For evere yit it hath so stonde,

That god a tirant overladde;

Bot wher Pite the regne ladde,

Ther mihte no fortune laste

Which was grevous, bot ate laste

The god himself it hath redresced.

Pite is thilke vertu blessed 3260

Which nevere let his Maister falle;

Bot crualte, thogh it so falle

That it mai regne for a throwe,