‘What Emperour that is enclin
To Pite forto be servant,
Of al the worldes remenant 3140
He is worthi to ben a lord.’
Troianus ait, quod ipse subditos suos solite pietatis fauore magis quam austeritatis rigore regere, eorumque benevolenciam pocius quam timorem penes se attractare proponebat.[1209]
In olde bokes of record
This finde I write of essamplaire:[1210]
Troian the worthi debonaire,
Be whom that Rome stod governed,
Upon a time as he was lerned(3190*)