Declare to us sum causis reasonabyll

Quhy we bene haldin so abhominabyll.

“Be thy travell thou hes experience,

First, beand bred in-to the Orient,

Syne be thy gude servyce and delygence

To prencis maid heir in the Occident.

Thow knawis the vulgare pepyllis jugement

Quhare thou transcurrit[161] the hote Meridionall,

Syne nyxt the Poill the plaige[162] Septentrionall.

“So, be thyne heych ingyne[163] superlatyve,