Now here now there now to now fro A tale writen in the bible, Which must nedes be credible, Saith, that upon divifion Stant, why no worldes thing may laste, Til it be drive to the laste, And fro the firfte regne of all Of that the regnes be mevable, Profper et adverfus obliquo tramite verfus Quam celer in ludis jactat avara manus. In fuche a wife, as thou fhalt here, 5. Hic in prologo tractat de ftatua illa, quam rex Nabugodonofor viderat in fompnis, cuius caput aureum, pectus argenteum, venter eneus, tibie ferree, pedum vero quedam pars ferrea, quedam fictilis vide batur, fub qua mem How that this world fhal torne and wende brorum diverfitate fe Till it be falle unto his ende, Wherof the tale tell I fhal In which it is betokened al. cundum Danielis expoficionem huius mundi variacio figurabatur. As Nabugodonofor flepte A fweven him toke, the whiche he kepte Til on the morwe he was arise, Til Daniel his dreme he tolde And praid him faire, that he wolde And faide a bedde where I lay The wombe and al down to the kne Of bras they were upon to se, Hic narrat ulterius de quodam lapide dicto fompnio vide monte fuper fta- Upon the feet of this figure, tuam corruens ip fam quafi in nichi- With which stone al to-broke was Gold, filver, erthe, fteel and bras, That al was into pouder brought This was the fweven which he had, And saide him: that figure ftraunge Of filver that was over forthe And after that the wombe of bras But yet the werste of every dele Whan that the world devided is, For erth, which meined is with steel, Hic loquitur de interpretacione fompnii, et primo dicit de fignificacione capitis aurei. De pectore argenteo. De ventre eneo. De tibeis ferreis. De fignificacione pedum, qui ex duabus materiis difcordantibus ad invicem divifi extiterunt. De lapidis ftatuam confringentis fignificacione. Hic confequenter fcribit, qualiter hu ius feculi regna variis mutacionibus, prout in dicta ftatua And said, that it is goddes might And that is of this world the laste, From whiche a man fhal never twinne That world fhal lafte endeles. Lo, thus expoundeth Daniel The kinges fweven faire and wel figurabatur, fecun- Wher that the wifeft of Caldee diftinctiones fenfi- Ne couthen wite what it mente, biliter hactenus diminuuntur. De feculo aureo, quod in capite fta But he tolde al the hole entente, Of golde the first regne of alle tue defignatum eft Was in that kinges time tho, a tempore ipfius And laste many daies fo. Nabugodonofor regis Caldee ufque in regnum Cyri regis Perfarum. There whiles that the monarchie Of al the worlde in that partie To Babiloine was subgite And helde him ftill in fuche a plight, pees And that was, whan the kinge of Perse, And toke it in poffeffion, And flain was Baltazar the king, Into the regne of Darius, And than it fell to Perfe thus. There Alifaundre put hem under, Which wroght of armes many a wonder, With Grecs and here estate up lefte, So fuffre they, that nedes mote. And that of filver ended was, This king, whan that his day was come, |