Bot that he sih Cusy believed

With Absolon and him forsake,

He heng himself upon a stake.

[Nature of Envy.]

Senec witnesseth openly

How that Envie proprely

Is of the Court the comun wenche,

And halt taverne forto schenche

That drink which makth the herte brenne,

And doth the wit aboute renne, 3100