Here begynnethe the boke calledde Iohn bochas descriuinge the falle of princis princessis [and] other nobles tra[n]slated i[n]to englissh by Iohn ludgate mo[n]ke of the monastery of seint edmu[n]des Bury ...

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Title: Here begynnethe the boke calledde Iohn bochas descriuinge the falle of princis princessis [and] other nobles tra[n]slated i[n]to englissh by Iohn ludgate mo[n]ke of the monastery of seint edmu[n]des Bury ...
Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Publication: [London :: Printed by Richard Pynson,; 1494 (27 Jan.)]
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Subject terms: Kings and rulers -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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How manymettus and Argones dyed at myscheef

Manymettus of perce lorde and kinge
Cam next in prees destressyd in great peyne
Vpon fortune pitously playnynge
His aduersite dyd him so constreyne
For there was one which at him dyd dysdeyn
Called argones voyde of tytle or ligne
Geyn manymettus proudly gan maligne

Which Ergones for his presumpcion
Take at myscheef by sodeyn violence
His dome was gyuene to dye in prison
Of no power to make resistence
But fortune that can no difference
On his chaungys atwene frende and foo
Caused them dye at mischeef both two