While fortune vnfei?ful
fauored[e] me wi? ly?te goodes (.s. temp{or}els.) ?e sorouful houre ?at
is to seyne ?e dee? had[de] almost dreynt myne heued. ? But now for
fortune clowdy ha? chaunged hir disceyuable chere to me warde. myn
vnpitouse lijf drawe?
a long vnagreable
dwellynges
in me.
? O ?e my
frendes what or wherto auaunted[e] ?e me to be weleful: for he ?at ha?
fallen stood not i{n} stedfast degree.
HIC DUM MECUM TACITUS.
[Sidenote: [The firste p{ro}se.]]
++IN ?e mene while ?at I stille recorded[e] ?ise ?inges wi? my self.
{and} markede my wepli compleynte wi?