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So as the shepperde wacchith vpon ther sheep •
The hoote somyr / the coolde wynterys myght •
Spiritual heerdys / shulde take keep •
In crystes foolde / with al ther ful myght •
By vertuous doctryne / as they ar holde of ryght •
To save ther sogettys from wolvys fełł rygour •
that heretikys / quenche nat the lyght •
Of crystes feith / nor of Iust mesour •
heerdys with sheep / shul walke in good pasture •
And toward nyght / sewrly sette a foolde •
Of Isaak and Iacob / a ful pleyn figure •
That wer shepperdys / wyloom be dayes oolde •
Which lyk prelatys and bysshoppes as I toolde •
The staatys have sett / in charyte shal governe •
By good exaumple1 •
THat ryght and mesure / shal holde vp the lanterne2 •
Strong as herculees / of manhood ⁊ of myght •
I am set here / to stondyn at dyffence •
wrong to represse / and to suppoorte ryght •
With this burdoun / of sturdy Violence •
Out vnto alle / that wyl doo reuerence •
To alle the staatys / sett here in portrature •
I shałł to hem / make no resistence •
That be gouernyd / Iustly be mesure •
Notes
  1. The EETS edition expands the abbreviation here without indicating it as such. ↩
  2. The EETS edition expands the abbreviation here without indicating it as such. ↩

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