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XXIII. OF M. J. SHARPE.
If gentle blude ingendrit be by baggis,Then culd I ges vho wer a gentle Jhone;
If he be wysest, with the world that waggis,
Ȝit culd I wish ȝou to a wittie one;
If he be all, vha thinks his nichtbours none,
Then surely I suld shau ȝou vho wer all;
If he be Cæsar, vho doth so suppone,
Then I conjecture vhom I Cæsar call;
If he be sure, vho sueirs and sayis he sall,
Then certainly I wot weill vho wer sure;
If he be firme, vho neuer feirs to fall,
I doubt not then vhose dayis suld lang indure;
Sed quæritur, vhat lau he leivis at leist?
He wald not preich; he can not be a preist.
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