Take it mekely, and thanke God of his grace;

For nowe go I wyll begge for you some mete; 2060

It is foly agaynst God for to plete;

I wyll walke nowe with my beggers baggys,

And happe you the whyles with these homly raggys.

Discedendo[855] dicat ista verba.

A, howe my lymmys be lyther and lame!

Better it is to begge than to be hangyd with shame;

Yet many had leuer hangyd to be,

Then for to begge theyr mete for charyte: