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¶A balade agaynst malycyous Sclaunderers. |
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¶Heue and how rumbelow thou arte to blame | |
Trolle into the right way agayne for shame. | |
TRolle into the way / trolle in and retrolle | |
Small charyte and lesse wytte is in thy nolle | |
Thus for to rayle vpon a christen soule | |
Wherfore men thynke the worthy blame | |
5 | Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
¶Thou makest a trollyng hyther and thyther | |
Somtyme thou trollest thou canst not tell whyther | |
But if all thy trollynges were gathered togyther | |
Thy trollynge might trym the and tourne the to blame | |
10 | Wherfore trolle thou nowe into the way for shame |
Although lord Crumwell a traytour was | |
Yet dare I saye that the kynge of his grace | |
Hath forgyuen him that gret trespas | |
To rayle than on dead men / thou arte to blame | |
15 | Trolle now into the way agayne for shame. |
In that that he the law hath offended | |
By the lawe he is iustly condempned | |
This mortall lyfe / full godly he ended | |
Wherfore to rayle thus / thou art to blame | |
20 | Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
¶For all his offences in euery thyng | |
He asked god mercy and grace of the kynge | |
And of all the wyde world / for his transgressyng | |
Thou nor no man can say nay to the same | |
25 | Trolle into the way than agayne for shame |
Thou takest his treason for thy subtyll defence | |
Which nowe is departed and gone from hence | |
But men spye the pricke of all thy pretence | |
Thy owne sayenges folowyng declare the same | |
30 | Trolle into the way / for fere or for shame |
¶Thou sayest he was with the church to quycke | |
Fauouryng none but of the new trycke | |
But nowe thou spurnest agaynst the prycke | |
And thou of force / must confesse the same | |
35 | Trolle into the way agayne for shame |
For bysshops haue now as they haue had | |
If preestes wold complayne / they were to mad | |
Wherfore thou apperest to be a popysshe lad | |
For vsyng thy popery / thou arte to blame | |
40 | Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
For here thou vpholdest both monkes and fryers | |
Nunnes and noughty-packes / and lewed lowsy lyers | |
The bysshop of Rome / with all his rotten squyers | |
To buylde such a church / thou arte moche to blame | |
45 | Trolle nowe into the way agayne for shame. |
May not men thynke now in the meane ceason | |
That thou hast deserued by ryght and by reason | |
As moch as he hath done for clokynge thy treason | |
For he was a traytour / and thou arte the same | |
50 | Trolle away papyst / god gyue the shame. |
¶The sacrament of the aulter / that is most hyest | |
Crumwell beleued it to be the very body of Chriest | |
Wherfore in thy writyng / on him thou lyest | |
For the kynge and his counsell wyll wytnesse the same | |
55 | Trolle into the waye / than agayne for shame |
Although that he of byrth were but bace | |
Yet was he set vp of the kynges noble grace | |
Wherby it appereth that thou woldest deface | |
The kynges royall power / dispysyng the same | |
60 | Trolle away traytour / god gyue the shame. |
¶Is it thy facyon thus craftely to saye? | |
Let vs for the kynge / and his lordes praye | |
And than at the last / to trolle them awaye | |
With heue and how rumbelow / thy wordes be the same | |
65 | Both written and printed / to thy great shame? |
Hast thou no man els / thou dronken [f]oll foll] soll 1540 | |
But the kynge and his nobles / away for to troll | |
It were ynough for to cost the thy poll | |
Both thyne and all other / that wold do the same | |
70 | Trolle away traytoure / god gyue the shame. |
¶A prety wyse printer belyke he was | |
Which of his printyng / so lytell doth pas | |
To print such pylde poetry / as this same was | |
Lyke maker / lyke printer / two trolles of the game | |
75 | A payre of good papystes / ye be payne of shame |
God send all traytours their hole desartes | |
God send small ioye / to all popysshe hartes | |
And euyll hap to as many as do take their partes | |
God send their purpose neuer to frame | |
80 | But trolle them away with sorow and shame. |
¶I pray god thou be not fownde one of those | |
That peruarteth the people / as I suppose | |
From redyng of gods worde / that goodly rose | |
Where the counsell commaundeth to occupy the same | |
85 | Thou traytor allurest them this fayre floure to defame. |
God preserue and kepe the kynges noble grace | |
With prince Edwarde his sonne / to succede in his place | |
God kepe them amonge vs / longe tyme and space | |
Let all his true subiectes / say Amen to the same | |
90 | And they that wold otherwyse / god send them shame. |
¶ Finis. |
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Prentyd at London in Lombard_strete nere vnto the Stockes market at the sygne of the Mermayde by Johnn_Gough. | |
Cum preuilegio Ad imprimendum solum | |
o domine in uirtute tua letabitur Rex, etc. |