Secundo contra Principem.

Toward the king an other was,

Whan thei be sleihte and be fallas

Of feigned wordes make him wene

That blak is whyt and blew is grene

P. iii. 159

Touchende of his condicion:

For whanne he doth extorcion 2190

With manye an other vice mo,

Men schal noght finden on of tho