The Example of Vertu / The Example of Virtue

by Stephen Hawes

From theyr wyll with treason knyte

And by me slayn for theyr fals fyte

The seconde is lawe that euer serueth

But within the realme onely

For other nacyons our lawe ne dredeth

But our swerd they do in specyally

For and they roose ayenst vs proudly

As they haue done often in tymes past

Yet w^t our swerd they shold be ouercast

The thyrde be marchauntes that do multyply