❧The maner of the world now a dayes.
SO many poynted caps
Lased w
t double flaps
And so gay felted hats
Sawe I neuer.
So many good lessons
So many good sermons
And so few deuocions
Sawe I neuer.
So many gardes worne
Iagged aud al to torne
And so many falsly forsworne
Sawe I neuer.
So fewe good polycies
In townes and cytyes
For kepinge of blynde hostryes
Sawe I neuer.
So many good warkes
So few wel lerned clarkes
And so few that goodnes markes
Sawe I neuer.
Suche pranked cotes & sleues
So few yonge men that preues
And such encrease of theues
Sawe I neuer.
So many garded hose
such cornede shoes
And so many enuyous foes
Sawe I neuer.
So many questes sytte
With men of smale wit
And so many falsely quitte
sawe I neuer.
So many gay swordes
So many altered wordes
And so fewe couered bordes
Sawe I neuer.
¶So many empti purses
so fewe good horses
And so many curses
Sawe I neuer.
suche bosters and braggers
so newe fashyoned daggers
And so many beggers
Sawe I neuer.
So many proper knyues
So well apparrelled wyues
And so yll of theyr lyues
Saw I neuer.
So many cockolde makers
So many crakers
And so many peace breakers
Saw I neuer.
So much vayne clothing
With cuttyng and iagging
And so much bragginge
Saw I neuer.
¶So many newes and knackes
So many naughty packes
And so many that mony lackes
Saw I neuer.
¶So many maidens with child
And wylfully begylde
And so many places vntilde
Sawe I neuer.
so many women blamed
And rightuously defaimed
And so lytle ashamed
sawe I neuer.
¶Widowes so sone wed
After their husbandes be deade
Hauing such hast to bed
sawe I neuer
¶so much striuinge.
For goodes and for wiuinge
And so lytle thryuynge
saw I neuer.
¶so many capacities
Offices and pluralites
And chaunging of dignities
sawe I neuer.
✚so many lawes to vse
The truth to refuse
Suche falshead to excuse
sawe I neuer.
¶Executers hauinge the ware
Taking so littel care
Howe the soule doth fare
¶sawe I neuer.
¶Amonge them that are riche
No frendshyp is to kepe tuche
And such fayre glosinge speche
Saw I neuer.
So many pore
In euery bordoure
And so small soccoure
Saw I neuer.
So proude and so gaye
so riche in araye
And so sknat of money
Saw I neuer.
So many bowyers
so many fletchers
And so few good arches
sawe I neuer.
so many chepers
so fewe biers
And so many borowers
sawe I neuer.
So many alle sellers.
In baudy holes and sellers
Of yonge folkes yll counsellers
sawe I neuer.
so many pinkers
so many thinkers
And so many good alle drinkers
sawe I neuer
so many wronges
so few mery songes
And so many yll tonges.
sawe I neuer.
so many a vacabounde
Through al this londe
And so many in pryson bond
I saw neuer.
¶so many citacions.
so fewe oblacions
And so many new facions
sawe I neuer.
so many fleyng tales
Pickers of purses and males
And so many sales
saw I neuer.
so much preachinge
speaking fayre and teaching
And so ill beleuinge
saw I neuer.
so much wrath and enuy
Couetous and glottony
and so litle charitie
sawe I neuer.
so many carders
Reuelers and dicers
and so many yl ticers
sawe I neuer.
so many lollers
so few true tollers
so many baudes and pollers
sawe I neuer.
such treachery
simony and vsury
Pouerty and lechery
saw I neuer.
so many auayles
so many geales
And so many fals baylies
sawe I neuer.
By fals and subtyll wayes
All Englande decayes
For more enuy and lyers
sawe I neuer.
so new facioned iackes
With brode flappes in the neckes
And so gay and newe partlettes
sawe I neuer.
so many slutteshe cookes
so few facioned tucking hookes
And so few biers of bookes
saw I neuer.
somtime we song of myrth & play
But now our ioy is gone away
For so many fal in decay
sawe I neuer.
whither is y
e welth of englād gon
the spiritual saith they haue none
And so many wrongfully vndone
saw I neuer.
It is great pitie that euery day
so many brybors go by the way
And so mani extortioners in eche cūtrey
saw I neuer.
To the lord I make my mone
For y
u maist healpe vs euerich one
Alas the people is so wo begone
worse was it neuer
Amendment
Were conuenient
But it may not be
We haue exiled veritie
God is neither dead nor sicke
He may amend al yet
And trowe ye so in dede
As ye beleue ye shal haue mede
After better I hope euer
For worse was it neuer.
Finis.