To lust or honour, poverte or riches,
Quhen he contempnit lust and idilnes
That he in virtew micht his life decore[683],
And werkis did of maist excellent glore.
The more incressit his panefull besines,
His hie triumphe and loving[684] was the more.
Thair, throw this morall eruditioun
Quhilk come, as said is, in my visioun,
I tuke purpos, or I forthir went,
To write the story of this regioun,