¶ Thus all that Poetes put vnder couerture ¶ Of fable the rurall people hit toke ¶ Properly as acte refusyng the fygure Original has ¶ Which errour some of hem neuer forsoke arte ¶ Ofte a false myrour deceyueth a mannes loke instead of ¶ As thou mayst dayly pryue at thyne ey acte ¶ Thus were the paynyms deceyued generally ¶ That seyng the dedely enemy of mankynde ¶ By his pouer premyssyue entred the ymagys ¶ Within the Temples to make the people blynde ¶ In her ydolatry standyng on hyghe stagys ¶ Insomoche whoo vsed dau{n}gerous passagys ¶ Ony maner way by water or be londe ¶ When hyd his sacryfyce his answere redy fonde ¶ Thus duryng the tyme of deuyacion ¶ From Adam to Moyses was ydolatry ¶ Through the worlde vsed in comon opynyon ¶ These were the goddys that thou there sy ¶ And as for the awayters that stood hem by ¶ They polytyke Phylosophers & Poetes were ¶ Whiche feyned the fables {that} I speke of here ¶ Then seased the tyme of deuyacyon ¶ When Moyses receyued that tables of stone ¶ Entryng the tyme of reuocacyon ¶ On the mounte of Synay stondyng allone ¶ God yaue hym myght ayene all his fone ¶ And then began the olde testament ¶ Whiche to the people by Moyses was sent ¶ And that tyme dured the Incarnacyon ¶ Of Cryste and then began it to sese ¶ For then came the tyme of reconcylyacyon ¶ Of man to god I tell the doutlese ¶ When the sone of man put hym in prese ¶ Wylfully to suffre dethe for mankynde ¶ In holy scrypture this mayst thou fynde ¶ This Reconcylyacyon was the tyme of grace ¶ When fou{n}ded was the chirche vpon {that} fayre sto{n}e ¶ And to holy Peter the keye delyuered was ¶ Of heuen hell dyspoyled was anone ¶ Thys was mankynde delyuered from his fone Original has Wnd ¶ And then began the newe testament instead of And The last line of stanza ¶ Whiche .iii. tymes a sondry dyuyded is missing. The line reads: ¶ Mayst thou here see yf thou lyst beholde That the Crystyn pepyll ¶ The fyrst behynde the in pycture is prouyded beleve in present. ¶ The seconde of the lyft honde shew p{ro}phet olde Original has ¶ The .iii. on the ryght honde here it is to {the} tolde in instead ¶ Thus hast thou in vysyon the verey fygure of is ¶ Of these .iii. tymes here shewed in portrayture ¶ That is to say fyrst of deuyacyon ¶ From Adam to Moyses recordyng scripture ¶ Seconde fro Moyses to the Incarnacyon ¶ Of Cryst kepeth reuocacyon cure ¶ And as for the thyrd thou mayst be verrey sure ¶ Wylt dure from thens to the worldes ende ¶ But now the .iiii. must thou haue in mynde