wyth hys byrde / whyche sayd to hys felaws lawhyng / See how the yon∣der old man playeth wyth a byrd ly∣ke a chyld / whyche saynt Ioh̄n kne∣we anon by tholy ghoost what he
my sone / but gretter stryues and bataylles be due to the for the feyth of Ihesu crist we as old men haue taken more light¦ter bataylle / & to the as to a yong man shall remayne a more
lxxij yere old / but hit is more probable / that / whiche is red in another place / that she lyued after the ascenci∣on of hyr sone twelue yere / And soo thenne she was lx yere old /
were more connyng in holy wrytte / And whan the day of Eester cam / And Austyn was xxx yere old / he and hys sone whiche was named a de o datus / a childe of noble wytte and
The deuylle thenne cryed there / sayenge / O what vyolence I suffre of this old seruaunt of God / O vyo∣lence / O euylle old age / acursyd be the day / in whiche thow were born contra∣ry to
/ and to hys gloryous Appostle saynt Peter / And whanne saynt Edward vnderstode / that this chirche was of old tyme halo¦wed by saynt Peter / And how saynt Peter hadde commaunded hym to repai¦re the same Chirche /
After this the aungel of our lord appyeryd to a certayne old man commaundyng hym to take vp the bodyes and burye them in his howe / which old man took a co¦syn of his an olde woman / whiche
/ thryes And they myght not moeue the sepul¦cre / And as they wold haue lyfte hit a ryght fair old man appiered to them and sayde / wherfore tarye ye / See ye not that saynt Martyn is alle
haue this hors myn old frend / for gre∣te nede hast thow of hors / gramercy said Vlfyus / thenne syre Arthur dyd so merueillously in armes that all men had won¦dyr / whan the kynge with the C knyghtes
kyng Lotts wyf / and all were put in a ship to the see / and some were iiij wekes old and some lasse / And so by fortune the shyp drofe vnto a castel and was al to ryuen
that said / it is not for no knyght alone to ryde toward this Castel / thēne sawe he an old hore gentylman comyng toward hym that sayd Ba∣lyn le Saueage thow passyst thy bandes to come this waye /
and soo he rode with her and had passyng go∣od there with her / and she hadde a passyng fair old knyght to her husband that made hym passynge good chere and wel ea∣syd bothe his hors and he /
/ for he wente from the Court with lytel socour / but as kyng Pellinore his fader gaf hym an old courser / and kyng Arthur gaf hym armour and a swerd / and els had he none other socour
noo lawe ne for noo worldes goodes / Vnto this were all the knyghtes sworne of the table round both old and yong / And euery yere were they sworne at the hyghe feest of Pentecost¶Explicit the weddynge of kynge
stede trapped with clothe of gold / Soo thenne syr Vwayn dyd many straunge auentures by the meanes of the old damoysel / and so she broughte hym to a lady that was called the lady of the roche /
them all that ben subgettys and alyed to thēpyre of Rome to come to myn ayde / and forthwith sente old wyse knyghtes vnto these coun∣trayes folowynge / fyrste to ambage and arrage / to Alysaun∣drye / to ynde. to
fortune hym happend a∣geynst a nyghte to come to a fayr courtelage / & therin he fond an old gentylwoman that lodged hym with good wyl / and there he had good chere for hym and his hors / And