Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 31

THat tyme one Fulco an holy preest in Gallia cam to kyng Rychard and sayde kyng / to the I saye in the name of god almyghty that thou marye soone thyn thre euyl doughters· leste somme worse happe the befall / thou lyest ypocryte quoth the kyng for doughter haue I none / yes sayd he / thou hast pryde Couety∣se and lechery / The kynge had lordes to geders and sayde I ye••e my pryde to the templers and hospytalers / my couetyse to whyte monkes / and my lechery to prelates of hooly chirche / They that sawe this Fulco toke and putte hym in boundes / but he myghte not be bounden / This yere deyd Rees prynce of wales / Of hym one sayde in this maner / O blysse of batayll child of chyualrye Defence of contraye worship of armes / Arme of strenght hand of largenesse / eye of reson / bryghtnesse of honeste / beryng in brest Hectors prowesse / Achilles scharpnesse / Nestors sobrenesse / Ty∣deus hardynesse / Sampsons strength / hectors worthynesse / Euri¦alius swyftnesse / vlyxes fayre speche / Salamons wysedome /

Aiax hardynesse / O clothynge of naked / the hungryes mete / ful¦fyllyng al mennes bone / that hym wold ought bydde / O fayre in speche / felawe in seruyce / honneste of dede and sobre in worde / glad of semblaunt and loue in face / goodly to euery man and ryght¦full to all / The noble dyademe of fairenes of wales is now fal¦len / that is Rees is dede / al wales groneth / Rees is dede / the na¦me is not lost but blysse passeth / The blisse of wales passeth / rees is dede worship of the world goth awey / Res al praysynge sla∣kyth / wales lyueth in gronyng / Rees is dede / Rees is awey / the enemye is heere / for Rees is not here / Nowe wales helpyth not it self / Rees is dede and y take awey / But his noble name is not dede for it is alwey newe in the world wyde / This place hol∣dyth grete worshipe yf the byrth is byholde / yf men axe what is the ende / It is asshes and pouder / here he is hyd / but he is vnhyl¦led for nam•• dureth euermore / And suffreth not the noble duc be hyd of speche / his prowesse passed his maners / his wytte pas∣sed his prowesse / his fayre speche passed his wytte / his good the∣wes passed his feyr speche

AFter Celestinus the thyrd innocent that was callyd lot••a¦rius also was pope eyght yere and fyue monethes· This was a lettred man and made the bookes de miseria humane con∣dicionis and speculum misse and many constitucions / he damp∣ned Abbot Ioachyms booke that he had made ageynste Pyers lombard mayster of sentence / he dampned also amary Carnoten∣sis with his heretyk loore ¶Also that yere whan the Emperour was dede / the prynces of almayn discorded for somme chose otho and somme phelip the fifth henryes brother / but phelip was tray¦tourly slayne / and otho was crowned of Pope innocent in fraū¦ce / he fought anone with the Romaynes / by cause they had don hym noo worship / And than he byname frederyk the kyngdome of apulea ageynste the popes wylle / and therfor he was acur∣sed of the Pope / than the fourth yere of his regne the prynces of Almayne made Frederyk Emperour / and he had worshipfully the victory of otho / this last yere of kyng richard one wydoma¦rus vycecounte of lemonke in brytayne the lasse / the kyng ofen∣glondes owne man fonde greete tresoure of gold and syluer in his owne grounde / and sente a greete dele of the tresour to kynge Rychard / and he refused it and sayde that he sholde haue alle by

the ryght of his lordship / and the other withsayd hym / Than the kynge besyeged the vycecountes castel that is called Calux / and trowed that the tresour was therin / the mynystres of the Castel come oute to the kyng and profered hym the castel with al that was therin sauynge theyr lyf and lyme and armour / But the kyng wold not / but had theym goo ageyne and defende theym self with al the strength that they couth and myght / Thenne on on a day the kyng and the duc of brabant wente aboute for to espye the feblenesse of the Castel / and one bertrand guedon an al balastrer hyt the kyng in the arme with a dart / therfor the king hadde that the Castel sholde be take in al wyse and al men that were therinne shold be hanged oute take hym that. hym had woū¦ded and soo it was done / the shafte was take oute / but the yron abode withynne and veynes and senewes were forkytte / & the nynthe daye after whanne the kyng shold dye / he sente for hym that hym had wounded and spake to hym and sayde / what dyd I euer to the that thou haste wounded me to deth / thou slewe quoth he my fader and my twey bretheren and now thou wol∣dest haue slayne me also / therfor it plesyth me what peyne I euer suffre / so that thou be deede / than the kynge commaunded that he shold goo free / and yaf hym an honderd schyllynges sterlyng / But after the kynges deth the duck of brabant made hym hee flayn al quyk / and hanged / than kyng rychard dyed the syxth day of apryl and his body was deled in thre and beryed in thre places / therfor one sayde in metre in this maner / vyscera carleo∣lum corpus fons seruat ebardy / et cor Rothomagum magne Ry¦carde tuum / In terra diuiditur vnus quia plus fuit vno / Non superest vno / gracia tanta viro / that is thy bowels ben at carl••el Thy bodye at font ebrard. and thyn hert at Roon thou grete Ry∣chard / he is departed in thre for he was more than one and so gre¦te grace is not in one man alyue / Another metriour sayd in this maner / Cryste tui calicis predo fit preda calucis / Ere breui denis / qui tulit era crucis / Hic Richarde iaces / sed mors si cederet armis Victa timore tui cederet armis tuis / that is Cryst the theef of the chalys is caluxes praye / For short metal thou throwyst him dou∣ne that toke the metal of the croys / Here thou lyest Rychard / but yf deth wold spare for wepē ou{er}come with drede of the he wol¦de voyde thy wepen / Treuisa / Here kyng rychard is cleped Ca∣luxes pray for he was slayne at a Castel that was callyd calux