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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>engraved historiated border</FIGDESC>
<P>A pore helpe&punc;</P>
<P>&lindx;&tridot;&rindx;</P>
<Q><L>&para; The buklar and defence</L>
<L>Of mother holy kyrke,</L>
<L>And weape~ to driue hence</L>
<L>Al that again&s;t her wircke</L></Q>
<P>&leaf;&leaf;</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<L>_WYll none in all this lande</L>
<L>Step forth and take in hande</L>
<L>The&s;e felowes to with&s;tance</L>
<L>In nombrelyke the &s;ande</L>
<L>That with the Go&s;pell melles</L>
<L>And wyll do nothynge elles</L>
<L>But tratlynge tales telies</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t our holy prelacie</L>
<L>And holy churches dygnitie</L>
<L>Sayinge it is but papi&s;trie</L>
<L>Yea fayned and Hipocri&s;y</L>
<L>Erronious and here&s;ye</L>
<L>And taketh theyr aucthoritie</L>
<L>Out of the holy Euangelie</L>
<L>All cu&s;tomes ceremoniall</L>
<L>And rytes eccle&s;ia&s;ticall</L>
<L>Not grounded on &s;cripture</L>
<L>No longer to endure</L>
<L>And thus ye maye be &s;ure</L>
<L>The people they alure</L>
<L>And drawe them from your lore</L>
<L>The whiche wyll greue you &s;ore</L>
<L>Take hede I &s;aye therfore</L>
<L>Your nede was neuer more</L>
<L>But &s;ens ye be &s;o &s;lacke</L>
<L>It greueth me a lacke</L>
<L>To heare behynde your backe</L>
<L><PB REF="2">
Howe they wyll carpe and cracke</L>
<L>And none of you that dare</L>
<L>Whiche one of them compare</L>
<L>Yet &s;ome there be that are</L>
<L>So bolde to &s;hewe theyr ware</L>
<L>And is no prie&s;t nor deacon</L>
<L>And yet wyll fyre his becone</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t &s;uche felowes frayle</L>
<L>Make out with tothe and nayle</L>
<L>And hoy&s;te vp meyne &s;ayle</L>
<L>And manfully to fyght</L>
<L>In holy prelates ryght</L>
<L>With penne and ynke and paper</L>
<L>And lyke no triflynge Iaper</L>
<L>To touche the&s;e felowes in dede</L>
<L>With all expedient &s;pede</L>
<L>And not before it nede</L>
<L>And I in dede am he</L>
<L>That wayteth for to &s;e</L>
<L>Who dare &s;o hardy be</L>
<L>To encounter here with me</L>
<L>I &s;tande here in defence</L>
<L>Of &s;ome that be far hence</L>
<L>And can both bly&s;&s;e and &s;ence</L>
<L>And al&s;o vndertake</L>
<L>Ryght holy thynges to make</L>
<L>Yea God within a cake</L>
<L><PB REF="3">
And who &s;o that for&s;ake</L>
<L>His breade &s;hall be dowe bake</L>
<L>I openly profe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>The holy bly&s;&s;ed ma&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Of &s;trength to be no le&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Then it was at the fyr&s;t</L>
<L>But I wolde &s;e who dur&s;t</L>
<L>Set that amonge the wor&s;t</L>
<L>For he &s;hulde be acur&s;t</L>
<L>With boke, bell and candell</L>
<L>And &s;o I wolde hym handell</L>
<L>That he &s;hulde ryght well knowe</L>
<L>Howe to e&s;cape I trowe</L>
<L>So hardy on his heade</L>
<L>Depraue our holy breade</L>
<L>Or els to prate or patter</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t our holy watter</L>
<L>This is a playne matter</L>
<L>It nedeth not to flatter</L>
<L>They be &s;uche holy thynges</L>
<L>As hath ben v&s;ed with kynges</L>
<L>And yet the&s;e lewde lo&s;elles</L>
<L>That bragge vpon theyr Go&s;pelles</L>
<L>At ceremonies &s;welles</L>
<L>And at our chri&s;tined belles</L>
<L>And at our longe gownes</L>
<L>And at your &s;hauen crownes</L>
<L><PB REF="3">
And at your typttes fyne</L>
<L>The Iauelles wyll repyue</L>
<L>They &s;aye ye leade euyll lyues</L>
<L>With other mennes wyues</L>
<L>And wyll none of your owne</L>
<L>And &s;o your &s;ede is &s;owne</L>
<L>In other mennes grounde</L>
<L>True wedlocke to confounde</L>
<L>Thus do they rayle and raue</L>
<L>Callynge euery prie&s;t knaue</L>
<L>That loueth me&s;&s;e to &s;aye</L>
<L>And after ydle all daye</L>
<L>They wolde not haue you playe</L>
<L>To dryue the tyme awaye</L>
<L>But brabble on the Byble</L>
<L>Whiche is but vnpo&s;&s;ible</L>
<L>To be learned in all your lyfe</L>
<L>Yet therin be they ryfe</L>
<L>Whiche maketh all this &s;tryfe</L>
<L>And al&s;o the Paraphra&s;ies</L>
<L>Moche dyfferyng from your portai&s;es</L>
<L>They wolde haue dayly v&s;ed</L>
<L>And portai&s;e cleane refu&s;ed</L>
<L>But they &s;hall be accu&s;ed</L>
<L>That haue &s;o farre abu&s;ed</L>
<L>Theyr tongues agayn&s;t &s;uche holynes</L>
<L><PB REF="4">
And holy churches bu&s;ynes</L>
<L>Made hundred yeares a go</L>
<L>Great clearkes affyrmeth &s;o</L>
<L>And other many mo</L>
<L>That &s;earched to and fro.</L>
<L>In &s;cripture for to fynde</L>
<L>What they myght leaue behynde</L>
<L>For to be kept in mynde</L>
<L>Amonge the people blynde</L>
<L>As wauerynge as the wynde</L>
<L>And wrote therof &s;uche bokes</L>
<L>That who &s;o on them lokes</L>
<L>Shall fynde them to be clarkes</L>
<L>As proueth by theyr warkes</L>
<L>And yet there be that barcke</L>
<L>And &s;aye they be but darcke</L>
<L>But harke ye loulars harke</L>
<L>So well we &s;hall you marcke</L>
<L>That yf the worlde &s;hall turne</L>
<L>A &s;orte of you &s;hall burne</L>
<L>Ye dur&s;t as well I &s;aye</L>
<L>Within this two yeares daye</L>
<L>As &s;oone to runne awaye</L>
<L>As &s;uche partes to playe</L>
<L>When &s;ome dyd rule and reygne</L>
<L>And auncient thynges mayntayne</L>
<L><PB REF="4">
Whiche nowe be counted hayne</L>
<L>And brought into dy&s;dayne</L>
<L>Suche men I &s;aye they were</L>
<L>As loued not this geare</L>
<L>And kept you &s;tyll in feare</L>
<L>To burne <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r faggottes here</L>
<L>Then dur&s;t ye not be bolde</L>
<L>(Agayn&s;t our learnynges olde</L>
<L>Or images of golde</L>
<L>Whiche nowe be bought and &s;olde</L>
<L>And were the laye mannes boke</L>
<L>Wheron they ought to loke)</L>
<L>One worde to &s;peake a my&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Can ye &s;aye nay to this?</L>
<L>No no ye foles I wy&s;&s;e</L>
<L>A thynge to playne it is.</L>
<L>Then dyd the&s;e clarkes diuyne</L>
<L>Dayly them &s;elues enclyne</L>
<L>To proue and to defyue</L>
<L>That Chri&s;tes body aboue</L>
<L>Whiche &s;uffered for our loue</L>
<L>And dyed for our behoue</L>
<L>Is in the &s;acrament</L>
<L>Fle&s;he bloude and boue pre&s;ent</L>
<L>And breade and wyne awaye</L>
<L>A&s;&s;one as they &s;hall &s;aye</L>
<L><PB REF="5">
The wordes of con&s;ecracion</L>
<L>In tyme of celebracion</L>
<L>So mu&s;te it be in dede</L>
<L>Thoughe it be not in the crede</L>
<L>And yet the&s;e felowes newe</L>
<L>Wyll &s;aye it is not true</L>
<L>Chri&s;tes body for to vewe</L>
<L>With any bodyly eye</L>
<L>That do they playne deny</L>
<L>And &s;tifly &s;tande therby</L>
<L>And enterpry&s;e to wryght</L>
<L>And al&s;o to endyght</L>
<L>Bokes both great and &s;mall</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t the&s;e fathers all</L>
<L>And here&s;y it call</L>
<L>That any man &s;hulde teache</L>
<L>Or to the people preache</L>
<L>Suche thynges without theyr reache</L>
<L>And &s;ome there be that &s;aye</L>
<L>That Chri&s;t cannot all day</L>
<L>Be kept within a box</L>
<L>Nor yet &s;et in the &s;tockes</L>
<L>Nor hydden lyke a fox</L>
<L>Nor pre&s;oner vnderlockes</L>
<L>Nor clothed with powdred armyne</L>
<L>Nor bredeth &s;tynkynge vermyne</L>
<L>Nor dweleth in an how&s;e</L>
<L><PB REF="5">
Nor earyn of a mou&s;e</L>
<L>Nor rotten is nor ru&s;tye</L>
<L>Nor moth eaten nor mu&s;tye</L>
<L>Nor lyght as is a fether</L>
<L>Nor blowne awaye with wether</L>
<L>Nor moulde or he be &s;pent</L>
<L>Nor yet with &s;yre be brente</L>
<L>Nor can no more be &s;layne</L>
<L>Nor offered vp agayne</L>
<L>Ble&s;&s;ed &s;acrament for thy pa&s;&s;ion</L>
<L>Here and &s;e our exclamacion</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t the&s;e men of newe facion</L>
<L>That &s;tryue agayn&s;t the holy nacion</L>
<L>And Ie&s;t of them in playes</L>
<L>In tauerns and bye wayes</L>
<L>And theyr good ac<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es dy&s;pray&s;e</L>
<L>And martyrs wolde them make</L>
<L>That brent were at a &s;take</L>
<L>And &s;ynge pype mery annot</L>
<L>And play of wyll not cannot</L>
<L>And as for cannot and wyll not</L>
<L>Thoughe they &s;peake not of it it &s;kyll not</L>
<L>For a noble clarke of late</L>
<L>And worthy in e&s;tate</L>
<L>Hath played with them chekmate</L>
<L>Theyr courage to abate</L>
<L><PB REF="6">
Marke well his text</L>
<L>He hath ben cur&s;tly vext</L>
<L>I teare me he be wext</L>
<L>A popi&s;tant flour</L>
<L>Surely all the rout</L>
<L>That heres hym &s;hall doubt</L>
<L>He wyll be in and out</L>
<L>Prowlynge rounde about</L>
<L>To get forth the &s;uout</L>
<L>If prayer maye do good</L>
<L>All the whole broode</L>
<L>Skuruy, &s;habed, and &s;kalde</L>
<L>Shauen &s;horne, and balde</L>
<L>Pore prie&s;tes of Baule</L>
<L>We praye for hym all</L>
<L>Unto the God of breade</L>
<L>For yt he be deade</L>
<L>We maye go to bed</L>
<L>Blyndefylde and beled</L>
<L>Without rag or &s;hred</L>
<L>But I am &s;ore adred</L>
<L>I &s;e hym lake &s;o red</L>
<L>Yet I dur&s;te ley my heade</L>
<L>As doctor fryer &s;ayde</L>
<L>He hath &s;ome what in &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ore</L>
<L>Well you &s;hall knewe more</L>
<L><PB REF="6">
Herken well therfore</L>
<L>Some &s;hall paye the &s;hore</L>
<L>He hath ben a pardoner</L>
<L>And al&s;o a garddener</L>
<L>He hath ben a vytailer</L>
<L>A lordly ho&s;pytelar</L>
<L>A noble teacher</L>
<L>And &s;o &s;o a preacher</L>
<L>Thoughe Germyn his man</L>
<L>Were hanged what than?</L>
<L>Saye wor&s;&s;e and you can</L>
<L>Be&s;t let hym alone</L>
<L>For Peter Iames and Iohn</L>
<L>And Apo&s;tles euery one</L>
<L>I gyue you playne warnynge</L>
<L>Had neuer &s;uch learnynge</L>
<L>As hath this famous clarke</L>
<L>He is learned be beyond the marke</L>
<L>And al&s;o mai&s;ter huggarde</L>
<L>Doth &s;hewe hym &s;elfe no &s;luggarde</L>
<L>Nor yet no dronken druggarde</L>
<L>But &s;harpeth vp his wyt</L>
<L>And frameth it &s;o fyt</L>
<L>The&s;e yonkers for to hyt</L>
<L>And wyll not them permyt</L>
<L>In errour &s;hall to &s;yt</L>
<L>As it maye weliapeare</L>
<L><PB REF="7">
By his clarkely an&s;were</L>
<L>The whiche intitled is</L>
<L>Agayn&s;t what meaneth this</L>
<L>A man of olde &s;orte</L>
<L>And wryteth not in &s;porte</L>
<L>But an&s;wereth earne&s;tly</L>
<L>Concludynge here&s;y</L>
<L>And yet as I trowe</L>
<L>Some blu&s;ter and blowe</L>
<L>And crake (as they crowe)</L>
<L>But nettes wyll we laye</L>
<L>To cache them yf we maye</L>
<L>For yf I begynne</L>
<L>I wyll brynge them in</L>
<L>And feche in my co&s;ens</L>
<L>By the whole do&s;ens</L>
<L>And call them coram nobis</L>
<L>And teache them do minus vobis</L>
<L>With his et cum &s;piritu tuo</L>
<L>That holy be both dao</L>
<L>When they be &s;ayde and &s;onge</L>
<L>In holy latyn tongue</L>
<L>And &s;olemne belles be ronge</L>
<L>But the&s;e babes be to yonge</L>
<L>Perkynge vpon theyr patins</L>
<L>And fayne wolde haue the mattens</L>
<L><PB REF="7">
And eueinge &s;onge al&s;o</L>
<L>In Engli&s;he to be do</L>
<L>With mariage and bapty&s;inge</L>
<L>Buryalles and other thynge</L>
<L>In vulgare tongue to &s;aye and &s;ynge</L>
<L>And &s;o they do it newly</L>
<L>In dyuer&s;e places truly</L>
<L>Sayinge they do but duely</L>
<L>Mayntainynge it in any wy&s;e</L>
<L>So &s;hulde they do theyr &s;eruyce</L>
<L>Alas who wolde not mone</L>
<L>Or rather grunt or groue</L>
<L>To &s;e &s;uche &s;eruyce gone</L>
<L>Whiche &s;aued many one</L>
<L>From deadly &s;ynne and &s;hame</L>
<L>And many a &s;pote of blame</L>
<L>From purgatorye payne</L>
<L>And many &s;howre of rayne</L>
<L>Well yet I &s;aye agayne</L>
<L>Some hone&s;t men remayne</L>
<L>And kepe theyr cu&s;tomes &s;tyll</L>
<L>And euer more wyll</L>
<L>Wherfore in dede my read i&s;</L>
<L>To take you to your beades</L>
<L>All men and women I &s;aye</L>
<L>That v&s;eth &s;o to praye.</L>
<L><PB REF="8">
That &s;uche good prie&s;tes maye</L>
<L>Contynue &s;o alwaye</L>
<L>Orels none otherlyke</L>
<L>But al lyeth in the dyke</L>
<L>And loke ye do not faynt</L>
<L>But praye to &s;ome good &s;aynt</L>
<L>That he maye make re&s;traint</L>
<L>Of all the&s;e &s;traunge farions</L>
<L>And great abomynacions,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I maye nor tary</L>
<L>I praye to &s;wete &s;yr Harry</L>
<L>A man that wyl not vary</L>
<L>And one that is no &s;culker</L>
<L>But kan&punc;knyghte of the Sepulchre</L>
<L>That he maye &s;tande fa&s;t</L>
<L>And be not ouer ca&s;t</L>
<L>Or els to be the la&s;t</L>
<L>Of all them that do yelde</L>
<L>In cyte towne or fielde</L>
<L>For yf he &s;tyke therin</L>
<L>No doubt he &s;hall not blyn</L>
<L>Tyll he come to eternytie</L>
<L>With all his whole fraternyte</L>
<L>Amen therfore &s;aye ye</L>
<L>That his partakers be</L>
<L>Ye get no more of me.</L>
<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
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