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From Mirour for Magistrates, by William Baldwin
chosen by Greta
What wee had thus confest so foule a treason,
That we deserved, we suffered by the law,
Se Baldwin see, and note as it is reason,
How wicked deedes to woful endes do draw,
Al force doth fayle no craft is worth a straw,
To attayne thinges lost, and therfore let them goe,
For might ruleth right, and wil though truth say no.
From Mirour for Magistrates by Author Unknown
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Wherfore good Baldwin wil the Pierey take heede,
Of slaunder, malice, and conspiracye,
Of couetise, whence all the rest procede:
For couetise ioynt with contumacye,
Doth cause al mischiefe in mens hartes to breede:
And therfore this to Esperance my worde,
Who causeth Bloodshed shal not escape the Sword.