A proper dyaloge / betwene a Gentillman and a husbandma[n] / eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite / through the ambicion of the clergye [by William Barlow] |
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A compēdious olde treatyse/shewynge/howe that we ought to haue the scripture in Englysshe.
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 | A proper dyaloge / betwene a Gentillman and a husbandma[n] |  |
A compēdious olde treatyse/shewynge/howe that we ought to haue the scripture in Englysshe.
Thexcusacyon of ye treatyse
Though I am olde/clothed ī barbarous wede
Nothynge garnysshed with gaye eloquency
Yet I tell the trouth/yf ye lyst to take hede
Agaynst theyr frowarde/furious frenesy
Which recken it for a great heresy
And vnto laye people greuous outrage
To haue goddes worde in their natyfe langage
Nothynge garnysshed with gaye eloquency
Yet I tell the trouth/yf ye lyst to take hede
Agaynst theyr frowarde/furious frenesy
Which recken it for a great heresy
And vnto laye people greuous outrage
To haue goddes worde in their natyfe langage
Enemyes I shall haue/many a shoren crowne
With forked cappes and gaye croosys of golde
Which to maynteyne ther ambicious renowne
Are glad laye people in ignorance to holde
Yet to shewe the verite/one maye be bolde
All though it be a prouerbe daylye spoken
Who that tellyth trouth/his head shalbe brokē.
With forked cappes and gaye croosys of golde
Which to maynteyne ther ambicious renowne
Are glad laye people in ignorance to holde
Yet to shewe the verite/one maye be bolde
All though it be a prouerbe daylye spoken
Who that tellyth trouth/his head shalbe brokē.
| A proper dyaloge / betwene a Gentillman and a husbandma[n] | |