With manfull herte, and thus he seide,
That Rome scholde nevere abreide
His heires, whan he were of dawe,
That here Ancestre brak the lawe.
Forthi, er that thei weren war,
Forth with the same swerd he bar
The statut of his lawe he kepte,[1181]
So that al Rome his deth bewepte.(2900*)
[Example of Cambyses.]
In other place also I rede,