Lovers of lordship, and troublers of states:

Then gan shepheards' swains to look aloft,

And leave to live hard, and learn to ligg soft:

Then, under colour of shepheards, somewhile

There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile,

That often devoured their own sheep,

And often the shepheards that did them keep:

This was the first source of shepheards' sorrow,

That now nill be quit with bail nor borrow.

PAL. Three things to bear be very burdenous,