FAME

As each man bends him self, so I report his fame in deed, If ill, the ̄ ill, through iarne true ̄ p, his fame does straigh prosede: If good, then good, through golden true ̄ p, I blo his lively fame: through heave ̄ S, through earth, & surgi ̄ g seize I bear abroad y e same perhaps what wind me heather drives, w to in your mid ̄ S you muse From Crete I come to you my friends, I bring this kind of newse That Agamemnon's brother is ariuyd in this land, And eke with him his ladey fair, Queen Helen understand. Whom for to see a great frequent, of people their aryue, This newse to show at this present, me heather now did driven. Deniꝙ non paruas animo dati gloriam vires: Et foecunda facit pectora laudis amor. As Ovid sayeth I am in deed, the spure to each estate, For by my troumpe I often cause the wicked man to hate, Is fylthey life, and eke I stour, the good more good to be: So much the heart and will of man, is lynked unto me. Omniam si perdis, famam seruare memento, Quam semel amissam, postia nullus eris. Above each thing keep well thy fame, what ever y to thou loose For fame once gone they memory, with fame a way it goose. And it once lost thou shalt in south, accounted like to be, A drope of rain that faulyth in, the bosom of the see, Me fame therefore as Ovid thinks, no man hath pour to hold, To those with whom I please to dwell, I am more rich the ̄ gold What caused some for countries soil, them selves to perrell cast But that the knew that after death, y e fame of the shall last. Not on, but all, do me desiare, both good and bade likewise, As may appear if we perpend, of Nerose enterprise. Which first did cause his Master's death, & eke whereas he say In mother's wound to see in south, his mother did straight slay. With this Horestes eke takes place, whose father being slain, through mother's gile from ̄ mother's blood, his would ̄ ds could not refrai ̄ e But like as he revenged the death, of father in his eyare, So father's brother in like sort, Revenge hath set on fyare. For he is gone for to request, the aid of princes great, So soar his heart is set on fyare, brought raging rigorous heat. What to detarmayne all the kings, of Greece arrived be, At Nestores town that Athens hight, their judgement to decree As Publius does well declare, we ought chiefest to see, Unto our selves that nought be done, after extremite. Abalio expects, alteri quod feceris. For look what measure thou dost meat, y e same again shall be, At other time at others hand, repaid again to the. Therefore I wish each wight to do, to others as he would, That they in like occasion, unto him offer would. Well forth I must some newse to here, for fame no where Can ̄ stay But what she hears throughout y e would abroad she does display