With divers faults at their time, that might have been amended.
The doctors of the church great fault they did find,
In that men lived not after their mind:
First with the rulers as examples of sin,
Then with the people as continuing therein:
So that of them both this one thing they thought,
That the people was not good, but the rulers were nought.
But in comparison of this time of misery,
In those days men lived in perfect felicity.
Saint Paul prophesied that worse times should ensue,