 | [The Breuyate and shorte Tragycall hystorie of the fayre Custance, the Emperours doughter of Rome |  |
Lenuoy of Thomas Alsoppe.
Go forth yu pāflet small
Of mater Tragicall
Nothyng purueyed at all
Of style Heroycall
But full of speche rurall
And verses rustycall
Unto my maisters all
Besechīg thē which shall
Here of thy chance fatall
And thē in speciall
Of mater Tragicall
Nothyng purueyed at all
Of style Heroycall
But full of speche rurall
And verses rustycall
Unto my maisters all
Besechīg thē which shall
Here of thy chance fatall
And thē in speciall
Which most are doctrynate
With wisdome decorate
In science eleuate
And eche other estate
To be content algate
And nat to conspyrate
Agaynst the any hate
Though I infatuate
After this homely rate
Thy simple processe wrate:
With wisdome decorate
In science eleuate
And eche other estate
To be content algate
And nat to conspyrate
Agaynst the any hate
Though I infatuate
After this homely rate
Thy simple processe wrate:
& where yu dost repayre
Alway behaue the fayre
Be nothyng in dispayre
Alway behaue the fayre
Be nothyng in dispayre
Thy selfe for to present
Though yu be naked sent
Without ye freshe garmēt
Of termes eloquent
But pondre myne entent
Though yu be naked sent
Without ye freshe garmēt
Of termes eloquent
But pondre myne entent
say yt right fayne I wolde
Do better if I coulde
Do better if I coulde
Some men of grauite
How symple that thou be
May happen yet parde
To rede and ouer se
Thy rude barreyne store
How symple that thou be
May happen yet parde
To rede and ouer se
Thy rude barreyne store
Why may nat Wise mē loke
Upon a folisshe boke
Upon a folisshe boke
I trust no man of name
Though yu be out of frāe
In ernest nor in game
By speche wyll nat defāe
Nor lay to the no blame
Though yu be out of frāe
In ernest nor in game
By speche wyll nat defāe
Nor lay to the no blame
But count it my foly
Whiche so intentifely
In that wherin as I
Can nothing skyll truely
Haue made my selfe busy
Whiche so intentifely
In that wherin as I
Can nothing skyll truely
Haue made my selfe busy
For no cause els it was
But vacant tyme to pas
But vacant tyme to pas
Nat with intencion
Of proude presumpcion
But where as trāsgressyon
By way of locucion
Is made without reason
With humble submissyon
Under correction
In the protection
And wyse discrecion
Of eche maner person
Althing is said and don
Of proude presumpcion
But where as trāsgressyon
By way of locucion
Is made without reason
With humble submissyon
Under correction
In the protection
And wyse discrecion
Of eche maner person
Althing is said and don
And who so dothe the se
Pray them to ∥done me.
Pray them to ∥done me.
Finis
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