And meche schame don us sche schalle.
Episcopus. A! sere, ye ben bolde i-now, art thou ferd of a wenche?
What trowyste that sche myht don us agayn?
Tertius Princeps. Sere, there are other in the centre that clenche,
And prechyn he is levyng that we slewe, they seyn;
And yif they ben sufferyd thus, this wille bredyn a stench,
ffor thorow here fayre speche oure lawys they steyn.
And therfore devyse we now upon this pleyn benche,
What is beste for to do hem for to atteyn:
We are but loste, yif they reyn.