And owe their repairing to a pot of good ale.
Truth will do it right, it brings Truth to light,
And many bad matters it helps to reveal:
For, they that will drink, will speak what they think:
Tom tell-troth lies hid in a pot of good ale.
It is Justices Friend, she will it commend,
For all is here served by measure and tale;
Now, true-tale and good measure are Justices treasure,
And much to the praise of a pot of good ale.
And next I alledge, it is Fortitudes edge[,]