Adowne reflayreth with fayre golden bemes,

And after Chaucers all abrode doth shewe,

Our vyces to clense; his depared stremes

Kyndlynge our hertes wyth the fyry lemes

Of moral vertue, as is probable

In all hys bokes so swete and profytable.

The boke of fame, which is sentencyous,

He drewe hym selfe on hys own invencyon;

And than the tragidyes so pytous

Of the xix. ladyes, was his translacyon;