[6-text p 279]
[6-text p 280]
[6-text p 268]
¶ Vp on a tree he was / as þat hym thoughte
Ther Iuppiter hym wessh / bothe bak and syde
And Phebus eek / a fair towaille hym broughte
To drye hym with / and ther-fore wax his pryde
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And to his doghter / that stood hym bisyde
Which that he knew / in heigh sentence habounde
And bad hire telle hym / what it signyfide
And she his dreem / bigan right thus expounde
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¶ The tree quod she / the galwes is to mene
And Iuppiter / bitokneth snow and reyn
And Phebus / with his towaille so clene
Tho been / the sonnes stremes for to seyn
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Thow shalt an hanged be / fader certeyn
Reyn shal thee wasshe / and sonne shal thee drye
Thus warned hym / ful plat and ful pleyn
His doghter / which þat called was Phanye
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¶ An hanged was Cresus / the proude kyng
His Roial trone / myghte hym nat auaille
Tragedies noon oother manere thyng
Ne kan in syngyng/ crye ne biwaille
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But þat ffortune / alwey wole assaille
With vnwar strook/ the regnes þat been proude
ffor whan men trusteth hire / thanne wol she faille
And couere hire brighte face / with a clowde [[These 4 modern instances ought to follow 'Zenobia,' p. 268.]]
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[Peter the Cruel, of Spain.]
O noble / o worthy Petro / glorie of Spayne [De Petro Ispannie]
Whom ffortune heeld / so heighe in magestee
Wel oghten men / thy pitous deeth complayne
Out of thy land / thy brother made thee flee
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And after at a sege / by subtiltee
Thow were bitraysed / and lad vn-to his tente
Where as he / with his owene hand slow thee
Succedynge / in thy regne and in thy rente
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