unstedfast or happyous thing, but with rules of reson, whiche
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shewen the course of certayne thinges: why suffreth he suche
slydinge chaunges, that misturnen suche noble thinges as ben we
men, that arn a fayr parcel of the erthe, and holden the upperest
degree, under god, of benigne thinges, as ye sayden right now
your-selfe; shulde never man have ben set in so worthy a place
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but-if his degrè were ordayned noble. Alas! thou that knittest
the purveyaunce of al thinges, why lokest thou not to amenden