RUPIS ACHEMENIE. — Metrum 1
"Tigrys and Eufrates resolven and springen of o welle in
the cragges of the roche of the contre of Achemenye, ther as the
fleinge bataile ficcheth hir dartes retorned in the breestis of
hem that folwen hem. And sone aftir the same ryverys, Tigris and
Eufrates, unjoignen and departen hir watres. And if thei comen
togidre and ben assemblid and clepid togidre into o cours, thanne
moten thilke thingis fleten togidre whiche that the watir of the
entrechaungynge flood bryngeth. The schippes and the stokkes
araced with the flood moten assemblen; and the watris imedled
wrappeth or emplieth many fortunel happes or maneris; the whiche
wandrynge happes natheles thilke enclynynge lowenesse of the
erthe and the flowinge ordre of the slydinge watir governeth.
Right so fortune, that semeth as it fletith with slakid or
ungoverned bridles,it suffreth bridelis (that is to seyn, to ben
governed), and passeth by thilke lawe (that is to seyn, by the
devyne ordenaunce)."
