The gentyll greyhownde:

Of this matter the grownde

Is easy to expounde,

And soone may be perceyued,[204]

How the worlde is conueyed. 780

But harke, my frende, one worde

In ernest or in borde:

Tell me nowe in this stede

Is maister Mewtas dede,

The kynges Frenshe secretary,