LEX33. So pompos, impertinat, and reprovable, In erces, our arrogant, thir birdis ilkane Befocht Natur to ces that vnſufferable. Thar with that lady a lyte leuch hir allane: my firlt making, quoth (cho, was vnamendable, Thocht / alterit, as ze all aſkit in ane, Zit fall | preif yow to pleis, ſen it is pollible. Scho callit the bowlat in haitt, that was ſo haltane : Thy pryde, quod the Princeſs, approchis our hie, Lyke Lucifer in eſtaite; And ſen thow art fo elate, As the Ewangelift wrait, Thow fall lawe be. LkXJ33. The rent, and the ritches, that thow in rang, Wlas of othir mennis all, and nocht of thj awne ; Pow ilk fowle his awne fedder fall agane fang: And mak the catif of kynd, till him ſelf knawin. As (cho has demyt thaj haf done thraly in thrang. Thar with dame Natur has to the hevin drawin: Afcendit one, in my licht, with ſolace and lang. And ilk fowle tuke the flicht: ſchortly to (chawin, Held hame to thar hant, and that herbery : Duhar thaj war wont to remane, all thir gudly ar gane ; and that levit allane, The bowlat and 3.
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