Is not this a swete offyce that I have, 985
When every drab shall prove me a knave?
Every man knoweth not what goddes servyce is,
Nor I my selfe knewe yt not before this.
I thynke goddes servauntes may lyve holyly,
But the devyls servauntes lyve more meryly. 990
I know not what god geveth in standynge fees,
But the devyls servaunts have casweltees[204]
A hundred tymes mo then goddes servauntes have.
For, though ye be never so starke a knave,