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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Lenvoye.
In this tragedie, ageyn Andronicus
Bochas maketh an exclamacioun,
And ageyn alle princis vicious,
Whil thei haue poweer and domynacioun
Be tirannye vse extorsioun,
Concludyng thus: that ther fals lyuyng
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eendyng.
Bochas maketh an exclamacioun,
And ageyn alle princis vicious,
Whil thei haue poweer and domynacioun
Be tirannye vse extorsioun,
Concludyng thus: that ther fals lyuyng
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eendyng.
Indifferentli this tiraunt lecherous
Of wyues, maidenes maad non excepcioun,
Folwyng his lust, froward & disclaunderous,
Spared no womman of religioun.
Made widwes breke ther professioun
Be violence; peise weel al this thyng,
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eending.
Of wyues, maidenes maad non excepcioun,
Folwyng his lust, froward & disclaunderous,
Spared no womman of religioun.
Made widwes breke ther professioun
Be violence; peise weel al this thyng,
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eending.
Most in [m]ordre he was contagious,
Of innocent blood to make effusioun;
Vengable also ageyn al vertuous;
Ageyn his kynreede souhte occasioun
To slen the lyne fro which that he cam doun.
Which considered, al suich fals werkyng
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eending.
Of innocent blood to make effusioun;
Vengable also ageyn al vertuous;
Ageyn his kynreede souhte occasioun
To slen the lyne fro which that he cam doun.
Which considered, al suich fals werkyng
Of riht requereth to haue an euel eending.
Bochas manaceth princis outraious,
Which be ther proud hatful ambicioun,
To God & man of wil contrarious,
Hauyng in herte a fals oppynyoun,
Al tho that been in ther subieccioun
Thei may deuoure, ther poweer so strechching,
Which shal nat faille to haue an euel endyng.
Which be ther proud hatful ambicioun,
To God & man of wil contrarious,
Hauyng in herte a fals oppynyoun,
Al tho that been in ther subieccioun
Thei may deuoure, ther poweer so strechching,
Which shal nat faille to haue an euel endyng.
Noble princis, ye that be desirous
To perseuere in your domynacioun,
And in al vertu to been victorious,
Cherissheth trouthe, put falsnesse doun,
Beth merciable, mesurid be resoun,
Of Andronicus the surfetes eschewyng,
That ye bi grace may haue a good eending.
To perseuere in your domynacioun,
And in al vertu to been victorious,
Cherissheth trouthe, put falsnesse doun,
Beth merciable, mesurid be resoun,
Of Andronicus the surfetes eschewyng,
That ye bi grace may haue a good eending.
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