There was no sinne from which those men did shunne:

By them the commonweale was quite vndonne:

They did destroy the state of euery towne,

They churches burnt, they pluckt the abbies downe.

9.

Yet not content, vs nunnes they did annoy,

O cruel deede, our beltes they did vnbynde,

With rapine they dyd rauishe and destroy,

Deflowring al that euer they could finde:

I seeing then what sorrow was assignde