Francis James Child

“ I swear you lie in heart.
'For I never yet hurt any man
That honest is and true;
But those that give their minds to live
Upon other men's due.
'I never hurt the husbandman,
That use to till the ground;
Nor spill their blood that range the wood
To follow hawk or hound.
'My chiefest spite to clergy is,
Who in these days bear a great sway;
With fryars and monks, with their fine sprunks,
I make my chiefest prey. ”