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confessio amantis-第133部分

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In olde bokes of record
This finde I write of essamplaire:
Troian the worthi debonaire;
Be whom that Rome stod governed;
Upon a time as he was lerned
Of that he was to familier;
He seide unto that conseiller;
That forto ben an Emperour
His will was noght for vein honour;   3150
Ne yit for reddour of justice;
Bot if he myhte in his office
Hise lordes and his poeple plese;
Him thoghte it were a grettere ese
With love here hertes to him drawe;
Than with the drede of eny lawe。
For whan a thing is do for doute;
Fulofte it comth the worse aboute;
Bot wher a king is Pietous;
He is the more gracious;  3160
That mochel thrift him schal betyde;
Which elles scholde torne aside。
Of Pite forto speke plein;
Which is with mercy wel besein;
Fulofte he wole himselve peine
To kepe an other fro the peine:
For Charite the moder is
Of Pite; which nothing amis
Can soffre; if he it mai amende。
It sit to every man livende  3170
To be Pitous; bot non so wel
As to a king; which on the whiel
Fortune hath set aboven alle:
For in a king; if so befalle
That his Pite be ferme and stable;
To al the lond it is vailable
Only thurgh grace of his persone;
For the Pite of him al one
Mai al the large realme save。
So sit it wel a king to have    3180
Pite; for this Valeire tolde;
And seide hou that be daies olde
Codrus; which was in his degre
King of Athenis the cite;
A werre he hadde ayein Dorrence:
And forto take his evidence
What schal befalle of the bataille;
He thoghte he wolde him ferst consaille
With Appollo; in whom he triste;
Thurgh whos ansuere this he wiste;   3190
Of tuo pointz that he myhte chese;
Or that he wolde his body lese
And in bataille himselve deie;
Or elles the seconde weie;
To sen his poeple desconfit。
Bot he; which Pite hath parfit
Upon the point of his believe;
The poeple thoghte to relieve;
And ches himselve to be ded。
Wher is nou such an other hed;  3200
Which wolde for the lemes dye?
And natheles in som partie
It oghte a kinges herte stere;
That he hise liege men forbere。
And ek toward hise enemis
Fulofte he may deserve pris;
To take of Pite remembrance;
Wher that he myhte do vengance:
For whanne a king hath the victoire;
And thanne he drawe into memoire   3210
To do Pite in stede of wreche;
He mai noght faile of thilke speche
Wherof arist the worldes fame;
To yive a Prince a worthi name。
I rede hou whilom that Pompeie;
To whom that Rome moste obeie;
A werre hadde in jeupartie
Ayein the king of Ermenie;
Which of long time him hadde grieved。
Bot ate laste it was achieved   3220
That he this king desconfit hadde;
And forth with him to Rome ladde
As Prisoner; wher many a day
In sori plit and povere he lay;
The corone of his heved deposed;
Withinne walles faste enclosed;
And with ful gret humilite
He soffreth his adversite。
Pompeie sih his pacience
And tok pite with conscience;   3230
So that upon his hihe deis
Tofore al Rome in his Paleis;
As he that wolde upon him rewe;
Let yive him his corone newe
And his astat al full and plein
Restoreth of his regne ayein;
And seide it was more goodly thing
To make than undon a king;
To him which pouer hadde of bothe。
Thus thei; that weren longe wrothe;   3240
Acorden hem to final pes;
And yit justice natheles
Was kept and in nothing offended;
Wherof Pompeie was comended。
Ther mai no king himself excuse;
Bot if justice he kepe and use;
Which for teschuie crualte
He mot attempre with Pite。
Of crualte the felonie
Engendred is of tirannie;    3250
Ayein the whos condicion
God is himself the champion;
Whos strengthe mai noman withstonde。
For evere yit it hath so stonde;
That god a tirant overladde;
Bot wher Pite the regne ladde;
Ther mihte no fortune laste
Which was grevous; bot ate laste
The god himself it hath redresced。
Pite is thilke vertu blessed    3260
Which nevere let his Maister falle;
Bot crualte; thogh it so falle
That it mai regne for a throwe;
God wole it schal ben overthrowe:
Wherof ensamples ben ynowhe
Of hem that thilke merel drowhe。
Of crualte I rede thus:
Whan the tirant Leoncius
Was to thempire of Rome arrived;
Fro which he hath with strengthe prived  3270
The pietous Justinian;
As he which was a cruel man;
His nase of and his lippes bothe
He kutte; for he wolde him lothe
Unto the poeple and make unable。
Bot he which is al merciable;
The hihe god; ordeigneth so;
That he withinne a time also;
Whan he was strengest in his ire;
Was schoven out of his empire。  3280
Tiberius the pouer hadde;
And Rome after his will he ladde;
And for Leonce in such a wise
Ordeigneth; that he tok juise
Of nase and lippes bothe tuo;
For that he dede an other so;
Which more worthi was than he。
Lo; which a fall hath crualte;
And Pite was set up ayein:
For after that the bokes sein;  3290
Therbellis king of Bulgarie
With helpe of his chivalerie
Justinian hath unprisoned
And to thempire ayein coroned。
In a Cronique I finde also
Of Siculus; which was ek so
A cruel king lich the tempeste;
The whom no Pite myhte areste;…
He was the ferste; as bokes seie;
Upon the See which fond Galeie  3300
And let hem make for the werre;…
As he which al was out of herre
Fro Pite and misericorde;
For therto couthe he noght acorde;
Bot whom he myhte slen; he slouh;
And therof was he glad ynouh。
He hadde of conseil manyon;
Among the whiche ther was on;
Be name which Berillus hihte;
And he bethoghte him hou he myhte  3310
Unto the tirant do likinge;
And of his oghne ymaginynge
Let forge and make a Bole of bras;
And on the side cast ther was
A Dore; wher a man mai inne;
Whan he his peine schal beginne
Thurgh fyr; which that men putten under。
And al this dede he for a wonder;
That whanne a man for peine cride;
The Bole of bras; which gapeth wyde;  3320
It scholde seme as thogh it were
A belwinge in a mannes Ere;
And noght the criinge of a man。
Bot he which alle sleihtes can;
The devel; that lith in helle fast;
Him that this caste hath overcast;
That for a trespas which he dede
He was putt in the same stede;
And was himself the ferste of alle
Which was into that peine falle    3330
That he for othre men ordeigneth;
Ther was noman which him compleigneth。
Of tirannie and crualte
Be this ensample a king mai se;
Himself and ek his conseil bothe;
Hou thei ben to mankinde lothe
And to the god abhominable。
Ensamples that ben concordable
I finde of othre Princes mo;
As thou schalt hiere; of time go。  3340
The grete tirant Dionys;
Which mannes lif sette of no pris;
Unto his hors fulofte he yaf
The men in stede of corn and chaf;
So that the hors of thilke stod
Devoureden the mennes blod;
Til fortune ate laste cam;
That Hercules him overcam;
And he riht in the same wise
Of this tirant tok the juise:   3350
As he til othre men hath do;
The same deth he deide also;
That no Pite him hath socoured;
Til he was of hise hors devoured。
Of Lichaon also I finde
Hou he ayein the lawe of kinde
Hise hostes slouh; and into mete
He made her bodies to ben ete
With othre men withinne his hous。
Bot Jupiter the glorious;    3360
Which was commoeved of this thing;
Vengance upon this cruel king
So tok; that he fro mannes forme
Into a wolf him let transforme:
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