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Author: Mather, Frank Jewett, 1868-1953.
Title: King Ponthus and the fair Sidone [ed. Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.].
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Transcribed from: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / ed. James W. Bright. Vol. 12, p. [ii]-lxvii, 1-150.
Baltimore, MD: The Association, 1897
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00068

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[KING PONTHUS AND THE FAIR SIDONE,
[Cap. I. Of kyng Tiber of Spayne and his sonne Ponthus; and how the Sawdeyn of Babilon sent his thre sonnes to werre vpon the Cristen.]
[Cap. II. How Brodas sonne to the Sawdeyn toke Couleigne and slewe the kyng Tiber; and how a Cristen knyght named Patrices saved Ponthus and the xiij children in a schip.]
[Cap. III. How the kyng Brodas dremed that Ponthus be∣come a lion and devouryd hym; how Patrices councelled hym to lete the Cristen people yeld tribute; and how Patrices delyuered from prison the Erle of Destrue.]
[Cap. IIII. How by the councell of the knyght Patrices the Erle of Destrue feynyd hym a Saresyn vnto the tyme that Ponthus schuld relefe the contree; and how thei made all the contree tributorie to the kyng Brodas.]
[Cap. V. How Ponthus and the xiij children arived in Litle Bretayn and Herland the senyschall broght theym to the kyng Huguell that lete norysh and teche theym. How Herland governed Ponthus. Of the grete speche of the goodlyhede of Ponthus. And how Sydon the kynges doghtre desired in hir hert to se hym.]
[Cap. VI, Of the grete feste at Vennys; and how Sydon bad Herland bryng hir Ponthus, that was his norye, and he broght hir first Pollides for drede of evyll speche; and when Ponthus was broght, Sydon began for to loue hym, withouten any poynt of velanye, and chose hym as for hir knyght. How tithynges come that the Saresyns wer landed in the Ile of Breste.]
[Cap. VII. How tithynges come to the kyng of Bretayn that the Saresyns were come in to his lond; how Ponthus answered the Saresyn that said that his lawe was better then the Cristen; and how the kyng made Ponthus knyght.]
[Cap. VIII. How Ponthus slewe the Saresyn and sent his hed to the Sawdeyn.]
[Cap. IX. How Ponthus gave thonkynges to Gode for the victorie, and how he auised the kyng to assemble the princes and barounes ayeinst the Saresyns. How the Cristen ordeyned their batells.]
[Cap. X. How the four batells of the Cristen rode toward the pauellons of the Saresyns aboute the poynt of day.]
[Cap. XI. How the Cristen and the Saresyns ordaned their batells. How Ponthus rescoued the kyng of Bretayne and slewe the kyng Karodas, and aftre that the Saresyns were putt to flyght, wanne the grete tresour. And how Sydon made grete ioy of the worschip, that he receyved in this batell.]
[Cap. XII. How by the voice of all the barounes Ponthus was chosen constable for the kyng. How he kepyd the ryght of Bretayn, and how he was loued of all men, and in especiall of fair ladies and gentylwomen.]
[Cap. XIII. How Guenelete had envye of his maistre Pon∣thus; and how by his evyll spekyng he put dyscencyon betwen Ponthus and Sydone.]
[Cap. XIV. How Ponthus, that got no chere of Sydone, de∣parted from the courte secretly.]
[Cap. XV. How Ponthus sent a dwarfe thurgh all the con∣trey of Fraunce to anounce and shewe of dedes of armes that shuld be made in the forest of Breselyn euery tuys∣day of the yere.]
[Cap. XVI. How there come of euery londe knyghtes to do dedes of armes with the Blak Knyght; and how they were chosen by the smytyng of theyr sheldes. How Ponthus iustyd with Barnard de La Roche the first tuysday of the yere, and sent him prisonner to the faire Sydone.]
[Cap. XVII. How aftre the batell Ponthus rode his way prively into the forest.]
[Cap. XVIII. How Barnard de La Roche yelded hym prisonner to the fair Sydone, and of the grete chere that she made hym.]
[Cap. XIX. How on the secund tuysday Ponthus conquered Geffray de Lazynyen.]
[Cap. XX. How the third Tuysday Ponthus conquered Landry de La Toure and sent hym prisonner to the faire Sydone, and aftre, the Erle of Morteyn; and so euery Tuysday of the yere he sent a knyght of the best that was in the reaume. And of the grete feste that he made the Whissontyde at the yeres ende at the Welle of Mervelles.
[Cap. XXI. How Sydone made grete ioy that she sawe agane Ponthus. And how Guenelete, that had grete envy at his maistre, accused Ponthus to the kyng, that he loved Sydone to hir dishonur.]
[Cap. XXII. How the kyng required an othe of Ponthus; and he, that myght not swere, offred hym to fyght with thre or with four. And how Ponthus wold not abyde in the courte in mystruste and in susspeccion, bot toke leve of Sydone for vij yeres.]
[Cap. XXIII. How Ponthus departed from the courte and saled to England; and how the kynges sonne of Eng∣land, that was called Henry, welcomed hym and toke hym to the courte wher as he was ryght wele cherysed. And how the kyng of Irlond made werre vpon theym, and Ponthus toke hym prisonner; and aftre councelled theym to make peace betwen the reaumes, and the kyng of Irlond to wed the kynges doghtre of Englond.]
[Cap. XXIV. How Corbatan the third sonne of the Saw∣deyn londed in Englond, and how Ponthus slewe hym and toke his tresour. And the kynges two sonnes were sleyn in the batell. How the kyng offered to Ponthus to wed Genere his doghtre and to be kyng aftre hym.]
[Cap. XXV. How Guenelete, that made hym maistre aboute the kyng of Bretayn, wold lete marye Sydone vnto the kyng of Burgone. And how Sydone toke terme vnto the Whissontyde at the seuen yeres ende. How Herland sent his sonne Oliver to serche all contrees for Ponthus, and he found hym in the courte of Englond.
[Cap. XXVI. How Ponthus retorned to Litle Bretayn; and there he chaunged gounes with a pouere pylgreme, and went to the feste of the kyng of Burgone and of Sydone. How Sydone gaue drynk to hym, as to a pouere man, and she knewe hym by the ryng that he lete fall into the cupp. How Ponthus come dysgysed to the iustyng wher as of aventure he slewe the kyng of Burgone.]
[Cap. XXVII. How Ponthus made a maundement of the barounes and knyghtes for to goo into Galice to conquer his contrey, that the Saresyns helde.]
[Cap. XXVIII. Of the grete presente that Ponthus made to Sydone on the day before the weddyng; and of his vowe that he wold not marye hir vnto he had conquered agane his reaume of Galice.]
[Cap. XXIX. How Ponthus departed from Bretayn to go conquer his contrey; and howe he found in a chappell the Erle of Destrue, that was his vncle, and Ser Patryk that afore tyme saved hym; and how by their counsell he wanne the grete batell and slewe the kyng Brodas and took the toune of Colloigne; and how the land of Galice was clensed of the Saresyns.]
[Cap. XXX. How Ponthus was crouned kyng; and how at the feste he knewe his modre among the xiij pouere people; and how he made the Erle of Destrue and Ser Patryk to be kepers of his reaume and to obey vnto the quene, his modre.]
[Cap. XXXI. How Guenelete by fals lettres, that hir lorde was deid, wold make Sydone to marye hym, and she fled to a toure for to defende hir; how Guenelete famysshed hir and the kyng of Bretayn in the toure vnto she must nedes yeld hir.]
[Cap. XXXII. How Ponthus arrived in Bretan the same day that Guenelete and Sydone was maried; and how he and his fellawes went to the feste as dauncers, and he slewe Guenelete in playne sopper.]
[Cap. XXXIII. How kyng Ponthus made a grete feste at Vennys for to feste the straungers, wher as he wonne the prys aboue all othre.]
[Cap. XXXIV.] Her followes of the mariege of Pollides and of [the] kynges doghtre of Englond.
[Cap. XXXV. How kyng Ponthus returned to Bretan and gouerned the realme wysely vnto his dethe.]