I have attempted this thing to execute
Uppon transgressers accordyng unto justyce;
And be cawse I wyll not be parcyall in myn offyce
For theft and murder to persones spirytuall,
I have ageynst me the pristes and the bysshoppes all
A lyke dysplesure in my fathers tyme ded fall,
Forty yeres ago, for ponyshment of a clarke.
No cun[`s]ell myght them to reformacyon call,
In ther openyon they were so stordy and so starke,
But ageynst ther prynce to the pope they dyd so barke,