¶ A little treatise against seditious persons.  

¶ To troll away or troll in/ let not troll spare  
If troll truly troll/ troll needeth not to care.   

OF late I perused/ two purposes several  
In their kinds clerkly handled/ the truth for to tell  
Trolle away and Trolle in/ men do them call  
Treating upon matter/ concerning the late Crumwell  
The one utterly minding/ the other to repel  
Trolle away (the troth is) much touched the quick  
And Trolle in (somewhat galled) began for to kick.   

¶ yet Trolle away told troth/ it can not be denied  
Declaring the offence/ wherein Crumwell offended  
Trolle in being troubled/ when he it espied  
With trollings to cover it/ full subtly contended  
Some trollers there be/ I would were amended  
For who that craftily covereth/ any others offence  
Of likelihood/ in his own heart/ hath the same pretence.   

☞ Truly to troll/ it is no manner of shame  
And trolling untrue/ is not to be maintained  
As every thing is/ so to give it proper name  
amongs all true honest men/ should not be disdained  
The scripture so teacheth us/ it can not be feigned  
Against scripture who striveth/ he is none other like  
Than a traitor to his prince/ and to god an heretic, 
We qui dicitis bonum malum et malum bonum. Esa. quinto.    

❧ I intend not to troll/ to take any part  
division to increase/ it needeth nothing  
But sorrowfully sighing/ I troll in my heart  
With myself in mind/ many times revolving  
How god to us/ hath ordained the most noble king  
Who uniformly to knit us/ hath travailed full sore  
Yet many trifling trollers/ care little therefore.   

¶ But as trollers troublous and full of envy  
At the laws of god/ and of our good king  
In their trollings do trust/ yet that their old heresy  
All good ordries set a part/ shall flourish and spring  
Their preachers/ no less comfort/ in their sermons do bring  
Even lately exhorting them/ avoiding all dread  
And persecution not regarding/ thoroughly to proceed.   

¶ With many words more troublous/ than now I will rehearse  
Not doubting at all/ but at length they shallbe known  
Such trolling treacherous/ my heart doth sore pierce  
considering how sedicyously/ amongs us they besowen  
Of late I well trusted/ they had been over blown  
But now I well perceive/ that neither favour nor smart  
From the body can expel/ that is rooted in the heart.   

¶ A true trolling heart/ would be loath to pretend  
Any purpose to maintain/ against god or his king  
The confession of an heretic/ that lately did offend  
And amongs others/ suffered for his deserving  
Secretly they embrace/ as a most precious thing  
And yet plainly will I prove/ by good law and reason  
Contained therein/ both heresy and treason.   

❧ In any wise imprinted/ they will not it shall be  
The dangers thereof in themselves mistrusting  
Wherefore every man may well perceive and see  
What hearts they do bear to god and our good king  
Every of them secretly must have it in writing  
But Chryst sayeth verily there is ndthing concealed  
But at length shallbe known/ and openly revealed. 
Nihil est opertum quoq non reveletur. neque occultum ꝙ non sciatur. Math, x,    

¶ Who against them trolleth/ a papist they him name  
They have no other thing/ themselves for to defend  
I would that all papists/ had an open shame  
And that all heretics/ themselves would amend  
Than should we have no cause/ further to contend  
But uniformly to live/ the one with the other  
And joyfully to enhabyt/ as brother with brother. 
Ecce quam bonum et quam iocūdum habitare fratres in unum. psa, c, xxxij    

☞ Such should be our trollings/ Christ us so teacheth  
Commanding ever peace/ amongs us for to be 
Mathei. x. Luce. ij. Io, xiv. xv,   
Untruly he trolleth/ that otherwise preacheth  
stirring to any sedition/ malice or envy  
Where banished is discord/ and reigneth all charity  
That realm in god resteth/ and god is in it/  
Being charity himself/ as saith the holy writ. 
Deus charitas est & qui manet in caritate in deo manet et deus in eo i. joha. iij.    

☞ Than towards that charity/ troll we on a pace  
Advancing ourselves/ with all convenient speed  
Amore acceptable pilgrimage/ surely never was  
For which god gave to man/ any merit or meed  
Our labour or great burden/ let us nothing dread  
Nor regarding the wilfulness/ of our body or flesh  
For at the journeys end/ Christ will us refresh. 
Venite ad me oens qui laboratis & onorati estis, et ego reficiam vos Mathei. xv    

❧ And than as true trollers/ together let us remain  
perfectly fast knit/ in one peace/ unite and love  
With glory unto god/ evermore glad and fain  
Our noble Prince truly to serve/ as doth us behove 
omnis anima po sub. subdita sit. ro, 13.   
And all others to tender/ as duty doth us move  
Using still among us/ the selfsame love and concord  
Which is to us commanded/ by Christ the eternal lord. 
Hoc est mandatum meum ut diligatis invicem sicut joh. xv.    

❧ And now in that love/ let us all with one voice pray  
For the preservation of Henry our most noble king  
And Katherine our Queen/ that they together may  
Prosperously continue/ to their hearts desiring  
And Edward our Prince/ that most angelic thing  
That they all together may long live and rest  
And after with him to reign/ qui in celis est.   
God save the King.  

To Trolle away or Trolle in/ let not Trolle spare  
If Trolle truly Trolle/ Trolle needeth not to care.   


❧ Composed by Thomas Smyth/ servant to the kings royal majesty.  
And clerk of the queens graces counsel/ though most unworthy,    
FINIS.