Miserability

I durst declare the myserabilitie / Of diners curtis,—war nocht my tyme bene schort,— / The dreidfull cheange, vaine glore, and vilitie, / The painfull plesour, as Poetis doith reporte, / Sum tyme in hope, sum tyme in disconforte; / And how sum men dois spend thair ȝouthed haill / In court, syne endis in the hospytaill:[…]