Now men go forth with jests and drolleries 2016 To preach, and if but well the people laugh, The hood puffs out, and nothing more is asked. But in the cowl there nestles such a bird, 2017 That, if the common people were to see it, They would perceive what pardons they confide in, For which so great on earth has grown the folly, That, without proof of any testimony, To each indulgence they would flock together. By this Saint Anthony his pig doth fatten, 2018 And many others, who are worse than pigs, Paying in money without mark of coinage. 2019 But since we have digressed abundantly, Turn back thine eyes forthwith to the right path, So that the way be shortened with the time. This nature doth so multiply itself 2020 In numbers, that there never yet was speech Nor mortal fancy that can go so far. And if thou notest that which is revealed