[Thus seith the book], with-outen any lees.

(100)

And whan this Eneas and Achates

[Hadden] in this temple been over-al,

1025

[Than founde they, depeynted on a wal],

How Troye and al the lond destroyed was.

'Allas! that I was born,' quod Eneas,

'[Through-out the world our shame is kid so wyde],

Now it is peynted upon every syde!