The compas may stand awrye,

But the carde wyll not lye:

Hale in your mayne shete,[357]

This tempest is to grete.

[For pawre men dayly sees

How officers[358] takes their fees,

Summe yll, and some yet worse,

As good right as to pike there purse:

Deservethe this not Godes curse?

There consyenes ys sooe grett,