[Sidenote: Her cousin labours to expel her love for Lancelot from her thoughts, but her labour is in vain.] Hir cuſynace hath don al at ſhe my{ch}t For to expel that thing out of hir tho{ch}t; It wil not be, hir labour Is for no{ch}t. 1272 Now leif we hir In to hir neweſt pan, And to arthur we wil retwrn agañ. EXPLICIT P{RI}M{US} LIBER, INCIPIT SECUND{US}. [Headnote: ARTHUR’S GREAT ANXIETY.] [BOOK II.] [Sidenote: Night.] ++The clowdy nyght, wndir whois obſcure The reſt and quiet of euery criatur 1276 Lyith ſauf, quhare the goſt w{i}t{h} beſyneß Is occupiit, w{i}t{h} thoghtfull hewynes; And, for that tho{ch}t furth ſchewing vil h{is} my{ch}t, Go fare-wel reſt and quiet of the ny{ch}t. 1280 [Sidenote: Arthur cannot rest.] Artur, I meyne, to whome that reſt is no{ch}t, But al the ny{ch}t ſuppriſit is with tho{ch}t; In to his bed he turnyth to and fro, Remembryng the apperans of his wo, 1284 That is to ſay, his deith, his confuſioune, And of his realme the opin diſtruccioune. That in his wit he can no thing p{ro}wide, Bot tak his forton thar for to abyd. 1288 [Sidenote: The sun goeth up.] Vp goith the ſon, vp goith the hot morow; The thoghtful king al the ny{ch}t to ſorow, That ſauch the day, vpone his feit he ſtart, [Fol. 17.] [Sidenote: Arthur goeth forth.] And furth he goith, diſtrublit in his hart. 1292 A quhill he walkith in his penſyf goſt, [Sidenote: He hears that a clerk has arrived,] So was he ware thar cu{m}myne to the oſt O clerk, with whome he was aqwynt befor, In to his tyme non bett{er} was y-bore; 1296 Of qwhois com he gretly vas Reioſit, For in to hyme ſum comfort he ſuppoſit; [Sidenote: between whom and himself there was a hearty affection.] Betuex them was one hartly affeccioune. Non ord{er}is had he of Relegioune, 1300 Fam{us} he was, and of gret excellence, [Sidenote: He was expert in the seven sciences,] And ry{ch}t exp{er}t in al the vij. ſcience; Contemplatif and chaſt in gou{er}nance, [Sidenote: and was named Amytans.] And clepit was the maiſt{er} amytans. 1304 The king befor his palȝou{n}e one the gren, That knew hyme well, {and} haith his cu{m}myn ſeñ, [Sidenote: Arthur welcomes him.] Velcu{m}myt hyme, and maid hyme ry{ch}t gud chere, And he agan, agrewit as he were, 1308 [Sidenote: He recks nothing of Arthur’s salutation.] Saith, “nothir of thi ſaloſing, nor the, Ne rak I no{ch}t, ne charg I no{ch}t,” q{uo}d hee. [Sidenote: The king inquires what trespass he has committed.] Than q{uod} the king, “maiſt{er}, {and} for what why