Wherby he myght haue a name inmortall?[1507]

To pas the tyme in slowthfull ydelnes, 120

Of your royall palace it is not[1508] the gyse,

But to do sumwhat iche man doth hym dres:

For how shulde Cato els be callyd wyse,

But that his bokis, whiche he did deuyse,

Recorde the same? or why is had in mynde

Plato, but for that he[1509] left wrytynge behynde,

For men to loke on? Aristotille also,

Of phylosophers callid the princypall,