descende adoun, whan the resoun of my pley axeth it.
Wistest thou nat how [Cresus], the king of Lydiens, of whiche
king Cyrus was ful sore agast a litel biforn, that this rewliche
Cresus was caught of Cyrus and lad to the fyr to ben brent,
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but that a rayn descendede doun fro hevene that rescowede
him? And is it out of thy minde how that Paulus, consul of
Rome, whan he hadde taken the king of [Perciens], weep pitously
for the captivitee of the self kinge? What other thing biwailen
the cryinges of tragedies but only the dedes of Fortune, that