That errours should our mindes so much infect,

True prophets[1197] haue fowly beene reiect:

The false, which breede both murder, warre, and strife,

Beleeued to the losse[1198] of many a good man’s life.

37.

And therefore, Baldwine, teach men to discerne,

Which prophecies be false and which bee true:

And for a ground this lesson let them learne,

That all bee false which are deuised newe:

The age of thinges are iudged by the hue: