¶ The .xviii. Chapter.
¶ In exhortation to Prynces to be aduised to do agaynst Goddes preceptes.
LEt prynces all in their prouidence,
Be right wel ware any thing to attame
Whiche vnto God should be offence,
Lest that the fyne conclude to their shame.
Let them thinke for all their noble fame,
But they repent god of his iustice,
Their froward pryde vnwarely will chastice
Let them beware of malyce to presume
Againe his churche to do o••••encion,
For god of right all tyrantes will consume,
In full short tyme for their presumption:
Whiche will not suffer theyr dominacion
To enterrupt for all their great myght,
Nor breke the fraūches of holy churche ryght.
To prudent prynces whiche can discerne,
Let kyng Ozias considryng his offence,
Be in your mynde a myrrour and lanterne,
To holy churche to do due reuerence,
And conce••ue in their magnificence,
God will of ryght be they neuer so s••••••ng,
Chastyce theyr malyce though he ••yde long.