O king of trouth ſuld be the werray lyght,

So treuth and Iuſtice to o king accordyth.

[1680] And als, as thir clerkis old recordith,

KINGS SHOULD CHERISH ALL MEN.

[41] The initial I is illuminated; rather because there is here a change of subject than because it begins a new sentence.

[41]In tyme is larges and humilitee

Right well according vnto hie dugre,

And pleſſith boith to god and man al-so;

[Fol. 21 b.]

[1684] Wharfor I wil, incontinent thow go,