Expondeth, as tofore is told.[188]

Of Bras, of Selver and of Gold

The world is passed and agon,

And now upon his olde ton

It stant of brutel Erthe and Stiel,

The whiche acorden nevere a diel;

So mot it nedes swerve aside

As thing the which men sen divide. 880

Hic dicit secundum apostolum, quod nos sumus in quos fines seculi deuenerunt.

Thapostel writ unto ous alle