And his name to put in memorye
Cast in his {per}sone to renewe the prowesse
Of kynge alysaundre and to encrece his glorie
To folowe his traces in knighthode and nobles
And first of all of hasty wilfulnesse
That his conquest might sprede ferre
Gan of purpose with romaynes to haue •• werre
But after this he was better auysed
Whan he {per}ceyued the marcyall apparyle
Of the romayns wherof he was agrysed
Wex aferde their nobles to assayle
Which ay were founde victorious in batayle
And where afore he had ben recheles
Sent ambassatours with theym to trete of pes
They had perceyued his presumpcion
And howe he was proude and surquedous
Sent a Consull with a greate power doun
The name of whom was Sulpicius
Which dedly hatyd the sayd perseus
Thrugh hertly rancour ageyn him wex soleyne
Of his ambasset hauynge but dysdeyne
And their {per}tye for to fortefye
With the sayde Consull Sulpicius
They sent another expert in chiualrye
A consull also paulus Emylius
Amonge romayns notable and famous
And folowynge after the silf same night
The mone eclipsed fully of his might
A clere tokne as made is mencion
That kinge {per}seus shulde haue a sharp shoure
And that his lordship and his region
Shulde be oppressed voide of all socour
And that Macedonoys shulde haue no fauoure
Ageyne the romayns to gedre whan they met
With rounde sperys and swerdes sharpe whet
The day of batayle to his encres of glorye
For the {per}ty of them of rome toun
There was a knight that caused the victorye
Yonge fressh and lusty that called was caton
Which brought their enmyes to confusion
For Macedonoys through his greate might
Outrayed were and percius put to flight
But Emylius the noble Consulere
Sent a Capteyne called Octauius
To pursue after in coostys ferre and nere
The proude kinge the seyde perseus
And he was take for ther was no rescus
With his sonnes that were in nounbre tweyne
Philip and alisaundre the story is certeyne
My•• auctour telleth here of kinges manye
Thre••y in noumbre the first Geramus
Which haue regned within macedone
And laste of all was this perseus
The noumbre of yeres bochas writeth thus
Was nyne hundred as I remembred here
Space of their regnynge with foure and twenty yere
After translated was the region
With all their yles vnto the obeysaunce
Of theym of rome withoute excepcion
To greate lordys that were of moost puissaunce
Abode ther longe vnder gouernaunce
Of perseus disconsolat of chere
Durynge his lif abode there prysonere