On Mercenary and Unjust Bailiffs

If they true bailiffs be, who for the law maintaining,
Do orphans overwhelm, and widows terrify,
And hamlets gobble up, the poor with sport disdaining,
I know not; but, I trow, a schout should ever try
To have the law of God and sovereign rights possess him,
The wrong with power by right and not by wrong suppressing.
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