An oversight, and deliberation upon the holy prophet JonahAn ouersight, and deliberacion vpon the holy prophete Ionas

Speak all ye that be feigned kings, and speak of your ⟨p. lxc⟩consciences, I dare say ye would not be thus handled. Wht then do ye handle an other so• remember ye not in this law of nature. Quod tibi non vis fieri alieni ne facias. That is to say: do not to an other, that thou wouldest not an other should do unto thee. Amend therefore every man, and be true and faithful unto the realm, to the king and laws of him & his realm. And for the love of God ye noble men, Gentlemen, justices, and lawyers, the wholesome laws of the realm, that statutes, and con missions that hath been made by the king and the counsel for the preservation of the commune wealth, and the help of the poor, which be both afflicted with your insatiable ⟨image 99⟩and never contented covetousness. Let them be faithfully executed, and uprightly interpretated, according to y• mind and meaning of those that made them. For the evil construing, and sinister taking of good laws, and godly, meaning of godly magistrates, doth not only afflict the pore of this realm, but will sure at length caste the whole realm under the water. It cometh now into my mind a practise of evil taking the governors word & commandment, how perilous, & dangerous thing it is. I was once in the race of Britain with a fore wind, and contrary flood, the seas in that place going both hollow, and that by reason of a ⟨p. xci⟩multitude of Rocks in the same place. The master of the ship to conduit her the better, sate upon the main yard to see the seas aforehand, and cried to him that stirred the stern always, upon which side he should stir the ship, to break best the danger of the sea. The wind blowing high, where as the master cried a lard board, he that stirred mistook it, and stirred a stare board, and the once mistaking of the masters law, had almost cast us under the water. Then thought I, it is not without cause that wise men compare a common wealth to a ship, for one thing loseth and saveth them both.

Speake all ye that be fayned kynges, and speake of youre ⟨p. lxc⟩