By worde eterne whylom was hit shape That fro the fifte cercle, in no manere, Ne mighte a drope of teres doun escape.
For vayne honour, or for the worldes good, They that whylom the stronge werres made, 100 Wher be they now?
Forthi, my Sone, unto thin Ere, Though it be noght in the registre Of Venus, yit of that Calistre 20 And Aristotle whylom write To Alisandre, thou schalt wite.
At Babiloine whylom fil it thus, The whiche toun the queen Semiramus Leet dichen al about, and walles make Ful hye, of harde tyles wel y-bake.
In Grece whylom weren brethren two, Of whiche that oon was called Danao, That many a sone hath of his body wonne, As swiche false lovers ofte conne.
Of the noumbir of the whiche accusers oon Basilius, that whylom was chased out of the kinges service, is now compelled in accusinge of my name, for nede of foreine moneye.
And thus she lyth with hewes pale and grene, That whylom fresh and fairest was to sene.
Certes, the 55 dignitee of the provostrie of Rome was whylom a gret power; now is it nothing but an ydel name, and the rente of the senatorie a gret charge.
Regulus hadde taken in bataile many men of Affrike and cast hem in-to feteres; but sone after 50 he moste yeve his handes to ben bounde with the cheynes of hem that he hadde whylom overcomen.
And thanne thilke thinge, that the blake cloude of errour whylomhadde y-covered, shal lighten more cleerly thanne Phebus him-self ne shyneth.
Fro thennesforth he rydeth up and doun, And every thing com him to remembraunce As he rood forth by places of the toun In whiche he whylom hadde al his plesaunce.
Whylom ther was a man that hadde assayed with stryvinge wordes another man, the whiche, nat for usage of verray vertu but for proud veine glorie, had taken up-on him falsly the name of a philosophre.
Yit this wikked Nero hadde gret lordship, and yaf whylom to the 5 reverents senatours the unworshipful setes of dignitees.
O paleys, whylom croune of houses alle, Enlumined with sonne of alle blisse!
Also Opilion and Gaudencius han accused me, al be it so that the Iustice regal hadde whylom demed hem bothe to go in-to exil for 85 hir trecheryes and fraudes withoute noumbir.
I, weping, am constreined to biginnen vers of sorowful matere, that whylom in florisching studie made delitable ditees.
Fro thennesforth he rydeth up and doun, And every thing com him to remembraunce As he rood forbi places of the toun In whiche he whylom hadde al his plesaunce.
A povre widwe, somdel stope in age, Was whylom dwelling in a narwe cotage, Bisyde a grove, stonding in a dale.
A markis whylom lord was of that londe, As were his worthy eldres him bifore; 65 And obeisant and redy to his honde (10) Were alle his liges, bothe lasse and more.
O noble Sampson, strongest of mankinde, 3265 O whylom Iuge in glorie and in richesse, Now maystow wepen with thyn yën blinde, Sith thou fro wele art falle in wrecchednesse.
The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men," As whylom to the wolf thus spak the mare; 4055 Of al hir art I counte noght a tare.
Whylom ther was dwellinge at Oxenford A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, And of his craft he was a Carpenter.
I wrecche, which that wepe and waille thus, Was whylom wyf to king Capaneus, That starf at Thebes, cursed be that day!
Whylom I thinke how Love to me Seyde he wolde taken atte gree My servise, if unpacience 4575 Caused me to doon offence.
Thou shalt no whyl be in oo stat, But whylom cold and whylom hat; Now reed as rose, now yelowe and fade.
For whylom with this rose, allas, I touched nose, mouth, and face; But now the deeth I must abyde.
Now bright, now clipsy of manere, And whylom dim, and whylom clere.
And ne hadde the good keping be Whylom of the universitee, 7090 That kepeth the key of Cristendome, [They] had been turmented, alle and some.
But haddest thou knowen him beforn, Thou woldest on a boke have sworn, Whan thou him saugh in thilke aray That he, that whylom was so gay, And of the daunce Ioly Robin, 7455 Was tho become a Iacobin.
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