Neyther wryte nor say;

Yet though I wryte not with ynke,

No man can let me thynke,

For thought hath lyberte, 1200

Thought is franke and fre;

To thynke a mery thought

It cost me lytell nor[449] nought.

Wolde God myne homely style

Were pullysshed with the fyle

Of Ciceros eloquence,