PIERS. Ah! Palinode, thou art a world's child:

Who touches pitch, must needs be defil'd;

But shepheards (as Algrind[7] used to say)

Must not live alike as men of the lay.

With them it sits to care for their heir,

Enaunter their heritage do impair:

They must provide for means of maintenance,

And to continue their wont countenance:

But shepheard must walk another way,

Sike worldly sovenance he must for-say.