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FALSE SLAVERY AND TRUE.
MUCH in these prating times of ours hath beenOf slavery discoursed and sung and writ,
But mostly, as meseems, with little wit.
For if (as surely), slavery service mean,
Who is there here but serveth? king and queen,
Peasant and noble, all in service knit
Each unto other, as is well and fit,
So but the wage do to the work convene.
One slavery but there is, of all that be,
Intolerable, making Gods to weep,
The slavery of the wise and passion-free
To those that serve their lusts, of good to ill,
Noble to base. From such a slavery still
God of His grace our kindly England keep!
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