Schal stonde in pris for everemore.

[Letters and Language.]

Bot toward oure Marches hiere,

Of the Latins if thou wolt hiere,

Of hem that whilom vertuous

Were and therto laborious,

Carmente made of hire engin

The ferste lettres of Latin,

Of which the tunge Romein cam,

Wherof that Aristarchus nam 2640