But, as the proverb saith, it is good to keep still
One head for the reckoning, both sober and wise;
Wherefore in this thing I have followed that guise.
Ignorance is but a dolt, it is I that must drudge,
For need (they say) maketh the old wife and man both to trudge.[32]
Such snares we shall lay for these heretics, I trust,
That New Custom and his fellows shall soon lie in the dust.
If Cruelty may prevail, he will never slack,
Till he have brought a thousand of them to a stake.
Avarice hath promised to do what in him lay,