DANIEL

¶Cause that silence be proclaimed. ¶Where be these wicked people two, that would have S ed the blood, Of guiltless Susan, for that she their filthy lust withstood. ¶What sayest thou now Sensualitas, now that thy mate is gone, And no man is to help Thee here, but thou art left alone. O old and crooked cankered Carl, whose ancient wickedness, And rape and rygor thou haste done, now thus debt cted is. What false decrees hast thou decreed, what Innocentes oppressed, What guilty folk haste thou set free, which good folk do detest, Thou haste forgotten what God does say, Oh wicked thou knowest when Thou shalt not hurt the Innocent, nor yet the righteous man. Well if that thou the truth haste spoke, then tell under what tree, The mutual talk between these two, in Orchard thou didst see? ¶O now thou liest thou wicked man, unto thy head I speak, And look that God his vengeance will with shame upon thee wreak. And lo thy sentence he hath herd, and thus he means to do, according to thy endue desert, to cut thy life in two, And hearst thou Baily take thou aside, this vile and wicked wight, And so he comes not to his mate, nor once within his sighed. Fairness hath thine eyes deceaude, and lust hath made Thee blind With Israel's daughters thus you dealt, and they for fear consent, But Juda Daughter would not bide, your po es oh , Now if such thing thou sawest by her, as thou haste made report, What kind of tree I pray Thee waste, where under they did sport. ¶Yea one man may still in one tale, in only order tell, But yet his Mate will not agree, do therefore mark him well. ¶O foolish folk of Israel, that know not ill from good, I am you see and innocent, and guiltless of this blood. ¶That I mean speak, I tell you true, shall straight be plainly said, Why? are you fools Oh Israel, or are your wits dismayed. Or have you not the policy, the truth to know and try, Why have you now condemn here, this Israelite to die. And that which worst is yet of all, and fills her heart with ruth, You have done this (o foolish men) and have not known the truth. Go fit in judgement once again, the witness they have born, Is false, and yet their gravity, your senses does suborn. ¶Lo now thou liest naughty man, thy tongue hath thee betrayed, And calls thy fellows talk before, your filthy lust bewrayde, And now your filthy lust is spied, we see it very well, O wicked wight, o devilish deed, o act that sounds to hell. Gods Angel stands with his sword, even pressed to spill thy blood, And to dismember both your corpses, which erst was never good. ¶Amongst each things that bears life, there is nothing so excellent Then man, nor yet there is nothing more pestilent. God made of man and Innocent, thereby to show his power, Man made himself a wicked wight, as you see at this hour. God also did make Magistrates, the poor to help and stay, Yet some do vile examples show, which now do bear a sway, I speak it not I will you know, the worst man to offend, But for that such as guilty be, their gilded may soon amend. And you that wicked are in deed, have you none other trust, God will confound your acttes and deeds, & turn your selves to dust And then for your joust desert, he will place you to dwell, In Pluto's Pit a fiery Lake, the deepest dyke in Hell. And therefore I advertise you, do learn your selves to know, And read Gods books where you shall find, I nought but truth do show And let these wicked Elders two, be sample to you all, View well their lofty state of late, and now do mark their fallen. ¶Counterfeit ̄ maund that these two wicked men may straight be put asunder, And how they shall accuse themselves, it will make you to wonder. ¶Hoe Crier bring in Voluptas there. ¶Sensualitas and Voluptas to, I speak unto you twain, How falsely you accused her, all men do now see plain. And God him self to save her blood, hath wonderfully wrought, And you that sought to spill the same, are also come to nought. Well God forgive your wicked deed, and give your selves to pray, For of your course of mortal life, this same is the last day. For hence you shall unto the place, where such do use to die, As do transgress the Princes laws, even forthwith by and by. And there with stones you shall be st nde while life and does last Hoe there away with them I say, let it be done in haste.