Dum iacet, vt mitis agna subibit onus.
Si caput extollat et lex sua frena relaxet,
Vt sibi velle iubet, Tigridis instar habet.
Ignis, aqua dominans duo sunt pietate carentes,
Ira tamen plebis est violenta magis.
Now forto speke of the comune,
It is to drede of that fortune 500
De statu plebis, vt dicunt, secundum accidencium mutabilia.[137]
Which hath befalle in sondri londes:
Bot often for defalte of bondes