Sins of our Time.
[Written as prose.]
¶ Ȝissinge and glosinge and felsship beon riue. [folio 64]
luþer lustes ouer floten. with fals gile and strife
hardnesse and bakbiting wiþ scornes out bersten;
Bote almus dede and trouþe, wiþ semli plei þei resten.
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vnkundenesse, vnkunninge, vnclannesse, beon arerd
so þat harmes þei boden, as ich am aferd.
Some go up, and some go down, in this World.
[Printed in Rel. Ant., v. 1, p. 64.]
"Kinge i sitte, and loke aboute, [folio 79]
to morwen y mai beon wiþoute."
"Wo is me, a kinge ich was;
Þis world, ich louede bote þat, ilas!
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Nouth longe gon i was ful riche;
Now is riche and poure iliche."
"Ich shal beo kinge, þat men shulle seo,
When þou, wrecchë, ded shalt beo." [folio 79b]
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Four Proverbs.
[See Wright's Political Songs (Camden Soc., 1839), p. 386-7.]
¶ primus dixit Mithȝ is Rithȝ; [folio 91b] lithȝ is nithȝ; Fithȝ is flithȝ.
¶ secundus dixit On is two; frend is foo; wil is wo.
¶ tercius dixit lust hath leue; ȝist is Reue; prude hath sleue.
