Les jouteurs étoient galamment habillés, et ils portoient des lances fortes et courtes.

Why, prettie Ladye, you'le not leave the courte? Eld.

And were the way to my successyon free As when I lefte the courte, yet gaynst all sence And possybyllitie somethynge suer woulde sprynge From my meare fate to make another kynge: So, torrent-like, my fortune ruynes all My rights of byrthe and nature.