Metre IV.
Quid tantos iuuat excitare motus.
[What delyteth you] to excyten so grete moevinges of hateredes,
and to hasten and bisien the fatal disposicioun of your deeth with
your propre handes? that is to seyn, by batailes or by contek. For
yif ye axen the deeth, it hasteth him of his owne wil; ne deeth
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ne tarieth nat his swifte hors. And the men that the serpent and
the lyoun and the tygre and the bere and the boor seken to sleen
with hir teeth, yit thilke same men seken to sleen everich of hem