Lenuoye.
THis tragedye of the duke pompeye
Declareth in gros the cheef occasion
Why he and cesar gan first werreie
Eche ageyn other through vayn ambycion
To haue lordshyp and domynacion
Ouer the romayns by fauoure fraude or might
Possession take no force of wronge nor right
To trouthis party pryde is loth to obeye
Extort power doth greate destruction
Wys policie all out of the weye
Prudente counsayle age with discrecion
Loste their lyberte of fre election
Who was moost stronge with him helde euery wight
Possession take no force of wronge nor right
Such diuysion made many man to deye
Brought the cite to disolacion
With two princys fortune lyst to pley••
Tyll from hir whele she cast theym both doun
Subtyll diceit fraude and collusion
By ambycious clymbynge blent their both light
Possession take no force of wronge nor right
Noble princys remembre what I seye
Peyse this storye within in your reson
Of fals surmountynge auaryce berith the keye
Recorde of Cesar pompeye of rome toun
Whoos wylfull werrys hatefull discencion
Yeueth clere warnynge to you and euery wight
No clayme is worth without tytle of right