name, that may nat fulfille the litel compas of the erthe. O!
what coveiten proude folk to liften up hir nekkes in ydel in the
[dedly] yok of this worlde? For al-though that renoun y-sprad,
passinge to [ferne] poeples, goth by dyverse tonges; and al-though
that grete houses or kinredes shynen with clere titles of honours;
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yit, natheles, deeth despyseth alle heye glorie of fame: and deeth
wrappeth to-gidere the heye hevedes and the lowe, and maketh
egal and evene the heyeste to the loweste. Wher wonen now the
bones of trewe [Fabricius]? What is now [Brutus], or stierne