Met an untimely death;
The other eke for treason
Did end her hateful breath."
IGNORANCE"Yea, yea, it is no matter,
Dispraise them how you wille:
But zure they did much goodnesse;
Would they were with us stille!
We had our holy water,
And holy bread likewise,
And many holy reliques
We zaw before our eyes."
TRUTH"And all this while they fed you
With vain and empty showe,
Which never Christ commanded,
As learned doctors knowe;
Search then the holy scriptures,
And thou shalt plainly see
That headlong to damnation
They alway trained thee."
IGNORANCE"If it be true, good vellowe,
As thou dost zay to mee,
Unto my heavenly fader
Alone then will I flee:
Believing in the Gospel,
And passion of his Zon,
And with the zubtil papistes
Ich have for ever done."
NOTES
1.i.e.faithen: as in the midland counties they say housen, closen, for houses, closes.
A.
- Probably alluding to the illuminated Psalters, Missals, &c.
- By name Eliz. Barton, executed April 24, 1534.-- Stow, p. 570.