A
comfortable
exhortation
agaynst
the
chaunces
of
deth
/
made
by
Erasmus
Rot.
HOwe
bytter
and
howe
greuous
a
wounde
perceth
your
fatherly
harte
/
for
the
deathe
of
your
mooste
goodly
chylde
/
I
lightly
cōrecte
by
myne
owne
sorowe
.
And
therfore
I
were
ryghte
moche
vncourtoys
/
if
that
I
in
so
sorowfull
a
chance
wolde
warne
you
his
father
to
make
lamentation
/
whan
I
that
am
but
a
straunger
can
nat
chose
but
wepe
&
wayle
.
Ye
myght
well
thinke
me
rude
and
vntaught
/
if
I
wolde
go
about
to
heale
your
gresse
/
whan
I
my selfe
had
nede
of
a
phisitian
:
if
I
wolde
lette
you
his
father
to
wepe
/
whan
the
teares
stylle
abundauntlye
trykell
downe
from
myne
eien
.
And
all
be
it
/
that
the
ilke
stroke
of
Fortune
oughte
deper
to
perce
your
fatherly
breast
:
yet
your
great
wysedome
was
wont
so
to
rule
you
(
in
all
your
dedes
)
that
ye
nat
onely
with
a
stronge
&
a
stoute
mynde
/
but
also
with
a
glad
and
a
mery
chere
/
wolde
suffre
and
passe
ouer
all
suche
chaunces
as
happe
to
mankynde
.
wherfore
ye
oughte
so
to
settell
your selfe
/
that
if
ye
can
nat
as
yet
put
awaye
clene
the
sorowe
of
your
harte
(
for
no
man
can
denye
but
that
ye
haue
ryghte
good
cause
to
be
heuy
)
yet
at
the
least
wyse
some
what
suppresse
&
moderate
the
same
dolour
.
And
for
what
cause
shulde
ye
nat
clene
forgette
it
?
seinge
that
the
space
of
a
fewe
dayes
wyll
cause
idiottes
so
to
do
/
me
thynketh
reason
shulde
persuade
an
excellent
wyse
man
.
For
what
selye
mother
doth
so
extremely
bewayle
the
dethe
of
her
childe
/
but
that
in
shorte
space
of
tyme
her
sorowe
some
what
asslaketh
/
and
at
length
is
clene
forgotten
?
To
haue
alway
a
stedfast
mynde
/
is
a
token
of
a
perfecte
wyse
man
.
But
for
those
chaunces
/
vnto
the
whiche
we
all
egally
(
bothe
more
and
lesse
)
be
subiecte
/
to
sorowe
out
of
measure
/
me
thynketh
it
extreme
folys
henes
.
For
who
is
nat
ware
(
excepte
he
that
myndeth
nothynge
)
that
he
is
borne
vnder
suche
a
condition
/
that
whan
so
euer
god
wyll
call
hym
:
he
muste
forth
with
nedes
departe
hence
?
So
than
what
other
thyng
(
I
prey
you
)
dothe
he
/
that
bewayleth
ones
deth
/
than
lamentably
complayne
/
that
he
is
mortall
?
Or
why
shuld
we
rather
sorowe
the
departynge
▪
hence
/
than
the
entrynge
in
to
this
worlde
/
consideryng
that
both
are
egally
natural
?
Euen
in
lyke
case
as
though
one
shuld
gyue
great
thankes
for
to
be
called
to
a
great
feaste
or
dyner
/
and
wolde
lament
and
demeane
great
sorowe
/
whan
he
shulde
departe
away
thence
.
If
that
a
man
/
as
hit
were
from
an
highe
lokynge
place
/
wolde
aduise
well
the
condicion
and
lyfe
of
all
mankynde
:
myght
he
nat
well
reken
him selfe
a
nyce
felowe
/
if
he
amonge
so
manyfolde
examples
of
priuation
/
&
amonge
so
thycke
buryals
of
yonge
and
olde
/
wolde
be
greuously
vexed
in
his
mynde
/
as
thoughe
vnto
hym
onely
were
chaunced
some
newe
and
great
yuell
:
and
as
though
he
onely
beinge
happy
aboue
other
/
wolde
desyre
and
loke
to
stande
without
the
common
lotte
?
For
whiche
consideration
the
excellent
wise
men
that
founde
and
made
lawes
in
olde
time
/
to
then
tent
that
they
wolde
some
what
incline
to
the
affections
of
parentes
/
and
to
th
ende
they
wolde
nat
be
seene
to
exclude
euery
body
from
that
passion
/
beinge
also
condemned
of
some
of
the
stoicke
philosophers
:
they
lymytted
vnto
them
a
certayne
tyme
to
mourne
/
the
whiche
endured
nat
very
longe
:
Either
bicause
that
they
well
vnderstode
and
knewe
/
that
in
those
maner
of
chaunces
/
the
whiche
are
bothe
commune
to
all
folkes
/
and
also
do
nat
hap
through
any
iniury
of
Fortune
/
but
are
induced
by
the
verye
course
and
ordynaunce
of
Nature
/
shorte
mournynge
shulde
suffice
:
yea
vnto
them
that
were
nat
able
to
moderate
all
affections
:
consideryng
that
Natures
selfe
by
lyttel
&
lyttell
soupleth
the
wounde
that
she
made
/
and
weareth
away
the
scarre
:
Or
els
bicause
they
diligently
marked
/
that
mournynge
was
nat
onely
vnprofitable
vnto
them
that
were
bemoned
/
but
also
hurtful
to
them
that
made
suche
mone
/
and
greuous
and
vnquiete
to
theyr
frendes
/
acqueyntance
/
and
company
.
But
nowe
if
a
man
wolde
consider
the
matter
a
ryghte
/
doth
it
nat
seme
a
poynt
of
madnes
/
wyllyngly
of
one
harme
to
make
twayne
/
and
whan
ye
can
nat
by
no
maner
reason
recouer
your
predestinate
losse
/
yet
wilfullye
to
annoye
and
hurte
your
owne
selfe
?
In
lyke
maner
as
though
a
man
that
his
ennemies
hath
spoyled
of
parte
of
his
goodes
/
wolde
in
his
anger
throwe
all
that
euer
remayned
in
to
the
see
:
and
than
wolde
say
/
howe
he
by
that
meane
dyd
bewayle
his
losse
.
If
we
lyttell
regarde
the
noble
Mimus
/
whose
sayenge
may
beseme
any
philosopher
to
speake
:
Thou
muste
patiently
suffre
/
and
grutche
nat
at
it
that
can
nat
be
amended
:
Let
vs
call
to
mynde
the
moche
goodly
example
of
the
ryghte
excellent
kynge
Dauid
/
the
whiche
so
sone
as
tydynges
was
broughte
hym
/
that
his
sonne
/
that
he
so
tenderly
loued
/
was
deed
:
he
forthwith
rose
vp
from
the
grounde
/
and
shaked
&
brusshed
of
the
duste
/
he
threwe
away
his
sherte
of
heare
/
and
so
whan
he
had
wasshed
and
an
noynted
/
with
a
gladde
countenaunce
and
a
mery
chere
he
wente
to
dyner
.
And
by
cause
his
frendes
maruayled
therat
/
he
sayde
to
them
:
For
what
entent
shulde
I
kylle
my selfe
with
wo
and
sorowe
?
For
vnto
this
tyme
some
hope
I
had
/
that
god
beinge
moued
with
my
lamentation
/
wolde
haue
saued
my
childe
a
lyue
:
but
now
all
our
wepyng
teares
can
nat
restore
hym
agayne
to
vs
a
lyue
:
we
shall
shortly
spede
vs
hence
after
him
.
who
is
so
fonde
to
crouche
and
pray
hym
/
whom
he
knoweth
well
wyll
incline
to
no
prayers
?
There
is
nothyng
more
vntreatable
than
dethe
/
nothynge
is
more
deffe
/
nor
nothynge
more
rygorous
.
By
crafty
handelynge
the
sauage
beastis
/
yea
the
moste
wylde
of
them
all
/
are
made
tame
:
There
is
a
waye
to
breake
the
harde
marbull
stone
:
and
a
meane
to
mollifie
the
diamant
:
but
there
is
nothynge
/
wherwith
dethe
wyll
be
appesed
or
ouer
come
.
It
neyther
sparethe
beautie
/
ryches
/
age
/
nor
dignitie
.
And
therfore
it
oughte
to
greue
vs
moche
the
lesse
/
either
bicause
it
can
nat
be
eschewed
/
or
els
by
cause
it
is
egally
commune
to
vs
all
.
what
nedeth
me
to
go
aboute
to
reherce
to
you
here
the
manyfolde
exambles
of
the
gentiles
/
the
whiche
with
a
noble
and
a
constaunt
courage
toke
well
in
worthe
the
deth
of
theyr
dere
frendes
?
In
whiche
constantnes
of
mynde
/
is
it
nat
a
great
rebuke
for
vs
that
be
christiens
/
to
be
of
them
ouer
comen
?
Call
nowe
to
your
remembrance
thilke
sayenge
(
well
worthye
to
be
enrolled
in
writynge
)
of
Telamon
and
Anaxagoras
:
I
wyste
well
I
begotte
a
mortall
creature
.
Thynke
vpon
Pericles
the
duke
of
Athens
/
the
whiche
is
no
lesse
renowmed
for
his
eloquence
/
than
he
is
for
his
force
and
manlynes
:
al
be
it
that
he
within
.
iiij
.
dayes
space
lost
his
.
ij
.
sonnes
/
that
were
endewed
with
ryght
noble
qualities
/
he
nat
onelye
neuer
changed
his
chere
/
but
also
he
/
beinge
crowned
(
as
was
the
gyse
than
)
spake
&
reasoned
amonge
the
people
of
matters
concernyng
theyr
common
welthe
.
❧
Haue
in
mynde
also
Xenophon
the
worthy
scholer
of
Socrates
:
to
whom
tydynges
was
brought
/
as
he
was
doinge
sacrifice
/
that
his
sonne
was
deed
:
he
made
no
more
to
do
but
put
of
his
crowne
/
&
forthwith
dyd
put
it
on
agayne
/
as
sone
as
he
vnderstode
that
his
sonne
was
manly
slayne
in
batayle
.
Remembre
Dion
of
Syracuse
/
the
whiche
on
a
tyme
(
as
he
was
secretly
talkynge
with
his
frendes
)
sodaynly
harde
a
great
noyse
and
rumblynge
in
his
house
:
And
whan
he
had
inquered
what
the
matter
mente
/
and
was
enfourmed
that
his
sonne
had
fallen
from
on
highe
/
and
was
deed
:
he
beinge
therwith
nothing
amoued
/
commaunded
the
corps
(
as
the
maner
was
)
to
be
delyuered
to
women
to
burye
:
For
he
sayde
/
he
wolde
nat
leaue
of
his
pretensed
pourpose
for
that
matter
.
whom
Demosthenes
folowyng
/
the
vij
.
daye
after
the
dethe
of
his
onely
and
most
entierly
beloued
daughter
/
beinge
crowned
&
arrayed
in
a
faire
white
garment
/
he
came
forth
abrode
amonge
the
people
.
Of
whiche
dede
the
accusation
of
his
foo
Aeschy●ies
/
bothe
confirmethe
the
trouthe
/
and
setteth
out
the
glorie
.
Thynke
also
vpon
the
kynge
Antigonus
/
the
whiche
whan
he
herde
tydynges
/
that
his
owne
sonne
was
slaine
in
a
disordred
skermisshe
:
pausynge
a
lyttell
/
and
beholdynge
them
well
that
brought
him
the
tydinges
/
with
a
stoute
and
a
constante
mynde
he
sayde
:
O
Aleynonen
(
that
was
his
sonnes
name
)
all
to
late
thou
perisshest
/
that
woldest
so
folisshely
cast
thy selfe
away
amonge
thy
foes
/
nothynge
regardyng
thyne
owne
helth
nor
my
monitions
and
wordes
.
If
ye
delite
more
to
here
the
examples
of
Romanes
/
beholde
Puluillus
horace
/
to
whom
(
as
he
was
dedicatynge
the
capytoll
)
tydynges
was
broughte
/
that
his
sonne
was
deed
:
he
neyther
drewe
awaye
his
hande
from
the
poste
/
nor
tourned
nat
his
chere
from
religion
to
priuate
sorowe
.
Consider
howe
Paulus
Aemilius
/
whan
he
had
within
the
space
of
.
vij
.
dayes
loste
his
.
ij
.
sonnes
/
he
came
forthe
abrode
amonge
the
people
of
Rome
/
and
there
shewed
them
/
that
he
was
very
gladde
/
that
by
the
lamentation
of
his
householde
(
which
was
but
a
priuate
sorowe
)
he
had
redemed
the
enuye
of
Fortune
bente
towarde
them
all
.
Thynke
also
howe
Q.
Fabius
Maximus
(
whan
he
was
consul
/
and
had
loste
his
sonne
/
that
was
than
a
man
in
hyghe
rowme
and
dignitie
/
and
greatly
renowmed
for
his
noble
actis
)
he
came
forthe
abrode
amonge
the
people
gethered
to gether
/
and
there
to
them
he
recited
the
commendation
of
his
sonne
.
Thynke
on
also
whan
Cato
Censorius
his
eldest
sonne
died
/
the
whiche
was
a
yonge
man
of
singlar
witte
and
highe
prowesse
/
and
therto
electe
and
chosen
to
be
Meyre
:
yet
was
he
nothynge
so
amoued
with
that
chance
/
that
he
wolde
in
any
thynge
more
slackelye
endeuour
hym selfe
aboute
the
nedes
and
busines
of
the
common
welthe
.
Ye
shulde
remember
Marcius
/
whose
surname
was
kynge
/
whan
his
sonne
of
ryghte
noble
disposition
/
and
that
stode
highly
in
the
fauour
and
good
opinion
of
the
people
/
and
therto
beinge
his
only
sonne
/
was
deed
/
he
toke
the
losse
of
hym
with
so
constaunt
a
mynde
/
that
forthwith
euen
from
the
buriall
of
hym
he
caused
the
Senatours
to
assemble
to gether
to
ordeyne
lawes
concerning
their
common
welthe
.
Ye
shulde
nat
forget
Lucius
Sylla
/
whose
valiaunt
and
moste
fierce
courage
towarde
his
ennemies
/
the
deth
of
his
sonne
coude
nothynge
abate
/
nor
cause
that
he
shulde
seme
falsely
to
haue
vsurped
or
taken
vpon
hym
to
be
called
by
this
surname
Felix
/
that
is
to
say
/
luckye
or
welthy
.
whan
Caius
Cesar
(
that
was
Sylla
his
felowe
in
rowmeth
)
had
inuaded
Britayne
/
and
bad
tidynges
that
his
daughter
was
deed
:
yet
er
thre
dayes
were
fully
ended
/
he
wente
about
his
imperiall
busines
.
whan
Marcus
Crassus
(
in
the
warre
that
he
made
agaynst
the
Parthiens
)
behelde
his
sonnes
heed
/
the
whiche
his
ennemyes
in
skorne
and
derision
had
sette
vp
on
a
morispikes
ende
/
&
the
more
to
exasperate
and
augment
his
calamitie
/
they
approched
nere
to
his
armie
/
&
with
wordes
of
reproche
and
blame
/
they
shewed
it
vp
:
he
toke
in
worth
all
that
doinge
with
so
constant
a
mynde
/
that
sodaynelye
he
rode
forby
all
his
batayles
/
and
saide
to
them
with
a
loude
voice
/
that
that
was
his
owne
priuate
harme
/
but
the
helthe
and
saluation
of
the
common
weale
stode
in
the
sauegarde
of
them
his
men
of
warre
.
But
nowe
to
ouer
passe
the
manyfolde
examples
of
Galba
/
Piso
/
Sceuola
/
Metellus
/
Scaurus
/
Marcellus
/
&
Aufidius
:
remember
whan
Claudius
Cesar
had
loste
hym
/
whom
be
bothe
begotte
/
and
moste
entierely
loued
:
yet
for
all
that
he
(
his
owne
selfe
)
in
the
common
pulpit
lauded
and
praysed
his
sonne
/
the
cors
beinge
present
/
all
only
couered
with
a
littell
veyle
:
and
whan
all
the
people
of
Rome
wepte
and
bewayled
his
sonnes
dethe
/
he
his
father
wepte
nat
a
teare
.
And
surely
lyke
as
it
is
a
right
good
ly
thyng
to
folowe
&
do
as
these
men
dyd
:
euen
so
were
it
a
right
shamfull
thynge
/
if
men
shulde
nat
be
founde
as
stedfast
and
as
stoutely
mynded
as
women
haue
ben
in
suche
case
.
Cornelia
sawe
and
behelde
her
two
sonnes
(
Tit.
Graccus
/
and
Caius
Graccus
)
slayne
and
vnburyed
:
and
whan
her
frendes
comforted
her
and
sayde
/
she
had
a
wretched
chaunce
:
I
wyll
neuer
saye
(
quod
she
)
that
I
am
vnlucky
or
vnfortunate
/
that
haue
borne
suche
two
children
.
But
wherto
do
we
now
repete
these
examples
out
of
auncient
cronicles
:
as
though
we
sawe
nat
dayly
before
our
face
sufficient
examples
?
Beholde
your
neighbours
/
beholde
your
kyns
folke
and
alies
:
howe
many
/
yea
sely
women
/
shall
ye
finde
/
the
whiche
verye
moderately
take
in
good
worthe
the
dethe
of
theyr
children
?
This
matter
is
so
plaine
/
that
there
nedeth
no
great
helpe
of
philosophie
therto
.
For
he
that
wolde
consider
well
in
his
mide
/
how
wretched
on
al
sides
this
our
life
is
/
to
how
many
pils
/
to
how
many
sickenessis
/
to
how
many
chaunces
/
to
howe
many
cares
/
to
how
many
incommodities
/
to
how
many
vices
/
and
to
howe
many
iniuries
it
is
endangered
:
howe
littell
&
howe
small
a
portion
therof
we
passe
forth
(
I
will
nat
saye
in
pleasure
)
that
is
nat
attached
with
some
maner
greffe
and
displeasure
?
and
than
farther
to
consider
howe
sweftely
it
vanissheth
&
rolleth
away
/
that
we
may
in
maner
reioyce
&
be
glad
of
them
that
ben
departed
out
of
this
worlde
in
theyr
youthe
.
The
shortnes
of
our
lyfe
Euripides
sadly
expresseth
/
whiche
callethe
the
lyfe
of
mortall
creatures
one
lyttell
daye
.
But
Phalereus
Demetrius
doth
better
/
whiche
correctynge
the
sayenge
of
Euripides
sayth
/
that
the
lyfe
of
man
shulde
rather
be
called
the
Minute
of
an
houre
.
But
Pyndarus
saythe
beste
of
all
/
whiche
callethe
the
lyfe
of
man
the
dreme
of
a
shadowe
.
He
ioynethe
two
speciall
thynges
of
nothynge
to gether
/
to
th
entent
that
he
wolde
declare
howe
vayne
a
thynge
this
lyfe
is
.
Nowe
howe
wretched
and
myserable
the
same
lyfe
is
on
euery
behalfe
/
the
auncient
poetes
semed
to
perceyue
it
passinge
well
:
the
whiche
demed
/
that
a
man
coude
nat
more
truely
nor
more
better
name
mortall
creatures
/
than
surname
them
very
miserable
wretches
.
For
the
fyrste
age
or
formeste
parte
of
mans
lyfe
(
the
whiche
is
rekened
the
best
)
is
ignorant
:
The
middell
parte
of
the
lyfe
is
assayled
with
trouble
and
care
of
manyfolde
businessis
:
and
yet
all
this
while
I
speake
but
of
them
that
be
moste
luckye
and
fortunate
.
Therfore
who
is
he
/
which
of
very
ryghte
wyll
nat
approue
the
sayenge
of
Silenus
:
the
best
is
neuer
to
be
borne
/
the
nexte
is
moste
swyftly
to
be
clene
extincte
?
who
wyll
nat
allowe
the
ordinaunce
of
the
Thraciens
/
the
which
customably
vse
to
receyue
them
that
be
borne
in
to
this
worlde
/
with
lamentation
and
mournynge
:
and
agayne
whan
they
departe
hence
/
they
be
very
glad
and
demeane
great
ioye
?
And
he
that
by
hym selfe
considerethe
inwardlye
those
thynges
/
that
Hegesias
was
wonte
to
declare
to
his
herers
/
he
wolde
rather
desire
his
owne
dethe
than
abhorre
hit
:
and
wolde
farre
more
indifferently
take
in
worthe
the
dethe
of
his
frendes
.
But
nowe
your
fatherly
sorowe
commethe
forthe
and
saythe
:
He
died
er
his
day
/
he
dyed
in
his
childehode
/
he
died
so
passyng
a
good
childe
/
yea
and
so
towardlye
disposed
vnto
vertue
/
that
he
was
worthye
to
haue
lyued
many
many
yeres
:
your
fatherly
sorowe
complayneth
/
that
the
course
of
Nature
is
subuerted
/
seinge
that
you
his
father
an
olde
man
/
shulde
ouer
lyue
your
sonne
a
yonge
man
.
But
I
prey
you
for
the
loue
of
god
tell
me
/
what
ye
call
before
his
day
:
as
though
euery
day
of
a
mans
lyfe
coude
nat
be
his
laste
daye
?
One
before
he
come
in
to
this
worlde
/
and
whan
vnneth
it
hath
any
shappe
of
a
creature
reasonable
▪
is
strangled
and
diethe
/
euen
vnder
the
handes
of
nature
workynge
and
fourmynge
of
it
.
An
other
diethe
in
the
byrthe
.
An other
crienge
in
the
cradell
is
snatched
awaye
by
dethe
.
An
other
in
the
flowrig
youth
dieth
/
whan
scarsely
as
yet
it
hath
any
taste
of
the
lyfe
.
Of
so
many
thousandes
of
people
/
to
how
fewe
is
it
gyuen
(
as
Horace
nameth
it
)
to
steppe
vp
on
the
gryce
of
olde
age
?
without
doubte
god
hath
vnder
suche
a
lawe
constituted
the
soule
in
the
garrison
of
this
littell
body
/
that
what
so
euer
day
/
or
what
so
euer
moment
he
wyll
commaunde
it
to
departe
thence
/
it
muste
by
&
by
nedes
go
.
Nor
there
is
none
that
can
of
ryghte
thynke
hym selfe
to
be
called
forthe
before
his
day
/
considerynge
that
there
is
no
man
that
hath
a
day
certayne
to
hym
appoynted
:
but
that
only
is
his
laufull
day
/
whiche
so
euer
he
our
souerayne
capitayne
wolde
shulde
be
his
last
day
.
If
we
wyll
worke
wysely
/
we
shulde
so
abyde
euery
day
/
as
it
were
our
very
last
.
I
prey
you
/
what
maketh
hit
matter
/
seinge
the
life
is
so
shorte
and
fugitiue
/
whether
we
dye
betymes
/
or
tary
some
what
longer
.
For
it
skylleth
no
more
than
it
doth
/
whan
many
be
broughte
to
execution
/
whiche
of
them
shuld
be
fyrst
heeded
or
hanged
:
It
is
all
one
/
whiche
is
the
fyrste
/
the
thirde
or
the
eight
.
And
what
other
thinge
els
is
the
lyfe
it selfe
/
but
a
certayne
perpetuall
course
vnto
dethe
?
Sauyng
that
their
chance
is
more
commodious
/
the
which
from
so
laborious
an
exercise
of
the
lyfe
are
dispatched
be
tymes
.
But
as
it
is
a
touche
of
a
braynles
felowe
to
departe
away
from
the
army
and
breke
the
array
/
without
the
capitaynes
commaundement
:
So
hit
is
a
foliss
he
poynte
and
great
ingratitude
/
whan
leaue
is
quickelye
gyuen
of
the
capitayne
/
nat
gladly
to
take
it
:
And
most
specially
/
if
he
that
hath
now
licence
to
go
/
may
departe
his
waye
home
with
laude
and
preyse
/
&
to
hym
no
rebuke
nor
shame
.
Nor
it
is
nat
conuenient
/
that
one
shulde
sitte
and
reken
howe
many
yeres
he
hath
lyued
.
The
age
shulde
be
estemed
accordynge
to
the
noble
dedes
:
And
he
(
as
Homere
sayth
)
is
nat
reputed
to
haue
lyued
/
that
hath
poystered
the
erthe
/
and
made
a
nombre
:
but
he
the
whiche
sad
&
sobrely
passynge
forthe
his
lyfe
/
leaueth
behynde
hym
an
honest
remembraunce
to
them
that
come
after
.
Do
ye
complayne
/
that
god
sente
you
forthwith
suche
a
childe
/
as
ye
wolde
desire
to
haue
had
many
yeres
to
come
?
what
/
pardie
your
sonne
died
nat
so
soone
/
he
was
nowe
come
to
the
age
of
.xx.
yeres
:
at
the
whiche
age
(
after
myne
opinion
)
it
is
best
for
to
die
/
for
so
moche
as
than
lyfe
is
mooste
swete
.
Nowe
was
he
to
his
countrey
very
bountifull
/
nowe
was
he
to
his
father
very
lowely
and
gentyll
/
nowe
was
he
amonge
his
felowes
a
very
merye
companion
/
and
nowe
had
he
a
good
and
a
perfecte
mynde
to
godwarde
.
He
decessed
ignorant
of
vicis
/
and
whan
he
had
nat
tasted
but
littell
of
the
calamities
and
miseries
of
this
worlde
.
But
what
be
shulde
haue
knowen
&
haue
felte
(
if
he
had
lyued
longer
)
it
is
vncertayne
.
No
doubte
we
se
very
often
tymes
/
that
the
latter
age
dothe
bothe
infecte
the
clene
conuersation
of
yonge
age
with
more
greuous
vices
/
and
spottethe
and
defileth
the
felicitie
of
youthe
/
with
manyfolde
myserable
grefes
.
From
all
these
iuels
and
perils
/
deth
quickely
withdrewe
hym
.
Nowe
may
you
safe
and
surely
reioyce
and
be
glad
/
that
you
haue
had
so
good
and
so
vertuous
a
sonne
/
ye
or
rather
haue
.
But
be
it
(
as
you
do
suppose
)
that
you
had
hym
/
and
that
nowe
ye
be
depriued
and
haue
loste
hym
.
whether
of
very
ryghte
oughte
you
rather
to
tourment
&
vexe
your selfe
for
that
ye
haue
forgone
hym
:
or
els
reioyce
and
be
gladde
that
ye
hadde
suche
a
sonne
?
Take
you
hede
that
it
be
nat
a
poynte
of
vnkyndnes
/
that
ye
shulde
remembre
the
requeste
of
the
gyfte
to
be
restored
agayne
/
and
nothynge
to
mynde
the
gyfte
.
No
doubte
a
childe
of
a
good
disposition
is
a
great
gyfte
:
but
yet
is
he
so
gyuen
/
that
ye
shulde
take
and
haue
pleasure
with
hym
for
a
tyme
/
and
nat
that
he
shulde
be
yours
for
euer
.
You
that
be
a
perfecte
wyse
man
/
consider
this
by
your selfe
:
yea
let
vs
both
to gether
consider
on
this
wyse
.
If
a
great
prince
shulde
lende
vs
a
tabull
of
an
excedyng
great
price
/
and
of
an
excellent
workemanshyppe
/
to
passe
our
tyme
with
:
whether
ought
we
(
whan
so
euer
pleasethe
hym
to
demaunde
or
call
for
it
)
with
a
glad
chere
/
ye
and
more
ouer
gentylly
thankynge
hym
/
to
delyuer
it
agayne
/
or
els
with
heuy
and
sorowfull
countenance
shall
we
complayne
to
hym
on
this
wyse
?
O
cruell
prince
/
of
howe
precious
a
gyfte
haste
thou
spoyled
vs
?
Howe
great
a
pleasure
hast
thou
berafte
and
taken
from
vs
?
Howe
sone
hast
thou
taken
from
vs
/
contrary
to
our
opinion
this
so
excellent
a
thing
.
Myght
nat
he
of
very
ryghte
to
our
so
vnkynde
complayntes
answere
on
this
wyse
?
Haue
I
this
rewarde
for
my
gentyll
and
courtoys
dede
?
Remembre
ye
nothynge
/
saue
only
that
/
that
ye
haue
forgone
the
moste
faire
tabull
?
Haue
ye
forgotte
/
that
I
of
myn
owne
good
wyll
and
frelye
lente
it
you
?
And
that
ye
haue
nowe
so
longe
whyle
(
of
my
gentylnes
and
sufferaunce
)
fedde
your
eies
and
delited
your
mynde
.
It
was
of
my
liberalite
and
fredome
that
I
lente
it
you
:
and
nowe
whan
I
require
it
agayne
I
do
but
ryght
:
perdie
ye
haue
had
by
me
some
aduauntage
/
ye
loste
nothyng
/
saue
that
throughe
your
foly
/
ye
femed
that
thing
to
be
your
owne
/
that
was
but
lente
you
.
And
so
ye
esteme
it
to
be
loste
/
that
is
restored
to
the
owner
againe
.
But
the
more
precious
and
delectable
that
the
thynge
was
that
I
lente
and
let
you
haue
at
your
pleasure
/
the
more
a
great
deale
ye
oughte
to
haue
thanked
me
.
Nor
ye
oughte
nat
to
thynke
hit
to
be
to
sone
required
againe
/
the
which
with
out
any
iniurye
or
wronge
myghte
haue
bene
kepte
from
you
.
If
this
reason
can
nat
be
proued
false
by
no
meane
of
argumentation
:
than
thynke
howe
moche
more
iustly
Nature
(
with
suche
maner
wordis
)
might
reproue
bothe
our
lamentation
and
sorowfull
complaynynges
.
And
vndoubted
by
these
maner
of
reasons
our
sorowe
oughte
to
be
swaged
/
yea
if
it
were
so
/
that
a
man
were
vtterly
extincte
by
deth
/
and
there
remayned
nothynge
of
vs
after
the
buriall
.
Now
if
we
at
the
leste
gyue
credence
to
it
/
wherof
Socrates
in
Plato
/
doubted
nothynge
at
all
/
that
is
to
witte
:
the
very
man
to
be
the
soule
/
&
this
body
to
be
nothynge
els
but
the
pipe
or
lyttell
house
of
the
soule
:
Or
els
to
say
trouthe
/
it
may
be
called
the
buriall
or
prison
of
the
soule
:
and
whan
it
escapeth
out
therof
/
than
at
the
laste
it
cometh
to
libertie
to
lyue
moche
more
welthyly
than
it
dyd
be
fore
.
wherfore
than
shuld
we
sorowfully
blame
deth
/
seinge
that
he
that
dieth
/
dothe
nat
perisshe
/
but
than
he
semethe
rather
to
be
borne
.
And
we
ought
to
reioyce
in
the
soule
(
whiche
we
can
nat
with
our
eies
decerne
)
as
moche
and
none
other
wyse
/
than
we
be
wont
to
reioyce
and
take
pleasure
in
our
frendes
that
bene
absent
.
And
I
doubte
whether
is
more
delectable
and
reioysyng
to
vs
/
whan
they
bene
present
/
or
els
whan
they
ben
absent
:
for
so
moche
as
the
corporall
lyuyng
to gether
is
wonte
to
mynyster
to
vs
matter
of
displeasure
/
and
the
moche
beinge
in
company
to gether
dothe
some
what
abate
the
ioyfulnesse
of
frendshyp
.
If
ye
desyre
an
example
of
this
thynge
/
be
nat
the
apostels
a
sufficient
argument
/
the
whiche
than
began
to
take
very
fruition
in
Christ
/
and
truely
to
loue
hym
/
after
the
corporal
presence
was
taken
from
them
?
On
the
same
wyse
is
the
frendshyppe
of
them
that
be
good
/
the
whiche
stedfastly
perseuer
in
couplynge
and
knyttynge
to gether
of
the
myndes
/
and
nat
of
the
bodies
.
And
there
is
no
violence
/
no
space
of
tyme
/
nor
no
distaunce
of
places
/
that
can
seuer
or
diuide
the
couplyng
of
myndes
.
So
that
me
thynke
hit
a
very
childisshe
poynt
/
to
thynke
that
a
frende
were
clene
lost
and
gone
/
so
sone
as
he
were
out
of
sighte
.
You
may
(
as
ofte
as
ye
wyll
)
haue
your
sonne
presente
/
both
in
your
thoughte
&
in
your
wordes
:
And
he
(
on
the
other
side
)
remembreth
you
/
&
perceiueth
the
tender
affections
of
your
mynde
/
ye
and
other
whyle
in
your
slepe
both
your
soules
embrace
eche
other
/
&
talke
to gether
of
some
secrete
thinges
.
what
thynge
letteth
/
that
ye
may
nat
euen
very
nowe
imagin
to
lyue
with
hym
/
with
whom
soone
after
ye
are
in
poynte
to
lyue
?
I
pray
you
/
how
briefe
&
shorte
is
all
the
holle
tyme
that
we
lyue
here
?
Hitherto
haue
I
vsed
the
remedies
/
the
whiche
I
myghte
well
vse
/
if
I
had
to
do
with
a
paynym
.
Nowe
let
vs
brieffely
consider
/
what
godlynes
&
christen
faith
ought
to
require
of
vs
.
Fyrst
and
formost
/
if
it
were
so
/
that
deth
were
a
thynge
moste
miserable
:
yet
it
behoueth
vs
to
take
it
in
good
worth
/
seinge
that
ther
is
none
other
remedye
.
And
more
ouer
/
if
dethe
shulde
clene
extinguishe
man
/
that
nothynge
after
shulde
remayne
:
yet
we
shulde
there
with
be
contente
/
for
as
moche
as
hit
makethe
an
ende
of
many
calamities
and
greffes
/
whiche
we
suffre
in
this
lyfe
.
But
seinge
that
dethe
delyuereth
the
soule
(
beinge
of
etheriall
begynnyng
)
out
of
the
dongion
of
the
ponderous
&
beuy
body
:
in
a
maner
we
oughte
to
reioyce
and
be
gladde
of
them
that
be
departed
hence
out
of
this
wretched
worlde
:
and
that
they
be
retourned
home
agayne
to
that
welthye
libertie
/
from
whence
they
came
.
Nowe
than
conside
ryng
that
deth
(
without
any
doubte
)
conueyeth
the
good
deuoute
soules
out
of
the
stormes
of
this
troublous
lyfe
vnto
the
porte
or
hauen
of
lyfe
perdurable
/
and
that
nat
so
moche
as
a
here
of
a
mans
heed
shall
perisshe
(
for
the
bodies
also
at
length
shal
be
called
to
enioye
the
same
lyfe
euerlastyng
.
)
I
prey
you
whether
ought
we
to
mourne
and
wepe
/
or
els
to
be
gladde
and
reioyce
in
hym
/
whom
dethe
in
due
tyme
taketh
out
of
this
moste
troublous
see
of
the
lyfe
/
and
carieth
hym
in
to
that
quiete
&
sure
restynge
place
of
euerlastynge
lyfe
?
Go
to
nowe
a
littell
while
/
and
lay
to gether
the
foule
enormities
/
the
painful
labours
/
and
the
perils
and
daungers
of
this
lyfe
(
if
it
may
be
called
a
lyfe
.
)
And
on
the
other
syde
reken
&
caste
what
commodities
and
pleasures
(
of
that
other
lyfe
)
are
all
redy
prepared
for
the
godly
creatures
that
be
plucked
hence
away
:
And
than
ye
shall
sone
perceiue
/
that
no
man
can
do
more
vnrightouslye
than
he
/
the
whiche
lamentably
bewayleth
/
that
high
goodnes
/
vnto
the
whiche
only
we
be
both
borne
and
ordayned
/
euen
as
thoughe
it
were
a
right
great
and
greuous
harme
.
Ye
crie
out
/
bicause
ye
be
lefte
comfortles
alone
without
children
/
whan
ye
haue
begotte
a
sonne
to
inhabite
heuen
:
the
holy
remembraunce
of
whom
(
as
it
were
of
a
diuine
thynge
)
ye
maye
reuerence
/
the
whiche
aboue
in
beuen
beinge
carefull
for
you
/
may
greatly
forther
the
prosperous
successe
of
your
busines
here
.
For
he
is
nother
ignorant
of
mortall
folkes
busines
/
nor
hath
nat
forgone
with
the
bodye
the
lowlye
reuerence
and
tender
loue
/
whiche
he
was
wonte
to
bere
to
you
his
father
.
No
doubt
he
lyueth
/
beleue
me
he
lyueth
/
and
perauenture
is
present
with
vs
/
and
hereth
/
and
perceiueth
this
our
communication
/
and
laugheth
and
damneth
this
our
lamentation
.
And
if
the
grossenes
of
our
bodies
letted
nat
/
ꝑchance
we
shulde
here
hym
blaming
vs
for
our
wepyng
with
these
maner
of
wordes
.
what
do
ye
?
wyll
ye
abridge
your
dayes
/
and
finishe
your
olde
age
with
this
vnprofitable
/
ye
I
may
well
say
pyuisshe
lamentation
?
wherfore
do
you
with
so
vniuste
com
playntes
accuse
and
blame
destenyefortune
and
dethe
?
Haue
you
enuye
at
me
bicause
I
am
delyuered
from
the
yuels
of
that
lyfe
/
&
am
brought
to
this
felicitie
that
I
am
in
?
But
be
hit
/
that
your
fatherly
goodnes
and
pure
amitie
dothe
nat
enuye
me
.
Yet
what
other
thynge
meaneth
this
sorowfull
complaynyng
?
Thynke
you
this
worthye
to
be
lamented
/
that
I
am
deducte
and
brought
from
thraldome
to
libertie
/
from
peyne
and
care
to
pleasure
&
felicitie
/
from
darkenes
vnto
lighte
/
from
perill
and
daunger
vnto
sure
saftie
/
from
deth
vnto
lyfe
/
from
sickenessis
and
disseases
vnto
immortalitie
/
from
so
many
yuels
to
so
high
goodnes
/
from
thynges
caduke
and
transitorie
to
the
euerlastynge
/
fro
thinges
erthly
to
celestiall
/
and
finally
from
the
corrupte
and
vnclene
company
of
all
people
to
the
felowshyp
of
angels
?
Tell
me
(
I
prey
you
)
for
the
great
loue
and
kyndnes
that
ye
beare
me
/
If
it
laye
in
your
power
to
releue
me
agayne
/
wolde
ye
releue
me
?
Than
what
offence
haue
I
done
/
to
deserue
so
great
hatred
of
you
?
If
ye
wolde
nat
reliue
me
agayne
/
than
for
what
purpose
seruen
all
these
lamentations
/
the
which
(
as
I
haue
said
)
are
nat
only
vnprofitable
/
but
also
vngodly
?
But
ne
were
it
so
/
that
immortalite
had
a
while
agone
clene
depued
me
of
all
sorowe
/
I
wolde
lyke
wyse
with
wepyng
teares
bewayle
your
sorowfull
mourning
/
&
sore
haue
rewed
vpon
thilke
grosse
&
darke
cloudines
of
your
mynde
.
But
ye
say
/
that
you
on
your
part
wepe
&
make
lamentation
.
For
soth
therin
ye
do
nat
like
louers
:
but
like
vnto
them
that
haue
a
respecte
to
them selfewarde
/
&
that
wyll
(
to
others
discommodite
)
se
to
their
own
busines
.
Nowe
go
to
/
tell
me
/
what
losse
is
it
/
that
ye
susteine
by
my
deth
?
Is
it
/
bicause
ye
can
nat
haue
me
in
your
sight
?
Pardie
ye
may
neuer
the
lasse
/
at
your
owne
pleasure
remembre
me
the
meane
tyme
/
ye
and
so
moche
the
more
welthyly
/
in
howe
moche
I
am
in
sure
saftie
.
For
loke
that
ye
esteme
me
nowe
delyuered
from
all
the
yuels
/
what
so
euer
they
be
that
maye
bechaunce
a
mortall
man
in
his
lyfe
:
of
whiche
your
longe
&
robustous
lyfe
(
for
a
great
parte
)
hath
experience
.
And
though
that
I
be
nat
with
you
/
with
lowly
obeisance
to
do
you
seruice
/
yet
may
I
be
a
sure
&
an
effectuall
aduocate
for
you
before
the
high
maiestie
of
god
.
And
finally
/
howe
small
a
thynge
is
hit
/
that
deuideth
our
conuersation
&
familiaritie
?
Nowe
loke
that
you
so
endeuour
your selfe
/
that
whan
ye
haue
well
and
vertuouslye
passed
the
course
of
your
lyfe
/
that
ye
maye
than
at
the
houre
of
dethe
be
founde
worthy
to
be
conueyed
hither
.
If
that
your
sonne
(
I
saye
)
shulde
saye
these
wordes
to
vs
:
myghte
we
nat
well
be
ashamed
thus
to
lament
and
mourne
as
we
do
?
with
these
maner
of
reasons
I
am
wonte
to
ease
the
greffe
of
myn
owne
mynde
:
of
the
whiche
I
wolde
that
you
shulde
be
part
taker
/
nat
all
only
that
ye
haue
any
great
nede
of
those
remedies
:
but
I
demed
it
agreable
/
that
ye
shulde
be
partaker
of
my
consolation
/
of
whose
sorowe
I
was
partiner
.
But
briefly
to
conclude
all
that
hath
ben
at
length
reasoned
:
by
this
maner
meane
/
ye
shall
aswage
the
smartynge
sorowe
of
your
mynde
.
My
sonne
is
deed
:
ye
begotte
a
mortall
creature
.
I
haue
loste
a
great
iewell
:
ye
haue
yelded
hit
agayne
to
hym
that
frelye
gaue
hit
you
.
It
is
a
right
greuous
thing
to
be
thus
destitude
:
It
shulde
be
the
lighter
borne
/
that
may
be
redressed
by
some
mene
.
He
hath
lefte
me
his
father
alone
confortles
.
what
dothe
it
auayle
to
wepe
and
wayle
for
that
that
can
nat
be
remedied
?
or
why
mourne
you
for
that
/
the
whiche
chaunceth
to
so
manye
thousandes
as
well
as
to
you
?
Alas
I
can
nat
chose
but
wepe
for
the
deth
of
my
sonne
:
ye
but
he
that
diethe
well
/
dothe
in
no
wyse
perysshe
.
But
he
died
to
sone
:
He
that
diethe
well
/
diethe
nat
to
sone
.
He
dyed
longe
before
his
daye
was
come
:
There
is
no
man
that
hath
a
daye
certayne
appointed
vnto
hym
.
He
decessed
in
his
flourynge
youthe
:
It
is
than
best
to
dye
whan
to
lyue
it
is
moste
swete
.
He
died
a
very
yonge
man
:
So
is
he
withdrawen
from
the
mo
yuels
and
troubuls
of
this
lyfe
.
I
haue
loste
the
beste
childe
that
any
man
coude
haue
:
Be
gladde
that
ye
had
suche
one
.
He
departed
out
of
this
worlde
an
innocent
:
No
deth
shulde
be
more
desired
and
lesse
bewayled
.
Ye
but
it
is
nat
lefull
for
me
the
meane
whyle
to
haue
fruition
with
my
sonne
:
Yes
in
your
mynde
you
may
:
and
within
shorte
space
you
and
he
to gether
bodye
and
soule
shall
ioye
and
take
pleasure
.
If
ye
knowe
any
better
remedies
than
these
/
of
gentylnes
let
me
here
them
:
if
ye
do
nat
/
than
vse
these
with
me
.
And
thus
fare
ye
wel
/
which
your
sonne
also
wold
ye
shuld
.