49. DUODECIM ABUSIONES.
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[From Wynkyn de Worde's first print of The Temple of Glas.]
- Rex sine sapiencia.
- Dominus sine consilio.
- Miles sine probitate.
- Diues sine elemosina.
- Senex sine religione.
- Pauper superbus.
- Episcopus sine doctrina.
- Mulier sine castitate.
- Iudex sine iusticia.
- Populus sine lege.
- Seruus sine timore.
- Adolescens sine obediencia.
1
Goo forth, Kyng, reule the by sapyence;
Bysshop, be able to mynystre doctryne;
Lord, to treu counceyle yeue audyence;
Womanhed, to chastyte euer enclyne;
Knyght, lete thy dedes worshyp determyne;
Be rightuous, Iuge, in sauyng [of] thy name;
Ryche, doo almes, lest thou lese blys with shame.
2
People, obeye your kyng and the lawe;
Age, be thou ruled by good religyon;
True Seruaunt, be dredfull & kepe the vnder awe,
And thou, Poure, fye on presumpcyon;
Inobedyence to yougth is vtter destruccyon,
Remembre you how God hath sette you, lo!
And doo your parte, as ye ar ordeynd to.
