Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

XX. (b) satire II. ;225From allaifectes, whom vice hath euer spottedThy-selfe content with that is thee assinde, 95And yse^ U wejl,jhat^alotted.Then seke no more out of thy-selfe to findeThe thing that thou hast sought so long beforeFor thou shalt feele itstickyng in thy minde.Maddcj ifj^ list to continue your sore, 100Let present passe, and gape on time to come,And dejge your-selfe in trauell more and more.Henceforth (my Poins) this shalbe all and summe,These wretched foles shall haue nought els of me,But [bow] to the great God and to his dome. 105None other paine pray I for them to be,But when the rage doth leade them from the right,That, lokyng backward, Vertue they may se,Euen as she is, so goodly fayre and bright.And whilst they claspe their lustes in armes a-crosse,Graunt them, good Lord, as thou maist of thy might.To freate inward, for losyng such a losse.no(B) Of the Courtiers ti/e, written to John Poins.A/TYne owne lohn Poyns, sins ye delite to knowThe causes why that homeward I me draw.And fie the prease of courtes, where so they go.Rather then to Hue thrall, vnder the aweOf lordly lokes, wrapped within my cloke, 5To will and lust learnyng to set a lawIt is not that ^ because I scorne or mockeThe power of them, whom fortune here hath lentCharge ouer vs, of ryght to strike the stroke^The word ' that' is inserted in second ed. The first ed. omits it.Q