The .xxiii. Chapiter.
How Philitheus lost his kingdome and of Marcian and Leo.
NExt these two in ordre ye may se,
To John Bochas gan shew his pre sēce
The third king, called Philithe
The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time wherin may be seen what vices bring menne to destruccion, wyth notable warninges howe the like may be auoyded. Translated into Englysh by Iohn Lidgate, monke of Burye.
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- The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time wherin may be seen what vices bring menne to destruccion, wyth notable warninges howe the like may be auoyded. Translated into Englysh by Iohn Lidgate, monke of Burye.
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- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Wayland, at the signe of the Sunne oueragainst the Conduite in Flete-strete. Cum priuilegio per septennium,
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"The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune since the creacion of Adam, vntil his time wherin may be seen what vices bring menne to destruccion, wyth notable warninges howe the like may be auoyded. Translated into Englysh by Iohn Lidgate, monke of Burye." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71316.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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Page xiiii
Which by fortunes sodaine violence,
Lost his kingdome by cruel sentence
Of Odoacer, the tyraunt mercylesse,
Lost his life, and came no more in presse.
The sodaine chaūges to rede whan I begā,
And saw the whele so oft turne vp so downe,
Of fortune there came one Marcian,
Of whome is made none other mencion
Saue only by a coniuracion
He murdred was, being innocent,
Amōg his knightes which slew him of asset.
Than tofore Bochas to shewe his presence,
There came one that called was Leon,
Which caught a titell by no violence,
But made his clayme by iust succession:
After his father and toke possession,
Which of Leon myne auctor saith the same,
Beyng Emperour, bare the same name.
This yong Leon again all truth and ryght,
By tyranny as made is mencion,
Through cruell zeno y• was a good knyght,
Was put out of his possession:
Constrayned to liue in religion,
But to what order that he dyd wende
I fynde nat, but there he made his ende.