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¶A balade agaynst malycyous Sclaunderers.
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¶Heue and how rumbelow thou arte to blame |
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Trolle into the right way agayne for shame. |
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TRolle into the way / trolle in and retrolle |
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Small charyte and lesse wytte is in thy nolle |
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Thus for to rayle vpon a christen soule |
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Wherfore men thynke the worthy blame |
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Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
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¶Thou makest a trollyng hyther and thyther |
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Somtyme thou trollest thou canst not tell whyther |
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But if all thy trollynges were gathered togyther |
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Thy trollynge might trym the and tourne the to blame |
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Wherfore trolle thou nowe into the way for shame |
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 Although lord
Crumwell a traytour was |
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Yet dare I saye that the kynge of his grace |
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Hath forgyuen him that gret trespas |
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To rayle than on dead men / thou arte to blame |
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Trolle now into the way agayne for shame. |
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In that that he the law hath offended |
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By the lawe he is iustly condempned |
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This mortall lyfe / full godly he ended |
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Wherfore to rayle thus / thou art to blame |
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Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
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¶For all his offences in euery thyng |
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He asked god mercy and grace of the kynge |
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And of all the wyde world / for his transgressyng |
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Thou nor no man can say nay to the same |
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Trolle into the way than agayne for shame |
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 Thou takest his treason for thy subtyll defence |
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Which nowe is departed and gone from hence |
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But men spye the pricke of all thy pretence |
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Thy owne sayenges folowyng declare the same |
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Trolle into the way / for fere or for shame |
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¶Thou sayest he was with the church to quycke |
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Fauouryng none but of the new trycke |
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But nowe thou spurnest agaynst the prycke |
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And thou of force / must confesse the same |
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Trolle into the way agayne for shame |
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For bysshops haue now as they haue had |
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If preestes wold complayne / they were to mad |
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Wherfore thou apperest to be a popysshe lad |
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For vsyng thy popery / thou arte to blame |
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Trolle into the way agayne for shame. |
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For here thou vpholdest both monkes and fryers |
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Nunnes and noughty-packes / and lewed lowsy lyers |
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The bysshop of Rome / with all his rotten squyers |
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To buylde such a church / thou arte moche to blame |
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Trolle nowe into the way agayne for shame. |
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May not men thynke now in the meane ceason |
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That thou hast deserued by ryght and by reason |
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As moch as he hath done for clokynge thy treason |
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For he was a traytour / and thou arte the same |
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Trolle away papyst / god gyue the shame. |
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¶The sacrament of the aulter / that is most hyest |
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Crumwell beleued it to be the very body of Chriest
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Wherfore in thy writyng / on him thou lyest |
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For the kynge and his counsell wyll wytnesse the same |
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Trolle into the waye / than agayne for shame |
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Although that he of byrth were but bace |
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Yet was he set vp of the kynges noble grace |
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Wherby it appereth that thou woldest deface |
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The kynges royall power / dispysyng the same |
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Trolle away traytour / god gyue the shame. |
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¶Is it thy facyon thus craftely to saye? |
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Let vs for the kynge / and his lordes praye |
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And than at the last / to trolle them awaye |
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With heue and how rumbelow / thy wordes be the same |
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Both written and printed / to thy great shame? |
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Hast thou no man els / thou dronken [f]oll
foll] soll 1540
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But the kynge and his nobles / away for to troll |
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It were ynough for to cost the thy poll |
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Both thyne and all other / that wold do the same |
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Trolle away traytoure / god gyue the shame. |
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¶A prety wyse printer belyke he was |
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Which of his printyng / so lytell doth pas |
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To print such pylde poetry / as this same was |
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Lyke maker / lyke printer / two trolles of the game |
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A payre of good papystes / ye be payne of shame |
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God send all traytours their hole desartes |
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God send small ioye / to all popysshe hartes |
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And euyll hap to as many as do take their partes |
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God send their purpose neuer to frame |
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But trolle them away with sorow and shame. |
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¶I pray god thou be not fownde one of those |
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That peruarteth the people / as I suppose |
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From redyng of gods worde / that goodly rose |
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Where the counsell commaundeth to occupy the same |
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Thou traytor allurest them this fayre floure to defame. |
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God preserue and kepe the kynges noble grace |
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With prince
Edwarde his sonne / to succede in his place |
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God kepe them amonge vs / longe tyme and space |
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Let all his true subiectes / say Amen to the same |
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And they that wold otherwyse / god send them shame. |
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Finis.
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Prentyd at London in Lombard_strete nere vnto the Stockes market at the sygne of the Mermayde by Johnn_Gough. |
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Cum preuilegio Ad imprimendum solum
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o domine in uirtute tua letabitur Rex, etc.
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