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Rekne vp phesyk with ałł ther letuaryes •
Grocerys / mercerys / with ther greet habundaunce •
Expert surgeyns / prudent potecaryes •
And ałł ther wayghtes peysed in ballaunce •
Masouns carpenterys / of yngelond and of ffraunce •
Bakerys browsterys / vyntenerys / with fressh lycour •
Ałł set at nought / to rekne in substaunce •
Yiff peys or weyghte / doo lakke or Iust mesour •
Ploughmen carterys / with othir laborerys •
Dichers delverys / that greet travaylle endure •
Which bern vp ałł / and haue doon many yeerys •
The staatis alle set /heve in portrature •
On goddys wyłł / and also by nature •
Alle Oon ymage / diuers in ther degree •
Shulde be alle oon / by recoord of scripture1 •
Be large mesour / of parfight charyte •
ffro yeer to yeer / thexperience is seyn •
Ne were the plough / no staat myght endure •
The large feeldys / shulde be bareyn •
No corn vp grows / nor greyn in his verdure •
Than to suppoorte / nor beeste in his nature •
ffor which we shulde / of trouthe for our socour •
Wourshippe the plough / sithe euery creature •
Hath of the ploughman / his lyffloode be mesour •
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  1. The EETS edition capitalizes "scripture" here, but there is no indication in the witness that this is the case. ↩

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