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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Howe Probus disconfited Romayns / and after was slayne

pRobus after regned full seuene yere
And iiii monethis which by his hye renoun
Geyne saturnynus with a knightly chere
And brought him proudly to subiection
Nat withstondynge ••hat be in rome toun
Toke vpon him of wylfull tyrannye
Hooly thempire for to rule and guye

Beside the cyte callyd agrypyne
This seide probus geyn many proude romayne
A batayle had list nat to declyne
Mette protulus a mighty stronge capteyne
With one Bonosus and both they were slayne
And all their meyne of very force and might
Slayne in the felde the remenaūt put to flight

After this bataile and this disconfiture
Probus was lodgyd in Smyryue a great cite
And there vnwarely of soden auenture
Slayne in a toure that called was Ferre
But a small ceson last his prosperite
Which is fortune late noman in hir trust
All worldly thinges chaungynge as she lust