Albion Knight C3v transcription
To haue the gouernaunce about principalytie | |||
Sythen they inheritoures are borne to bee | |||
Of the hye counsel by blood and dygnytie | |||
Which medycyne I trow wyll not lyghe starte | |||
Till it hath tyckled them all by the harte | |||
Then shall the same spye taste the other parte | |||
And turne to them the wronge side of the carte | |||
And say that god of his hye great grace | |||
To them hath geuen good fortune and space | |||
By lerning sadnes and grauitie | |||
And for theyr due reward in honour to bee | |||
And bere to them boldly in hand | |||
That they ought to reason to rule thys land | |||
Because the powre of temporaltie | |||
hath no knowledge in conning perdie | |||
Neyther in youth will labour the passage | |||
Of paine for vertue to rule in age | |||
So that if they rulers wold bee | |||
They know not how, for in suffiycientie | |||
Thus will I deuide by thys proper trayne | |||
That peace amongst them shall not rayne. | |||
Iniuri. | ¶Mary thus is a cast of a new horse combe | ||
To rub any on the nauyll that hath a tickle wōbe | |||
This gere will worke after my fantasye | |||
To make of an olde grudge a new frenesie | |||
And this openeth the gate euen for mee | |||
That both the one and the other degree | |||
Shall wrastle with them selfe in such afflictions | |||
That euerychone shal disdaine at other iuristicti | |||
Diuisiō | ¶What wilt thou do thē let me here thy cast (ons | ||
Iniuri. | ¶This gentle sede will I sowe at the last | ||
When peace by thee is in perplexitie | |||
And wote not in what parte quyet to bee | |||
Then Justice must euer be in doubt | |||
Which | |||