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 kyng Salamon whilom kynge of Hungery was put to flight.]
Afftir to Bochas in noumbre þer cam doun
Princis foure; and ech for his partie
Ther greuys tolde; and first king Salamon,
Which that whilom regned in Hungrie,
Bothe fool & coward, bookis specefie,
Void of resoun, noised of ignoraunce,
And, at a poynt, koude no purueiaunce.
Princis foure; and ech for his partie
Ther greuys tolde; and first king Salamon,
Which that whilom regned in Hungrie,
Bothe fool & coward, bookis specefie,
Void of resoun, noised of ignoraunce,
And, at a poynt, koude no purueiaunce.
Fortune also did at hym disdeyne;
For he was nouther manli nor coraious.
Ageyn[es] whom wer worthi princis tweyne;
Zerta was oon, with Laudisalus,
Famous in armys, notable and vertuous;—
Bothe attonis geyn Salamon cam doun
And made hym fleen out of his regioun.
For he was nouther manli nor coraious.
Ageyn[es] whom wer worthi princis tweyne;
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Famous in armys, notable and vertuous;—
Bothe attonis geyn Salamon cam doun
And made hym fleen out of his regioun.
Thoruh his vnhappi froward cowardise,
Ther was in hym founde no diffence;
Fliht was his sheelde, list nat in no wise
Geyn his enmyes make resistence;
Failled herte to come to presence
To saue his lond, he dradde hymselue so sore,
Of whom Bochas writ in his book no more.
Ther was in hym founde no diffence;
Fliht was his sheelde, list nat in no wise
Geyn his enmyes make resistence;
Failled herte to come to presence
To saue his lond, he dradde hymselue so sore,
Of whom Bochas writ in his book no more.
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