Here begynneth a lytell treatyse in Englysshe / called the Extripacion of ignorancy: and it treateth and speketh of the ignorance of people / shewyng them howe they are bounde to feare god / to loue god / and to honour their prince. Which treatise is lately compyled by sir Paule Busshe ... and dedicate unto the yong and most hye renomed lady Mary / princes & doughter unto the noble progenytour / our worthy souerayne kyng Henry the eight / kyng of Engla[n]de and of Frau[n]ce / & hye defe[n]der of ye christenfaithe. &c |
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The prologue generall of Paule Busshe/composytour of this lytell treatyse. |
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The prologue generall of Paule Busshe/composytour of this lytell treatyse.
Deum timete/et regem honorificate. Prima Petri secundi.
In an orcharde as I walked/desolate of cōpany
In a pathe/from tre to tre/as my vsage was
Unbrede with bowes pendaūt/in order plesauntly
In mynde I reuolued/howe I might brīg to passe
Some treatise to endyte/to the conforte and solace
Of people desyrous/vertuously to be occupyed
To se god lauded/and his hye name magnifyed.
In a pathe/from tre to tre/as my vsage was
Unbrede with bowes pendaūt/in order plesauntly
In mynde I reuolued/howe I might brīg to passe
Some treatise to endyte/to the conforte and solace
Of people desyrous/vertuously to be occupyed
To se god lauded/and his hye name magnifyed.
And as I walked alone/in mynde thus musyng
I thought to endyte/what thyng were necessary
And by long delyberacion/I cōiectred most syttīg
Somwhat to write/of mans ingratytude & folly
And to persecute his demeaner/all croked & cōtrary
To god his maker/by lyueng nat cōmendable
Subdued by vyce/and suche maters semblable.
I thought to endyte/what thyng were necessary
And by long delyberacion/I cōiectred most syttīg
Somwhat to write/of mans ingratytude & folly
And to persecute his demeaner/all croked & cōtrary
To god his maker/by lyueng nat cōmendable
Subdued by vyce/and suche maters semblable.
And no great marueyle/ne wonder certayne
Though suche incōuenyence/enshewe vs amonge
For wylfully is broken/the bridell and the rayne
Whiche shulde gouerne man in euery thronge
As first/drede is expulsed/by audacite stronge
And sensualyte ruleth/as gouernour principall
So that Christ is nat dradde/ne feared at all.
Though suche incōuenyence/enshewe vs amonge
For wylfully is broken/the bridell and the rayne
Whiche shulde gouerne man in euery thronge
As first/drede is expulsed/by audacite stronge
And sensualyte ruleth/as gouernour principall
So that Christ is nat dradde/ne feared at all.
Also perfyte loue/whiche shulde deuout myndes
Sette on fyre/in louyng god omnypotent
Is subpeditate/by enormytes of sondrie kyndes
Wherfore I thought it semyng/and most cōuenyēt
As touchyng my purpose/for this tyme present
Of these two maters/and their circūstaūce chefely
Somwhat to write/to mittygate suche folly.
Sette on fyre/in louyng god omnypotent
Is subpeditate/by enormytes of sondrie kyndes
Wherfore I thought it semyng/and most cōuenyēt
As touchyng my purpose/for this tyme present
Of these two maters/and their circūstaūce chefely
Somwhat to write/to mittygate suche folly.
And also to speke/I thought it expedient
Thirdly of ignorāce/which ledeth people froward
Shewyng them by auctorites/& reasons euydent
Howe they are oblygate/in especiall regarde
Their prince to honour/as capten of their forward
Whose magnanimyte/they ought to auaunce
With hertes and goodes/after their substaunce.
Thirdly of ignorāce/which ledeth people froward
Shewyng them by auctorites/& reasons euydent
Howe they are oblygate/in especiall regarde
Their prince to honour/as capten of their forward
Whose magnanimyte/they ought to auaunce
With hertes and goodes/after their substaunce.
Of these maters thre/as god wyll dispose
I entende this volume/shall beare thimportaunce
And as breuely/as I can/in meter compose
I shall discribe/as my wyttes can forge vttraunce
Their grades & distīctions/their propertis & eligaūce
Rebukyng in especiall/wylfull rashe audacite
& also blynde ingratitude/which man ought to fle.
I entende this volume/shall beare thimportaunce
And as breuely/as I can/in meter compose
I shall discribe/as my wyttes can forge vttraunce
Their grades & distīctions/their propertis & eligaūce
Rebukyng in especiall/wylfull rashe audacite
& also blynde ingratitude/which man ought to fle.
That gostly champion/saint Peter the apostell
In his epistels/this sentence ofte dothe resight
Feare you god he saithe/this is his counsell
And loke ye honor your prīce/with power & might
In his iuste tytell/alway redy for to fyght
Thus shall you please god/& your soules decorate
Whan ye heed with the mēbres/togider be adunate.
In his epistels/this sentence ofte dothe resight
Feare you god he saithe/this is his counsell
And loke ye honor your prīce/with power & might
In his iuste tytell/alway redy for to fyght
Thus shall you please god/& your soules decorate
Whan ye heed with the mēbres/togider be adunate.
What causeth mischefe? what causeth discēcion?
Discorde and debate: But onely disobedience
Thus olde hystores and scripture/maketh mēcion
For it is counted a lyfe brutall/euer saithe sapience
Whan that people lyueng/dothe nat their dilygēce
God chefly to worship/and their prince to honour
As the thyng speciall/of their corporall treasour.
Discorde and debate: But onely disobedience
Thus olde hystores and scripture/maketh mēcion
For it is counted a lyfe brutall/euer saithe sapience
Whan that people lyueng/dothe nat their dilygēce
God chefly to worship/and their prince to honour
As the thyng speciall/of their corporall treasour.
What caused cyties and townes to fall to ruyne:
But onely the decayeng/of Christes hye honour
Whan ye people to vyce/them selfe dyd fully enclyne
Somtyme the Romayns/habounded in treasour
But whan christes honor decayed/& they fell to error
Than their renome abated/vrged by violence
For their vnstable demeaner/to kepe true sylence.
But onely the decayeng/of Christes hye honour
Whan ye people to vyce/them selfe dyd fully enclyne
Somtyme the Romayns/habounded in treasour
But whan christes honor decayed/& they fell to error
Than their renome abated/vrged by violence
For their vnstable demeaner/to kepe true sylence.
Manyfolde presydētes/reduce we may to memory
Cotidially shewed of mannes vnstable dotage
Waueryng as the wynde/laboring right busely
For honour and worship/as one of hye lynage
Clyming so hye/that forgoten is their parentage
ye/god and his prince/and hymselfe also
Whiche after subuerteth his state/to sorowe & wo.
Cotidially shewed of mannes vnstable dotage
Waueryng as the wynde/laboring right busely
For honour and worship/as one of hye lynage
Clyming so hye/that forgoten is their parentage
ye/god and his prince/and hymselfe also
Whiche after subuerteth his state/to sorowe & wo.
Well this set clene aside/I shall my wittes auaūce
My purpose to comprice/and therto my pen direct
No lengar to remayne/by goddes gouernaunce
In maters dependyng/nothyng to theffecte
Eschewing wordes superflewe/which oft doth infect
The sentence clere/of hystores true & autentycall
Lefte for morall presydentes/to people vnyuersall.
My purpose to comprice/and therto my pen direct
No lengar to remayne/by goddes gouernaunce
In maters dependyng/nothyng to theffecte
Eschewing wordes superflewe/which oft doth infect
The sentence clere/of hystores true & autentycall
Lefte for morall presydentes/to people vnyuersall.
But in mynde whan I pondre/this prouerbe olde
Who casteth lesse peryls/thā dothe bayarde blynde
It maketh my hande quake/and also my hert colde
And tosseth my wyttes/as a ship before the wynde
Lest some frowarde persons/peruert and vnkynde
Shulde by me reporte/wordes somwhat equeualent
Sayeng/to enterprice suche causes/he is insufficiēt.
Who casteth lesse peryls/thā dothe bayarde blynde
It maketh my hande quake/and also my hert colde
And tosseth my wyttes/as a ship before the wynde
Lest some frowarde persons/peruert and vnkynde
Shulde by me reporte/wordes somwhat equeualent
Sayeng/to enterprice suche causes/he is insufficiēt.
Such sayīg may be verified ye dede maketh relaciō
Wherfore to my maisters/knowyng the quiditice
Of scolasticall artes/by practyse and speculacion
I submyt my selfe/in most humble wyse
Their due correction/in no case to dispyce
But as a discyple/leanyng to doctryne
So vnto their tradicions/gladly I shall enclyne.
Wherfore to my maisters/knowyng the quiditice
Of scolasticall artes/by practyse and speculacion
I submyt my selfe/in most humble wyse
Their due correction/in no case to dispyce
But as a discyple/leanyng to doctryne
So vnto their tradicions/gladly I shall enclyne.
But the correction I refuce/and that in especiall
Of a wandring mynstrell/or of a rusty coke
Of a iester/a rayler: or of a barbaryke rurall
Or of any suche other/knowyng no letter in boke
The trouthe to say/nat an A/from a fysshe hoke
And after myne opinyon/it is greatly vnfyttyng
That suche shulde haue/suche maters in hādlyng.
Of a wandring mynstrell/or of a rusty coke
Of a iester/a rayler: or of a barbaryke rurall
Or of any suche other/knowyng no letter in boke
The trouthe to say/nat an A/from a fysshe hoke
And after myne opinyon/it is greatly vnfyttyng
That suche shulde haue/suche maters in hādlyng.
But yet though suche chatte/as dothe the Pye
And fynde many fautes/for lacke of intellection
yet that shall nat cause me to omyt my study
But to kepe ydelnesse/in bonde and subiection
Suche pastyme wyll I vse/vnder the protection
And the diuyne suffraūce/of god omnypotent
As to my state/is most syttyng and conuenyent.
And fynde many fautes/for lacke of intellection
yet that shall nat cause me to omyt my study
But to kepe ydelnesse/in bonde and subiection
Suche pastyme wyll I vse/vnder the protection
And the diuyne suffraūce/of god omnypotent
As to my state/is most syttyng and conuenyent.
Cōmendacion it is none/this I knowe certayne
A relygious man/to ydelnesse to be obedyent
Nor the laude is but small/vyle and mundayne
His tyme to cōtryue/in discribing workes insolent
For to suche thynges/if he do his mynde frequent
Wysemen shall say/deprauyng his fame
This man gothe about/to lese his good name.
A relygious man/to ydelnesse to be obedyent
Nor the laude is but small/vyle and mundayne
His tyme to cōtryue/in discribing workes insolent
For to suche thynges/if he do his mynde frequent
Wysemen shall say/deprauyng his fame
This man gothe about/to lese his good name.
Therfore my lordes and maisters in generall
Pondre the entent/ of my enterprise rude
For the thyng yt prouoked me/to this worke speciall
My study to apply/with dilygent solycitude
Was that slouthfull idelnesse/shulde nat me illude
And yt I maye accōplysshe/my purpose and entent
First shall I pray/as it is most expedient.
Pondre the entent/ of my enterprise rude
For the thyng yt prouoked me/to this worke speciall
My study to apply/with dilygent solycitude
Was that slouthfull idelnesse/shulde nat me illude
And yt I maye accōplysshe/my purpose and entent
First shall I pray/as it is most expedient.
Nowe lorde/as thy sapience surmoūteth mās estimacion
In rulyng & gouernyng/by prouidēce incōparable
Heuyn/erthe/and hell/as doctors make relacion
So nowe rule my penne/and my wytte variable
That my worke be nat foūde/fauty ne yet culpable
But fartell of goodnesse/garnysshed with vertue
Uice vtterly to repell/& gostly fortitude to renue.
In rulyng & gouernyng/by prouidēce incōparable
Heuyn/erthe/and hell/as doctors make relacion
So nowe rule my penne/and my wytte variable
That my worke be nat foūde/fauty ne yet culpable
But fartell of goodnesse/garnysshed with vertue
Uice vtterly to repell/& gostly fortitude to renue.
Also helpe me lorde/of thy goodnesse habūdaūt
Directly to procede/in this matter compendyous
My style to adorne/with sentence plesaunt
That to the reders/gredy and desyrous
It may be profytable/and also cōmodious
Their hertes to enflame/alwayes pondring
God to drede/and to honour their kyng.
Directly to procede/in this matter compendyous
My style to adorne/with sentence plesaunt
That to the reders/gredy and desyrous
It may be profytable/and also cōmodious
Their hertes to enflame/alwayes pondring
God to drede/and to honour their kyng.
Thus endeth the prologue of Paule Busshe/cōpositour of this worke/and begynneth the first treatyse/whiche speketh of the drede & feare that euery man ought to haue to offēde almighty god.
As
ornamentes freshe/plesaunt and comely
Garnisheth ye body/of man woman & childe
So is ye soule decorate/whan people labour busely
God specially to honor/by conuersacion vndefylde
Whose power inuīcible/chasteth & tameth ye wylde
As hunger dothe the faucon/all at large flyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Garnisheth ye body/of man woman & childe
So is ye soule decorate/whan people labour busely
God specially to honor/by conuersacion vndefylde
Whose power inuīcible/chasteth & tameth ye wylde
As hunger dothe the faucon/all at large flyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
He that purposeth/graciously to comprehende
The ioyes inestymable/and with god to raigne
Must remembre/pondre/and well attende
That he haue sure in store/wynges twayne
The one must be drede/the other loue certayne
And these two well ordred/feare nat thy departing
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete/et diligite.
The ioyes inestymable/and with god to raigne
Must remembre/pondre/and well attende
That he haue sure in store/wynges twayne
The one must be drede/the other loue certayne
And these two well ordred/feare nat thy departing
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete/et diligite.
Dauyd the prophet/dothe pronostike this sentence
In his boke of psalmes/as plainly dothe appere
That the originall onely/of all wisedom & sapience
Is to drede god/and also his power to feare
For it is nat good/man hym selfe to endanger
With his trewe iustyce/& most rightuous dealyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
In his boke of psalmes/as plainly dothe appere
That the originall onely/of all wisedom & sapience
Is to drede god/and also his power to feare
For it is nat good/man hym selfe to endanger
With his trewe iustyce/& most rightuous dealyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
If Adam our first parent/being in paradice
Had humbly obeyed/the cōmaundement speciall
Of god his maker/the myrrour of all iustyce
And nat wylfully trāsgressed/by suggestiō mortall
But always haue feared/his displeasure prīcipall
Than chaūged had nat bē his state in welth flowīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Had humbly obeyed/the cōmaundement speciall
Of god his maker/the myrrour of all iustyce
And nat wylfully trāsgressed/by suggestiō mortall
But always haue feared/his displeasure prīcipall
Than chaūged had nat bē his state in welth flowīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Whan the worlde also/was replete with synne
Almost euery creature/prone to vnthriftynesse
Was nat Noe preserued/and eight of his kynne
From dredefull drownyng/for his cōstant sadnesse
And lyfe ryght cōmendable: as beareth wytnesse
The history trewe: without colour of faynyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Almost euery creature/prone to vnthriftynesse
Was nat Noe preserued/and eight of his kynne
From dredefull drownyng/for his cōstant sadnesse
And lyfe ryght cōmendable: as beareth wytnesse
The history trewe: without colour of faynyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Olde Abraham ye patriarke/hath made īmolacyon
Offryng his sonne ysaac/in sacrifice most redolent
Had he nat feared/goddes iust castygacion
No doutlesse/the history sheweth playne & euident
For it was alwayes/his mynde and entent
Goddes wyll to accōplysshe/as it is most syttyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Offryng his sonne ysaac/in sacrifice most redolent
Had he nat feared/goddes iust castygacion
No doutlesse/the history sheweth playne & euident
For it was alwayes/his mynde and entent
Goddes wyll to accōplysshe/as it is most syttyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Was nat vertuous Iacob/had ī worthy reputacion
With almighty god/& endewed wt great substaūce
Ruling nere the worlde/as writīg maketh relacion
By his pruident dealyng/& polytike gouernaunce
And all this was prouided/by goddes ordynaunce
For his morall lyueng/and rightuous demeanyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
With almighty god/& endewed wt great substaūce
Ruling nere the worlde/as writīg maketh relacion
By his pruident dealyng/& polytike gouernaunce
And all this was prouided/by goddes ordynaunce
For his morall lyueng/and rightuous demeanyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Also what abled Ioseph/to suche hye authorite
As to be lorde & gouernour/of Egipt that region
Was it nat his vertue/and sober grauyte
Dredyng the enfecte/his soule with the poyson
Of Uenus flamyng lustes/fylthy as carion
Beholde well genesis/there appereth the writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
As to be lorde & gouernour/of Egipt that region
Was it nat his vertue/and sober grauyte
Dredyng the enfecte/his soule with the poyson
Of Uenus flamyng lustes/fylthy as carion
Beholde well genesis/there appereth the writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
What auaunced Moises/somtyme a shepherde
To honour and fame/as man of hye parentage
But onely that his lorde/he dradde and feared
Instructīg his people/cōmytted to his gouernage
With lāgage discrete/coūtinaūce/demure and sage
The fame speciall to enshewe/vice & syn auoyding
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
To honour and fame/as man of hye parentage
But onely that his lorde/he dradde and feared
Instructīg his people/cōmytted to his gouernage
With lāgage discrete/coūtinaūce/demure and sage
The fame speciall to enshewe/vice & syn auoyding
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Why was Iosue electe/by god omnypotent
Moyses to succede/in offyce and dignyte
But that he feared god/& eschewed workes insolēt
As it becometh a captayne/sette in auctorite
For hye roumes/and dissolute maners/as we se
Full yll dothe acorde/as iugeth wisdome & cōnyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Moyses to succede/in offyce and dignyte
But that he feared god/& eschewed workes insolēt
As it becometh a captayne/sette in auctorite
For hye roumes/and dissolute maners/as we se
Full yll dothe acorde/as iugeth wisdome & cōnyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Were nat ye childre of israll plōged in care & sorowe
In the tyme of Aroth/Delbora and Gedeon
As in captiuyte to day/and at lyberte to morowe
Nowe in nowe out/brought to great confusyon
And all for their iniquite/and vnstable cōuersacion
God nat dredyng/but all at pleasure wandring
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
In the tyme of Aroth/Delbora and Gedeon
As in captiuyte to day/and at lyberte to morowe
Nowe in nowe out/brought to great confusyon
And all for their iniquite/and vnstable cōuersacion
God nat dredyng/but all at pleasure wandring
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
O holy Ruth/a woman though thou were
And made of nature frayle/as all women be
Yet example arte thou/as plainly dothe appere
To all men/for thy mekenesse and hye humylite
For in the raigned/no suche mutabylite
But vertue and goodnesse/god alwayes fearyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
And made of nature frayle/as all women be
Yet example arte thou/as plainly dothe appere
To all men/for thy mekenesse and hye humylite
For in the raigned/no suche mutabylite
But vertue and goodnesse/god alwayes fearyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
If Ofnye and Phynes/the sonnes of Hely
Had feared god/and nat preuaricate his entent
Ne defrauded their father/and the people chefely
Whiche made oblacion/with myndes beniuolent
Than suffred they had nat/suche strait punyshmēt
As to be slayne bothe/the holy arke also lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Had feared god/and nat preuaricate his entent
Ne defrauded their father/and the people chefely
Whiche made oblacion/with myndes beniuolent
Than suffred they had nat/suche strait punyshmēt
As to be slayne bothe/the holy arke also lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Howe garnysshed Samuell/his lyfe leuiticall
With workes meritorious/as a lampe & luminary
Rulyng all Israell/in causes iudiciall
With iustyce and equite/by his wytte and policy
Subduyng transgressours/myttigatyng folly
Feryng goddes punisshment/as I said at begīnīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
With workes meritorious/as a lampe & luminary
Rulyng all Israell/in causes iudiciall
With iustyce and equite/by his wytte and policy
Subduyng transgressours/myttigatyng folly
Feryng goddes punisshment/as I said at begīnīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Dyde nat Dauid cōmyt a syn great & detestable
Whan that Urye his seeuaūt/he caused to be slayne
For Barsabe his wyfe/whiche was so amyable
Cōmytting auoutry/as thistory sheweth playne
But immediatly/with dolefull hert & great payne
He dyde penaūce/goddes punysshment fearyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Whan that Urye his seeuaūt/he caused to be slayne
For Barsabe his wyfe/whiche was so amyable
Cōmytting auoutry/as thistory sheweth playne
But immediatly/with dolefull hert & great payne
He dyde penaūce/goddes punysshment fearyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
O Salomon salomon/whyle yu dyddest ≼meditate
In thy hert inwardly/god to serue and feare
Than greatly was magnifyed/thy regall estate
For in wysedome and glorie/thou haddest no pere
But after for thy idolatry/and ingratitude clere
Ouerthrowen was thy state/in welth so standynge
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
In thy hert inwardly/god to serue and feare
Than greatly was magnifyed/thy regall estate
For in wysedome and glorie/thou haddest no pere
But after for thy idolatry/and ingratitude clere
Ouerthrowen was thy state/in welth so standynge
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Why was Eliseus ye prophet/endued wt such vertue
As to restore the deed to lyfe agayne
But that with dilygence/he dyde alwayes eschue
Unclenly maners/whiche vtterly dothe distayne
The lyfe of man/and the soule reuolue in payne
For tyme perpetuall/in turment alwayes lyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
As to restore the deed to lyfe agayne
But that with dilygence/he dyde alwayes eschue
Unclenly maners/whiche vtterly dothe distayne
The lyfe of man/and the soule reuolue in payne
For tyme perpetuall/in turment alwayes lyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
What caused Nabugodonosor/a kyng of gret fame
To fall from his regall state/to lede a lyfe brutall
Lyueng by hey & grasse/in wofull misery & shame
But onely his errogance/nat fearing god eternall
Whiche by his myght/subdueth such people frōtall
Wandring at pleasure/as the wynde waueryng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
To fall from his regall state/to lede a lyfe brutall
Lyueng by hey & grasse/in wofull misery & shame
But onely his errogance/nat fearing god eternall
Whiche by his myght/subdueth such people frōtall
Wandring at pleasure/as the wynde waueryng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Whan people be enflamed/with blinde ambiciosite
Couetyng hye gouernage/vnworthy and vnable
Than ruleth wyll/and brutall sensualyte
So that vertue to vice/must be seruysable
Whiche is nat comely/sytting/nor yet laudable
Thus saithe the theologe/playne in his writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Couetyng hye gouernage/vnworthy and vnable
Than ruleth wyll/and brutall sensualyte
So that vertue to vice/must be seruysable
Whiche is nat comely/sytting/nor yet laudable
Thus saithe the theologe/playne in his writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
What mencion maketh/that boke so exellent
Paralipomynon/whiche treateth seriously
Of kynges and princes/and of their regyment
Shewyng howe some were auaunced to glorie
For their lyues venerable/dispisyng pleasurs trāsitorie
Dreding alwayes: the finall day of recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Paralipomynon/whiche treateth seriously
Of kynges and princes/and of their regyment
Shewyng howe some were auaunced to glorie
For their lyues venerable/dispisyng pleasurs trāsitorie
Dreding alwayes: the finall day of recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Agayne some were throwen/in to bale & misery
Their lyues so to lede/brought to extreme ruyne
For their inornate lyueng/all vyle and beestly
God nat fearyng/dispisyng to enclyne
Their myndes and hertes/to his lore and doctryne
Whiche causeth them to lye/in paynes euerlastyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Their lyues so to lede/brought to extreme ruyne
For their inornate lyueng/all vyle and beestly
God nat fearyng/dispisyng to enclyne
Their myndes and hertes/to his lore and doctryne
Whiche causeth them to lye/in paynes euerlastyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Esdras the scribe/as his boke maketh mencion
Whiche gouerned his lyfe/by vertue most exellent
Reuolued well in mynde/suche maner abusyon
Whan to Ierusalem/by Artraxerxes he was sent
His busy study was/to stable people maliuolent
In the drede of god/by coūsell & demure dealyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/ & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Whiche gouerned his lyfe/by vertue most exellent
Reuolued well in mynde/suche maner abusyon
Whan to Ierusalem/by Artraxerxes he was sent
His busy study was/to stable people maliuolent
In the drede of god/by coūsell & demure dealyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/ & pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
O holy drede/howe surely thou were planted
In the hert of Toby/that gostly lyueng person
Whiche of perfyte goodnesse/nothyng at all wanted
For all his cure was sette/in the mynistracion
Of workes of mercy/eschewyng the diffamacion
Of thefte and rapyne/the sequele therof dredyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
In the hert of Toby/that gostly lyueng person
Whiche of perfyte goodnesse/nothyng at all wanted
For all his cure was sette/in the mynistracion
Of workes of mercy/eschewyng the diffamacion
Of thefte and rapyne/the sequele therof dredyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Lytell of this drede/wt his rasshe audacite
Had blynde Olifernes/whan he thretned ye subuersion
Of Bethulia & Ierusalē/cyties of ≼emynent degre
But what became of hym/marke the conclusion
Dyde nat vertuous Iudith/by diuyne permission
His heed of stryke/dronken in his bedde lyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Had blynde Olifernes/whan he thretned ye subuersion
Of Bethulia & Ierusalē/cyties of ≼emynent degre
But what became of hym/marke the conclusion
Dyde nat vertuous Iudith/by diuyne permission
His heed of stryke/dronken in his bedde lyeng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
O Iudith Iudith/great was the iubilacion
Of Bethulia & Ierusalem/wt man woman & childe
Whan thou haddest vanquesshed/ye pride & elacion
Of the outrage assyrious/all furious and wylde
Whiche thought in their myndes/god to begyle
But suche can nat preueyle/thus brefely cōcludyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Of Bethulia & Ierusalem/wt man woman & childe
Whan thou haddest vanquesshed/ye pride & elacion
Of the outrage assyrious/all furious and wylde
Whiche thought in their myndes/god to begyle
But suche can nat preueyle/thus brefely cōcludyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
O holy Hester lykewise great was thy businesse
To persuade kyng Assuerus/to pytie and cōpassion
Enflamed with yre/by thentysement doutlesse
Of cruell Aman/whiche for pride and indignacion
Wolde of the iewes/haue distroyed the hole nacion
But of suche dredeles whelpes/nought is thendīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
To persuade kyng Assuerus/to pytie and cōpassion
Enflamed with yre/by thentysement doutlesse
Of cruell Aman/whiche for pride and indignacion
Wolde of the iewes/haue distroyed the hole nacion
But of suche dredeles whelpes/nought is thendīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Suche encēsate villayns/may lerne god to fere
Of perfite Iob/which lost his substaūce & childre also
But yet styll with pacience/he tempred his chere
Neuer moued/but sayd/nowe all is go:
So god be pleased/voyde is my hert of care & wo
Thought he none toke/but goddes displeasure ferīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Of perfite Iob/which lost his substaūce & childre also
But yet styll with pacience/he tempred his chere
Neuer moued/but sayd/nowe all is go:
So god be pleased/voyde is my hert of care & wo
Thought he none toke/but goddes displeasure ferīg
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
What great feare toke ye woman so constaunt
Holy Susane/whiche cruell dethe to tollerate
Dyde frely chose/with mynde strōg and valyaunt
Rather than her body/to defyle and contamynate
With the vnchast officers/which foūde her desolate
And wolde her opprest/their lyues therfore lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Holy Susane/whiche cruell dethe to tollerate
Dyde frely chose/with mynde strōg and valyaunt
Rather than her body/to defyle and contamynate
With the vnchast officers/which foūde her desolate
And wolde her opprest/their lyues therfore lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
If Isaye/Heremye/Baruthe/and Ezechiell
Abacuthe/Osee/and perfite Amos also
Abdon and Ionas/and that prudent Danyell
Holy prophetes/with other of their felowes mo
Had lacked this feare/as their hystoris dothe sho
Than nowe in heuyn/shulde nat be their abyding
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Abacuthe/Osee/and perfite Amos also
Abdon and Ionas/and that prudent Danyell
Holy prophetes/with other of their felowes mo
Had lacked this feare/as their hystoris dothe sho
Than nowe in heuyn/shulde nat be their abyding
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
What was ye origynall/yt caused the macabeis fyue
As valyaunt men/discended of stocke royall
In marciall busynesse/their lyues to contryue
Was it nat/that they as thyng most principall
Feared sore to breake/their lawes moisecall
Is doutlesse/thus saithe playne the writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
As valyaunt men/discended of stocke royall
In marciall busynesse/their lyues to contryue
Was it nat/that they as thyng most principall
Feared sore to breake/their lawes moisecall
Is doutlesse/thus saithe playne the writyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Many thousandes mo/there be without dout
In the olde testament/as we rede/which deuoutly
Lyued vnder godly feare/who lyst to seke thē out
Whose names and actes/I purpose to omyt chefly
Bycause I entende to write nowe consequently
Of our newe patrons/the merites also praysing
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
In the olde testament/as we rede/which deuoutly
Lyued vnder godly feare/who lyst to seke thē out
Whose names and actes/I purpose to omyt chefly
Bycause I entende to write nowe consequently
Of our newe patrons/the merites also praysing
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
First what caused the holy apostels all
This worlde to dispyce/caduke and transitory
Affectyng no honours/ne pleasurs corporall
Certayne it was/as the text dothe testify
For feare of lesyng/the euerlastyng glory
Of heuenly ioye souerayne/excellyng all thyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
This worlde to dispyce/caduke and transitory
Affectyng no honours/ne pleasurs corporall
Certayne it was/as the text dothe testify
For feare of lesyng/the euerlastyng glory
Of heuenly ioye souerayne/excellyng all thyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
O blesshed Paule/dyddest nat thou also
Feruently labour/with traueyle and great payne
To preche and teche/where euer thou dyddest go
And all bycause/that thou woldest optayne
The ioyes inestymable/and with god to raigne
yes surely: this was thy speciall recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Feruently labour/with traueyle and great payne
To preche and teche/where euer thou dyddest go
And all bycause/that thou woldest optayne
The ioyes inestymable/and with god to raigne
yes surely: this was thy speciall recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
At first begynning/yu were enflamed greatly
With furious audacite/procuring onely to abate
Christes hye honor/his disciples pursuing namely
But thy tyrānous corage/was soone subpeditate
Whan thou laist nuslyng/on the grounde prostrate
In the felde of Damasse/for mercy alwayes crieng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
With furious audacite/procuring onely to abate
Christes hye honor/his disciples pursuing namely
But thy tyrānous corage/was soone subpeditate
Whan thou laist nuslyng/on the grounde prostrate
In the felde of Damasse/for mercy alwayes crieng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
What caused Steuen & Laurence/wt dyuers other
As vīcent/albane/& thom̄s: these martyrs glorious
Also Cyrike the enfant with Iulyta his mother
Cōstantly to parseuer/in turmentes dolorous
Was it nat for feare of lesyng/the mācion glorious
yes doutlesse/or els in vayne was their traueyling
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
As vīcent/albane/& thom̄s: these martyrs glorious
Also Cyrike the enfant with Iulyta his mother
Cōstantly to parseuer/in turmentes dolorous
Was it nat for feare of lesyng/the mācion glorious
yes doutlesse/or els in vayne was their traueyling
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum timete.
Howe many holy cōfessors/do we fynde in likewise
As we rede in legendes/lefte in perpetuall memory
Whiche dayly mortifyde/as plantes of paradyce
Their membres corporall/asswaging lustes filthy
Feryng the cōtamynate/the figure of endles glory
Of these we fynde thousādes/without any fayning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
As we rede in legendes/lefte in perpetuall memory
Whiche dayly mortifyde/as plantes of paradyce
Their membres corporall/asswaging lustes filthy
Feryng the cōtamynate/the figure of endles glory
Of these we fynde thousādes/without any fayning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Also what is he/whiche truely can expresse
The nōbre of perfyte virgyns/pure and immaculate
Whiche lyued here cōtynent/groūded in sobernesse
In whose honors nowe/our temples are dedycate
I knowe certayne/if I shulde dayly inuestigate
yet shulde I neuer bring them all to recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
The nōbre of perfyte virgyns/pure and immaculate
Whiche lyued here cōtynent/groūded in sobernesse
In whose honors nowe/our temples are dedycate
I knowe certayne/if I shulde dayly inuestigate
yet shulde I neuer bring them all to recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum timete.
Thus styll to replycate/hystores autentycall
Tyme it consumeth/wherfore to conclude
That I say to one/I say breuely to all
If ye wyll optayne/the euerlastyng beatytude
Beware of ignorance/and blynde ingratytude
And euermore among/as I sayd at begynning
Attende my frequent wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Tyme it consumeth/wherfore to conclude
That I say to one/I say breuely to all
If ye wyll optayne/the euerlastyng beatytude
Beware of ignorance/and blynde ingratytude
And euermore among/as I sayd at begynning
Attende my frequent wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
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