Hæc vates ille,

De quo loquuntur mille.[123] 30

WHY COME YE NAT TO COURT?

For age is a page

For the courte full vnmete,

For age cannat[124] rage,

Nor basse her swete swete:

But whan age seeth that rage

Dothe aswage and refrayne,

Than wyll age haue a corage