Landholding in England — Chapter 19

""In Norfolk behold the despairOf tillage, too much to be borne.By drovers, from fair unto fair.And others destroying the corn.By custom and covetous pates.By gaps, and by opening of gates."

"The flocks of the lords of the soil,Do yearly the winter corn wrong;The same in a manner they spoil,By feeding so low and so long."

"The poor at enclosures do grutch.Because of abuses that fall;Lest some men should have but too much.And some again nothing at all."