[Sidenote: Hic quasi in persona aliorum, quos amor alligat, fingens se auctor esse Amantem, varias eorum passiones variis huius libri distinccionibus per singula scribere proponit.] And thus fulofte men beginne, That if thei wisten what it mente, Thei wolde change al here entente. 60 And forto proven it is so, I am miselven on of tho, Which to this Scole am underfonge. For it is siththe go noght longe, As forto speke of this matiere, I may you telle, if ye woll hiere, A wonder hap which me befell, That was to me bothe hard and fell, Touchende of love and his fortune, The which me liketh to comune 70 [Sidenote: =P. i. 44=] And pleinly forto telle it oute. To hem that ben lovers aboute Fro point to point I wol declare And wryten of my woful care, Mi wofull day, my wofull chance, That men mowe take remembrance[223] Of that thei schall hierafter rede: For in good feith this wolde I rede, That every man ensample take Of wisdom which him is betake,[224] 80 And that he wot of good aprise To teche it forth, for such emprise Is forto preise; and therfore I Woll wryte and schewe al openly How love and I togedre mette, Wherof the world ensample fette Mai after this, whan I am go, Of thilke unsely jolif wo, Whos reule stant out of the weie, Nou glad and nou gladnesse aweie, 90 And yet it may noght be withstonde For oght that men may understonde. [Sidenote: [HIS WOFUL CASE.]] ii. _Non ego Sampsonis vires, non Herculis arma_ _Vinco, sum sed vt hii victus amore pari._ _Vt discant alii, docet experiencia facti,_ _Rebus in ambiguis que sit habenda via._ _Deuius ordo ducis temptata pericla sequentem_[225] _Instruit a tergo, ne simul ille cadat._ _Me quibus ergo Venus, casus, laqueauit amantem,_[226] _Orbis in exemplum scribere tendo palam._