And therefore God, through iustice cannot cease To plague these faults with sundry sortes of whips: As disagreement, health’s, or welth’s decrease, Or lothing sore the neuer liked lips: Disdayne also with rigour some times nips Presuming mates, vnequally that match: Some bitter leauen sowers the musty batch. 19. We worldly folke account him very wise That hath the wit most welthely to wed: By all meanes therefore, alwayes, wee deuise To see our yssue rich in spousals sped: Wee buy and sell rich orphanes, babes scant bred Must mary, ere they know what mariage meanes, Boyes mary old trots, old fooles wed yong queanes. 20. Wee call this wedding, which, in any wise, Can bee no mariage, but pollution playne: A new found trade of humane marchaundise, The deuil’s net, a filthy fleshly gayne, Of kinde and nature an vnnaturall stayne, A fowle abuse of God’s most holy order, And yet allowde almost in euery border. 21. Would God I were the last that shall haue cause Agaynst this creping cankar to complayne, That men would so regard theyr maker’s lawes, That all would leaue the lewdenes of theyr brayne, That holy orders holy might remayne, That our respects in wedding should not choke The end and fruite of God’s most holy yoke. 22. The sage king _Solon_, after that hee sawe What mischiefs follow missought mariages, To barre all baits, established this lawe: No friend nor father shall gieue herytages, Coyne, cattell, stuffe, or other cariages, With any mayde for dowry, or wedding sale, By any meane, on paine of banning bale. 23. Had this good law in _England_ beene in force, My father had not so cruelly beene slaine, My brother had not causles lost his corps, Our mariage had not bred vs such disdayne, My selfe had lackt great part of greuous payne: We wedded wiues for dignity and landes, And left our liues in enuie’s[1249] bloudy handes. 24. My father hight syr _Richard Woduile_, hee Espousde the duches of _Bedford_,[1250] and by her Had yssue males my brother _Iohn_, and mee Calde _Anthony_: king _Edward_ did prefer Us farre aboue the state wherein wee were, For hee espousde[1251] our sister _Elizabeth_, Whom syr _Iohn Gray_ made wydow by his death. 25.