¶
A
Dialogue
betweene
the
Author
and
his
Muse
,
as
touching
the
dedication
of
this
booke
.
Authour
MY
fréendly
Muse
leaue
Parnas
hill
a
while
,
I
craue
thy
ayde
and
counsayle
now
at
neede
:
L
end
mee
thy
laurel
crown
to
gui●…e
my
stile
,
DRED
driues
my
minde
to
doubt
of
lucky
speed
May
I
be
bold
this
rude
booke
to
addres
,
To
her
who
is
a
Mirror
of
worthinesse
.
Musa
.
B
lush
not
at
all
(
thou
dastard
)
in
this
case
,
Vnto
the
best
,
best
welcome
is
goodwill
,
R
efrayne
thy
doubtes
,
and
hope
for
fauours
grace
,
Giue
mee
the
charge
to
rule
thy
rusty
quill
:
LEY
all
thy
care
vpon
her
curtesie
:
Whose
noble
hart
knowes
all
humanity
.
Authour
.
Thy
wordes
(
my
Muse
)
some
hope
of
hap
doth
yéeld
,
But
yet
I
feele
a
conflict
in
my
brest
:
And
whether
part
may
win
in
mee
the
féelde
,
My
staggering
doubt
vncertayne
yet
doth
rest
:
Before
mine
eyes
a
platforme
doth
appeare
,
Of
all
her
worthynesse
as
thou
shalt
heare
.
If
learning
may
lifte
vp
her
fame
to
skies
,
Her
laude
is
sent
vnto
the
highest
throne
:
If
vertue
vaunt
,
a
lofte
hir
honor
flies
,
In
godlines
hir
like
is
rarely
knowne
,
For
noble
nature
,
and
for
curtesie
,
What
should
I
say
,
my
pen
cannot
descry
.
May
I
not
then
bee
ouer
saucy
déemd
,
To
make
a
match
as
this
so
far
vnfit
.
May
I
haue
hope
my
booke
to
bee
estéemd
,
That
shewes
not
forth
one
dramme
of
skill
ne
wit
:
Nay
,
nay
,
my
Muse
,
I
am
resolude
in
minde
:
My
vndeserts
,
shall
slender
fauour
finde
.
Mus●…
.
Ah
simple
sot
,
I
cannot
choose
but
smile
,
To
see
how
thou
doost
maske
in
follies
n●…t
:
Thou
séemst
abashed
of
thy
homely
stile
,
Learne
this
of
mée
,
and
doo
it
not
forget
,
Where
learned
skill
her
golden
gyftes
doo
place
:
Good
will
vnlearned
shall
finde
fauours
grace
.
Where
vertue
kéepes
possession
of
the
brest
,
And
godlinesse
doth
harbour
in
the
hart
,
Scorne
is
exylde
,
shée
doth
disdaine
detest
,
From
noble
nature
,
fauour
doth
not
start
.
Shun
not
to
shew
the
fruites
of
thy
good
will
,
No
shame
ensues
where
meaning
is
not
yll
.
The
simple
beast
that
feares
the
Lious
lookes
,
Is
flesht
at
length
by
fauour
once
obtaynde
:
Though
(
as
thou
sayst
)
vnskilfull
bée
thy
bookes
,
Yet
thou
ere
this
hast
fauours
fréendship
gainde
.
Her
noble
spouse
,
thy
booke
did
not
disdayne
,
While
in
thy
brest
like
skirmish
did
remaine
.
Where
Milde
is
first
,
Rede
then
what
doth
ensue
,
Milde
mindes
are
alwayes
matcht
with
curtesie
:
Dread
not
at
all
,
shée
will
vouchsafe
to
vew
Thy
booke
if
thou
approche
with
modesty
,
No
tricke
of
loue
or
Venus
wanton
toyes
.
Are
herein
pend
,
to
féede
fonde
louers
ioyes
.
If
coy
conceit
of
curious
eloquence
,
Had
●…xed
foote
within
her
learned
minde
:
Then
were
it
time
for
thée
to
fly
from
hence
,
To
hunt
for
termes
that
hardly
thou
maist
finde
.
But
why
doo
I
,
to
thee
this
lesson
tell
,
Shée
is
none
such
,
and
that
thou
knowest
full
w●…ll
.
Then
on
I
goe
,
God
sende
mée
lucky
spéede
,
In
humble
wise
,
to
craue
her
fauours
grace
:
Adew
dispaire
,
on
hope
my
hart
shall
féede
,
With
full
assurance
of
her
fréendly
face
.
And
this
I
vow
,
and
shall
perfourme
thesame
,
In
prayer
to
recorde
her
noble
name
.
While
life
doth
last
.
To
the
Right
noble
and
vertuous
Lady
,
the
Lady
Mildred
Burleigh
,
Wife
vnto
the
right
honorable
Lorde
Treasorer
of
England
,
Vlpian
Fulwell
wisheth
perfect
Felicitie
.
WHen
I
had
taken
a
view
(
right
honorable
and
vertuous
Lady
)
of
the
great
and
greeuous
enormities
,
that
issue
from
the
filthy
fountaine
of
pestilent
flattery
,
the
practitioners
wherof
(
as
it
is
sayde
)
are
the
moste
pernitious
of
al
tame
Beastes
,
I
was
iustly
moued
,
or
rather
vrged
in
conscience
,
to
display
the
wicked
and
impudent
exercises
of
the
flattering
floake
in
these
dayes
:
Not
that
I
thinke
my selfe
the
meetest
man
to
take
this
charge
in
hand
(
beeing
very
rude
both
in
phrase
&
also
inuention
)
but
rather
to
call
the
fine
sorte
of
writers
that
now
swarm
in
England
,
to
leaue
the
currant
handling
of
Venus
Pageants
(
wherin
they
shew
their
excellency
)
and
prosecute
this
,
so
necessary
matter
to
bee
inueied
at
,
as
a
pestilent
weede
in
a
pleasant
Garden
,
most
necessary
to
bee
Irradicate
.
I
shall
not
neede
to
flye
to
the
Poet
Homer
for
his
ayde
in
discription
of
the
Syrens
,
seeinge
that
thus
our
vnhappy
age
is
furnished
with
Mermaydes
,
whose
luring
songes
yeeld
such
daynty
and
delicate
tunes
to
the
eares
of
ambitious
&
vaine
glorious
people
,
that
while
they
seeme
to
swim
in
the
flood
of
Fortune
,
they
sinke
in
the
stinking
puddle
of
folly
:
but
the
wiser
sorte
follow
the
example
of
Vlisses
for
the
auoydinge
of
their
sweete
venemous
enchauntmentes
.
And
as
it
is
well
knowen
that
your
L.
haue
stopte
your
eares
against
their
magicall
incantations
,
as
a
patterne
of
prudence
and
discretion
,
for
others
,
(
both
therin
and
in
all
other
commendable
vertues
)
to
imitate
:
So
I
am
bold
,
humbly
to
desire
your
honour
to
bee
my
Patronesse
in
this
my
inuectiue
against
that
liberal
science
,
which
though
I
haue
(
by
a
contrarye
)
termed
it
the
E●…ghth
liberall
Science
,
not
that
it
contayneth
in
it
any
liberalitye
of
vertue
or
honest
knowledge
,
yet
because
benefites
are
so
liberally
contributed
vnto
it
(
as
dayly
experience
sheweth
.
)
And
if
any
Scycophant
wil
captiously
turne
vpon
mee
,
the
pyke
of
this
edge
toole
,
for
any
thing
in
this
Epistle
vnto
your
L
contayned
,
I
doubt
not
but
easely
to
auoyde
his
assault
,
with
a
great
multitude
of
witnesses
.
For
the
abandoning
of
which
filthy
Arte
,
I
refrayne
to
write
that
which
common
knowledge
and
publike
report
do
of
your
L.
worthinesse
dayly
testify
.
And
although
I
may
seeme
very
presumtuous
,
to
aspire
to
so
noble
a
Patronesse
,
with
so
slender
a
present
to
so
learned
a
Lady
,
with
so
rude
a
Treatise
,
yet
the
great
curtesie
that
I
haue
both
seene
&
receiued
at
your
L.
handes
,
hath
enforced
mee
to
expresse
my
du
etifull
gratuity
,
with
this
my
very
simple
&
vnpolished
peece
of
worke
,
in
the
acceptation
wherof
,
I
shal
be
moste
bounden
vnto
your
honour
,
with
my
humble
&
harty
prayer
vnto
almighty
God
,
both
for
you
and
my
good
Lorde
,
whom
God
preserue
to
the
inestimable
comfort
of
the
common
wealth
of
this
Realme
.
Your
Honours
most
humble
.
Vlpian
FulWell
.
To
the
Freendly
Reader
,
Ulpian
FullWell
.
I
Doubt
not
at
al
(
gentle
Reader
)
but
that
I
,
for
my
industry
in
detecting
this
eyghth
liberall
Science
,
shall
bee
reputed
with
many
sapientum
octauus
,
the
eyghth
wise
man
:
that
is
as
wise
as
Will
Sommer
,
but
I
shall
contente
my selfe
with
such
reputacion
,
rather
chosing
to
be
truthes
drudge
,
then
Fortunes
flattering
dearling
.
And
I
can
not
but
greatly
lamente
,
that
so
many
in
these
dayes
doo
so
adict
themselues
to
the
filthy
trade
of
flattery
,
whereby
both
Noble
men
,
Gentlemen
,
and
good
natured
men
are
abused
:
&
fooles
flatterers
,
dissemblers
and
gesters
,
noseled
in
impudency
,
and
nourished
by
petty
theeuery
,
like
the
waspe
that
liueth
vpon
the
labour
of
the
paynefull
Bee.
And
although
such
Waspes
will
for
this
my
labour
doo
their
endeuour
to
stinge
mee
for
my
paine
:
yet
I
will
bee
so
bold
with
them
as
to
tell
thee
(
gentle
Reader
)
what
they
are
.
Such
they
are
as
lye
at
receite
for
the
fruites
of
other
mens
desertes
.
They
catche
the
birdes
,
for
the
which
other
men
beate
the
bush
,
and
such
they
are
,
as
with
their
detestable
practice
of
flattery
,
withdrawe
men
from
the
study
of
vertue
.
And
this
their
execrable
science
hath
so
peruerted
the
〈◊〉
of
many
in
this
age
,
and
hath
taken
such
habit
in
mans
affections
:
that
it
is
in
moste
men
altera
natura
,
and
very
difficile
to
bee
expelled
:
yea
,
the
very
sucking
babes
hath
a
kinde
of
adulation
towardes
their
Nurses
for
the
dugge
,
which
(
in
my
iudgement
)
commeth
vnto
them
by
corruption
of
nature
:
and
as
they
grow
in
reason
,
so
they
increase
therin
,
vntill
in
time
it
is
turned
from
greene
and
tender
addulation
,
to
ripe
and
perfect
dissimulation
,
except
by
good
education
the
same
bee
preuented
.
If
I
should
generally
condemne
all
men
of
this
foule
crime
,
I
might
iustly
be
blamed
,
yet
may
I
bouldly
say
,
that
in
comparison
of
the
multitude
,
very
few
there
are
,
whose
hartes
and
tongues
are
not
stayned
with
the
blemish
of
flattery
and
the
branches
therof
:
namely
dissimulation
,
deceit
,
wicked
perswations
,
with
such
other
like
sinisters
practis
.
How
common
a
thing
is
it
,
to
see
one
man
embrace
another
with
such
freendly
salutacions
,
as
though
they
were
knit
in
the
insoluble
knot
of
perfect
frend
ship
,
and
yet
a
man
may
buy
as
much
loue
at
Byllingsgate
for
a
boxe
on
the
eare
.
How
shifte
some
men
with
goulden
wordes
to
promisse
,
and
how
slacke
to
performe
:
how
easie
to
haue
a
freend
in
wordes
,
and
how
hard
to
finde
one
in
deedes
:
And
certes
,
if
I
should
particulerly
descend
to
the
very
Begger
,
I
should
both
bee
too
tedious
in
this
Epistle
,
and
also
publish
the
effecte
of
my
seconde
parte
of
this
matter
,
(
as
yet
to
come
.
)
Desiringe
thee
not
to
wreste
my
woordes
vnto
a
worse
sence
,
then
my
playne
meaninge
hath
pretended
:
and
where
thou
findest
this
name
Fortune
,
my
meaning
is
the
selfesame
blinde
Mammon
,
that
the
Poets
speake
of
,
vnder
whose
name
and
person
,
they
comprehend
earthly
prosperitie
,
which
wee
daily
see
to
bee
vnegally
,
and
vndiscretly
distributed
:
and
her
stately
pallace
,
is
the
wide
worlde
,
wherunto
all
men
haue
ingresse
and
egresse
:
and
thus
dooing
,
thou
shalt
both
gratify
my
desire
,
and
hasten
mee
forth
vnto
my
second
part
:
Until
which
time
(
gentle
Reader
,
)
I
pray
thee
let
not
this
my
beginninge
offend
thee
,
except
thou
be
one
of
them
that
is
here
rubbed
on
the
gall
:
but
trustinge
that
thou
art
one
of
Lady
Truethes
retinue
,
I
submit
my
labour
vnto
thy
censure
,
wishing
thee
thy
harts
desire
in
God
.
Vale
.
Vlpian
Fulwell
¶
A
discription
of
the
seuen
liberall
Sciences
,
into
whose
company
the
eight
hath
intruded
her selfe
.
Grammer
.
IF
learning
may
delight
thy
youthfull
brest
If
tender
yeares
to
skilfull
lore
bee
bent
Approche
to
mee
,
voutchsafe
to
bee
my
guest
:
My
entertaynement
shall
thy
minde
content
.
My
key
in
hand
shall
ope
the
gate
of
skill
,
My
Booke
on
brest
shall
teach
thy
tongue
and
quill
.
Logick
.
FRom
Grammers
Schoole
approch
to
mee
with
speede
,
Where
thou
maist
learne
the
rule
to
reason
right
,
I
geue
the
fruit
,
though
Grammer
sow
the
seede
:
In
mee
thou
maist
decerne
the
darke
from
light
.
My
fastened
fist
much
matter
doth
import
,
Coucht
in
few
wordes
fit
for
the
learned
sort
.
Rethorick
.
WHen
Grammers
grace
,
and
Logickes
learned
lore
,
Hath
deckt
thy
minde
,
and
mended
nature
well
,
My
golden
study
shall
yeeld
thee
such
store
,
Of
flowing
wordes
and
phrases
that
excell
.
Lo
here
with
open
hand
I
do
display
,
The
flowing
flood
of
eloquence
alway
.
Musick
.
WHen
mistie
clowde
of
drouping
dumpish
head
Doth
driue
thy
minde
to
plunge
in
pensiue
poole
,
The
clog
of
care
that
soking
sorowes
bread
,
Is
cleane
shakte
of
,
by
entring
to
my
Schoole
.
My
dainty
tunes
do
yeeld
such
sugred
sap
,
As
drawes
ech
blisse
,
and
driues
eche
foule
mishap
.
Arrithmetick
.
BY
Sciphering
Science
,
lo
my
summes
I
cast
,
By
wit
and
weight
,
I
wonderous
thinges
contriue
,
With
bunch
of
keyes
,
my
counts
are
lockt
vp
fast
:
In
mee
thou
maist
see
how
thy
wealth
doth
thriue
.
My
armes
and
brest
,
my
legs
eke
naked
bee
,
To
shew
that
trueth
and
plainenesse
rests
in
mee
.
Astronomy
.
FRom
earthly
skill
vnto
the
lofty
skies
,
My
globe
and
I
,
will
shew
the
lore
of
light
Thou
shalt
foresee
what
tempest
will
arise
,
To
thee
such
secrets
shall
appeare
in
sight
.
That
Starres
and
Planets
shall
thy
matesremain
,
And
thou
a
fellow
with
celestiall
traine
.
Geometry
.
BEholde
the
Compasse
and
the
other
tooles
,
Wherwith
I
worke
such
wonders
as
seeme
straunge
,
My
Rule
and
Quadrant
,
are
no
bookes
for
fooles
,
A
learned
scull
must
in
my
precepts
range
.
Now
when
thou
hast
vs
Sisters
seauen
obtainde
.
A
worlde
of
wealth
and
wisdome
thou
hast
gainde
.
Adulatior
,
or
flatterie
.
BEholde
the
bragges
that
Sisters
seauen
haue
made
,
Suruiew
their
vaunts
that
seeme
to
shine
so
bright
My
glittering
skill
shall
clips
them
in
the
shade
:
In
mee
appeares
the
beames
of
perfect
light
.
My
flattering
tongue
shall
gaine
more
then
they
all
,
I
geue
the
trip
and
they
shall
take
the
fall
.
Grammarians
gaine
nought
els
but
bread
and
cheese
,
Per●…hance
dame
Logick
haue
a
small
reward
,
Nete
Eloquence
will
pleade
for
slender
fees
:
Nice
Musick
as
a
Minstrel
men
regard
.
Arrithmatick
obtaines
but
litle
thrift
,
Astronomy
serues
for
a
simple
shift
.
Geometrie
may
iog
on
barrels
bun
,
And
drinke
the
dregs
when
liquor
al
is
spent
,
My
golden
Art
the
game
and
gole
hath
won
:
To
my
sweete
skill
,
eche
hart
and
eare
is
bent
.
The
Well
of
wealth
my
Science
doth
contriue
,
Then
learne
my
lore
all
ye
that
meane
to
thriue
.
To
mee
doth
flow
the
flood
of
happy
state
,
In
mee
is
matcht
a
masse
of
worldly
blisse
,
No
sturdy
storme
my
fauour
may
abate
:
For
Princely
eares
my
presence
may
not
misse
.
I
spin
the
threed
and
weaue
the
web
of
hap
,
And
none
but
I
may
sit
in
Fortunes
lap
.
❧
The
first
Dialogue
betweene
the
Author
and
the
Printer
.
Author
.
FVll
well
I
do
finde
,
that
Fortune
is
blinde
,
her
wheele
runnes
by
chaunce
:
When
shee
list
to
frown
,
the
wise
she
throwes
downe
,
and
fooles
doth
aduaunce
.
Printer
.
SIr
,
I
doo
not
a
litle
maruayle
that
you
séeme
so
to
blame
Fortune
,
whose
fauour
,
I
suppose
,
you
haue
sufficiently
enioyed
from
time
to
time
,
wherfore
(
mée
séemeth
)
you
shew
your selfe
very
vnthankeful
for
her
good
gifts
on
you
bestowed
.
Author
.
In
déede
,
my
olde
fellow
and
fréend
W.
H.
(
I
déeme
you
are
guided
by
this
Prouerbial
reason
,
)
Fortune
fauoureth
fooles
,
Ergo
Fortune
fauoureth
Fulwell
,
but
all
olde
Prouerbes
are
not
alwayes
true
,
for
then
should
I
be
very
fortunate
,
but
I
will
render
vnto
thée
the
cause
that
I
am
out
of
her
grace
and
fauour
.
Printer
.
Sir
,
I
pray
you
let
mée
craue
that
curtesie
at
your
handes
,
so
may
I
happely
learne
the
cause
why
shée
is
my
professed
enemy
also
.
Author
.
First
thou
must
vnderstand
,
that
I
was
seruant
a
longtime
vnto
Lady
Hope
,
who
in
fine
,
was
minded
to
preferre
mee
vnto
the
seruice
of
Lady
Fortune
,
&
when
my
sayd
Maistres
perceiued
that
this
blinde
Goddesse
was
determined
to
entertaine
certaine
men
into
her
seruice
,
&
bestow
on
them
very
liberally
,
shée
sente
mée
to
Fortune
,
with
her
letter
of
commendacions
,
the
tenure
wherof
ensueth
¶
Most
bountifull
Lady
and
my
good
Cosin
(
Dame
Fortune
)
your
approoued
frendship
towardes
mee
at
all
times
extended
,
emboldneth
mee
to
write
vnto
you
at
this
presente
in
the
behalfe
of
this
bearer
U.
F.
my
seruaunt
,
whom
to
preferre
vnto
your
Ladiships
seruice
,
is
my
desire
,
and
earnest
suite
vnto
you
,
of
whose
approoued
fidelity
(
vtterly
voyde
of
dissimulation
and
flatterie
)
I
geue
you
warrantize
,
and
in
entertaininge
of
him
you
shall
do
mee
a
very
acceptable
good
turne
.
Thus
with
harty
salutacions
,
I
wishe
you
as
vnto
my selfe
,
from
my
house
at
N.
By
your
very
louing●…
Cosin
Lady
Hope
.
Printer
.
Truely
this
was
a
very
louing
letter
,
and
(
in
my
iudgement
)
you
were
happy
to
haue
so
freendly
a
Maistresse
.
I
maruaile
that
vpon
the
deliuery
of
this
letter
vnto
Lady
Fortune
,
shee
made
not
you
chiefe
ruler
&
orderer
of
her
house
.
Author
.
Nay
nay
,
one
clause
of
this
letter
dasht
al
the
rest
,
and
made
mee
lose
my
golden
seruice
.
Printer
.
What
clause
was
it
I
pray
you
?
Author
.
These
are
the
words
that
marde
all
,
(
vtterly
voyde
of
flattery
and
dissimulation
.
)
Printer
.
Why
?
then
I
perceiue
that
slattery
and
dissimulation
is
the
way
to
win
Fortunes
fauour
,
and
certis
now
I
see
plainely
the
cause
that
I
haue
bene
alwayes
alienated
Author
.
I
wil
disclose
vnto
thée
the
order
of
my
comming
to
b●…r
Court
,
and
of
my
entertainment
there
.
At
my
first
entry
into
her
Court
,
I
set
aside
bashfulnes
,
knowing
that
boldnes
hath
more
free
passage
into
the
Court
gates
.
Then
with
the
Courtlikest
fashion
that
I
could
,
(
béeing
indéed
more
cart●…rlike
than
Courtier
like
)
I
prest
my self
into
the
Chamber
of
presence
,
my
thréedbare
cloke
was
markt
of
many
,
&
the
rest
of
my
attire
agréeable
therunto
,
was
mockt
of
most
,
but
specially
of
them
that
swinged
vp
&
downe
in
brauery
of
other
mens
cost
,
and
I
was
thought
very
saucy
and
malapert
.
And
amonge
the
rest
,
one
lusty
Courtiour
(
whose
name
as
I
vnderstood
afterwards
,
was
double
Diligence
)
William
Sommers
kynred
had
their
handes
full
,
Pierce
Pickthanke
filled
his
purse
,
Fraunces
the
Flatterer
flourished
in
wealth
,
Crispin
the
Counterfai●…
was
compted
a
ioly
fellow
▪
Dauy
Dissembler
had
wealth
at
will
and
in
great
estimacion
,
but
to
resite
the
detestable
crew
of
fooles
,
flatterers
,
and
parasites
,
that
receiued
giftes
o●…
this
blinde
Lady
Fortune
,
would
be
to
tedious
to
discribe
.
At
last
I
espide
in
a
corner
all
solitarely
,
a
beautifull
Lady
of
cumly
feature
,
in
very
modest
attire
,
and
shée
noting
my
simplicitie
,
amongst
such
a
sorte
of
snatching
companions
,
come
hyther
thou
simple
foole
F.
(
quod
shée
)
for
thou
art
very
the
second
pride
,
the
thirde
ambition
,
and
they
so
preuayled
,
that
my
trayne
became
freends
with
her
,
and
rebelled
agaynst
mée
.
Thus
was
shee
aduaunced
,
and
I
throwne
downe
,
then
was
I
compelled
to
seeke
my
habitation
among
temporal
princes
,
and
noble
peeres
but
my
enemies
were
so
mighty
,
that
they
constrayned
many
potentates
,
to
haue
of
mée
small
regard
,
yet
the
deuine
power
so
prouided
for
mee
,
that
I
was
not
,
nor
am
not
vtterly
fréendles
,
and
béeinge
aduertised
by
a
Sister
of
mine
,
named
Ladye
Vertue
,
that
I
am
had
in
great
veneration
at
this
time
within
the
realme
of
England
,
I
am
determined
to
addres
my
iurney
,
as
wel
for
the
singular
good
report
that
I
hear
of
the
most
renowmed
Queene
of
that
realme
,
compar●…
to
the
godly
and
vertuous
Queene
of
Saba
(
Elizabeth
by
name
)
as
also
for
the
good
hope
of
welcome
vnto
that
famous
nacion
.
And
in
this
wandring
pilgrimage
,
I
chanced
vpon
this
Pallace
of
blinde
Fortune
(
as
thou
now
séest
wherin
I
haue
noted
great
liberality
with
no
lesse
parcialitie
,
wise
men
beate
the
bush
and
fooles
catch
the
birdes
,
valiaunt
men
cracke
the
nuttes
,
but
cowards
eat
the
curnels
.
Thus
as
I
sit
,
I
sée
and
smile
therat
.
Among
the
rest
,
I
saw
when
Homer
came
vnto
this
Court
,
accompanied
with
the
nine
Muses
,
vnto
whom
I
stept
(
knowing●…
hi●…
intente
)
and
like
coole
Prophet
vttered
vnto
him
these
wordes
.
〈◊〉
.
Friend
Homer
though
you
seeme
to
come
with
garde
of
Muses
nine
,
Bringe
you
nought
els
?
nay
then
adewe
,
goe
feede
amonge
the
swine
.
AND
full
truely
prooued
this
prophesie
,
for
while
he
was
liuing
,
hée
was
litle
regard●…d
i●…
this
Court
,
but
béeing
dead
,
the
great
conqueror
Alexander
spake
of
him
much
worship
.
And
so
it
fareth
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
men
are
not
wanted
,
till
they
are
lodged
in
their
graues
.
And
although
I
know
full
well
,
that
there
resteth
in
thee
no
extraordinary
wisdome
,
nor
scant
so
much
as
should
serue
thy
turn
,
yet
the
experience
that
I
haue
in
this
Courte
,
and
by
the
coniecture
of
thy
nature
,
I
dare
assure
thee
thou
shalt
haue
a
coulde
sute
,
if
thou
haue
ought
to
dooinge
with
Ladye
Fortune
.
Madame
(
quod
I
)
I
haue
attentiuely
harkened
vnto
(
Lady
Trueth
)
notwithstanding
voyde
of
all
hope
.
I
will
approche
vnto
her
with
my
message
,
and
then
will
I
keepe
my
promise
in
waytinge
on
your
good
Ladyship
.
Now
fréende
Printer
,
if
you
list
to
heare
howe
I
speede
,
reade
this
Dialogue
followinge
.
The
seconde
Dialogue
betweene
the
Author
,
and
Lady
Fortune
.
Author
.
Haphazard
dame
Fortune
,
your
wheele
runnes
to
fast
,
You
lifte
vp
a
foole
,
and
a
wiseman
downe
cast
.
FOrtune
.
What
malapart
iacke
is
it
that
so
saucely
checketh
my
dooings
:
it
were
more
fit
for
him
to
sit
by
the
héeles
in
the
porters
lodge
Author
.
Deare
Lady
Fortune
,
as
I
am
sory
for
that
I
haue
so
sodainly
offended
you
,
euen
so
I
am
right
ioyus
for
your
sodaine
depriuation
from
your
blindnes
,
trusting
that
your
Ladiship
will
y
rather
vouchsafe
to
peruse
these
letters
that
I
bringe
vnto
you
from
my
good
Lady
&
Maistresse
,
the
Lady
Hope
.
Fortune
.
If
thou
be
seruaunt
vnto
my
Cosine
Ladye
Hope
,
thou
art
the
better
welcome
to
my
presence
,
and
I
pardon
thy
former
saucines
.
But
before
I
peruse
this
letter
,
tell
mee
what
is
thy
name
,
and
by
what
frendshippe
thou
were
admitted
into
this
place
,
béeing
clad
in
so
simple
attier
?
Author
.
Deare
Lady
,
the
first
letter
of
my
first
name
beginneth
with
this
letter
V.
signifiyng
vnfortunate
,
and
my
surname
is
Fulwell
,
which
béeinge
ioyned
togeather
,
is
Vnfortunate
Fulwell
.
And
as
touching
my
approching
into
your
presence
,
so
it
is
that
I
fulfilled
the
olde
prouerb
(
who
so
bolde
as
blinde
Bayarde
,
but
I
came
not
to
this
place
without
a
backe
burthen
of
mockes
and
tauntes
.
Fortune
.
While
thou
hast
bin
telling
thy
tale
,
I
haue
Author
.
In
déede
Madam
,
as
somwhat
hath
some
sauor
,
so
nothing
doth
no
harm
,
but
I
was
present
at
your
doale
▪
and
yet
may
carry
away
my
gaines
in
mine
eye
,
and
not
blemish
my
sight
.
I
confesse
your
hand
blessed
mee
verye
often
,
but
I
feele
no
vertue
to
consist
therin
,
so
that
I
can
make
no
great
brags
of
my
gaynes
at
your
handes
.
Fortune
.
Right
now
thou
madest
confession
of
thy
boldnesse
,
what
soddaine
bashfulnes
possessed
thee
,
that
thou
fearedst
to
snatch
out
of
my
handes
,
as
well
as
others
.
Author
.
Truly
Madam
I
was
neuer
instructed
in
the
schoole
of
scamblinge
,
and
now
I
am
to
olde
to
learne
,
but
quietly
to
stand
at
receit
to
take
vp
nothing
.
Fortune
.
Then
art
thou
vtterly
vnable
to
thriue
in
Lady
Hope
hath
written
vnto
mee
very
freendly
in
thy
behalf
,
that
I
should
take
thee
into
my
seruice
,
but
one
clause
therin
conteyned
maketh
mée
déeme
thée
very
vnfit
for
my
Court.
Author
.
May
it
please
your
Ladiship
to
shew
me
wherin
my
vnabilitie
consisteth
.
Fortune
.
As
thou
sayst
,
thy
name
is
Vnfortunate
Fulwell
,
so
I
perceiue
thy
destenies
agrée
therunto
,
for
except
Author
.
Truely
Madam
,
I
haue
beene
a
block
bedly
scholler
all
dayes
of
my
life
,
and
not
vtterly
ignorante
in
some
of
the
seauen
liberall
sciences
,
although
cunning
in
none
of
them
al
,
but
certes
of
the
eighth
I
neuer
heard
vn
till
now
,
wherby
I
see
the
longer
a
man
liueth
the
more
hée
may
learne
.
Wherfore
I
pray
you
Madam
voutchsafe
Fortune
.
For
thy
Maistresse
sake
I
will
do
so
much
for
thée
,
it
is
called
ars
adulandi
,
and
well
deserueth
to
bée
reckoned
among
the
liberal
sciences
and
may
bée
called
Sciencia
liberalissima
,
because
it
hath
more
liberalitie
contributed
vnto
it
then
is
to
any
other
Art
,
and
of
it selfe
liberally
bestoweth
her
skill
on
as
many
as
are
willing
to
study
the
same
.
It
consisteth
more
in
practises
then
on
preceptes
,
and
the
first
principle
of
it
is
this
,
q●…i
nesc●…
si●…lare
nesci●…
viuere
.
Hée
that
knoweth
not
how
t●…
dissemble
cannot
〈◊〉
how
to
liue
.
Now
that
I
haue
directed
thee
thus
farre
in
this
science
,
go
study
the
same
diligently
,
and
practise
it
effectually
,
and
then
come
vnto
my
court
agayne
.
Author
.
But
is
there
any
vniuersitie
wherin
this
sci●…e
,
is
studied
:
Fortune
.
It
is
both
studied
and
practised
throughout
the
¶
Fulwels
farewell
vnto
dame
Fortune
.
FArewell
thou
froward
frowning
dame
,
the
fautor
still
of
fooles
:
A
list
not
learne
thy
fawning
lo●…re
,
I
loth
thy
flattering
schooles
:
For
tract
of
time
by
tryed
truth
,
shall
turne
thy
whirlinge
wheele
,
And
throw
him
from
thy
●…ickle
●…on
,
to
tomble
at
thy
heele
.
My
dreary
date
shall
driue
the
line
,
to
A●…ops
fatall
blade
,
E●…
I
vnto
thy
●…lthy
art
,
will
frame
my
liuing
trade
:
Let
greedy
neede
make
olde
wiues
●…rot
,
to
●…ill
their
rusty
〈◊〉
:
Let
Gnato
feede
his
hungry
pan●…he
,
I
list
not
to
bee
such
.
Let
Aristippu●…
cogging
skill
,
the
ytching
e●…res
still
r●…
:
And
I
with
playne
Diogenes
,
wil
tumble
in
a
Tub.
Where
wee
with
rootes
wil
take
repast
,
with
conscience
cleare
possest
▪
Before
●…ne
●…are
▪
with
tongue
in
mouth
,
quite
from
the
heart
in
brest
.
●…ew
therfore
thou
doting
dame
,
I
da
dis●…ine
thy
skill
:
And
while
I
liue
agaynst
thy
lore
,
I
will
direct
my
quill
▪
Thy
fruite
with
●…lthy
taste
is
fraught
,
yet
faire
to
view
of
eyes
:
Wherunder
priuy
poyson
larkes
,
and
secret
●…enime
lyes
.
The
sap
is
sweete
and
pleasant
ban●…
,
yet
feedes
the
foolish
minde
:
Such
graffes
so
set
on
rotten
stackes
,
such
fruite
must
yeeld
by
kinde
,
I
rather
choose
the
homely
dish
that
holesome
drinke
doth
holde
:
Then
sugred
wine
with
poyson
saust
,
in
cup
of
glittering
gold●…
.
As
thou
hast
alwayes
scornd
my
state
,
so
I
doo
thee
disdayne
:
That
pleasure
is
to
dearely
bought
,
that
purchast
is
with
payne
.
And
glorious
though
thy
gyftes
appeare
,
yet
tickle
is
the
stay
:
And
hatefull
heartes
pursues
with
grudge
,
thy
golden
giftes
alway
.
And
when
thy
wrinkled
for●…hed
frownes
vpon
the
welthy
wight
:
What
sot
is
hee
so
s●…ple
then
,
that
shewes
not
forth
his
spight
.
Then
hee
poore
wretch
that
erst
was
set
full
nicely
in
thy
lap
:
Lyes
prostrate
at
ethe
Peasants
foote
,
to
wayle
his
wofull
hap
▪
When
flud
of
wealth
is
turnd
to
●…b
,
what
greater
greefe
may
bee
:
Two
contraries
extreamely
plaste
,
doth
ay
full
yll
agree
.
Soo
hee
that
hath
bene
●…nely
fed
with
sweetenes
of
thy
bower
:
Most
greeuously
sustaynes
the
chaunge
,
when
hee
castes
of
the
sower
.
The
meane
estate
,
that
thee
contemnes
,
in
stedfast
boat
doth
row
:
The
Ship
in
safegard
most
doth
passe
,
that
beares
her
sayles
but
low
And
for
my
part
,
I
force
thee
not
,
thy
frownes
I
can
sustaine
:
For
if
thou
cause
my
sp●…y
fall
.
I
fall
but
in
the
playne
.
This
vantage
then
I
haue
by
right
,
to
vaunt
where
euer
I
goe
:
That
I
may
●…it
and
smyle
at
thee
,
that
haue
deceiud●…
th●…
soe
.
But
most
of
all
I
must
needes
muse
,
that
wis●…n
seeke
thy
grace
:
Sith
troubles
so
attend
on
them
that
haue
thy
freendly
face
▪
But
some
can
vse
thee
in
thy
kinde
,
whom
thou
hast
●…uely
〈◊〉
And
are
not
now
to
learne
I
trow
to
bring
a
babe
to
bed
.
Let
them
that
lyst
that
hazard
try
,
and
trust
in
thee
repose
:
As
I
by
thee
no
ga●…nes
doo
seeke
,
so
nothing
will
I
lose
.
And
thus
farewell
,
I
●…ll
returne
to
Lady
Hope
agayne
:
And
for
a
token
I
thee
sende
,
a
dotinge
Figge
of
Spayn●…
.
FINIS
.
¶
The
thirde
Dialogue
,
between
the
Author
and
a
Frier
.
Author
.
A
Fox
or
a
Frier
,
who
fasting
doth
meete
:
Presageth
yll
Fortune
to
lie
at
his
feete
.
FRier
.
In
very
deede
that
olde
prouerb
is
not
to
bee
disproued
,
for
I
dare
auouch
the
trueth
therof
,
Author
.
I
am
right
ioyous
that
I
haue
met
with
so
noble
a
Doctor
this
morning
,
at
whose
handes
I
haue
already
learned
one
lesson
,
and
by
whose
company
I
hope
to
attaine
more
skill
.
I
pray
you
Maister
Frier
let
mee
be
your
companion
this
day
,
for
I
am
already
enflamed
with
the
loue
of
your
company
.
Frier
.
Is
thy
businesse
so
stender
,
that
thou
maist
intend
to
walke
with
mée
at
randon
?
Author
.
My
businesse
is
soone
dispatcht
,
for
I
haue
nought
to
dooynge
this
day
but
to
make
loytringe
pinnes
.
Frier
.
In
fayth
good
fellow
,
then
,
then
is
thy
occupacion
and
mine
much
alike
,
and
mee
seemeth
by
thy
attire
,
thou
thriuest
but
slowly
with
thy
trade
,
or
els
thou
art
one
of
them
that
cannot
thriue
for
shame
,
howbeit
(
because
thou
seemest
to
hee
a
good
fellow
)
I
will
for
good
fellowships
sake
teach
vnto
thee
the
eighth
liberal
science
,
which
is
a
very
profitable
art
,
wherin
(
I
iudge
by
thy
estate
)
thou
art
vtterly
ignorant
.
Author
.
And
are
you
maister
Frier
,
a
studient
in
that
Science
?
Frier
.
Yea
sir
that
am
I
,
and
in
degree
aboue
a
studient
,
Author
.
It
is
like
that
you
are
very
well
séene
in
the
olde
liberall
Sciences
,
and
in
other
good
studies
,
that
you
are
so
excellent
in
this
new
found
Arte.
Frier
.
Nay
verely
,
I
count
him
a
foole
that
beateth
his
braines
about
many
matters
,
and
hath
no
excellency
in
any
one
,
wherfore
I
haue
set
aside
all
other
studies
to
attayne
to
the
very
perfection
of
this
onely
Arte
,
wherby
I
am
welcome
whersoeuer
I
come
.
The
name
of
it
is
,
ar●…
adulandi
,
The
arte
of
Flattery
.
And
there
belongeth
vnto
it
,
glosinge
,
cogginge
,
doublenes
,
dissimulation
,
iestinge
and
railinge
,
with
many
other
branches
as
in
practise
is
very
easie
to
bee
learned
.
But
euery
man
that
weeneth
to
win
credit
by
his
art
,
may
not
bée
rashe
in
makinge
his
Author
.
My
eares
are
prepared
to
heare
your
discourse
I
pray
you
begin
.
Frier
.
Thou
knowest
that
it
is
my
profession
to
wander
as
a
pilgrim
,
from
place
to
place
,
and
am
an
authorised
begger
,
my
coule
is
my
pasport
,
and
my
shauen
crowne
my
credit
.
And
when
I
first
began
to
wander
,
I
was
vtterly
vnskilful
in
this
art
before
mencioned
,
at
what
time
my
order
was
to
geue
holsome
&
godly
counsell
vnto
my
good
Dames
of
the
Country
,
and
would
sumtimes
checke
their
wanton
children
,
when
I
saw
them
rude
and
lassiuious
,
insomuch
that
at
the
laste
,
when
I
was
espied
comminge
into
any
Uillage
,
the
children
,
yea
and
their
mothers
also
would
shut
their
doores
agaynst
mee
.
I
(
knowinge
the
Frier
Frances
,
I
charge
thee
that
this
day
about
ten
of
the
clocke
in
the
forenoone
,
thou
repaire
to
thy
good
ben●…factor
I.
G.
and
will
her
stedfastly
beleeue
,
that
whatsoeuer
thou
shalt
say
vnto
her
,
is
as
true
as
the
Gospell
,
and
at
thy
first
comminge
,
thou
shalt
finde
her
doores
shut
against
thee
,
notwithstandinge
,
enter
in
boldly
,
&
thou
shalt
finde
her
&
her
three
children
with
her
in
the
Hall
,
but
her
husband
shal
bee
at
Plowe
in
the
fielde
(
which
I
new
before
I
came
thither
)
&
thou
shalt
say
vnto
her
,
set
your
seruantes
that
are
about
your
house
,
to
such
worke
as
they
may
not
come
to
heare
the
secretes
that
I
haue
to
reueale
,
and
also
let
your
two
daughters
bée
●…ecluded
from
our
presence
,
and
then
(
Frier
Frances
)
I
will
sende
to
thy
minde
what
thou
shalt
say
.
Author
.
Truely
this
is
a
proper
ceremonial
beginning
,
but
was
shée
not
doubtfull
least
some
body
shoulde
come
in
and
take
you
so
suspiciously
togeather
.
Frier
.
Nay
,
wee
Friers
are
at
a
good
point
for
such
matters
we
ar
not
suspected
because
we
are
accounted
men
mortified
〈◊〉
fleshly
lusts
,
&
are
authorised
to
shreue
both
men
&
women
.
Author
.
Latet
anguis
in
Herb●…
,
I
doubt
least
vnder
your
cloake
of
simplicitie
,
lurketh
a
huge
heape
of
subtilty
,
and
I
feare
mee
least
you
be
one
of
them
that
Saint
Paule
mencioneth
in
the
second
Epistle
to
Timothi
in
the
third
Cha.
who
with
external
holynes
,
and
internal
filthines
,
deuour
the
soules
of
the
simple
,
whose
wordes
are
these
There
are
some
which
créepe
into
houses
,
and
leade
captiue
simple
women
laden
with
sinnes
and
lead
with
diuers
lustes
&c.
And
also
vnto
Titus
in
the
first
Chapter
,
as
thus
.
There
are
many
disobedient
and
vaine
talkers
,
and
deceiuers
of
mindes
,
which
subuerte
whole
houses
,
teachinge
thinges
which
they
ought
not
,
for
filthy
lukers
sake
.
Notwithstandinge
(
Maister
Frier
)
I
praye
you
procéede
with
your
discourse
,
and
wee
will
set
Saint
Paule
aside
till
you
haue
done
.
Frier
.
Tush
,
tush
,
I
was
a
preacher
of
Peter
and
Paule
This
Newes
so
rauisht
the
hart
of
my
Dame
,
that
shee
thought
her selfe
immediatly
halfe
way
to
Heauen
,
supposing
that
I
had
beene
the
Angell
Gabriell
.
Then
had
I
the
best
cheare
in
the
house
set
before
mee
,
and
who
then
but
Maister
Frier
Frances
?
Author
.
Mée
thinke
this
was
a
blinde
policy
,
and
sounded
in
her
eares
incredible
.
But
to
begin
a
litle
(
with
your
lycence
)
was
shée
then
conceiued
with
childe
.
Frier
.
Yea
sir
that
was
shee
,
for
I
had
heard
certayne
of
her
gossips
reasoning
of
that
matter
before
.
And
leaste
shee
should
seeme
incredulous
of
my
wordes
,
I
set
in
that
Caueat
at
the
beginning
,
whereby
she
might
stand
in
fear
of
incredulity
,
and
if
any
thing
should
happen
contrary
to
my
wordes
,
I
would
haue
ascribed
it
to
her
vnbeleefe
,
and
as
for
the
chéefe
effect
of
my
prophesie
,
I
was
certain
that
Author
.
But
was
shée
not
inquisitiue
to
know
by
what
meanes
this
thing
should
come
to
passe
?
Frier
.
Yes
,
and
I
had
a
proper
inuention
in
a
readynesse
.
I
tolde
her
,
that
when
this
childe
commineth
to
the
age
of
xxii
.
yeares
,
there
should
be
great
warres
beetweene
the
Emperour
,
and
the
Turke
,
and
it
should
fall
to
his
lot
to
atchiue
many
notable
Steatagems
,
againste
the
Machometicall
Emperour
,
by
meanes
wherof
his
glory
should
be
aduaunced
throughout
all
Christian
Regions
and
especially
within
this
Nation
.
But
to
see
howe
Fortune
fauored
my
procéedinges
,
when
I
was
once
entred
into
the
profession
of
this
Arte
,
it
happened
,
that
while
wée
were
at
our
iolye
good
chéere
,
there
came
in
a
gossip
of
hers
,
(
who
according
to
the
curtesie
of
our
Country
)
was
inuited
to
doo
as
wee
did
.
And
when
wee
had
chatced
a
while
togeather
,
I
willed
her
to
shew
mee
her
lefte
hand
,
professing
my selfe
to
bee
very
cunninge
in
Palmestry
(
in
which
arte
I
haue
as
much
skill
as
a
horse
,
and
no
more
)
I
looked
on
her
hand
and
would
sumtimes
name
Lineauite
sumtimes
Lineanuptialis
,
but
to
conclude
,
I
knew
neither
of
them
both
,
nor
any
other
line
,
but
for
a
shadow
to
blear
her
eyes
withall
.
And
then
I
mused
with
my selfe
(
as
if
I
had
been
in
a
browne
study
)
during
which
time
,
I
considered
with
my selfe
what
daungers
are
commonly
incident
vnto
men
and
women
:
and
at
the
last
I
tolde
her
that
shee
had
hardly
escaped
the
daunger
of
drowning
,
shee
ratified
my
assertion
with
an
othe
,
deeming
mee
to
bee
rather
an
Angell
then
a
mortal
man
:
this
so
flesht
mee
that
I
was
now
a
gog
.
Author
.
But
what
if
shée
had
denied
that
shée
euer
escaped
such
daunger
?
Frier
.
Then
woulde
I
haue
sayde
that
it
was
in
her
youth
,
before
her
remembraunce
,
but
it
fell
out
better
.
Then
I
blundred
at
other
of
her
misfortunes
paste
,
and
some
I
hit
right
,
and
on
the
rest
that
shee
remembred
not
so
well
,
I
caste
such
a
cloake
of
cullusion
,
that
shee
rather
ascribed
to
it
her
oblyuion
,
then
to
any
wante
of
Arte
in
mée
.
Author
.
But
was
shee
not
as
desirous
to
heare
of
her
good
fortunes
to
come
,
as
of
her
euill
chaunces
past
?
Frier
.
Yes
mary
was
shee
,
and
there
beginneth
the
sporte
.
I
should
haue
noted
vnto
thée
before
,
that
while
we
were
in
our
meriments
as
wée
sate
at
our
dinner
,
this
wife
dranke
to
all
good
husbands
,
and
then
(
quod
shée
)
my
busbands
parte
is
least
.
I
thought
on
these
wordes
,
and
I
perceiued
also
by
more
of
her
talke
,
that
there
was
but
small
good
lykinge
betweene
her
husbande
and
her
,
therfore
to
please
her
minde
by
tellinge
of
good
newes
,
I
sayd
that
as
she
had
suffred
care
and
sorow
by
the
frowardnes
of
an
vnlouing
man
,
so
shee
should
(
within
short
space
)
possesse
ioye
and
solace
by
the
entire
loue
of
a
faythfull
husbande
,
with
whom
shee
should
haue
her
owne
will
,
and
wealth
at
pleasure
,
and
shee
should
see
her
desire
vpon
her
enemies
,
and
beare
the
swing
&
sway
of
al
the
women
of
the
Parish
shée
should
dwell
in
,
with
such
lyke
.
Thus
I
was
among
my
good
Dames
estéemed
as
a
very
Prophet
,
because
I
spake
Author
.
But
could
you
please
all
that
came
vnto
you
with
these
practises
,
or
had
you
other
shiftes
in
store
?
Frier
.
Nay
.
I
am
not
so
simple
but
I
can
respecte
the
person
,
for
I
met
with
some
women
,
that
I
knew
loued
their
husbands
full
well
,
and
for
them
I
had
other
deuises
.
I
will
flatter
some
of
them
in
their
children
sayinge
,
that
as
they
are
of
amiable
counteuance
,
and
of
faire
feature
,
so
there
are
manifest
tokens
in
their
faces
of
wisdome
,
towardlynes
grace
and
good
fortune
,
and
what
Parent
will
not
delight
to
heare
this
of
their
children
,
and
for
the
Parentes
themselues
,
I
haue
a
thousand
pleasing
inuentions
in
this
head
of
mine
.
Author
.
But
will
not
the
foolish
Parentes
perceiue
thy
grosse
flattery
,
if
they
sée
no
such
thing
in
their
children
in
deede
,
as
thou
speakest
of
?
Frier
.
Neuer
a
whit
,
for
thou
knowest
the
Fable
in
Esop
,
that
the
Oule
thought
her
owne
birdes
fairest
,
and
in
this
respect
parentes
for
the
more
part
are
blinde
,
and
specially
mothers
.
And
it
is
as
feate
a
poynte
in
flattery
to
gloze
in
that
which
is
neuer
like
to
come
to
passe
,
as
to
promise
that
which
a
man
neuer
ment
to
geue
,
or
would
doo
him
no
pleasure
to
whom
it
is
offred
.
As
I
reade
once
in
a
prophane
story
that
at
what
time
vertuous
Deborah
the
Prophetesse
indged
Israel
:
in
the
Cittie
of
Babel
was
dwelling
a
ritch
Lieutenant
named
Ishewa
who
beeing
presented
by
a
Souldiour
,
which
fought
vnder
Apollos
Banner
with
a
simple
peece
of
worke
which
he
had
framed
in
Mineruas
Shop
:
requited
him
only
with
a
Bezeles
manus
and
fed
him
with
faire
wordes
,
promising
him
that
which
neither
hee
could
geue
,
as
hee
knew
right
well
,
neither
the
Author
.
I
am
sure
thou
aboundest
in
such
good
examples
,
but
what
neede
so
farre
fet
and
of
such
antiquity
?
I
thinke
thou
maist
haue
store
in
the
profounde
Maisters
of
your
faculty
and
neuer
trauaile
to
Babell
for
them
.
For
yee
are
all
of
one
predicament
,
both
hee
of
whom
thou
spakell
and
al
the
rable
of
you
,
a
company
of
cogging
coistrels
,
howbeit
I
am
sure
thou
hast
taken
forth
a
lesson
before
them
all
,
and
maist
well
reade
a
lecture
in
the
arte
of
Adulation
.
For
truely
thou
flattering
Frier
,
I
haue
heard
so
much
of
thée
that
I
am
ashamed
to
he
are
any
more
.
And
that
inuenting
(
Frier
)
between
earnest
and
ieste
,
was
it
not
thou
that
preachedst
of
late
vnto
certaine
theeues
by
the
hie
waies
side
,
and
approuedst
them
worthy
members
of
a
common
wealth
,
comparing
them
in
many
poyntes
vnto
Christ
?
Frier
.
No
verely
,
it
was
not
I
,
but
certes
I
knowe
him
and
commend
him
,
for
hee
was
a
wise
fellow
&
made
a
learned
and
profitable
Sermon
.
Hée
preached
not
for
six
shillinges
and
eyght
pence
,
the
ordinary
price
:
but
for
ten
pound
and
more
.
And
truely
to
gaine
halfe
the
mony
(
although
it
stand
not
with
my
profession
to
handle
mony
)
I
will
affirme
that
theeues
ought
to
bee
rulers
,
and
not
to
bée
ruled
,
yea
and
are
worthy
to
bée
canonised
amonge
the
Saintes
,
when
the
yeare
of
Iubile
commeth
.
Author
.
First
I
haue
noted
thy
apostacie
,
in
fallinge
from
thy
profession
to
the
filthye
trade
of
Flattery
for
thy
bellyes
sake
,
wherby
I
condemne
thee
for
a
belly
god
:
and
before
I
procéede
any
further
,
I
will
compare
thee
to
that
wicked
Iulian
Apostata
,
whose
ende
may
bee
a
Mirrour
to
the
terrible
example
of
all
Renegates
,
of
which
number
thou
art
a
Captayne
,
most
blasphemously
belying
the
holy
spirite
of
God
,
with
thy
forged
inspiration
,
not
vnlike
that
falie
seducinge
Prophet
Machomet
who
with
his
forged
inspiracions
vnto
this
day
beguileth
the
Turkes
.
So
Saint
Paule
,
to
abuse
the
latter
Age
.
And
also
,
wheras
thou
art
vtterly
vnlearned
in
any
good
arte
or
facultie
,
thou
art
not
to
be
taken
for
a
member
,
much
lesse
a
Minist●…r
of
Christes
Church
,
but
to
bée
whipt
out
of
the
same
,
as
one
for
whose
cause
the
worde
of
God
is
euill
spoken
of
,
for
thou
and
such
as
thou
art
,
haue
bene
the
ruin
&
ouerthrow
of
many
goodly
houses
,
to
the
great
annoyance
o●…
pouertie
,
&
of
such
bussards
as
thou
art
,
are
to
many
in
these
dayes
,
that
maketh
the
worlde
in
feare
of
a
seconde
subuersion
(
which
God
forbid
.
)
Thirdly
,
thy
lyking
,
and
allowing
When
the
Publicans
came
to
him
to
learne
their
dueties
,
hee
preached
not
lyinge
Palmestry
but
learned
Diuinitie
.
Hee
allowed
not
their
polling
and
pillinge
,
with
a
cloake
of
Custom
,
because
they
were
receiuers
of
custom
for
the
Prince
,
but
sharply
rebuked
their
extor●…ions
,
and
b●…
them
take
no
more
of
any
man
then
right
required
.
But
the
professors
of
thy
arte
will
not
sticke
to
perswade
them
,
(
by
wresting
the
Scriptures
cleane
out
of
ioynte
)
that
all
their
dealinges
,
what
wicked
&
peruerse
meanes
so
euer
they
vse
,
is
tollerable
.
Also
when
the
roistinge
Souldiers
came
vnto
him
,
hée
commended
not
their
●…alyantnes
,
nor
their
couragious
stomackes
,
but
●…eckt
and
taunted
their
iniurious
violence
shewed
towardes
men
,
and
exhorted
them
neither
actually
to
hurte
any
man
vnder
colour
of
true
seruice
to
their
Prince
,
nor
wrongfully
to
accuse
any
man
,
which
two
●…aults
they
commonly
vsed
,
and
lastly
perswaded
them
to
bee
contente
with
their
wages
and
stipend
.
Finally
(
as
is
before
sayd
)
hee
spared
not
the
Maiesty
of
the
King
his
Maister
,
in
respecte
of
the
trueth
,
which
if
hee
would
haue
doone
,
no
doubt
but
hee
might
haue
béene
(
if
hée
listed
)
Princeps
sacerdotum
,
in
st●…ed
wherof
hee
was
contente
rather
to
loose
his
head
then
recant
.
Thus
(
Frier
)
I
haue
expressed
vnto
thée
parte
of
my
minde
,
defiynge
both
thee
and
thy
detestable
Arte
of
Adulation
.
Frier
.
I
am
sory
that
I
conceiued
so
good
an
opinion
of
thee
,
seeing
thou
art
so
contrary
to
my
disposicion
,
&
where
as
thou
saiest
thou
hast
expressed
parte
of
thy
minde
vnto
mée
,
I
assure
thée
I
thinke
neither
thou
nor
any
man
can
shewe
any
more
then
thou
hast
rehearsed
.
And
wheras
thou
hast
brought
in
Saint
Iohn
against
mée
,
I
can
alleage
for
that
one
a
number
,
that
were
as
well
learned
as
euer
was
Saint
Iohn
,
who
were
studients
and
practisioners
of
my
arte
,
and
I
pray
you
among
the
reste
,
what
say
you
of
Saint
Peter
as
good
a
man
as
Sainte
Iohn
in
each
poynt
,
did
not
hee
dissemble
by
denyinge
his
Maister
for
feare
of
his
life
,
and
I
hold
him
the
wiser
of
the
twayne
.
Auchor
.
O
thou
Childe
of
Perdicion
,
that
so
dissolutely
,
and
desperatly
●…unnest
hedlong
to
the
pit
of
Hell.
First
because
thou
sayst
I
can
s●…yte
no
more
examples
to
make
for
my
purpose
,
I
will
omitte
a
great
many
that
I
might
name
for
the
contentacion
of
my
assertion
,
as
well
the
Apostles
of
Christ
,
as
a
multitude
of
other
goodly
Martirs
,
and
note
vnto
thee
only
Saint
Peter
.
For
wheras
thou
sayst
that
Peter
for
sau●…gard
of
his
life
dissembled
,
thou
shewest
thy
ignorance
in
the
sacred
truth
,
and
thy
exe●…rable
study
in
wrestinge
the
same
.
Peter
dissembled
not
,
but
the
hope
that
hee
had
to
see
his
Maisters
deliuerance
out
of
the
han●…es
of
his
mal●…cious
enemies
,
through
the
entire
loue
that
hée
bare
vnto
his
Maister
Christe
,
caused
him
to
reiecte
consideration
of
any
former
matters
,
as
well
his
stoute
promise
,
as
otherwise
,
which
in
the
ende
hee
bitterly
,
with
teares
repented
.
Hee
so
much
hated
dissimulation
that
hée
could
not
abide
an
old
grandfather
of
thine
,
Simon
Magus
,
to
delude
the
world
with
his
cogging
skill
,
dispiseinge
Frier
.
Mary
s●…r
there
hangeth
the
doubte
,
for
I
haue
heard
that
hee
neuer
came
at
Rome
,
where
it
is
sayd
that
hee
was
put
to
death
vnder
Nero
,
and
was
Pope
there
,
by
olde
report
.
Author
.
It
is
impertinente
to
our
matter
to
prooue
whether
Peter
were
at
Rome
or
not
,
but
whosoeuer
affirmeth
that
hee
neuer
was
at
Rome
,
(
in
proofe
wherof
●…es
must
condemne
some
good
Authors
)
yet
will
hee
not
saye
that
Peter
suffred
not
death
for
Christes
sake
:
and
it
may
well
be
olde
report
,
or
rather
olde
wiues
tales
,
that
Peter
was
Pope
of
Rome
,
for
the
name
was
ascribed
many
yeres
after
Peters
death
.
Thus
thou
hast
abused
that
holy
Apostle
by
challenginge
him
to
bée
of
thy
Arte
,
which
thou
termest
the
Eyghth
Liberall
Science
.
And
thus
to
conclude
with
thee
,
I
shall
pray
to
God
to
illuminate
thy
hart
with
his
holy
spirite
,
to
expell
that
foule
F●…end
of
Flattery
from
thee
vntill
which
time
,
I
shall
detest
and
abhorre
thy
company
,
as
S.
Iohn
●…d
from
Ce●…inthius
that
wicked
her●…tick
.
The
fourth
Dialogue
betweene
the
Author
,
and
Fortunatus
.
If
Fortunes
grace
be
perfect
hap
,
For
worldling●…
calles
i●…●…o
:
Then
I
at
last
do
bath
in
bl●…
That
●…arst
was
wrapt
in
w●…
AVthor
.
Sir
I
haue
heard
many
men
complaine
of
that
Lady
whom
you
so
commende
,
for
the
〈◊〉
and
happinesse
on
you
bestowed
,
but
I
see
that
ec●…e
man
speaketh
as
iust●…
cause
him
moueth
.
And
sithens
you
are
,
by
her
benefits
and
bounty
,
occas●…oned
to
honor
her
:
may
I
bee
so
bolde
as
to
learne
at
your
handes
,
what
wayes
and
meanes
you
vsed
to
obtayne
so
highly
her
fauour
&
friendship
,
so
shall
you
binde
mee
vnto
you
,
for
I
haue
beene
an
vns●…ilfull
suter
vnto
her
Ladiship
,
and
therfore
a
slow●…●…peeder
.
Fortunatus
.
Your
reasonable
request
,
which
seemeth
vnto
mee
to
bee
tempered
with
mere
simplicitie
,
shall
bee
easely
graunted
,
attend
therfore
and
marke
wel
the
euent
so
thou
maist
,
perhaps
,
bee
directed
a
more
ready
&
perfect
When
I
first
came
to
the
Courte
,
I
liued
a
bare
and
beggerly
life
▪
vsing
sundry
simple
shifts
to
rub
out
am●…gst
the
rest
.
I
cared
not
in
whose
dette
I
became
,
so
I
might
serue
my
present
necessity
.
But
at
the
last
I
perceiued
that
this
trade
could
not
longe
continue
,
for
experience
taught
mee
that
easely
wonne
was
lightly
lo●…e
,
and
euill
gotten
was
yll
spent
.
I
applyed
my
sel●…e
to
a
profitable
trade
,
which
was
to
learne
the
Eyghth
liberall
〈◊〉
,
and
to
practise
the
same
,
by
meanes
wherof
I
haue
obta●…ed
Fortunes
special
fauour
,
but
before
I
could
bring
this
matter
to
perfect
effect
,
I
was
constrained
to
vse
prety
〈◊〉
●…or
there
are
certayne
degrees
ascendinge
before
a
ma●…
Lady
Fortunes
minions
mans
man
,
but
Lady
Fortunes
minions
fellow
.
And
not
longe
after
that
,
by
my
daily
accesse
vnto
Lady
Fortunes
presence
,
and
my
cunning
skill
in
Adulation
,
wherin
I
was
an
absolute
Scholler
,
I
had
the
charge
of
her
whirling
wheele
in
my
owne
hand
,
to
aduance
whom
I
liked
,
and
throw
downe
whom
I
listed
.
Author
.
Then
I
doubt
not
but
the
Authors
of
your
preferment
were
at
your
hands
right
bountifully
rewarded
.
Fortunatus
.
Certes
and
so
they
were
,
for
I
not
onely
depriued
them
from
their
former
dignities
,
but
also
banished
them
the
Court
.
For
thinkest
thou
that
I
would
suffer
any
man
to
bee
in
the
Courte
that
might
iustly
vpbraide
mée
with
these
wordes
?
I
was
the
causer
of
this
thy
preferment
,
or
thou
mayst
thank
my
father
or
freends
for
thy
dignities
?
Nay
,
nay
,
I
will
none
of
that
,
I
rather
commend
the
heroicall
minde
of
him
that
sayde
,
hee
would
rather
bee
a
Prince
to
rule
and
raigne
,
yea
though
hee
had
no
possessions
,
then
to
bee
a
vassall
,
or
subiect
with
infinite
wealth
.
What
néede
I
bee
ashamed
of
ambition
,
sithens
to
hit
the
top
of
Dignitye
is
the
marke
wherat
all
shoote
.
Doth
not
the
yonge
Scholler
couet
to
excell
all
others
in
learning
,
the
Musition
in
Musick
,
the
Artificer
in
his
crafte
,
and
so
of
the
rest
.
Author
.
Yea
sir
,
but
(
vnder
your
correction
)
I
déeme
that
these
desires
of
excellency
,
procéede
from
an
honeste
emulation
,
but
the
other
from
a
wicked
condicion
,
and
I
thinke
that
neyther
the
finest
Scholler
,
the
most
cunning
Musicion
,
nor
the
excellentest
Artificer
,
with
the
reste
,
thinke
no
scorne
of
their
first
enstructors
,
thoughe
you
of
your
first
founders
.
Fortunatus
.
Tush
,
tush
,
who
so
preferreth
honesty
before
honor
shall
prooue
himselfe
a
foole
.
Author
.
But
experience
teacheth
,
that
honor
vpholden
with
honesty
,
standeth
when
honor
without
honesty
falleth
to
decay
,
and
as
nothinge
is
more
fickle
then
Fortunes
fauour
,
so
nothing
may
bee
more
daungerous
then
an
aspiring
minde
,
who
hauinge
attained
the
top
of
Dignity
,
by
the
fawning
face
of
vnconstant
Fortune
,
is
forced
to
sustayne
a
most
gréeuous
and
irrecuperable
fall
,
at
whose
ouerthrow
,
men
rather
reioyce
then
lament
.
Wherfore
I
prefer
the
meane
estate
,
who
if
hée
fall
falleth
but
in
the
playne
,
which
he
may
easely
endure
,
and
quickly
rise
agayne
,
before
the
great
daunger
of
the
lofty
degree
,
when
it
liketh
froward
Foreune
to
frowne
.
Fortunatus
.
I
see
full
wel
the
Fox
will
eate
no
Grapes
because
hee
cannot
reache
them
,
so
thou
mislykest
honour
and
dignity
,
because
thou
canst
not
attayne
vnto
it
,
which
I
haue
in
thy
former
wordes
obserued
,
when
thou
saydest
that
thou
were
a
suter
in
vayne
vnto
Lady
Fortune
,
and
in
good
sooth
,
I
do
partly
remember
thee
since
that
time
,
as
Author
.
Sir
,
if
there
be
no
meane
to
attaine
vnto
brauery
without
the
exercise
of
knauery
(
for
I
account
flattery
no
better
)
I
wil
rather
content
my selfe
to
liue
beggerly
.
❧
The
fifth
Dialogue
,
betweene
Pierce
Pickthanke
,
drunken
Dickon
.
Dame
Annat
the
Alewife
,
and
the
Author
.
Dickon
.
Now
fill
the
pot
Ostesse
,
with
liquor
of
life
,
In
steede
of
your
payment
,
faire
wordes
shal
be
rife
.
Annat
.
Faire
words
makes
foles
fain
,
the
old
Prouerb
doth
say
,
Such
guestes
are
best
welcome
when
they
go
away
.
PIerce
Pickthanke
.
In
fayth
Dickon
,
this
goeth
very
harde
that
wée
haue
rackt
and
crackt
our
credit
so
longe
▪
vntill
it
is
not
worth
one
pot
of
Ale
,
and
my
throte
is
so
drye
,
that
a
man
may
grate
ginger
on
my
tongue
.
Dickon
.
Well
Pierce
,
as
harde
as
the
world
goes
,
I
trow
wee
shall
finde
some
shift
or
other
to
quench
the
scorching
heate
of
our
parched
throtes
,
with
the
best
Nippitatum
in
this
towne
,
which
is
commonly
called
Hufcap
,
it
will
make
a
man
looke
as
though
●…ee
had
séene
the
Diuel
,
and
quickly
mooue
him
to
call
his
owne
Father
hoareson
.
Pierce
.
This
thy
description
of
Dagger
Ale
,
augmenteth
my
thirst
vntill
I
taste
therof
,
wherfore
I
pray
thee
make
haste
to
flatter
my
Ostesse
in
the
best
manner
thou
canst
,
and
yet
I
dare
i●…opard
my
Cap
to
forty
shillinges
,
thou
shalt
haue
but
a
colde
suite
.
Dickon
.
I
assure
thee
Pierce
,
our
Ostesse
Dame
Anne●…
is
as
freendly
a
wench
as
any
is
in
this
lande
,
and
shée
loueth
a
good
fellow
very
well
,
and
hath
holpen
many
a
one
in
her
dayes
,
that
otherwise
would
haue
doone
full
yll
.
I
would
all
weomen
were
of
her
nature
and
condicions
,
for
●…hee
is
both
honest
and
liberal
with
great
discretion
.
Annat
.
Go●…
to
you
drunken
knaue
,
that
flatteringe
face
of
thine
shall
cost
mée
a
glasse
of
dissembling
water
.
Dickon
.
What
Ostes
,
did
you
heare
mee
?
now
I
swere
by
my
honesty
I
thought
you
had
beene
farther
of
.
But
my
good
sweet
Ostes
I
pray
you
keepe
in
store
your
dissembling
water
for
P.
the
Promoter
,
and
C.
the
Counterfait
,
with
M.
the
Makeshift
,
and
other
of
your
dainty
guestes
,
for
I
poore
Dickon
will
thanke
you
more
for
one
pot
of
Ale
of
the
right
stampe
,
then
for
twenty
your
glasses
of
water
.
Annat
.
I
sée
well
Dickon
thou
art
a
good
Ale
oratour
,
but
I
cannot
pay
the
brewer
with
faire
wordes
,
and
that
thou
knowest
.
Pierce
.
Truely
Ostes
,
I
was
doubtfull
at
my
first
comminge
in
,
to
call
you
by
the
name
of
Ostesse
,
for
I
rather
Annat
.
Well
honest
man
I
will
take
your
woorde
for
two
or
three
pottes
of
drinke
.
But
as
for
Dickon
,
I
am
to
well
acquainted
with
his
condicions
to
geue
him
any
credit
.
Pierce
.
How
sayst
thou
Dickon
to
this
?
whether
of
vs
two
are
better
worthy
of
commendacions
for
the
Arte
of
Flattery
.
Dickon
.
Truely
Pierce
,
I
perceiue
that
thou
hast
a
very
good
dexteritie
in
pleasing
the
humours
of
women
,
Pierce
.
Yea
Dickon
,
thou
and
I
are
apte
Schollers
in
the
Eyghth
liberall
Science
.
And
if
there
bée
any
Painter
disposed
to
make
a
perfecte
protraiture
of
two
slatteringe
knaues
,
hée
shall
not
néede
to
séeke
any
further
for
his
patterne
then
to
vs
.
Dickon
.
In
déede
as
thou
sayest
,
but
the
best
Artisan
in
Europ
cannot
depainte
thée
in
thy
right
kinde
better
then
my selfe
can
,
but
I
will
omit
the
discription
of
thy
liniamentes
,
and
display
thy
condicions
.
And
to
begin
withall
,
thou
art
an
egregious
flatterer
,
a
deepe
dissembler
,
a
singuler
good
bawd
,
a
plaine
counterfaite
,
Pierce
.
Certes
Dickon
,
thou
makest
mée
right
prowd
of
my
excellency
in
these
commendable
qualities
.
Wherfore
to
requite
thy
curtesie
,
I
will
fulfill
the
olde
prouerb
.
Muli
mutuum
scabiunt
,
and
I
will
shew
thee
as
in
a
glasse
Potus
lusorum
meretrices
Prespiterorum
Panis
perfesus
,
cunctorum
spectat
ad
vsus
.
Also
thou
canst
prate
like
a
pardoner
,
and
for
thy
facility
in
lying
,
thou
art
worthy
to
weare
a
whetstone
in
thy
hat
in
stéede
of
a
brouch
.
Lo
now
haue
I
playde
the
paynter
,
by
drawinge
thy
picture
in
their
right
coulours
.
Dickon
.
Well
Pierce
,
let
vs
now
leaue
our
painting
and
fall
to
drinking
,
for
when
I
haue
well
swild
my
soule
,
then
am
I
a
mate
for
all
companies
&
a
Maister
of
our
art
.
Pierce
.
Thy
counsaile
is
good
,
wherfore
let
vs
tosse
the
Can
to
&
fro
,
with
hay
iolye
Ienkin
I
sée
a
knaue
a
drinkinge
.
&c.
Author
.
Although
(
gentle
Reader
)
I
may
seeme
perhaps
to
offend
thy
modesty
with
this
drunken
Dialogue
,
yet
I
pray
thée
let
me
be
rather
excused
,
because
I
swarue
not
much
herein
from
the
vaine
of
Erasmus
of
Rotrodame
,
(
although
far
beneath
any
comparison
vnto
him
)
who
vsed
to
place
pleasant
pamphletes
in
the
midest
of
serious
,
and
graue
matters
,
as
well
for
the
recreation
of
his
reader
,
as
also
to
display
and
therby
to
taunt
the
follyes
and
trifling
fantasies
of
all
sortes
of
people
.
And
now
that
these
drunken
drudges
,
that
glory
so
much
in
their
iniquity
are
busy
in
their
bibbing
,
I
will
play
the
painters
part
indifferently
for
them
both
,
desiringe
thee
that
I
may
herein
vse
thy
Pacience
.
The
one
of
them
namely
drunken
Dickon
,
(
vnder
whom
I
comprehend
all
maner
of
Roisters
,
rakehels
,
Pierce
Pickthanke
,
his
condicion
is
to
cloake
his
hollow
harte
,
with
a
holy
pretence
,
and
his
dissimulation
is
chéefely
in
matters
of
Religion
,
although
in
very
déede
,
there
is
in
him
no
more
sincerity
then
in
an
Ape
.
Hée
will
come
sumtimes
vnto
a
Bishop
,
and
sometimes
to
others
that
hée
thinketh
to
bée
zelous
in
Religion
and
hath
vnder
his
arme
a
new
Testament
,
or
a
Psalter
,
as
though
his
speciall
care
,
and
onely
study
were
in
the
Scriptures
,
vnder
which
pretexte
hée
beguileth
both
the
wise
and
the
learned
.
Hée
will
in
their
presence
temper
Then
hee
hath
an
olde
Portas
,
or
some
such
booke
in
store
,
and
therwith
hee
commeth
vnto
them
that
hee
knoweth
to
bee
of
the
olde
stampe
,
and
frameth
his
tale
to
this
effecte
.
A
good
sir
(
sayth
hee
)
the
great
anguish
that
I
beare
in
my
conscience
,
enforceth
mee
to
seeke
for
the
setlinge
and
satisfaction
of
the
same
at
your
handes
or
some
such
godly
learned
man
,
as
I
know
to
bee
of
vpright
iudgemente
in
the
Scriptures
,
the
true
interpretation
wherof
hath
been
wrested
and
peruerted
by
the
professors
of
this
new
Religion
.
I
see
and
am
sory
to
thinke
vnto
what
penury
the
worlde
is
brought
since
the
ouerthrowe
of
Abbies
,
to
the
greate
impouerishment
of
this
Realme
,
and
what
a
sorte
of
skipiackes
are
now
crepte
into
the
places
of
aunciente
and
graue
Fathers
,
by
whom
the
holy
Sacramentes
are
nothing
at
all
Sacramentally
vsed
,
contrary
to
the
institucions
of
the
Catholike
Church
of
Rome
,
our
holy
Mother
.
With
these
and
the
like
wordes
,
hee
is
a
deepe
dissembler
in
Religion
.
And
also
to
picke
thankes
and
profit
at
all
mennes
handes
,
hee
can
frame
himselfe
to
feede
all
mens
humors
,
so
cunning
is
hee
in
this
filthy
Arte
of
Flattery
,
from
which
kinde
of
dissemblers
,
and
al
others
,
God
sheelde
vs
,
and
sende
vs
his
grace
,
that
wee
may
embrace
the
honest
and
godly
retinue
of
Lady
Trueth
,
and
shake
of
all
such
flatterers
and
dissemblers
,
as
haue
hitherunto
peruerted
the
natures
of
men
in
these
our
dayes
.
❧
The
seuenth
Dialogue
,
betweene
Tom
Tapster
,
Miles
makeshift
,
Wat
Wily
,
and
the
Author
.
Tom
Tapster
.
You
are
welcom
gentlemen
wil
it
please
you
to
go
neare
.
Author
.
Such
welcome
I
like
not
that
bought
is
to
deare
.
MIles
Make
shift
.
Sir
I
perceiue
right
well
that
you
haue
béene
accustomed
with
the
flattering
entertainment
of
Tapsters
,
vnto
whom
a
mans
purse
is
alwaies
better
welcom
then
his
person
.
Wat
Wily
.
In
good
sooth
Tapster
,
if
thou
knewest
howe
weake
our
purses
are
,
thou
wouldest
geue
vs
but
féeble
entertainment
.
Tom
Tapster
.
I
see
you
are
merry
gentlemen
and
disposed
to
iest
,
but
if
it
bée
as
you
say
,
you
shal
(
notwithstanding
)
haue
so
much
credit
at
my
handes
as
your
dinner
and
horse
meate
amounteth
vnto
,
for
you
séeme
to
bee
honeste
Gentlemen
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
Of
our
honesty
wée
will
make
no
great
vauntes
,
but
that
wee
are
Gentlemen
,
and
cleane
gentlemen
,
wee
will
not
denye
,
for
I
suppose
wee
three
cannot
make
a
stocke
of
two
pence
.
But
I
praye
thee
wherby
doost
thou
déeme
vs
to
bée
Gentlemen
.
Tom
Tapster
.
Sir
it
is
a
gentle
Tapsters
curtesie
,
generally
to
salute
all
men
by
that
tytle
,
which
lesson
I
Wat
Wily
.
Thou
art
a
gentleman
like
Tapster
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
I
warrant
you
hee
was
neuer
begotten
without
the
consent
of
a
Gentleman
.
But
Tapster
,
set
forwardes
our
dinner
,
and
if
we
lacke
money
,
I
wil
promise
thee
by
the
faith
of
a
Gentleman
,
to
pay
thee
when
I
come
hither
next
.
Tom
Tapster
.
I
take
your
word
,
you
shall
lacke
no
good
cheare
.
Exit
.
Author
.
Lo
here
is
cretensis
cum
cretense
,
a
cogginge
knaue
with
a
foystinge
varlet
well
met
:
hée
with
his
herhaltry
and
you
with
your
hemphaltry
,
I
trust
anon
will
make
a
good
medley
.
Wat
Wily
.
Holde
thee
contente
fonde
fellowe
,
and
giue
vs
leaue
,
and
so
shall
thy
charges
bee
borne
,
for
thou
hast
oft
heard
say
,
that
Fallere
fallentum
non
est
frans
to
deceiue
a
deceiuer
is
no
deceit
.
And
hée
that
with
his
flattery
deceiueth
a
thousand
in
a
yeare
,
is
now
like
to
be
mated
with
his
matches
,
holde
thou
thy
tongue
and
obserue
the
euent
.
No
more
wordes
,
for
now
hee
commeth
in
.
Tom
Tapster
.
Gentlemen
,
I
pray
you
haue
pacience
yet
a
litle
while
,
and
it
wil
not
be
longe
vntill
your
dinner
bée
ready
.
Wat
Wily
.
No
haste
but
good
,
better
is
a
litle
tariance
Tom
Tapster
.
I
haue
in
my
taphouse
both
stale
and
fresh
newes
:
yea
,
&
if
néede
require
,
I
haue
there
a
stamp
to
quoyne
newes
at
all
times
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
I
pray
thee
tell
vs
new
newes
and
true
newes
.
Tom
Tapster
.
Sithens
you
are
so
greedy
of
newes
I
will
tell
you
such
as
will
seeme
wonderfull
,
and
incredible
.
First
I
geue
you
to
wéete
,
that
there
is
beetweene
Sir
Morpheus
and
mée
,
very
great
and
familiar
acquayntance
,
by
meanes
wherof
,
we
confer
togeather
somtimes
Lady
Venus
,
wherat
the
cunning
Smith
Vulcan
takinge
indignation
(
by
his
exquisite
skil
)
enclosed
them
togeather
in
a
net
of
Wier
,
for
the
which
,
this
noble
craftsman
was
had
in
great
admiration
amonge
the
Gods
,
and
well
commended
of
Iupiter
him selfe
.
And
when
Vulcan
had
playd
this
pleasant
Pageant
,
in
came
Appollo
(
as
it
were
vpon
the
Stage
)
to
solace
Ioue
with
some
kinde
of
Adulation
,
wherby
I
see
full
well
that
my
science
is
practised
euen
among
the
Gods.
Then
came
in
Sir
Cupid
like
a
carpet
knight
,
and
with
smiling
countenance
and
smooth
woords
,
allured
Appollo
to
resigne
the
Scepter
of
his
prudence
and
his
learned
laurel
crowne
vnto
Ioue
,
wherby
to
discharge
himselfe
of
a
great
burthen
,
and
also
to
please
Iupiter
with
his
excellent
skill
of
Musicke
,
vnto
which
fond
request
Appollo
eftsoones
applyed
,
to
his
perpetuall
obloqui
.
Howbeit
his
incomparable
harmony
found
such
fauour
with
the
father
of
the
Gods
&
the
rest
,
that
his
change
chaunced
to
the
multiplication
of
his
gayne
,
though
to
the
diminution
of
his
credit
.
Thus
Appollo
became
a
Minstrell
,
and
many
of
the
rest
daunced
after
his
Pipe.
Then
came
in
Mercurius
in
the
habite
of
a
trauayler
,
and
hee
tould
vnto
V.
F.
and
when
hee
saw
how
Mercury
was
fauoured
for
his
Fables
,
and
commended
for
his
cogging
:
perswaded
himselfe
,
that
hee
by
speakinge
the
trueth
should
bee
right
well
regarded
.
And
euen
on
the
suddeine
rushed
into
the
place
,
as
though
his
quill
was
then
to
speake
,
with
malapert
and
sauey
boldnesse
,
vttered
these
wordes
following
.
O
mighty
Ioue
sith
licence
thine
to
speake
is
now
assignde
,
And
pardon
free
proclaimde
,
giue
leaue
for
mee
to
speake
my
minde
.
Fooles
boltes
(
men
say
)
are
soonest
shot
yet
ofte
they
hit
the
marke
:
Blinde
Bayard
is
as
sure
of
foote
as
Palfrey
in
the
darke
.
On
Stage
who
stands
to
play
his
part
ech
frown
may
not
him
daunt
Some
play
to
please
,
some
laugh
,
some
wepe
,
some
flatter
,
some
do
ta●…t
But
hee
whose
parte
tendes
to
this
ende
,
fond
fansies
toyes
to
schoole
Best
welcome
is
when
hee
resines
,
the
Scaffold
to
the
foole
.
Lo
now
the
foole
is
come
in
place
,
though
not
with
patcht
pyde
co●…te
,
To
tell
such
newes
as
carst
hee
saw
within
Cocklorels
bote
.
The
Rowers
cryde
,
to
Barge
to
Barge
,
the
passengers
make
haste
:
The
tyde
is
iurnde
,
and
euery
foole
in
his
degree
is
plast
.
With
lusty
gaole
and
laboring
Oars
the
B●…rge
hath
won
the
Porte
Where
Iupiter
doth
reigne
and
rule
,
within
a
stately
Forte
,
Eche
one
deuisde
which
way
were
best
in
fauoures
grace
to
grow
:
Some
crake
,
some
brag
,
some
flaunt
it
out
,
some
crouch
and
creepe
ful
low
With
cap
and
knee
some
sue
&
serue
,
some
gape
for
others
●…alles
Some
snatch
the
fruit
before
rebound
,
some
gnaw
on
tastlesse
shalles
.
grope
Some
fish
and
catch
a
Frog
at
last
yet
feede
on
better
hope
:
Some
sting
their
handes
with
nettles
keene
,
while
they
for
flowers
Some
sing
some
daunce
,
some
●…ype
,
some
pl●…y
,
&
al
for
fauours
grace
:
Thus
greedy
gayn●…
makes
men
beleeue
,
they
runne
in
endlesse
race
.
What
desperate
hazard
is
so
hard
,
that
makes
the
yonker
doubt
,
What
way
so
wilde
where
gaine
doth
grow
,
that
worldling
findes
not
out
What
hole
so
small
in
wri●…ings
o●…e
,
that
cannot
be
now
found
:
But
lucre
&
large
conscience
makes
some
holes
where
wordes
be
found
Ah
,
Conscience
is
a
banisht
wight
,
with
garment
●…l
to
torne
?
But
though
shee
sit
in
homly
●…agges
,
she
laughes
some
robes
to
scorne
She●…
saules
at
tyranis
that
●…oyle
to
make
their
will
〈◊〉
law
:
Whose
●…ing
mindes
by
right
or
wrong
,
would
hold
all
men
in
aw
.
Refusing
same
and
〈◊〉
shame
,
by
hunting
Mammons
chace
:
A
●…g
(
say
th●…
)
for
good
report
,
let
mee
haue
Fortunes
grace
.
Oh
Ioue
,
a●…e
th●…se
things
h●…d
from
thee
,
nay
,
nay
,
thou
seest
them
all
:
But
win●…ing
wisdome
is
not
blinde
to
t●…rne
the
tossed
ball
.
Thou
seest
that
sundry
sortes
of
●…n
,
by
flattery
do
aspire
:
To
guerdon
great
,
when
trusty
trueth
,
hath
hatred
for
her
hyre
,
Thou
seest
I
know
the
subtile
sleights
that
worldly
wightes
deuise
:
Who
currieth
fauour
currantly
,
is
onely
counted
wise
.
Alas
how
is
Religion
vsde
to
serue
the
turne
at
neede
:
Whose
cloake
hides
sundry
hypocrites
that
many
errours
breede
?
For
why
〈◊〉
now
a
common
trade
,
when
refuge
all
is
past
:
To
take
Religion
for
a
shield
,
a
shift
to
serue
at
last
.
Oh
Ioue
if
thou
wilt
ransacke
some
that
vaunt
of
her
decrees
They
will
appeare
but
flauntinge
leaues
of
withered
fruitlesse
trees
.
To
flatter
Princes
many
men
,
apply
them
to
the
time
:
They
force
no
whit
Religions
fall
,
so
they
aloft
may
clime
.
Now
mighty
Ioue
,
looke
well
about
all
thinges
are
in
thy
sight
:
The
Touchstone
tries
,
all
is
not
golde
,
that
glistereth
faire
&
bright
:
Loe
,
thus
I
haue
exprest
my
minde
,
and
shewd
forth
my
intent
.
My
part
is
playd
,
and
I
am
pla●…de
so
that
I
bee
not
shent
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
Mary
sir
this
was
a
very
saucy
and
presumpteous
foole
,
for
not
onely
his
boldnesse
in
preasing
himselfe
to
that
place
was
worthy
of
reproch
:
but
the
subtiltie
of
his
Metaphoricall
Phrases
deserued
iuste
punishment
.
Wat
Wily
.
Thus
wee
may
see
what
madnesse
it
is
to
permit
fooles
freely
to
speake
their
mindes
but
much
more
to
suborne
them
in
their
taunting
talkatiue
veynes
,
whose
tongues
are
alwaies
bente
to
shoote
their
doltishe
boltes
at
other
mens
vices
;
and
yet
sée
not
their
owne
follies
,
but
I
hope
to
sée
the
daye
that
such
cocscomes
shal
be
restrained
,
for
they
are
infest
enemies
vnto
the
noble
faculty
of
Flattery
.
Tom
Tapster
.
Uerely
,
if
you
had
heard
his
words
,
and
beheld
his
gestures
,
you
would
haue
wondered
at
his
impudency
,
for
besides
that
his
spéeche
,
which
I
haue
recited
vnto
you
,
hée
rayled
and
raged
at
the
egregious
flattery
vsed
among
the
Gods
and
in
Iupiters
Court
,
not
sparing
any
state
or
degree
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
Well
,
well
,
gentle
Tapster
,
let
vs
now
leaue
to
talke
any
more
of
that
daw
and
of
his
doctrine
,
and
supplye
the
time
with
more
necessary
matter
,
wherfore
sithe●…s
thou
art
a
publike
reader
in
the
science
of
Adulation
,
I
pray
thée
reade
a
Lecture
of
that
art
for
our
instruction
.
Tom
Tapster
.
I
graunt
your
request
,
and
for
the
better
explication
and
vnderstanding
of
the
matter
,
you
must
imagine
your selfe
to
bée
the
Lorde
,
vnto
whom
I
reade
this
Lecture
.
Miles
make
shifte
.
Bee
it
as
thou
hast
sayd
,
now
shew
forth
thy
learning
to
mée
thy
Lorde
and
Maister
.
Tom
Tapsters
Lecture
.
AS
flying
fame
with
golden
trompe
,
hath
sent
thy
brute
abrode
:
So
bounden
duety
by
deserts
bids
mee
my
minde
vnloade
.
Thy
hauty
porte
,
thy
heauenly
gifts
,
thy
line
of
noble
race
:
Thy
passinge
prayse
,
thy
happy
state
,
makes
all
men
ioy
thy
case
.
As
one
who
for
his
countryes
wealth
,
by
fate
was
first
ordaynde
:
Oh
happy
soyle
whose
lucky
lot
so
rare
a
gem
hath
gaynd
.
But
whether
are
our
ioyes
more
great
,
in
hauinge
such
a
wight
:
Or
els
our
greefe
when
sisters
three
,
shall
worke
their
yreful
spight
.
And
as
both
Heauen
and
earth
are
bent
thy
honour
to
procure
,
So
prudence
thine
(
O
noble
Lord
)
must
cause
thesame
endure
:
But
by
thy
leaue
(
O
maister
mine
,
)
I
see
and
sighe
withall
:
That
bounty
should
beare
such
asway
,
as
to
procure
thy
fall
.
For
thou
(
my
Lorde
)
with
princely
pompe
thy
table
doost
maintayne
,
A
freend
to
all
saue
to
thy selfe
,
but
how
may
this
remayne
.
Thy
purse
is
open
to
the
poore
,
their
naked
lymmes
to
cloake
:
Like
Lords
thy
tennants
liue
at
ease
free
from
all
seruill
yoake
.
If
in
the
ende
thy
state
decay
,
eche
man
bewayles
the
case
,
Take
time
,
in
time
,
so
feareles
thou
maist
spit
in
Fortunes
face
,
And
to
begin
,
first
cut
thy
troupe
,
and
trayne
of
seruing
men
,
Where
two
or
three
may
serue
the
turne
,
what
shouldst
thou
doo
with
tent
But
ten
times
ten
on
you
depend
and
by
your
purse
maintaind
:
Leaue
of
my
Lord
,
as
good
as
you
that
pompe
hath
now
refraind
.
Imploy
the
Court
with
dilligence
in
presence
of
the
Prince
:
Whence
profit
growes
,
&
fauour
springs
though
mumbling
lobcock
wince
.
Breake
vp
housekeeping
&
your
troup
,
geue
pasportes
to
your
traine
In
Court
two
wayters
and
a
Page
will
serue
while
you
remayne
.
Agayne
in
Court
such
cheats
do
chance
as
causeth
gaine
to
grow
:
What
neede
I
name
the
order
how
sith
you
your selfe
do
know
,
If
neede
require
that
you
appeare
in
presence
of
the
king
:
when
as
it
shall
expected
bee
,
that
you
a
trayne
must
bring
.
Your
tennants
are
good
hansome
hines
,
when
badged
blew
cotes
o●…
.
So
may
you
muster
lustely
with
Simkin
,
Hob
and
Iohn
And
hee
poore
swad
,
will
willingly
,
on
cote
bestow
the
cost
:
O
egregious
Schoolemaister
worthy
of
immortall
prayse
,
whose
excellent
cunning
ioyned
with
Wat
Wily
.
I
haue
heard
many
publique
readers
in
Author
.
My
iudgement
is
thus
,
that
for
his
excellency
It
appeareth
that
by
the
subtilty
of
this
art
,
Doctor
Diuell
Herode
with
flattering
wordes
of
dissembled
intente
,
perswaded
the
Magians
to
bringe
him
newes
where
hee
Fallere
te
nullus
vult
,
qui
tibi
dura
minatur
Sed
poti●…s
vt
caueas
turbidus
ille
mone●…
,
The
eyghth
Dialogue
,
betweene
Si●…
Symon
the
Parson
of
Poll
Iobbam
,
and
the
Authour
.
Sir
Simon
.
Who
liues
to
learne
,
and
learnes
to
liue
And
list
to
come
to
thrist
,
May
see
the
skill
,
and
finde
the
way
,
By
my
new
sounded
shrift
.
AVthour
.
If
your
shrifte
haue
such
vertue
as
〈◊〉
teach
men
thrift
,
I
pray
you
Sir
Simon
take
mee
vnder
b●…edicitie
,
who
neuer
as
yet
could
finde
the
way
to
thriue
,
I
thinke
it
bée
for
wante
of
absolution
ab
omne
frugalitate
.
Sir
Simon
.
I
neither
vse
auri●…uler
confession
,
nor
any
kinde
of
absolution
,
but
certaine
infallible
precepts
to
bee
obserued
,
by
practise
wherof
,
thrift
is
obtayned
.
Authour
.
And
yet
(
Sir
Simon
)
if
the
common
saying
be
Sir
Simon
.
Better
thrift
then
you
are
ware
of
,
for
the
boale
was
spiced
with
a
hundred
Duckets
,
which
spice
sunke
to
the
bottom
that
all
men
could
not
see
it
.
Author
.
Then
your
name
shall
bée
conuerted
from
Sir
Simon
to
Sir
Simony
,
but
haue
you
any
other
benefice
lefte
to
liue
vpon
,
and
●…pe
hospitality
withall
?
Sir
Simon
.
I
am
not
as
yet
vnfurnished
of
my
plurality
,
but
if
I
had
not
one
,
yet
haue
I
the
feate
to
●…ishe
an●…
Author
.
How
longe
haue
you
beene
so
cunning
a
●…sher
?
When
I
knew
you
first
you
had
no
such
skill
,
but
●…ted
your selfe
to
l●…e
as
bar●…ly
as
I
,
and
other
your
poore
neighbours
.
Sir
Simon
.
That
I
liued
barely
I
confesse
,
but
that
it
conte●…ted
mee
I
denye
,
wherfore
I
directe
my
study
to
the
Art
of
Fl●…ttery
:
wherin
I
found
such
sauour
,
that
I
set
aside
al
other
studies
,
and
dedicate
my selfe
wholly
to
that
,
in
which
art
I
am
now
an
absolute
Schoolemaister
,
and
if
thou
once
tastedst
the
swéetenes
therof
,
thou
wouldest
reiecte
thy
stoi●…all
study
and
become
a
Philosopher
of
our
se●…te
.
Author
.
I
pray
you
Sir
Simon
,
for
olde
acquaintance
Sir
Simon
.
I
will
rip
it
vp
vnto
thee
euen
from
the
beginninge
.
It
is
not
knowen
vnto
thee
how
solitary
a
life
I
led
when
I
first
became
a
Clergie
man
,
and
when
I
went
any
where
abroade
,
my
onely
arrant
was
to
preach
,
in
which
my
sermons
I
could
not
cease
to
inuey
agaynst
the
abuses
of
these
dayes
,
not
sparing
Lorde
or
Lady
or
any
degree
,
in
reproouinge
of
sinne
and
wickednes
,
so
farre
forth
,
that
I
was
counted
〈◊〉
saucy
knaue
among
Gentiles
.
And
specially
of
patrons
of
benefices
,
whose
foule
disorders
,
in
making
marchandise
of
the
Church
béeinge
Gods
parte
,
would
heape
vp
wrath
for
them
against
the
daye
of
vengeance
,
and
that
therby
the
childrens
bread
was
taken
Famely
of
Loue
,
I
was
a
lo●…ge
companion
:
among
graue
men
,
auncie●…
Author
.
If
such
shifting
thrift
,
●…nd
with
good
thriuing
▪
I
much
●…aruel
,
but
this
mean
while
,
how
do
you
discharge
y●…r
cons●…ence
in
preachi●…ge
according
to
your
function
?
Sir
Simon
.
〈◊〉
preach
very
often
,
and
that
with
great
commendations
,
for
when
I
am
in
Pulpit
before
Nobles
〈◊〉
Author
.
But
I
pray
you
Sir
Simon
,
is
your
life
so
confourmed
to
your
doctrine
that
it
cannot
iustly
be
sayd
vnto
you
Medice
cura
te
ipsum
.
Sir
Simon
.
Tush
that
is
the
least
care
that
may
encumber
my
minde
,
for
I
haue
so
bold
a
tongue
,
and
such
a
brasen
face
,
that
if
I
bee
detected
of
any
notorious
crime
,
I
can
so
hide
my
wooluish
carcas
vnder
a
cloke
of
Lamskin
,
that
my
deserued
blame
shall
rebounde
into
the
bosoms
of
my
accusers
.
Author
.
But
I
pray
you
(
sir
Simon
)
haue
you
had
frée
passage
in
these
your
proceedinges
without
taking
of
some
notable
foyle
.
Sir
Simon
.
Loe
now
thou
dooste
vrge
mée
eyther
to
accuse
my selfe
vnto
thee
,
or
els
to
deny
thy
request
,
but
because
I
thinke
that
whatsoeuer
I
doo
r●…ale
vnto
thee
,
shall
bee
buried
in
the
Sepu●…chre
of
thy
secretes
,
I
will
display
certayne
finester
practises
of
late
I
put
in
vre
,
to
the
vtter
Shipwrack
of
my
fame
,
and
greenous
wound
of
my
good
reporte
,
which
skarre
lyeth
so
open
vnto
the
eyes
of
the
world
,
that
it
is
shot
at
with
the
sharp
arrowes
of
many
mennes
tongues
,
and
yet
I
hope
to
saue
it
from
festering
by
a
plaster
of
new
inuention
as
in
the
end
of
my
tale
thou
shalt
heare
.
Author
.
I
couet
first
to
heare
your
practises
(
the
causes
of
your
wound
)
and
then
your
chirurgicall
policy
.
Sir
Simon
.
Thou
knowest
that
when
I
was
in
the
flower
Author
.
Truely
Sir
Simon
,
I
déeme
it
one
of
the
most
difficult
matters
in
the
world
for
a
man
to
win
new
credit
in
a
place
where
the
olde
is
so
far
past
as
you
haue
described
.
Sir
Simon
.
Nay
verely
,
I
estéeme
it
no
difficult
matter
.
For
by
this
meanes
that
I
shall
tell
thee
,
I
beare
a
greater
countenance
then
euer
I
did
.
For
I
keepe
iolly
good
cheere
in
my
house
,
but
not
for
eche
poore
●…aue
and
euery
rascall
,
or
for
the
poore
and
impotent
,
but
for
Lords
,
Knights
,
Esquires
,
and
Gentlemen
.
And
let
them
bring
Author
.
But
I
thinke
those
men
of
honour
and
worship
,
vse
you
as
men
vse
their
waterspaniels
:
that
is
,
they
make
you
their
instrument
to
fetch
and
bringe
vnto
them
Sir
Simon
.
It
may
bee
as
thou
sayst
,
but
I
haue
not
as
yet
perceiued
it
.
But
all
this
while
I
haue
not
tolde
thee
of
one
of
my
practises
which
sticketh
more
in
my
stomacke
then
all
the
rest
,
the
wound
wherof
,
though
in
time
it
may
bee
care●…
,
yet
I
feare
mee
the
skarre
will
remaine
while
I
liue
.
Wherfore
,
to
vnloade
my
stomacke
of
that
chorasie
I
will
vtter
it
vnto
thee
as
foloweth
.
There
is
a
very
honest
man
dwellinge
neare
vnto
a
Towne
called
D.
in
the
Country
where
my
dignities
are
,
which
honest
man
was
my
very
freend
in
time
of
necessity
who
dwelleth
on
a
lyuing
geuen
vnto
him
by
an
olde
Mai●…er
of
his
,
sometimes
Are
●…deacon
of
the
place
that
I
now
possesse
,
and
by
my
dignity
I
am
now
his
Landlord
,
but
oh
how
it
greeued
mee
to
see
so
sweete
a
sop
(
as
hee
eni●…yed
)
My
olde
fréend
M
the
sunory
good
turnes
that
I
haue
receiued
at
your
handes
enforceth
mee
to
study
how
I
may
requite
thesame
.
And
sithe
Fortune
hath
now
aduaunced
mee
to
bee
your
Landlord
,
I
assure
you
,
(
if
your
lyuinge
were
not
already
on
you
bestowed
)
I
would
endewe
you
therwith
in
more
ample
manner
,
then
did
your
olde
Maister
,
and
perswade
your selfe
herein
that
you
shall
finde
mee
as
fast
a
fréend
vnto
you
,
as
any
you
haue
in
that
world
,
wherof
you
may
make
proofe
when
you
will
.
And
because
I
make
the
like
account
of
you
,
I
am
bolde
to
request
the
vse
of
your
fréendship
at
this
time
,
which
is
,
that
you
will
lende
mee
one
hundred
powndes
of
mony
,
towardes
the
charges
that
hath
growen
vnto
mee
by
late
purchased
promotions
,
I
wish
you
well
,
from
my
house
at
N.
&c.
By
your
&c.
Author
.
Truely
Sir
,
your
letter
protendeth
much
Adulation
,
&
yet
peraduenture
you
perfourmed
your
promise
vnto
him
,
and
in
so
dooing
your
wordes
were
fréendly
and
not
flattery
.
Sir
Simon
.
In
déede
I
perfourmed
the
same
with
shame
enough
vnto
my selfe
,
for
hee
(
ioyning
with
another
of
my
tennants
)
gratified
my
request
,
and
I
requited
it
in
this
manner
:
I
refused
to
receiue
my
rente
of
him
because
the
Author
.
Certes
of
all
knaueries
,
cogginges
and
dissimulations
,
I
neuer
hearde
the
like
,
but
I
pray
you
haue
you
applyed
no
plaister
vnto
this
so
foule
a
wound
,
which
I
thinke
stinketh
so
that
it
offendeth
the
sences
of
as
many
as
know
you
or
heare
of
you
?
Sir
Simon
.
Yes
I
haue
a
litle
molified
the
same
with
Author
.
Now
to
conclude
with
you
Sir
Simon
,
I
pray
you
what
is
the
price
of
a
good
benefice
in
your
Country
?
for
I
know
that
you
are
both
a
Marchant
,
and
a
factor
for
other
chapmen
.
Sir
Simon
.
Ah
sir
,
that
is
such
a
secrete
as
I
list
not
reueale
vnto
you
for
doubt
least
I
bee
shent
.
But
if
thou
wilte
study
my
●…te
,
I
will
bee
thy
reader
,
and
then
thou
Author
.
Uerely
Sir
Simon
,
I
doo
so
much
detest
and
abborre
the
study
and
practice
of
that
filthy
Science
,
that
I
wil
rather
suffer
any
worldly
penury
,
than
bee
a
follower
of
thy
secte
.
And
now
I
cannot
choose
but
declaime
against
all
thy
practises
,
as
thou
hast
particularly
recited
them
vnto
mée
.
And
first
to
begin
with
.
Wheras
thou
hast
acknowledged
thy
returne
from
grauity
to
knauery
,
from
holynesse
to
hollownesse
,
from
light
to
darkenesse
,
from
trueth
to
lyinge
,
and
from
sincerity
to
flattery
,
for
this
thy
notable
apostacy
,
thou
deseruost
to
bée
baffolde
here
on
earth
,
and
to
bee
enstalled
the
Archdeacon
,
or
rather
Archedeuill
of
Plutos
infernall
Court
.
Also
where
as
thou
hast
confessed
thy
impudency
,
in
committing
of
euill
,
&
bearing
And
also
thou
hast
read
Saint
Paules
rules
vnto
Timothi
,
as
touching
the
framing
of
his
life
to
his
doctrine
,
and
his
workes
to
his
wordes
,
that
in
the
function
of
his
ministery
might
bée
found
no
faulte
.
Then
wilt
thou
say
,
oh
that
I
had
so
directed
my
life
by
the
lyne
of
Gods
woorde
,
that
I
might
boldly
and
truly
haue
saide
with
our
Sauior
Christ
,
Quis
ex
vobis
potest
me
arguere
de
peccato
?
But
all
to
late
shall
it
then
bee
,
excepte
while
thou
hast
space
thou
call
for
And
as
for
Simony
,
it
is
but
honest
consideration
,
wherby
thou
,
and
simple
Sir
Iohn
,
with
Sir
W.
the
Weauer
,
and
Sir
T.
but
lately
a
Tinker
,
with
●…unce
the
seruinge
man
,
snatche
vp
the
benefices
in
the
Country
.
But
God
bee
thanked
these
disorders
are
like
to
be
refourmed
by
the
Sir
Simon
bee
shaked
of
from
the
presence
of
Noble
men
,
and
men
of
aucthority
,
and
true
preachers
placed
in
his
roome
.
And
now
to
conclude
with
thy
sinister
and
execrable
practise
in
the
Prouince
of
M.
wherof
thou
sayest
FINIS
.