This poem tells us that game changes frequently by referring to it as a five food upon a shifting plate.
The crowd here are used figuratively, they are people who see the crumbs of fame but are not interested. They see fame for what it is. It leads to destruction, people who eat its crumbs die.
So with this in mind, the poem says the crowd inspect the crowd of fame but don't eat of it. They flap past it to the farmers corn.
The effect of the plague that the narrator in “The Decameron” describes as “even worse, and almost incredible” as he tries to convey the horror of that time period is: Parents refused to care for their dying children.
Fathers and mothers refused to assist and care for their own children, it was as if their children did not belong to them.
