Colyn Cloute Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Colyn Cloute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Quis consurget mecum adversus malignantes	A
aut quis stabit mecum adversus operantes iniqui	B
tatem Nemo Domine	C
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W H A T can it auayle	D
To dryue forth a snayle	D
Or to make a sayle	D
Of an herynges tayle	D
To ryme or to rayle	D
To wryte or to indyte	E
Eyther for delyte	E
Or elles for despyte	E
Or bokes to compyle	D
Of dyuers maner style	D
Vyce to reuyle	D
And synne to exyle	D
To teche or to preche	F
As reason wyll reche	F
Say this and say that	E
His hed is so fat	E
He wotteth neuer what	E
Nor wherof he speketh	G
He cryeth and he creketh	G
He pryeth and he peketh	G
He chydes and he chatters	A
He prates and he patters	A
He clytters and he clatters	A
He medles and he smatters	A
He gloses and he flatters	A
Or yf he speake playne	C
Than he lacketh brayne	C
He is but a fole	D
Let hym go to scole	D
On a thre foted stole	D
That he may downe syt	E
For he lacketh wyt	E
And yf that he hyt	E
The nayle on the hede	E
It standeth in no stede	E
The deuyll they say is dede	E
The deuell is dede	E
It may well so be	C
Or els they wolde se	A
Otherwyse and fle	D
From worldly vanyte	E
And foule couetousnesse	A
And other wretchednesse	A
Fyckell falsenesse	A
Varyablenesse	A
With vnstablenesse	A
And if ye stande in doubte	E
Who brought this ryme aboute	E
My name is Colyn Cloute	E
I purpose to shake oute	E
All my connyng bagge	B
Lyke a clerkely hagge	B
For though my ryme be ragged	E
Tattered and iagged	E
Rudely rayne beaten	C
Rusty and moughte eaten	C
If ye take well therwith	G
It hath in it some pyth	G
For as farre as I can se	A
It is wronge with eche degre	H
For the temporalte	E
Accuseth the spiritualte	E
The spirituall agayne	C
Dothe grudge and complayne	C
Vpon the temporall men	C
Thus eche of other blother	H
The tone agayng the tother	H
Alas they make me shoder	H
For in hoder moder	H
The Churche is put in faute	E
The prelates ben so haut	E
They say and loke so hy	-
As though they wolde fly	-
Aboue the sterry skye	I
Laye men say indede	E
How they take no hede	E
Theyr sely shepe to fede	E
But plucke away and pull	D
The fleces of theyr wull	D
Vnethes they leue a locke	B
Of wull amonges theyr flocke	B
And as for theyr connynge	J
A glommynge and a mummynge	J
And make therof a iape	K
They gaspe and they gape	K
All to haue promocyon	C
There is theyr deuocyon	C
With money if it wyll hap	K
To catche the forked cap	K
Forsothe they are so lewd	E
To say so all beshrewd	E
What trow ye they say more	H
Of the bysshoppes lore	H
How in matters they be rawe	L
They lumber forth the lawe	L
To herken Jacke and Gyll	D
Whan they put vp a byll	D
And iudge it as they wyll	D
For other mennes skyll	D
Expoundyng out theyr clauses	A
And leue theyr owne causes	A
In theyr prouynciall cure	H
They make but lytell sure	H
And meddels very lyght	E
In the Churches ryght	E
But ire and venire	H
And solfa so alamyre	H
That the premenyre	H
Is lyke to be set a fyre	H
In theyr iurisdictions	A
Through temporall afflictions	A
Men say they haue prescriptions	A
Agaynst spirituall contradictions	A
Accomptynge them as fyctions	A
And whyles the heedes do this	A
The remenaunt is amys	A
Of the clergy all	D
Bothe great and small	D
I wot neuer how they warke	B
But thus the people barke	B
And surely thus they say	A
Bysshoppes if they may	A
Small houses wolde kepe	K
But slumbre forth and slepe	K
And assay to crepe	K
Within the noble walles	A
Of the kynges halles	A
To fat theyr bodyes full	D
Theyr soules lene and dull	D
And haue full lytell care	H
How euyll theyr shepe fare	H
The temporalyte say playne	C
How bysshoppes dysdayne	C
Sermons for to make	B
Or suche laboure to take	B
And for to say trouth	G
A great parte is for slouth	G
But the greattest parte	E
Is for they haue but small arte	E
And ryght sklender connyng	B
Within theyr heedes wonnyng	B
But this reason they take	B
How they are able to make	B
With theyr golde and treasure	H
Clerkes out of measure	H
And yet that is a pleasure	H
How be it some there be	C
Almost two or thre	H
Of that dygnyte	E
Full worshypfull clerkes	A
As appereth by theyr werkes	A
Lyke Aaron and Ure	H
The wolfe from the dore	H
To werryn and to kepe	K
From theyr goostly shepe	K
And theyr spirituall lammes	A
Sequestred from rammes	A
And from the berded gotes	A
With theyr heery cotes	A
Set nought by golde ne grotes	A
Theyr names if I durst tell	D
But they are loth to mell	D
And loth to hang the bell	D
Aboute the cattes necke	B
For drede to haue a checke	B
They ar fayne to play deuz decke	B
They ar made for the becke	B
How be it they are good men	C
Moche herted lyke an hen	C
Theyr lessons forgotten they haue	M
That Becket them gaue	B
Thomas manum mittit ad fortia	F
Spernit damna spernit opprobria	H
Nulla Thomam frangit injuria	H
But nowe euery spirituall father	H
Men say they had rather	H
Spende moche of theyr share	H
Than to be combred with care	H
Spende nay nay but spare	H
For let se who that dare	H
Sho the mockysshe mare	H
They make her wynche and keke	B
But it is not worth a leke	B
Boldnesse is to seke	B
The Churche for to defend	E
Take me as I intende	E
For lothe I am to offende	E
In this that I haue pende	E
I tell you as men say	A
Amende whan ye may	A
For usque ad montem Sare	H
Men say ye can not appare	H
For some say ye hunte in parkes	A
And hauke on hobby larkes	A
And other wanton warkes	A
Whan the nyght darkes	A
What hath lay men to do	E
The gray gose for to sho	F
Lyke houndes of hell	D
They crye and they yell	D
Howe that ye sell	D
The grace of the Holy Gost	E
Thus they make theyr bost	E
Through owte euery cost	E
Howe some of you do eate	E
In Lenton season fleshe mete	E
Fesauntes partryche and cranes	A
Men call you therfore prophanes	A
Ye pycke no shrympes nor pranes	A
Saltfysshe stocfysshe nor heryng	B
It is not for your werynge	J
Nor in holy Lenton season	C
Ye wyll netheyr benes ne peason	C
But ye loke to be let lose	A
To a pygge or to a gose	A
Your gorge not endewed	E
Without a capon stewed	E
Or a stewed cocke	B
To knowe whate ys a clocke	B
Vnder her surfled smocke	B
And her wanton wodicocke	B
And how whan ye gyue orders	A
In your prouinciall borders	A
As at Sitientes	A
Some are insufficientes	A
Some parum sapientes	A
Some nihil intelligentes	A
Some valde negligentes	A
Some nullum sensum habentes	A
But bestiall and vntaught	E
But whan thei haue ones caught	E
Dominus vobiscum by the hede	E
Than renne they in euery stede	E
God wot with dronken nolles	A
Yet take they cure of soules	A
And woteth neuer what thei rede	E
Paternoster Ave nor Crede	E
Construe not worth a whystle	D
Nether Gospell nor Pystle	D
Theyr mattyns madly sayde	E
Nothynge deuoutly prayde	E
Theyr lernynge is so small	D
Theyr prymes and houres fall	D
And lepe out of theyr lyppes	A
Lyke sawdust or drye chyppes	A
I speke not nowe of all	D
But the moost parte in generall	D
Of suche vagabundus	A
Speketh totus mundus	A
Howe some synge L tabundus	A