EXPLICIT.



TREASURE TROVE
MODERNISED FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF GOWER'S "CONFESSIO AMANTIS."



In ancient Chronicle I read:-
About a King, as it must need,
There was of Knights and of Squiers
Great rout, and eke of Officers.
Some for a long time him had served,
And thought that they had well deserved
Advancement, but had gone without;
And some also were of the Rout
That only came the other day
And were advanced without delay.
Those Older Men upon this thing,
So as they durst, against the King
Among themselves would murmur oft.
But there is nothing said so soft
That it shall not come out at last,
The King soon knew what Words had passed.
A King he was of high Prudence,
He shaped therefore an Evidence
Of them that plained them in that case,
To know of whose Default it was.