My lordis grace wyll bryuge

Downe this hye sprynge,

And brynge it so lowe,

It shall nat[215] euer flowe.

Suche a prelate, I trowe, 950

Were worthy to rowe

Thorow the streytes of[216] Marock

To the gybbet of Baldock:

He wolde dry vp the stremys

Of ix. kinges realmys,[217]