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,