V.

Next in the dance follow'd Envy,

Fill'd full of feud and felony,

Hid malice and despite,

For privy hatred that traitor trembled;

Him follow'd many freik[28] dissembled,

With feigned wordis white.

And flatterers into men's faces,

And backbiters in secret places

To lie that had delight,

And rowneris[29] of false lesìngs;[30]

Alas, that courts of noble kings

Of them can never be quite![31]

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