Who shuld be her governayl?
Who shuld her rule, who shuld her reed,
1080
Who shuld her forthren, who shuld avayl?
Ech man shall live by his travayl;
Who best doth, shall have moste mede;
With strength if men the churche assayl,
With strength men must defende her nede.
1085
And the pope were purely pore,