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Robert Uaghane to the reader.

Rede gentyll Reader, all rygour set aparte
Onely with indyfferencye, ponder this argument
Be nat weyde with wylfulnes, yt ofte doth trewth subuarte
Enterlet no parcyallytye in iudgement
Remembre this rule, that Iustyce in election
Taketh no place in wyll nor affection.
Bende nat then in Iudgement, althoughe parchaunce
Vnto the hath be extended, a auncyent occasyon
Requyrynge agaynst women, to haue thy defyaunce
Do nat consent, to suche a lyght parswasyon
Euer consyder, it is a made affection
To iudge all vnparfyte, thoughe one lacke parfection.
Raylynge without reason, voyde of humanytye
Outragynge and lewde, for lacke of intellygence
Blynded throughe ygnoraunce, with mystes of sensualytye
Euermore the Pye, setteth out her sentence
Relatynge her malyce, by vniust accusacyon
This shall ye perceyue, by the Fawcons declaracyon.
Bestowe nat then thy laboure, to prate with the Pye
Vniustly accusynge, thy nowrysshe and mother
Rede and recorde, howe the Fawcon doth replye
Defendynge the femalles, with Aucthours one and other
Euermore aledged, and noted in the mergent
The gentyll reader, to satysfye and content.
FINIS.