QUAMVIS SE TIRIO. — Metrum 4
"Al be it so that the proude Nero, with al his wode
luxure, kembde hym and apparayled hym with faire purpres of Tyrie
and with white peerles, algates yit throf he haatful to alle folk
(this is to seyn that, al was he byhated of alle
folk, yit this wikkide Nero hadde gret lordschipe), and yaf
whilom to the reverentz senatours the unworschipful seetis of
dignytees. (Unworschipful seetes he clepeth here, for that
Nero, that was so wikkide, yaf tho dignytees.) Who
wolde thanne resonably wenen that blisfulnesse were in swiche
honours as ben yyven by vycious schrewes?
