The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is 'worse' than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
He þat is best in hem, is as a paluyre; and he þat is riytful, is as a thorn of hegge. Þe dai of thi biholdyng, thi visityng cometh, now schal be distriyng of hem.