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