Today's Stichomancy for Martin Scorsese

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower:

As Stiel is hardest in his kynde Above alle othre that men finde Of Metals, such was Rome tho The myhtieste, and laste so Long time amonges the Romeins Til thei become so vileins, That the fals Emperour Leo With Constantin his Sone also 740 The patrimoine and the richesse, Which to Silvestre in pure almesse The ferste Constantinus lefte,

Confessio Amantis