One and thyrtye epigrammes wherein are brieflye touched so manye abuses, that maye and ought to be put away / compiled and imprinted by Robert Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne.

Of Commotioners.

WHen the bodye is vexed through humors corrupted To restore it to helth those humours muste be purged For if they remayne they wyll styl encrease: Euerye daye more and more and augment the disease. So that in shorte tyme the bodye muste decaye, Excepte God gyue health by some other waye. Euen so doeth it fare by the weale publike Whyche chaunceth to be often diseased and sycke. Throughe the mischeuous malyce of suche menne as be, Desierous to breake the publyke vnitie. Eche publike bodye muste be purged therfore Of these rotten humours as is sayde before.

Else wyll it decaye, as do the bodies naturall When rotten humours haue infected them ouer all But if the publyke bodie, can not be purged well By force of purgacion as phicisins do tell When bodies be weake, and so lowe brought That by purgacion, no health can be wrought Then must there be sought some easyer waye To kil y^e strength of those humors as phiasians saye. When the swerde wyll not helpe in the commune wealth To purge it of Commotioners and brynge it to health. Than muste discrete counsel fynde wayes to kyll, The power of those rebels and lette them of their wyll.

And that muste be by cherishynge the humours naturall, And by quyckenynge agayne of the spirites vytall. Whyche in the commune wealthe are the subiectes true, That do alwaye studye Sedition to eschewe. When these mē through cherishing do growe and be stronge: Than can not Commocioners continue longe. For as whan the strength of yll humours is kylled, In a naturall bodye they be sone comsumed. Or made of euill good as it is playne to se: So wyll it betyde of suche menne as be. In the commune wealth geuen vnto sedision, When they se they cannot finyshe their intention.

And what is their power but the people ignoraunte Whom thei do abuse by their councelles malignaunt? When the hertes of the people be wonne to their prince, Than can no commotioners do hurte in hys prouince. If thys will not helpe than God wyll take cure, And destroy these Commosioners we maye be right sure. Excepte the tyme be come that the bodye muste dye, For than there canne be found no maner remedy. God graunte that oure synne haue not broughte vs so lowe, That we be passe cure god onelye doeth thys knowe. And I truste to se healthe agayne if the finall ende, Be not nowe nere at hande whyche the Lorde shortelye sende.