Set Pietas, regnum que conseruabit in euum,
Non tantum populo, set placet illa deo.
It nedeth noght that I delate
The pris which preised is algate,
Hic tractat de quarta Principum regiminis Policia, que Pietas dicta est; per quam Principes erga populum misericordes effecti misericordiam altissimi gracius[1202] consequuntur.
And hath ben evere and evere schal,
Wherof to speke in special,
It is the vertu of Pite,
Thurgh which the hihe mageste
Was stered, whan his Sone alyhte,