The viii. rule

In tyme of batayle so put thy selfe in preace
As though thou shuldest after that victorye
Enioye for euer a perpetuall peace
For god of his goodnes and lyberall mercy
Maye graunt the gyfte / & eke thy proude enemy
Confounded and rebuked by thy batayle
Shall the nomore happely for very shame assayle

But when thou mayst ones y• triumphe obtayne
Prepare thy selfe and trymme the in thy gere
As thou sholdest incontinent fight agayn
For yf thou be redy the deuyll wyll the fere
Wherfore in ony wyse so euen thou the bere
That thou remembre and haue euer in memory.
In victory batayle in batayle victory

If thou thynke thy selfe well fenced and sure
Agaynst euery sotell suggestion of vyce
Consydre frayle glasse may no dystres endure
And grete aduenturers ofte curs the dyce
Ieopard not to farre therfore and ye be wyse
But euermore eschewe the occasyons of synne
For he that loueth parell shall peressh therin