What nature hath set in hir lawe[860]

Ther mai no mannes miht withdrawe,

And who that worcheth therayein,

Fulofte time it hath be sein,

Ther hath befalle gret vengance,

Wherof I finde a remembrance. 360

[Tiresias and the Snakes.]

Ovide after the time tho

Tolde an ensample and seide so,

How that whilom Tiresias,