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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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 Buss he preest/ and Bonhome of Edyndon: and dedicate vnto the yong and most hye renomed lady Mary/princes & doughter vnto the noble progenytour/our worthy souerayne kyng Henry the eight/kyng of Englāde and of Fraūce/& hye defēder of ye christenfaithe. &c.
The prologue of Paule Busshe/vnto the princes grace.
Most worthy renomed prīces/& lady souerayne
Pepyn and Budde/naturally takyng productyon
Of the rubifyde rose/and granate of Spayne
your noble fame/gyueth vs playne enstruction
your tēder youthe to magnify/syth yt no enfluction
Bodily ne gostly/can you resolue doutlesse
To vayne pastyme/ne slouthfull ydelnesse.
Pepyn and Budde/naturally takyng productyon
Of the rubifyde rose/and granate of Spayne
your noble fame/gyueth vs playne enstruction
your tēder youthe to magnify/syth yt no enfluction
Bodily ne gostly/can you resolue doutlesse
To vayne pastyme/ne slouthfull ydelnesse.
Who hath sene a thyng so tender of age?
Garnysshed with maners/vertue and connyng
Lyke vnto your grace/comen of so hye lynage
Certes I knowe playne/no cronycle ne writyng
Resyteth one in youthe/attayning suche lernynge
Wherfore laude be to god/for his diuyne influence
And praysinge be to you/for your dayly dilygence.
Garnysshed with maners/vertue and connyng
Lyke vnto your grace/comen of so hye lynage
Certes I knowe playne/no cronycle ne writyng
Resyteth one in youthe/attayning suche lernynge
Wherfore laude be to god/for his diuyne influence
And praysinge be to you/for your dayly dilygence.
The cōmon vulgar gothe/as we haue relacion
That in lernyng and doctryne/ye are equipolent
With Cato the etyke/scolers confort & consolacyon
And your tonge polysshed/lyke Tully the prudent
And also your vttraūce prōpt/as Uergyll thexellēt
So that nothing you lacke/that nature may graūt
To decorate your noble person/so stable & constaunt
That in lernyng and doctryne/ye are equipolent
With Cato the etyke/scolers confort & consolacyon
And your tonge polysshed/lyke Tully the prudent
And also your vttraūce prōpt/as Uergyll thexellēt
So that nothing you lacke/that nature may graūt
To decorate your noble person/so stable & constaunt
These fructuous reportes/of your perfite intelligēce
Impelled me gracyous lady/after my symplenesse
To dedicate this worke/vnto your magnifycence
Of no blynde elacion/but yt your worthy highnesse
Affecteth alway your mynde/and study to redresse
Hystoris to rede/autentycall and trewe
Grace to augment/and ydelnesse to subdewe.
Impelled me gracyous lady/after my symplenesse
To dedicate this worke/vnto your magnifycence
Of no blynde elacion/but yt your worthy highnesse
Affecteth alway your mynde/and study to redresse
Grace to augment/and ydelnesse to subdewe.
Wherfore gracious lady/sythe ye are so prone
By naturall instyncte/and humble humylite
Thus vertuously to be occupyed/no hour forgone
Of your mylde goodnesse/my dytties to ouerse
Wherin ye shall fynde/touched in breuyte
Hystoris autentycall/of the testament olde
And some presydētes of ye new/necessary to beholde
By naturall instyncte/and humble humylite
Thus vertuously to be occupyed/no hour forgone
Of your mylde goodnesse/my dytties to ouerse
Wherin ye shall fynde/touched in breuyte
Hystoris autentycall/of the testament olde
And some presydētes of ye new/necessary to beholde
And though I lacke dropes/of ye lycour laureate
Whiche sprang of Chaucer/ye foūtayne of oratours
To adorne my style/and my mater to consecrate
yet gracious princes/to repell the sharpe shours
Of synistrall reportes/among yuell detractours
Sōtyme at leysar/your other charges layde asyde
Where ye faute fynde/correcte or it be spyde.
Whiche sprang of Chaucer/ye foūtayne of oratours
To adorne my style/and my mater to consecrate
yet gracious princes/to repell the sharpe shours
Of synistrall reportes/among yuell detractours
Sōtyme at leysar/your other charges layde asyde
Where ye faute fynde/correcte or it be spyde.
Thus doyng/your grace shal me straitly bynde
With hert and seruyce/to do what lyeth in me
your magnifycēce to extoll/or els I were vnkynde
Accordyng to your merytes/to testify my fydelyte
Against you & your parētes/whose welth & dignite
Christ conserue/and also dayly augment
wt honor & worshyp/cōgrue/to your power exellēt.
With hert and seruyce/to do what lyeth in me
your magnifycēce to extoll/or els I were vnkynde
Accordyng to your merytes/to testify my fydelyte
Against you & your parētes/whose welth & dignite
Christ conserue/and also dayly augment
wt honor & worshyp/cōgrue/to your power exellēt.
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.
Here endeth the first parte of this volume/whiche hath shewed howe man is bounde to feare god by manyfolde examples. And nowe immediately here foloweth the seconde parte/whiche shall speke of ye loue that man ought to haue to almighty god.
Diligamus nos deum/quoniam deus prior dilexit nos. Prima Iohannis quarto.
Deum diligite.
But
yet god thus to drede/and nothīg to loue
It were but labour tedious/& scant merytorious
For he that a place wyll purchase aboue
Eternally to raigne/in state most prosperous
Must combyne drede/with loue ardent & amorous
As two thynges necessary/to one belongyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
It were but labour tedious/& scant merytorious
For he that a place wyll purchase aboue
Eternally to raigne/in state most prosperous
Must combyne drede/with loue ardent & amorous
As two thynges necessary/to one belongyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
This loue is so noble/so hye and so exellent
If it be pure/voluntary/fre and spontayne
That to all vertues/it is a spectacle euydent
For nother drede/nor yet obedience certayne
May be acceptable vnto god/this is playne
Except loue be the origynall/and the well spring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
If it be pure/voluntary/fre and spontayne
That to all vertues/it is a spectacle euydent
For nother drede/nor yet obedience certayne
May be acceptable vnto god/this is playne
Except loue be the origynall/and the well spring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
The loue that Christ shewed first for man
In his plasmacion/by giftes hye and excellent
Was for no qualyteis/that in hym raigned than
His production was so baren/yet of his mynde peruident
To magnify our nature/it was his entent
For of all his creatures/he made man lorde & kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
In his plasmacion/by giftes hye and excellent
Was for no qualyteis/that in hym raigned than
His production was so baren/yet of his mynde peruident
To magnify our nature/it was his entent
For of all his creatures/he made man lorde & kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Wherof mounted this gifte of preemynence
But onely of his mere loue/as I sayd before
Nat in vayne to betaken/through our neglygence
But as a presydent/alwayes to be had in store
Loue to encrese & augmēt/specially again therfore
This may we vnderstande/by reason rulyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
But onely of his mere loue/as I sayd before
Nat in vayne to betaken/through our neglygence
But as a presydent/alwayes to be had in store
Loue to encrese & augmēt/specially again therfore
This may we vnderstande/by reason rulyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
The multitude of benefites/shulde engēdre amyte
Namely whan they be exibite/to people indigent
wrapped in wretchednesse/and bondes of calamite
As is our nature/all lame and impotent
By necessite ineuitable/of it selfe nat sufficient
But that god mynistreth/vnto vs all thynge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Namely whan they be exibite/to people indigent
wrapped in wretchednesse/and bondes of calamite
As is our nature/all lame and impotent
By necessite ineuitable/of it selfe nat sufficient
But that god mynistreth/vnto vs all thynge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Suche is our necessyte/that no creature can say
Without the exellent gyftes/of god omnypotent
I am able to lyue/one naturall day
No doutlesse/to speke/and to be indifferent
Be he neuer so noble/nat the space of a moment
So feble & so sklender/is our substaūce wauering
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Without the exellent gyftes/of god omnypotent
I am able to lyue/one naturall day
No doutlesse/to speke/and to be indifferent
Be he neuer so noble/nat the space of a moment
So feble & so sklender/is our substaūce wauering
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Let vs consydre/howe prone in tymes all
Christ is to sustulte/our impotence and debilyte
For our necessite/is nat so vrgent at all
But moche more prone/is his ayde and benignyte
All seasons helpyng/our care and aduersite
Gyueng vs lyfe/conseruyng our being
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Christ is to sustulte/our impotence and debilyte
For our necessite/is nat so vrgent at all
But moche more prone/is his ayde and benignyte
All seasons helpyng/our care and aduersite
Gyueng vs lyfe/conseruyng our being
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
This is euydent/experiēce dothe ye cause patify
That his conseruacion/may nat be sequestrate
From our substaunce caduke/vyle and transitory
For if it be/we all are but frustrate
Redacte to adnichilacion/from all thyng priuate
Of shape and forme/nothyng remayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
That his conseruacion/may nat be sequestrate
From our substaunce caduke/vyle and transitory
For if it be/we all are but frustrate
Redacte to adnichilacion/from all thyng priuate
Of shape and forme/nothyng remayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
These consyderacions/ought to auaunce reason
With solicitude of mynde/concludyng finally
That man is most bounde/hauyng discrecion
God alwayes to laude/with seruage and study
Inuestigate who listeth/he fyndeth nat the cōtrary
For this yeldeth reason/without more recuyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
With solicitude of mynde/concludyng finally
That man is most bounde/hauyng discrecion
God alwayes to laude/with seruage and study
Inuestigate who listeth/he fyndeth nat the cōtrary
For this yeldeth reason/without more recuyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Nowe/sithe man is bounde/aboue creatures all
To god omnypotent/for his benefites infynite
He ought to reuolue/in his mynde principall
What thyng may be/most acceptable in his sight
And the same to rendre/with hert and myght
Or els reason may reproue/his vnworthy dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
To god omnypotent/for his benefites infynite
He ought to reuolue/in his mynde principall
What thyng may be/most acceptable in his sight
And the same to rendre/with hert and myght
Or els reason may reproue/his vnworthy dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
What thyng may be/thynketh man in mynde
Unto god his maker/more plesaunt or acceptable
Than to shewe him loue/as reason doth him binde
Doutlesse nothyng/so precious nor cōmendable
Nor to vs nothyng/so necessary nor profytable
If it be depured/from all erthely recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Unto god his maker/more plesaunt or acceptable
Than to shewe him loue/as reason doth him binde
Doutlesse nothyng/so precious nor cōmendable
Nor to vs nothyng/so necessary nor profytable
If it be depured/from all erthely recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
This loue must be pure tāgled wt no welth mūdain
But fixte on hym onely/which of nought made all
Or els inordinate is our lawe/this is playne
For whan loue is wrapped/with affection carnall
It is nat good nor godly/but beestly and brutall
And to people reasonable/greatly discordyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
But fixte on hym onely/which of nought made all
Or els inordinate is our lawe/this is playne
For whan loue is wrapped/with affection carnall
It is nat good nor godly/but beestly and brutall
And to people reasonable/greatly discordyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
What shulde man/hauyng the vse of discrecion
Fixe his mynde/on thynges vayne and transitory
Though nature gyue beautie/& fayre impression
Set nat thy mynde/on suche maters rasly
For it is but volage/and chaunged shalbe shortly
To all creatures: this chefe poynt is belongyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Fixe his mynde/on thynges vayne and transitory
Though nature gyue beautie/& fayre impression
Set nat thy mynde/on suche maters rasly
For it is but volage/and chaunged shalbe shortly
To all creatures: this chefe poynt is belongyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
It is greatly vncomely/vnto vs people mortall
To set our hertes on that/whiche can nat remayne
For he that is prudent/to mynde ofte wyll call
That suche faynt follyes/shulde nat hym cōstraine
His maker to forget/for thynges abiecte & vayne
But labour he shulde busely/for his soule prouiding
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
To set our hertes on that/whiche can nat remayne
For he that is prudent/to mynde ofte wyll call
That suche faynt follyes/shulde nat hym cōstraine
His maker to forget/for thynges abiecte & vayne
But labour he shulde busely/for his soule prouiding
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
What can the worlde promyse to the perpetually
Sithe nothyng it hath/that is perdurable
But fraite with vanitees/cowarde vnder pall
Thy mynde to enuolue/with thoughtes damnable
And thy soule to put/to paynes intermynable
This euer eschewyng/thy lyfe mysgouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Sithe nothyng it hath/that is perdurable
But fraite with vanitees/cowarde vnder pall
Thy mynde to enuolue/with thoughtes damnable
And thy soule to put/to paynes intermynable
This euer eschewyng/thy lyfe mysgouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Such dolefull rewardes/amōg people prudent
Are vtterly dispysed/and set at nought
Reuoluyng in mynde/this prouerbe ofte frequent
The childe is yll taught/and worse vp brought
Whiche in age/hath no mynde nor thought
His body to refrayne/from in ordynate lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Are vtterly dispysed/and set at nought
Reuoluyng in mynde/this prouerbe ofte frequent
The childe is yll taught/and worse vp brought
Whiche in age/hath no mynde nor thought
His body to refrayne/from in ordynate lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
God made nat man/as doctors make relacion
His wyttes fyue/to spende inordynate
But his parte were/his lyfe and conuersacion
So to gouerne & adorne/with no abusyon violate
That wt ioye & felycite/his soule might be decorate
In the stage glorious/all thyng surmountyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
His wyttes fyue/to spende inordynate
But his parte were/his lyfe and conuersacion
So to gouerne & adorne/with no abusyon violate
That wt ioye & felycite/his soule might be decorate
In the stage glorious/all thyng surmountyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
A hert with deuocion flamed/wyll couet alway
The thyng speciall/which is pure and cōstaunt
And that onely desyre: bothe night and day
Whiche is good and honest/and to god plesaunt
Deformed with no enormyte/to his state repugnāt
His laude so hyndring/& his good name deprauīg
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
The thyng speciall/which is pure and cōstaunt
And that onely desyre: bothe night and day
Whiche is good and honest/and to god plesaunt
Deformed with no enormyte/to his state repugnāt
His laude so hyndring/& his good name deprauīg
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Man ought to desyre/the thyng moost emynent
Sure and nat fadyng/whiche all tyme dothe profite
Drowned with no errour/voyde of all turment
As endlesse blysse/incomparable and perfyte
Whiche euery good man/dothe desyre and couyte
His carcas dispisyng/for suche treasour sekyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Sure and nat fadyng/whiche all tyme dothe profite
Drowned with no errour/voyde of all turment
As endlesse blysse/incomparable and perfyte
Whiche euery good man/dothe desyre and couyte
His carcas dispisyng/for suche treasour sekyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
This endlesse blysse certayne/is of suche valour
That it is impreciable/no man can it bye
With golde ne syluer/richesse nor yet treasour
It excelleth so in honour/in beautie and glorie
And ordayned it is/no man can deny
For god and his angels/and man well lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
That it is impreciable/no man can it bye
With golde ne syluer/richesse nor yet treasour
It excelleth so in honour/in beautie and glorie
And ordayned it is/no man can deny
For god and his angels/and man well lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
The apostell Paule/in his epystles dothe say
That no hert can thynke/nor materiall eye se
No eare can here/nor tonge expresse may
The inestymable glorie/ioye and felycite
That is comprised/without fastidiosyte
In this realme of pleasure/in beautie shinyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
That no hert can thynke/nor materiall eye se
No eare can here/nor tonge expresse may
The inestymable glorie/ioye and felycite
That is comprised/without fastidiosyte
In this realme of pleasure/in beautie shinyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
In this court angelycall/raigneth no mortalyte
No nede nor indigence/but plente and habūdaūce
No age decrepite/infecte with infyrmyte
But helth/welthe/and peace/without perturbaūce
No bonde ne seruytude/nor yet mysgouernaunce
May entre this trone/of Christes garnysshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
No nede nor indigence/but plente and habūdaūce
No age decrepite/infecte with infyrmyte
But helth/welthe/and peace/without perturbaūce
No bonde ne seruytude/nor yet mysgouernaunce
May entre this trone/of Christes garnysshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Salomans sapience/that surmounted so hye
Nor Absalons beautie/yt was praysed in especiall
Is nat to be compared/in laude and glorie
To the wisedome and beautie/whiche perpetuall
In this stage and trone/clerer than cristall
Gloriously adorned/thynges all excellyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Nor Absalons beautie/yt was praysed in especiall
Is nat to be compared/in laude and glorie
To the wisedome and beautie/whiche perpetuall
In this stage and trone/clerer than cristall
Gloriously adorned/thynges all excellyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
The fortitude of Sāpson/nor the velocite of Asael
As scripture sheweth/in sentence most worthy
Nor yet the long lyfe/of the auncient Matusaell
Were but gyftes naturall/enuolued with misery
Nothyng to be resembled/to the goodnesse heuēly
whiche in this glorious habitacle is euer abydyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
As scripture sheweth/in sentence most worthy
Nor yet the long lyfe/of the auncient Matusaell
Were but gyftes naturall/enuolued with misery
Nothyng to be resembled/to the goodnesse heuēly
whiche in this glorious habitacle is euer abydyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
And all this man/yu maist purchace and optayne
By vertuous lyueng/and by loue true & perfyght
Louyng thy maker/yt hath ordayned the to raigne
Thus for tyme perpetuall/in his presence and sight
In his trone euerlastyng/neuer destitute of lyght
But garnisshed with beautie/in vertue shyning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
By vertuous lyueng/and by loue true & perfyght
Louyng thy maker/yt hath ordayned the to raigne
Thus for tyme perpetuall/in his presence and sight
In his trone euerlastyng/neuer destitute of lyght
But garnisshed with beautie/in vertue shyning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Here endeth the seconde perte of this volume/whiche hath shewed/howe man is bounde to loue almighty god: And nowe here after foloweth ye thirde parte/whiche shall speke of the honour that euery man is bounde to reuerente his prince and souerayne with all.
Nowe seyng that I/haue made demonstracion
In style homly/thy loue howe yu shuldest bestowe
To goddes pleasure man/& thy soules cōseruacion
Nowe breuely to reuert/I purpose to showe
Howe that thy prince/thou oughtest to knowe
That to god may be acceptable/thy lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
In style homly/thy loue howe yu shuldest bestowe
To goddes pleasure man/& thy soules cōseruacion
Nowe breuely to reuert/I purpose to showe
Howe that thy prince/thou oughtest to knowe
That to god may be acceptable/thy lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
By morall wysedome/first deuysed were
Officers and gouernours/of constant grauyte
This worlde namely to rule/and set in an ordere
With comely maners/eschewyng all enormyte
Adornyng their owne lyues/mortifyeng vanyte
To people rude/vertuous examples gyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Officers and gouernours/of constant grauyte
This worlde namely to rule/and set in an ordere
With comely maners/eschewyng all enormyte
Adornyng their owne lyues/mortifyeng vanyte
To people rude/vertuous examples gyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Of these gouernours/whiche ruled thus lōg space
Some were patryarkes/prophetes: & iuges tēperall
And sōe were prestes discrete/& as thistory do trace
Discended lyneally/of the styrpe & stocke leuiticall
And againe some were scribes/ingenious & morall
By polytike discrecion/their offices gouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Prepositos honorificate.
Some were patryarkes/prophetes: & iuges tēperall
And sōe were prestes discrete/& as thistory do trace
Discended lyneally/of the styrpe & stocke leuiticall
And againe some were scribes/ingenious & morall
By polytike discrecion/their offices gouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Prepositos honorificate.
Whan these worthy gouernors/armed wt prudence
Had gouerned thus the worlde/a long tyme & date
It was thought more cōuenyent/for ye cōmēs defēce
One heed and ruler/to gouerne and the principate
therfore as people discrete/in one mynde cōfederat
They chose thē a ruler/and named hym a kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Had gouerned thus the worlde/a long tyme & date
It was thought more cōuenyent/for ye cōmēs defēce
One heed and ruler/to gouerne and the principate
therfore as people discrete/in one mynde cōfederat
They chose thē a ruler/and named hym a kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
This kyng our souerayne/we ought to honour
And haue in reputaciō/as the myrrour of chiualry
In whose magnanimite/resteth our trust & tresour
All tymes and seasons/to suffult our bale & misery
As a capten valeaunt/rulyng by wytte and policy
His subiectes transgressours/straitly punisshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
And haue in reputaciō/as the myrrour of chiualry
In whose magnanimite/resteth our trust & tresour
All tymes and seasons/to suffult our bale & misery
As a capten valeaunt/rulyng by wytte and policy
His subiectes transgressours/straitly punisshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Who maketh our enemyes to drede and feare
Insurrections to make/our welthe to molest
Who punissheth the felone/who correcteth murder
Who kepeth our noble realme in peace and rest
Who maketh ye prone lecher/to be good and honest
Dothe nat this our souerayne and worthy kyng
wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Insurrections to make/our welthe to molest
Who punissheth the felone/who correcteth murder
Who kepeth our noble realme in peace and rest
Who maketh ye prone lecher/to be good and honest
Dothe nat this our souerayne and worthy kyng
wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Who causeth iustyce/who causeth equite:
Duely to be mynistred/in cytie/borowe/& towne.
Who quencheth the flames/of rasshe lassyuite
Who exalteth iust lyuers/& the wicked putteth downe
All this doth our prince/beryng ye cepter & crowne
In whose hande resteth/our welth and gouernyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Duely to be mynistred/in cytie/borowe/& towne.
Who quencheth the flames/of rasshe lassyuite
Who exalteth iust lyuers/& the wicked putteth downe
All this doth our prince/beryng ye cepter & crowne
In whose hande resteth/our welth and gouernyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
If our prince were nat/order were there none
For euery man wolde rule/and play the lorde
And than shulde ye poreman bothe grudge & grone
Kept vnder bondage/as dogge vnder borde
And nat so hardy/as ones to speke a worde
For drede of punisshment/& of his goodes lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
For euery man wolde rule/and play the lorde
And than shulde ye poreman bothe grudge & grone
Kept vnder bondage/as dogge vnder borde
And nat so hardy/as ones to speke a worde
For drede of punisshment/& of his goodes lesyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Where is no heed/the body deformed is
Farre out of shappe/as we se by experyence
So in caselike/thou canst nat contrary this
Where is no soueraine/there reigneth incōuenyēce
As fraude/gyle/& extorciō/with many other offēce
So that all togiders/rōneth to the deuyll hedlyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Farre out of shappe/as we se by experyence
So in caselike/thou canst nat contrary this
Where is no soueraine/there reigneth incōuenyēce
As fraude/gyle/& extorciō/with many other offēce
So that all togiders/rōneth to the deuyll hedlyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Were it nat for feare/of our prīce and souerayne
I thynke surely/and dare boldely say
Uerite nor yet equite/shulde be suffred to raigne
And than soone after/shulde our realme decay
So craftely wolde auarice/her maters conuey
Through subtylte/her hādmaydes helpe & socorīg
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
I thynke surely/and dare boldely say
Uerite nor yet equite/shulde be suffred to raigne
And than soone after/shulde our realme decay
So craftely wolde auarice/her maters conuey
Through subtylte/her hādmaydes helpe & socorīg
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
At syses and sessyons/moche periury is vsed
Fall heed and power/he so nye of consanguinite
But thā our worthy prīce/which cā nat be deluded
By his lawe and iustyce/extirpeth suche percialyte
Thus it is doutlesse/or els thus it shulde be
In euery realme & region/where reigneth a kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Fall heed and power/he so nye of consanguinite
But thā our worthy prīce/which cā nat be deluded
By his lawe and iustyce/extirpeth suche percialyte
Thus it is doutlesse/or els thus it shulde be
In euery realme & region/where reigneth a kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Wolde our maisters trowe ye/bothe spirituall & tēporall
Feare as they do: their lyues to contamynate
With maners vncomely/by suggestions infernall
Hyndring their honour/and hurtyng their estate
were it nat for their prīce/to whō they be subiugate
Doutlesse no: The more pytie without fayning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Feare as they do: their lyues to contamynate
With maners vncomely/by suggestions infernall
Hyndring their honour/and hurtyng their estate
were it nat for their prīce/to whō they be subiugate
Doutlesse no: The more pytie without fayning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Reason wolde be so blinded/by ambicion verily
Were it nat for drede of our prince and souerayne
that by simony execrable/holy churches patrimoni
Shulde be bought & solde/as it is knowen playne
More cōmon than the oxe/vyle and mundayne
Whiche is solde in markettes/for great wynning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Were it nat for drede of our prince and souerayne
that by simony execrable/holy churches patrimoni
Shulde be bought & solde/as it is knowen playne
More cōmon than the oxe/vyle and mundayne
Whiche is solde in markettes/for great wynning
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Here maist yu aduert man/what profites dothe ensue
To the realme and subiectes/of euery region
Where as valyaunt princes/do correct and subdue
Such frōtall enormytes/by their lawes correction
No state fauoring/if he worthy be punissyon
But euery man to rewarde/after his deseruyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
To the realme and subiectes/of euery region
Where as valyaunt princes/do correct and subdue
Such frōtall enormytes/by their lawes correction
No state fauoring/if he worthy be punissyon
But euery man to rewarde/after his deseruyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Whan prīces be perciall/and nat to all indifferent
It gyueth people occasion/to grudge & complayne
But whan they minister to all lyke punysshment
Than in their realmes/most cōmenly do raigne
Peace/vnyte/and concorde/without disdayne
So that euery man ioyeth/of others well lyueng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
It gyueth people occasion/to grudge & complayne
But whan they minister to all lyke punysshment
Than in their realmes/most cōmenly do raigne
Peace/vnyte/and concorde/without disdayne
So that euery man ioyeth/of others well lyueng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
O/what treasour it is/and synguler aueyle
Whan princes be gyuen/to vertue and goodnesse
Their owne fautes to beholde/& them to bewayle
Their soules to redeme/out of wretchednesse
This poynt most chefely/belōgeth doutlesse
To euery good prince/endles paynes reuoluyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Whan princes be gyuen/to vertue and goodnesse
Their owne fautes to beholde/& them to bewayle
Their soules to redeme/out of wretchednesse
This poynt most chefely/belōgeth doutlesse
To euery good prince/endles paynes reuoluyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
The next poynt also/that a prince valyaunt
Ought to bere in mynde/bothe ī welthe & distresse
Is to be alwayes lyberall/and in his dedes cōstaūt
His pore cōmens to loue/and thē neuer to oppresse
Except necessite do instant/his noble worthynesse
Ayde to requyre/for his iust tytles defendyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Ought to bere in mynde/bothe ī welthe & distresse
Is to be alwayes lyberall/and in his dedes cōstaūt
His pore cōmens to loue/and thē neuer to oppresse
Except necessite do instant/his noble worthynesse
Ayde to requyre/for his iust tytles defendyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
In suche causes man: thou arte boūde to socour
Thy prince and souerayne/with goodes & substāce
With thy body also/and with thy worldly treasour
His right to mentayne/and his honour to auaunce
Wherby thy welthe/with good perseueraunce
Shall prospere the better/for thy true dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Thy prince and souerayne/with goodes & substāce
With thy body also/and with thy worldly treasour
His right to mentayne/and his honour to auaunce
Wherby thy welthe/with good perseueraunce
Shall prospere the better/for thy true dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
To this christ gaue vs/as we rede in the gospell
Example most euydent/whan he comaūded Peter
To the see to go/as Mathewe dothe vs tell
Sayeng: in ye fisshes mouth/finde he shulde ther
A pece of money/whiche duely he shulde delyuer
For their subsedy/to their emperour and kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Example most euydent/whan he comaūded Peter
To the see to go/as Mathewe dothe vs tell
Sayeng: in ye fisshes mouth/finde he shulde ther
A pece of money/whiche duely he shulde delyuer
For their subsedy/to their emperour and kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes & pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
The same also affirmeth/the postell and doctour
Blessed saynt Paule/in his epistell whiche he sent
To the romayns/whiche he brought out of errour
Sayeng: loke yt to prīces/shinyng ī power eminēt
ye be alwayes subiecte/meke/lowe/and obedyent
Redy them to ayde/at all tymes callyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Blessed saynt Paule/in his epistell whiche he sent
To the romayns/whiche he brought out of errour
Sayeng: loke yt to prīces/shinyng ī power eminēt
ye be alwayes subiecte/meke/lowe/and obedyent
Redy them to ayde/at all tymes callyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Lykewise faithe Peter/as the text lyeth playne
In his first epistell/and in the seconde chapitour
Loke that ye be dilygent/saithe he/redy and fayne
Lyke humble subiectes/your princes to honour
With faithfull hertes/ with goodes and treasour
And so please you shall/our euerlastyng kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
In his first epistell/and in the seconde chapitour
Loke that ye be dilygent/saithe he/redy and fayne
Lyke humble subiectes/your princes to honour
With faithfull hertes/ with goodes and treasour
And so please you shall/our euerlastyng kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
And all though saith he/that in lyueng & behauour
All princes and souerayns/be nat lyke of condicion
But some rigorous & vicyous/enuolued in errour
yet nat withstādyng/your purpose & chefe entēcion
Must be to obey/for your dewe correction
Such vnworthy rulers/sent for your mislyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
All princes and souerayns/be nat lyke of condicion
But some rigorous & vicyous/enuolued in errour
yet nat withstādyng/your purpose & chefe entēcion
Must be to obey/for your dewe correction
Such vnworthy rulers/sent for your mislyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
In many places els/in scripture I fynde
And in the lawe also/allegacions autentycall
Whiche dothe the cōmaunde man/& straitly bynde
Thy prince to honor/vnder statutes penall
Whiche if thou breke/thou doest surely fall
In the censours ecclesiasticall/& danger of the kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
And in the lawe also/allegacions autentycall
Whiche dothe the cōmaunde man/& straitly bynde
Thy prince to honor/vnder statutes penall
Whiche if thou breke/thou doest surely fall
In the censours ecclesiasticall/& danger of the kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Nowe cōclude vpon this/and thy corage auaunce
And thynke that it is nat/the regall power onely
Whiche prīces haue ī gouernage/to speke ī substāce
That to suche obedience/byndeth the thus straitly
But it is certayne/as se thou maist playne
The state legall/of the churches first ordring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
And thynke that it is nat/the regall power onely
Whiche prīces haue ī gouernage/to speke ī substāce
That to suche obedience/byndeth the thus straitly
But it is certayne/as se thou maist playne
The state legall/of the churches first ordring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Beholde what incōueniēce/cōmenly dothe ensue
Where reigneth inobediente/debate and discēcion
Beholde also agayne/where people be vntrue
Howe their ofspringes/be put vnder subiection
To day a lorde/and a man of great possession
And to morowe scant worthe/a poore sely fardyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Where reigneth inobediente/debate and discēcion
Beholde also agayne/where people be vntrue
Howe their ofspringes/be put vnder subiection
To day a lorde/and a man of great possession
And to morowe scant worthe/a poore sely fardyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Regem honorificate.
Lykewise beholde/what vtterly distruction
Hath comen of rebellyon/and wylfull conspiracy
Is it nat plainly lefte in discription
Howe by suche meanes/monasteries right worthy
Hath ben distroyed/and contaminate vncomely
yet doutlesse: it appereth playne in writyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Hath comen of rebellyon/and wylfull conspiracy
Is it nat plainly lefte in discription
Howe by suche meanes/monasteries right worthy
Hath ben distroyed/and contaminate vncomely
yet doutlesse: it appereth playne in writyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Also/howe many noble cyties/castels/& towres
Hath ben subuerted/and made wayes playne
By violent force/and marciall showres
The goodes dispoyled/the gouernours slayne
Their wyues and doughters/defloured certayne
This for rebellion/hath ben sene without fayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Hath ben subuerted/and made wayes playne
By violent force/and marciall showres
The goodes dispoyled/the gouernours slayne
Their wyues and doughters/defloured certayne
This for rebellion/hath ben sene without fayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Suche lamentable conflictes/& mortall dolours
Are spectacles necessary/somtyme to beholde
To stable mennes myndes/auoyding dishonours
And to lyue in peace/whiche a thousande folde
Is treasour more precious/than syluer or golde
As man may iudge/by his owne wytte reuoluyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Are spectacles necessary/somtyme to beholde
To stable mennes myndes/auoyding dishonours
And to lyue in peace/whiche a thousande folde
Is treasour more precious/than syluer or golde
As man may iudge/by his owne wytte reuoluyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
O noble Englande/O worthy realme of fame
Note well these presydentes/& beare thē in mynde
And be true to thy prīce/cōtynuing thy good name
For in cronycles/yet coude I neuer fynde
That to thy worthy souerayn/thou were vnkynde
Whiche to ye is great laude/& also to god praysinge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Note well these presydentes/& beare thē in mynde
And be true to thy prīce/cōtynuing thy good name
For in cronycles/yet coude I neuer fynde
That to thy worthy souerayn/thou were vnkynde
Whiche to ye is great laude/& also to god praysinge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Regem honorificate.
Nowe thus to conclude/without more prolixite
I purpose by goddes grace/and no lengar to tary
Repeting these foresaid wordes/togider as they be
Feare you god/loue you god/and also finally:
Honour your prince/myrrour of all chiualry
And so shall ye purchace/ioye without endyng
The whiche god graunt vs all/at our departyng.
I purpose by goddes grace/and no lengar to tary
Repeting these foresaid wordes/togider as they be
Feare you god/loue you god/and also finally:
Honour your prince/myrrour of all chiualry
And so shall ye purchace/ioye without endyng
The whiche god graunt vs all/at our departyng.
AMEN.
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.
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