[Linenotes: 833 _plete_--pleten 834 _tak_--MS. take, C. tak 835 _makest þou_--makes thow 836 _wronges_--wro{n}ge 837 _don_--MS. done, C. don _byreft_--MS. byrefte, C. byreft 838 _stryf_--MS. stryue, C. stryf _plete_--pleten _by fore_--by forn 839 _wilt_--wolt _rycchesse_--rychesses 840 _shewe_--shewyn _euer_--eu{er}e _haþ_--MS. haþe 841 _þese_--tho _his_--hise 842 _graunt[e]_--grau{n}te [_alle_]--from C. 845 _al þing_--alle thinges _norysshed[e]_--noryssede 846 _rychesse_--rychesses 848, 849 _al_--alle 848 _habundaunce_--abou{n}dau{n}ce 850 _wiþ----hande_--withdrawen myn hand _had_--MS. hadde, C. had 851 _haþ_--MS. haþe 852 _vtterly_--outrely _lorn_--MS. lorne, C. for lorn. 853 _don_--MS. done, C. don 854 _Ricches_--Rychesses 858 _forlorn_--MS. forlorne, C. forlorn 859 _lorn_--MS. lorne, C. lorn 860 _vse_--vsen 861 _keuere þe_--coeu{er}yn tho 862 _derke_--dirk _erþe_--yer _haþ_--MS. haþe 864 _confounde_--co{n}fownden 865 _haþ_--MS. haþe 866 _calme_--kalm 867 (2nd) _wiþ_--omitted 869 _stedfast_--stidefast _stedfastnesse_--stidefastnesse 870 _vnkouþ_--MS. vnkouþe, C. vnkowth _Swyche_--Swych 871 _pley[e]_--pleye 872 _whele_--wheel _glade_--glad _chaunge_--chaungy{n}] [[pg 35]] [Headnote: BE SUBJECT TO FORTUNE’S CHANGES.] [Sidenote: Ascend if you will, but come down when my sport requires it.] worþe vp yif þou wilt. so it be by þis lawe. þat þou ne holde not þat I do þe wronge þouȝ þou descende dou{n} whanne resou{n} of my pleye axeþ it. [Sidenote: Know you not the history of Crœsus and of Paulus Æmilius?] Wost þou 876 not how Cresus kyng of lyndens of whiche kyng Cir{us} was ful sore agast a litel byforne þat þis rewlyche Cresus was cauȝt of Cirus {and} lad to þe fijr to be brent. but þat a reyne desce{n}ded[e] dou{n} from heuene 880 þat rescowed[e] hym ¶ And is it out of þi mynde how þat Paulus consul of Rome whan he hadde take þe kyng of p{er}ciens weep pitou[s]ly for þe captiuitee of þe self[e] kyng. [Sidenote: What else does the weeping muse of Tragedy deplore but the overthrow of kingdoms by the indiscriminate strokes of Fortune?] What oþer þinges bywaylen þe criinges of 884 Tragedies. but only þe dedes of fortune. þat wiþ an vnwar stroke ouert{ur}neþ þe realmes of grete nobley ¶ _Glose._ Tragedie is to seyne a dite of a p{ro}sp{er}ite for a tyme þat endiþ in wrechednesse. [Sidenote: Did you not learn whilst a youth, that at the gates of Jove’s palace stand two vessels, one full of blessings, the other of woes?]