[Sidenote: Know you not the history of Croesus and of Paulus AEmilius?
Chaucer - Boethius
]
[Sidenote: Ascend if you will, but come down when my sport
requires it.]
wor?e vp yif ?ou wilt. so it be by ?is lawe. ?at ?ou
ne holde not ?at I do ?e wronge ?ou? ?ou descende
dou{n} whanne resou{n} of my pleye axe? it.
[Sidenote: Know you not the history of Croesus and of Paulus AEmilius?]
Wost ?ou 876
not how Cresus kyng of lyndens of whiche kyng Cir{us}
was ful sore agast a litel byforne ?at ?is rewlyche
Cresus was cau?t of Cirus {and} lad to ?e fijr to be
brent. but ?at a reyne desce{n}ded[e] dou{n} from heuene 880
?at rescowed[e] hym ? And is it out of ?i mynde how
?at Paulus consul of Rome whan he hadde take ?e
kyng of p{er}ciens weep pitou[s]ly for ?e captiuitee of ?e
self[e] kyng.
