“It did him gude to laip the blude

Of young and tender lammis:

Nane could him mis, for all was his,

The young anes with their dammes.

“The hunter is Christ, that hunts in haist;

The hunds are Peter and Paul;

The Paip is the fox; Rome is the rox

That rubbis us on the gall.

“That cruel beist, he never ceist,

By his usurpit power,