So at the feeste first, As I bifore tolde, Bigan God of his grace And goodnesse to do-wel.
For Love hath so avaunced me, 4345 Whan I bigan my privitee To Bialacoil al for to telle, Whom I ne fond froward ne felle, But took a-gree al hool my play.
And whyl I stood thus derk and pale, Resoun bigan to me hir tale; She seide: 'Al hayl, my swete frend!
But thus I lete in lust and Iolitee This Cambynskan his lordes festeyinge, 345 Til wel ny the day bigan to springe.
The Sonday night, er day bigan to springe, When Palamon the larke herde singe, 2210 Although it nere nat day by houres two, Yet song the larke, and Palamon also.
Al light for somer rood this worthy man, And in myn herte wondren I bigan What that he was, til that I understood 570 How that his cloke was sowed to his hood; For which, when I had longe avysed me, I demed him som chanon for to be.
And with that word he, with a sobre chere, Bigan his tale, as ye shal after here.
And with that word we riden forth our weye; And he bigan with right a mery chere His tale anon, and seyde in this manere.
The thridde houre inequal that Palamon Bigan to Venus temple for to goon, Up roos the sonne, and up roos Emelye, And to the temple of Diane gan hye.
And yet ik have alwey a coltes tooth, As many a yeer as it is passed henne Sin that my tappe of lyf bigan to renne.
That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, 45 Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Also this same yere bigan the general counsell at Custance.
Ful ofte a day she sighte eek for destresse, 715 And in hir-self she wente ay portrayinge Of Troilus the grete worthinesse, And alle his goodly wordes recordinge Sin first that day hir love bigan to springe.
Quod she, and ther-with-al she sore sighte; And he bigan to glade hir as he mighte; 175.
But for that I to wryte firstbigan Of his love, I have seyd as that I can.
And thus bigan his lovinge of Criseyde, As I have told, and in this wyse he deyde.
For which the grete furie of his penaunce Was queynt with hope, and ther-with hem bitwene 1430 Bigan for Ioye the amorouse daunce.
O thou fool of alle mortal fooles, if Fortune bigan to dwelle stable, she cesede thanne to ben Fortune!
Thanne seyde she, 'That manere wol I don thee'; and bigan to speken right thus.
For the good that thow hast geten Bigan al with falshede, And as longe as thow lyvest therwith, {95} Thow yeldest noght, but borwest.
He bigan Benedicite with a bolk, And his brest knokked, And raxed and rored, And rutte at the laste.
Bot fra þair store bigan to sprede The pastur þam bigan to knede.
The Bibel telles us openlye Of Nembrot and his maistri, Hou the fole that was wit himBigan to mak a tour that tim, That suld reche to the lifte; Bot Godd that skilfulli kan skift.
It was here that the immortal tales were begun: And there our host bigan his hors areste, And seyde; Lordinges, herkneth, if yow leste.
In the beginning of the year 1574, Juan de Salcedo sailed to take possession of his portion; he founded in the district of Bigan the city Fernandina, where he built a house for himself.
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