If noman write hou that it stode,[35]
The pris of hem that weren goode
Scholde, as who seith, a gret partie
Be lost: so for to magnifie
The worthi princes that tho were,
The bokes schewen hiere and there,[36]
Wherof the world ensampled is;[37]
And tho that deden thanne amis
P. i. 5
Thurgh tirannie and crualte,[38]