wikked Nero hadde gret lordship, and yaf whylom to the
[reverents] senatours the [unworshipful] setes of dignitees. Unworshipful
setes he clepeth here, for that Nero, that was so wikked, yaf
tho dignitees. Who-so wolde thanne resonably wenen, that blisfulnesse
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were in swiche honours as ben yeven by vicious shrewes?
Me. IV. 2. A. kembed; apparailed. 5. C. lorshippe; A. lordship. // C. Ed. whylom; A. som-tyme. 6. C. reuerentz; Ed. reuerent; A. dredeful; Lat. uerendis. 8. A. tho; C. Ed. the. // A. om. so. 10. C. vysios; A. vicious.
Prose V.
An vero regna regumque familiaritas.
But [regnes] and [familiaritees] of kinges, may they maken a