De
contemptu
mundi
.
The
dispisyng
of
the
worlde
,
compiled
in
latyn
by
Erasmus
Rot.
and
translated
in
to
englyshe
by
Thomas
Paynell
,
Chanon
of
Marten
abbey
.
To
the
moste
highe
/
moste
vertuous
/
and
mooste
excellent
princesse
/
the
moste
noble
quene
Mary
dowager
of
France
/
daughter
and
syster
vnto
the
mooste
victorious
kynges
of
Englande
and
of
France
/
your
humble
oratour
Thomas
Paynel
prayeth
good
helthe
and
prosperite
.
IN
tyme
paste
princesse
most
excellent
/
religion
was
nat
onely
a
thynge
highlye
estemed
/
but
also
hadde
in
ryghte
greatte
honour
and
reuerence
/
and
nat
dispised
and
littell
sette
by
/
as
hit
is
nowe
a
dayes
:
but
they
that
so
do
/
eyther
be
suche
as
can
nat
be
contente
to
lyue
straytely
and
hardly
them selfe
/
for
so
they
repute
a
religious
and
a
good
lyfe
/
or
elles
they
be
suche
as
be
slyden
and
fallen
a
syde
from
the
right
beleue
.
But
yet
there
is
none
be
he
neuer
so
delycately
gyuen
to
pleasure
/
or
swarued
so
farre
wyde
from
the
true
beleue
/
that
can
so
maliciouslye
blame
or
barke
agaynst
religion
:
but
that
he
shall
fynde
an
hundred
agayne
/
that
were
nat
onely
vertuous
and
perfecte
good
men
/
but
also
most
excellently
lerned
/
the
whiche
do
highly
magnifie
and
preyse
religion
/
ye
and
with
longe
eloquent
orations
and
pistils
they
exhorte
and
stere
the
doulce
delycate
felowes
of
the
worlde
/
that
be
ignorante
/
what
a
swete
/
what
a
quiete
/
and
what
a
holy
lyfe
is
ledde
in
religion
/
to
come
there
vnto
.
Than
who
is
he
that
wolde
beleue
one
or
two
franticke
fooles
/
rather
than
a
thousande
of
wise
/
sadde
/
sobre
/
prudent
/
and
perfecte
good
lyuers
?
I
haue
thoughte
many
tymes
/
what
name
shulde
be
moste
conuenient
for
these
folyshe
and
madde
felowes
/
that
go
about
to
dispreyse
religion
(
if
they
be
worthy
to
haue
any
name
at
all
)
.
For
true
religion
is
the
very
waye
to
saluation
.
And
excepte
religion
/
what
proprete
shall
ye
fynde
in
man
kynde
/
but
that
ye
shall
commonly
fynde
the
same
in
beastis
?
Therfore
they
be
very
brute
/
and
maye
well
be
called
beastis
/
that
sette
naught
by
religion
/
and
vnreuerently
dispreyse
it
.
And
what
though
some
lewde
persones
/
ledde
by
luste
and
riotte
/
sette
naughte
by
religion
/
yet
hit
is
neuer
the
worse
/
nor
there
is
none
that
is
well
disposed
&
that
hath
any
wysedome
or
vnderstandynge
/
that
wyll
beare
euer
the
lesse
loue
&
affection
thervnto
/
for
any
mans
malignite
.
But
yet
to
th
entent
that
suche
wycked
and
folyshe
felowes
shulde
nat
abasshe
or
afraye
the
corages
and
good
myndes
/
that
they
beare
vnto
religion
/
the
whiche
as
yet
be
but
rude
,
and
haue
no
groundly
knowlege
or
vnderstandynge
/
howe
good
and
howe
requisite
hit
is
for
mans
soule
helthe
:
some
tyme
the
moost
noble
and
excellent
clerkes
(
as
I
sayde
before
)
endyte
erudite
orations
&
eloquente
exhortations
/
to
open
and
declare
the
hygh
goodnesse
of
religion
:
as
Erasmus
hath
done
in
this
littell
boke
folowynge
/
the
whiche
boke
translated
by
me
in
to
englyshe
/
I
was
so
bolde
to
dedicate
to
your
grace
princesse
mooste
excellent
/
as
to
the
verye
patronesse
and
fauourer
of
holy
religion
.
For
all
thoughe
ye
be
a
quene
/
and
haue
alway
kepte
a
state
of
a
princesse
moste
high
/
shynynge
in
glory
and
ryches
/
and
therto
furnyshed
with
all
moste
honorable
pleasures
&
delytes
/
belongynge
to
nobilite
/
yet
haue
you
ben
alway
most
vertuous
,
deuout
,
and
charitable
.
The
whiche
great
pietie
&
godly
mynde
enforced
me
to
dedicate
this
smal
boke
to
your
grace
:
humbly
desiringe
your
excellent
maiestie
to
accepte
this
my
rudenes
:
And
I
shall
dayly
pray
:
God
encreace
your
grace
/
vertue
/
and
honour
.
Amen
.
Erasmus
Roterodamus
vnto
the
reder
sendeth
gretynge
.
I
Haue
many
tymes
complayned
most
gentyll
reder
/
that
I
was
agreued
with
the
loue
and
fauour
of
my
frendes
/
the
whiche
(
nat
with
standyng
that
I
am
a
lyue
,
and
commande
the
contrarie
)
do
vulgate
and
put
forth
abrode
suche
trifils
as
I
wrote
whan
I
was
yonge
to
exercise
my
style
,
nat
thynkyng
that
they
shuld
be
spredde
abrode
and
common
for
euery
man
to
haue
:
wherin
I
am
so
moche
more
vnhappye
/
that
they
be
spredde
and
come
forth
in
this
most
happy
tyme
and
season
,
where
,
if
they
had
come
to
lyghte
whan
they
were
fyrste
compyled
and
made
,
they
shuld
nat
haue
ben
so
moche
subiecte
to
mennes
dispreyses
and
derisions
.
Nowe
they
be
redde
/
as
they
were
made
of
an
aged
man
/
the
whiche
I
compiled
whan
I
was
yonge
/
nat
for
that
entente
:
and
they
be
redde
in
this
tyme
/
whiche
hath
dyuers
men
of
excellent
lernyng
&
great
vnderstandyng
.
Whilom
whan
I
was
scantly
.xx.
yeres
of
age
/
at
the
desyre
&
instance
of
a
certayne
man
called
Theodorike
/
the
whiche
yet
lyueth
/
I
wrote
a
pystill
/
by
the
whiche
his
entent
was
to
call
his
nephewe
Ioyce
to
the
felowshippe
of
his
lyfe
.
To
this
pistill
often
tymes
copied
and
spredde
al
about
/
they
haue
put
my
name
/
where
as
I
haue
no
nephewe
that
is
called
Ioyce
.
I
wrote
hit
for
an
other
mans
entent
and
purpose
:
And
as
it selfe
doth
openly
expresse
/
I
wrote
hit
negligentlye
for
my
passe
tyme
/
vsynge
no
studie
nor
exquisite
argumentes
:
nor
also
to
I
was
nat
than
enstructed
in
redyng
of
good
auctours
.
And
openly
they
thretned
to
put
it
in
printe
/
except
that
I
wolde
cause
it
to
be
printed
.
So
I
redde
it
ouer
/
and
whan
I
had
changed
a
fewe
wordes
/
I
was
contente
hit
shulde
be
printed
.
Thus
I
suppose
hit
wyll
come
to
passe
at
lengthe
/
that
I
shall
forgo
the
loue
that
I
haue
to
the
folyshnesse
and
tryfyls
of
my
youth
.
Fare
well
good
reder
/
and
if
thou
rede
it
/
rede
it
with
forgyuenesse
/
&
so
rede
it
/
as
written
for
an
other
mans
entent
and
purpose
.
¶
Theodorike
Harleme
to
Ioyce
his
most
cunnyng
nephewe
/
sendeth
gretyng
.
CErtainly
my
most
dere
and
welbeloued
Ioyce
/
I
haue
had
of
long
tyme
/
a
right
great
desyre
to
write
vnto
the
:
but
hyderto
I
haue
kept
sylence
/
more
for
shamefastnesse
than
neglygence
:
for
I
drad
leest
whan
I
prepared
my selfe
/
I
that
am
nat
moche
elder
than
thou
/
but
in
other
thinges
far
vnder
the
/
to
exhorte
the
that
arte
a
man
of
singuler
prudence
and
erudition
/
shuld
be
seen
and
reputed
to
take
in
hande
/
a
laboure
that
neded
nat
/
as
one
wolde
caste
water
in
to
the
see
:
nat
for
that
I
haue
any
doubte
/
that
thou
(
whiche
arte
so
excedynge
good
and
gentyll
)
woldest
nat
after
the
beste
maner
accepte
myn
exhortation
/
but
leest
I
shuld
seme
to
take
vpon
me
the
office
of
an
immodest
or
an
vnshamefaste
persone
/
to
presume
to
gyue
the
admonicion
/
where
it
were
more
conuenyent
that
I
shulde
be
exhorted
and
monyshed
of
the.
Therfore
what
shall
I
do
?
Shall
I
wryte
or
no
?
Shamefastenes
forbyddeth
me
to
wryte
:
but
than
on
the
other
syde
/
the
loue
that
I
beare
to
the
Ioyce
wyll
nat
suffre
it
.
Shall
my
mynde
than
be
euermore
in
doute
and
wauerynge
?
Loue
on
the
tone
parte
counsayleth
me
to
wryte
/
and
shamefastnesse
on
the
other
syde
moueth
me
to
the
contrary
.
And
there
is
welnere
nothynge
more
greuous
or
peynfull
than
a
doutfull
mynde
.
But
at
the
laste
/
it
that
of
ryghte
oughte
to
ouercome
shall
haue
place
?
Shamefastnes
shal
obey
vnto
loue
.
For
I
shuld
rather
esteme
thy
profytte
/
yea
thy
soule
helth
/
than
what
men
wyll
saye
by
me
.
If
that
this
myn
enterprise
shall
be
more
applyed
to
pryde
than
wysedome
/
trewely
myn
offence
shulde
so
moche
the
sooner
be
forgyuen
/
in
as
moche
as
it
procedeth
of
loue
.
For
vndouted
/
I
had
leauer
wrytynge
louyngly
/
do
boldely
/
than
wysely
kepynge
sylence
/
to
do
more
wysely
.
Nor
I
doubte
nat
,
but
by
this
patron
and
aduocate
(
I
meane
our
loue
)
I
shal
be
absolued
and
quited
.
For
our
loue
is
nat
symple
or
of
the
common
sorte
/
but
very
entier
/
trusty
and
sure
.
The
causes
of
our
twos
frendshyp
be
ryght
great
and
manyfolde
:
our
bryngynge
vp
together
of
chyldren
/
the
maruaylous
agrement
of
our
two
myndes
/
one
maner
of
study
in
mooste
noble
scyences
/
the
innumerable
pleasures
that
thou
haste
done
for
me
/
the
singular
beneuolence
and
speciall
good
minde
of
the
and
of
thyne
borne
alwaye
towarde
me
.
And
also
to
these
causes
/
is
ioyned
alyaunce
of
blode
.
What
thynge
canne
be
more
gluynge
or
claspyng
than
this
our
frendeshyp
/
the
whiche
as
it
were
with
a
double
cheyne
/
is
bounde
and
knyt
fast
together
/
on
the
one
syde
with
kynred
/
and
on
the
other
syde
with
fyxed
charite
or
entyerly
louynge
myndes
.
Therfore
Ioyce
I
wolde
thou
shuldest
thynke
and
surely
trust
that
neuer
man
loued
hym selfe
more
hartily
than
I
loue
thee
.
And
seyng
that
I
loue
the
as
moche
as
my selfe
or
more
/
I
muste
nedes
care
as
moche
for
thy
soule
helth
as
for
myn
owne
.
Yea
and
true
loue
constraynethe
vs
(
I
wote
nat
by
what
meane
)
to
sorowe
more
greuously
our
frendes
incommodyte
and
hurte
than
our
owne
/
and
more
to
desyre
our
frendes
welfare
than
our
owne
.
And
brefely
to
speake
/
trewe
loue
causeth
one
man
to
loue
an
other
more
tenderlye
than
hym selfe
.
Whiche
thynge
in
the
I
nede
nat
to
mystruste
/
but
on
my
parte
I
maye
surely
affyrme
hit
.
This
thynge
hath
so
moche
enbolded
and
encoraged
me
/
that
I
laied
shamefastnes
aparte
for
the
tyme
/
and
wrote
vnto
the
this
letter
of
exortation
/
by
the
whiche
my
mynde
is
to
withdrawe
the
from
the
/
and
busynesse
of
the
worlde
/
and
brynge
the
to
a
lyfe
monastycke
/
that
is
to
saye
/
solytary
and
quyete
.
This
is
no
small
thynge
/
nor
a
thynge
that
may
soone
be
perswaded
to
the
common
people
:
but
bycause
thy
lyfe
is
of
suche
perfytenes
all
redy
/
that
excepte
the
habite
or
clothyng
of
a
lay
man
(
wherof
I
am
very
glad
)
the
worlde
welnere
can
challenge
no
properte
in
the.
I
fullye
truste
that
this
myne
exhortation
shall
take
effecte
/
seinge
that
both
the
corage
of
thy
passyng
good
minde
and
my
oration
leade
the
to
the
same
thynge
.
Who
wolde
doubte
that
shyp
to
saile
pleasantly
/
that
hathe
bothe
wynde
and
wether
at
wyll
:
And
all
be
hit
that
thy
good
and
commendable
lyfe
stereth
me
to
hope
well
/
yet
shall
I
neuer
be
out
of
feare
and
drede
/
vntyll
suche
tyme
that
thou
clene
forsake
this
vnhappy
&
britel
worlde
:
and
entre
in
to
some
Monastery
/
as
in
to
an
hauen
moost
sure
.
For
truste
me
/
as
often
as
I
reuolue
and
consydre
in
my
mynde
the
perils
and
dangers
,
amonge
the
whiche
thou
arte
conuersante
(
Whervpon
I
thynke
welnere
alwaye
)
so
ofte
the
tender
loue
that
I
beare
to
the
warde
/
maketh
me
very
heuy
and
sorowfull
.
For
I
am
none
other
wyse
affectioned
or
mynded
towarde
the
/
than
a
good
kynde
mother
is
to
her
onely
and
mooste
dere
chylde
/
the
whiche
is
on
the
see
saylynge
by
some
daungerous
place
/
where
as
shyppes
often
tymes
go
to
wracke
and
peryshe
/
Whiche
whan
she
seeth
or
heareth
the
vyolente
hurle
wynde
ryse
ruggedly
alofte
/
she
wayleth
/
she
waxeth
pale
/
and
trembleth
for
drede
:
In
her
slepe
her
mynde
rounneth
/
and
she
dreameth
of
her
sonne
:
and
euer
she
dredeth
the
worste
/
and
more
than
is
true
or
nede
to
be
feared
.
But
wold
to
god
that
I
neded
nat
to
drede
lesse
perils
than
be
.
But
I
knowe
/
I
knowe
good
Ioice
/
what
troubles
be
in
the
see
of
this
worlde
/
in
what
danger
the
lyfe
standeth
/
and
what
dyuers
kyndes
of
deth
there
be
:
out
of
the
whiche
but
late
swymmyng
naked
on
a
lytel
borde
/
vnneth
I
escaped
.
But
perauenture
thou
being
in
a
folyshe
surete
of
thy selfe
/
and
callynge
me
tymerous
or
fearfull
/
wylte
byd
me
to
be
careles
:
but
yet
if
thou
so
do
,
thou
canst
nat
driue
feare
out
of
my
mynde
:
for
thou
arte
so
farre
wyde
to
drawe
me
frome
drede
/
that
thou
almost
bryngest
all
my
hope
to
naught
.
Trewely
thou
arte
so
moche
the
more
in
the
danger
of
perils
/
in
howe
moche
lesse
that
thou
perceiuest
them
:
or
if
thou
dost
vnderstande
and
perceyue
them
/
and
wylte
nat
beware
and
eschewe
them
/
what
thynge
can
be
more
myschiefull
or
more
madde
than
suche
a
confydence
.
I
praye
the
tell
me
/
who
is
more
foolysshe
than
that
shipman
/
the
whiche
amonge
the
spuminge
or
fomynge
rockes
/
the
furious
syrtes
/
the
rageyng
goulfes
of
the
see
/
in
a
great
and
hydous
tempeste
/
and
therto
his
shyppe
feeble
and
weake
/
doth
feare
no
maner
perill
/
but
lyenge
vp
ryght
by
the
helme
he
syngeth
/
yea
/
and
forbyddeth
those
that
sayle
with
hym
vnder
his
tuition
/
to
be
afrayde
or
carefull
?
What
man
wyll
nat
abhorre
the
foly
and
madnes
of
suche
a
felowe
/
and
drede
to
scape
safely
?
Nor
I
good
Ioyce
/
shall
neuer
be
rydde
of
care
so
longe
as
thou
foolehardely
doste
sayle
forth
in
this
moste
vnquyete
see
of
the
worlde
.
Thou
wylte
perauenture
saye
/
this
is
a
foolysshe
comparison
:
Howe
dothe
the
worlde
and
the
see
agree
/
seynge
that
nothynge
is
more
blandyshyng
or
faunyng
than
the
worlde
/
and
nothynge
is
more
horryble
than
the
see
?
Yea
but
I
knowe
no
feter
comparison
/
if
thou
consydre
hit
well
.
Thynkest
thou
that
the
yll
melodye
and
swete
honygalle
tunes
of
the
Syrens
/
the
whiche
brynge
the
passagers
forby
fyrst
in
a
slombre
/
and
after
drowne
them
:
dothe
nat
well
expresse
the
shrewde
blandishynge
/
and
lewde
delites
of
this
worlde
?
wolde
to
god
thou
coudest
se
what
snares
/
what
desceytes
/
&
what
nettes
/
they
laye
pryuyly
to
attrappe
thy
youth
with
.
Loke
therfore
that
thou
flye
from
the
bankes
or
see
coostes
where
these
Syrens
be
.
For
flyghte
in
this
behalfe
is
the
surest
waye
.
Nor
thou
shuldest
nat
folehardely
truste
to
sayle
sure
and
safely
that
waye
/
where
as
thou
seest
kyng
Dauyd
/
Solomon
/
and
many
other
/
and
nobler
than
are
to
be
spoken
of
here
/
went
to
wracke
.
And
brefely
to
speke
:
no
man
scaped
but
he
that
fledde
.
Homer
reherseth
that
Ulyxes
/
the
whiche
representeth
the
persone
of
a
perfecte
wyse
man
/
with
greatte
studye
and
dylygence
coude
scarsly
scape
the
swete
honygalle
songe
of
these
Syrens
/
&
yet
he
stopped
his
eares
with
waxe
/
and
bounde
hym selfe
to
the
shyppe
maste
.
Than
what
hope
haste
thou
to
escape
them
?
Seynge
that
so
many
haue
conspired
together
to
distroy
the
/
as
wanton
youth
/
enticyng
beautifulnesse
/
riches
lycence
/
libertee
/
the
dayly
and
nightly
ditees
of
these
(
Helas
)
to
swete
monsters
.
Nor
I
thinke
nat
/
but
that
these
hie
apperyng
sharpe
rockis
/
I
meane
the
hyghnesse
of
secular
dygnytees
/
are
as
moche
to
be
dredde
of
the
:
amonge
the
whiche
if
thou
be
driuen
by
any
coole
of
wynde
/
thou
shalte
thynke
it
goth
with
the
ryght
well
/
if
swymmynge
on
a
small
bourde
/
the
storme
cast
the
on
lande
in
some
vnknowen
place
.
What
thynkeste
thou
by
the
vnsacyable
deuowrynge
Carybdes
?
the
whiche
/
as
good
authours
reherse
/
whan
a
shyppe
swyftely
saylynge
cometh
within
the
daunger
therof
/
is
wont
to
resyst
/
and
oftentymes
to
whyrle
it
about
/
and
swalowe
in
the
same
shyppe
.
Is
this
an
vnlykely
fygure
and
comparyson
vnto
couetousnes
?
the
whiche
tourneth
a
mans
mynde
to
vnsaciable
desyre
/
and
wyll
nat
suffre
hym
in
quyete
/
vntyl
it
hath
drowned
hym
in
helle
.
And
by
the
furious
Syrtes
thou
mayste
vnderstande
the
insuperable
mocion
of
angre
/
and
the
more
the
same
offence
is
/
the
more
copyous
or
abundaunt
the
matter
therof
is
.
Do
nat
the
wyndes
playnely
expresse
as
well
the
pestilent
wordes
of
flaterers
as
of
detractours
and
bacbyters
?
and
though
it
forceth
nat
from
whens
these
wyndes
blowe
/
yet
they
are
euer
to
be
feared
.
For
if
thou
be
dryuen
amonge
the
craggy
rough
rockes
/
whether
it
be
by
wyndes
of
prosperite
or
aduersite
/
yet
neuer
the
lesse
thou
shalte
be
dryuen
vpon
Syrtes
.
And
what
supposest
thou
by
the
terrible
alterations
and
surgynges
of
the
wawes
/
some
tyme
rysynge
vp
as
hyghe
as
the
sterres
/
and
an
one
fallynge
downe
in
to
them selfe
agayne
.
Howe
conueniently
do
they
sygnify
the
mutabilite
and
varyablenesse
of
fortune
?
Wherwith
a
broken
mynde
is
for
the
more
part
brought
out
of
pacience
/
for
he
that
was
nowe
ryche
and
in
hygh
prosperite
/
can
nat
beare
pacyently
sodeyne
calamyte
.
I
ouer
passe
here
the
tempestes
and
stormes
/
I
speake
nat
of
the
nyghtes
errours
/
nor
of
the
desceyuable
planettes
:
Nor
I
reherse
nat
the
manifolde
/
and
diuers
kyndes
of
monsters
/
the
whiche
are
bredde
and
noryshed
in
the
see
/
these
thou
shalte
by
thyne
owne
wysedome
call
vnto
thy
mynde
/
and
more
better
interpretate
what
they
meane
.
Nor
thou
shuldest
nat
truste
the
see
whan
hit
semeth
smothe
and
caulme
/
nor
whan
the
clere
glassy
stormes
be
swaged
and
layde
/
nor
whan
the
ayre
is
fayre
and
clere
:
for
all
this
is
done
to
th
ende
that
the
sodain
tempest
might
fynde
the
vnprouyded
and
a
slepe
.
And
therfore
I
doubte
greatly
/
whether
there
be
any
thynge
more
contrary
/
more
hurtfull
/
or
more
foe
vnto
vertue
than
prosperite
.
For
as
scrypture
dothe
witnes
.
Calamite
&
misfortune
breaketh
many
a
one
:
but
good
fortune
and
prosperite
dissolueth
or
mollyfyeth
many
mo
.
Therfore
be
thou
wyse
and
wel
ware
/
and
trust
nat
the
smiling
worlde
:
lest
whan
thy
shyp
is
ron
to
wracke
and
broken
(
whiche
god
forbyd
)
I
shuld
be
fayne
to
lament
the
with
these
verses
of
the
poet
.
O
Palynure
,
O
gouernour
and
chefe
guyde
Of
Aeneas
shippe
,
wherin
that
prince
dyd
sayle
For
all
thy
great
cunnyng
,
thou
coudest
nat
preuyde
The
daunger
of
the
see
,
that
the
dyd
assayle
The
castynge
of
thy
compas
dyd
lytell
preuayle
Trustynge
to
moche
caulme
wedder
and
fayre
skyes
Vpon
the
see
sande
,
deed
naked
whan
thou
lyes
.
Of
the
dangerous
dwellynge
in
the
worlde
.
The
.ii.
Chap.
SEest
thou
nat
most
gentyl
Ioyce
what
great
perils
enuiron
&
compas
the
about
on
euery
syde
?
To
whom
the
very
tranquillyte
or
quyete
hit
selfe
is
dangerous
?
What
trowest
thou
so
to
ouer
come
&
withstande
these
peryls
/
that
thou
shalte
on
no
parte
take
hurte
or
haue
mishap
/
namely
in
thy
youthe
/
whiche
of
his
owne
brayde
without
any
other
entycement
dothe
enclyne
to
synne
and
yll
disposition
?
But
thou
wylte
saye
thus
.
I
hope
to
do
well
.
Thou
mayste
hope
&
trust
well
/
and
I
also
hope
well
:
but
I
feare
me
leest
we
bothe
shall
hope
in
vayne
.
Therfore
I
wolde
thou
shuldeste
make
this
our
hope
to
be
some
what
more
surer
.
But
I
lyghly
coniecte
/
what
thou
wylte
thinke
and
mutter
/
whan
thou
redest
these
my
wordes
.
Be
these
thynges
in
so
great
sauetye
.
Shall
relygious
men
onely
be
saued
and
all
other
perishe
?
No
forsoth
.
For
I
deny
nat
/
but
there
haue
ben
manye
lyuynge
in
this
worlde
that
be
saued
.
Nor
they
that
entre
in
to
a
monasterye
of
relygion
/
do
nat
forth
with
settyll
them selfe
so
/
that
they
maye
safely
lyue
cleane
without
care
.
But
yet
natwithstandynge
/
there
is
as
great
dyfference
betwene
these
two
maner
of
lyuynges
/
as
is
betwene
hym
that
lieth
at
rode
in
the
hauen
/
though
he
hath
nat
yet
bowed
his
ankers
:
and
hym
that
yet
saylethe
alofte
in
the
mayne
see
.
Or
elles
betwene
hym
that
swymmethe
in
the
water
/
and
hym
that
iourneth
by
lande
.
He
perisheth
nat
that
remaineth
in
the
worlde
/
but
he
is
more
nere
vnto
perill
.
Therfore
good
Ioyce
/
seynge
that
I
wolde
the
so
moche
good
/
ye
and
perauenture
desyre
more
thy
welfare
than
thou
dost
thy selfe
/
loke
that
thou
eschewe
all
peryls
/
and
put
thy selfe
in
sauegarde
.
For
the
wyse
man
sayth
:
He
that
loueth
perill
shall
peryshe
therin
.
I
pray
the
/
what
nede
hast
thou
to
be
tossed
with
the
ragynge
wawes
of
water
/
whan
thy
way
lieth
more
sure
and
commodiously
by
lande
?
who
(
but
he
that
is
starke
blynde
/
seeth
nat
/
that
it
is
farre
more
surer
/
more
plesaunte
/
and
more
commodious
to
iourney
through
the
plesaunte
grene
medowes
without
drede
/
than
amonge
so
many
images
of
deth
to
be
turned
&
went
with
perpetuall
vexation
&
trouble
?
Is
nat
this
a
great
blyndenes
/
that
we
delyte
in
our
aduersyte
/
and
as
Uyrgyll
saythe
/
to
take
pleasure
to
gyue
our selfe
to
foolyshe
and
madde
labour
?
¶
what
sporte
,
what
pleasure
,
or
what
solatious
rest
Is
in
these
worldly
wawes
,
to
be
tossed
and
cast
wherfore
approche
the
hydder
,
&
thou
shalt
fynde
it
best
For
here
is
the
fresshe
tyme
of
Vere
that
dothe
last
Here
be
christallyne
ryuers
enuyron
compast
The
soyle
&
grounde
,
enbroudred
with
swete
floures
Here
groweth
the
pople
tre
,
to
shadowe
vs
from
spoures
within
these
dennes
delectable
,
of
fresshe
pyplyng
colde
Vnder
these
vynes
here
,
enclustred
with
grapes
There
be
souerayne
shadowes
,
from
stormes
vs
to
witholde
Drawe
hydder
,
&
renofice
these
worldly
tryflyng
iapes
And
set
the
wylde
wawes
worlre
,
that
betes
&
grates
Vpon
the
rough
rockes
,
of
worldly
pompe
and
pride
Here
be
fresshe
fountayns
,
that
spring
on
euery
syde
Here
be
the
swete
medowes
,
with
grasse
enuerdred
grene
Orchyardes
and
greaues
,
with
trees
of
dyuers
frute
with
herbers
to
rest
in
,
and
alleys
kept
clene
Lyke
to
Paradyse
of
pleasure
to
take
our
refute
Of
solace
incomparable
,
this
place
I
repute
Here
myght
I
fynde
in
myne
hert
with
the
to
endure
From
all
worldly
daunger
,
for
here
are
we
sure
.
IT
hath
plesed
me
with
this
Uirgils
ditee
to
allure
the
away
from
worldly
troubles
to
our
delectable
lyfe
.
But
I
wotte
nat
with
what
iougglynges
the
lewde
smilyng
shewe
of
this
worlde
hathe
bewytched
the
eyes
of
thy
minde
/
&
stayeth
and
stycketh
fast
to
thy
mynde
as
thoughe
it
were
glewed
.
And
forth
with
the
same
fayre
painted
face
of
worlde
thinges
cometh
to
thy
remembrance
/
and
with
smylynge
calleth
the
backe
againe
/
whan
thou
art
about
to
leaue
them
sayenge
?
what
wylte
thou
do
madde
man
?
Goest
thou
about
to
distroy
both
thy self
&
thyn
?
O
cruell
person
/
wylt
thou
forsake
vs
after
this
maner
?
Wylte
thou
dispise
thy
louynge
felowes
and
frendis
?
Hast
thou
no
pite
on
thy
father
and
mother
?
In
what
case
thynkest
thou
that
she
shal
be
/
the
whiche
hartely
loueth
the
/
and
that
for
thy
loue
distroyeth
her self
/
and
that
desireth
the
to
her
spouse
and
husbande
?
Aduise
the
well
what
thou
wylte
do
?
For
this
thy
cendre
youth
and
beautie
are
more
conuenient
for
other
thynges
.
And
thou
arte
to
softe
and
delycate
of
Nature
to
take
on
the
and
perfourme
an
harde
religion
.
Ah
wylt
thou
suffre
the
flower
of
thy
youth
so
vnworthely
to
fade
away
?
Wilte
thou
solitary
alone
styll
waylynge
spende
awaye
thy
lustye
youth
?
Thou
shuldest
leaue
that
to
them
that
be
aged
/
vnto
whom
nowe
the
lyfe
is
no
longer
swete
.
Thou
arte
a
yonge
man
/
what
thynge
els
shuldest
thou
do
but
sporte
and
play
?
At
leest
wyse
considre
/
what
abundance
of
rychesse
thou
haste
all
redye
/
and
moche
more
is
comynge
/
if
thou
wylte
tary
and
abyde
it
.
Thou
arte
nowe
right
honorable
/
and
yet
thou
shalt
be
higher
in
honour
if
thou
slynke
nat
away
from
vs
.
These
be
the
thynges
that
all
men
seke
fore
:
and
thou
alone
forsakest
them
:
whan
they
be
al
redy
sought
out
and
gotte
to
thy
hande
.
But
wylte
thou
go
thy
way
and
neuer
returne
agayne
to
take
fruition
of
these
ioyes
/
rychesse
/
commodites
/
and
profites
?
Yet
at
the
lest
I
pray
the
tary
a
while
/
take
a
breth
in
the
matter
:
for
hastynes
is
cause
of
moche
hurte
and
inconuenience
.
Haste
thou
harde
these
exhortations
?
Hast
thou
harde
them
?
These
be
the
very
voyces
of
the
Syrens
:
but
as
thou
louest
thy
helthe
/
loke
that
thou
lysten
nor
gyue
none
heryng
to
them
.
Shewe
thy selfe
to
be
Ulyxes
:
They
wyll
bewytche
thy
mynde
if
thou
harken
to
them
:
They
be
suche
faire
flaterers
/
that
they
wyl
moue
and
perswade
stony
hartes
:
But
thou
oughtest
to
remembre
/
that
they
be
deed
voices
and
leade
one
to
euerlasting
damnation
.
But
hyder
to
religion
thou
shuldest
harken
/
hyther
thou
shuldest
loke
/
hither
thou
shuldest
enclyne
thy
mynde
:
endeuoyre
thy selfe
with
all
thy
myght
/
imploy
heron
sharpely
thy
wytte
/
desceyue
nat
thy selfe
/
loke
to
the
bottum
of
the
matter
/
and
thou
shalte
se
/
if
thou
be
nat
blynde
/
howe
stynkyng
/
howe
frustrate
or
voyde
/
ye
and
howe
vnworthy
for
the
these
thynges
be
/
that
wyll
nat
suffre
the
to
leaue
them
?
The
dispysynge
of
ryches
The
.iij.
Chaptre
.
WHat
thynge
of
so
greatte
a
valure
dothe
this
worlde
promyse
to
the
/
that
for
the
loue
therof
thou
wylte
put
thy
soule
helth
in
aduenture
/
and
absent
thy selfe
from
our
delectations
?
What
I
say
dothe
hit
promise
the
?
Is
it
abundance
of
riches
?
For
that
is
it
that
mortall
folkes
mooste
specially
desyre
:
But
for
a
truthe
there
is
nothynge
more
miserable
/
more
vayne
or
disceyuable
/
more
noyous
or
hurtefull
than
worldly
goodes
.
The
wordly
goodes
are
the
very
maysters
and
ministers
of
all
misgouernaunce
and
mischiefe
.
Nor
holy
scripture
doth
nat
with
out
a
cause
call
couetousnes
the
rote
of
all
yuell
.
For
therof
spryngethe
an
vngratious
affection
vnto
goodes
/
therof
iniuries
or
wronges
haue
theyr
begynnynge
:
therof
groweth
cedition
or
parte
takynge
:
therof
comethe
stealynge
/
pyllynge
/
sacrylege
/
extorcyon
/
and
robbynge
.
Rychesse
engendre
and
brynge
forthe
inceste
and
aduoutry
/
Rychesse
nourysheth
and
fostreth
vp
rauyshementes
/
madde
loues
/
and
superfluite
.
And
finally
what
is
it
/
that
the
cursed
hunger
&
desire
of
golde
doth
nat
constraine
mortal
folkes
to
do
?
Therfore
thou
mayste
perceiue
that
Horace
was
wyse
/
whiche
callynge
rychesse
the
matter
and
rote
of
all
yuelles
/
commanded
to
cast
them
in
to
the
see
:
and
sayde
:
If
it
be
a
wycked
dede
/
it
repenteth
me
well
.
For
there
is
so
great
familyar
societe
and
frendshyppe
of
thynges
/
that
in
the
very
names
of
vyce
and
rychesse
/
Vitia
et
diuitie
/
semeth
to
be
a
certayne
alyaunce
and
kynrede
.
What
riche
man
canst
thou
reken
vnto
me
/
that
is
nat
infected
with
one
of
these
two
vyces
/
either
with
couetousnes
(
than
whiche
nothyng
is
more
to
be
abhorred
)
if
nature
to
the
same
be
ouer
moche
enclyned
:
or
elles
with
prodygalyte
and
wast
/
than
whiche
nothynge
is
more
abhominable
/
if
he
that
is
inclined
thervnto
be
of
benigne
and
gentyll
nature
?
The
couetous
man
is
seruaunt
and
nat
mayster
vnto
ryches
:
and
the
waster
wyll
nat
longe
be
mayster
therof
.
The
one
is
possessed
/
and
dothe
nat
possesse
:
and
the
other
within
a
shorte
whyle
leaueth
the
possession
of
riches
.
Me
semeth
that
the
man
called
Eutrapelus
/
vnderstode
those
thynges
verye
goodly
/
the
whiche
as
I
haue
lerned
/
was
wonte
to
reuenge
hym
on
his
ennemye
after
this
maner
and
forme
:
nat
with
iniurious
wordes
/
nor
with
poyson
/
nor
with
the
sworde
:
but
he
wolde
enryche
his
foe
with
precyous
garmentes
:
for
he
supposed
hit
/
the
whiche
is
of
trouthe
/
that
shulde
prouoke
hym
to
desire
it
/
and
the
hungry
desyre
of
ryches
shulde
cause
hym
to
forget
vertue
/
and
dryue
hym
to
all
fylthynes
and
disworshyp
.
But
admit
that
none
of
all
these
thynges
shall
chaunce
vnto
the
/
and
that
thou
shuldest
haue
suche
happe
as
no
man
coude
haue
:
Yet
I
pray
the
what
goodlines
haue
these
precious
weyghtes
:
the
whiche
be
gethered
and
gotte
by
great
grefe
/
and
kepte
with
ouer
great
thoughte
and
care
:
In
heapynge
them
to gether
is
labour
intollerable
/
and
in
kepynge
them
is
ouer
moche
care
and
drede
:
and
the
forgoyng
or
losse
of
them
is
a
miserable
vexation
and
turment
.
Therfore
a
riche
man
hath
no
sportynge
tyme
:
for
either
without
reste
or
slepe
he
watchethe
his
goodes
that
he
hathe
gotte
/
or
elles
he
gapethe
to
gette
more
/
or
elles
he
soroweth
for
his
losses
:
And
as
ofte
as
he
dothe
nothynge
gayne
/
so
ofte
he
weneth
that
he
dothe
lose
and
hathe
damage
.
And
what
if
he
haue
&
possesse
mountayns
of
golde
?
Or
what
and
his
riches
be
greatter
than
mountaynes
of
golde
?
Than
so
moche
the
more
he
augmenteth
his
fardel
and
burden
/
and
heapeth
vp
his
cares
:
and
throweth
or
tomblethe
feare
vpon
feare
/
and
grefe
vpon
grefe
/
and
prouideth
for
hym selfe
a
charge
or
a
busynes
of
a
keper
ful
of
all
myserye
and
labour
.
Care
doth
folowe
the
encreasynge
of
money
.
And
the
desyre
of
the
money
growethe
as
the
money
dothe
encrease
.
And
the
poorer
that
a
man
is
/
the
lesse
he
coueteth
money
.
And
fynally
the
very
custody
of
greatte
goodes
or
substance
/
is
a
miserable
or
a
wretched
thynge
.
The
man
called
Uulteius
(
of
whome
Horace
speakethe
)
sayde
/
that
his
aduocate
or
attourney
had
done
yll
for
hym
/
whan
by
his
wyt
and
diligence
/
he
caused
hym
from
pouerte
to
come
to
great
ryches
:
and
he
thoughte
hym selfe
to
be
made
a
wretche
and
nat
a
ryche
man
:
and
he
prayed
his
attourney
that
he
myghte
be
restored
to
his
former
lyfe
or
state
/
the
whiche
was
pouerte
.
Trewely
he
is
to
be
preysed
/
that
waxeth
wyse
er
hit
be
to
late
.
But
the
couetous
man
saythe
:
Thoughe
the
care
of
these
ryches
be
greuous
and
peynfull
/
money
is
swete
:
My
labour
and
peyne
dothe
nat
wery
nor
greue
me
/
so
that
my
ryches
do
encreace
.
But
tell
me
whether
shall
I
call
the
,
the
moost
foole
or
the
moost
wretche
of
al
men
?
To
whom
nothyng
can
suffise
/
whiche
bothe
nyghte
and
daye
syttest
watchynge
on
thy
ryches
/
eyther
hydde
and
locked
vp
in
thy
yron
chestes
/
or
elles
(
to
the
ende
thou
woldest
seme
to
be
more
wyse
)
doluen
in
the
erthe
:
lyke
as
the
serpent
Hesperius
watcheth
the
golden
appulles
.
For
what
purpose
thynkest
thou
these
rychesse
and
money
shulde
be
profytable
?
Or
what
preciousnes
is
in
them
?
For
of
trouth
they
be
nothynge
elles
but
very
pure
brasse
striken
in
images
and
scryptures
:
the
whiche
can
neyther
expell
or
put
away
the
cares
and
grefes
that
gnawe
the
about
the
stomake
/
nor
they
can
nat
auoyde
or
rydde
the
of
syckenes
or
any
incommodyte
of
thy
bodye
/
and
moche
lesse
of
dethe
.
But
thou
wylte
saye
/
that
rychesse
be
good
to
withstande
nede
and
pouerte
.
I
promesse
the
thou
arte
disceiued
/
they
wyl
rather
cause
the
to
be
euer
nedy
.
For
like
as
drinke
doth
nat
quenche
his
thyrste
that
hath
the
dropsye
/
but
maketh
hym
more
thyrstye
:
so
lyke
wyse
with
the
abundaunce
of
goddes
or
rychesse
/
thy
desyre
to
haue
more
dothe
encreace
:
And
who
so
euer
seketh
after
more
/
sheweth
hym selfe
to
be
nedye
.
Nowe
adde
vnto
the
trust
that
thou
hast
in
thy
goodes
/
the
instabilite
or
vnassurednes
of
them
,
the
whiche
thou
by
so
longe
space
of
tyme
/
with
so
great
molestiousnes
and
labour
/
by
right
and
wronge
/
hast
gethered
to gether
al
about
:
if
that
fortune
(
as
men
say
)
tourne
her
whele
/
by
and
by
they
forsake
and
leaue
the
and
go
to
some
other
.
And
than
thou
that
wast
euen
nowe
richer
than
Cresus
that
moost
riche
kynge
/
shalt
sodaynly
come
more
powrer
than
the
begger
Irus
.
This
thyng
is
so
clere
and
manifest
/
that
we
nede
nat
to
spend
many
wordes
therin
.
Howe
many
mayste
thou
se
before
thyn
eien
that
fal
from
a
kinges
riches
to
extreme
pouerte
and
nedynes
?
But
admytte
that
goodes
or
rychesse
be
sure
and
stable
/
and
that
they
wyll
neuer
leaue
the
so
longe
as
thou
liuest
,
canst
thou
cary
them
hence
away
with
the
?
Yea
whan
thou
goest
to
thy
graue
/
of
all
thy
abundance
and
ryches
/
thou
shalte
scarsly
haue
a
cours
wyndynge
shete
:
other
men
shall
possesse
all
the
residue
.
And
if
thou
with
thy
abundante
riches
hast
done
any
good
vertuous
dedes
/
they
shall
greatly
auayle
and
be
moche
worthe
vnto
the
/
nor
they
wyll
neuer
leaue
the.
Therfore
my
swete
Ioyce
thou
shuldest
nat
esteme
so
hyghly
thy
possessions
/
and
al
the
golde
that
Tagus
and
Pactolus
those
riuers
reuerse
and
turn
in
their
redde
sandes
/
that
thou
shuldest
hurte
or
hindre
thyne
owne
helthe
:
But
thou
shuldest
rather
/
if
hit
delytethe
the
so
greately
to
be
ryche
/
harken
what
counsayle
our
lorde
gyuethe
the
:
Make
thou
thy
treasure
in
heuen
/
where
neyther
canker
nor
mought
can
dystroy
hit
:
and
where
theues
can
nat
finde
nor
steale
hit
.
Nor
thynke
nat
that
there
is
any
plenty
morenedy
/
than
to
haue
abundance
of
money
and
wante
vertues
.
Nor
nothynge
is
more
vnwelthy
than
that
luker
or
wynnynge
that
hurteth
thy
soule
:
Therfore
vnto
the
/
that
arte
both
erudite
and
a
christen
man
/
it
is
a
foule
and
a
shamefull
thynge
with
great
perill
of
thy
soule
helthe
/
to
enclyne
to
that
/
the
whiche
the
pagane
phylosophers
eyther
for
the
loue
of
good
lernynge
/
or
for
theyr
good
name
&
fame
/
dyd
set
at
naught
and
lyghtly
despice
.
That
the
pleasures
of
the
fleshe
be
bothe
mortal
and
bytter
.
The
.iiij.
Chapter
.
DO
the
swete
lustes
or
enticementes
of
the
fleshe
witholde
or
reteyne
the
?
Surely
they
be
ladyes
that
most
swetely
smyle
on
the
/
and
that
with
theyr
fucate
or
feined
fairnes
disceiue
al
moost
the
holle
worlde
.
But
take
or
rubbe
away
the
paintynge
and
colours
:
and
beware
that
the
craftyly
paynted
fayre
skynne
ouercome
the
nat
.
Beholde
and
loke
well
what
these
lewde
lustes
be
in
dede
,
and
nat
what
they
seme
to
be
.
Than
shalt
thou
perceiue
that
there
is
nothynge
more
yll
fauoured
/
nothynge
more
fouller
,
nor
more
beastlike
.
For
there
is
nothyng
that
maketh
a
man
more
lyke
vnto
a
brute
beest
/
than
the
moost
fylthy
luste
of
the
fles
she
dothe
:
whiche
thynge
the
more
it
smylethe
or
fawneth
on
one
,
the
more
it
noyeth
and
hurteth
.
Lyke
as
the
noble
phylospher
Plato
moost
aptly
calleth
it
the
bayte
of
al
yuels
.
For
as
the
bayte
that
is
put
vpon
the
hoke
prouokethe
or
drawethe
the
small
fysshe
thervnto
/
and
taketh
them
that
receyue
it
:
euen
so
lyke
wyse
the
poyson
of
carnall
luste
,
couered
with
a
lytel
quantite
of
hony
/
doth
prouoke
or
allure
soules
that
be
desyrous
of
a
pray
:
&
whan
they
be
entyced
she
enfecteth
them
:
and
whan
they
be
corrupted
/
she
dystroyethe
them
without
mercy
.
And
brefely
to
speake
take
hede
what
the
philosopher
saythe
/
surely
it
is
a
paynyms
sayenge
/
but
it
is
worthy
and
may
wel
be
sayde
of
a
christen
man
:
the
whiche
sentence
the
elder
Cato
sayth
in
Ciceros
boke
de
Senectute
/
that
he
lerned
at
Tarent
of
Pythagoras
scholer
called
Acchita
/
he
saythe
:
There
is
no
greatter
nor
more
deedly
pestilence
gyuen
of
Nature
vnto
mankynde
than
voluptuousnes
/
of
the
whiche
volupte
the
feruente
lustes
are
pronely
and
vnbrydeldlye
kendled
to
fullfyll
the
desyre
therof
.
Of
this
roote
spryngeth
treason
&
betrayeng
of
countreys
:
of
this
riseth
turnyng
vp
set
downe
of
the
common
welth
:
the
same
thynge
causeth
pryuey
communications
with
our
ennemyes
.
And
fynallye
there
is
no
myschiefe
/
nor
none
so
vengeable
a
dede
/
but
that
the
lewde
lust
of
volupte
dothe
constrayne
one
to
enterpryse
or
go
in
hande
therwith
.
Adde
also
these
commodites
folowyng
to
them
afore
saide
:
Of
voluptuousnes
cometh
indigence
or
nedines
/
infamy
or
yl
name
/
greuous
&
filthy
diseases
of
the
body
/
blyndenes
of
the
mynde
/
despisynge
of
diuine
power
/
and
it
is
the
very
fountayne
and
begynnynge
of
all
myserye
:
ye
and
fynally
hit
is
the
very
cheyne
/
wherwith
mankynde
is
drawen
to
euerlastyng
peynes
.
O
sower
swetenes
,
the
whiche
is
enuyronned
or
set
about
with
so
manifolde
miseryes
:
many
go
before
it
/
and
very
many
go
with
hit
/
and
many
many
,
yea
moost
sharpe
greuous
miseries
come
or
folowe
after
it
.
I
sayde
a
lytel
before
that
mankynde
in
volupte
was
lyke
vnto
brute
beastis
:
but
I
say
nowe
that
in
this
thing
we
behaue
our selfe
worse
than
beestis
.
For
beastes
take
fruicyon
of
theyr
pleasures
(
suche
as
they
be
)
franke
and
frely
without
any
expence
/
but
o
good
lorde
howe
costly
to
mankynde
is
that
shorte
and
foule
smacke
of
the
delycate
throte
and
bealy
.
Thou
seest
what
thynge
it
is
,
the
whiche
amonge
bodyly
pleasures
is
moost
excellente
/
if
any
kynde
of
volupte
maye
be
called
excellente
.
Wherto
shuld
I
now
reherse
vnto
the
/
the
other
triflyng
iapes
or
rather
madnesses
of
the
worlde
?
Some
call
them
yll
ioyes
:
but
me
thynke
I
shuld
nat
misname
them
/
if
I
cal
them
mad
gaudes
.
Wherto
shulde
I
reherse
the
deynty
dyshes
/
the
ingurgynges
/
the
drinkynge
and
quaftyng
one
to
an
other
/
the
nyghtly
dronkennes
/
the
bankettes
/
the
daunces
/
the
gambaudes
/
the
dissolute
plaies
/
the
knauishe
and
rebaude
iestingis
/
and
of
the
same
sorte
a
thousande
thynges
mo
?
Do
nat
these
thynges
seme
to
the
lyke
the
laughynges
of
a
frantycke
man
?
For
who
wolde
nat
iuge
that
man
to
be
cleane
besyde
hym selfe
and
madde
/
the
whiche
whan
he
is
ledde
to
be
hanged
or
heeded
/
trembleth
nothynge
for
drede
of
the
instant
execution
/
but
amonge
all
the
other
that
sorowe
and
bewayle
his
mysfortune
/
he
is
ioyfulle
and
gladde
/
ye
and
gothe
towarde
the
place
where
he
shall
ende
his
lyfe
dansynge
and
meryly
scoffyng
and
iestynge
?
But
those
Ioyce
of
whom
I
spake
now
before
/
I
iuge
to
be
more
madder
than
this
felowe
/
in
as
moche
as
the
dethe
of
the
soule
is
more
greuous
/
and
more
cruell
than
of
the
body
.
They
passe
forthe
theyr
lyfe
dayes
in
gaudes
and
sportes
/
and
sodaynly
they
go
to
helle
.
Go
thou
nowe
/
forsake
and
fall
from
thy
maker
to
the
ende
that
thy
beestly
and
mortall
flesshe
may
an
houre
or
two
folowe
the
luste
therof
and
lyue
damnably
/
and
to
the
ende
that
thy
fleshe
may
haue
and
enioy
vnstedfaste
ioyes
/
slee
and
mourther
thy
soule
and
prepare
for
thy selfe
euerlastynge
paynes
and
waylynges
.
But
parauenture
thou
louest
the
veneriall
acte
that
is
lawefull
/
and
dost
surely
purpose
to
be
maried
.
For
a
trouth
I
do
nat
condemne
wedlocke
/
for
I
mynde
hym
that
sayth
/
It
is
better
to
marye
than
to
commytte
fornication
/
but
I
wolde
this
shulde
be
as
it
were
a
place
of
refuge
for
vnconstante
folkes
that
can
nat
lyue
chaste
.
I
haue
no
spyte
at
them
that
fledde
the
greatte
towne
of
Segor
and
also
the
lyttell
/
to
eschewe
the
fyer
of
Sodomites
.
I
knowe
and
perceyue
wel
the
strength
of
thy
mynde
.
I
alowe
wedloke
,
but
that
is
in
them
that
can
nat
lyue
well
/
except
they
be
maryed
.
But
loke
thou
&
consydre
well
what
saint
Hieronyme
hath
written
of
these
maters
:
truely
he
hath
written
very
moche
therof
.
But
this
one
thyng
I
wyll
say
vnto
the
/
for
the
great
familiarite
that
hath
alway
ben
betwene
vs
.
I
admonysshe
/
ye
and
hartely
praye
the
to
take
hede
&
beware
how
thou
puttest
thy
necke
in
this
haulter
:
in
to
the
whiche
if
thou
be
ones
entred
/
thou
canst
nat
lightly
gete
out
agayne
.
I
do
nat
saye
that
wedloke
is
naught
/
but
for
a
trouthe
it
is
full
of
moche
misery
.
And
as
sengle
lyfe
is
moche
better
/
so
many
and
dyuers
wayes
it
is
more
vnwelthy
or
vnlucky
.
That
the
honours
of
this
Worlde
be
vayne
or
foolyshe
and
vnstable
.
The
.v.
Chapter
.
BUt
parauenture
the
honorable
prescriptions
or
titils
of
noblenes
/
&
the
splendent
glory
of
renowne
delyten
thy
mynde
.
Why
shulde
hit
nat
?
For
as
he
saythe
/
hit
is
a
goodly
thynge
to
be
honorablye
renowmed
farre
and
wyde
/
and
to
reioyce
and
be
gladde
that
a
thousande
eies
beholde
the
whan
thou
speakeste
.
It
is
a
pleasaunte
thynge
to
the
to
be
honorably
soughte
vpon
and
to
haue
many
clyentes
or
sutours
to
folowe
after
and
go
about
the
,
and
to
be
spoken
of
/
of
euery
man
/
and
to
be
saluted
and
greted
as
a
great
lorde
or
a
maister
.
But
I
pray
the
tell
me
,
what
thynge
dost
thou
suppose
that
these
honours
be
/
the
whiche
vnto
the
beynge
a
mortall
creature
mortall
folkes
gyue
/
some
for
flatterye
/
some
for
feare
/
and
some
in
hope
to
wynne
therby
?
The
whiche
worldly
honors
be
as
clene
false
as
they
be
caduke
and
vanishyng
.
Be
they
nat
false
or
vntrusty
thynkest
thou
/
the
whiche
indifferently
chaunce
as
well
vnto
hym
that
is
moost
worst
as
vnto
hym
that
is
most
best
?
Iuge
and
deme
thou
those
onely
to
be
good
and
very
honours
,
the
whiche
flowe
or
growe
out
of
honesty
and
vertue
.
Loke
that
thou
enbrace
and
sticke
vnto
vertue
/
and
thou
shalte
be
honorable
whether
thou
wylte
or
no.
For
as
the
shadowe
foloweth
styll
after
the
body
/
and
wyll
nat
leaue
hit
thoughe
he
flye
/
nor
can
nat
be
taken
of
one
that
recheth
for
it
:
so
these
actes
and
dedes
that
be
done
rightfully
/
shall
without
any
sekynge
of
the
/
bringe
the
to
honors
/
the
whiche
thou
beinge
worthy
to
haue
canst
nat
auoide
:
&
thou
beinge
vnworthy
canst
nat
opteine
them
.
Is
there
any
thynge
more
slyppry
or
caduke
than
worldly
honors
?
Truely
me
thinke
that
all
worldly
thynges
vanishe
away
lyghtly
and
tary
but
a
while
.
For
what
thyng
canst
thou
name
here
that
is
continually
durable
.
And
agayne
nothynge
is
more
vncertaine
&
flitting
than
great
&
high
dignites
:
and
seyng
that
nothyng
is
got
&
opteyned
with
more
grefe
than
dignites
/
for
one
must
a
long
season
tomble
the
stone
with
Sisipho
agaynste
the
craggy
mountayne
/
&
boldly
do
some
thynge
that
is
worthy
of
banyshynge
/
prysonement
/
orels
hangyng
/
that
at
the
last
he
may
be
some
what
worhy
/
&
some
what
exalted
:
Therfore
I
say
as
nothyng
is
got
more
greuously
/
so
nothynge
is
soner
lost
.
Thou
askest
me
why
so
.
Mary
bycause
that
of
necessite
greatte
hatred
or
spyre
foloweth
hyghe
dignitee
/
pryuey
enuy
clymbeth
vp
to
the
hyghest
in
degree
:
and
the
wyndes
ouerblowe
the
hygh
toppes
of
trees
and
towres
.
For
enuy
is
wonte
alway
to
accompany
the
noble
and
hygh
enterprises
.
Thou
wylte
say
what
than
?
Mary
he
that
hath
gotten
the
hatred
of
many
men
/
must
nedes
of
uery
consequence
haue
many
ennemies
/
and
be
ofte
in
danger
of
his
lyfe
.
Why
so
?
Mary
for
whan
many
go
aboute
to
haue
that
thynge
/
the
whiche
thou
alone
doste
possesse
and
holde
/
and
all
the
whyle
thou
doste
prospere
/
there
is
no
hope
to
opteyne
it
/
hit
must
nedes
be
/
that
by
some
meane
they
wyll
rydde
the
out
of
the
way
.
Hit
were
a
thynge
of
great
difficulte
/
if
that
he
/
for
whom
so
many
snares
be
layde
/
shuld
nat
at
the
laste
fall
in
to
one
or
other
of
them
.
Therfore
eyther
thou
must
dye
of
poyson
/
orels
on
a
dagger
/
or
elles
(
whiche
for
the
shulde
be
best
of
all
)
thou
must
saue
thy selfe
by
exile
.
Or
elles
to
the
ende
that
thou
mightest
be
most
fortunate
,
thou
wylte
lyue
in
perpetuall
anxiete
and
feare
/
that
thou
be
nat
suppressed
&
caste
downe
.
No
doute
thou
shalte
leade
an
noble
lyfe
/
but
hit
shall
be
very
bytter
and
sower
.
Therfore
thynke
nat
the
contrary
/
but
that
Iuuenal
spake
nat
this
ditee
that
foloweth
without
great
skele
.
FOr
truely
the
trouthe
groundly
to
expresse
who
coueteth
excessyue
honors
to
attayne
And
gadreth
to gedder
excedyngly
rychesse
Buyldynge
vp
to
wres
vpon
to
wres
agayne
Suche
climmyng
vp
vnwarely
,
may
for
a
tyme
remaine
Yet
the
hygher
thou
clymmest
the
sorer
is
thy
fall
So
saythe
the
satyryan
mayster
Iuuenall
.
But
to
what
entente
do
I
with
so
many
wordes
reherse
those
thynges
?
Trewely
to
the
ende
that
thou
my
Ioyce
shuldest
vnderstande
plainlye
/
howe
full
of
feare
and
drede
/
how
full
of
vexation
and
trouble
/
and
howe
caduke
and
britle
those
thynges
be
/
the
whiche
this
worlde
/
all
the
whyle
thou
arte
in
prosperyte
/
sheweth
to
be
of
great
and
hyghe
exellence
.
What
aueyleth
all
this
/
whan
most
bytter
dethe
feirsly
assayleth
&
enuadeth
vs
?
Whan
sodainly
all
the
same
ymages
of
nobylite
/
the
whiche
after
the
maner
of
dreames
vanysshe
awaye
:
whiche
dreames
togeder
with
the
slepe
are
gone
and
tary
no
longer
.
Where
ben
nowe
the
olde
tyrauntes
become
?
Where
is
the
great
Alexandre
/
whose
couetous
mynde
/
all
the
brode
worlde
coude
nat
somtyme
suffyce
?
Where
is
the
Persyan
kynge
Xerxes
/
with
and
of
whose
houge
Nauy
of
shyppes
/
all
the
see
was
couered
and
redounded
?
Where
is
become
Hanyball
that
was
so
ofte
vyctorious
:
the
whiche
whan
he
lyued
/
brake
the
rough
rockes
and
mountayns
with
vynegre
?
Where
is
nowe
Paulus
Aemilius
?
Where
is
Iulius
Cesar
?
Where
is
Pompeius
?
Where
are
become
all
the
other
most
noble
princes
:
of
the
Grekes
/
of
the
Romayns
/
and
of
other
natyons
/
whose
names
to
reherse
/
shulde
be
bothe
tedyous
and
tyme
loste
?
What
thyng
els
remayneth
of
all
their
maiesty
and
glorious
actes
/
but
onely
the
vayne
and
frustrate
talkyng
of
folkes
?
ye
/
and
for
the
whiche
talkyng
/
they
may
thanke
the
fauoure
of
lerned
men
:
for
if
lerned
men
had
nat
written
their
dedes
/
they
shulde
haue
ben
so
clene
forgotten
/
that
vnneth
any
remembrance
of
them
wolde
haue
remayned
.
And
yet
what
so
euer
it
be
that
remayneth
/
perteyneth
neither
to
them
nor
to
vs
.
For
vndouted
/
if
that
Alexandre
the
most
noblest
of
all
the
kynges
that
we
haue
nowe
rehersed
/
shulde
retourne
from
Hell
and
beholde
the
worlde
/
and
se
how
it
burneth
in
ambitious
desyre
of
worldly
honours
/
I
thynke
verily
he
wolde
laugh
and
deryde
the
vayne
and
folysshe
study
or
feruent
industry
of
the
common
people
/
&
he
hauynge
good
experyence
in
those
matters
/
wolde
saye
these
wordes
or
suche
lyke
/
as
foloweth
:
Whither
doth
the
blynde
errour
of
mortall
creatures
so
violently
drawe
and
leade
them
?
No
man
regardeth
the
perfyte
good
thynges
/
the
whiche
maye
be
to
them
very
profytable
in
tyme
to
come
/
but
thynges
that
be
hurtfull
/
vaine
and
vncertayne
/
euery
man
with
right
great
labour
seketh
&
desyreth
.
Why
do
folke
so
leudly
/
so
vnwisely
/
and
so
obstinatly
enbusy
them selfe
to
be
exalted
?
Euery
man
may
lerne
/
at
the
lest
wyse
by
example
of
me
/
that
all
worldly
dignytees
soone
decay
/
and
be
most
like
vnto
cloudes
,
the
whiche
ofte
tymes
in
an
hour
space
/
are
wont
to
be
very
large
and
brode
/
and
nothyng
at
all
.
I
my selfe
was
somtyme
the
most
puissant
and
mightest
of
all
kynges
and
emperours
/
&
was
neuer
ouercome
/
but
was
the
hygest
in
honour
of
all
men
.
I
subdued
and
conquered
kynges
and
natyons
innumerable
:
and
the
worlde
by
me
was
conquered
:
I
serched
the
sees
:
and
at
the
last
I
attemted
the
element
:
Truely
I
had
ben
fortunate
&
happy
/
if
I
myght
haue
made
dethe
also
afrayde
:
But
dethe
that
ouercometh
all
thynges
/
dyd
ouercome
me
/
yea
/
with
a
lytell
feuer
:
There
was
neuer
bubble
blowen
vpon
the
water
more
sooner
flasshed
nor
smoke
in
the
ayre
more
sodainly
consumed
and
gone
/
than
all
that
great
brute
of
my
famous
dedes
/
vanysshed
and
layde
.
Helas
howe
greatly
/
ye
&
howe
sodaynly
am
I
changed
and
tourned
from
that
great
Alexandre
/
to
whose
commaundementes
all
the
worlde
somtyme
fearfully
obeyed
?
Nowe
I
am
he
that
may
be
bothe
despysed
and
hurt
of
a
poore
page
/
and
can
nat
reuenge
me
.
Somtyme
the
great
worlde
was
lesse
than
my
couetous
mynde
:
but
nowe
I
am
thrust
in
to
a
lytle
vessell
,
and
,
vij
.
foote
space
suffyseth
me
.
Dethe
onely
maketh
a
shewe
and
a
profe
of
what
valure
mennes
bodyes
be
.
Somtyme
I
was
of
great
and
hyghe
estate
and
right
goodly
to
beholde
/
adorned
with
fresshe
purple
apparayle
and
a
bright
shynyng
deademe
:
and
nowe
I
am
most
lothly
to
loke
on
.
Here
I
lye
/
dry
bare
bones
&
asshes
.
What
aueyleth
me
my
noble
blode
and
lynage
?
What
aueyleth
me
my
glistring
golden
tombe
?
What
good
do
all
these
curyous
buyldynges
of
steples
vnto
me
/
that
neyther
can
se
nor
feele
?
But
wolde
to
god
my
soule
myght
haue
dyed
with
my
body
:
and
that
after
this
bodylye
dethe
/
a
more
sharper
and
a
greuousser
dethe
shulde
nat
haue
folowed
.
But
Helas
/
the
immortall
soule
is
nowe
constrayned
to
suffre
payne
for
al
ys
yuel
lyuynge
of
the
bodye
.
O
/
howe
happy
be
they
that
in
theyr
lyfe
tyme
maye
vnderstande
these
thynges
/
the
whiche
we
haue
proued
/
but
we
perceyue
those
thynges
nowe
to
late
?
They
be
wyse
/
they
I
say
be
wyse
/
the
whiche
be
contented
with
theyr
fortune
and
state
/
and
stryue
to
subdue
and
ouercome
them selfe
/
and
rather
to
rule
themselfe
well
than
to
gouerne
other
:
and
rather
to
enbusy
them selfe
to
gette
and
opteyne
the
celestiall
&
perpetuall
kyngdome
/
than
this
erthly
and
vnstedfaste
empyre
.
He
is
a
myghty
kyng
/
what
soeuer
he
be
that
ruleth
hym self
well
.
What
thynge
can
be
spoken
more
truely
than
this
oration
?
and
what
is
he
that
this
so
trewe
and
so
piteful
an
oration
/
wolde
nat
feare
&
with
drawe
from
the
couetous
desire
of
honours
?
Of
the
necessite
of
dethe
/
the
Whiche
suffreth
nothynge
to
be
durable
.
The
.vi.
Chapter
.
IUse
but
to
many
wordes
/
namelye
in
a
thynge
more
clerer
than
the
daye
lyght
.
For
why
/
this
is
the
course
of
thynges
nowe
a
dayes
/
that
whan
the
olde
histories
mention
or
reherse
any
thynges
to
be
marueyled
at
/
there
is
no
man
welnere
,
that
wyll
gyue
credente
therto
/
whan
he
may
se
before
his
face
more
greuouser
examples
than
he
can
rede
of
.
But
touchynge
dethe
(
bycause
I
spake
therof
)
I
am
wont
specially
to
marueyle
howe
this
shuld
be
/
that
seinge
that
nothynge
is
so
moche
in
our
sight
/
as
dethe
is
/
that
nothynge
is
more
farther
out
of
our
thought
and
remembrance
.
Ye
and
mortall
folkes
are
deducted
and
drawen
out
of
this
vocabull
or
Worde
Mors
,
that
is
to
saye
dethe
:
Wherfore
we
can
no
sooner
be
named
Mortales
,
that
is
to
say
mortall
folkes
/
but
forthe
with
our
owne
eares
gyue
vs
warnynge
of
dethe
.
What
an
oblyuyon
or
a
forgetfulnes
is
this
?
Howe
recheles
are
folkes
myndes
/
yea
maye
I
nat
saye
howe
fonde
and
frantycke
?
Haue
we
no
more
remembraunce
?
Haue
we
dronke
so
moche
forgetfulnes
of
the
ryuer
Letheus
/
that
we
can
nat
beare
those
thynges
in
mynde
/
that
whiche
shewe
them selfe
and
appere
styll
to
vs
on
euery
syde
?
Be
we
as
hit
were
stones
astonyed
/
that
these
thynges
,
the
whiche
we
both
se
and
here
so
often
tymes
/
can
nat
moue
nor
stere
vs
?
Can
we
se
so
moche
as
one
of
the
olde
worlde
alyue
?
And
also
we
se
that
cruell
dethe
sparethe
or
forbeareth
no
kynde
of
folkes
in
our
tyme
.
Our
fore
fathers
of
olde
tyme
be
deed
&
gone
:
And
as
Cicero
sayth
/
They
haue
lyued
/
and
without
any
difference
we
muste
go
the
same
way
/
and
other
that
be
to
come
shal
folow
after
vs
.
And
so
all
we
in
maner
of
a
swyfte
ryuer
rolle
in
to
the
Occyan
/
that
is
to
say
we
be
all
whyrled
in
to
the
pytte
of
dethe
.
And
as
Horace
sayth
/
One
night
abideth
for
vs
all
:
And
ones
we
muste
nedes
trede
the
trace
of
dethe
.
The
funerals
of
yonge
and
olde
are
very
thycke
myngled
to geder
.
And
cruel
Proserpine
forbereth
no
man
,
Innumerable
people
of
yong
/
olde
,
and
myddel
age
,
dye
here
and
there
/
of
our
felowes
/
of
our
acquayntance
/
of
our
kynsfolke
,
frendes
/
father
/
mother
/
and
chyldren
:
and
we
our selfe
that
muste
nedes
dye
/
be
conuersante
a
mydmonges
the
hepes
of
them
that
dye
:
And
al
be
it
that
we
be
borne
vnder
the
same
condicions
that
we
must
nedes
dye
/
yet
we
feare
nat
dethe
.
Thou
sayest
/
wherfore
dost
thou
commande
me
to
thynke
on
dethe
/
I
am
yet
yonge
and
lustye
/
I
am
farre
from
whore
heares
/
and
farre
from
an
olde
wrynkeled
forheed
?
They
shulde
lyue
in
thought
and
care
for
drede
of
dethe
/
that
be
olde
and
croked
/
and
stoupyng
to
the
erthe
warde
/
that
haue
a
lyght
shakinge
heed
/
hangynge
chekes
/
small
holowe
eies
/
a
continuall
droppynge
nose
/
a
fewe
tethe
and
rotten
:
the
whiche
whan
they
haue
liued
as
longe
as
a
crowe
/
than
they
reken
theyr
age
vpon
theyr
fyngers
.
I
am
farre
from
all
these
thynges
.
Dothe
nat
my
yonge
blode
/
that
courageth
myne
harte
and
spyrytes
/
my
stronge
armes
and
bygge
sides
/
and
al
my
body
lusty
and
in
good
lykynge
/
bydde
me
to
hope
after
longe
lyfe
?
But
I
pray
the
tell
me
/
hath
god
promised
to
the
either
whore
heares
or
wrinkyls
?
If
thou
se
no
man
dye
but
olde
folkes
/
than
liue
careles
/
and
haue
no
mynde
of
dethe
vntyll
the
tyme
that
thou
haue
whore
heres
&
wrinkyls
.
But
if
that
dethe
do
steale
vpon
folkes
of
euery
age
/
if
deth
strangle
them
that
be
nat
yet
borne
,
nat
sleyng
them
/
but
remouyng
them
from
life
:
If
dethe
plucke
the
children
away
that
sucke
on
their
mothers
breastis
:
If
dethe
snatche
away
laddes
and
gyrles
:
If
dethe
pulle
away
yonge
men
and
maydens
:
If
dethe
slee
myghty
stronge
men
:
If
dethe
attrappe
olde
men
:
and
fynally
if
deth
spareth
no
person
of
no
maner
condition
/
age
/
strengthe
/
nor
beautye
/
supposeste
thou
hit
wyll
forbeare
the
onely
aboue
all
other
?
It
is
for
certayne
/
that
an
olde
man
can
nat
lyue
longe
.
And
thou
that
arte
a
yonge
man
maist
sone
dye
.
And
loke
howe
certayne
and
sure
an
olde
man
is
to
dye
/
euen
so
vncertayne
and
vnsure
a
yonge
man
is
to
lyue
.
There
is
no
man
so
olde
but
that
he
may
liue
one
day
longer
:
Nor
there
is
no
man
so
yonge
that
can
assure
hym selfe
to
lyue
frome
morowe
tyll
nyght
.
And
for
a
trouthe
/
if
thou
marke
it
well
/
thou
shalte
fynde
that
the
moost
parte
that
dye
be
yonge
folkes
.
And
al
be
it
that
whore
age
hath
alwaye
been
scarse
/
yet
was
hit
neuer
more
scarser
/
nor
more
dispised
than
hit
is
now
a
dayes
.
Howe
many
canst
thou
shewe
me
/
that
haue
lyued
(
I
say
nat
so
longe
as
Cython
/
Nestor
/
Sibyl
/
or
Mathusale
)
but
an
hundred
yeres
?
yea
howe
many
be
there
that
lyue
.lx.
yeres
?
Forsothe
scarsly
one
amonge
a
thousande
.
And
howe
shorte
a
tyme
is
it
?
And
yet
thou
seest
howe
fewe
come
therto
:
so
fragyll
or
bryttyll
/
so
vncertayne
/
and
subiecte
to
so
manyfolde
chances
is
the
lyfe
of
man
.
Wylte
thou
good
Ioyce
haue
of
this
thynge
a
clere
and
a
commodious
similitude
or
figure
?
Beholde
how
in
the
begynnynge
of
the
yere
thou
seest
a
tree
storysshe
/
and
is
so
replenysshed
or
loden
with
flowers
or
blossoms
/
that
the
trunke
or
body
therof
can
nat
be
seen
/
and
scarsly
the
leaues
:
the
whiche
tree
semeth
to
brynge
forth
more
plentie
of
frute
than
the
tree
is
able
to
beare
.
But
yet
of
al
this
great
nombre
of
blossoms
very
fewe
proue
:
for
some
of
them
be
corrupted
&
distroyed
with
wormes
/
some
with
spyders
/
and
some
with
wynde
and
wether
are
beaten
downe
.
And
the
frute
that
remayneth
/
whan
the
blossoms
be
gone
/
by
lytell
and
lyttell
waxe
greatter
.
And
than
(
I
pray
the
)
do
they
al
hange
styl
tyl
they
be
rype
?
No
truely
.
Many
of
them
be
worme
eaten
/
some
the
wynd
and
wether
beateth
downe
/
some
by
great
stormes
are
corrupted
and
rotted
/
and
some
other
by
other
mischaunce
are
distroyed
.
In
so
moche
that
at
the
laste
/
where
thou
hopest
to
haue
great
abundance
of
frute
/
vnneth
thou
getherest
thre
or
foure
appulles
:
Nor
mans
lyfe
dothe
perishe
with
no
lesse
inconueniences
.
There
be
a
thousande
maner
of
syckenesses
/
a
thousande
chances
or
occasions
of
deth
,
a
thousande
maner
of
murthers
/
and
a
thousande
sortes
of
snares
/
that
dethe
layeth
for
vs
:
through
the
whiche
mo
dye
than
by
auncientnes
and
tyme
.
And
seynge
than
that
our
life
is
subiecte
to
so
many
and
great
perylles
:
beholde
I
pray
the
/
howe
wytlesse
and
braynesicke
we
be
/
that
liue
as
though
we
shuld
neuer
dye
?
We
be
right
careful
for
those
thyngis
that
pertayne
nothynge
to
vs
:
but
that
thynge
that
shulde
instructe
vs
agaynste
dethe
/
we
care
nat
fore
.
What
if
one
kynge
that
hathe
mortall
warre
with
an nother
/
knewe
nat
for
certayne
how
nere
his
ennemie
were
/
but
hauyng
knowlege
and
vnderstandyng
by
spyes
/
that
he
shuld
lye
in
embushement
nat
farre
of
/
&
whan
he
sawe
conuenient
tyme
/
how
he
wolde
rushe
out
vpon
hym
.
Trowest
thou
that
he
in
this
case
wolde
mynde
the
buyldynge
of
bathes
/
or
to
prepare
a
bankette
/
or
to
wedde
a
wyfe
?
But
that
he
wolde
rather
imagyn
howe
to
augment
his
armye
/
to
cast
a
bulwarke
/
to
make
good
watche
/
and
to
mynde
his
armour
&
wepens
/
and
other
thynges
belongynge
to
warre
/
wherby
he
may
defende
hym
from
inuasyon
/
and
also
discomfite
his
ennemie
?
And
for
this
wyl
he
care
fore
more
diligently
/
for
as
moche
as
he
knoweth
nat
what
tyme
/
nor
on
whiche
syde
the
busshement
wyll
breake
out
vpon
hym
.
But
deth
/
our
chiefe
ennemye
/
in
euery
place
/
and
at
all
tymes
of
our
age
/
hath
layde
a
thousande
maner
of
imbushementes
to
attrappe
and
disceyue
vs
.
And
yet
in
the
meane
tyme
a
goddes
name
,
we
stande
gaurynge
and
daryng
at
ryches
/
we
fede
&
to
derely
cherysshe
our
bodies
/
and
seke
for
rule
and
mayster
shyppe
.
But
and
we
wolde
at
all
tymes
consydre
the
vnstedfastnesse
and
waueryng
of
this
disceitfull
lyfe
/
and
howe
that
dethe
styll
continually
hangethe
ouer
vs
/
we
shulde
dryue
in
to
our
owne
eares
/
that
that
the
prophet
sayd
vnto
the
sycke
kynge
/
Dyspose
thy
house
/
for
thou
shalte
dye
:
than
incontinent
all
these
thynges
/
whiche
to
our
great
hurte
seme
sauory
&
swete
/
wolde
waxe
bytter
and
sower
/
and
those
that
we
thynke
ryght
precious
/
wolde
seme
vyle
and
lytell
worth
:
and
those
that
we
repute
nobull
and
gay
thynges
/
wold
appere
foule
and
vngoodly
.
So
lyghtely
one
thoughte
or
inwarde
remembrance
of
dethe
/
persuadeth
vs
to
set
naught
by
all
worldly
thynges
.
O
thou
couetous
man
/
to
what
ende
or
entent
dost
thou
gether
suche
abundaunce
of
golde
?
Dethe
is
at
thy
backe
redy
to
snatche
all
away
.
Why
doste
thou
prepare
so
many
great
fardelles
for
so
shorte
a
iourney
?
Hast
thou
forgotte
what
happend
to
the
foole
that
the
gospell
speaketh
of
?
To
whom
/
reioisynge
that
his
barnes
were
full
of
corne
/
and
promisynge
hym selfe
many
greatte
pleasures
/
hit
was
sayde
:
Thou
fole
,
this
same
night
thou
shalt
be
slayn
,
and
than
who
shall
be
mayster
of
thy
goodes
?
O
thou
moost
foolysshe
or
vnwyse
felowe
/
why
dost
thou
inclyne
or
sekest
for
so
madde
or
vnstedfaste
ioyes
/
ye
with
so
greatte
rebuke
or
blame
?
Lo
/
beholde
deth
is
euen
at
hande
/
redy
to
turne
these
so
foule
short
and
leude
lustes
of
the
body
/
in
to
euerlastyng
paine
and
turment
.
And
thou
that
sekest
to
beare
a
rule
/
to
be
in
hygh
auctorite
/
and
to
raigne
royally
alofte
/
what
an
vngratious
desyre
stereth
the
therto
?
Loke
,
seest
thou
nat
that
deth
is
at
thy
dore
/
the
whiche
from
this
hyghe
astate
wyll
throwe
the
heedlynge
to
the
grounde
:
as
it
were
a
hurle
wynde
/
it
wyll
beare
or
carie
away
bothe
the
and
all
thyne
?
Wherfore
Radulphus
Agricola
dydde
nat
onelye
ryghte
counnyngely
/
but
also
as
verytably
or
trewlye
endyte
as
foloweth
.
Dethe
ouerthro
weth
and
dystroyeth
all
thynge
And
all
that
is
borne
must
nedes
decay
Onely
vertue
shall
neuer
haue
endynge
And
good
actes
or
dedes
shall
endure
alway
.
FOr
what
thyng
elles
remayneth
/
at
the
extreme
and
most
greuous
poynte
of
our
lyfe
but
onely
vertue
?
Than
the
membres
languysshe
/
and
the
colour
of
the
blode
and
the
lyfe
to gether
vanyshe
away
/
the
visage
dyeth
with
a
deedly
wanne
colour
/
the
eies
that
a
lyttell
before
were
so
quicke
and
lyuely
of
syght
/
are
than
abscured
with
perpetual
darkenes
:
and
fynally
all
the
holle
body
cometh
colde
without
any
sensyblenes
:
than
the
miserable
soule
/
on
whome
as
one
destitute
/
lyeth
all
the
weyght
of
the
busynes
,
shal
be
drawen
to
that
inexorable
place
of
iugement
to
make
a
counte
and
gyue
a
rekenyng
howe
and
in
what
maner
it
hath
mynystred
all
thynges
.
What
I
say
shall
than
remayne
of
all
thy
worldly
ryches
/
honours
/
and
possessions
/
the
whiche
to
gette
to gether
thou
dyddest
consume
all
thy
lyfe
dayes
?
On
whom
than
wylte
thou
seke
for
succour
and
helpe
?
O
myserable
wretche
/
to
whom
wylt
thou
go
?
Whether
wylt
thou
flee
?
To
thy
rychesse
?
Helas
they
can
nothynge
helpe
the
/
and
thoughe
they
coude
/
yet
are
they
than
in
other
mens
possession
.
Wylte
thou
go
to
thy
voluptuous
pleasures
?
These
lyke
as
they
be
ioyned
to
the
bodye
/
so
they
dye
to gether
with
the
body
.
Wylte
thou
flee
to
thy
lusty
and
valyant
yonge
age
?
Ah
euery
mans
olde
age
is
deeth
to
his
youthe
.
Wylte
thou
flee
to
thy
comely
shappe
and
beautye
/
the
whiche
very
late
made
the
proude
/
and
entyced
euerye
bodye
to
loue
the
?
This
thynge
also
lyke
as
a
rose
nypte
or
plucte
from
the
stalke
fadeth
/
so
to gether
by
dethe
it
wythereth
all
away
.
Wytherethe
away
quod
I
/
nay
I
may
saye
hit
fadeth
away
in
to
a
grysely
vglynes
.
For
neuer
none
loued
so
well
the
forme
and
shappe
of
a
lyuynge
creature
,
as
he
abhorreth
the
cors
or
carkis
of
one
that
is
deed
.
Wylt
thou
ronne
to
thy
olde
glory
?
This
thynge
also
lyke
as
I
haue
sayd
vanysheh
away
vtterly
whan
thou
dyest
.
Finally
to
whom
wylte
thou
cal
and
crye
for
helpe
.
Wylte
thou
go
to
the
felowshyp
of
thy
frendes
?
Helas
some
of
them
/
as
soone
as
fortune
leaueth
the
/
they
go
theyr
way
/
lyke
as
swalowes
do
whan
sommer
is
goone
:
and
the
other
/
if
any
remayne
styl
thy
frendes
/
can
nat
come
to
helpe
the.
And
what
can
it
auayle
or
helpe
the
/
if
thy
myserable
frendes
wayle
and
knocke
on
theyr
breastes
/
if
they
scratche
theyr
visages
/
if
they
wepynge
at
thy
funerall
wolde
shedde
all
theyr
blode
turned
into
tearis
,
or
if
for
thy
sake
they
wolde
rounne
mad
,
or
slee
them selfe
to
beare
the
companye
?
They
may
so
hurte
them selfe
/
but
they
can
nat
delyuer
the.
Be
wyse
also
and
consyder
thy
state
and
condition
betymes
/
prepare
and
haue
in
a
redines
those
thynges
/
with
whiche
thou
beinge
fortified
/
thou
mayste
carelesse
or
without
drede
abyde
the
laste
day
.
Thoughe
ryches
/
pleasure
/
and
noblenes
were
both
certayne
and
profitable
/
whiche
thynge
is
farre
contrarie
/
yet
vndouted
to
one
that
dyeth
they
are
a
heuy
burden
.
But
than
vertue
begynneth
to
be
profytable
.
And
surely
if
these
worldly
thynges
wolde
neuer
leue
vs
/
yet
muste
we
nedes
forgo
them
:
but
vertue
neuer
forsaketh
our
company
,
nor
to
helpe
vs
.
That
the
Worlde
is
both
miserable
and
scelerous
.
The
Seuenth
chaptre
.
THou
clerely
ꝑceiuest
good
Ioyce
/
howe
false
or
disceiuable
/
howe
flittyng
/
and
howe
pestilente
the
goodes
of
this
worlde
be
(
if
they
of
right
may
be
called
goodes
)
nowe
contrarye
wyse
/
I
wyll
declare
to
the
in
fewe
wordes
/
the
ylles
that
come
of
them
.
Parauenture
in
tyme
past
it
was
no
wonder
/
though
we
were
plucked
and
drawen
with
peine
out
of
this
worlde
/
whan
it
flouryshed
as
it
were
in
youth
:
but
nowe
excepte
we
disceyue
our selfe
/
in
what
thynge
may
the
worlde
disceyue
vs
?
What
euer
and
as
many
slaughters
/
murthers
,
ruins
/
and
distructions
/
that
chaunced
or
fell
on
mankynde
in
tyme
past
/
some
at
one
tyme
and
some
at
a nother
/
they
assayle
and
enuade
vs
in
our
dayes
all
on
a
heape
at
ones
/
as
warres
/
derthe
/
scarsyte
/
penury
,
barrennesse
/
and
many
a
strange
sickenes
?
Yea
what
yuell
or
mischiefe
is
it
/
that
we
haue
nat
seen
in
our
daies
?
I
am
nowe
.xxiiii.
yeres
olde
/
and
in
al
this
season
the
warre
neuer
stynted
.
Hit
wolde
seme
that
Sylla
were
come
agayne
with
his
partiall
parte
takyng
/
or
cedition
.
And
whiche
so
euer
of
the
parties
dothe
ouercome
wel
I
wotte
the
countrey
is
subdued
/
and
gyltlesse
dothe
suffre
great
affliction
.
What
miserable
examples
of
penurie
&
famyne
haue
we
seen
?
in
so
moche
that
many
haue
liued
with
beastes
foode
/
and
many
haue
died
for
very
hunger
.
And
as
the
worlde
gothe
nowe
/
a
man
had
nede
to
haue
the
riches
of
kyng
Cresus
/
whiche
yet
for
all
that
/
he
shal
with
great
sparynge
and
nigardeshyp
scantly
finde
his
house
holde
.
And
farther
:
I
put
the
case
that
thou
thy selfe
doste
lyue
welchyly
:
yet
euery
thynge
is
so
ful
of
calamite
/
that
to
here
the
lamentations
/
and
to
se
the
miseries
wherin
other
creatures
are
wretchedlye
wrappedde
/
shall
make
the
myserable
.
More
ouer
/
the
sedes
of
all
myschyefes
are
so
sprouted
out
/
that
nowe
in
our
dayes
we
passe
and
farre
excede
the
iron
age
/
wherof
men
sange
a
thousande
yeres
ago
.
¶
Of
sturdy
indurate
iron
the
beste
age
framed
was
,
Than
presed
in
all
mischiefe
the
worlde
rounde
about
whiche
of
a
worse
metall
Nature
dyd
compasse
For
shamefastnes
&
trouth
with
faythe
were
driuen
out
,
In
whose
stede
came
in
an
vngratious
route
Subtyste
,
falshode
,
mayntenance
and
disceyte
Eche
one
to
disceyue
other
that
lye
in
a
wayte
¶
with
couetous
that
caytyfe
to
catche
that
catche
may
By
robery
and
extortion
theyr
lyues
for
to
leade
Eche
one
of
other
standynge
in
a
fraye
The
father
of
his
sonne
standeth
in
feare
&
drede
One
brother
of
an
other
can
scantly
truste
to
spede
In
Methamorphoseos
ye
may
rede
this
warke
In
Iuuenall
also
,
that
moche
noble
clarke
.
¶
Whiche
sayth
,
howe
the
worlde
that
we
sine
in
nowe
Is
wors
than
the
iron
worlde
that
men
dyd
so
cal
For
nature
coude
neuer
fynde
the
meanes
yet
howe
That
any
name
of
metall
myght
aptly
nowe
fall
To
cal
this
worlde
bi
his
name
whiche
worlde
is
worst
of
al
Worse
than
iron
worlde
,
of
coper
or
of
brasse
.
This
worlde
is
the
wretched
worlde
that
euer
was
.
¶
For
if
it
were
founde
that
a
man
nowe
a
dayes
Wolde
knowlege
the
gauge
or
pledge
to
hym
layde
Or
delyuer
agayne
,
whan
the
partye
hym
prays
.
A
bagge
of
money
,
that
was
to
hym
conuayde
In
truste
for
to
kepe
,
and
truely
agayn
repaide
It
myght
welny
be
enrolde
,
&
wrytten
for
a
wonder
That
couetous
and
money
coude
so
departe
a sonder
.
¶
So
wonderfull
it
were
and
so
prodigious
That
it
might
wel
be
regestred
,
and
ripely
enrolde
Of
the
Tuscans
,
among
theyr
recordes
superstitious
Engrossed
with
enchantementes
meruailous
to
be
tolde
Pronostycatynge
what
thynge
so
euer
they
wolde
By
procuration
of
a
lambe
that
crowned
there
was
Amonge
them
to
brynge
suche
wonders
to
passe
.
¶
Of
true
and
faythfull
people
the
nombre
is
so
smal
That
I
trowe
there
be
scante
so
many
good
men
As
Thebes
the
cyte
had
gates
about
theyr
wall
whiche
had
but
.vii.
gates
as
authors
me
ken
whiche
nombre
may
easely
be
wryten
with
a
pen
Or
as
there
be
but
.vii.
passages
of
Nilus
that
flode
Vnneth
may
be
founde
so
many
true
men
and
good
.
What
wylte
thou
do
in
the
worlde
/
if
thou
canst
nat
nor
hast
nat
the
cast
to
fors
were
thy self
/
nor
to
ymagin
fraude
and
gyle
/
nor
to
disceyue
thy
neighboure
/
nor
to
steale
and
bribe
?
But
thou
say
it
/
what
haue
I
to
do
with
these
worldly
maners
and
yuell
customes
?
All
my
care
is
onely
to
lyue
trewly
and
rightously
.
If
all
thy
care
be
to
lyue
rightously
/
loke
than
that
thou
gete
the
lightlye
out
of
this
worlde
/
for
the
worlde
&
vertue
wyll
in
no
wyse
agree
to gether
.
Thou
myghtest
say
that
I
lyed
/
if
he
that
is
the
very
frende
of
vertue
dyd
nat
say
/
that
all
the
worlde
is
sette
on
wyckednesse
.
Nor
thou
shuldest
nat
saye
smyling
to
thy selfe
:
What
so
euer
other
do
parteyneth
nothyng
to
me
:
I
care
but
for
myn
owne
selfe
.
Truely
swete
Ioyce
/
thou
art
clene
wyde
and
out
of
the
waye
:
for
it
skylleth
greatlye
with
whom
thou
doest
leade
thy
lyfe
/
for
the
diseses
of
the
soule
spraule
abrode
or
infect
none
otherwyse
/
than
the
contagious
maladies
of
the
body
do
.
There
is
nothyng
more
perylous
than
yuell
company
.
Admytte
it
be
so
/
that
thou
louest
vertue
aboue
all
thynges
:
and
wylte
accompany
the
with
an
vngratious
caytife
:
How
longe
shall
it
be
or
thou
mayest
reduce
hym
to
thy
maners
?
Yea
/
he
shall
rather
(
as
we
be
gyuen
and
enclyned
naturally
to
yll
)
corrupte
the
with
his
venome
/
and
enfect
the
with
his
scabbed
cursednesse
/
and
make
the
lyke
hym
in
condycion
/
and
at
the
laste
/
the
common
prouerbe
shal
be
verifyed
on
you
twayne
/
that
is
/
Byrdes
of
one
coloure
flye
togeder
.
But
thou
sayest
/
who
shall
driue
or
compell
me
to
leade
my
lyfe
with
an
vngratious
and
a
myscheuous
felowe
?
Dost
thou
aske
that
question
?
I
tell
the
thyne
age
and
nedefull
busynesse
:
&
farthermore
that
vngentyll
shame
fastnesse
:
but
yet
of
trouthe
/
it
is
most
parte
in
men
of
gentyll
mynde
and
corage
:
And
lastly
/
the
vnworthy
condycions
of
thy
felowes
.
If
thou
be
requyred
to
go
make
good
chere
/
or
to
do
or
play
some
other
leude
pranke
/
it
boteth
or
aueyleth
the
nat
to
excuse
the
by
some
busynesse
/
or
els
that
thou
arte
acrased
/
for
though
thou
swere
it
on
a
boke
/
thou
shalte
nat
be
beleued
:
&
eyther
they
wyll
note
the
for
a
nygarde
or
els
for
a
slouen
.
What
wylt
thou
do
?
Parauenture
bycause
thou
woldest
nat
be
so
noted
/
thou
wylte
folowe
theyr
mynde
and
entente
.
Whan
ye
come
to
the
tauerne
or
brothell
house
/
there
euery
man
hath
his
wenche
.
I
tell
it
that
is
moost
honest
/
I
am
ashamed
to
reherce
theyr
other
fylthye
dedes
:
and
yet
they
be
nat
ashamed
to
comytte
and
do
them
many
tymes
and
ofte
.
Than
they
begyn
to
stryue
and
crake
who
may
drynke
best
:
And
he
that
can
drynke
mooste
/
is
the
meryest
/
the
gayest
/
and
the
iolyest
felowe
.
Than
what
is
it
that
dronkennes
wyll
nat
prouoke
or
cause
to
be
done
?
Than
Pythyas
semethe
moche
fayrer
.
Than
Chremes
is
farre
more
meryer
.
And
it
is
bothe
trewely
and
commonly
sayde
:
that
without
good
meates
&
drynkes
/
bodyly
lust
waxeth
colde
.
And
whan
they
be
wery
of
drynkyng
and
bankettynge
/
than
they
fall
to
reuelynge
and
daunsynge
.
Than
whose
minde
is
so
wel
ordred
so
sadde
/
stable
/
and
constant
/
that
these
wanton
daunsynges
/
the
swyngynge
of
the
armes
/
the
swete
sowne
of
the
instrumentes
/
and
feminie
syngynges
/
wolde
nat
corrupte
/
ouercome
/
and
vtterly
mollifie
?
Ye
and
farther
the
balades
that
they
synge
be
suche
/
that
they
wolde
kendell
vp
the
corage
of
the
olde
and
colde
Laomedon
/
and
Nestor
.
And
whan
the
mynstrell
dothe
make
a
sygne
to
stynte
/
than
if
thou
do
nat
kysse
her
/
that
thou
leadyng
by
the
hande
dyddest
daunce
with
,
thou
shalte
be
taken
for
a
rustical
or
an
vplandyshe
vyllayne
without
any
good
maners
or
nurture
.
Of
the
other
sportes
and
playes
/
the
whiche
are
more
shamefull
than
these
/
and
inuented
onely
for
bodylye
luste
and
wantonnes
/
I
wyll
nat
speake
.
Wolde
to
god
they
wolde
no
more
vse
them
.
If
thou
shuldest
refuse
to
do
any
of
these
thynges
/
and
woldest
assaye
to
do
some
thynge
of
more
sadues
and
prudence
/
they
wyll
esteme
and
counte
the
vnmanerly
/
cloubbysshe
/
frowarde
/
and
cleane
contrarye
to
all
mennes
myndes
.
And
to
the
entent
that
thou
woldest
eschewe
that
blemyshe
or
blame
/
O
what
fylthy
actes
dost
thou
committe
.
So
thus
while
thou
woldest
flie
and
eschewe
hatred
,
while
thou
arte
ashamed
to
be
reputed
waywarde
or
frowarde
/
while
thou
arte
ashamed
in
dede
to
seme
or
be
a
lyttell
shamefast
(
as
saynte
Agustyne
saythe
)
thou
dost
forgette
al
shame
:
And
whan
thou
arte
enfected
with
like
scourfe
and
scabbe
/
than
thou
endeuourest
thy selfe
and
goste
about
to
enfecte
other
.
But
admytte
thou
doste
nat
accompany
with
no
wicked
or
synfull
caytyfe
(
whiche
were
a
thynge
of
great
meruayle
)
yet
the
poyson
of
the
maladie
or
sickenes
is
wont
nat
onely
with
touchynge
/
that
is
so
saye
contactu
,
wherof
the
maladies
or
dyseases
be
called
contagia
,
but
also
with
beholding
to
crepe
and
enfecte
one
.
For
the
holle
and
sounde
eies
with
beholdyng
or
lokyng
on
sore
eyes
take
hurte
.
And
veryly
I
suppose
/
that
the
eies
be
the
chiefe
occasion
of
al
lewde
entycementes
that
prouoke
and
stere
vs
to
fylthy
synne
.
Therfore
most
gentyll
Ioyce
as
thou
desyrest
thyn
owne
welthe
/
loke
that
thou
flee
and
eschewe
this
scabbed
and
scuruy
company
:
and
drawe
vnto
them
/
by
whose
conuersation
thou
mayst
amende
thy
lyfe
.
What
felycyte
is
in
solytary
lyfe
.
The
Eyght
Chapter
ALl
be
hit
that
I
suppose
that
I
haue
spoken
of
the
foresayd
thinges
sufficiently
,
yet
to
the
entent
that
thou
shuldest
nat
onely
with
a
good
wyll
but
also
ioyfully
skyppe
from
the
worlde
and
ronne
to
religion
/
that
is
to
say
/
nat
so
moche
hatynge
or
agreued
with
the
yls
of
the
worlde
/
as
desyrous
of
our
delicious
plesures
,
me
thynke
it
were
nat
inconuenient
to
reherse
nowe
in
fewe
wordes
/
the
commodites
of
our
lyfe
,
whiche
thynge
to
do
,
it
behoueth
me
to
be
brefe
,
both
bycause
I
haue
spent
moche
tyme
labour
/
and
paper
,
in
straytly
dyscussyng
of
the
yuels
and
calamites
of
this
worlde
,
and
yet
the
greatnes
therof
requireth
moche
more
than
hath
ben
spoken
(
for
in
maner
no
wordes
or
tyme
of
communication
to
discusse
it
/
coude
suffise
)
and
eke
bycause
me
thoughte
thou
beganst
to
waxe
wery
of
my
babblynge
,
and
also
bycause
those
thyngis
are
more
easily
perceiued
than
declared
.
Therfore
I
wolde
rather
that
thou
shuldeste
lerne
them
by
experience
than
by
my
declarynge
,
and
rather
to
serche
them
out
thy self
than
to
be
persuaded
.
Nowe
swete
Ioyce
withdrawe
the
lyghtly
from
the
troublous
busynes
of
this
worlde
and
come
to
vs
.
And
than
at
last
thou
shalt
perceiue
and
se
howe
farre
the
false
and
disceyuable
prosperite
of
the
worlde
doth
differ
from
very
felicyte
,
and
howe
farre
our
labours
and
trauayles
do
passe
and
excel
thy
delites
.
I
say
thou
shalte
vnderstande
and
perceyue
it
/
lyke
as
one
were
waked
out
of
his
slepe
,
the
whiche
all
the
while
he
slepeth
/
supposynge
that
the
imaginations
and
phantasies
/
that
appere
to
hym
in
his
slepe
/
be
true
/
he
reioyceth
/
he
dredeth
/
he
exhalteth
hym selfe
/
and
is
moucd
with
a
thousand
affections
.
But
as
soone
as
the
slepe
is
goone
/
he
than
perceyueth
/
that
he
was
deluded
and
mocked
with
imaginations
/
yea
and
he
hym selfe
laugheth
at
his
dremes
:
So
lyke
wise
/
whan
thou
shalte
clerely
perceyue
and
vnderstande
the
felicite
of
our
institution
or
lyfe
.
O
howe
ofte
than
/
whan
the
dreames
of
thy
former
lyfe
come
to
thy
remembrance
/
and
beinge
awaked
out
of
that
worldly
slombre
/
wylte
thou
saye
?
A
good
lorde
/
was
I
euer
so
farre
besyde
my selfe
/
that
any
of
these
trifyls
delyted
me
?
Haue
suche
phantasyes
in
tymes
passed
of
false
and
vayne
goodes
so
rauyshed
my
mynde
&
wytte
/
that
no
desyre
of
thynges
that
be
good
in
dede
/
coude
entre
in
to
me
?
Therfore
nowe
good
Ioice
/
if
thou
be
a
slepe
/
awake
/
excepte
thou
haddest
leauer
be
happy
in
dreamynge
than
happy
in
dede
.
If
thou
nappe
a
littell
/
open
thyn
eies
and
shake
hit
of
/
lest
the
depe
slepe
steale
vpon
the.
But
in
case
that
thou
be
awaked
/
as
I
suppose
thou
art
/
than
lest
the
example
of
slepers
/
orels
the
violence
of
slepe
perswade
the
therto
:
hye
the
as
faste
as
thou
canst
out
of
this
lande
of
Babylon
/
full
of
dreames
&
shadowes
:
and
get
the
apase
to
our
Hierusalem
.
Why
lokest
thou
behynde
the
?
Why
staggerest
?
Why
dost
thou
staye
or
stande
any
whyle
?
Hit
is
alwaye
hurtfull
/
as
Lucan
sayth
,
to
differre
or
prolonge
these
thynges
forthe
/
that
be
redy
prepared
.
Go
to
/
breake
of
all
delayes
:
for
it
is
nat
a
lyght
or
a
triflynge
busynesse
/
that
thou
art
in
hande
with
/
the
matter
concerneth
or
toucheth
thy
soule
:
the
whiche
is
so
worthy
and
so
noble
a
thynge
/
that
for
the
welthe
therof
thou
oughtest
nat
only
to
leaue
and
forsake
those
thingis
/
that
thou
louest
mooste
derely
/
but
also
wyllyngly
to
take
on
the
and
suffre
moost
harde
and
greuous
peyne
and
trauayle
.
If
an
excellente
and
a
perfecte
counnynge
phisytion
wolde
say
to
one
that
were
sicke
and
vnlyke
to
escape
dethe
:
Suffre
a
lytell
while
/
and
I
wyll
restore
the
to
thy
helthe
agayne
:
Tell
me
what
rough
handlyng
/
peynfull
touchynge
/
greuous
throwes
/
wold
he
with
ryghte
good
wyll
endure
?
He
wolde
suffre
his
lymmes
to
be
torren
and
haled
with
boystous
iron
instrumentes
/
to
be
launced
/
cutte
/
burned
/
and
a
thousande
other
wayes
paynefullye
handled
/
yea
he
wolde
suffre
some
peynes
/
that
be
more
greuous
than
the
very
dethe
/
to
th
ende
to
escape
dethe
/
and
a
lyttell
whyle
prolonge
his
wretched
lyfe
.
O
good
lorde
/
shulde
any
thynge
seme
greuous
to
the
to
suffre
/
that
thou
myghtest
therby
eschewe
the
dethe
of
thy
soule
/
yea
deth
euerlastynge
?
If
the
chaunce
stoode
so
/
that
thou
must
nedes
those
one
of
these
two
conditions
/
either
to
suffre
thy
body
to
be
cleane
extincted
,
and
vtterly
distroyed
/
that
thy
soule
myghte
lyue
euerlastyngly
:
orels
by
dethe
of
thy
soule
to
opteine
lyfe
of
thy
body
:
I
beleue
thou
woldest
nat
take
longe
aduisement
/
except
thou
were
more
madder
than
any
franticke
man
/
but
that
thou
woldest
quickely
chose
rather
the
perpetuall
lyfe
of
the
soule
/
than
the
very
shorte
lyfe
of
the
body
.
And
therfore
tell
me
good
Ioyce
/
wylt
thou
nat
lyue
both
blessedly
and
perpetually
?
Hit
were
great
maruayle
but
thou
woldest
/
for
what
is
he
that
wolde
nat
?
But
thou
wylt
say
:
By
what
meane
may
I
opteyne
to
lyue
alwaye
blessedly
?
Go
to
/
I
pray
the
,
beholde
what
a
great
thyng
with
a
lyttell
labour
thou
mayst
come
by
.
To
opteyne
this
thynge
/
thou
nedest
nat
to
flye
in
the
ayre
with
Dedalus
wynges
/
nor
to
trauayle
&
passe
the
daungerous
sees
/
nor
to
take
on
hande
the
peynefull
labours
of
Hercules
/
nor
to
leape
in
to
the
fyre
/
nor
no
man
wyll
constrayne
the
/
that
for
this
thynge
thou
shuldest
hale
&
teare
thy
lymmes
/
nor
slee
thy selfe
.
Fynally
/
who
wolde
saye
that
the
martyrs
in
olde
tyme
were
peuishe
/
the
whiche
on
hope
and
truste
of
this
felicite
/
wolde
nat
denye
or
refuse
any
maner
peynes
or
cruell
turmentes
/
no
,
nat
the
very
dethe
to
be
harde
or
greuous
to
them
?
Take
hede
I
pray
the
/
howe
abundantly
our
benigne
and
lyberall
lorde
hath
bestowed
his
gyftes
vpon
vs
/
and
againe
,
how
easye
and
lyght
his
commaundementes
be
.
He
promised
euerlastinge
felicite
to
them
that
haue
deserued
deth
.
What
thing
can
be
more
benigne
or
bountifull
than
this
promise
?
ye
and
what
is
more
sure
and
certeyne
?
But
nowe
/
what
dothe
he
commaunde
the
to
do
?
Forsothe
nothynge
/
but
that
in
the
meane
tyme
thou
shuldest
dyligently
prepare
and
make
thy selfe
redye
to
receyue
so
great
and
so
excellent
a
gyfte
?
Thou
wylt
aske
me
/
by
what
way
this
shulde
be
done
?
No
man
can
receiue
the
very
felicite
/
so
long
as
he
is
possessed
and
holden
in
captyuyte
and
thraldome
of
false
felycite
.
Wylte
thou
lyue
euerlastyngely
?
Than
loke
that
thou
lyue
well
.
Wylt
thou
entre
in
to
paradise
?
Than
loke
that
thou
forsake
this
worlde
:
for
as
it
is
most
mischiefull
/
so
it
is
most
troublous
and
peynefull
.
Dost
thou
desyre
and
couet
to
be
ioyned
to
god
?
Than
se
that
thou
endeuoir
the
to
be
out
of
the
dyuels
snares
.
Doste
thou
loue
trewe
rychesse
?
Than
throwe
awaye
from
the
/
the
false
.
If
thou
haue
delyte
in
very
honours
:
leaue
thy
sekynge
for
the
false
.
What
more
?
Doest
thou
loue
very
trewe
beatytude
?
Loke
than
that
thou
forsake
these
swete
trauailes
/
yea
the
laborous
swetenes
of
this
worlde
.
What
thynge
is
more
softer
or
esyer
than
these
preceptes
?
Who
so
euer
kepethe
them
/
shall
haue
very
felicite
for
his
rewarde
:
and
the
kepyng
of
goddes
commaundementes
is
the
begynnynge
of
felycytye
.
As
thoughe
he
commaunded
thus
:
Leaue
to
be
wretched
/
that
ye
may
be
welthye
:
Leaue
to
be
seruantis
,
that
ye
may
enioy
liberte
.
O
,
what
a
great
dyfference
is
betwene
goddes
commandementes
and
the
dyuels
?
O
/
howe
contraryly
they
stryue
and
contende
to gether
?
For
after
the
diuel
hath
caught
vs
on
his
hoke
with
a
lyttell
bayte
of
false
delectation
?
O
good
lorde
,
into
what
horrour
or
vglynes
/
into
what
filthynes
/
and
into
what
myseries
dothe
he
caste
vs
?
And
at
length
/
whan
he
hath
deluded
and
mocked
vs
his
fyl
/
he
strangleth
vs
.
God
by
very
litel
and
short
solicitudes
and
grefes
(
the
whiche
we
suffre
nat
through
any
faute
of
the
thynges
/
but
throughe
our
owne
faute
)
leadethe
vs
to
ioy
incredible
/
and
at
length
he
gyueth
vs
the
blisse
of
heuen
.
The
dyuels
promotion
is
disceytefull
/
his
warfare
is
sower
/
and
his
wages
(
whiche
as
the
scripture
dothe
witnes
is
deth
)
is
mooste
sower
of
all
.
Goddis
obligation
is
faithfull
and
sure
:
the
longer
that
his
warre
endurethe
/
the
sweter
and
more
plesant
hit
is
:
and
his
wagis
/
whiche
is
blessed
immortalite
/
is
moost
swetest
of
all
.
The
lyfe
of
them
that
folowe
the
diuell
is
wretched
/
the
deth
more
wretched
&
after
dethe
a
lyfe
mooste
wretched
of
all
.
But
to
goddis
seruantes
the
life
is
welthy
/
the
deth
more
welthy
/
and
after
deth
foloweth
a
lyfe
moste
welthy
and
blessed
of
all
.
Who
wolde
nat
mooste
gladly
/
yea
and
frely
make
warre
vnder
so
easye
&
so
liberall
a
capitayne
/
whiche
puttethe
vs
to
so
swete
labours
?
If
thou
gyue
but
lyttell
credence
to
my
wordes
/
harken
to
hym
exhortynge
vs
/
that
can
nat
disceyue
(
for
what
leasynge
can
trouthe
make
?
)
Take
my
yocke
vpon
you
/
and
ye
shal
fynde
rest
for
your
soules
:
for
my
yocke
is
swete
/
and
my
burthen
lyghte
.
What
ioye
troweste
thou
/
after
theyr
victorie
/
shall
they
haue
/
triumphynge
in
heuen
euerlastyngly
/
with
mooste
highe
renowmed
pompe
/
to
whom
the
labour
of
the
warfare
here
is
so
delectable
?
Howe
pleasante
shall
that
happye
libertie
be
/
if
his
yocke
be
swete
to
vs
?
I
wote
well
there
be
some
that
wyll
take
for
a
wonder
/
these
wordes
that
I
haue
saide
:
but
vndoubted
they
be
of
that
same
sorte
/
whiche
most
lyke
vnto
brute
beastis
/
deme
all
felicite
to
reste
and
be
in
the
taste
of
the
mouthe
and
pleasure
of
the
bealy
.
Hit
is
harde
to
make
suche
to
beleue
/
that
the
labours
/
wher
vpon
the
lyfe
of
religious
persons
is
employed
/
be
neyther
greuous
/
nor
heuy
or
peynfull
/
but
rather
pleasant
&
iocunde
.
But
seinge
suche
felowes
wyll
nat
beleue
the
very
trouthe
/
I
wolde
they
shulde
serche
and
make
a
profe
therof
them selfe
.
And
on
peyne
of
my
lyfe
they
shall
nat
be
disceyued
/
so
that
they
do
theyr
beste
/
and
assaye
hit
as
they
ought
to
do
.
What
if
hit
irke
or
greue
them
to
make
a
profe
?
Than
truelye
I
wolde
that
they
shulde
gyue
credence
to
those
that
haue
proued
religion
.
For
sothe
I
dare
affyrme
it
with
an
othe
/
that
euery
thynge
in
religion
is
full
of
pleasure
.
Nothinge
is
more
plentiful
or
abundant
than
our
pouerte
/
nothynge
is
more
restfull
than
our
labour
or
trauayle
/
our
abstinence
and
fastynge
is
ryght
suffisant
/
our
narowe
or
strayte
rowme
/
is
to
vs
large
/
wyde
/
and
brode
/
our
watchyng
is
to
vs
more
gladder
than
any
slepe
.
But
&
I
shulde
swere
this
vpon
a
boke
:
yet
some
wolde
nat
beleue
me
:
Yea
they
wolde
deme
me
/
ioyning
those
so
contrary
thynges
to gether
/
no
wyser
than
he
that
wolde
go
about
to
proue
that
the
darkenesse
is
lyght
/
and
the
light
darkenes
/
that
the
fire
is
colde
and
the
water
hotte
.
But
what
shulde
one
saye
to
these
beastlye
creatures
/
the
whiche
haue
no
reason
/
nor
they
vnderstande
no
higher
than
the
corporall
sensis
?
Well
/
yet
I
wyll
nat
leaue
them
so
:
They
muste
be
allured
and
drawen
with
some
argument
/
very
familiar
and
playne
to
their
vnderstandynge
/
that
by
those
thynges
/
the
whiche
vnto
them
be
moost
notable
/
they
maye
coniecte
what
these
thynges
be
/
of
the
whiche
they
haue
but
small
knowlege
.
Let
vs
trayne
them
in
to
the
countrey
/
or
els
if
that
be
greuous
vnto
them
/
let
vs
go
nere
home
to
the
hauen
/
and
call
to
vs
one
of
the
mariners
/
whiche
we
wyll
/
and
say
:
Come
hither
good
felowe
/
is
nat
the
labour
and
toylynge
that
thou
haste
a
shypbourde
very
greuous
&
peynefull
to
the
?
No
sayth
he
/
it
is
a
pleasure
.
Howe
shulde
that
be
?
For
in
this
maner
gettyng
of
thy
lyuynge
/
semeth
to
be
mo
and
greatter
incommodites
than
in
any
other
.
Hit
is
treuthe
saythe
he
.
But
than
on
the
tother
syde
/
there
be
many
thynges
that
greately
encorage
and
comforte
me
.
Fyrst
/
what
thyng
is
it
/
that
swete
luker
or
wynnynge
dothe
nat
make
pleasaunte
?
Nothynge
is
more
plentifull
or
rycher
than
the
see
.
There
be
many
alyue
at
this
day
/
whiche
were
very
poore
/
&
nowe
by
trauaylyng
and
turmoylynge
on
the
see
onely
/
they
be
excedynglye
riche
.
Who
can
tell
whether
hit
shall
be
my
chaunce
lyke
wyse
or
no
?
Farther
,
the
customance
and
continuall
vse
therof
/
easeth
a
great
parte
of
my
grefe
:
the
whiche
continuall
custome
in
thynges
is
without
doute
of
so
great
effecte
/
that
nothynge
is
so
greuous
or
paynfull
to
be
done
/
but
that
the
ofte
doynge
therof
maketh
it
eyther
pleasante
/
or
at
the
leste
lyght
and
easye
,
And
lastly
/
there
be
certayne
thynges
/
the
whiche
do
mitigate
and
make
vs
to
forget
the
peyne
of
our
labour
and
toylynge
/
as
syngynge
/
talkynge
/
propre
sportis
/
and
a
thousande
other
suche
lyke
thinges
.
Ye
haue
harde
this
I
thynke
playnelye
inoughe
.
Nowe
if
we
shulde
go
from
warkehouse
to
warkhouse
/
I
trowe
euery
man
wolde
answere
and
saye
to
vs
the
same
/
or
very
lyke
wordes
.
What
foloweth
than
?
Truely
if
vncertaine
hope
for
so
small
and
vile
luker
/
maketh
so
greuous
labour
and
toylyng
pleasant
to
these
labourers
&
workemen
:
Why
shulde
nat
the
most
certayne
and
sure
abydynge
for
euerlasting
felicite
,
cause
and
worke
the
same
in
vs
?
If
contynuall
vse
and
customance
be
of
so
greate
effecte
/
and
may
do
so
moche
amonge
them
/
for
what
cause
shulde
hit
nat
do
lyke
wyse
in
religion
?
If
they
haue
wayes
/
with
the
whiche
they
alleuiate
and
ease
theyr
incommodites
and
grefes
:
no
doubte
we
haue
many
mo
and
better
to
mitigate
our
tribulations
and
peynes
.
Howe
that
farre
greatter
liberte
is
in
religion
than
in
the
worlde
.
The
.ix.
Chaptre
.
BRefely
to
speke
/
these
.iii.
thynges
be
in
religion
/
Libertie
/
Tranquillite
&
pleasure
.
Of
Libertie
(
wherof
I
wyll
fyrste
entreate
)
all
we
be
moost
desyrous
/
euery
man
aborreth
seruage
and
thraldome
:
in
so
moche
that
many
haue
kilde
them selfe
for
very
hate
therof
,
whiche
estemed
lybertye
better
than
lyfe
/
and
deth
better
than
seruage
.
wherfore
if
folkes
delite
so
moche
in
libertie
/
that
to
bye
false
libertie
cost
them
so
derelye
/
howe
gladly
oughte
they
to
enbrace
and
desyre
the
institution
of
our
lyfe
/
as
it
wherin
is
perfecte
and
trewe
libertie
?
But
here
some
ignorant
felowe
wyll
say
to
me
:
If
libertie
(
after
Ciceros
diffinition
)
be
to
lyue
as
thou
wylte
thy selfe
/
I
can
nat
se
howe
you
religious
men
shulde
haue
any
libertie
at
al
:
for
ye
lyke
byrdes
shutte
in
a
cage
dare
aduenture
to
do
nothinge
/
neither
to
eate
nor
speke
/
to
slepe
nor
wake
/
to
go
nor
come
/
nor
so
moche
as
ones
to
yane
/
without
the
abotte
or
superiour
commaunde
you
.
I
praye
you
do
suche
folkes
lyue
at
theyr
lybertie
?
No
certaynely
/
no
more
than
horses
or
asses
be
at
theyr
lybertie
/
the
whiche
are
brydled
and
prycked
with
the
spurtes
/
to
go
here
&
there
/
where
so
euer
the
ryder
wyll
haue
them
.
But
all
this
argument
is
sone
dasshed
.
For
we
wyl
nothynge
but
that
that
is
leful
:
and
therfore
it
is
lefull
for
vs
to
do
what
so
euer
we
wyll
.
But
touchynge
our
lybertye
/
I
wyll
speake
more
afterwarde
.
Nowe
gyue
me
leaue
to
question
agayne
with
the
a
lyttell
.
Tell
me
/
arte
thou
nat
ashamed
,
to
say
thou
arte
at
thy
lybertie
in
the
worlde
/
whan
thou
hast
mo
maysters
than
thou
canst
nombre
in
a
daye
?
Fyrste
/
thou
must
attende
and
apply
thy
mynde
about
the
worldly
busynesses
/
to
the
whiche
who
so
euer
ones
gyueth
hym selfe
/
they
are
wonte
to
wrappe
and
with
suche
cheynes
to
lynke
hym
in
/
that
whither
or
whiche
way
so
euer
they
drawe
/
he
muste
nedes
folowe
after
.
What
&
thou
haue
a
wyfe
/
yea
thou
must
nedes
be
hadde
/
for
wedlocke
is
a
thynge
reciprocate
?
Take
hede
/
there
be
an
other
peyre
of
fetters
.
For
truly
by
that
/
there
groweth
to
the
an
other
greuous
seruage
/
and
out
of
hit
thou
canste
nat
lyghtly
gette
.
Farther
,
what
&
thou
be
a
wicked
and
a
synfull
lyuer
?
O
good
lorde
/
in
to
what
a
bondage
and
thraldome
arte
thou
than
ironne
?
Nowe
loke
howe
many
vices
thou
haste
/
and
to
so
many
maysters
thou
muste
obey
/
yea
suche
maisters
as
are
most
terrible
/
abominable
/
and
cruell
.
For
who
wolde
deme
that
man
to
be
at
his
libertie
/
the
whiche
can
nothyng
disobey
his
bodily
luste
/
but
what
so
euer
it
commaundeth
/
yea
thoughe
it
be
moost
fylthy
/
as
hit
is
alway
/
and
most
harde
or
peinefull
/
as
it
is
ofte
/
yet
he
must
nedes
obey
?
Thyne
eyes
desyre
slepe
/
and
fayne
thou
woldest
slepe
:
but
to
the
entente
that
thou
shuldest
nat
/
thy
ryghte
stately
maistres
fleshly
luste
lettethe
the
/
she
byddeth
the
to
raue
in
the
nyght
/
and
to
ronne
aboute
/
to
visette
thy
paramour
/
and
in
a
foule
stynkynge
brothell
howse
amonge
hoores
and
drabbes
to
passe
forthe
the
nyghte
without
slepe
.
And
there
thou
muste
be
gladde
to
please
a
stynkynge
harlotte
:
if
she
commaunde
the
to
do
any
thynge
/
thou
muste
do
it
:
if
she
forbydde
the
to
do
any
thynge
/
thou
muste
lyke
wyse
obey
:
if
she
bydde
the
go
thy
waye
/
thou
must
departe
:
if
she
bydde
the
come
/
thou
must
returne
.
Dost
nat
thinke
this
a
thraldome
or
bondage
moste
shameful
?
What
libertie
hath
a
couetous
man
?
he
wolde
fayne
lyue
at
home
/
&
so
sluggardie
byddeth
hym
.
But
may
he
do
so
continually
?
wyl
his
maistres
couetousnes
suffre
that
?
what
saythe
she
?
Lyueste
thou
thus
in
sleuthe
?
why
sittyst
thou
styll
?
Seest
nat
what
great
wynnynge
thou
myghtest
haue
/
if
thou
woldest
passe
the
see
with
marchandise
in
to
France
/
Flanders
/
and
other
places
?
Come
of
/
make
the
redy
/
thou
must
nedes
take
shyppyng
.
Lo
/
thou
hast
wynde
at
will
.
And
thus
to
fullfyl
thy
maistres
byddynge
/
thou
trauaylest
by
see
&
lande
:
yea
all
the
wynter
longe
/
and
hast
no
care
for
the
tempestes
/
nor
for
thy
wyfe
/
nor
for
thy
children
/
no
nor
for
thyn
owne
lyfe
.
Doste
thou
reken
thy selfe
this
wyse
to
lyue
at
lybertie
?
And
in
reasonynge
a
lyke
profe
may
be
made
of
euery
other
vice
:
but
bicause
me
thinke
this
talkynge
waxeth
tedious
to
the
/
I
wyll
passe
ouer
and
speake
of
other
thynges
:
but
fyrste
I
wyll
shewe
the
in
generall
/
that
no
man
beynge
wicked
and
sinfull
can
be
at
his
libertie
.
Were
thou
neuer
ashamed
and
sory
for
thy
fylthy
lyfe
?
Yes
I
beleue
many
a
tyme
.
For
who
is
so
farre
paste
all
grace
/
that
neuer
remembreth
howe
he
hath
lyued
?
and
whan
he
seeth
howe
he
is
defiled
/
either
for
feare
of
punishement
/
or
for
the
loue
of
vertue
/
he
hath
an
entente
or
purpose
to
amende
his
lyfe
.
Thou
sayst
/
it
is
so
in
very
dede
/
and
I
stryue
with
my selfe
other
while
to
forgo
my
mooste
wycked
maners
:
but
whan
I
am
about
it
,
ye
wolde
nat
beleue
with
what
force
&
violence
custome
in
synne
stoppeth
me
/
yea
and
whether
I
wyll
or
no
/
hit
driueth
me
to
myn
olde
affections
.
Thou
sayste
well
and
truely
.
What
than
?
Dost
thou
nat
perceyue
wretche
in
to
what
greatte
captiuite
thou
arte
brought
?
Dost
nat
nowe
vnderstande
,
that
thou
arte
seruaunt
vnto
vyces
?
For
whan
they
perceyue
that
thou
art
about
to
leaue
them
,
and
to
ronne
away
/
they
lay
handes
vpon
the
/
and
as
a
servaunt
fast
fettred
/
they
throwe
the
in
to
the
backe
house
.
To
be
seruaunte
vnto
many
Is
a
state
of
greatte
mysery
.
Wherto
shulde
I
nowe
remembre
to
the
our
lybertie
or
fredome
?
Doth
it
nat
seme
a
great
libertie
to
lyue
out
of
fortunes
dominion
?
if
there
be
any
fortune
/
and
neither
to
drede
her
cruelty
,
nor
to
desyre
her
fauour
/
nor
nothynge
greued
with
her
aduerse
frowardnes
/
nor
nothynge
the
more
insolent
or
stately
for
her
luckynes
.
We
dare
as
boldly
despyse
her
as
Democritus
dydde
/
ye
and
in
derisyon
make
a
potte
at
her
.
She
hathe
no
power
ouer
vs
.
We
haue
to gether
with
worldly
ryches
,
throwen
away
from
vs
the
desyre
of
the
same
ryches
:
yea
we
haue
with
god
playde
the
vsurers
.
What
&
fortune
slee
vs
?
Yet
we
surely
know
/
that
no
greuous
thynge
can
chance
vnto
vs
saue
onely
filthy
synne
.
They
be
afrayd
of
deth
,
the
whiche
lyue
yll
and
synfully
.
But
certaynly
good
and
vertuous
people
do
nat
onely
lyue
out
of
the
drede
of
dethe
/
but
also
they
desyre
dethe
/
as
the
thynge
that
shulde
frome
hence
deducte
and
leade
them
to
a
more
welthy
and
blessed
life
.
Farthermore
we
haue
all
to
broken
the
iron
yea
the
cheyne
as
harde
as
the
adamante
stone
/
of
worldly
busynes
:
And
thus
we
beinge
lyghted
and
delyuered
of
that
moost
greuous
fardell
or
burthen
/
and
lyftyng
vp
our
myndes
to
heuen
/
what
so
euer
is
done
beneth
a
lowe
,
we
deme
our selfe
to
haue
nothynge
to
do
therwith
.
Wherfore
I
pray
the
/
what
thynge
can
be
more
free
or
more
at
lybertie
?
Farthermore
we
haue
by
the
helpe
of
god
/
shoken
of
our
neckes
the
moste
harde
or
heuy
yocke
of
terrible
Pharao
.
We
haue
gyuen
ouer
and
lefte
to
serue
most
shameful
&
reproued
lordes
/
I
meane
vyces
/
but
nat
in
suche
wyse
/
that
we
shulde
neuer
at
no
tyme
committe
sinne
or
offende
/
I
wotte
nat
whether
any
mortall
creature
maye
do
so
in
this
lyfe
or
no.
But
as
a
valiaunt
warriour
/
that
opteyneth
great
laude
and
preyse
/
and
the
name
of
a
conquerour
/
entrethe
boldly
in
to
batayle
/
and
manly
feyghteth
hande
to
hande
with
his
ennemy
/
and
there
receyueth
many
a
greuous
wounde
/
but
yet
he
eyther
taketh
or
sleeth
his
ennemie
:
And
on
the
other
side
/
he
that
is
taken
/
though
he
haue
neuer
a
wounde
/
no
nat
so
moche
as
his
skynne
broken
/
yet
he
is
iugged
to
be
vanquished
and
ouer
come
/
&
must
suffre
hym selfe
to
be
ledde
awaye
as
a
prysoner
in
to
captiuite
:
So
lyke
wyse
if
it
happen
vs
to
slyde
/
for
as
I
haue
sayde
/
almoost
no
man
can
kepe
hym selfe
alway
from
synne
:
yet
we
be
sure
to
ouercome
/
we
be
sure
of
our
libertie
,
and
we
be
in
certaynte
of
our
lyfe
.
What
dothe
hit
sygnifie
that
they
,
the
whiche
beare
them selfe
manly
in
batayle
are
wonte
to
vncouer
theyr
breast
is
/
to
shewe
the
scarres
of
theyr
woundes
?
Or
why
returne
they
in
to
the
cytie
or
lodgynges
with
the
speares
/
dartes
/
and
arowes
styckynge
styll
in
theyr
bodies
/
like
as
they
were
by
chance
stryken
and
wounded
in
batayle
?
Certeynly
to
the
ende
that
al
folke
shulde
se
and
vnderstande
/
that
they
reken
it
most
hygh
worship
/
in
the
defence
of
them selfe
/
and
the
welth
of
their
countrey
/
to
resceiue
moost
large
and
greuous
woundes
.
Yea
truely
they
wolde
rather
(
wounded
vnto
dethe
)
be
caried
in
to
theyr
tentes
or
lodgynges
with
victorye
/
than
holle
and
sounde
(
if
they
so
coude
)
to
come
vnder
the
subiection
of
theyr
ennemie
.
Who
so
euer
submitteth
hym
to
vice
and
synne
/
he
is
in
great
thraldome
and
a
very
bonde
man
to
an
ennemye
.
But
to
what
ennemye
?
To
an
ennemye
most
fylthy
/
most
cruell
/
and
most
mortall
/
the
whiche
wyl
be
more
gladde
and
fayne
of
our
dethe
/
than
of
his
owne
lyfe
.
What
a
shamefull
thynge
is
hit
for
man
/
and
what
an
vnworthye
thynge
to
mans
worthines
/
to
endure
or
suffre
/
that
the
foule
stynkynge
diuell
shulde
be
his
lorde
and
mayster
/
&
lette
naughte
by
hym
/
to
whom
he
is
bounde
both
for
hym selfe
and
all
that
euer
he
hath
?
Specially
sith
to
serue
hym
(
I
say
almyghty
god
)
is
most
high
libertie
/
yea
there
is
no
libertye
but
that
.
Wherfore
if
there
be
any
/
that
beginneth
to
waxe
wery
of
that
seruile
and
bondly
libertye
,
and
wolde
gladly
come
to
this
free
and
most
liberall
seruice
:
he
must
I
say
seke
it
in
religion
.
For
as
I
haue
sayde
/
libertie
is
to
serue
god
only
/
the
whiche
can
be
serued
no
where
better
than
in
solitarie
and
places
of
religion
:
for
there
is
no
where
els
so
moche
libertie
.
Howe
they
that
lyue
a
solitary
lyfe
enioy
a
double
quyetnes
.
The
Tenth
Chap.
BUt
what
is
he
that
coude
worthily
descryue
tranquyllyte
or
quyete
?
The
vnrestfull
rorynge
of
the
worlde
doth
nat
russhe
in
here
amonge
vs
in
religion
.
What
thynge
is
there
abrode
in
the
worlde
/
that
is
nat
full
of
bellynge
/
cryenge
/
hurlynge
and
burlynge
/
and
busynesse
?
One
wepeth
/
an
other
laugheth
/
he
lamentethe
/
he
stryueth
/
he
greteth
/
he
telleth
newes
/
one
calleth
forwarde
/
an
other
commaundeth
to
come
backe
/
he
is
gone
/
he
comethe
/
one
cryeth
and
calleth
out
a
loude
/
an
other
ronneth
to
and
fro
/
yea
whiche
waye
so
euer
thou
loke
/
where
so
euer
thou
become
/
thou
shalte
finde
nothynge
in
quiete
/
but
thou
shalte
fynde
euerye
thynge
full
of
noyse
and
dynne
/
in
suche
wyse
/
that
it
shall
seme
to
the
that
thou
art
all
to
tossed
amonge
the
ragynge
wawes
of
the
see
/
whan
it
is
most
troublous
.
Whan
shalt
thou
haue
tyme
amonge
these
thinges
to
sette
thy
mynde
at
rest
and
quiete
?
What
is
he
/
that
in
so
varyable
a
state
of
thinges
can
stande
constantly
&
lyue
out
of
trouble
?
What
thynge
in
this
whyrle
wynde
may
the
deuine
mynde
of
man
eyther
thynke
or
do
/
that
is
worthy
&
besemeth
hym
to
do
?
Howe
is
it
possyble
that
the
soule
/
nowe
made
deffe
with
continuall
and
vnsatiable
rorynge
and
yellyng
/
maye
here
her
spouse
knockynge
at
the
gates
of
her
breast
/
and
his
voyce
speakynge
to
her
?
For
a
treuthe
/
Helyas
perceyued
nat
that
our
lorde
god
was
with
hym
/
in
the
cite
or
towne
/
but
in
the
mountayne
/
nat
in
the
court
/
but
in
the
caue
/
nat
in
the
whyrle
wynde
that
all
to
brekethe
the
stones
/
nat
in
disturbance
/
no
nor
in
the
fyre
/
but
in
the
whissinge
of
the
thynne
and
lyghte
ayre
.
If
thou
haddest
tyme
to
ouer
rede
the
holye
historyes
/
thou
shuldest
se
and
perceyue
/
that
the
greattest
myracles
of
diuyne
thynges
were
shewed
and
done
in
solitarie
places
/
and
nat
where
great
resorte
and
company
were
gethered
.
For
where
was
that
secrete
and
wonderous
mistery
of
the
burnynge
boushe
that
flamed
vp
/
and
peryshed
nothynge
/
shewed
to
Moyses
?
Was
it
in
the
cities
of
Aegypt
?
No
trewelye
.
(
for
than
he
was
fledde
thence
for
drede
of
the
tyran
Pharao
)
but
it
was
done
in
the
hylle
of
god
/
after
he
had
entred
in
to
the
great
,
large
,
and
hygh
wodde
.
Nor
the
celestiall
foode
Manna
,
was
nat
sente
to
them
that
dyd
inhabite
great
&
noble
palaices
/
but
vnto
them
that
dwelled
in
the
flouryshynge
wyldernesse
.
Where
was
the
diuine
pompe
and
triumphe
celebrate
in
gyuyng
of
the
lawe
/
whan
the
celestial
trumpettes
gaue
a
terrible
sownde
,
nowe
and
than
thondryng
and
lightnynge
with
swyfte
flame
/
flusshynge
out
of
the
darke
and
thycke
cloudes
?
For
a
trouthe
this
was
done
vpon
the
hylle
toppe
of
Synai
/
all
the
common
people
beynge
commanded
to
stande
a
syde
.
And
it
is
lefte
in
writynge
/
that
in
olde
tyme
the
prophettis
chylderen
/
the
whiche
in
tyme
to
come
shulde
be
prophettis
them selfe
,
wolde
for
hatred
of
the
ryche
edefices
&
sumptuous
buyldynges
/
go
dwell
vpon
the
ryuer
syde
of
Iordan
.
Iohn
beynge
more
than
man
/
as
he
that
was
called
the
aungell
of
our
lorde
/
I
pray
the
where
ledde
he
his
heuenly
and
most
pure
lyfe
?
Where
was
he
taughte
the
diuine
secretes
/
that
he
doubted
nat
to
poynt
god
with
his
fynger
/
that
was
in
likenes
of
a
man
?
Certaynly
he
dyd
nat
lerne
it
at
home
with
his
father
/
but
in
the
wyldernes
.
And
what
meaneth
it
,
that
many
tymes
we
se
our
lorde
Iesus
hym selfe
/
as
thoughe
he
were
wery
of
company
/
departe
asyde
into
solitarye
places
?
How
often
is
it
redde
that
he
taughte
in
the
mountaynes
?
And
what
myracles
shewed
he
in
desarte
places
/
and
vpon
the
see
coost
/
both
in
healynge
of
syckenesses
/
and
in
correctynge
of
the
vices
bothe
of
body
&
soule
/
in
expulsynge
and
castynge
out
of
wycked
spirites
,
and
in
feadynge
of
so
great
multitudes
of
people
with
so
lyttell
quantite
of
meate
.
What
tyme
he
wolde
faste
,
he
cleane
absented
hym selfe
/
and
was
in
desarte
places
out
of
the
syght
of
all
folkes
.
In
a
mountayne
that
mooste
gratious
visyon
was
shewed
to
his
thre
apostels
.
In
the
twylyght
of
that
nyght
,
in
the
whiche
Chryste
suffred
hym selfe
to
be
taken
/
to
the
entent
he
wolde
praye
/
he
departed
and
went
in
to
the
orchardes
.
It
is
he
the
whiche
also
byddeth
vs
whan
we
woll
pray
,
to
hyde
vs
in
the
secrete
partes
of
our
chambre
.
And
fynally
/
it
was
nat
causelesse
/
but
for
great
skele
/
that
he
was
slayne
with
out
the
cytye
:
so
that
thou
mayst
lyghtly
perceyue
that
he
fledde
busklyng
busynes
,
that
he
hated
the
clamorous
assystens
of
people
/
that
he
loued
nat
the
crackelynge
and
dynne
of
the
courtes
,
and
that
he
delyted
nat
in
the
getheryng
and
frequence
of
people
/
but
he
ioyed
to
be
alone
/
&
loued
very
moche
tranquillite
.
Wherto
shulde
I
nowe
reherce
the
examples
of
man
,
the
whiche
be
of
lesse
auctorite
?
Men
say
that
Pythagoras
was
taughte
many
secrete
thynges
in
the
caue
called
Ideus
.
Plato
demed
his
schole
of
phylosophye
moche
more
commodious
to
be
kept
at
Achadamie
than
within
the
cytye
of
Athens
.
The
poetes
them selfe
feyned
howe
they
had
I
wotte
nat
what
clyues
and
darke
woddis
/
where
they
wonned
or
abode
,
as
ofte
as
the
diuine
furour
toke
them
:
wherby
they
sygnifie
/
that
he
that
desyreth
to
endite
or
make
any
noble
and
goodly
ditee
/
he
must
seperate
hym selfe
from
company
.
Farthermore
to
speake
of
the
vulgar
people
/
we
se
that
golde
smythes
/
peynters
/
and
other
artificers
/
in
whose
workemanshyppe
is
any
thynge
of
singular
industrie
and
great
connynge
/
whan
they
couet
to
make
any
thynge
more
exactly
&
with
greatter
diligence
/
they
get
them
to
some
place
/
where
the
noyse
and
commynge
and
goynge
of
folkes
shall
nat
trouble
them
in
their
workes
.
By
al
whiche
thynges
/
hie
is
playne
and
euident
to
perceyue
/
that
moche
company
annoyeth
&
greueth
hym
ryght
moche
:
the
whiche
entendeth
or
gothe
aboute
to
do
any
thynge
of
great
weygth
and
difficultie
.
And
quiete
is
ryght
oportune
and
very
necessarye
for
hym
that
wyll
enterprise
or
go
in
hande
with
hyghe
and
weightye
matters
.
And
what
is
a
more
higher
and
a
more
serious
busynes
than
it
that
concerneth
thy
soule
helthe
,
and
blessed
liuynge
?
Therfore
while
thou
abydest
in
the
worlde
/
thou
canst
nat
commodiously
atcheue
this
busynesse
.
For
in
what
place
of
the
worlde
shalt
thou
fynde
quiete
?
But
contrary
wyse
good
Ioyce
/
here
in
religion
/
all
thynges
be
whishte
or
in
silence
/
within
/
without
/
and
euery
where
is
perfecte
peace
.
The
pleasant
recesse
or
solytarynes
of
the
place
/
is
the
cause
of
sylence
:
&
peace
procedeth
or
comethe
of
a
verye
good
and
a
close
mynde
:
And
so
moche
the
tone
nedeth
the
tothers
helpe
,
that
if
thou
take
away
the
tone
,
thou
woldest
thynke
that
neither
of
both
remayned
:
For
the
outwarde
quiete
doth
cheryshe
/
noryshe
/
and
defende
the
inwarde
peace
:
And
againe
the
outwarde
quiete
without
the
inwarde
/
wold
be
greuous
/
ydell
/
ye
and
very
hurtfull
.
And
only
hym
that
hath
his
mynde
greuously
vexed
and
troubled
/
the
poet
forbyddeth
to
be
alone
/
sayenge
/
¶
what
euer
thou
dost
hurtfull
are
placis
alone
Beware
of
sole
placis
whan
thou
dost
mone
whither
woldest
thou
than
flee
or
starte
asyde
:
Amonge
company
thou
mayst
more
surely
byde
.
NOr
I
maye
nat
here
well
ouerpasse
(
all
thoughe
I
entende
to
be
brefe
/
for
hit
commeth
so
well
to
pourpose
)
that
same
noble
exhortation
of
the
philosopher
Crates
/
the
whiche
on
a
tyme
/
as
he
behelde
and
marked
a
yonge
man
/
that
wandred
all
alone
hyther
and
thyther
/
musynge
and
imaginynge
verye
profoundly
vpon
some
thynge
:
asked
hym
what
he
dydde
there
?
The
yong
man
answered
:
I
talke
with
my selfe
.
Take
hede
quod
Crates
/
that
thou
talke
nat
with
a
lewde
or
a
naughtye
felowe
.
Eche
of
them
answered
meryly
and
quickely
.
Therfore
solitarynes
in
a
persone
of
laudable
and
good
lyuynge
is
commendable
:
and
contrary
wyse
to
wycked
and
mischeuous
lyuers
/
nothynge
is
more
perillous
.
For
than
these
mischeuous
caytyues
thynke
on
mischiefe
/
than
they
conceyue
in
theyr
myndes
most
cruel
dedes
/
and
than
they
treate
&
reuolue
vnhappy
counsayles
both
for
them selfe
&
other
.
Yea
and
what
shulde
stere
miserable
wretches
/
to
haste
to
slee
them selfe
:
if
oportunitie
of
solitarinesse
dyd
nat
prouoke
them
therto
?
Who
is
he
that
euer
dranke
poyson
/
that
hanged
hym selfe
/
that
styckte
hym selfe
/
that
brake
his
necke
/
excepte
he
were
alone
?
Thou
sayste
to
me
:
wherfore
than
dost
thou
commende
to
me
so
moche
solitarines
/
a
thyng
so
perrillous
?
Here
haue
I
nothynge
to
answere
more
conuenientlye
than
the
sayenge
of
Crates
before
remembred
:
Whan
thou
lyueste
by
thy selfe
alone
/
beware
that
thou
lyue
nat
with
a
lewde
or
a
wicked
felowe
/
&
than
thou
nedeste
nat
to
drede
any
thynge
in
solitarines
.
So
departe
awaye
from
company
/
that
thou
mayst
be
moche
farther
of
from
vices
:
and
loke
that
the
places
aboute
the
be
so
in
sylence
/
that
thy
corage
and
mynde
gronte
nor
groudge
nat
.
And
all
be
it
that
I
am
longe
in
this
matter
,
yet
my
mynde
is
nat
to
commende
vnto
the
/
the
solytarines
of
Timon
/
I
wolde
nat
that
thou
shuldest
seperate
thy selfe
from
all
mankynde
/
as
he
dyd
/
but
I
wolde
thou
shuldest
leaue
vnruly
company
.
And
as
touchinge
the
outwarde
quiete
I
haue
spoken
sufficiently
.
Nowe
I
wyll
brefelye
entreate
of
the
inwarde
peace
/
the
whiche
lyke
as
it
resteth
or
consysteth
in
the
mynde
/
so
it
procedeth
or
cometh
from
a
good
and
a
pure
mynde
from
vice
.
For
vertue
is
of
suche
strengthe
or
effecte
/
that
it
quieteth
or
setteth
at
rest
the
mynde
or
corage
/
wherin
hit
remayneth
/
with
an
incredible
peasablenesse
/
ye
&
it
expelleth
or
auoydeth
all
pensyuenes
/
horrour
/
drede
/
and
perturbation
.
What
a
thynge
vertue
is
/
thou
shalte
better
vnderstande
/
if
thou
lyst
to
be
holde
/
what
grefes
/
what
troubles
/
and
what
vexations
a
wycked
mynde
endureth
.
For
he
that
is
a
thefe
/
a
disceiuer
of
the
people
/
a
hoore
monger
/
a
traytour
/
a
rauisher
of
women
/
an
aduoutrer
/
or
other
wyse
a
mischeuous
caytife
/
his
conscience
for
the
wicked
dedes
doth
oppresse
hym
so
/
that
he
is
all
to
tossed
and
tombled
with
perpetual
care
&
drede
.
The
verye
shappe
or
fourme
of
his
wicked
and
mischeuous
dedes
/
lyke
as
hit
were
the
horrible
furies
of
Helle
/
ronne
vpon
hym
/
they
fiersly
assaile
and
enuade
hym
both
slepyng
&
wakynge
.
At
euery
thyng
he
waxeth
pale
/
he
is
afrayde
of
euery
busshe
/
but
namely
he
dredeth
suspection
/
whisterynge
/
infamy
/
iugement
/
&
punishement
.
But
admitte
,
that
he
setteth
naught
by
all
these
thynges
/
and
can
disceyue
the
conscience
of
men
/
and
that
he
dredeth
nat
al
mighty
god
:
yet
whan
shall
he
brynge
it
so
to
passe
/
that
he
may
escape
the
smarte
prickynges
or
grudgynges
of
his
owne
conscience
?
That
shall
he
neuer
do
.
For
what
so
euer
thynge
he
wolde
do
/
or
whyther
so
euer
he
wolde
flee
/
the
same
cruel
turmentis
/
shutte
with
in
his
breaste
/
wyll
nat
leaue
hym
/
they
appere
styll
before
hym
/
they
tosse
and
turmoyle
hym
/
they
make
hym
afrayde
/
nor
they
will
nat
suffre
his
meate
/
the
lyght
of
the
day
/
no
nor
his
lyfe
to
be
ioyous
to
hym
/
ye
and
lastly
they
make
his
very
naturall
rest
or
slepe
vnquiete
to
hym
.
Herof
very
often
tymes
cometh
leanes
of
the
body
:
this
causeth
vggly
and
fierse
countinance
/
of
this
cometh
the
fylthynes
of
the
eies
:
and
herof
ryseth
feare
of
euery
thyng
:
wherby
they
be
wonte
to
discouer
and
bewraye
them selfe
:
the
whiche
thynge
is
ryght
well
and
iustly
ordeyned
of
god
that
mooste
ryghtous
iuge
/
to
th
entent
that
no
man
shulde
committe
an
iuell
dede
/
and
be
vtterly
vnpunyshed
:
For
suspeciousnes
is
wonte
forthwith
to
folowe
foule
and
yll
dedes
/
the
whiche
fyrst
of
al
doth
greatly
punishe
the
misdoer
/
and
there
vpon
talkynges
and
infamy
doth
folowe
/
the
whiche
vndoubted
many
iuge
for
so
great
a
mischiefe
/
that
they
had
leauer
dye
than
lyue
and
endure
them
.
But
some
be
drowned
so
depe
in
synne
/
that
they
set
naughte
by
suche
thynges
.
Admitte
hit
be
as
the
common
sayenge
is
/
that
as
moche
as
theyr
wyckednes
is
/
so
moche
is
theyr
fortune
/
and
that
no
man
accuseth
them
/
nor
no
iuge
medleth
with
them
:
yet
I
say
there
shal
be
one
in
tyme
to
come
/
the
whiche
wyll
sore
and
rigorously
punyshe
them
.
Yea
but
those
thynges
be
farre
of
saye
they
/
as
thoughe
they
were
sure
and
certeyne
/
to
lyue
that
space
of
one
houre
.
But
admitte
it
be
as
they
do
say
/
yet
for
all
that
euen
nowe
whyle
they
be
alyue
/
they
be
inwardelye
turmented
and
punyshed
with
theyr
conscience
/
the
whiche
prycketh
so
sharpely
and
so
bytterly
/
that
there
is
no
wycked
dede
can
cause
so
great
pleasure
/
that
hit
shulde
be
boughte
with
suche
turmentis
.
Who
coude
euer
sufficientlye
deme
/
howe
cruell
the
disturbance
of
the
breast
is
/
whan
the
selfe
mynde
with
a
sharpe
sedition
stryuethe
with
it selfe
/
and
some
partis
therof
inclinynge
some
way
/
is
striken
/
haled
/
plucked
/
torren
/
and
rent
/
the
memorie
accuseth
/
reason
iuggeth
/
and
conscience
punysheth
.
Reason
calleth
one
waye
/
and
nature
an
other
waye
/
and
the
pleasure
of
synne
an
other
way
:
wherof
are
engendred
perpetuall
pryckynges
/
perpetuall
braulynges
/
and
perpetuall
warre
.
Wherfore
it
is
thoughte
that
certaine
doctours
of
the
churche
haue
sayde
very
well
/
the
whiche
iugged
/
that
the
Remorce
of
conscience
/
that
accompanieth
and
gothe
with
the
synners
vnto
hell
/
was
nat
the
leest
parte
of
the
punishemētis
/
that
they
suffre
there
.
The
whiche
thynges
Iuuenall
right
ornatly
(
as
he
doth
euery
thynge
)
descryueth
as
foloweth
:
¶
Than
what
is
the
cause
tell
me
nowe
why
That
thou
supposest
,
howe
thou
hast
scaped
wele
The
troublous
motions
of
thy
mynde
inwardly
By
grouge
of
thy
conscyence
that
the
dothe
appele
And
fore
the
accuseth
,
and
cruelly
dothe
dele
.
In
thy
secrete
thoughtes
of
pryuey
pensyuenesse
Scourgynge
the
with
scourges
of
boteles
bytternes
¶
Remorse
of
conscience
is
of
suche
vehemens
That
it
is
the
peyne
moost
peynefull
of
all
paynes
So
sauage
,
so
ragynge
,
so
sowre
of
experience
So
doggedly
gnawynge
,
so
troublynge
mans
braynes
That
where
so
Remors
of
conscience
remaynes
Ceditius
that
iuge
,
nor
Radamant
iuge
of
Hell
Dyd
neuer
suche
punishement
with
peynes
halfe
so
fell
¶
For
who
so
is
vexed
of
conscience
with
remors
Slepynge
or
wakynge
by
day
and
by
nyghte
Out
of
his
harte
no
chaunce
can
it
deuorse
This
penytent
penaunce
perpetually
dothe
fyght
Eatynge
or
drynsrynge
it
is
euer
in
thy
syghte
Thy
throte
so
with
thought
it
doth
both
stoppe
&
freate
That
scantly
thou
canst
eate
,
nor
swalowe
downe
thy
meate
.
And
so
forth
most
eloquently
and
truely
he
procedeth
.
And
lyke
wyse
as
the
same
thynges
be
proued
by
reason
and
auctorite
/
euen
so
therof
may
be
shewed
a
thousande
examples
:
but
bycause
we
wyll
nat
tary
longe
in
rehersyng
of
many
/
thre
shall
suffice
vs
nowe
:
of
the
whiche
the
fyrste
shal
be
taken
out
of
fables
/
the
seconde
out
of
the
Romayn
histories
/
and
the
thyrde
out
of
holy
scripture
.
What
other
thyng
dothe
it
signifie
/
after
Orestes
had
slaine
his
mother
/
he
was
taken
with
spirites
(
whiche
commonly
are
called
furies
)
and
was
so
sore
vexed
with
them
/
that
whither
so
euer
he
fledde
/
he
alway
mette
them
shouynge
fyre
brondes
agaynst
hym
:
than
that
he
/
the
whiche
commytteth
any
mischeuous
dede
is
turmented
and
vexed
with
the
remors
of
conscience
/
as
though
he
were
taken
with
a
fransie
?
Certaynly
many
thynges
haue
ben
ryght
counnyngly
inuented
of
the
poetis
/
but
after
myne
opinion
/
none
more
apte
or
feter
than
this
.
And
therfore
it
repenteth
me
nat
to
reherse
this
fable
here
.
And
what
thynge
is
more
euident
than
the
example
of
Lucius
Sylla
?
This
man
as
I
rede
.
was
cruell
out
of
all
measure
:
so
that
hit
is
a
thynge
ryghte
myserable
to
tell
howe
many
he
banished
/
or
commaunded
to
be
slayne
:
and
also
he
was
nat
a
lyttell
garnyshed
or
decked
with
other
vices
.
But
of
this
tyran
/
the
very
selfe
malyce
that
was
in
hym
/
toke
vengeance
/
the
whiche
no
man
els
coude
do
.
For
he
was
so
turmented
and
vexed
with
the
conscyence
of
his
yll
and
wicked
dedes
/
that
by
no
wytte
nor
helpe
of
phisytyons
he
coude
nat
recouer
agayne
his
slepe
/
that
he
had
lost
:
and
so
at
the
last
he
dyed
of
the
moost
fylthy
disease
called
the
lowsy
yuell
.
The
olde
and
manifest
example
of
Cain
dothe
yet
remayne
.
We
rede
that
he
beynge
moued
with
enuie
/
slewe
his
brother
/
but
he
dyd
it
nat
vnpunished
.
For
he
was
punyshed
forth
with
/
and
that
diuersly
/
but
no
way
more
cruelly
/
nor
more
mortaliye
/
than
of
conscyence
.
The
remorce
of
conscyence
for
his
wycked
dede
was
to
hym
more
greuous
/
than
any
other
punishement
that
god
his
creatour
toke
.
Our
lorde
god
rebuked
hym
yea
he
rather
reclaymed
hym
/
to
cause
hym
to
take
repentance
and
to
confesse
his
offence
:
but
he
the
wretched
caytyue
estemed
his
synne
greatter
than
coude
be
forgyuen
.
God
graunted
hym
his
life
,
but
he
iuged
him selfe
vnworthy
to
liue
.
What
a
vengeable
turmentour
thynke
ye
thus
cruelly
vexed
his
stomake
?
What
swete
or
pleasant
thynge
suppose
ye
coude
chance
hym
in
his
lyfe
/
the
whiche
beynge
sore
greued
with
hym selfe
/
and
dispeirynge
of
hym selfe
/
as
one
all
heuy
and
pensyue
demynge
his
lyfe
to
hym
bytter
and
sower
/
he
dredde
and
was
ashamed
to
come
abrode
in
the
syght
of
folkes
?
For
he
wente
that
all
other
had
ben
suche
to
hym
as
he
was
hym selfe
.
Thus
ye
se
good
Ioyce
/
what
turmentes
/
what
defilinges
/
what
grudgingis
/
what
troubles
/
and
what
braydes
a
wycked
and
a
synfull
mynde
endurethe
.
Nowe
take
hede
and
marke
/
howe
restfull
/
howe
peasible
/
and
howe
pleasant
a
thynge
it
is
to
haue
a
clere
and
an
vncombred
conscience
/
and
for
no
gylte
to
waxe
pale
?
What
thynge
is
it
that
can
disturbe
or
trouble
his
mynde
that
is
well
setled
and
ordred
?
What
thynge
of
ryght
ought
he
to
drede
?
Shulde
he
be
a
gast
of
any
man
?
Certaynely
he
nedethe
nat
to
drede
though
man
be
his
ennemy
/
that
is
holly
bente
on
god
his
frende
.
Shall
calamitees
and
miseries
make
hym
afrayde
?
No
truelye
.
For
he
rekeneth
them
to
be
his
wynnynges
.
But
shal
he
lyue
in
drede
of
dethe
/
the
whiche
also
he
gladly
desireth
and
wissheth
fore
?
Finally
/
shall
he
nat
feare
god
hym selfe
?
No
truely
.
For
he
hopeth
and
surely
trusteth
/
that
he
is
in
goddes
fauour
and
kepyng
.
What
can
be
thought
more
restfull
quiete
/
more
vncarefull
or
more
happy
/
than
this
thynge
?
Ioyce
/
one
may
fele
or
perceyue
it
/
but
playnely
it
wyll
nat
be
declared
.
Parauenture
/
thou
arte
so
blessed
or
happy
/
that
thou
haste
alredy
lyuynge
in
the
worlde
/
the
selfe same
thyng
that
I
call
the
vnto
.
And
I
verylye
truste
that
thou
hast
.
But
my
mynde
is
/
that
so
moche
the
rather
thou
shuldest
flye
and
leaue
the
worlde
.
For
here
in
religion
/
thou
shalte
fynde
and
haue
hit
more
heapingly
/
and
farre
more
surer
.
What
thynge
maketh
the
so
carelesse
/
that
thou
wylte
beare
so
dere
a
treasure
amonge
theues
?
If
thou
haue
ought
/
it
shal
encreace
here
in
religion
/
but
in
the
worlde
is
continual
feare
/
lest
thou
forgo
it
:
Here
mooste
specially
is
the
ilke
inwarde
peace
:
and
excepte
the
outwarde
quiete
be
here
/
it
is
no
where
.
In
the
worlde
is
no
inwarde
peace
/
and
as
for
outwarde
peace
/
if
there
be
any
/
it
is
very
scante
/
and
nat
very
sure
.
And
this
is
certayne
/
that
the
religious
houses
reduce
the
yl
men
to
goodnesse
/
and
they
that
be
good
hit
maketh
better
:
But
contrary
wyse
/
the
worlde
is
wont
to
make
good
men
yll
/
and
yll
men
worse
.
Of
the
pleasure
that
is
in
solitary
lyfe
.
The
.xi.
Chap.
IN
discriuynge
of
tranquillite
or
quiete
,
I
haue
ben
more
brefe
than
the
thing
required
/
and
yet
therin
I
was
more
prolixe
than
I
thought
to
haue
ben
:
Nowe
I
wil
as
shortly
as
maye
be
/
declare
or
entreate
of
pleasure
/
the
whiche
thynge
onely
remayneth
vndeclared
.
Undoubted
all
folkes
are
so
obstinately
inclined
to
pleasure
/
that
for
no
maner
yuels
they
can
be
feared
from
it
/
nor
no
reason
can
withdrawe
them
from
hit
?
And
parauenture
hit
is
nat
without
great
skele
the
Epicure
saythe
/
mortall
creatures
in
the
iugement
of
pleasures
do
erre
moche
:
but
yet
all
creatures
by
one
assente
/
some
by
one
meane
&
some
by
an
other
/
seke
for
pleasures
.
So
that
for
this
cause
moost
speciallye
secular
or
worldly
folkes
are
wont
/
bothe
to
flye
and
hate
the
institution
of
our
lyfe
:
the
whiche
they
repute
to
be
harde
/
strayte
/
greuous
/
peynefull
/
and
cleane
without
pleasure
.
But
to
the
ende
that
this
errour
shulde
nat
abashe
or
make
them
agaste
/
I
shall
playnly
declare
/
that
it
is
farre
other
wyse
.
Yea
our
lyfe
is
so
moche
without
pleasure
/
that
I
durste
entyce
to
vs
all
the
delicate
Sardanapals
/
as
to
a
paradise
of
all
delites
&
pleasures
.
Thou
wylt
obiecte
and
say
:
yea
fayth
/
pleasure
is
in
monastaries
/
lyke
as
the
delphin
is
taken
in
the
woddes
/
and
the
wylde
bore
hunted
in
the
see
.
I
assure
the
good
Ioyce
/
that
all
the
maner
of
our
lyfe
is
pleasaunt
.
Thou
askeste
me
howe
that
shulde
be
:
&
I
shall
shewe
the
howe
.
Epicure
denyeth
those
thynges
to
be
pleasures
/
the
whiche
be
cause
of
gretter
greffes
.
We
kepe
no
drabbes
/
nor
lyue
nat
in
aduoutry
:
nor
we
feede
nat
/
nor
ingurge
nat
our selfe
/
lyke
as
the
wanton
prodigall
felowes
are
wont
to
do
:
we
be
sobre
at
the
sonne
goynge
downe
/
and
sobre
whan
the
sonne
ryseth
/
the
whiche
thynge
they
can
nat
say
.
For
those
thynges
are
neuer
in
so
good
plyte
/
but
they
be
cause
of
more
grefe
than
delyte
.
Nor
we
neyther
can
nor
couet
to
be
enryched
:
nor
to
be
ennobled
by
any
hyghe
magystrate
or
rowme
.
Nor
in
these
thynges
we
omytte
nat
the
maystership
of
Epicure
.
For
seynge
that
they
cause
littel
pleasure
&
moche
grefe
,
me
semeth
we
do
wisely
,
in
that
that
we
wyll
nat
bye
a
small
commodite
with
a
greatter
inconuenience
.
More
ouer
Epicure
teacheth
/
that
other
while
sorowes
must
be
ventred
on
/
or
taken
well
in
worthe
/
to
the
ende
that
greatter
and
more
greuouser
dolours
may
be
fledde
&
eschewed
.
And
lyke
wyse
ofte
tymes
we
must
forbeare
smal
pleasures
,
to
th
ende
that
we
maye
optayne
greatter
.
What
speake
ye
of
vs
?
We
religious
men
suffre
and
gladly
endure
watchynge
/
fastynge
/
solitarinesse
/
sylence
/
and
suche
like
thynges
/
to
th
ende
that
we
wolde
nat
susteine
greatter
sorowes
.
We
be
nat
dasshed
ful
of
swete
sauours
/
we
sytte
nat
bollynge
&
drynkynge
all
the
daye
/
we
daunce
nor
reuell
nat
/
we
loyter
nat
about
/
whither
so
euer
fonde
luste
calleth
vs
/
nor
we
set
nat
our
fantasy
on
suche
lyke
folishe
toyes
:
but
wolde
to
god
thou
coudeste
se
&
beholde
with
what
great
auantage
we
wante
those
thynges
.
Haddest
thou
thought
that
we
had
for
gone
pleasure
?
Nay
we
haue
nat
so
done
/
but
we
haue
made
a
change
/
yea
in
suche
a
wise
/
that
for
a
fewe
and
smal
pleasures
/
we
haue
receiued
many
great
pleasures
.
Me
thought
nowe
welyore
/
that
these
/
picked
/
delicate
felowes
gaue
an
eare
/
on
trust
that
I
wolde
shewe
some
newe
inuention
of
pleasure
:
and
for
certayne
so
I
wyll
.
But
in
the
meane
tyme
I
wolde
they
shuld
withdrawe
their
myndes
from
foule
stynkynge
&
vnlefull
pleasures
/
the
whiche
they
vse
with
beastis
in
commune
.
I
wolde
they
shulde
for
sake
theyr
beastilynes
/
and
vnderstande
/
that
in
man
is
some
what
more
higher
and
more
diuine
,
where
vnto
theyr
delectation
shulde
be
rather
applyed
than
vnto
the
bodye
.
For
seynge
that
in
beastis
there
is
nothynge
more
noble
than
the
body
/
hit
is
nat
vnskelfull
/
that
theyr
felicite
resteth
in
fillynge
of
theyr
bealies
and
in
bodily
luste
.
But
the
condition
or
state
of
man
is
more
worthye
/
than
that
he
shulde
esteme
hym selfe
to
be
borne
for
none
other
cause
than
beastis
be
.
For
man
is
nat
onely
made
and
compacte
of
the
body
but
also
of
the
soule
.
In
body
/
saue
onely
in
shappe
/
we
differre
nothynge
from
beastis
:
but
in
the
soule
we
resemble
very
moche
the
deuine
and
eternal
nature
.
The
body
is
a
thynge
erthye
/
beastly
/
slowe
/
mortall
/
syckely
/
caduke
/
vncrafty
/
and
vnnoble
:
Contrarie
wyse
/
the
soule
is
a
thynge
heuenly
/
diuine
/
immortall
/
perpetuall
/
pure
/
and
noble
.
Therfore
as
moche
as
the
bodye
is
lower
and
vnder
the
soule
in
dignite
/
so
moche
more
the
pleasure
of
the
soule
shulde
excelle
the
wanton
and
lewde
lustes
of
the
body
.
For
that
pleasure
/
lyke
the
soule
it selfe
/
is
perpetuall
/
neuer
lothesome
/
pure
/
honeste
/
diuine
/
&
helthfull
.
Contrarie
wyse
/
the
bodily
pleasures
/
are
disceiuable
/
soone
vanyshynge
/
lothsome
more
sower
than
swete
/
foule
/
and
deedly
.
But
it
is
impossible
to
enioy
the
pleasure
of
the
body
&
of
the
soule
bothe
at
ones
.
The
one
muste
nedes
be
forgone
.
What
wolde
Epicure
saye
to
this
/
if
one
asked
hym
counsayle
?
Forsothe
that
we
shulde
expelle
and
put
awaye
from
vs
those
fylthye
and
foule
lustes
of
the
body
/
that
they
lette
vs
nat
to
opteyne
/
the
swete
and
most
excellent
pleasures
of
the
soule
.
The
whiche
thynge
(
as
I
haue
sayde
)
is
nat
away
to
lose
/
but
greatly
to
wynne
pleasures
.
But
me
thynke
thou
lokest
that
I
shulde
tell
/
with
what
pleasures
of
the
soule
we
be
fedde
here
.
Fyrste
as
Epicure
sayth
/
whose
authorite
I
wyll
nat
yet
forgo
,
to
wante
the
horrible
vexation
and
grudge
of
an
vnclene
conscience
/
is
the
greattest
pleasure
that
can
be
.
For
he
hath
nat
a
lyttell
to
reioyce
of
/
that
hath
nothinge
to
be
sory
fore
.
Farther
/
is
nat
the
contemplation
of
heuenly
and
immortal
delectations
/
vnto
the
whiche
we
hope
ones
by
goddis
grace
to
come
/
a
thynge
of
great
pleasure
.
Who
is
so
blonte
of
vnderstandynge
/
that
whan
he
beyng
wery
of
this
lyfe
/
dothe
remembre
the
felicitie
celestyall
/
wyll
nat
wepe
for
very
ioye
?
Whose
mynde
is
so
agreued
and
oppressed
with
heuynes
&
sorowe
/
the
whiche
whan
he
remembreth
the
lyfe
to
come
/
doth
nat
rise
vp
/
and
waxeth
very
gladsome
/
yea
and
wolde
fayne
be
out
of
this
worlde
?
What
&
one
myght
taste
and
sauoure
these
thynges
?
For
all
be
it
that
they
/
to
whom
the
worlde
is
as
yet
sauory
/
can
fynde
no
sauour
or
swetenes
in
them
/
yet
vnto
holy
and
well
dysposed
mindes
there
is
nothynge
more
surely
approued
.
And
thoughe
that
the
great
ioye
and
pleasure
of
the
lyfe
that
is
reserued
in
tyme
to
come
/
can
nat
be
perceiued
/
be
fore
the
soule
departynge
out
of
this
yll
fylthy
/
and
vnswete
prison
of
the
body
/
resorte
thither
agayne
/
from
whence
it
came
:
yet
neuer
the
lesse
/
me
semethe
that
good
deuoute
myndes
haue
a
smacke
and
some
perceyuynge
therof
/
and
are
weate
as
hit
were
with
a
dewe
of
heuenlye
showers
:
and
of
that
same
lyght
that
neuer
shall
fayle
/
they
se
as
it
were
a
glymeryng
or
a
glance
.
The
whiche
thynge
howe
great
a
pleasure
it
is
,
it
can
nat
be
perswaded
vnto
hym
that
is
ignorant
&
vnexperte
therof
:
but
vnto
them
that
be
experte
therin
/
it
can
nat
be
estemed
nor
spoken
howe
pleasante
it
is
.
And
all
thoughe
(
as
saynt
Bernarde
sayth
)
these
delytes
are
but
outher
whyle
/
and
are
wonte
to
tary
but
a
shorte
space
:
yet
are
they
so
great
/
that
if
all
the
pleasures
of
this
worlde
were
layde
to gether
on
a
heape
/
in
regarde
of
these
they
wolde
seme
lyttell
worthe
/
yea
and
nat
to
be
set
by
.
And
if
there
were
no
other
rewardes
/
for
good
dedes
to
be
hoped
fore
(
whiche
thyng
is
farre
other
wyse
)
yet
forsothe
hit
wolde
neuer
greue
me
/
for
this
onely
hyre
or
mede
to
suffre
and
endure
all
maner
labours
/
and
wolde
deme
them
so
worthy
/
that
to
th
entent
to
opteyne
them
/
I
wolde
nat
onely
despice
and
set
naught
by
all
other
lustis
and
delites
of
this
worlde
/
but
also
bydde
them
batayle
.
Go
to
than
/
what
mowe
we
suppose
&
thynke
that
the
great
plentie
or
abundance
of
these
ioyes
wolde
do
/
if
a
littell
smacke
or
a
very
thynne
sauour
of
them
so
moche
deliteth
/
so
recreateth
/
and
maketh
one
so
ioyfull
?
O
/
howe
great
a
pleasure
shall
it
be
/
whan
that
diuine
lyghte
shall
shyne
ouer
&
ouer
vs
,
the
whiche
can
nat
be
seen
but
with
most
purified
eies
:
so
that
we
also
shall
all
shyne
bryght
:
seinge
that
a
lyttel
glymeryng
or
a
glance
therof
/
the
whiche
quickely
cometh
and
vanisheth
/
causeth
so
great
pleasure
?
Farthermore
/
that
swetenes
/
that
the
holy
goste
many
tymes
secretly
entrynge
in
to
the
cleane
&
pure
myndes
causeth
/
howe
ofre
in
the
moste
chaste
chambre
he
enbraceth
and
clyppeth
his
spouse
/
languishynge
in
his
loue
/
and
lamentynge
as
louers
are
wonte
that
loue
feruently
/
with
most
gentyll
&
frendly
familiarite
/
dothe
comforte
and
chere
her
:
this
great
swetenes
I
say
/
wherto
shulde
I
remembre
?
Let
them
reherse
hit
that
haue
knowlege
therof
.
But
they
knowe
hit
and
that
happilye
/
the
whiche
pleased
god
shulde
haue
experience
.
I
am
vnworthye
as
yet
to
be
admitted
to
come
to
these
delites
:
or
though
I
haue
a
lyttell
sklenderly
tasted
therof
/
yet
I
had
rather
tell
it
by
other
than
by
my selfe
.
And
thoughe
hit
be
more
certaine
to
tell
it
by
my selfe
/
yet
it
is
more
comely
that
I
shewe
it
by
other
.
I
haue
harde
some
say
many
tymes
with
wepynge
teares
/
that
these
worldly
pleasures
/
the
whiche
vnto
folyshe
braggynge
felowes
sauour
so
well
/
haue
semed
vnto
them
so
bytter
and
so
sower
/
that
theyr
mynde
hath
nat
onely
aborred
those
thynges
/
but
also
their
eares
to
here
speake
of
them
/
as
whan
the
vse
of
bread
was
founde
/
acornes
began
to
be
lothed
and
naughte
set
by
:
so
the
false
delites
beganne
to
waxe
lothsome
to
them
/
after
they
had
taken
a
taste
of
the
very
trewe
pleasures
.
But
helas
very
many
worldly
people
of
that
rustical
and
blounte
sorte
/
haue
taken
suche
a
smacke
in
this
swynishe
fedynge
/
that
nothinge
saue
their
acornes
can
sauour
vnto
them
.
Nor
they
vnderstande
nat
what
iocundyte
of
lyte
there
may
be
/
or
whye
they
shulde
desyre
to
lyue
here
in
this
worlde
/
if
the
acornes
/
that
is
to
say
the
voluptie
and
pleasure
of
the
belly
and
mouthe
/
shulde
be
taken
awaye
from
them
.
And
therfore
so
often
as
they
se
vs
religious
men
take
suche
labours
and
peyne
as
they
suppose
they
coude
nat
endure
/
&
yet
to
be
more
lustye
/
more
merye
/
and
in
better
plite
and
lykynge
than
they
be
that
do
nothyng
els
but
banket
and
make
good
chere
/
they
maruayle
out
of
all
measure
:
Nor
they
can
nat
perceyue
howe
we
shulde
haue
any
pleasure
/
after
we
haue
forsaken
and
throwen
awaye
from
vs
the
delectations
and
pleasures
of
the
fleshe
.
And
yet
these
men
se
tender
yonge
men
and
also
delycate
virgins
/
they
se
theyr
yeres
and
shap
/
and
they
remembre
/
howe
softe
and
wantonly
they
were
a
lyttell
before
cherished
and
broughte
vp
:
and
on
the
other
syde
they
leaue
nat
vnremembred
/
if
in
our
religious
lyfe
be
any
thynge
sharpe
/
greuous
or
peynefull
/
as
solitarinesse
/
labour
/
watche
/
fastynge
/
and
suche
like
thinges
.
They
se
that
it
is
nat
only
lefull
vnto
these
yonge
children
to
leaue
and
forsake
this
maner
of
lyfe
/
but
also
with
what
great
instance
of
theyr
parentes
and
frendes
/
they
be
intyced
/
monished
/
prayed
/
and
vehemently
stered
to
forsake
their
religion
:
But
contrary
wyse
/
the
more
they
be
persuaded
/
the
more
obstinate
they
be
.
Theyr
mother
that
wepeth
and
waylethe
they
comforte
and
bydde
to
be
of
good
chere
/
with
theyr
eien
drye
:
Theyr
syster
collynge
them
about
the
necke
/
they
shake
of
and
despice
:
And
from
their
mooste
dere
play
feres
/
from
whom
but
a
littell
before
to
be
absente
a
day
/
was
a
very
harde
thynge
/
they
be
nowe
right
easily
all
their
lyfe
duryng
plucked
away
.
Fynally
they
take
theyr
leaue
and
byd
fare
well
with
so
mery
a
countinance
/
&
kysse
at
theyr
last
partynge
with
so
glad
chere
/
that
no
man
that
is
by
/
though
he
be
a
stranger
can
forbeare
wepynge
.
It
pleaseth
me
here
(
and
I
pray
the
be
nat
agreued
therwith
)
to
remembre
the
heuye
and
lamentable
soupper
/
whiche
was
the
laste
soupper
/
that
Margerete
the
good
virgin
/
the
whiche
I
loued
as
she
had
ben
myn
owne
sister
/
had
with
her
parentes
and
frendes
.
I
was
there
present
the
same
tyme
/
and
so
were
many
mo
as
well
as
I
/
the
whiche
the
mayden
had
desired
to
come
thither
/
to
th
entent
/
that
by
our
procuration
and
helpe
she
myghte
opteyne
of
her
father
/
that
that
she
had
frustratly
or
in
vayne
desired
of
hym
.vi.
yeres
daye
before
/
that
was
to
gyue
her
leaue
to
be
an
nunne
.
For
she
had
than
gotten
her
mothers
good
wyll
.
And
yet
to
saye
the
treuthe
/
this
difficultie
of
eyther
of
them
/
dyd
nat
chaunce
of
any
vice
.
For
lyke
as
they
were
in
theyr
countrey
both
reputed
&
of
linage
with
the
beste
,
euen
so
they
were
in
vertue
:
that
there
was
no
man
but
that
he
did
both
loue
and
preyse
them
/
whiche
thynge
is
rathe
or
seldome
seen
in
them
that
be
in
welthe
and
felicite
:
But
they
be
so
tender
ouer
and
loue
theyr
children
so
/
as
though
they
greatly
loued
them
.
So
we
beganne
to
entreate
&
perswade
her
father
.
What
shulde
I
make
many
wordes
?
He
beinge
ouercome
partly
with
shamefastnes
/
partlye
with
pyte
and
compassion
of
his
daughter
/
and
partlye
with
our
eggyng
,
granted
her
request
.
But
than
thou
shuldest
sodaynely
haue
seen
there
a
ryght
miserable
syghte
.
The
father
in
collynge
and
kyssynge
of
his
daughter
/
beganne
so
to
lament
and
wepe
/
as
though
she
shuld
forth
with
haue
ben
layde
in
her
graue
.
Her
mother
for
very
sorowe
fell
downe
deed
in
al
wounde
.
Her
onely
brother
and
her
syster
that
was
a
lyttell
elder
than
she
/
wepynge
&
crienge
out
/
enbraced
their
dere
syster
/
and
sayde
:
By
these
our
wepynge
teares
/
&
for
what
so
euer
brotherly
and
systerly
pite
and
tender
loue
may
do
/
we
pray
you
swete
syster
/
that
ye
forsake
vs
nat
thus
your
miserable
brother
and
syster
/
leest
that
you
beynge
but
one
distroy
vs
twayn
.
The
other
frendes
wept
,
some
priuely
,
some
openly
/
some
entreated
/
some
perswaded
/
and
some
blamed
or
rebuked
:
but
there
was
none
amonge
them
all
/
but
that
the
teares
ranne
from
his
eyen
.
And
we
also
that
came
to
entreate
for
the
mayde
/
were
so
moued
/
what
with
the
wepynge
of
other
that
were
there
,
and
with
the
lamentation
of
her
father
from
whose
eies
the
teares
ranne
as
he
had
ben
a
childe
/
began
lyke
wyse
to
wepe
/
the
whiche
thyng
though
I
say
it
/
besemed
vs
nat
.
Yea
and
it
almoost
repented
vs
/
that
we
had
gone
so
farre
in
the
matter
.
What
trowe
ye
dyd
the
yonge
virgin
this
whyle
/
the
whiche
consideryng
her
sexe
or
kynde
/
her
tender
age
/
her
softe
nature
and
bryngynge
vp
/
was
so
delycate
?
Saynte
Paule
hym selfe
whan
he
toke
leaue
to
depart
from
his
bretherne
/
shewed
that
he
was
moued
with
their
wepyng
/
though
it
were
nat
greatly
/
sayeng
/
what
do
ye
wepynge
and
troublynge
myne
harte
?
But
the
virgine
(
all
though
she
was
of
a
greatte
pitie
or
mekenes
to
her
father
&
mother
)
with
her
eies
drye
/
a
mery
chere
/
and
smylynge
on
her
father
/
she
sayde
/
that
he
had
no
cause
to
be
so
vexed
and
greued
/
but
he
oughte
rather
to
reioyce
and
be
gladde
/
as
he
that
had
nat
loste
his
daughter
/
but
as
he
that
was
sure
to
fynde
her
,
the
whiche
shulde
praye
to
god
for
hym
.
She
also
endeuoured
her selfe
diligently
/
with
kyssynge
/
prayenge
/
and
pratye
exhortation
to
ease
and
appease
her
mothers
heuy
harte
/
and
other
that
were
there
.
But
all
was
in
vayne
:
for
they
droue
forthe
and
prolonged
the
soupper
with
syghynge
and
sobbynge
/
wepynge
/
and
complaynyng
/
tyll
it
was
very
late
in
the
nyghte
/
and
except
Margarete
/
there
was
nat
one
merye
amonge
them
all
.
So
often
as
they
se
these
thinges
(
for
they
must
nedes
se
suche
thynges
other
whyle
)
I
meane
these
felowes
/
the
whiche
as
I
haue
sayde
/
ben
all
gyuen
to
bodily
pleasure
/
they
wepe
with
the
other
/
they
maruayle
at
the
stoutnesse
&
strength
of
theyr
yonge
myndes
/
yea
and
are
ashamed
of
theyr
owne
softe
delycacy
.
What
suppose
they
?
Deme
they
these
yeres
,
these
mery
countinances
,
these
bodies
/
and
these
stomakes
/
to
be
so
soone
inclined
,
yea
so
vtterly
to
set
naught
by
the
pleasures
of
the
worlde
/
excepte
they
founde
other
/
that
be
to
them
more
leauer
?
Wolde
they
so
obstinately
/
and
with
so
good
a
corage
take
these
labours
vpon
them
/
if
they
dyd
nat
knowe
very
well
/
that
they
be
swete
and
pleasant
?
So
it
is
good
Ioyce
/
so
hit
is
playnely
:
a
thynge
that
is
swete
and
pleasant
to
them
that
be
expert
therin
/
semeth
sower
and
harde
to
them
that
be
vnexpert
therof
.
But
howe
longe
shall
it
be
er
thou
perswade
these
felowes
to
beleue
the
?
For
as
saynt
Bernarde
saythe
/
they
se
our
crosses
/
but
they
se
nat
our
vnctions
:
Truely
I
wolde
they
had
a
better
mynde
/
ne
were
hit
that
they
haue
a
pleasure
frantyckely
to
erre
/
lyke
as
Argiuus
dyd
/
of
whom
Flaccus
speketh
.
But
seyng
that
we
be
nat
farre
from
the
errour
of
Argiue
/
I
wyll
playnly
perswade
the.
Wolde
to
god
that
I
myght
lefully
haue
my
wysshe
/
that
lyke
as
this
my
wrytynge
shall
come
before
thy
syghte
/
that
so
myn
affection
myght
entre
in
to
thy
mynde
/
that
is
to
saye
/
that
thou
shuldest
be
so
affectioned
/
whan
thou
redest
it
/
as
I
was
whan
I
wrote
it
.
Than
here
I
wold
make
an
ende
of
myn
epistil
:
&
wolde
thynke
that
I
neded
nat
to
spend
many
mo
wordes
to
perswade
the.
But
parauenture
bicause
that
,
that
I
desire
is
frustrate
or
in
vaine
and
that
myn
auctoryte
is
nat
sufficient
to
perswade
that
/
I
wyll
brynge
forth
saynt
Hieronime
,
the
whiche
by
reason
of
his
good
and
holy
lyfe
/
was
a
man
of
great
grauyte
/
and
by
reason
of
his
counnyng
/
a
very
noble
man
.
I
pray
the
tell
me
moost
holy
man
/
what
dost
thou
in
this
sharpe
and
comforteles
desarte
alone
/
all
moost
deed
for
hunger
/
so
leane
with
continuall
watchyng
,
and
wasted
awaye
with
so
great
labours
/
haste
thou
no
iocundite
or
plesure
of
thy
lyfe
?
O
/
sayth
he
/
whyle
I
was
in
wyldernes
/
in
that
greatte
desarte
/
the
whiche
beinge
burned
and
parched
with
the
heate
of
the
sonne
/
is
but
a
very
course
and
a
harde
harboroughe
for
monkes
/
howe
often
tymes
thought
I
my selfe
to
be
amonge
the
delitis
and
pleasures
in
Rome
?
And
I
take
god
to
wytnesse
/
that
after
many
a
wepynge
teare
/
and
after
that
I
had
longe
loked
vpwarde
to
heuen
in
contemplation
/
me
thought
many
tymes
that
I
was
amonge
a
great
sorte
of
aungelles
/
and
beynge
gladde
and
ioyfull
.
I
sange
thus
/
Post
te
in
odorem
vnguentorum
tuorum
curtemus
,
In
the
smel
of
thy
swete
sauours
we
wyl
ron
after
the.
Haste
thou
harde
good
Ioyce
/
what
this
holy
man
confessethe
here
?
I
coude
recyte
other
to
wytnesse
the
same
/
but
either
we
must
gyue
credence
to
hym
or
els
to
no
man
:
And
this
same
plesure
euery
good
,
deuoute
/
and
wel
disposed
soule
hath
&
enioyeth
.
Yet
besydes
these
thynges
/
excellent
lerned
men
haue
an
other
speciall
pleasure
/
that
is
as
ofte
as
they
rede
the
enditynges
of
most
noble
wryters
/
or
elles
whan
they
them selfe
wryte
thynges
for
other
to
rede
:
or
elles
whan
they
reuolue
in
theyr
mynde
suche
thynges
as
they
haue
redde
.
This
kynde
of
pleasure
is
so
variable
and
so
abundante
/
that
hit
shall
neuer
seme
tedious
or
make
the
wery
.
For
if
they
lyste
to
drynke
of
the
fyrste
fountaynes
/
than
they
resorte
to
the
volumes
of
the
olde
and
newe
testament
.
If
that
verite
/
of
it selfe
honestly
arayd
/
and
hyghted
with
the
freshe
garment
of
eloquence
/
doth
delite
them
/
they
renne
to
saynt
Hieronyme
/
saynt
Augustine
/
saynt
Ambrose
/
Cypriane
and
suche
other
.
If
those
be
nat
eloquent
inough
to
thy
mynde
/
and
hast
a
luste
to
here
some
christen
Cicero
:
take
and
put
Lactantius
Firmianus
in
thy
bosome
.
And
in
case
that
thou
canste
be
content
with
lesse
costlye
apparayle
/
and
sobre
fare
/
than
take
in
thy
hande
Thomas
/
Alberte
/
and
suche
lyke
bokes
.
But
&
thou
canst
nat
belonge
absent
from
the
other
thyn
olde
frendes
,
yet
hardyly
visette
those
to
/
nowe
and
than
amonge
/
so
that
it
be
guest
wyle
&
nat
as
one
of
householde
.
For
among
those
is
she
the
barborous
woman
/
but
yet
she
hath
a
very
honest
countinance
:
the
whiche
whan
thou
hast
rauyshed
&
cutte
awaye
her
heares
and
nayles
/
thou
shalte
of
a
drabbe
make
her
thy
laufull
wyfe
.
Lo
/
thus
thou
hast
the
secrete
and
many
volumes
of
holy
scripture
,
thou
hast
the
monumentis
of
the
holy
prophettes
/
of
the
apostils
/
of
theyr
interpretours
/
and
of
the
doctours
/
thou
hast
the
wrytynges
of
the
philosophers
and
poetis
/
the
whiche
shulde
nat
be
eschewed
of
him
,
that
knoweth
howe
to
chose
the
holsome
herbes
amonge
those
that
are
venomous
.
Tell
me
/
what
tyme
thou
art
conuersant
amonge
these
thynges
/
quietly
at
rest
in
thy
studye
/
and
at
thyne
owne
libertie
/
voyde
of
all
care
and
trouble
/
dothe
hit
nat
seme
that
thou
dwellest
in
a
paradise
of
all
delites
&
pleasures
?
what
place
can
be
tedious
/
where
so
grete
variete
is
?
What
thynge
is
here
/
that
is
nat
full
of
pleasure
?
Howe
gladsomely
growe
the
faire
feldis
and
medowes
?
Howe
pleasantly
lustreth
or
sheweth
the
freshe
grene
grasse
,
depeynted
with
dyuers
colours
of
flowers
?
In
that
place
growethe
the
beautyfull
redde
rose
/
there
sprynge
the
lylyes
as
white
as
any
snowe
/
there
be
the
bankes
of
the
lusty
purpull
violettes
/
there
groweth
the
browne
tyme
/
that
smellethe
so
swetelye
.
Nor
there
wantethe
no
fayre
woodes
/
with
brode
hangynge
bowes
and
branches
/
that
maketh
a
ryghte
delectable
shadowe
/
wherin
we
may
defende
vs
from
the
feruente
heate
of
the
daye
.
Farther
/
what
nombre
of
trees
be
there
/
that
beare
frute
nat
only
delicious
in
taste
/
but
(
whiche
is
more
)
verye
holsome
to
eate
?
And
verye
nere
there
vnto
runneth
the
clere
christalline
ryuer
/
that
maketh
a
doulce
mourmour
or
noyse
in
runnynge
/
the
whiche
watreth
and
moysteth
all
to gether
.
This
moost
depe
ryuer
/
I
say
/
the
whiche
the
prophet
maruaylynge
at
can
nat
be
ouer
come
.
Within
these
pleasaunt
orchardes
thou
mayste
roome
and
wander
to
and
fro
/
yea
I
may
say
thou
maist
wantonly
sporte
and
play
the
as
ofte
as
thou
wylte
.
What
lyke
pleasure
is
in
your
daunsinges
/
in
your
tauernes
and
ale
houses
/
and
in
your
bathes
or
hotte
houses
?
To
these
thynges
good
Ioyce
/
I
call
the
/
as
he
that
is
excellently
lerned
and
studious
.
Yea
I
desire
the
/
as
my
speciall
and
dere
frende
,
to
come
vnto
these
pleasures
.
Is
there
any
thynge
behynde
/
that
may
tarye
the
in
the
worlde
/
or
els
make
the
afraide
to
come
to
vs
?
Thou
hast
well
vnderstande
/
howe
mortall
/
howe
bytter
/
and
howe
sower
the
lewde
lustes
or
false
enticementis
of
the
worlde
be
:
the
whiche
(
as
Seneca
saith
)
enbrace
and
clyppe
vs
/
to
th
ende
that
they
may
strangle
or
shoke
vs
.
Thou
haste
also
harde
/
howe
lyttell
goodnesse
is
in
the
worldly
ryches
,
and
howe
vnstedfaste
and
disceyuable
they
be
.
And
as
I
suppose
,
hit
is
sufficiently
shewed
,
in
to
what
calamyties
and
myseries
the
worldely
honours
do
heedlynge
ouerthrowe
a
man
.
Farthermore
,
hit
hath
ben
declared
,
howe
vntreatable
the
necessitie
of
Dethe
is
.
Finally
,
I
haue
remembred
vnto
the
,
howe
full
of
perill
and
daunger
this
lyfe
is
:
and
vnto
what
greuous
and
peynefull
labours
hit
is
subiecte
.
Go
nowe
and
questenne
with
thy selfe
,
whether
thou
haddest
leauer
stycke
styll
in
these
yuels
,
or
elles
throwe
them
away
/
and
flee
hyther
.
And
contrary
to
these
thynges
,
haste
thou
nat
harde
what
libertie
,
what
quiete
,
what
pleasure
,
and
what
sure
truste
is
in
religion
?
And
yet
for
al
that
,
thou
fleest
nat
thyther
?
Doste
thou
yet
staye
/
doste
thou
yet
take
deliberation
/
doste
thou
yet
prolonge
forthe
the
tyme
?
Leaue
to
the
Egypcions
theyr
pottis
of
fleshe
,
that
thou
mayste
be
fedde
with
manna
in
the
wyldernesse
.
But
thou
sayste
,
hit
is
a
harde
thyng
to
be
drawen
awaye
from
theyr
companye
,
that
a
man
mooste
derely
loueth
/
and
to
ouercome
the
affections
of
frendes
.
Aye
good
Ioyce
,
thou
callest
hit
a
harde
thynge
/
take
hede
that
thou
be
nat
rather
tender
and
softe
.
Beware
lest
yonge
children
boyes
and
maydes
,
to
whome
this
matter
dothe
seme
nothynge
harde
,
cocke
vp
agaynst
the
and
saye
these
wordes
:
Sayest
that
thou
arte
vnable
to
do
that
that
we
can
away
with
?
Why
hast
thou
a
berde
?
Why
arte
thou
called
a
man
?
What
auayle
thy
yeres
of
age
?
And
wherfore
serueth
thy
erudition
and
lernynge
?
Thynke
nat
,
that
any
thynge
is
more
fooe
or
ennemy
to
the
,
than
suche
frendes
/
the
whiche
labour
to
lette
or
hyndre
thy
helthe
?
The
whiche
frendes
/
if
errour
be
cause
of
theyr
offence
,
or
els
dote
in
loue
/
dost
thou
desyre
to
doote
with
them
?
Or
if
by
sadde
aduyse
/
and
prudently
pondrynge
the
matter
/
they
let
and
hyndre
the
/
for
what
maner
of
frendes
wylt
thou
deme
them
/
whan
they
couet
nat
it
that
is
best
for
the
?
But
thou
sayst
to
leade
an
aungels
lyfe
,
and
liue
in
the
fleshe
passeth
mans
power
.
Fynally
/
whan
a
man
can
nat
lyue
after
his
owne
fashion
,
but
muste
do
euery
thynge
as
an
other
shall
commaunde
hym
/
orels
to
be
ledde
after
the
luste
and
pleasure
of
an
other
,
is
sooner
sayd
than
done
.
Truely
I
wyll
nat
deny
this
thynge
,
for
I
am
nat
ignorant
that
mans
lyfe
on
erthe
is
a
warfare
.
But
if
there
be
any
grefe
or
difficultie
in
a
matter
,
that
one
goth
in
hande
with
,
hit
is
wonte
moste
commonly
to
be
in
the
entraunce
or
begynnynge
,
the
whiche
yf
thou
mayste
ones
stoutely
breake
or
ouercome
,
thou
haste
scaped
:
Hit
is
longe
ago
commonly
sayde
:
He
hath
atcheued
halfe
his
warke
or
busynes
,
that
hath
begunne
aright
.
But
truely
he
that
dothe
well
begynne
here
,
dothe
well
nere
make
an
ende
.
But
the
fyrste
entrance
abasheth
the.
I
knowe
howe
to
delyuer
the
of
this
fearefulnesse
.
If
hit
greue
thy
mynde
to
be
plucked
away
from
the
pleasures
of
the
worlde
/
remembre
inwardely
the
eternall
delectations
and
plesures
.
If
religion
seme
greuous
and
peynful
to
the
,
haue
a
respecte
to
the
paynes
euerlastyng
.
No
punyshment
shuld
be
greuous
vnto
the
/
wherby
thou
mayst
auoyde
euerlastyng
paynes
:
nor
for
no
pleasure
here
to
forgo
the
celestial
plesure
.
Fynally
/
nothynge
shall
be
harde
/
that
one
wyllyngly
wyll
do
:
Nor
doubte
nat
but
thou
shalte
bring
wel
to
passe
/
what
soeuer
thou
gost
about
,
so
that
Chryste
be
helpynge
thervnto
.
Howe
one
ought
to
entre
in
to
religion
with
good
deliberation
and
aduisement
.
The
.xii.
and
laste
Chapter
.
I
Sawe
the
well
ere
trusse
vp
thy
bagge
and
baggage
and
so
prepare
thy self
redy
,
as
though
thou
woldest
in
all
the
hast
flee
vnto
vs
.
But
to
the
ende
that
thou
shuldest
nat
be
to
hasty
/
I
wyll
brefely
gyue
the
monition
or
warnynge
before
hande
/
lest
it
shulde
happen
vnto
the
as
hit
doth
to
many
nowe
a
dayes
/
the
whiche
repente
them
that
they
wente
in
to
religion
for
this
cause
/
that
they
as
hit
were
in
to
a
depe
pytte
/
that
one
can
nat
get
out
of
/
went
nat
softely
and
aduisedly
downe
/
but
lepte
euen
at
al
aduentures
.
No
man
is
constrayned
to
Christis
profession
/
but
no
man
may
returne
or
go
from
it
:
for
without
hit
there
is
no
hope
of
saluation
.
But
in
other
institutions
and
orders
of
the
lyfe
/
the
whiche
for
a
tyme
men
haue
inuented
/
bycause
of
the
great
varietie
that
is
in
mens
bodies
and
myndes
/
and
so
greatte
alteration
of
all
humayne
thynges
/
perauenture
it
were
nat
expedient
/
so
to
bynde
any
man
/
that
it
shulde
nat
be
lefull
for
hym
to
go
backe
/
so
that
the
chaunge
make
and
be
more
for
his
soule
helthe
/
that
changeth
.
But
seinge
that
they
wyll
haue
hit
other
wyse
/
by
whose
arbitrement
the
worlde
is
gouerned
/
this
busynes
shulde
be
taken
on
hande
more
circumspectly
/
the
whiche
thinge
ones
entred
and
professed
,
can
nat
be
changed
or
reuoked
,
at
his
libertie
/
that
entreth
therin
.
The
monasteries
in
olde
tyme
were
none
other
thynge
/
but
certayne
solitarie
places
of
good
and
vertuous
men
:
the
whiche
eyther
for
grefe
and
werynesse
of
the
volupties
and
vyces
/
with
the
whiche
in
those
dayes
the
lyfe
of
mortall
creatures
was
contaminate
and
defiled
:
for
at
that
season
the
Chrysten
people
and
the
paynyms
lyuedde
myngled
to gether
:
orels
beynge
agreued
with
the
cruelte
of
persecution
/
they
forsoke
the
citees
and
townes
,
&
withdrewe
them selfe
in
to
mountaynes
withont
wayes
/
where
they
ledde
a
lyfe
angelicall
.
Theyr
apparayle
or
clothynge
was
poore
and
lyttell
worthe
/
theyr
fare
was
sklender
/
suche
as
lyghtly
they
myssed
nat
to
fynde
in
euery
place
/
wherwith
they
spente
awaye
all
theyr
tyme
eyther
in
syngynge
of
holy
ymmes
,
or
in
holy
redynge
/
or
in
heuenly
talkynges
/
or
in
deuoute
prayes
/
or
in
dedes
of
charyte
,
wherwith
they
refresshed
the
sycke
and
wayfarynge
folkes
/
or
elles
in
inocent
workes
/
with
the
whiche
they
holpe
and
succoured
the
indygente
and
nedy
.
Nor
a
monke
was
none
other
thynge
than
a
pure
Chrysten
man
.
Nor
a
monastery
was
none
other
thynge
/
than
a
flocke
or
a
companye
/
the
whiche
had
conspyred
or
consented
to gether
/
to
folowe
the
mooste
pure
doctryne
of
Chryste
.
There
was
no
souerayne
commaundement
:
euery
man
gladly
and
with
good
wyll
,
yea
and
that
quyckely
dydde
theyr
duetie
/
and
they
had
than
more
nede
to
be
refrayned
than
prycked
forwarde
.
Theyr
extreme
punyshement
was
a
frendly
and
a
brotherly
correction
.
Howe
many
monasteryes
be
in
the
myddes
of
the
worlde
/
nor
they
be
noone
other
wyse
out
of
the
worlde
/
than
the
reynes
be
out
of
a
mans
body
.
In
the
whiche
the
discipline
of
religion
dothe
flourysshe
in
suche
a
wyse
/
that
they
be
none
other
thynge
than
Scholes
of
impyetie
.
To
whome
the
tytle
and
habyte
of
religion
serueth
for
none
other
purpose
/
than
that
it
shulde
be
lefull
for
them
without
punysshemente
to
do
what
euer
they
lyst
.
And
vnto
them
/
to
whose
prudence
the
worlde
wolde
nat
commytte
theyr
ketchyns
/
the
busynesse
of
the
churche
is
delyuered
.
And
trewely
amonge
these
thynges
/
wherin
the
discipline
of
religion
doth
flouryshe
/
there
is
some
difference
.
Some
institution
or
order
of
the
lyfe
is
more
meter
for
some
one
man
than
for
some
other
.
And
therfore
it
behoueth
the
fyrst
to
serche
and
make
a
profe
of
thy selfe
/
and
whan
thou
knowest
what
thou
maist
away
with
/
than
with
good
aduysement
/
chose
an
order
of
lyuynge
that
is
nat
vnknowen
vnto
the
/
accordynge
to
Saynte
Paules
sayenge
/
Proue
all
thynges
/
and
holde
the
vnto
that
/
that
is
good
.
Many
one
entreth
in
to
religion
for
none
other
entente
/
but
to
lyue
more
commodyously
at
theyr
pleasure
/
myndynge
more
the
bealye
than
the
soule
.
And
so
those
that
very
indigence
and
nede
to
lyue
honestly
in
the
worlde
/
shulde
haue
induced
to
vse
frugalitie
/
to
haue
ben
dylygent
,
and
industrious
,
in
monasteries
they
gyue
them selfe
to
sleuthe
and
luxure
.
And
those
that
were
in
the
worlde
very
poore
and
of
lowe
degree
/
vnder
the
profession
of
pouertie
they
imitate
and
folowe
the
pompe
,
the
sumptuousnes
,
and
stately
araye
of
prynces
and
great
lordes
.
And
those
that
shulde
haue
bene
contented
with
one
wyfe
/
and
haue
suffered
the
incommodities
and
grefes
of
Matrimony
/
nowe
frely
and
with
good
leaue
/
they
walowe
in
euery
kynde
of
stupre
or
carnall
luste
.
And
those
that
afore
tyme
the
feare
of
the
lawes
and
gouernours
/
dyd
restrayne
from
doynge
of
yuell
and
synfull
dedes
/
as
exempted
from
the
iurisdiction
of
the
bishoppe
,
and
of
the
rulers
of
the
common
welthe
/
they
haue
a
more
libertie
to
synne
and
offende
.
So
that
by
feyned
profession
of
pouertie
/
they
flee
pouertie
:
by
feyned
profession
of
chastite
/
they
prouide
for
theyr
carnall
lust
:
and
by
feyned
profession
of
obedience
/
they
fynde
the
meane
/
that
they
wyll
be
constrayned
to
obey
no
man
.
Farther
more
/
there
be
other
/
the
whiche
by
some
chaunce
were
driuen
to
this
maner
of
life
:
One
bicause
he
coude
nat
opteyne
the
fauour
of
some
mayde
/
that
he
vehemently
loued
:
an
other
bicause
he
was
stryken
with
great
feare
in
the
tyme
of
a
tempeste
/
of
a
sickenesse
/
or
of
an
other
peryll
/
he
made
suche
a
vowe
.
Some
be
drawen
to
religion
by
one
that
hath
bene
afore
tyme
theyr
derely
beloued
companyon
.
Some
with
shamefull
eggynges
/
as
hit
were
buguls
be
drawen
in
to
the
ditche
by
the
nostrils
.
Some
also
be
truste
in
to
religion
by
theyr
vnkynde
and
vngentyll
parentis
:
or
elles
by
theyr
tutours
/
to
the
entent
to
be
eased
of
theyr
coste
and
charge
:
they
moost
specially
lay
awayte
to
attrappe
and
disceyue
the
symple
youthe
/
the
whiche
is
verye
easye
to
begyle
.
But
I
wolde
counsayle
the
clene
contrarye
/
that
rude
and
ignorant
youth
shulde
nat
be
wrapped
in
an
institution
,
out
of
the
whiche
they
can
nat
be
drawen
backe
agayne
.
One
ought
to
be
a
christen
man
betymes
/
and
a
monke
at
leiser
/
howe
be
hit
he
is
a
monke
at
the
ful
/
who
so
euer
be
a
pure
christen
man
.
Nor
there
be
nat
a
fewe
/
the
whiche
be
ledde
to
religion
by
superstition
/
or
elles
by
folishenes
/
the
whiche
beynge
ignorant
in
what
thynge
the
very
religion
restethe
/
seme
as
they
thynke
them selfe
/
gaye
monkes
/
if
they
weare
a
gyrdyll
or
a
hoode
.
And
therfore
thou
shuldest
maruayle
neuer
a
deale
/
thoughe
thou
se
them
more
lewde
and
wycked
after
they
haue
professed
religion
/
than
they
were
before
.
Thus
myn
owne
good
Ioyce
/
whan
thou
haste
gotte
the
knowlege
and
vnderstandyng
/
what
thyng
the
true
religion
is
/
after
thou
haste
assayed
/
thy
wytte
/
thy
bodye
/
and
thy
mynde
/
and
whan
thou
hast
spyed
out
a
kynde
of
lyuynge
mete
for
thy
purpose
:
and
whan
thou
haste
founde
out
a
feloweshyppe
/
the
whiche
all
to gether
with
one
assente
/
haue
fullye
determyned
theyr
myndes
to
lyue
after
Christe
:
than
gette
the
thither
.
But
loke
that
thou
leaue
all
couetousnes
of
this
worlde
at
home
:
for
other
wyse
it
were
frustrate
or
a
thynge
in
vayne
to
forsake
the
worlde
/
if
thou
shuldest
carye
the
worlde
with
the
in
to
the
same
monasterie
.
Carye
no
maner
of
delectations
of
Aegypte
with
the
/
if
thou
wylte
spede
the
to
the
lande
that
floweth
or
aboundeth
with
mylke
and
hony
.
Many
thynke
them selfe
the
verye
folowers
of
saynt
Antony
/
and
of
saynt
Paule
/
if
they
haunte
no
drabbes
/
nor
vse
no
daunsynge
/
nor
wyll
nat
be
dronken
/
thoughe
they
with
in
forthe
be
all
to
moysted
or
sprincled
with
hatred
/
enuie
/
detraction
/
poysonfull
wordes
/
and
are
proude
and
stately
of
conditions
/
frowarde
/
and
vntreatable
/
and
are
louers
of
them selfe
:
and
for
theyr
wynnynge
and
aduantage
they
openly
flatter
great
princes
:
and
wittyngly
and
of
afore
caste
they
suffre
the
glory
of
Christe
to
be
obscured
and
blotted
out
/
to
th
ende
that
they
maye
procure
theyr
owne
glorye
.
Inceste
/
that
is
to
say
carnal
copulacion
vtterly
prohibited
or
foule
polucion
is
a
sklaunderous
crime
/
and
yet
I
trowe
they
be
nat
clere
of
those
vices
:
but
this
flatterye
passethe
an
hundred
incestis
/
and
the
mischiefe
therof
spredeth
moste
largely
ouer
all
mankynde
.
Nowe
perauenture
thou
wylte
saye
to
me
/
that
all
monasteries
displease
the
:
nor
there
can
be
founde
no
where
a
flocke
/
that
hath
with
pure
myndes
consented
to
lyue
after
Christe
.
But
yet
loke
that
thou
so
leaue
and
forsake
the
worlde
/
that
thou
mayste
accompany
thy selfe
with
who
so
euer
be
mooste
innocente
:
and
repute
thy selfe
to
be
in
a
monastery
/
where
so
euer
thou
be
conuersant
amonge
them
/
that
loue
trouth
/
pure
chastite
/
sobrenes
/
and
temperance
/
and
do
both
in
worde
and
dede
expresse
the
same
.
Nor
thou
shuldest
nat
thynke
,
that
there
wanteth
any
thynge
for
the
to
vowe
/
if
thou
accomplyshe
and
fulfyll
the
vowe
that
thou
madest
to
Christe
at
thy
christenyng
.
Nor
thou
shuldest
nat
desyre
the
habite
of
the
white
frere
or
elles
of
the
blacke
/
if
thou
obserue
and
kepe
clene
vndefiled
/
the
fayre
whyte
vesture
or
garment
that
was
delyuered
to
the
in
baptisme
.
Nor
be
nat
dyspleased
with
thy selfe
/
thoughe
thou
be
nat
of
the
flocke
of
blacke
friers
or
white
,
so
that
thou
be
of
the
flocke
of
true
Christen
people
.
Thus
farewell
myn
owne
good
Ioyce
.
¶
Finis
.
¶
Imprinted
at
London
in
Fletestrete
/
in
the
house
of
Thomas
Berthelet
/
prynter
to
the
kynges
most
noble
grace
.
And
be
to
sell
in
Poules
churchyarde
.
Cum
priuilegio
.
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