In the secounde chamber a bedde with a sparver & counterpoint of cloth of goulde & velvet purpale: curteyns of double sarcenet, with all that belongeth thereto.
First the secounde chamber to be hanged with riche Aras of golde and silke.
Ac while he wrought in thys worlde, And wan hus mete with Treuthe, He sat atte syd benche And secounde table, Com no wyn in hus wombe Thorw the weke longe, Nother blankett in hus bed, Ne white bred byfore hym.
Than sette I to the secounde pil Sapientia Dei patris; That is the passion and the power Of oure prince Jhesu.
Upon that other dai secounde Thei have an other goldhord founde, Which the seconde maister tok Upon his swevene and undertok.
Above therthe kepth his bounde The water, which is the secounde Of elementz, and al withoute It environeth therthe aboute.
The ferste of whiche is Arsmetique, And the secounde is seid Musique, 150 The thridde is ek Geometrie, Also the ferthe Astronomie.
Of Wraththe the secounde is Cheste, Which hath the wyndes of tempeste To kepe, and many a sodein blast He bloweth, wherof ben agast 420 Thei that desiren pes and reste.
The secounde is: "What most is worth, And of costage is lest put forth?
And of Ninus king of Assire I rede hou that in his empire He was next after the secounde Of hem that ferst ymages founde.
The ferst of hem is Falswitnesse, Which evere is redi to witnesse What thing his maister wol him hote: Perjurie is the secounde hote, Which spareth noght to swere an oth, Thogh it be fals and god be wroth.
And yif so be that this planete be up-on the est syde whan his altitude is taken, so that his secounde altitude be more than his firste altitude, thanne is he retrograde, and yif he be on the west syde, than is he 15 directe.
And certainly in storie it is y-founde, That Troilus was never un-to no wight, 835 As in his tyme, in no degree secounde In durring don that longeth to a knight.
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