Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum quintum

BEda sayth· that Iustinus the elder was Emperour eyght yere / But other telle that he was Emperour ten yere / Atte

Instaunce of hormysda the pope / Iustinus reconciled the Bys∣shops that Anastasius had exyled for the fryth of holy chirche / And german bisshop of Capna was the popes messager to Iusti¦nus at that tyme Henricus libro secundo ¶ This is the yere after the comynge of the Angles / lxxj ¶This yere bygan the yere of the westsaxons vnder C••rdicus and his sone kyn••icus by helpe specially of her owne ne••ewes stuffer and wyghtgar that londed in thre shippes ••t Cerdychesore / and fought s••rongly and slough many Brytons / To the whiche neuewes was you•• the ylonde of wyght Treuisa ¶ Loke more of the kynge of westsaxons in the fyrste booke capitulo decimo quinto ¶ Thenne it folowoth in the story ¶Af••••r horsmisda the fyrst Iohan was pope thre yere Theodecicus Augustus emperour of ytalye hel••e Arrius heresye-and sente this pope Iohan with other men of the dignyte of consuls to Iustinus emperour of Constantinople and bade hym that he shold leue and suffre the Arrians in pees. or he wold flee th•• crysten men of ytaly. And whan he herde telle that his messagers were worshipfully receyued / whan they come a∣gayn•• to Rauenna. he toke pope Iohan and Symachus pat••ici{us} and boe••e the senatour and slough hem in hard prisonne ¶ But for Boece hadde defended and mayntened the auctoryte of the se¦natours of Rome by good skyles and resons· therfore he exyled hym out of Rome and put hym in to papy••· There bo••cins ma•••• fyue bookes de consolacione philesophye / And atte last he l••te sle hym in the contreye of melan•• ¶R This bo••ce was a passyng man in his werkes and dedes. And famous withoute repreef & lerned fyrst the langage of latyn and grue at rome. And th••nne at Athenes he ler••ed hem at••e ful withoute the bookes that he made or declared of the seuen ar••••s· he made fyfty songes endyted Comice that ••s as it were short verses / a••ong the whiche song••s the best begynneth in ••his maner· O amor deus deitas. O thou lo¦ue god and godhede / But his wyf Elpes the kynges doughter of Scicilia made an ympn•• in praysyng at thappostles pet••r and paule that begynneth in this manere. Felix per omnes festum mundi cardines ¶That is to saye thou feste that art hooly and gracious in euery countre of the wyde world / she made a writing to be grau••n on her tombe. and made hit in metre in this manere Elpes was m•• name / Soo cecily brou••ht m•• forth· Fer oute of londe my husbondes loue me ladde. In boly place nowe I reste in straūge londe / I queth me to the trone of that Iugge that neuer

hath ende But theodericus the tyraūt escaped not the payne / For he deyde sodenly at Rauenne four score and ten dayes after that he had fulfylled his tyrauntrye in that holy man boece ¶ One solutarius sawe hym boyle and sethe in vulcanus crokce in the Ilonde luparis beside Scicilia / there he boyleth as it were in a cau¦drone / ¶ That yere seynt Bryde the mayde deyde in Irlond After Iohan the fourth felix was pope four yere / he was seint Gregoryes fader grauntsir. He ordeyned that seke men sholde be enoynted with holy oyle ••r they passed oute of this lyf· and cur¦sed patriarke of Constantinople ¶Also that yere the Abbot dyo¦nisius exiguus began to make his compot at Rome· He was the fyrste or ther were no moo that toke hede of the defautes of that compot ¶And afterward marianus the monke y closed in Ma∣goncia as it is touchyd in the begynnynge of the fyrst booke in the thyrd prefas