Idelnes and vyces for to fle:
Of fowles also he wrote the parliament,
Therein remembring of royall Eagles thre,
Howe in their choyse they felt aduersitye,
To-fore nature profered the battayle,
Eche for his partye, if it woulde auayle.
'He did also his diligence and payne
In our vulgare to translate and endite
Orygene upon the Maudelayn:
And of the Lyon a boke he did write.