Bothe great[925] and small.

I wot neuer[926] how they warke,

But thus[927] the people barke;[928] 120

And surely thus they say,

Bysshoppes, if they may,

Small houses wolde[929] kepe,

But slumbre forth and slepe,

And assay to crepe

Within the noble walles

Of the kynges halles,