One and Thyrtye Epigrammes wherein are briefly touched so many Abuses, that maye and ought to be put away. Compiled and Imprinted by Robert Crowley |
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Of Abbayes. |
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Of Abbayes.
As I walked aloneand mused on thynges,
That haue in my time
bene done by great kings,
I bethought me of Abbayes
that sometyme I sawe,
Whiche are nowe suppressed
all by a lawe,
O Lorde (thought I then)
what occasion was here,
To prouide for learninge
and make pouertye chere?
The landes and the Iewels
that hereby were hadde,
Would haue foūd godly prechers
which might well haue ladde:
The people aright
that now go astraye,
And haue fedde the pore
that famishe euerye daye,
But as I thus thought
it came to my mynde,
but delyte to be blynde.
Wherefore they are not worthy
good preachars to haue,
Nor yet to be prouided for
but styll in vayne to craue.
Than sayde I (O Lorde God)
make this tyme shorte,
For theyr sake onlye Lorde
that be thy chosen sorte.
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