The Repete of the recule of Rosamundis bowre, 1390 Of his pleasaunt paine there and his glad distres In plantynge and pluckynge a propre ieloffer flowre; But how it was, sum were to recheles, Not[1822] withstandynge it is remedeles; What myght she say? what myght he do therto? Though Iak sayd nay, yet Mok there loste her sho; [Sidenote: Audaces fortuna juvat: Virgilius. Nescia mens hominum sortis[1823] fatique futuri: Virgilius.] How than lyke a man he wan the barbican With a sawte of solace at the longe last; The colour dedely, swarte, blo, and wan Of Exione, her lambis[1824] dede and past, 1400 The cheke and the nek but a shorte cast; In fortunis fauour euer to endure, No man lyuyng, he sayth, can be sure; [Sidenote: Oleæque Minerva inventrix: Georgicorum. Atque agmina cervi pulverulenta [fuga] glomerant: Æneid. iv.] How dame Minerua[1825] first found the olyue tre, _she red_ And plantid it there where[1826] neuer before was none; _vnshred_ An hynde vnhurt hit[1827] by casuelte, _not[1828] bled_ Recouerd whan the forster was gone; _and sped_ The hertis of the herd began for to grone, _and fled_ The howndes began to yerne and to quest; _and dred_ With litell besynes standith moche rest; _in bed_ 1410 [Sidenote: Duæ molentes in pistrino, una assumetur, altera relinquetur: Isaias.[1829] Foris vastabit eum timor, et intus pavor: Pso.[1830]] His Epitomis of the myller and his ioly make; How her ble was bryght as blossom on the spray, A wanton wenche and wele coude bake a cake; The myllar was loth to be out of the way, But yet for all that, be as be may, Whether he rode to Swaffhamm[1831] or to Some, The millar durst not[1832] leue his wyfe at home; [Sidenote: Opera quæ ego facio ipsa perhibent testimonium de me: In Evang. &c.] With, Wofully[1833] arayd, and shamefully betrayd; Of his makyng deuoute medytacyons; _Vexilla regis_ he deuysid to be displayd; 1420 With _Sacris solemniis_, and other contemplacyouns, That in them comprisid consyderacyons; Thus passyth he the tyme both nyght and day, Sumtyme with sadnes, sumtyme with play; [Sidenote: Honora medicum; propter necessitatem creavit eum altissimus, &c. Superiores constellationes influunt in corpora subjecta et disposita, &c. Nota.] Though Galiene[1834] and Dioscorides,[1835] With Ipocras,[1836] and mayster Auycen, By there phesik doth[1837] many a man ease, And though Albumasar can thé enforme and ken What constellacions ar good or bad for men, Yet whan the rayne rayneth and the gose wynkith, 1430 Lytill wotith the goslyng what the gose thynkith; [Sidenote: Spectatum admisse,[1838] risus teneatur amor? Horace. Nota.]