The Game of the Chesse (Caxton, facsimile)

...that they should not be so bold as to do so. The next day following, Arispe, remembering the great insult original: "vylonye" that he had done to his friend and lord without cause, fell into despair and would have slain himself. When the Duke knew and understood this, he came to him and said, "Do not doubt anything," and swore to him by his faith that he was and should be his friend from then on as much as he had ever been before, if he wished it. And thus he spared him from death by his graciousness original: "debonayrte".

And likewise we read of King Pyrrhus original: "kyng pirre", to whom it was reported that the people of Tarentum An ancient Greek colony in Italy. had spoken great insults against him. For this reason, he made them all come before him and demanded of them if they had said such things. Then one of them answered and said, "If the wine and the candles had not failed, this language would have been a mere joke original: "Jape" compared to what we had intended to do."

Then the King began to laugh, for they had confessed that such language as was spoken was caused by drunkenness. And because of this instance of graciousness, the people of Tarentum made it a custom that drunken men should be punished and sober men praised.

The King, then, ought to love humility and hate falsehood, following the Holy Scripture that speaks of every man generally. For the King in his realm original: "royaume" represents God, and God is truth original: "verite". Therefore, he ought to say nothing unless it is truthful and certain.

Valerius Valerius Maximus, Roman author of "Facta et dicta memorabilia." relates that Alexander with all his army original: "ooste" rode to destroy a city named Lampsacus original: "lapsaze"; an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor.. When a philosopher named Anaximenes, who had previously been the master and tutor of Alexander, heard and understood...