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The kalender of shepherdes

the edition of Paris 1503 in photographic facsimile: a faithful reprint of R. Pynson's edition of London 1506. Edited with a critical introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer

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The Kalender of the Shepeherdes.

[The fyrste parte of the kalēder of sheperdis.]

How euery moneth prayseth it selfe of some good propryete.

Here is the seconde parte of the compot and kalender that shewith of the tre of vices and the peynes of hell.

[The tre of vices and the peynes of hell.]

A remembraunce of the vnstabylnes of the worlde.

Here after foloweth the x. comaūdemētes in the table that god gaue vnto Moyses in the moūte of Synay.

[God gyde me ryght/ that I wonse myght]

The balad of the shepherde.

Here foloweth the songe of a woman shepherde that vnderstode well & hir songe profytes.

Here begynneth the songe of dethe.

Hereafter foloweth the x. cōmaūdementys of the deuyll contrary to them of our lorde.

Hereafter Foloweth parte of the paynes/ of Helle/ For the cōmaundementes of the Deuyll As it is aboue sayde.

Howe euery degre of states sholde ordre them.

The gouernaunce of helthe.

The awtor

APPENDIX.

How plowmen sholde do.

Of an assaute agaynst a snayle.

The saynge of a deed man.

How euery man and woman ought to cease of theyr syn̄es at the sownynge of the dredable horne.

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How plowmen sholde do.

Peers go thou to plowe/ and take with the thy wyfe
Delue and drawe/ sowe barly whete/ and ry
Of one make ten/ this is a perfyte lyfe
As sayth Arystotle in his phylozophy
Thou nede not study to knowe astrology
For yf the weder be not to thy pleasaunce
Thanke euer god of his dyuyne ordenaunce.