Whos name as the Cronique telleth

Was Othes; and so forth it duelleth,

Fro thilke day yit unto this

Thempire of Rome hath ben and is 820

[The latest Time.]

To thalemans. And in this wise,[178]

As ye tofore have herd divise

How Daniel the swevene expondeth[179]

Of that ymage, on whom he foundeth

The world which after scholde falle,