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The Louer beeing accused of suspicion of flattery, pleadeth
not gyltie, and yet is wrongfully condemned.
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The Louer beeing accused of suspicion of flattery, pleadeth not gyltie, and yet is wrongfully condemned.
To seeme for to reuenge, eche wrong in hastie wise,By proofe wee see of gyltlesse men, it hath not bin the guise:
In slaunders lothsome brute, when they condemned bee,
With rageles moodes they suffer wronge, when truth shall try them free:
These are the pacient panges, yt pas within the brest
Of those that feele their case by mine, where wrong hath right opprest:
I know how by suspect, I haue been iudged away,
And graunted gyltie in the thing, that clearly I denye.
My fayth may mee defende, if I might leuid bee,
God iudge mee so, as from that gylte I know mee to bee free:
I wrought but for my freend, the greefe was all mine owne,
As if the troth were truely tryde, by prooft it might be knowne.
Yet are there such that say, they can my meaning deeme,
Without respect to this olde troth: things proue not as they seeme:
To make them be suspecte therwith, that needeth not to kicke:
Yet in resisting wrong, I would not haue it thought,
I doo accuse as though I knew, by whom it may be wrought:
If any such there bee, that herewithall be vext,
It were their vertue to beware, and deeme mee better nexte.
FINIS.
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