[6-text p 279] , [6-text p 280] , [6-text p 268]
Vp-on a tree / he was / as that hym thoughte
Ther Iuppiter hym wesshe / bothe bak and syde
And Phebus eek a fair towaille hym broughte
To dryen hym with / and therfore wax his pryde
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And to his doghter / that stood hym bisyde
Which þat he knew / in heigh science habounde
He bad hire telle hym / what it signyfyde
And she his dreem / bigan right thus expounde
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The tree quod she / the galwes is to meene [folio 181a]
And Iuppiter / bitokneth snow and reyn
And Phebus / with his towaille so clene
Tho been / the sonne bemes for to seyn
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Thou shalt anhanged be / fader certeyn
Reyn shal thee wasshe / and sonne shal thee drye
Thus warned hym / ful plat and ful pleyn
His doghter / which that called was Phanye
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An-hanged was Cresus / the proude kyng
His roial Trone / myghte hym nat auaille
Tragedies / noon oother maner thyng /
Ne kan in syngyng crie ne biwaille
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But that 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 should follow Zenobia, p. 268.]]
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[Peter the Cruel, of Spain.]
Onoble / o. worthy Petro / glorie of Spayne [¶ De Petro Rege Is|pannie]
Whom ffortune heeld / so hye 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 seege by subtiltee
Thou 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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