For he that wole of pourveance[391] Be such a weie his lust avance, 5540 He schal it after sore abie, Bot if these olde ensamples lie. [Sidenote: Amans.] Nou, goode fader, tell me on, So as ye cunne manyon, Touchende of love in this matiere. [Sidenote: Confessor.] Nou list, mi Sone, and thou schalt hiere,[392] So as it hath befalle er this, In loves cause hou that it is A man to take be Ravine The preie which is femeline. 5550 [Sidenote: [TALE OF TEREUS.]] Ther was a real noble king, And riche of alle worldes thing, Which of his propre enheritance [Sidenote: Hic ponit exemplum contra istos in amoris causa raptores. Et narrat qualiter Pandion Rex Athenarum duas filias,[393] videlicet Progne et Philomenam, habuit. Progne autem Tereo[394] Regi Tracie desponsata, contigit quod cum[395] Tereus ad instanciam vxoris[396] sue Philomenam de Athenis in Traciam sororie visitacionis causa secum quadam vice perduceret, in concupiscenciam Philomene tanta seueritate in itinere dilapsus est, quod ipse non solum sue violencia rapine virginitatem eius oppressit, set et ipsius linguam, ne factum detegeret, forpice mutulauit. Vnde in perpetue memorie Cronicam tanti raptoris austeritatem miro ordine dii postea vindicarunt.] Athenes hadde in governance, And who so thenke therupon, His name was king Pandion. Tuo douhtres hadde he be his wif, The whiche he lovede as his lif; The ferste douhter Progne hihte, And the secounde, as sche wel mihte,[397] 5560 Was cleped faire Philomene, To whom fell after mochel tene. The fader of his pourveance His doughter Progne wolde avance, And yaf hire unto mariage A worthi king of hih lignage, [Sidenote: =P. ii. 314=] A noble kniht eke of his hond, So was he kid in every lond, Of Trace he hihte Tereüs; The clerk Ovide telleth thus. 5570 This Tereüs his wif hom ladde, A lusti lif with hire he hadde; Til it befell upon a tyde, This Progne, as sche lay him besyde, Bethoughte hir hou it mihte be That sche hir Soster myhte se, And to hir lord hir will sche seide, With goodly wordes and him preide That sche to hire mihte go: And if it liked him noght so, 5580 That thanne he wolde himselve wende, Or elles be som other sende, Which mihte hire diere Soster griete, And schape hou that thei mihten miete. Hir lord anon to that he herde Yaf his acord, and thus ansuerde: ‘I wole,’ he seide, ‘for thi sake The weie after thi Soster take Miself, and bringe hire, if I may.’