[162]: 1404-1409. Les Communes déclaraient qu'avec ces revenus le roi serait capable d'entretenir 15 comtes, 1500 chevaliers, 6200 écuyers et 100 hôpitaux; chaque comte recevant par an 300 marcs, chaque chevalier 100 marcs et le produit de quatre charrues de terre, chaque écuyer 40 marcs et le produit de deux charrues de terre.—Pictorial history, II. p. 142.

[163]: Vers 1362.

[164]:

And than gan I to mete a mervelyous swevene,
That I was in a wyldyrnese, wyst I never qwere;
And as I beheld on hey, est on to the sonne,
I saw a tour on a toft, ryaly emaked,
A depe dale benethe, a donjon therein,
With depe dykys and dyrke, and dredful of sygth.
A fayr feld ful of folke fond I ther betwene,
Of al maner of men, the mene and the ryche,
Werkynge and wanderyng, as the werld askyth.
Some put hem to the plow, pleyid hem ful seeld
In syttynge and sowing swonken full harde,
And wan what wastours with gloteny dystroid....

[165]: L'archidiacre de Richmond étant en tournée, en 1216, vint au prieuré de Bridlington avec quatre-vingt-dix-sept chevaux, vingt-et-un chiens et trois faucons.

And now is religion a ridere, a romere bi streetis,
A ledar of love-daiyes and a load bigere;
A prickere on a pelfrey from maner to maner,
An hep of hounds at his ars, as he a lord were.
And but his knave knele that shall hym hys cuppe brynge,
He loureth on him, and axeth who taughtte hym curteise.

[166]:

Kynde Conscience tho herde, and cam out of the planett,
And sent forth his forreors Feveris and Fluxes,
Coughes, and Cardyacles, Crampes, and Tothe-aches,
Reumes and Redegoundes, and roynous Skalles,
Buyles and Botches, and brennynge Agwes,
Frennesyes and foule Evelis, forageris of Kynde.
There was "Harrow! and Helpe! Here cometh Kynde!
With Death that is dreadful, to undon us alle."
The lord that lyved after lust tho lowde criede.
Deeth came dryving aftir, and al to dust pashed
Kyngs and Knyghttes, Kaysours and popis.
Many a lovely lady and lemmanys of Knyghttes
Swowed and sweltid for sorwe of Dethe's dentes.

[167]: Dernier livre. The Lazar House.

[168]: Ce poëme fut imprimé plus tard, en 1550. Il y en eut trois éditions en une année, tant il était visiblement protestant.