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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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[Off Hugolyne erle of Pyse slayn in prisoun.]

Off Charlis story rad þe woful fyn,
As ye haue herd þe maner & the guise,
To Ihon Bochas appeered Hugolyn,
Callid whilom the noble Erl of Pise,
Til the Pisanys gan ageyn hym rise;
Most vengably, cruel & vnkynde,
Slouh hym in prisoun; no mor of hym I fynde,—