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¶ The feeld of snow / with thegle of blak ther-Inne [folio 98a]
Caught with the lymrod / coloured as the glede [[Bertrand du Guesclin.]]
He brew this cursednesse / and al this synne
The wikked nest was werkere of this nede
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Noght Charles Olyuer / þat took ay hede
of trouthe and honour / but of Armorike [[Oliver de Mauny of Britanny.]]
Genylon Olyuer / corrupt for mede
Broghte this worthy kyng in swich a brike
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[Peter of Cyprus.]
O worthy Petro / kyng of Cipre also [De Petro de Cipro]
That Alisaundre wan / by heigh maistrie
fful many an hethen / wroghtestow ful wo
Of which / thyne owene liges hadde envie
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And for no thyng but for thy chiualrie
They in thy bed / han slayn thee by the morwe
Thus kan ffortune / hire wheel gouerne and gye
And out of ioye / brynge men to sorwe
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[Bernabo Visconti, of Milan.]
Of Melan / grete Barnabo Viscounte [/ De Barnabo /]
God of delit and scourge of Lumbardye
Why sholde I noght thyn Infortune acounte
Sith in estat/ thow clombe were so hye
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Thy brother sone / that was thy double allye
ffor he thy Nevew was / and sone in lawe
With-Inne his prison / made thee to dye
But why ne how / noot .I. that thow were slawe
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[Ugolino, Count of Pisa.]
Of the Erl Hugelyn of Pize / the langour [/ De hugelyn Comite de Pize]
Ther may no tonge / tellen for pitee
But litel out of Pize / stant a tour
In which[e] tour / in prison put was he
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And with hym been / hise litel children thre
The eldeste scarsly / fyue yeer was of age
Allas ffortune / it was greet crueltee
Swiche briddes / for to putte in swich a cage
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