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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Lenvoy.
This tragedie bereth to you witnesse,
How Saturnus bi disposicioun,
Maliciousli of his frowardnesse
Causith in Iune ful gret infeccioun,
She off nature conveieth the venym doun,
The hair infect, which no man may socoure,
Kometh deth a-noon, & all thynge doth deuoure.
How Saturnus bi disposicioun,
Maliciousli of his frowardnesse
Causith in Iune ful gret infeccioun,
She off nature conveieth the venym doun,
The hair infect, which no man may socoure,
Kometh deth a-noon, & all thynge doth deuoure.
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Tyme from Adam, myn auctour doth expresse,
Doun to Nembroth bi successioun,
His stile conueied bi gret auysynesse,
From Zorastres to kyng Pharaoun;
Off too deluges he maketh mencioun,
In Thesalie the vengaunce gan laboure,
And in Achaia Thebes to deuoure.
Doun to Nembroth bi successioun,
His stile conueied bi gret auysynesse,
From Zorastres to kyng Pharaoun;
Off too deluges he maketh mencioun,
In Thesalie the vengaunce gan laboure,
And in Achaia Thebes to deuoure.
Ye haue off hetis herd the gret excesse,
Off pryncis, pryncessis ful gret destruccioun,
Off Egistus the gret[e] wrechidnesse,
The furie off Tereus, the wo off Pandioun,
Off the too sustren the confusioun,
And how ther fate gan vpon hem loure,
Ther felicite vnwarli to deuoure.
Off pryncis, pryncessis ful gret destruccioun,
Off Egistus the gret[e] wrechidnesse,
The furie off Tereus, the wo off Pandioun,
Off the too sustren the confusioun,
And how ther fate gan vpon hem loure,
Ther felicite vnwarli to deuoure.
Pryncis, Pryncessis, your eyen doth up dresse—
I meene the eyen off your discrecioun—
Seeth off this world the chaung, the doubilnesse,
The gret onseurnesse, the variacioun,
And aduertisith, for al your hih renoun,
Fortunes dewes, whan thei most suetli shoure,
Than is she falsest, your glorie to deuoure.
I meene the eyen off your discrecioun—
Seeth off this world the chaung, the doubilnesse,
The gret onseurnesse, the variacioun,
And aduertisith, for al your hih renoun,
Fortunes dewes, whan thei most suetli shoure,
Than is she falsest, your glorie to deuoure.
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