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