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Trohetsvisan and Chaucer's Lak ofStedfastnesse 313
1. 15 On 'holden fable':
ffides is fybled and goys in torynde clothys (CB/15
no. 176 1. 4).
1. 16 On the 'overthrow' etc. of 'vertu":
Sibi dominium
Usurpant vitia (AH 21/p. 130 no. 185 verse 3/13th
C.).
2 Virtus cessat, ecclesia calcatur (R. Hist. no. 551. 17 =
Carm. Bur. no. 51. 3).
3 Virtus sepelitur (Carm. Bur. no. 3),
d. Misericordia sepelitur (Nigel Wireker as in notes to
Carm. Bur. no. 3).
4 Virtus suppeditatur (PC no. 193),
d. virtus ..... sceleratorum
pedibus subiecta calcatur (Cons. Phil. iv pr. I),
vertu .. is cast undir and fortroden undir
the feet of felonous folk (Boece in FNR p. 358 col. 2),
d. Tel art fait les vertus gesir
Soubz sez piez, par sa voie inique (Des. VI p. 20
no. 111111.17-18).
5 Prude enuye and lecherie
Couetise and trecherie
Habbep pis lond one here baillye (PRL p. 258).
6 d. Toutes vertus au jour d'ui se declinent (Des. V
p. 219 no. 978 refrain), d. Des. V p. 275 no. 1011
ll. 41-42; Des. VI p. I no. 1101 refrain.
7 How Vertu is of Vices lady and maistresse (L
p. 463 1. 50, with 'destroying' refrain.).
1. 17 On the 'exile' image:
I Jus, ratio, discretio
Concordiae communio
Miseriae protectio
proscribitur exilio (AH 21/p. 127 verse 2 section
1/13thC.).
2 Fides a cunctis exulat (Carm. Bur. no. 4).
3 Falsnes, I vnderstande
haues dreuen trwvte of lande (CB/14 no. 3911. 9-10).
4 Laus exulat pudoris (AH 21/p. 131 no. 1891. 4/15th
C.).
5 Iusticia is exylde owt of owre bowkys (CB/15 no. 176
1. 2).
6 Pax in terris exulavit (PC no. 197).
7 Enuy exilid is fro gentylnesse.
Amongge the comyns pride is now exilid. (R. Hist.
no. 6311. 3, 8 - with 'destroying' refrain).