'and yet I vse a-nothar whyle:
I go to faytours of entent,
and make them eke of myn assent, [Stowe folio 313a]
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and, by fals colusyon,
and cursyd dissymulatïon,
I menë suche as ha no shame,
to fayne them selffe bothe blynd and lame,
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crokyd, halt, and dome with all,
on euery leg a gret mormall,
full of plastars old and new,
to make the people on them rew.
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'and, for more decepcïon,
I make them to be leyd a-doun,
¶ to-forn the ymagys down to ly,
and for helthë lowd[ë] cry,
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ther to have amendëment.
and they and I of one assent,
I lyft them vp my selfe anon,
and make them on ther fet to gon
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with-outen eny more obstácle,
as all wér wrowght by myrácle.
'the people, takynge none hede therto,
supposythe pleynly that it wer so;
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with offerynge and with pilgrimágis
come full oft to suche ymágis,
for to done ther óbservaunce:
and thus I can my selffe avaunce
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as othár loséngars can,
with good that is full falsly won,
whiche that the people obeyethe full sore.
but of this thynge, as now no more
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I wyll nat makë réhersall.
'& for this hand may myche avayle
to profet me bothe day and nyght,
I take none hede of wronge or ryght,
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thowghe it to folks do gret domage,
whill I ther-in fynd ádvauntage.
it hathe of falshed many a braunche,
and why? I [[MS. It]] put it to my haunche,
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and to my tonge reyse it agayne:
