A comparison betweene, etc. 
12' By Cambridge a towne I doo knowe, 
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16 
where many good husbands doo dwell; 
Whose losses by losels doth showe, 
more here than is needfull to tell: 
Determine at court what they shall, 
performed is nothing at all. 
The champion robbeth by night, 
and prowleth and filcheth by day: 
Himselfe and his beast out of sight 
both spoileth and maketh away 
Not onely thy grasse, but thy corne, 
both after, and er it be shorne. 
? 
Pease bolt with thy pease he will haue, 
his houshold to feede and his hog: 
Now stealeth he, now will he craue, 
and now will he coosen and cog. 
In Bridewell a number be stript, 
lesse woorthie than theefe to be whipt. 
The oxboy, as ill is as hee, 
or worser, if worse may be found: 
For spoiling from thine and from thee, 
of grasse and of corne on the ground. 
Laie neuer so well for to saue it, 
by night or by daie he will haue it. 
What orchard vnrobbed escapes ? 
or pullet dare walke in their jet ? 
But homeward or outward (like apes) 
they count it their owne they can get. 
Lord, if ye doo take them, what sturs ! 
how hold they togither like burs! 
1 Stanzas 12-21 are not in 1577. 
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Champion 
noiances. 
