Discrecion, whan men him crave,

Hic ponit exemplum de Rege Antigono, qualiter dona regia secundum maius et minus equa discrecione moderanda sunt.

So that he mai his yifte wite:

Wherof I finde a tale write,

Hou Cinichus a povere kniht

A Somme which was over myht 2120

Preide of his king Antigonus.

The king ansuerde to him thus,[1107]

And seide hou such a yifte passeth

His povere astat: and thanne he lasseth,