Phi not a foetoris, Lippus malus omnibus horis,
Phi malus & Lippus, totus malus ergo Philippus.
Stinks are branded with a Phi, Lippus Latin for blear-eye,
Phi and Lippus bad as either, then Philippus worse together.
A Monk of St. Albans made this Hexameter allusively to his Name:
Dictus erat Nequam, vitam duxit tamen aquam.
The Elogy he bestoweth on that most Christian Emperor Constantine the Great, must not be forgot:
From Colchester there rose a Star,
The Rays whereof gave Glorious Light
Throughout the world in Climates far,