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Howe the worlde may be lykened to a battell in a felde.

And yet is this worlde, as ye shall here
May thus be lykened, in the fourth manere
To a fayre felde, full of dyuers battayles
Of straunge ennemyes, yt eche day vs assayles
For here we be brought in great doute
And set with ennemyes, all harde aboute
And pryncypally, with these ennemyes thre
But agaynst them, well armed we myght be
That is the worlde, the fende, and thy flesshe
That eche day assayleth vs lyke fresshe
Therfore vs behoueth both day and nyght
For to be redy agaynst them to fyght