[6-text p 280]
¶ The tree quod sche þe galwes is to mene
And Iubiter bitokneþ snow and rayn
And Phebus wiþ his towayle so clene
Tho be þe sonne stremes for to sayn
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Thou schalt an honged be fader certayn
Reyn schal þe waissche and sonne schal þe druye
þus warned him ful platte and ful playn
His doughter þat called was Phanye /
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¶ An honged was Cresus þe proude king
His roial trone might him nought auayle
Tegedie is non oþer maner þing
Ne can synnynge crye ne by-wayle
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But þat fortune alway wol assayle /
Wiþ vnwar strook þe regnes that ben proude
ffor whan men trusteþ hire þan wol sche fayle
And couere hire brighte face wiþ a cloude [folio 247a]
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¶ Explicit/
