In understandyng for to knowe good from yll.
So famous poetes did us endoctrine
Of the ryght way for to be intellectyfe;
Theyr fables they dyd ryght so ymagyne,
That by example we may voyde the stryfe,
And wythout myschefe for to lede our lyfe,
By the advertence of theyr storyes olde,
The fruit wherof we may full well beholde
Depaynted on aras, how in antiquitie,
Dystroyed was the grete citie of Troye,