For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a lewed man to rust.

So these great clerks their little wisdom show
To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.

But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason.

Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.