To get such things as needefull are.
"Knewst thou the case, thou wouldst not say,
Shaven haire sham'd clerks, or black aray:
Worne higher honors to display,
And that all states they oversway.
"All things should to my clerke encline,
Whose crowne sustains th' impereal signe;
He rules and payes such friendes as thine,
And lay must stoope to men divine.
"Thou sayst that sloth a clerke disguiseth,