So that the Schip with sodein blast,

Whan men lest wene, is overcast; 1070

As now fulofte a man mai se:

And of old time how it hath be

I finde a gret experience,

Wherof to take an evidence

Good is, and to be war also

Of the peril, er him be wo.

[The Trojan Horse.]

Of hem that ben so derk withinne,