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ordeyned  of  god
ageyn  tlie  Danys
70  Wlios  sowie,  i  hupe,
with  hooly  spiritis
Ffelyce,  his  wyf,
the  day  approcliyng
5  afforn  ordeyned
liir  sone  Reynborne
heyr  trewly  born
in  the  erldam
71  The  stok  descendyng
to  Guy,  his  ffader,
affter  whos  deth
Reynborne  to  entre
5  affter  al  this
hath  yolde  hir  dette
beside  hir  lord
with  a  good  ende
72  For  more  auctorite
whos  translacioun
out  of  the  latyn
callyd  of  old
5  wich  wrot  the  dedis
of  them,  that  wern
gretly  comendyng
Guy  of  Warwyk
73  Of  whos  noblesse
his  marcyal  name
the  XI.  chapitle
the  parfiglit  lyf,
5  his  wylful  povert,
brought  on  to  me
yif  ought  be  wrong
putteth  the  wyte
74  Meekly  compiled
lyf  of  sir  Guy
sette  a  syde
because  he  hadde
5  (in  Tullius  gardyn

afforn  of  hih  corage
thys  regyoun  to  save;
restith  now  in  glorye
above  the  ffirmament.
ay  callyng-  to  memorie
of  hir  enterment
in  hir  testament
be  tytle  of  hir  possede
by  lyneal  dyscent
of  Warwyk  to  succede
of  antyquyte
be  tytle  of  mariage,
of  lawe  and  equyte
in  to  his  herytage.
his  mooder  of  good  age
by  deth  un  to  nature:
in  the  hermytage
was  maad  hir  sepulture.
as  of  this  inateer,
is  suycli  in  sentence
maad  by  the  cronycleer
Gerard  Cornubyence,
with  gret  dilligence
in  Westsex  crowned  kynges,
for  knyghtly  excellence
in  his  famous  writynges,
ful  gret  heed  he  took
puttyng  in  remembraunce
of  his  historyal  book  —  —
the  vertuous  governaunce,
hard  goyng  and  penaunce
a  chapitle  to  translate:
in  metre  or  in  substaunce
for  dulnesse  on  Lydgate.
under  correccyoun
by  dyllygent  labour,
pi’yde  and  presumpcioun,
of  cadence  no  colour
he  gadrid  never  fflour