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’Tis not for us these men to crown

With state, that they may trample down

Suitors, and every cause exploit

To fill their purses by adroit

Chicanery, and shut their door

To claimants cursed in being poor.

But theirs in person ’tis to sit

Each cause to hear, and judge of it

With righteous care, for false or true,

With all the points that ’long thereto.

Slaves of the populace are they,

Who win full foison day by day

From mother earth, and not their will

It was to let these miscreants fill

Their maws by foul despoil. Their time

All folk should pass in peace, for crime

Judges should punish, and ’tis theirs

Themselves to mount the gallows stairs

And execution do on thieves,

If no man willingly relieves

Their hands thereof, for justice they

Should do whate’er the price they pay.

For since the people ’tis who ’quite

The justicers, undoubted right

Have they to justice, and a vow

These judges made thereto, I trow.

On their investment.

Thy request

Is now fulfilled, and thou mayst rest

Content, since I have given thee proof

Of all thou wouldst for thy behoof.”