Seynt Austin wol therto accorde,
In thilke book that I recorde.
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Justinian eek, that made lawes,
Hath thus forboden, by olde dawes,
"No man, up peyne to be deed,
Mighty of body, to begge his breed,
If he may swinke, it for to gete;
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Men shulde him rather mayme or bete,