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[...]o this same is he / whiche by his bad counsell
Cawseth our prince / to be to vs to fell
Thys same is he / which rayseth deme and tax
This same is he / whiche strayneth men on rackes
This same is he / whiche cawseth all this war
Thys same is he / which al our welth doth mar
This is of com [...]ns / the veray dedly mall
whiche with these charges / thus dothe oppres vs al
who hym displeseth / he beteth all to dust
Thys same is be / which killith whom hym lust
That all the deuyls / of hell / hym hence carry
That we no lenger / endure his tyranny
Thys ys the honour / and al the reuerence
Gyuyn vnto them / whan they be frome presence
But in suche honour / who euer hathe delyte
whiche is frawdfull / so faynt and vnparfyte
I am nat a ferde / to call hym mad & blynde
And a very fole / or els a sot of kynde
Coridon
Cornix my frende / thou spekest now to playne
I fere lest thys gere / shall tourne vs vnto payne
If any man be nere / be styll a whyle & har [...]e
Cornix
I fere nat at all / now I am set on warke
Besyde thys Coridon / in court most parte doth dwel
Flateres and lyers / Coriers of fauell
Iuggelers and dezers and suche a schamful rable
which for a dynner / lawd men no thynge laudable
But men circumspect / which be dyscrete and wyse
Doth suche vayne / lawdes vtterly despyse
[...]upport acyon / of right and equite
[...] in defendynge the churche and cōmo [...]te
[...]other actes / common or pryuate
[...]hich sounde to worshyp / these [...] estate
[...] suche true honour / fewe p [...]ynces do deserue
[...] nomore do they / whiche in the court them serue
[...] all almoste / be of mysgouernaunce
[...]or no good do they / except it be by chaunce
Coridon
[...]t the leste way suche men reputed be
[...]en of great honour / amonge the cōmonte
[...] whyle suche walke / in court or in strete
[...]che man inclynyth / whiche them doth se or mete
[...]othe the bonet / a becke at euery worde
[...]e man must nedys / gyue place vnto my lorde
[...] his degre / birth / or promocyon
[...]uche of the cōmons / haue salutacion
[...] shortly to say / men do them more honour
[...]an to the fygure / of Chryste our sauyour
Cornix
[...] as thou sayst / forsoth my Coridon
[...] harke what they say / at last whan men be gone
[...] they salute them / in the deuyls name
[...]d pray vnto god / that they may dye with shame
[...]o doth many / by tourment and dolour
[...] an fykyl fortune / lykyth on them to lour
[...] suche as dothe stoupe / to them before their face
[...]ueth them a mocke / whan they be out of place
[...]ne dothe whysper / soft in an others ere
[...] sayth this tyran is feller tha [...] [...].