HEC CUM SUPERBA, &c. — Metrum 1
"Whan Fortune with a proud ryght hand hath turned hir
chaungynge stowndes, sche fareth lyke the maneres of the boylynge
Eurippe. (Glosa. Eurippe is an arm of the
see that
ebbeth and floweth, and somtyme the streem is on o side, and
somtyme on the tothir.) Textus. She, cruel Fortune, casteth
adoun kynges that whilom weren ydradd; and sche, desceyvable,
enhaunceth up the humble chere of hym that is discounfited. Ne
sche neither heereth ne rekketh of wrecchide wepynges; and she
is so hard that sche leygheth and scorneth the wepynges of hem,
the whiche sche hath maked wepe with hir free wille. Thus sche
pleyeth, and thus sche prooeveth hir strengthes, and scheweth a
greet wonder to alle hir servauntz yif that a wyght is seyn
weleful and overthrowe in an houre.
