"For more sins reign in these days of ours than in any past age, and sin is incompatible with wisdom. Let us see all conditions in the world, and consider them diligently everywhere: we shall find boundless corruption, and first of all in the Head... Lechery dishonors the whole Court, and gluttony is lord of all... If then this is done in the Head, how is it in the members? See the prelates: how they hunt after money and neglect the cure of souls... Let us consider the Religious Orders: I exclude none from what I say. See how far they are fallen, one and all, from their right state; and the new Orders of Friars are already horribly decayed from their first dignity. The whole clergy is intent upon pride, lechery, and avarice: and wheresoever clercks are gathered together, as at Paris and Oxford, they scandalize the whole laity with their wars and quarrels and other vices... None care what is done or how, by hook or crook, provided only that each can fulfil his lust."