Olde Diogenes, with other many mo,

Demostenes,[1510] that oratour royall, 130

That gaue[1511] Eschines suche a cordyall,

That bannisshed was he by[1512] his proposicyoun,

Ageyne[1513] whome he cowde make no contradiccyoun?

Dame Pallas to the Quene of Fame.

Soft, my good syster,[1514] and make there a pawse:[1515]

And was Eschines rebukid as ye say?

Remembre you wele, poynt wele that clause;

Wherfore then rasid ye not[1516] away