Than may men wel by þis ordre discerne
That þilke moeuere stabul is and eterne
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wel many men knewe but it be a fool
That euery partye dyryueþ from his hool
For nature haþ nat take his bygynnyng
Of no partye ne cantel of a þing [folio 40b]
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But of a þing þat parfyt is and stable /
Descendyng so til it be corumpable
And þerfore of his wyse purueaunce /
He hath so wel biset his ordenaunce
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That spices of þinges and progressiouns
Schullen endure by successiouns
And nat eterne be wiþoute lye
This maistow vnderstand and se at ye
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LO þe Ook þat haþ so long norisschyng
Fro tyme þat it gynneþ first to spring
And as so long a lyf as we may see
Ȝet atte laste wasted is þe tree
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COnsidereþ eek how þat þe harde stoon
vnder oure foot / on which we trede and goon
Ȝit wasteth it as it liþ by þe weye
The brode Ryuer som tyme wexeþ dreye
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The grete townes see we wane and wende
Than may I see þat al þing haþ an ende
OF man and womman se we wel also /
That wendeþ in oon of þis termes two
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That is to seyn / in ȝouþe or elles in age
he moot ben deed / þe kyng as schal a page /
Sum in his bed som in þe deepe see
Som in þe large feel as men may se /
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Ther helpeþ naught al goþ þilke weye
Thanne may I see wel þat al þing schal deye
what makeþ þis but Iubiter þe kyng
The which is prynce and cuase of alle thing
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Conuertyng al vnto his propre wille
From which he is dereyned soþ to telle /
