Howe the tiraunt Aristotyn by trecherous werkinge set asyde the right lyne was crowned kinge of Epy∣rothes and after slayne
fOrth procedynge folowynge Iohn bochas
I wyll reherce in full pleyne langage
Howe aristotyn a tyraunt this the cas
Cast and compassed by ful greate outrage
Hauynge no title of right nor heritage
Of Epirothes by trecherous werkinge
Voydynge the lyne there to be crownyd kynge
Lyuynge two children the story telleth thus
Borne by discent to regne in that cite
The eldest of them called was pyrrus
And the seconde named tholome
And bothe tweyne by the cruelte
Of arystotyn were falsly set asyde
He made kynge this tyraunt through his pryde
And whyle that he thus gan occupye
Lyke a tyraunt cruell and vengeable
Of fals rancoure and malencolye
Slough all the Cytesyns that were moost notable
And exylyd this story is no fable
Only of malyce within his herte cloos
All that were contrary vnto his porpos
Vnto the wymen by fraudolent sentence
He made ordeyne after that anon
Of feyned pite gaue to theym lycence
To their frendys frely for to gone
With their richesses but they were euerichon
By his byddynge and by his fals treson
Take by the weye and fetryd in prison
Or they were ware was set on them a reest
And after that of vengeable cruelte
The children slayne soukinge at their breest
Maydyns oppressed of their virginite
But in this while at Cypre the cyte
There was a knight passynge of great age
Which cast of purpos tauenge his outrage