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e, C. ? {a}t seyth
3353 [_doon_]--from C.
3355 _seyne_--seyn
3357 _whiche_--which]


[Headnote:
THE WICKED ARE UNHAPPY. ]

QUOS UIDES SEDERE CELSOS.

[Sidenote: [The ij^de Met{ur}. ]]

[Sidenote: Whosoever might strip of their purple coverings, proud
kings, who, surrounded by their guards, sit on lofty thrones, and
whose stern looks wear fierce threatenings, and boiling breasts
breathe fury; would see those mighty lords inwardly fettered, and
tormented by lust, passion, grief, and delusive hopes. ]

++Who so ? at ? e couertures of her veyn apparailes
my? t[e] strepen of ? ise proude kynges ? at ? ou
seest sitten on hey? e in her chayeres glyterynge in
shynynge purpre envyroned wi?
sorweful arm{ur}es 3364
manasyng wi? cruel mou? e. blowyng by woodnesse of
herte. ? He sholde se ? an ? at ilke lordes beren wi?
i{n}ne hir corages ful streyte cheynes for leccherye tormenti?
he{m} on ? at oon syde wi? gredy venyms {and} 3368
troublable Ire ? at araise? in hem ? e floodes of troublynges
tourmenti? vpon ?