Which longeth unto bacbitinge,

Be war thou make no lesinge

In hindringe of an other wiht:

And if thou wolt be tawht ariht

What meschief bakbitinge doth

Be other weie, a tale soth 1610

Now miht thou hiere next suiende,

Which to this vice is acordende.

[Demetrius and Perseus.]

In a Cronique, as thou schalt wite,