In drery darkenesse and in chereles night, Without or hope or comfort endles are: So are my thoughts deiected with dismay, 2420 Which can nought looke for but poore Romes decay.
Come Nymphs and with your Rebecks ring his knell, Warble forth your wamenting harmony, And at his drery fatall obsequie, with Cypres bowes, 10 maske your fayre Browes, And beat your breasts to chyme his burying peale.
Muses of poetes endyten to me thinges to be writen; and drery vers of wrecchednesse weten my face with verray teres.
For wel sit it, the sothe for to seyne, A woful wight to han a drery fere, And, to a sorwful tale, a sory chere.
And forth he gooth with drery contenaunce, But to his herte it was ful greet plesaunce.
Glad was this markis of hir answering, But yet he feyned as he were nat so; Al drery was his chere and his loking Whan that he sholde out of the chambre go.
Let none of these theyr drery accents sing; Ne let the woods them answer, nor theyr eccho ring.
Thys Proloug smellis new cum furth of hell; And, as our buk begouth hys weirfar tell, So weill according dewly bene annext 25 Thou drery preambill, with a bludy text.
Bot a blak sop of myst, als dyrk as nycht, With drery schaddo bilappis his hed.
Furth haldis syne the drery cumpany Of Troianys, and Tyrrheyn dukis thame by; And wofull Archadis, in syng of dolour, weris Scheldis reversyt, and doun turnyt thar speris.
The drery fait with terys lamentabill Of Troys sege wydequhar our all is song; Bot followand Virgil, gif my wit war abill, 10 Ane othir wys now sall that bell be rong Than euer was tofor hard in our tong.
Al the myd way is wildirnes onplayn, 20 Or wilsum forest, and the laithly flude Cochytus, with his drery bosum onrude, Flowis enverom rownd about that place.
Quhat cursyt covatyce causith wrachit wightis So to desyre our life and drery lightis?
Quhou till Ene the harpyes dyd gret wo, And of the dreryprophete Celeno.
Now lat that ilk rahatour wend inhy The blak hellys byggyngis to vissy, Vndir the drery deip flude Acheron; 5 Lat hym go sers, sen he is thiddir gone, Other ostis or barganys in hys rage, And als ane other maner of mariage.
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