LII. Anonymous

From “The Love of God.”

ENGLAND is blest and loued of God:

Who can the same deny?

For she hath felt his louinge rod,

Because she went awrye.

Deserve she dyd more to be whypt;

Her faultes they were so great:

Who dyd not see how far she slypt

From law and iustice seat?

The word so frely taught and preacht,

As no land had it more;

When teachers truelye truth them teacht,

They set by it no store.

They kept it not in hart and minde

To lead thereby theyr life:

If they had ben to God so kynde,

Then had not come the stryfe.