That I sawe in my tyme.

I saw a ryall trone

Where Justyce shuld have sytt,

But in her stede was one

Of modye cruell wytt.

Absorpt was ryghtwysnesse

As of the ragynge floude;

Sathan in hys excesse

Sucre up the gyltelesse bloude.

Then thought I, Jesus, Lorde,