Concerning the Abbot of Canterbury;

How for his house-keeping, and high renown,

They rode post for him to London town.

An hundred men the King did hearsay,

The Abbot kept in his house every day;

And fifty gold chains, without any doubt,

In velvet coats waited the Abbot about.

"How now, father Abbot, I hear it of thee,

Thou keepest a far better house than me,

And for thy house-keeping, and high renown,