When shapen 3447 was all their conspiracy From point to point, how that his lechery Performed shouldë be full subtilly, As ye shall hear it after openly, Home went this clerk, that hightë Claudius. This falsë judge, that hightë Appius⁠— (So was his namë, for it is no fable, But knowen for a storial 3448 thing notáble; The sentence 3449 of it sooth 3450 is out of doubt);⁠— This falsë judgë went now fast about To hasten his delight all that he may. And so befell, soon after on a day, This falsë judge, as telleth us the story, As he was wont, sat in his consistóry, And gave his doomes 3451