[Linenotes: 4210 _soþe_--soth 4211 _confessen_--co{n}fesse 4212 _no strong_--the stronge 4213 _abassen_--abayssen 4215 _oft[e]_--ofte 4219 _seine_--seyn 4223 _heyȝt_--heyhte 4224 _welken_--wellen 4226 _confounde_--MS. co{n}fou{n}ded, C. confownde 4227 _Occupy_--Ocupye 4228 _stedfast_--stydefast 4230 _haþ_--MS. haþe 4231 _set_--MS. sette, C. set 4232 _lieþ_--lith 4233 _seyne_--seyn 4234 _sharpe_--sharp] [Headnote: WE CHOOSE OUR OWN FORTUNE.] BELLA BIS QUENIS. {ET} C{ETERA}. [Sidenote: [The seuende Met{ur}.]] [Sidenote: Atrides carried on a ten years’ war to punish the licentious Paris.] ++ÞE wrekere attrides ¶ þat is to seyne agamenon þat 4236 wrouȝt[e] {and} continued[e] þe batailes by ten ȝere recouered[e] {and} p{ur}ged[e] in wrekyng by þe destrucc{i}ou{n} of troie þe loste chambres of mariage of hys broþer þis is to seyn þat [he] agamenon wan aȝein Eleine þat 4240 was Menelaus wif his broþer. [Sidenote: With blood he purchased propitious gales for the Grecian fleet, by casting off all fatherly pity, and sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia to the vengeance of Diana.] In þe mene while þat þilke agamenon desired[e] to ȝeuen sailes to þe grekyssh{e} nauye {and} bouȝt[e] aȝein þe wyndes by blode. he vncloþed[e] hym of pite as fad{er}. {and} þe sory p{re}st 4244 ȝiueþ in sacrifiynge þe wreched kuyttyng of þrote of þe douȝter. ¶ þat is to sein þat agamenon lete kuytte{n} þe þrote of hys douȝter by þe prest. to maken alliaunce wiþ hys goddes. {and} for to haue wynde wiþ whiche he 4248 myȝt[e] wende to troie. [Sidenote: Ulysses bewailed his lost mates, devoured by Polyphemus, but, having deprived the Cyclop of his sight, he rejoiced to hear the monster’s roar.] ¶ Itakus þat is to sein vlixies bywept[e] hys felawes ylorn þe whiche felawes þe fiers[e] pholifem{us} ligginge in his grete Caue had[de] freten {and} dreint in hys empty wombe. but naþeles 4252 polifem{us} wood for his blinde visage ȝeld to vlixies ioye by hys sorowful teres. þis is to seyn þat vlixes smot oute þe eye of poliphem{us} þat stod in hys forhede.