Not euery day, bot ſhal at onys fall
On hyme, mayhap, and his ſucceſcione all.
Herein, alas! is the blindness of kings.
In this, allace! the blyndis of the kingis,
[1904] And Is the fall of princis and of Rygnis.
The moſt wertew, the gret Intellegens,
The blessed token of a king’s wisdom is for him to restrain his hand from his people’s riches.
The bleſſit tokyne of wyſdom and prudens
Iſß, in o king, for to reſtren his honde
[1908] Frome his pupleis Riches & ther lond.