Trost not to haue a sure castell;
For Ylyones towre, sette full well,
Was take and brent, and so was Thune.[[575]]
All is in the handes of fortune.
Ylyon was the mayster doongon of Troye and the faryst and |f. 73.| the strengest castell that euer was made of the which stories makyth mencion; but notwithstondyng it was take and brent and broute to nowte, and so was the cete of Thune, the which was some tyme a grete thyng. And becavse that sich causes falleth bi the chaungabilnes of fortvne, it is desirid that the good knyght shulde not be prowde in hyme selfe ne thynke hym selfe sure for no streyngh. Therefor Tholome[[576]] seith, “The hyer that a lorde be raysed the perlyouser is the ouyrthrowe.”
That man shuld not wene to have a svre castell, we may vndirstond that the good sperite shulde take non hede to no maner delite; for as delitees be passyng and not svre and ledith a person to dampnacion, Seynt Jerom seith that it is inpossibile for a person to passe fro delittes to delyttes, that is to sey, for to pase and lepe fro delites of this worlde to the delyttes of paradyse, the which fillyth the wombe here and the sowle there. For the diuine condicion is vnbounde, for it is not yoven to thoo that weneth to haue the worlde euerlastyng in delittes. And to this purpose is wreetyn in the Pocalipce, [“Quantum glorificavit se et in deliciis fuit, tantum date ei tormentum et luctum”].[[577]]
XCVIII.
Eschwe thou shulde þe swyn of Circes,
Where that the knyttes[[578]] off Vlixes
Were turnyd to swyne as to the ye.