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S124264 THe golden world is now come agayne, / God is knowen, beleued, loued, & obeyed: Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde be. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 46 Other thus it is: or thus it shoulde bee. Other thus it is: or thus it should be. Printer Alexander Lacy ?-?

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THe golden world is now come agayne, God is knowen, beleved, loved, & obeyed: True doctryne is taught, and false exyled cleane, Sinne is mortified, all vice is decayed. Peace doeth take place, all warres be delayed, Youth is brought up in learnyng vertuouslye: Commonwealth doeth flourish, povertie hath ayde, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde be. Kynges and Princes, doe Gods lawes advaunce, Justice and equitie also, they doe maintayne: They love peace, they hate war and variaunce, Vice they suppresse, and vertue cause to raigne. To get learning & knowledge, they take great payne They make good lawes, and see them kepte justlie: To defend their cuntries, great travel they sustaine, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Majestrates and officers, each one in their degree, Geve good ensample of obedience and livyng: For the commonwealth also, they take great studie, They execute justice justlie, in every kynd of thyng. To the poore povertie, they be good and lovyng, The wylfull they restrayne from their iniquitie: To the humble and good, they be gentle & benigne, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Bishops and Ministers, doe themselves apply, Sincerelie to preach Gods holie law and Gospell: Accordyng to their doctrine, they live vertuously, In hospitalitie, and almes deed, they greatly excell. They geve good example, for other to doe well, They be chaste, and sobre, and full of humilitie: They studie the Scriptures, all vice they doe expell, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Judges that sit in judgement, matters for to heare Be so uncorrupte, that no bribes they wyll take: Tyll they heare both parties, they stop the one eare, By the lawe deliberately, the cases they debate. By evidence and witnesses, the truth they out beate Falsehod they fetter, but right they doe set free: Just judgement they geve, none can entreate, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Justices, and Gentlemen, peace doe maintayne, The Queenes lawes and statutes, they see executed: Contention and variaunce, they doe subdue cleane, The oppressour they punish, the naughty is rebuked. The sturdy they correcte, the poore be refreshed, They lyve on their landes, rented reasonablie: Matters before them, be justly and soone ended, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee.
Mayours and Bayliffes, and all other officers, Of Cities, Boroughes, and of Townes corporate: They studie such decrees, and such godly orders, That the people be wel ruled. Great paine they take For the commonweale. Tumult and debate They destroy. But they encreace godly unitie: They cause plentie by prudence, dearth they abate, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. All Lawyers doe perswade their clients to agree, Rather then at the lawe, to spend out their money: Yf they wyl not, they search their case profoundlie, And therein they proceed, without fraude or delay. They bryng it to judgement, or to some godly stay, Yf they promise their clientes, they performe justly: They take reasonable fees for their paynes alway, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. The Commons feare God, and obey the Queene, They come to heare Gods wurd, and together pray: Disobedience in no case, is now no more seene, Contention they hate, they love peace alway. Everyone is content, to live as he may, The rich helpe the poore, yea and that gladly: The poore be content, and for them doe pray, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Parents doe bryng up their children very godly, Children obey their elders, and folow their advice: Husbandes love their wives, and they them hartely Women be sober and gentle, neither proude nor nice. Servants be faithful, they need no warning twice, To vertue & learning, youth geveth all their studie: Yf any fall in decay, he is holpen agayne to arice, Other thus it is, or thus it shoulde bee. Al Subjects faithfully, pray for their Queene, That God may endue her Royall hart alway: With faith, feare, and love, before him to be seene, And for her honorable counsell they humbly pray. That good lawes and statutes, set furth they may, To the wealth of the realme, and communaltie: That the queene may rule wel, and they truly obey, Amen. God graunt that so it may bee.
FINIS. Imprinted at London without Aldersgate, in little Brittaine by Alexander Lacy.