Let him lie in that lee, (and love him betide!) + 

While the lord is on laund, leading the chase. + 

The fox he has kill’d that so far he follow’d; + 

As he sprang o’er a spinney the shrew to espy, + 

Where he heard the hounds that hustled him on, + 

Reynard came running through a ruggèd clough, + 

With the rabble in a race right at his heels; + 

The wight was ware of him, and warily bode, + 

Drew a bright brand, and drove at the beast, + 

Who swerv’d from the sword and away would have swung, + 

But a hound was át him or ever he might, + 

And before the foal’s feet the pack on him fell + 

And worried me that wily with a wróth clàmour. + 

Then alighted the lord, and leaping to seize him, + 

Rescued poor Reynard from ravening jaws, + 

And held him o’erhead, hollo’ing loudly, + 

While the barking pack full bravely him bay’d; + 

The huntsmen hied them with horns a many, + 

Sounding recall till they sighted the quarry. + 

Soon as were come that company noble, + 

All that bugle e’er bore, blew them together, + 

And the others hollo’ed that no hórns hàd; + 

’Twas the merriest music that man ever heard, + 

The rich dirge that was rais’d for Reynard his soul; + 

All’s done! + 

Hunters their hounds reward + 

Fawning their heads, each one; + 

And then they take Reynàrd + 

And strip his coat anon. + 