The Game of the Chesse (Caxton, facsimile)

...who was such a cruel tyrant that he delighted in nothing but cruelty. And he [Perillus] told him the nature original: "condicion" of the bull.

When Phalaris heard and understood this, he approved original: "allowed" and praised the work much, and afterwards said to him, "You, who are more cruel than I am, shall test original: "assay" and prove your present and gift first." And so he made him go into the bull and die a miserable original: "euyl" death. Therefore, Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso, the famous Roman poet. says there is nothing more reasonable than for a man to die by the same death that he prepares original: "purchaseth" for others.

Also, the king ought above all original: "soueraynly" to maintain justice. For whoever governs or maintains a realm without justice, by sheer necessity original: "verry force" there must be great robbery and theft.

Therefore, Saint Augustine recounts original: "reherceth" in a book entitled The City of God original: "the cyte of god"; Latin title: De civitate Dei contra paganos. that there was a thief of the sea named Diomedes. He was a great pirate original: "rouar" and did so much harm that the complaints came before Alexander, who had him captured and brought before him.

And he asked original: "demaunded" him why he was so harmful original: "noyous" and cruel on the sea. And he answered him back, "Just as you are one on the land in the world, so am I another on the sea. But because the evil I do is in only one galley or two, I am called a thief. But because you do it with many ships and with great strength original: "puyssaunce" and power, you are called an Emperor.

However, if fortune were on my side in such a way, I would become a good man and better than I am now. But the richer and more fortunate you are, the worse you are."

Alexander said to him, "I shall change your fortune in such a way that you cannot say that you do it because of poverty."