They were so wyse and so inventife,

Theyr obscure reason, fayre and sugratife,

Pronounced trouthe under cloudy figures,

By the inventyon of theyr fatall scriptures.

And thyrdly, they hadde suche a fantasy,

In this hyghe arte to be intelligible,

Theyr fame encresynge evermore truely,

To slouth ever they were invincible:

To theyr wofull hertes was nought impossible;

Wyth brennynge love of insaciate fyre