[6-text p 279]
Lucan to þe þis story I recomende
And to Swetoun and to Valirien also
That al þe story writen word and ende /
how to þese grete conqueroures tuo
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Fortune was first frend and siþþen fo
No man trust vpon hir favour longe /
But haue hir in awayt for euermo
witnesse on alle þise conqueroures stronge [[No break in the MS.]]
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Off riche gresus whilom king of lyde [¶ Gresus leuit|ici capitulo .ijo de spiritu phitonisse ha|bendo octos' iiijo libro Re|gum capitulo primo]
Of which gresus . Cirus him sore dradde /
Ȝet was he caught amyddes al his pride
And to þe fuyr to brenne him men him ladde
But such a rayn doun fro þe heuen schadde [folio 237a]
That slough þe fuyr and made him to eschape
But to be war ȝet grace noon he hadde /
Til fortune on þe galwes made him gape
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Whan he was eschaped he couþe nouȝt/ stent
For to bygynne a newe werre agayn
he wende wel for þat fortune him sent
Such hap þat he eschaped þurgh þe rayn
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That of his foos he mighte not be slayn
And eek a sweuen vpon a night he mette
Of which he was so proud and eek so fayn
That in vengeaunce he al his herte sette /
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Vpon a tree he was set as him þouȝt
wher Iubiter him wissch boþe bak and side
And phebus eek a fair towail him brouȝt
To drye him with and þerfore wax his pride
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And to his douȝter þat stood him biside
which þat he knew in heigh science abounde /
And bad hire telle what it signifyde
And sche his dreem right þus gan expounde /
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