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The feld [[d, g, ak, corrected]] of snow / with the egel [[d, g, ak, corrected]] of blak [[d, g, ak, corrected]] therin
Caugh with the lymerod colourede al with glede. [[Bertrand du Guesclin.]]
He brew this cursedenesse & al this synne
The wekede nest was werkere of this neede
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Nought Charles / Olyuer that tok ay hede
Of trouthe & honour but of armoryke [[Oliver de Mauny of Britanny.]]
Genyloun Olyuer corrupt for meede
Broughte this worthi kyng to swich a bryke
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[Peter of Cyprus.]
O worthy Petro Kyng of Cipre also [folio 362b] [Petro]
That Alisaundere wan by high maystrye
fful manye an hethene wroughtist thow ful wo
Of whiche tweyne oune lyges hadde envie
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And for no thyng but for thy chiualrye
They in thyn bed han slayn the by the morwe
Thus can fortune / hire wheel gouerne & gye
And out of Ioye brynge men to sorwe
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[Bernabo Visconti, of Milan.]
¶ Of Melan grete [[? MS.?G]] Bernabo Viscounte
God of delyt & schorge of lumbardye
Whi schulde I nough thyn Infortune acounte
Syn in estat thow clombyn weere so hye
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Thyn brotherys sone that was thyn double allye
ffor he thyn nevew was & sone in lawe
With-inne his prysoun made the to deye
But why he how not I that thow weere slawe
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[Ugolino, Count of Pisa.]
¶ Of the Erl hugelyn of Pyre the langour
Theere may no tunge telle for pite
But lytyl out of Pize stant a tour
In which tour in prysoun put was he
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And with hym been hise lyte childere thre
The oldeste skarsely fyue ȝeer was of age
Allas fortune it was greet crewelte
Swiche bryddis to putte in swich a cage
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