[Sidenote:  Leaf 9 b.]

Required_e_ hym / as ayenst his souerayne
Most drad_e_ & louyd_e_ / wos excellent hyeues
He aduertysed_e_ / by his wrytyng_e_ playne 360
To vertu / apperteynyng to nobles
Of a prynce / as bereth good_e_ witnes
His traytye / entitled_e_ of regymente
[Sidenote:  in his treatise De Regimine Principum.]
Compyled_e_ of entyer trewe entente 364

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Loke also / vpon dan Io[=h]n lydgate
My maister whylome / monke of berye
[Sidenote:  John Lydgate, too, my master.]
Worthy to be renomed_e_ / as poete laureate 367
I praye to god_e_ in blysse his soule be mercy
Syngyng_e_ Rex splendens that heuenly kyrye
[Sidenote:  I pray God his soul is singing Rex splendens.]
Amonge the muses nyne celestyall_e_
Byfore the hyest Iubyter of all_e_ 371

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I not why deth my mastir_e_ dide envie,
  But for he shuld_e_ chaunge his habite;
Pety hit is that suche a man shulde die! 374
  But nowe I trist he be a carmylite;
  His amyse blacke is chaunged into white,
    Among the muses ix celestiall,
    Afore the hieghest Iubiter of all; 378

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Passing the muses all of elicon_e_,
  Where is ynympariable of Armonye,
Thedir I trist my mastir-is soule is gon_e_, 381
  The sterrede palays aboue dapplede skye,
  Ther to syng ‘sanctus’ incessantly
    Among the muses ix celestiall,
    Affore the highest Iubiter of all. 385

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Redith is volumes that ben so large and wyde,
  Souereynly sitte in sadnesse of sentence,
Elumynede wyth colouris fresshe on eu_er_y syde, 388
  Hit passith my wytte, I haue no eloquence
  To yeue hym lawde aftir his excellence,
    For I dare say he lefte hym not on lyue,
    That coude his cu_n_nyng suffisantly discreue. 392

[Sidenote:  Hill’s Text.]

[Omitted.  See Preface, p. ii] 372

376

P) Passyng the mvses nyne of elycon,
    Wher ys no pareyll[e] of Armonye; 380
  Thyder I trust my Maysters sowle be gon,
    The sterred paleys above the dappled skye,
    Ther to syng snactus insessavntly 384
      Emonge the mvses nyne celestyall[e],
      Before the hyeste Iubyter of all[e].

P) Redyth hys volumes that be large & wyde,
    Severyly sette in sadnes of sentence,
  Enlumined w_i_t_h_ colovres fresshe on eu_er_y side. 388
[Sidenote:  ffl C lxiiij.]
    Me lakketh wytt, I haue non eloquence,
    To geve hy_m_ lawde after his excellence,
      ffor I dare saye he lefte hy_m_ not alyve
      That covde his cu_n_yng ssufficiently discryve. 392