¶ For all the baytes that we for hym haue layde
¶ Wythout my helpe be not worth a pere
¶ For though ye all the contrary had sayd
¶ yet wold he brede right nigh your althris ere
¶ No maner of thynge can hym hurt or dere
¶ Saue only a sone of my bastard
¶ Whos name is vice he kepyth my vawarad.
¶ Wherfore you Cerberus now I the charge
¶ Of Colus & wyl that thou heder fet
¶ My dere sone Vyce & say that I hym charge.
¶ That he to me come without ony let
¶ Armed at all poyntes for a day is set
¶ That he with Vertu for al the goddis sake
¶ In our defence must on hym batayl take.
¶ Forth then went Cerberus with his fyry chein
¶ Brought thyder vyce as he commaunded was
¶ Agayn noble Vertu that batayl to dercygne
¶ On a glydyng serpent rydynge a grete pace
¶ Formed lyke a dragon scaled hard as glas
¶ whoos mouth flammed fyre without fayll
¶ wyngis had it serpentyne & a long tayll
¶ Armed was vyce all in cure boyll
¶ Harde as horne blacker fer than sute
¶ An vngoodly sort folowed hym perde
¶ Of vnhappy capteyns of myschyfe crop & rot
¶ Pryde was the fyrst that next hym rode god wote
¶ On a roryng Lyon next whome came Enuye
¶ Syttyng on wolfe he had a scornful eye
¶ Wrath bestrode a wyld bore & next hym gan ride.
¶ In his hond he bare a blody swerd
¶ Next whom cam couetise that goth so fer & wide
¶ Rydyng on a Olyfaunt as he had ben a ferd
¶ After whom rode Gloteny wyth his fat berd
¶ Syttyng on a bere wyth his grete bely
¶ And next hym on a gote folowed Lechery
¶ Sloth was so slepy he came all behynd
¶ On a dull asse a full wery pase
¶ Thyse were the capteins that vyce coud fynde
¶ Best to set his feld & folow on the chase
¶ As for pety capteyns many mo there was
¶ As sacrylege symony & dyssymulacyon
¶ Manslaughter mordre theft & extorcyon
¶ Arrogaunce Presumpcyon wyth contumaci
¶ Contempcyon Contempt & Inobedyence
¶ Malye Frowardnes grete Ielasy
¶ wodnes Hate Stryf and Impacyence
¶ Vnkyndnes Oppressyon with wofull neglygence.
¶ Murmur Myschef Falshod & detraccyon
¶ Vsury Periury Ly and adulacyon
¶ Wrong Rauyne Sturdy vyolence
¶ Fals Iugement with Obstynacyon
¶ Dysceyt Dronknes & Improuydence.
¶ Boldnes in yll with foule and Rybaudy.
¶ Fornycacyon Incest and Auoutry
¶ Vnshamfastnes with Prodygalyte
¶ Blasfeme vaynglory & worldly vanyte
¶ Ignoraunce Dyffydence with Ipocrysy
¶ Scysme Rancour Debate and Offence
¶ Heresy Errour with Idolatry.
¶ New fangylnes and sotyll false Pretence
¶ Inordynat desyre of worldly excellence
¶ Fayned pouerte wyth apostasy
¶ Dysclaunder scorn & vnkynd Ielousy
¶ Hoordom baudry false mayntenaunce
¶ Treyson abusyon and pety brybry
¶ Vsurpacyon with horryble vengaunce
¶ Came alder last of that company
¶ All thyse pety capetayns folowed by and by.
¶ Shewyng theymself in the paleyse wyde
¶ And say they were redy that batayl to abyde