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 ...

OF Constantyne and Crispus: and howe Dal¦macius was slayne

tO Constontyne of whom I spake toforn They were sonnes Constantyne & crispus The same tweyne of one modre borne Cam tofore bochas his booke rehercith thus With them cam eke lucinyus Sonne of lucinyus which in rome toun Afore was slayne for his rebellion

Constantyne his werrys to gouerne Made them vicars the silf same thre Echon right wys and coude well descerne What might auayle moost to their cyte To encres the profite of the comonte Their names tolde Constantyne and crispus Tofore remembryd with them lucinyus

While these thre vicars vndre themperour Gouernyd rome as knightes most famous In alisaundre rose vp a great errour By a fals preest called Arryu•• To oure beleue a thinge contrarious And for he dyd ageyne oure feyth so wirch By a decre was put out of the chirch

By assent at Bethenye full notable In Necea a famous greate cyte This errour was preuyd full dampnable Thre hundred busshoppes were presente there parde And eightene the Cronicle who list se And all these of one sentence Ilyke Preuyd Aruus a fals heretyke

This same tyme bokes specefye Howe Constantyne of hasty cruelte The saide vicars nygh of allye Feyned a cause to sle them all thre No cause rehersyd nor tolde of equyte Saue only this in which he gan procede To make his cosyn Dalmacius to succede

But his fauoure was nat fortunate Towarde dalmacius nor gracious in sentence Amonge whoos knightys fyll a sodeyn debate Constantyne there beynge presence Dalmacius without reuerence With sharpe swerdys to speke in wordos fewe Vnto the deth was woundyd and hewe