It is bihovely, as we fynde,
To resoun and to lawe of kynde.3160*
Cassodorus. Vbi regnat pietas, consolidatur regnum.
Cassodre in his apprise telleth,
‘The regne is sauf, wher pite duelleth.’
Tullius. Qui pietate vincitur scutum victorie merito gestabit.
And Tullius his tale avoweth,[1207]
And seith, ‘What king to pite boweth
And with pite stant overcome,
He hath that schield of grace nome,