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 Philip the Emperour died at myschef.] |
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[How Philip the Emperour died at myschef.]
Next to Bochas cam Phelipp on the ring,
Whos empire no while did endure.
Lik an heretik cursid of lyuyng
And odious to eueri creature,
Beet doun images & many fressh picture
Of hooli seyntes, which in ther templis stood,
Wherbi Romeyns dempte that he was wood.
Whos empire no while did endure.
Lik an heretik cursid of lyuyng
And odious to eueri creature,
Beet doun images & many fressh picture
Of hooli seyntes, which in ther templis stood,
Wherbi Romeyns dempte that he was wood.
Pursuid he was bi a manli kniht
Callid Anastaise, and put out of his place;
And in Cicile, of verray force & myht
He did his eyen out of his hed arace,
Be iugement his visage to difface,
Semblabli as he be gret outrages
Of Cristes cherch diffaced the images;
Callid Anastaise, and put out of his place;
And in Cicile, of verray force & myht
He did his eyen out of his hed arace,
Be iugement his visage to difface,
Semblabli as he be gret outrages
Of Cristes cherch diffaced the images;
Deide at myscheeff dirkid with blyndnesse.
Than Anastaise took posessioun,
In whos tyme, bookis ber witnesse
And cronicles make mencioun,
Of thempire was maad dyuisioun:
That first was oon, partid [was] on tueyne
Wherof myn auctour in maner doth compleyne.
Than Anastaise took posessioun,
In whos tyme, bookis ber witnesse
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Of thempire was maad dyuisioun:
That first was oon, partid [was] on tueyne
Wherof myn auctour in maner doth compleyne.
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