Torpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusque
    Causant quo minimus ipse minora canam:
    Qua tamen Engisti lingua canit Insula Bruti
    Anglica Carmente metra iuuante loquar.
    Ossibus ergo carens que conterit ossa loquelis
    Absit, et interpres stet procul oro malus.
    Of hem that writen ous tofore
    The bokes duelle, and we therfore
    Ben tawht of that was write tho: