[Headnote: ARTHUR AT CARLISLE.] [BOOK I.] [Sidenote: When Titan, being in Aries, had apparelled the fields,] ++Quhen [that] tytan, withe his lusty heit, [Fol. 5b.] Twenty dais In to the aryeit 336 Haith maid his courß, and all with diu{er}ß hewis Aparalit haith the feldis and the bewis; [Sidenote: and birds began to make their bowers;] The bird{is} amyd the erbis {and} the flour{is}, And one the branchis, makyne gone thar bour{is}, 340 And be the morow ſinging in ther chere Welcum to the luſty ſeſſone of the ȝere. In to this tyme the worthi conqueroure [Sidenote: king Arthur was at Carlisle.] Arthure, wich had of al this worlde the floure 344 Of cheuelry auerding to his crown, So paſing war his kny{ch}t{is} in renoune, Was at carlill; and hapy{n}nit ſo that hee Soiornyt well long in that faire cuntree. 348 [Sidenote: His knights, hearing of no adventure, were annoyed.] In to whilk tyme In to the court thai heire None awenture, for wich the knyght{is} weire Anoit all at the abiding thare. For-why, beholding one the ſobir ayre 352 And of the tyme the paſing luſtynes, Can ſo thir knyghtly hart{is} to encreß, [Sidenote: They therefore sent Sir Kay to pray the king to go to Camelot.] That thei ſhir kay one to the king haith ſende, Beſeiching hyme he wold wichſaif to wende 356 To camelot the Cetee, whare that thei Ware wont to heryng of armys day be day. The king forſuth, heryng thare entent, To thare deſir, be ſchort awyſment, 360 [Sidenote: The king proposed to do so on the morrow.] Ygrantid haith; and ſo the king p{ro}ponit And for to pas hyme one[T8] the morne diſponit. [Footnote T8: MS. “to pas one hyme one,” with first “one” lightly crossed out.] [Headnote: ARTHUR’S TWO DREAMS.]