The auctour ageyne presumptuous people & pryn¦••y•• holdinge theym silf goddis
yE folke that been astonyed in youre auyce
To see tyrauntys that been Incorrigible
Left from their sees that them helde so wise
Thought their power was very invincible
Though tofore god no thinge is impossible
Wherfore remembre and do no thinge meruayle
Wyth vnware fallys though fortune theym assayle
For whan tyrauntys been set in hye stages
Of dignitees regnynge lyke wode lyons
Full harde it is to wrest their corages
Outher to tempre their disposicions
Worldly felicite so blyndeth their resons
As they to god were egall of power
And had fortune vnder their daunger
Recorde of denys that oft was affrayed
Bassaute of fortune lyke as was his fate
For vicious lyuynge thre tymes disamayed
As his story remembreth of olde date
Next on the ringe nowe com••th pollecrate
With one victurbius tyrauntes of Itayle
Regnynge lyke w••luys toppresse the porayle
For whan tyrauntys in diuerse regions
Of surquedie catche an opinion
That their estatys and dominacions
Shulde euer endure by longe succession
As god nor fortune might nat put theym doun
But as they were in hir estate royall
This worlde to rule to both two egall
Towarde god they haue lost shame and drede
Touchinge his guerdouns outher of Ioye or peyne
Indifferent atwene trouth or falshede
Their lust Iserued nofors who laugh or pleyne
God is forgotyn atte they dysdeyne
As both were recleymed to their lure
Falsly transcendinge the boundes of mesure
FOr which sūtyme as bokys specefie
God lyst suffre as made is mencion
That fortune by a maner mokrye
Fauoureth sūme folke lyke their opinion
Tenhaunce their power by fals decepcion
As she were set playnly for to seye
To serue their lust and durst nat disobeye