her knyghtes to se[1] ye pylgremes shold haue meet and drynke / & They are well entertained,so they were set at ye end of the hall, & a table coueryd for them, & thereon brede & fleshe & wyne / they were well serued. Than the duches Esclaramonde went to vysyt them, & demaundyd where they were borne & whether they wolde go. 'Dame,'[2] quod they, 'we be all .iii. borne at Vyene, & thether we wolde retourne' / 'syrs, god be your gyde,' quod the lady, & she gaue them .x. Florence, wherof they had grete ioy & thankyd ye duches. [3]Alas! that gyft was yll imployed,[4] as ye shal here [5]after. but soon set out for Vienna.They departyd & toke ther way, & trauayled so longe that on a twesdaye [6]they aryued halfe a legge fro Vyene / & On their way they meed Duke Raoul, who was hawking.ther they met duke Raoull, who was goynge a hawkynge / he was a grete & puyssaunt lord of londes & seynoryes, & hardy in dedes of armes. grete domage[7] it was that he was such a He is a traitortraytoure, for a more subtylman coude not be knowen / for all the dayes of his lyfe he was euer a and a mover of war.mouer of warre & stryfe & to do treason, without hauynge regarde other to kynne or other / god confounde hym / for by hym & hys cause Huon sufferyd so myche yll that it cannot be recountyd. This duke Raoull was to mary / thus as he was in the feldes a hawkynge, & .xx. knyghtes with hym, he met the sayd thre pylgremes, & anone he knew them. Than he rode to them & sayd, 'syrs, ye be He welcomes the pilgrims,welcom home' / they were ioyfull, whan they saw the duke, there lord, salute them so humbly, & for ioy therof they shewed hym such newes that by ye occasyon therof .xx. M knyghtes lost after theyr lyues, & Raoull hymselfe receyued ye deth / & Huon had suche trouble that he had neuer none suche before, as ye shall here [5]after. Than the duke sayd to the pylgremes / and asks how they have fared.'frendes, I pray you shew me by what countrees ye haue passyd to com hether.'
