Of good or [mis] governement,

Of fyr, of dyvers accident.

And lo, this hous, of whiche I wryte,

Siker be ye, hit nas not lyte;

For hit was sixty myle of lengthe;

(890) 1980

[Al was the timber] of no strengthe,

Yet hit is founded to endure

[Whyl that hit list to Aventure],

That is the moder of tydinges,