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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 | Here begynneth a lytell treatyse in Englysshe |  |
Here foloweth a brefe conclusyon of Paule Busshe/composytour of this worke/to the reders of the same.
Nowe hast ye lytell boke/god be thy good spede
And loke that thy selfe/thou mekely present
Among my maisters all/requyring no mede
No laude/ne praysing/for that was nat thentent
Of thy compositour/as knoweth god omnypotent
But his purpose was/people chefely to excyte
In vertuous pastyme/to haue some delyte.
And loke that thy selfe/thou mekely present
Among my maisters all/requyring no mede
No laude/ne praysing/for that was nat thentent
Of thy compositour/as knoweth god omnypotent
But his purpose was/people chefely to excyte
In vertuous pastyme/to haue some delyte.
Some haue pleasure/in the feldes to walke
Of ye stillyng of therth/to take ye fragrant odours
Some delyteth agayne/to byde at home and talke
In redyng cronycles/of their aūcient progenytours
Howe worthely they optayned/glorie & honours
And some agayne there be/and they defyre chefely,
Of musicall instrumentes/to here ye swete armony.
Of ye stillyng of therth/to take ye fragrant odours
Some delyteth agayne/to byde at home and talke
In redyng cronycles/of their aūcient progenytours
Howe worthely they optayned/glorie & honours
And some agayne there be/and they defyre chefely,
Of musicall instrumentes/to here ye swete armony.
All these be pastymes/right honest & venerable
To reproue them greatly/we haue none occasyon
For all thyng that is done/after maner laudable
May be permytted/in the way of recreacyon
So that it be done/with demure conuersacyon
Hurtyng no man/alwayes obseruyng measure
Whiche is thyng cōmendable/in euery gesture.
To reproue them greatly/we haue none occasyon
For all thyng that is done/after maner laudable
May be permytted/in the way of recreacyon
So that it be done/with demure conuersacyon
Hurtyng no man/alwayes obseruyng measure
Whiche is thyng cōmendable/in euery gesture.
But some villayns there be/refraynīg no shame
Dispyce all pastymes/honest and morall
Unclenly thoughtes/dothe them so enflame
That their hertes and myndes/beset in especiall
In redyng of bokes & balades/of actes veneryall
Thinkīg in their opiniōs/nothyng more laudable
Whiche is right vyle/full wretched and damnable
Dispyce all pastymes/honest and morall
Unclenly thoughtes/dothe them so enflame
In redyng of bokes & balades/of actes veneryall
Thinkīg in their opiniōs/nothyng more laudable
Whiche is right vyle/full wretched and damnable
Howe shulde I than/after this wyse and rate
Please and content/suche myndes vnstable
It were greatly vnsyttyng/vnto my order & state
If I shulde endyte/suche maters [illeg.] cōmendable
This wysmen wyll say/though ye fole wt his bable
Thinke no workes good/except they in speciall
Smacke of Uenus lustes/filthy and brutall.
Please and content/suche myndes vnstable
It were greatly vnsyttyng/vnto my order & state
If I shulde endyte/suche maters [illeg.] cōmendable
This wysmen wyll say/though ye fole wt his bable
Thinke no workes good/except they in speciall
Smacke of Uenus lustes/filthy and brutall.
But let suche thynke/and say what they please
To say that I wyll contryue/my tyme and study
About suche busynesse/almighty god to displease
Doutles I purpose nat/wherfore my self to occupy
In workes cōmendable/I dyde my mynde apply
This lytell brefe processe/thus rudely to endight
Some thynges therby/to bring to lyght.
To say that I wyll contryue/my tyme and study
About suche busynesse/almighty god to displease
Doutles I purpose nat/wherfore my self to occupy
In workes cōmendable/I dyde my mynde apply
This lytell brefe processe/thus rudely to endight
Some thynges therby/to bring to lyght.
Therfore my worthy lordes/& maister ingen̄all
Ouer rede this lytell volume/sōtyme at leysour
And if it be well/gyue laudes chefe and principall
To god omnypotent/our lorde and sauyour
And if it be otherwise/let me beare the dishonour
For well am I worthy/as I said at begynning
For enterprisyng this cause/hauyng so lytell cōning.
Ouer rede this lytell volume/sōtyme at leysour
And if it be well/gyue laudes chefe and principall
To god omnypotent/our lorde and sauyour
And if it be otherwise/let me beare the dishonour
For well am I worthy/as I said at begynning
For enterprisyng this cause/hauyng so lytell cōning.
Thus endeth this boke/entytuled or called ye extyrpacion
of ignorancy.
| Here begynneth a lytell treatyse in Englysshe | |