To shuffle to town twenty times in a day,
Why or wherefore, no one can tell,
To do any thing which nobody may,
Brother Lubin will do very well.
But in a right conversation to dwell.
Or in a life that 's wholesome withal,
That 's for the Christians that heed the gospel;
Brother Lubin will not do at all.

To put (in a proper, thief-like style)
Another man's property in his own cell,
And leave you without either cross or pile,
Brother Lubin will do very well.
To get and to keep he proceedeth pell-mell,
And on his creditors loudly to call;
But to restore what might fill a nut-shell,
Brother Lubin will do not at all.

To lure some young damsel, by dint of a tongue,
Out of the fair house where she doth dwell,
No need of a crone that ought to be hung;
Brother Lubin will do very well.
Sermons with him are not things to spell:
But to drink clear good water, pray call
Your dog to drink it, for I can foretell
Brother Lubin will not drink it at all.

ENVOY

Sooner than good to do ill withal,
Brother Lubin hath a natural call;
But if there 's any good work to pursue,
Brother Lubin is one that won't do.