For a wyseman feble may wynne the batayle

Of hym that is ryght stronge and myghty

For better it is for to be ryght wytty

In the defence of his good saue garde

Than often to stryke and to renne forwarde

 That thynge that hardynes may not wynne

May be goten by my hyghe souerente

And with the helpe of subtyle engynne

It may be brought to the extremyte

Wher that it myght not by possybylyte

Of hardynes longe afore be wonne

Yet by grete wysedome it may be donne

 Vnto dyuers cases I take excepcyon

Of dame Hardynes whiche are no lawe

Vnto the fyrst vndre your correccyon

She sayd and she her power dyd wythdrawe

No rebell than shold stand in awe

And she is the chyef as I knowe well

That causeth hym for to be rebell

 By her foly and folysshe hardynes

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