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[Lenvoy].
[This litill prose declarith in figure]
This litill prose declarith in figure
The grete damage and distruccion,
That whilome fill, bi fatell auenture,
Vnto Rome, þe myȝti riall towne,
Caused onely bi false devision
Amonge hem selfe, þe storie tellith þis,
Thorowe covetise and veyne Ambicion
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius.
The grete damage and distruccion,
That whilome fill, bi fatell auenture,
Vnto Rome, þe myȝti riall towne,
Caused onely bi false devision
Amonge hem selfe, þe storie tellith þis,
Thorowe covetise and veyne Ambicion
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius.
Criste hymselfe recordith in scripture
That euery londe and euery region
Whiche is devided may no while endure,
But turne in haste to desolacion;
For whiche, ȝe lordes and prynces of renowne,
So wyse, so manly, and so vertuous,
Maketh a merowre toforne in youre resoun
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius,
That euery londe and euery region
Whiche is devided may no while endure,
But turne in haste to desolacion;
For whiche, ȝe lordes and prynces of renowne,
So wyse, so manly, and so vertuous,
Maketh a merowre toforne in youre resoun
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius,
Harme don bi deþe no man may recure,
Aȝeins whose stroke is no redempcion,
Hit is full hard in fortune to assure,
Here whele so ofte turnith vp and downe.
And for teschewe stryf and dissencion
Within yowreself beth not contrarious,
Remembring ay in yowre discrecion
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius.
Aȝeins whose stroke is no redempcion,
Hit is full hard in fortune to assure,
Here whele so ofte turnith vp and downe.
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Within yowreself beth not contrarious,
Remembring ay in yowre discrecion
Of Pompey and Cesar Iulius.
Explicit.
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