Out of the west coast, a wench, as methought,
Came walking in the way, to heavenward she looked;
Mercy hight that maide, a meek thing withal,
A full benign birde, and buxom of speech;
Her sister, as it seemed, came worthily walking,
Even out of the east, and westward she looked,
A full comely creature, Truth she hight,
For the virtue that her followed afeared was she never.
When these maidens met, Mercy and Truth,
Either asked other of this great marvel,
Of the din and of the darkness, &c.


NATURE, OR KIND, SENDING FORTH HIS DISEASES FROM THE PLANETS, AT
THE COMMAND OF CONSCIENCE, AND OF HIS ATTENDANTS, AGE AND DEATH.

Kind Conscience then heard, and came out of the planets,
And sent forth his forriours, Fevers and Fluxes,
Coughes and Cardiacles, Crampes and Toothaches,
Rheumes, and Radgondes, and raynous Scalles,
Boiles, and Botches, and burning Agues,
Phreneses and foul Evil, foragers of Kind!
There was 'Harow! and Help! here cometh Kind,
With Death that is dreadful, to undo us all!'
The lord that liveth after lust then aloud cried.
_Age the hoar, he was in the va-ward,
And bare the banner before Death: by right he it claimed._
Kinde came after, with many keene sores,
As Pocks and Pestilences, and much people shent.