Lydgate's Fall of Princes Edited by Dr. Henry Bergen ... presented to The Early English Text Society by The Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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[How Eleazerus a Iewe born / for extorcioun and
robbery / was brouht in prisoun and there ended.] |
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[How Eleazerus a Iewe born / for extorcioun and robbery / was brouht in prisoun and there ended.]
Afftir Nero cam Eleazarus,
A Iew of berthe, a prince of robberie,
An extursioneer cruel & despitous;
For his outrages doon in that partie,
To redresse his hatful tirannye,
A myhti pretour sent fro Roome doun,
Callid Phelix, into that regeoun.
A Iew of berthe, a prince of robberie,
An extursioneer cruel & despitous;
For his outrages doon in that partie,
To redresse his hatful tirannye,
A myhti pretour sent fro Roome doun,
Callid Phelix, into that regeoun.
Be force of Phelix take he was & bounde,
Maugre his myht[e], onto Roome sent,
Strongli fetrid with massif cheynis rounde,
Suffred in prisoun many gret torment.
At the laste, this was his iugement,
Ther tabide because he was a theeff;
For euermore eendid in myscheeff.
Maugre his myht[e], onto Roome sent,
Strongli fetrid with massif cheynis rounde,
Suffred in prisoun many gret torment.
At the laste, this was his iugement,
Ther tabide because he was a theeff;
For euermore eendid in myscheeff.
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