Gentleman

A proper dyaloge betwene a Gentilman and a Husbandman eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of the clergye was printed in two versions by "Hans Luft" (i.e., Johannes Hoochstraten) of Antwerp in 1529. This book appears in Robert Steele's list of books banned in Henry's reign; Steele refers to it as "Dialogue between Gentleman & plowman." While clearly in the Piers Plowman Tradition, Piers does not appear as a character. The first version has a 684 line acrostic poem opening and dialogue that was written in the sixteenth-century invention. Following this, there is an authentic, late fourteenth-century Lollard anti-clerical text, written ca. 1375-85. (It is included in Matthew, ed. The English Works of Wyclif.) To all this, the second version adds another prose tract probably from the late fifteenth century, which argues in favor of vernacular Bible translations. Wikipedia

Gentleman - Leave Us Alone

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Some bwoy must be sick ina dem head Burn down bridges and build walls instead And a pier badness dem spread But me know that one day pon Babylon it ago dread		Leave us alone Everything we build up dem want trample down Da one without a sin hafi cast the first stone Dem can't do it all-no-dem ina dread man zone
Da one ya name onother riot Babylon we spot dem up pon dem slim fast diet Dem want kill we tune dem want we quit But we ago slue dem dis time like David slue Goliath Dem take the maximum and then give we the minor And Babylon have dis ya world upon a timer Fi all these guns and all these wars dem a the designer We brok Berlin down now we brok China		Leave us alone Everything we build up see dem want trample down Da one without a sin hafi cast the first stone Dem can't do it all-no-dem ina dread man zone
Fi go diss Jah righteous youths you make a mistake Now the mark is upon you; you just can't escape And you seeking now and when and where to my grade But Jah is watching you above the high grate None a your daughters nor your nees could ever be my date Ina your conference ina your fear you uuh see my face Can't make no leggo beast come tek wek my place You nuh go see me ina no disgrace		Leave us alone Everything we build up see dem want trample down Da one without a sin hafi cast the first stone Dem can't do it all-no-dem ina dread man zone
You a do your thing and me a do mine I a chant and sing you a do crime Chanting pages of reality you a do ryme You spread me name over the internet but to me that is fine But still dem can't stop Jah youths from shine Jah Jah light it shine so bright it can be seen by the blind We plant the seed and watch it get nutered by time And put some love ina the hearts of mankind		Leave us alone Everything we build up see dem want trample down Da one without a sin hafi cast the first stone Dem can't do it all-no-dem ina dread man zone