A Philosophre, as thou schalt hiere,
Nota qualiter in principum curiis adulatores triplici grauitate offendunt.
Spak to a king of this matiere,
And seide him wel hou that flatours
Coupable were of thre errours. 2180
Primo contra deum.
On was toward the goddes hihe,
That weren wrothe of that thei sihe
The meschief which befalle scholde
Of that the false flatour tolde.