And in this waie do not think much – Scholarly Edition

And in this waie do not thinke much,¹This poem is a fragment from “Of Suffering and Bearing the Crosse,” lines 17-28.
          that thow must much endure;
No, though it be from holie men,
          for God doth this procure,
 
That thow maiest seeke himself alone
          and putte thy trust in him,
And not in anie creatures living
          how good so ere they seeme.
 
For suffring by the meanes of th’ill
          will little the advance;
But to be censured by the goood
          goes neere to thee perchance.