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| The vp-cheringe of the messe. | |
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| Who hath not knowen or herd | |
| How we were made a_feard | |
| That magre of our beard | |
| Our messe shulde cleane awaye | |
| 5 | That we did dayly saye |
| And vtterly decaye | |
| For euer and for aye | |
| So were we brought in doubte | |
| That all that are deuout | |
| 10 | Were like to go withoute |
| The messe that hath no peere | |
| Which longe hath taried here | |
| Yea many an hundreth yere | |
| And to be destitute | |
| 15 | Of that whiche constitute |
| Was of the highe depute | |
| Of Christe and his apostles | |
| Althoughe none of the Gospels | |
| No mencion maketh or tells | |
| 20 | We must beleue what ells? |
| Of things done by councells. | |
| Wherin the high professours | |
| Apost[o]lique successours Apostolique] Apostlique 1548 | |
| Take hole to be possessours | |
| 25 | And some wer made confessours |
| Some of them were no startars | |
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| But were made holi marters | |
| Yet plowmen smythes and cartars | |
| With such as be their hartars | |
| 30 | Will enterprise to taxe |
| Thes auncyent mens actes | |
| And holy fathers factes | |
| Thoughe messe were made bi men | |
| As popes nyne or ten | |
| 35 | Or many more what then? |
| Or not of scripture grounded | |
| Is yt therfore confounded | |
| To be a supersticion? | |
| Nay nay they mysse the quission | |
| 40 | Make better Inquysicion |
| Ye haue an euyll condicion | |
| To make suche exposicion | |
| Ye thinke nothing but scripture | |
| Is only clene and pure | |
| 45 | Yes yes I you ensure |
| The messe shalbe hir better | |
| As light as ye do set hir | |
| The scripture hath nothing | |
| Wher-by profyte to bryng | |
| 50 | But a lytyll preaching |
| With tattling and teaching | |
| And nothing can ye espie | |
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| Nor se with outwarde eye | |
| But must your ears applie | |
| 55 | To learnyng inwardlye |
| And who-so it will folowe | |
| In goods though he may walow | |
| If scripture once him swalowe | |
| She wyll vndo him holowe | |
| 60 | Wherfore no good messingers |
| Will come within hir fyngers | |
| But are hir vnder-styngers | |
| For she wolde fayne vndo | |
| All such as lyueth so | |
| 65 | To the messe she is an enymye |
| And wolde distroye hir vtterlye | |
| Wer not for sum that frendfully | |
| In time of nede will stand hir by | |
| Yet is the messe and she as lyke | |
| 70 | As a christian to an heretike |
| The messe hath holy vestures | |
| And many gay gestures | |
| And decked with clothe of golde | |
| And vessells many-folde | |
| 75 | Right galaunt to beholde |
| More then may wel be tolde | |
| With basen ewer and towell | |
| And many a prety Iwelle | |
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| With goodly candellstyckes | |
| 80 | And many proper tryckys |
| With cruetts gilt, and chalys | |
| Wherat some men haue malice | |
| With sensers and with pax | |
| And many other knackys | |
| 85 | With patent and with corporas |
| The fynest thing that euer was | |
| Alasse is it not pitie | |
| That men be no more wittye | |
| But on the messe to Iest | |
| 90 | Of all suche thinge the best |
| For if she were supprest | |
| A pyn for all the rest. | |
| But harke to me a while | |
| And marke ye well my style | |
| 95 | All ye that speake so vyle |
| And woulde the messe exile | |
| Tidynges I can you tel | |
| She is like here to dwel | |
| In dispite of the Gospel | |
| 100 | For al his lokes so snel |
| And also I wyl proue | |
| It wil the Gospel behoue | |
| To sue to haue her loue | |
| For within fewe yeres | |
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| 105 | He durst not for his eares |
| Be sene in all this land | |
| Nor harde nor had in hand | |
| But she had by hym stande | |
| He was hir seruaunt than | |
| 110 | Let him say what he can |
| With him durst no man | |
| Meddle more or lesse | |
| But whan he harde messe | |
| This must he nedes confesse | |
| 115 | Or eles in exposicions |
| Or doctors dispu[t]icions disputicions] dispuicions 1548 | |
| Such were the constitutions | |
| And also institucio[n]s | |
| Suche were their prohibicions | |
| 120 | And also inhibicions |
| He durste not crie creake | |
| Till he coulde englishe speake | |
| But lyke an huddy-peake | |
| Kepe warme hys braynes weake | |
| 125 | And nowe he is full cranke |
| And conneth hir no thanke | |
| But compteth hir as ranke | |
| As any on the bancke | |
| But maister Euangelium | |
| 130 | The tyme agayne may come |
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| But wel ther mum | |
| Ha, Ha, Hum. | |
| Wel yet ther be some | |
| That are not all dum | |
| 135 | That long hath hold theyr peace |
| And were content to cease | |
| Leste malice should encrese | |
| To frie them in their grese | |
| And nowe they be turned lose | |
| 140 | They passe not of a gose |
| To saye the worst they can | |
| By messe the powre woman | |
| What did I call hir pore? | |
| Naye some wyl cal hir whore | |
| 145 | And stireth a great vprore |
| Some cal hir popes daughter | |
| Some sayes she made manslau[gh]ter manslaughter] manslauhgter 1548 | |
| Some turne hir to a laughter | |
| Some wold they had not sought hir | |
| 150 | Som cursseth hym that brought hir |
| And him that first taught hir | |
| Some say she is a leache | |
| To make whole scabes and bleache | |
| Some saye she is good for byles | |
| 155 | And good for humbled heles |
| And good for kowe or Oxe | |
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| That chafid be wyth yockes | |
| And good for hens and cockes | |
| To kepe them from the fox | |
| 160 | They saye she is good for the pox |
| And such as haue sore dockes | |
| And as for gaulde horse-backes | |
| That chafed be with packes | |
| With panyers and wyth sackes | |
| 165 | No helpe they saye she lackes |
| And good for meselde hogges | |
| And also maungye dogges | |
| But for a Winchester goslynge | |
| They saye she passeth al-thing | |
| 170 | She bringeth wether cler[e]letter broken |
| And seasonable yere | |
| And if it neade agayne | |
| They saye she bringeth raine | |
| She seaceth thonder lowde | |
| 175 | And carieth euerie cloude |
| They say the plage and pestilence | |
| The feuer and the epilence | |
| The popish messe expelleth hence | |
| And grasse she maketh growe | |
| 180 | And fayre wynde to blowe |
| And rule it highe and lowe | |
| Her power is greate I trowe | |
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| And some saye wedes and thornes | |
| She kepeth from the cornes | |
| 185 | And yet some mockes and scornes |
| And say hir pristes make hornes | |
| On eueninges and in mornes | |
| Thus do they hir defame | |
| And slaunder hir good name | |
| 190 | Wherin they be to blame |
| For I can good wittnes fet | |
| That she neuer holpe on yet | |
| Thus thei speake and spare not | |
| And what thei prate thei care not | |
| 195 | For lowdly do they sounde |
| That missa is not founde | |
| Within the byble-boke | |
| Who-so theron shall loke | |
| And yet they be a_croke | |
| 200 | Amisse the marcke they toke |
| Ther shal ye find misach | |
| A wel, howe lyke ye thys knacke? | |
| Wherefore loke about | |
| And serche in and out | |
| 205 | For she is no lowt |
| I put you out of doubt | |
| She is not cleane forsaken | |
| But very wel taken | |
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| Yea yea be lakin | |
| 210 | She is worth a flicke of baco[n]letter broken or obscured |
| And if it be well sought | |
| She wil not so be bought | |
| Yet may ye se hir for nought | |
| In many holy places | |
| 215 | Within a fewe paces |
| An holy holy thinge | |
| Especially when they synge | |
| With mery piping | |
| And besy chauntyng | |
| 220 | We maye be veri glade |
| That yet the messe is had | |
| For al it is so bad | |
| The people be as mad | |
| As euer they may be | |
| 225 | The messe to here and se |
| Auengaunce on it for me | |
| For I am al-moste werye | |
| I haue taken suche payne | |
| To bringe hir home agayne | |
| 230 | Wherfore nowe totus mundus |
| That round is and rotundus | |
| Be mery and Iocundus | |
| And sing the letabundus | |
| With al the whole chorus | |
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| 235 | That here hath ben before vs |
| And al the sely soules | |
| That hereth messe in poules | |
| And in al places beside | |
| In london that is wyde | |
| 240 | Where messe is song or sayd |
| And be nothinge affraed | |
| That she shal go awaye | |
| But tary whyle she maye | |
| For she must long continue | |
| 245 | She hath suche greate retynue |
| Stronge men of bone and sinue | |
| Ye can no better wyshe | |
| They wyl sticke to their stoc[k]fish stockfish] stochfish 1548 | |
| And stande lyke lusty bloudes | |
| 250 | Aduenturinge lyfe and goodes |
| And all to put in peril | |
| For mastres missas quarel | |
| And nothynge wil they shrincke | |
| No more then for to drincke | |
| 255 | To sp[e]ake such as they thincke speake] spake 1548 |
| No no they wyll not wincke | |
| At matters to be sene | |
| Nor let for king or quene | |
| Ye gesse nere whom I meane | |
| 260 | Yet is it sayed I wene |
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| He caried not al cleane | |
| Yet hath he bolder ben | |
| Then other fiften | |
| Wherefore he maye be praysed | |
| 265 | That such a noyse is raysed |
| And thorowe Englande voysed | |
| That he woulde be so hardy | |
| Thoughe he were taken tardy | |
| He thought or he went thens | |
| 270 | To declare his consciens |
| A man of muche sapience | |
| And ful of goodly sentence | |
| Wel lyke to wyn the audience | |
| By his copious Eloquence | |
| 275 | If wel he might enchieued |
| For many men beleued | |
| That he coulde haue remeued | |
| And wonne by his entent | |
| Al that there were presente | |
| 280 | Alacke they were not bent |
| To graunt or to consent | |
| To suche thinges as he ment | |
| He talked that religions | |
| With al their prety pigions | |
| 285 | For good entent were wroughte |
| God wotteth what he thought | |
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| He spake it not for noughte | |
| Though scripture he ne brought | |
| But if he would haue sought | |
| 290 | He coulde haue proued it there |
| Or a horse coulde lyke his eare | |
| That taking awaye the il | |
| They might haue stand stil | |
| And in lyke case by Images | |
| 295 | And all maner of ceremonies |
| But tushe let go thes bables | |
| And al these fible-fables | |
| The messe he did auaunce | |
| And highly hir enhaunce | |
| 300 | To be of such perfection |
| As neadeth no correction | |
| Nor yet to haue infection | |
| For al hir late detection | |
| Nor worthie of suspection | |
| 305 | So cleare is hir confection |
| And purenes of complection | |
| By catholyke election | |
| She semes to take erection | |
| Aboue the resurrection | |
| 310 | Nor neuer was his lot |
| In hir to spie a spot | |
| But cleane from blurre and blot | |
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| He loueth hir wel, god wot | |
| There can no droncken sot | |
| 315 | Loue more the good ale-pot |
| I dare saye at this howre | |
| Thoughe he be in the towre | |
| Yet doeth he styl honoure | |
| The messe that swete flowre flowre] a flowre 1548 | |
| 320 | Wherfore ye priestes al |
| That styl continue shal | |
| With messinge in the temple | |
| Forget not thys exemple | |
| Of thys your father | |
| 325 | That ye maye the rather |
| Obtayne the grace | |
| To come to the place | |
| Wher he doeth abyde | |
| And loke ye do not slyde | |
| 330 | But sticke to hir harde |
| Or elles all is marde | |
| And whan ye may not chuse | |
| Then must ye hir refuse | |
| Ther wilbe heauy newes | |
| 335 | As euer came to the stewes |
| The contrye is not fayre | |
| And she liketh not the ayre | |
| Wherfore if she appayre | |
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| Nedes home she muste repayre | |
| 340 | There is no such remedie |
| As is hir natiue contrie | |
| And if she chaunce to dye | |
| I cannot helpe it I | |
| But synge place_bo | |
| 345 | Tut let hir gooe |
| I wene we get no mo | |
| A good mestres missa | |
| Shal ye go from vs thissa? | |
| Wel yet I muste ye kyssa | |
| 350 | Alacke for payne I pyssa |
| To se the mone here Issa | |
| Because ye muste departe | |
| It greueth many an herte | |
| That ye should from them start | |
| 355 | But what then tushe a farte |
| Sins other shifte is none | |
| But she must neades be gone | |
| Nowe let vs synge eche one | |
| Boeth Iak and gyll and Ione | |
| 360 | Requiem eternam |
| Lest penam sempiternam | |
| For vitam supernam | |
| And vmbram infernam | |
| For veram lucernam | |
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| 365 | She chaunce to enherite |
| According to hir merite | |
| Pro cuius memoria | |
| Ye maye wel be soria | |
| Full smale maye be your gloria | |
| 370 | When ye shal heare thys storia |
| Then wil ye crie and roria | |
| We shal s[e] hir no moria se] so 1548 | |
| Et dicam vobis quare | |
| She may no longer stare | |
| 375 | Nor here with you regnare |
| But trudge ad vltra mare | |
| And after habitare | |
| In regno plutonico | |
| Et Euo acronyco | |
| 380 | Cum cetu babilonico |
| Et cantu diabolico | |
| With pollers and piller[s] pillers] p iller 1548 | |
| And al hir well-willers | |
| And ther to dwel euer | |
| 385 | And thus wil I leaue hir. |
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