'Syr,' quod they, 'we haue passyd by Fraunce, & fyrst They tell him how Esclaramonde received them at Bordeaux, and how fair she is,we were at Burdeux, & there we founde ye duches Esclaramonde, wyfe to Huon of Burdeux, of whom ye haue herd so myche spekynge of.[1] she is so fayre & so well fourmyd,[2] so swete, pleasaunt, & gracyous as can be deuysyd. she is doughter to the admyrall Gaudys, whom Huon hath slayne, & taken her to his wyfe / grete domage[3] is it th|at Huon sholde haue suche a wyfe / for she were and how worthy to be the wife of a greater prince than Huon—even of Raoul himself.meter to be wyfe to a pusaunt kinge, for who so euer had suche a wyfe to lye by myght wel say that there were none lyke her in all ye worlde / wolde to our lorde god, sir / that she were your wyfe' / whan the duke herde that, he chaungyd coloure & greatly couertyd the lady in his herte / so that he was stryken with [4]such [5]sparke of that for the[5] byrnynge loue that he had to the lady Esclaramonde,[6] he promysed & The Duke swears that he will wed Esclaramonde.sware that he wolde haue her, who so euer sayd the contrary, & sayd howe[7] he wolde slee Huon, & than haue Esclaramonde to his wyfe. Thus duke Raoull sware the deth of Huon /[8] than he departyd fro the pylgremes. yll was employed[9] the almes that Esclaramonde had gyuen them.
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¶ How duke Raoull of Austrych, by the reporte of the pylgremes, was amourous of the fayre Esclaramonde / and of the tornay that was cryed,[10] to thentent to haue slayne Huon.
