I finde a tale concordable
Of Supplant, which that is no fable, 2800
In the manere as I schal telle,
So as whilom the thinges felle.
[Pope Boniface.]
At Rome, as it hath ofte falle,
The vicair general of alle
Hic ponit Confessor exemplum contra istos in causa[781] dignitatis adquirende supplantatores. Et narrat qualiter Papa Bonefacius predecessorem suum Celestinum a papatu coniectata[782] circumuencione fraudulenter supplantauit. Set qui potentes a sede deponit, huiusmodi supplantacionis fraudem non sustinens, ipsum sic in sublime exaltatum postea in profundi carceris miseriam proici, fame que[783] siti cruciari, necnon et ab huius vite gaudiis dolorosa morte explantari finali conclusione permisit.
Of hem that lieven Cristes feith
His laste day, which non withseith,