The which of olde ensample I finde.
[Phebus and Cornide.]
Phebus, which makth the daies lihte,
A love he hadde, which tho hihte
Quia[898] litigantes ora sua cohibere nequiunt, hic ponit Confessor exemplum contra illos qui in amoris causa alterius consilium reuelare presumunt. Et narrat qualiter quedam auis tunc albissima nomine coruus consilium domine sue Cornide Phebo denudauit; vnde contigit non solum ipsam Cornidem interfici, set et coruum, qui antea tanquam nix albus fuit,[900] in piceum colorem pro perpetuo transmutari.
Cornide, whom aboven alle
He pleseth: bot what schal befalle
Of love ther is noman knoweth,
Bot as fortune hire happes throweth.[899]
So it befell upon a chaunce,