[Sidenote: [TALE OF ULYSSES AND TELEGONUS.]] Among hem whiche at Troie were,[837] Uluxes ate Siege there [Sidenote: Nota contra istos ob amoris causam sortilegos; vbi narrat in exemplum quod, cum Vluxes a subuersione Troie repatriare nauigio voluisset, ipsum in Insula Cilly, vbi illa expertissima maga nomine Circes regnauit, contigit applicuisse: quem vt in sui amoris concupiscenciam exardesceret, Circes omnibus suis incantacionibus vincere conabatur. Vluxes tamen magica potencior ipsam in amore subegit, ex qua filium nomine Thelogonum genuit, qui postea patrem suum interfecit: et sic contra fidei naturam genitus contra generacionis naturam patricidium operatus est.] Was on be name in special; Of whom yit the memorial Abit, for whyl ther is a mouth, For evere his name schal be couth. He was a worthi knyht and king And clerk knowende of every thing; He was a gret rethorien, He was a gret magicien; 1400 Of Tullius the rethorique, Of king Zorastes the magique, Of Tholome thastronomie, Of Plato the Philosophie, Of Daniel the slepi dremes, Of Neptune ek the water stremes, Of Salomon and the proverbes, Of Macer al the strengthe of herbes, And the Phisique of Ypocras, And lich unto Pictagoras 1410 [Sidenote: =P. iii. 49=] Of Surgerie he knew the cures. Bot somwhat of his aventures, Which schal to mi matiere acorde, Ter thee, mi Sone, I wol recorde. This king, of which thou hast herd sein, Fro Troie as he goth hom ayein Be Schipe, he fond the See divers, With many a wyndi storm revers. Bot he thurgh wisdom that he schapeth[838] Ful many a gret peril ascapeth, 1420 Of whiche I thenke tellen on, Hou that malgre the nedle and ston Wynddrive he was al soudeinly Upon the strondes of Cilly, Wher that he moste abyde a whyle. Tuo queenes weren in that yle Calipsa named and Circes; And whan they herde hou Uluxes Is londed ther upon the ryve, For him thei senden als so blive. 1430 With him suche as he wolde he nam And to the court to hem he cam.[839] Thes queenes were as tuo goddesses Of Art magique Sorceresses, That what lord comth to that rivage, Thei make him love in such a rage And upon hem assote so,[840] That thei wol have, er that he go, Al that he hath of worldes good. Uluxes wel this understod, 1440 [Sidenote: =P. iii. 50=] Thei couthe moche, he couthe more; Thei schape and caste ayein him sore[841] And wroghte many a soutil wyle, Bot yit thei mihte him noght beguile.[842] Bot of the men of his navie Thei tuo forschope a gret partie, Mai non of hem withstonde here hestes;