Withoute lawe positif,

Of which sche takth nomaner charge,

Bot kepth hire lawes al at large,

Nature, tok hem into lore

And tawht hem so, that overmore[849]

Sche hath hem in such wise daunted;

That thei were, as who seith, enchaunted.

And as the blinde an other ledeth

And til thei falle nothing dredeth, 180

Riht so thei hadde non insihte;[850]