¶
The
lyfe
of
Iohn
Picus
Erle
of
Mirandula
.
IOhan
Picus
of
the
faders
syde
descended
of
the
worthy
lynage
of
th
emperoure
Constantyne
by
a
neuew
of
the
sayd
Emperour
called
Picus
by
whom
all
the
Auncestres
of
this
Iohn
Picus
vndoubtedly
bere
that
name
.
But
we
shal
let
his
auncestres
passe
to
whome
(
though
they
were
ryght
excellent
)
he
gaue
agayne
as
moche
honour
as
he
receyued
.
And
we
shal
speke
of
hym selfe
rehersynge
in
parte
his
lernynge
and
his
vertue
.
For
these
be
the
thynges
whiche
maye
accompte
for
our
owne
/
of
whiche
euery
man
is
more
proprely
to
be
commended
then
of
the
noblenes
of
his
auncestres
:
whose
honoure
maketh
vs
not
honorable
.
For
eyther
they
were
them selfe
vertuouse
or
not
:
yf
not
/
then
had
they
none
honour
them selfe
had
they
neuer
so
grete
possessyons
:
for
honoure
is
the
rewarde
of
vertue
.
And
how
may
they
clayme
the
rewarde
that
proprely
longeth
to
vertue
:
yf
they
lak
the
vertue
that
the
rewarde
longeth
to
.
Then
yf
them selfe
had
none
honour
:
how
myght
they
leue
to
theyr
heyres
the
thynge
whiche
they
had
not
them selfe
/
on
that
other
syde
yf
they
be
vertuous
&
so
consequently
honorable
/
yet
maye
they
not
leue
theyr
honoure
to
vs
as
enheretaunce
:
no
more
then
the
vertue
that
them self
were
honourable
for
.
For
neuer
the
more
noble
be
we
for
theyr
noblenes
:
yf
our selfe
lak
those
thynges
for
which
they
were
noble
.
But
rather
the
more
worshipful
that
our
auncestres
were
/
the
more
vile
and
shamfull
be
we
:
yf
we
declyne
from
the
steppes
of
theyr
worshypfull
lyuynge
:
the
clere
beauty
of
whose
vertue
makith
the
darke
spotte
of
our
vyce
the
more
euydently
to
appere
&
to
be
the
more
marked
.
But
Picus
of
whom
we
speke
was
him selfe
so
honorable
/
for
the
grete
plentuouse
habundaunce
of
all
suche
vertues
/
the
possessyon
wherof
very
honoure
foloweth
(
as
a
shadowe
folowith
a
body
)
that
he
was
to
all
them
that
aspyre
to
honour
a
very
spectacle
in
whose
condycyons
as
in
a
clere
pullished
myrrour
they
myght
beholde
in
what
poyntes
very
honour
stondeth
:
whose
merueylous
connynge
&
excellente
vertue
though
my
rude
lernynge
be
ferre
vnable
suffyciently
to
expresse
:
yet
for
as
moche
as
yf
no
man
sholde
do
hit
but
he
that
might
sufficiently
do
hit
:
no
man
sholde
do
hit
/
&
better
it
were
to
be
vnsufficiently
done
then
vtterly
vndone
.
I
shal
therfore
as
I
can
brefely
reherse
you
his
hole
lyfe
:
at
the
leest
wyse
to
gyue
some
other
man
here
after
(
that
can
do
hit
better
)
occasyon
to
take
hit
in
hande
when
hit
shall
happely
greue
hym
to
se
the
lyfe
of
suche
an
excellent
connyng
man
so
ferre
vnkonnyngly
wryten
¶
Of
his
parentes
and
tyme
of
his
byrth
.
IN
the
yere
of
our
lorde
god
.
M.
CCCC.lxiij
.
Pius
the
seconde
beynge
than
the
generall
vycare
of
chryste
in
his
chyrche
:
and
Frederyk
the
thyrde
of
the
name
rulynge
the
empyre
this
noble
man
was
borne
the
last
chylde
of
his
mother
Iulya
/
a
woman
comen
of
a
noble
stok
/
his
father
hyght
Iohn
frauncise
a
lorde
of
grete
honoure
and
auctorite
.
¶
Of
the
wondre
that
appered
before
his
byrth
.
A
Merueylouse
syght
was
there
seene
before
his
byrthe
/
there
appered
a
fyery
garlande
standynge
ouer
the
chaumbre
of
his
mother
whyle
she
trauelled
&
sodenly
vanysshed
a
way
:
which
apparence
was
peraduenture
a
token
that
he
whiche
sholde
the
houre
in
the
companye
of
mortall
men
be
borne
:
in
the
perfeccion
of
vnderstandynge
sholde
be
lyke
the
perfyte
fygure
of
that
rounde
cyrcle
of
garlande
and
that
his
excellent
name
sholde
rounde
aboute
the
cyrcle
of
this
hole
world
be
mangnyfyed
whose
mynde
sholde
alway
as
the
fyre
aspyre
vpwarde
to
heuenly
thynge
.
And
whose
fyry
eloquence
sholde
with
an
ardent
hert
in
tyme
to
come
whorship
&
prayse
almighty
god
with
all
his
strength
.
And
as
the
flame
sodenly
vanisshyd
so
sholde
this
fyre
sone
frome
the
eyen
of
mortal
people
be
hydde
we
haue
oftyntymes
red
that
suche
vnknowen
and
straunge
tokens
hathe
gone
before
of
foloweth
the
natyuytese
excellente
wyse
and
vertuouse
men
departynge
(
as
hit
were
and
by
goddes
commaundement
)
seuerynge
the
cradyls
of
suche
specyall
chyldren
fro
the
company
of
other
of
the
comune
sorte
.
And
shewynge
that
they
be
borne
to
the
accheuynge
of
some
grete
thyng
.
But
to
passe
ouer
other
.
The
grete
saynt
ambrose
:
a
swarme
of
bees
flewe
aboute
his
mouth
in
his
cradle
&
some
entred
in
to
his
mouthe
and
after
that
yssuynge
out
agayne
and
fleynge
vp
on
hyghe
hydynge
them selfe
amonge
the
cloudes
escaped
bothe
the
syght
of
his
father
and
of
all
them
that
were
present
/
whiche
pronostycacyon
one
Paulinus
makynge
moche
of
:
expowned
it
to
signyfye
to
vs
the
swete
hony
combes
of
his
plesaunt
wrytynge
:
whiche
sholde
shewe
out
the
celestiall
gyftes
of
god
&
sholde
lyfte
vp
the
mynde
of
men
from
erthe
in
to
heuen
.
Of
his
persone
.
HE
was
of
feture
and
shappe
semely
and
beauteous
/
of
stature
goodly
&
hyghe
:
of
flesshe
tendre
and
softe
/
his
vysage
louely
and
fayre
/
his
coloure
white
entermengled
with
comely
ruddes
/
his
eyen
gray
and
quicke
of
loke
/
his
teth
white
and
euen
/
his
heere
yelowe
and
not
to
piked
.
Of
his
settynge
forthe
to
scole
and
study
in
humanyte
.
UNder
the
rule
and
gouernaunce
of
his
mother
he
was
set
to
maysters
&
to
lernynge
:
where
with
so
ardent
mynde
he
labored
the
studyes
of
humanite
:
the
within
shorte
whyle
he
was
(
and
not
without
a
cause
)
accompted
amonge
the
chyef
Oratours
and
Poetes
of
that
tyme
in
lernynge
meruaylously
swyfte
and
of
so
redy
a
wyt
/
that
the
versis
whiche
he
herde
ones
red
:
he
wolde
agayne
bothe
forwarde
and
bakwarde
to
the
grete
wonder
of
the
herers
reherse
/
and
ouer
that
wolde
holde
hit
in
sure
remembraunce
whiche
in
other
folkes
wonte
comenly
to
happen
contrary
.
For
they
that
are
swyfte
in
takyng
be
oftentymes
slowe
in
remembrynge
/
and
they
that
with
more
labour
&
dyffyculte
receyue
hit
:
more
fast
&
suerely
holde
hit
.
Of
his
study
in
Canone
.
IN
the
fouretene
yere
of
his
age
by
the
commaundement
of
his
mother
(
whiche
longed
vere
sore
to
haue
hym
preest
)
he
departed
to
Bononye
to
study
in
the
lawes
of
the
chyrche
/
whiche
whan
he
had
two
yere
tasted
/
perceyuynge
that
the
faculte
leyned
to
nothinge
but
onely
mery
tradicions
and
ordinaunces
:
his
mynde
fyll
frome
hit
/
yet
lost
he
not
his
tyme
therin
for
in
that
two
yere
yet
beynge
a
chylde
he
compyled
a
breuyary
or
a
summe
vpon
all
the
decretalles
in
whiche
as
brefly
as
possyble
was
he
comprysed
th
effecte
of
all
the
hole
grete
volume
and
made
a
boke
no
sclender
thyng
to
ryght
connyng
&
perfyte
doctours
.
Of
his
study
in
phylosophye
&
deuynyte
.
AFter
this
as
a
desyrours
enserchour
of
the
secretes
of
nature
he
lefte
these
commyn
troden
pathes
and
gaue
hym
sefe
hole
to
speculation
&
philosophy
as
well
humane
as
deuyne
.
For
the
purchasynge
wherof
(
afte
the
maner
of
Plato
and
Appollonius
)
he
scrupulously
sought
out
/
all
the
famous
doctours
of
his
tyme
.
visytynge
studeously
all
the
vnyuersytes
and
scoles
not
onely
through
Italy
but
also
through
fraunce
.
And
so
infatigable
laboure
gaue
he
to
those
studies
:
that
yet
a
chylde
and
berdles
he
was
bothe
reputed
and
was
in
dede
bothe
a
perfyte
philosophre
and
a
perfyte
deuyne
.
Of
his
mynde
and
vayngloryouse
dispicious
of
Rome
.
NOw
had
he
ben
.vij.
yere
conuersaunt
in
these
studies
whan
full
of
pryde
&
desyrous
of
glory
and
mannes
prayse
(
for
yet
was
he
not
kendled
in
the
loue
of
god
)
he
went
to
rome
and
there
(
couetynge
to
make
a
shew
of
his
connynge
:
&
lytel
consideringe
how
grete
enuye
he
sholde
reyse
agaynst
hym selfe
)
.ix.
C.
questions
he
purposed
/
of
dyuerse
&
sondry
maters
.
as
well
in
logike
and
philosophye
as
dyuynyte
/
with
grete
study
piked
and
sought
out
as
well
of
the
laten
auctours
as
the
grekes
.
And
partly
set
oute
of
the
secrete
misteryes
of
the
hebrewes
/
caldeyes
/
&
arabics
.
And
many
thynges
drawen
out
of
the
olde
obscure
philosophye
of
Pythagoras
/
trimegistus
/
and
orpheus
/
&
many
other
thynges
straunge
:
and
to
all
folke
(
except
ryght
fewe
specyall
excellente
men
)
before
that
daye
:
not
vnknowen
onely
:
but
also
vnherde
/
of
all
whiche
questions
in
open
places
(
that
they
myght
be
to
all
people
the
better
knowen
)
he
fastened
and
set
vp
/
offeryng
also
hym selfe
to
bere
the
costes
of
all
suche
as
wolde
come
hyther
out
of
ferre
countrees
to
dyspute
/
but
thorughe
the
enuye
of
his
malicyous
enemyes
(
which
enuye
lyke
the
fyre
euer
draweth
to
the
hyghest
)
he
coude
neuer
brynge
aboute
to
haue
a
day
to
his
dyspicions
appoynted
.
For
this
cause
he
taryed
at
Rome
an
hole
yere
in
all
whiche
tyme
his
enuyours
neuer
durste
openly
with
open
dispicyons
atempt
hym
but
rather
with
crafte
and
sleyght
and
as
it
were
with
pryuey
trenches
enforced
to
vnder
myne
hym
for
none
other
cause
but
for
malice
and
for
they
were
(
as
many
men
thought
)
corrupte
with
a
pestylent
enuye
.
¶
This
enuye
as
men
demed
was
specyaly
raysed
agaynst
hym
for
this
cause
that
where
there
were
many
whiche
had
many
yeres
:
some
for
glory
:
some
for
couetyse
:
gyuen
them selfe
to
lernynge
:
they
thought
that
hit
sholde
happely
deface
theyr
fame
&
minysshe
th
opynyon
of
theyr
connynge
yf
so
yonge
a
man
plenteouse
of
substaunce
&
greate
doctryne
:
durste
in
the
chyefe
cyte
of
the
worlde
make
a
profe
of
his
wyt
and
his
lernyng
aswell
in
thinges
naturall
as
in
diuinit●
&
in
many
suche
thynges
as
men
many
yeres
neuer
attayned
to
.
Nowe
when
they
perceyued
that
they
coude
not
agaynst
his
connynge
ony
thynge
openly
preuayle
:
they
brought
forth
the
serpentynes
of
false
crime
.
And
cryed
out
that
there
were
.xiij.
of
his
.ix.
C
questyons
suspecte
of
herysye
.
Then
Ioyned
they
to
them
some
good
symple
folke
that
sholde
of
zele
to
the
fayth
and
pretence
of
relygion
impugne
those
questions
as
newe
thynges
&
with
whiche
theyr
eres
had
not
be
in
vre
.
In
whiche
impugnacyon
though
some
of
theym
happely
lacked
not
good
mynde
:
yet
lacked
they
erudycyon
and
lernynge
:
whiche
questyons
:
notwitstondynge
before
that
/
not
a
fewe
famous
doctours
of
diuynyte
had
approued
/
as
good
and
clene
and
subcribed
theyr
names
vndre
them
.
But
he
not
berynge
the
losse
of
his
fame
made
a
defence
for
those
xiij
.
questyons
.
A
werke
of
greate
erudicyon
and
elegant
and
stuffed
with
the
cognytyon
of
many
thynges
worthy
to
be
lerned
.
whiche
werke
he
compyled
in
xx
.
nyghtes
.
In
whiche
hit
euedently
appereth
:
not
onely
that
those
conclusyons
were
good
and
stondyng
with
the
fayth
:
but
also
that
they
:
whiche
had
barked
at
theym
:
were
of
foly
and
rudenesse
to
be
reproued
/
whiche
defence
and
all
other
thynges
that
he
sholde
wrytethe
commytted
lyke
a
good
chrysten
man
to
the
most
holy
iudgement
of
our
mother
holy
chy●che/which●
defence
receyued
:
&
the
.xiij.
questions
duly
by
delybera●yō
examyned
:
our
holy
father
the
pope
approued
Picus
and
tenderly
fauoured
hym
/
as
by
a
bull
of
our
holy
father
pope
Alexandre
the
.vj.
hit
playnly
appereth
:
but
the
boke
in
whiche
the
hole
.ix.
C.
questions
with
theyr
conclusions
were
conteyned
(
for
as
moche
as
there
were
in
them
many
thynges
straunge
and
not
fully
declared
and
were
more
mete
for
secrete
communycacyon
of
lerned
men
then
for
open
herynge
of
commune
people
whiche
for
lacke
of
connyge
myght
take
hurte
therby
)
Picus
desyred
hym selfe
y●
hit
sholde
not
be
redde
.
And
soo
was
the
redynge
therof
forboden
.
Lo
this
ende
had
Picus
of
his
hye
mynde
and
proud
purpose
/
that
where
he
thought
to
haue
goten
perpetual
prayse
:
there
had
he
moche
werke
to
kepe
hymselfe
vpryght
:
that
he
ranne
not
in
perpetual
infamye
and
sclaundre
.
¶
Of
the
chaunge
of
his
lyfe
.
BUt
as
hym selfe
tolde
his
neuewe
he
iudged
that
this
came
thus
to
passe
:
by
the
especiall
prouision
and
synguler
goodnes
of
almyghty
god
/
that
by
this
fals
cryme
vntruely
put
vpon
hym
by
his
euyll
wyllers
he
sholde
correcte
his
very
errours
/
and
that
this
sholde
be
to
hym
(
wanderynge
in
derkenes
)
as
a
shynynge
lyght
:
in
whiche
he
myght
beholde
&
consydre
:
how
ferre
he
had
gone
out
of
the
waye
of
trouth
.
For
before
this
he
had
bene
bothe
desyrous
of
glory
and
kyndled
in
vayne
loue
:
and
holden
in
volupteouse
vse
of
women
.
The
comelynes
of
his
body
with
the
louely
fauoure
of
his
vysage
/
and
therwith
all
his
merueylouse
fame
/
his
excellent
lernynge●
grete
rychesse
and
noble
kyndred
/
set
many
women
a
fyre
on
hym
/
frome
the
desyre
of
whome
he
not
abhorrynge
(
the
waye
of
lyfe
set
a
syde
)
was
somwhat
fallen
in
to
wantonnesse
.
But
after
that
he
was
ones
with
this
variaunce
wakened
he
drewe
backe
his
mynde
flowynge
in
riot
&
turned
hit
to
chryst
/
womens
blandimentes
he
chaunged
in
to
the
desyre
of
heuenly
ioyes
&
dispisynge
the
blaste
of
vaynglorye
which
he
before
desyred
/
now
with
all
his
mynde
he
began
to
seke
the
glory
and
profyte
of
chrystes
chyrche
and
so
began
he
to
ordre
his
condycions
that
from
thens
forth
he
myght
haue
ben
approued
&
thoughe
his
enemye
were
his
iudge
.
¶
Of
the
fame
of
his
vertue
and
the
r●sorte
vnto
hym
therfore
.
HEre
vpon
shortly
the
same
of
his
noble
connynge
and
excellent
vertue
bothe
ferre
&
nygh
began
gloryously
to
sprynge
for
which
many
worthy
philosophres
(
&
that
were
taken
in
nombre
of
the
moost
connynge
)
resorted
bisely
vnto
hym
as
to
a
market
of
good
doctryne
/
some
for
to
moue
questions
and
dyspute
/
some
(
that
were
of
more
godly
mynde
)
to
here
and
to
take
the
holesome
lessons
and
instruccyon
of
good
lyuynge
:
whiche
lessons
were
so
moche
the
more
set
by
:
in
how
moche
they
came
from
a
more
noble
man
and
a
more
wyse
man
and
hym
also
whiche
had
hym selfe
some
tyme
folowed
the
croked
hilles
of
delycyouse
pleasure
/
to
the
fastenynge
of
good
dyscyplyne
in
the
myndes
of
the
herers
those
thynges
seme
to
be
of
grete
effecte
:
whiche
be
bothe
of
theyr
owne
nature
good
&
also
be
spoken
of
suche
a
master
:
as
is
conuerted
to
the
way
of
iustyce
from
the
croked
&
ragged
path
of
voluptuouse
lyuynge
.
The
burnyng
of
wanton
bokes
.
EYue
bokes
that
in
his
youthe
of
wanton
●sis
of
loue
with
other
lyke
fantasies
he
had
made
in
his
vulgar
tongue
:
all
togyther
(
in
detestacyon
of
his
vyce
passed
)
and
lest
these
tryfles
mygh
be
some
euyll
occasyon
afterwarde
he
burned
them
.
¶
Of
his
study
and
dilygence
in
holy
scrypture
.
ERom
thensforth
he
gaue
him selfe
day
&
nyght
moost
feruently
to
the
studyes
of
scrypture
in
whiche
he
wrote
many
noble
bokes
:
which
well
testyfye
bothe
his
angylyke
wyt
/
his
ardent
laboure
/
and
his
profounde
erudicyon
of
whiche
bokes
some
we
haue
&
some
as
an
inestimable
treasure
we
haue
loste
.
Grete
lybraries
hit
is
incredible
to
consydre
with
how
meruelouse
c●leryte
he
red
them
ouer
/
and
wrote
out
what
hym
liked
:
of
the
olde
fathers
of
the
chyrch
/
so
gret
knowlege
he
had
as
hit
were
harde
for
hym
to
haue
that
hath
lyued
longe
&
all
his
lyfe
hath
done
nothyng
els
but
red
them
.
Of
these
newer
dyuynes
so
good
iugement
he
had
that
it
myght
appere
there
were
nothynge
in
ony
of
them
that
were
vnknowen
to
him
/
but
all
thynge
as
rype
as
though
he
had
all
theyr
werkes
euer
before
his
eyen
/
but
of
all
these
new
doctours
he
specyaliy
commendeth
saynt
Thomas
as
hym
that
enforseth
hym selfe
in
a
sure
piller
of
truth
/
he
was
very
quick
/
wise
/
&
subtyl
in
dispicions
&
had
grete
felicite
therin
while
he
had
the
hye
stomak
.
But
now
a
grete
while
he
had
bode
suche
conflictes
farewell
:
and
euery
daye
more
&
more
hated
them
/
and
so
gretely
abhored
them
:
that
when
hercules
Estenlis
duke
of
ferrare
:
fyrst
by
messengers
and
after
by
hym selfe
:
desyred
hym
to
dispute
at
ferrare
:
bycause
the
generall
chapytre
of
freres
prechours
was
holden
there
/
longe
hit
was
or
he
coude
be
brought
therto
:
but
at
the
instant
request
of
the
duke
whiche
very
syngulerly
loued
him
he
came
thyder
where
he
so
behaued
hymselfe
that
was
wondre
●o
beholde
how
all
the
audyence
reioyced
to
here
hym
for
hit
were
not
possyble
for
a
man
to
vtter
neyther
more
connynge
nor
more
connyngely
.
But
hit
was
a
commune
sayenge
with
hym
that
suche
altercacyons
were
for
a
logition
and
not
merely
for
a
phylosophre
/
he
sayd
also
that
suche
disputacyons
gretely
ꝓfited
as
were
exercised
with
a
peasyble
mynde
to
th
enserchynge
of
the
treuth
in
secrete
company
without
grete
audyence
:
but
he
sayd
that
those
dispicions
dyd
grete
hurte
:
that
were
holden
openly
to
the
stentacion
of
lernynge
&
to
wynne
the
fauoure
of
the
commune
people
&
the
commendacyon
of
fooles
.
He
thought
that
vtterly
hit
coulde
vnneth
be
but
that
with
the
desyre
of
worshyp
(
whiche
these
gasynge
dysputers
gape
after
)
there
is
with
an
inseparable
bonde
annexed
the
appetite
of
his
confusyon
&
rebuke
whome
they
argue
with
/
whiche
appetyte
is
a
dedly
wounde
to
the
soule
/
&
a
mortall
poyson
to
charite
there
was
nothing
passed
hym
of
those
capicions
soteltes
&
cauilacions
of
sophystrye
/
nor
agayn
there
was
nothyng
that
he
more
hated
&
abhored
consyderyng
that
they
serued
of
nought
but
to
the
shamyng
of
suche
other
folke
as
were
in
very
seyence
moche
better
lerned
and
in
those
trifles
ignoraunt
.
And
y●
vnto
th
ensercherchynge
of
the
treuth
(
to
which
he
gaue
contynuall
laboure
)
they
profyted
lytell
or
nought
.
¶
Of
his
lernynge
vnyuersally
.
BUt
bycause
we
wyll
holde
the
reder
no
lenger
in
hande
:
we
wyll
speke
of
his
lernynge
but
a
worde
or
twayne
generally
/
some
man
hathe
shyned
in
eloquence
but
ignorance
of
naturall
thynges
hathe
dishonested
hym
/
some
men
hath
floured
in
the
knowledge
of
dyuers
straunge
languages
but
he
hath
wanted
all
the
cognicion
of
philosophye
.
Some
man
hath
redde
the
inuencyons
of
the
olde
philosophres
but
he
hath
not
ben
excercised
in
the
new
scoles
.
Some
man
hath
sough
connynge
aswell
philosophie
as
dyuinite
for
prayse
and
vayne
glorye
and
not
for
ony
profyte
or
encreace
of
chrystes
chyrche
.
But
Pycus
all
these
thynges
with
equall
study
hath
so
receyued
that
they
myght
seme
by
hepis
as
a
plentyouse
streme
to
haue
flowen
in
to
hym
.
For
he
was
not
of
the
condycion
of
some
folke
(
which
to
be
excellent
in
one
thynge
set
al
other
asyde
)
but
he
in
all
sciences
ꝓfyted
so
excellently
:
that
which
of
theym
so
euer
he
had
consydered
in
him
ye
wolde
haue
thought
that
he
had
taken
that
one
for
his
onely
studye
.
And
all
these
thynges
were
in
hym
so
moche
the
more
meruelouse
in
that
he
came
therto
by
hym selfe
with
the
strength
of
his
owne
wytte
for
the
loue
of
god
and
profyte
his
chyrche
without
maysters
so
that
we
may
saye
of
hym
that
Epycure
the
philosophre
sayd
of
hym
that
he
was
his
owne
mayster
.
¶
Fyue
causes
that
in
so
shorte
tyme
brought
hym
to
se
meruclouse
connynge
.
To
the
bryngynge
forth
of
so
wondreful
effectes
in
so
small
tyme
I
considre
fyue
causes
to
haue
come
to
gyder
:
fyrst
an
incredyble
wyt
/
secondely
a
merueylouse
fast
memore
.
Thyrdely
grete
substaunce
by
the
which
to
the
byenge
of
his
bokes
as
wellaten
as
greke
&
other
tonges
he
was
especyally
holpen
.vij.
M.
ducates
he
had
layde
out
in
the
gaderynge
to gyther
of
volumes
of
all
maner
of
litterature
.
The
fourth
cause
was
his
besy
and
infatigable
study
.
The
fyfte
was
the
contempt
dispysynge
of
all
erthly
thynges
.
¶
Of
his
condycyons
and
his
vertue
.
BUt
now
let
vs
passe
ouer
those
powers
of
his
soule
which
appertayne
to
vnderstondynge
&
knowledge
&
let
vs
speke
of
them
that
belonge
to
the
acheuynge
of
noble
actes
/
let
vs
as
we
can
declare
his
excellent
condicions
that
his
mynde
enflamed
to
godwarde
may
appere
.
And
his
riches
gyuen
out
to
poore
folke
may
be
vnderstonde
/
th
entent
that
they
whiche
shall
heere
his
vertue
may
haue
occasyon
therby
to
gyue
especiall
laude
&
thanke
therfore
to
almyghty
god
of
whose
infynyte
goodnesse
all
grace
and
vertue
cometh
.
Of
the
sale
of
his
lordeshyppes
and
almysse
.
THre
yere
before
his
deth
(
to
th
ende
that
all
the
charge
&
besynes
of
rule
or
lordshyp
set
a
syde
he
myght
lede
his
lyfe
in
rest
and
peace
wele
consyderynge
to
what
ende
this
erthely
honour
&
worldly
dignite
cometh
)
all
his
patrymonye
and
dominyons
that
is
to
say
the
thyrde
parte
of
th
erldome
of
Mirandula
and
of
concordia
:
vnto
Iohan
francis
his
neuewe
he
solde
/
and
that
so
good
chepe
that
hit
semed
rather
a
gyft
then
a
sale
.
All
that
euer
he
receyued
of
this
bargayne
partly
he
gaue
out
to
poore
folke
/
partely
he
bestowed
in
the
byenge
of
a
lytell
londe
to
the
fyndynge
of
him
&
his
housholde
.
And
ouer
that
moche
syluer
vessell
&
plate
with
other
precyouse
&
costly
vtensiles
of
howsholde
he
deuyded
amonge
poore
people
.
He
was
content
with
meane
fare
at
his
table
how
be
hit
son
what
yet
reteynynge
of
the
olde
plenty
in
deynty
vyande
&
syluer
vessell
.
Euery
daye
at
certayne
houres
he
gaue
hym selfe
to
prayer
.
To
pore
men
alway
yf
ony
came
he
plentiously
gaue
out
his
money
:
&
not
content
onely
to
gyue
that
he
had
hym self
redy
:
he
wrote
ouer
y●
/
to
one
.
Hierom
Benineuius
a
florentin
a
well
letred
man
(
whom
for
his
grete
loue
towarde
hym
&
the
integrite
of
his
condycions
he
singulerly
fauored
)
that
he
sholde
with
his
owne
money
euer
helpe
poore
folke
:
&
gyue
maydens
money
to
theyr
maryage
:
and
alway
sende
him
worde
what
he
had
layde
out
that
he
myght
paye
hit
him
ageyn
.
This
offyce
he
commytted
to
hym
that
he
might
the
more
easely
by
him
as
by
a
faythful
messenger
releue
the
necessyte
&
miseri
of
poore
nedy
people
suche
as
him
selfe
happely
coude
not
come
by
the
knowledge
of
.
¶
Of
the
voluntary
afflecciō
&
payning
of
his
own
body
.
OUer
all
this
:
many
times
(
whiche
is
not
to
be
kepte
secrete
)
he
gaue
almes
of
his
owne
body
:
we
knowe
many
men
which
(
as
saynt
Hierom
sayth
)
put
forth
theyr
hande
to
poore
folke
:
but
with
the
plesure
of
the
flesshe
they
be
ouercomen
:
but
he
:
many
days
(
and
namely
those
dayes
whiche
represent
vnto
vs
the
passyon
&
deth
that
Chryste
suffred
for
our
sake
)
bet
and
scourged
his
owne
fleshe
in
the
remembraunce
of
that
grete
benefyte
and
for
clensynge
of
his
olde
offences
.
¶
Of
his
placabilite
or
benygne
nature
.
HE
was
of
chere
alwaye
mery
&
of
so
benygne
nature
that
he
was
neuer
troubled
with
Ang●e
&
he
sayd
ones
to
his
neuew
that
what
so
euer
sholde
happen
(
fell
theyr
neuer
so
grete
mysaduenture
)
he
he
coude
neuer
as
hym
thought
be
moued
to
wrath
:
but
yf
his
chystes
perysshed
in
whiche
his
bokes
laye
:
that
he
had
with
grete
trauayle
&
watche
●piled
.
But
for
as
moche
as
he
consydered
that
he
laboured
onely
for
the
loue
of
god
&
ꝓfyte
of
his
chyrche
:
&
that
he
had
dedicate
vnto
him
all
his
werkes
/
his
studyes
&
his
doynges
&
sith
he
sawe
that
syth
god
is
almyghty
they
coulde
not
miscarye
but
yf
it
were
eyther
by
his
commaundement
or
by
his
sufferaunce
:
he
veryly
trusted
:
syth
god
is
all
good
:
that
he
wolde
not
suffre
hym
to
haue
that
occasion
of
heuynes
.
O
very
happy
mynde
which
none
aduersyte
myght
oppresse
/
which
no
prosperyte
myght
enhaunce
:
not
the
connynge
of
all
philosophie
was
able
to
make
hym
proude
/
not
the
knowledge
of
the
hebrewe
/
chaldey
&
arabie
language
besyde
greke
and
laten
coulde
make
him
vayngloryouse
/
not
his
grete
substaunce
/
not
his
noble
blode
coulde
blowe
vp
his
herte
/
not
the
beauty
of
his
body
/
not
the
grete
occasyon
of
synne
were
able
to
pull
hym
bak
in
to
the
voluptuouse
brode
way
that
ledeth
to
helle
:
what
thynge
was
ther
of
so
meruaylouse
strength
that
myght
ouertorne
the
mynde
of
him
(
which
now
as
seneke
sayth
)
was
goten
aboue
fortune
as
he
:
which
as
well
her
fauoure
as
her
malice
hath
set
at
nought
/
that
he
myght
be
coupled
with
a
spiritull
knot
vnto
chryste
and
his
heuenly
cytezeynes
.
How
he
eschewed
dygnites
.
Whan
he
sawe
many
men
with
grete
labour
&
money
desyre
&
bysely
purchase
the
offices
&
dygnites
of
the
ch●che
(
whiche
are
now
a
dayes
alas
the
whyle
●munely
bought
&
solde
)
him selfe
refused
to
recyue
them
:
whan
two
kynges
offred
them
:
whan
an
other
man
offred
hym
grete
worldely
promocyon
yf
he
wolde
go
to
the
kynges
courte
:
he
gaue
hym
suche
an
answere
/
that
he
sholde
well
knowe
that
he
neyther
desyred
worship
ne
worldly
ryches
but
rather
set
than
at
nought
that
he
might
the
more
quyetly
gyue
hym selfe
to
study
&
the
seruyce
of
god
:
this
wyse
he
persuaded
/
y●
to
a
phylosophre
and
hym
that
seketh
for
wysedome
it
was
no
prayse
to
gather
rychesse
but
to
refuse
them
.
¶
Of
the
dispysynge
of
worldly
glorye
.
ALl
prayse
of
people
and
all
erthly
glorye
he
reputed
vtterly
:
for
nothyng
but
in
the
renayeng
of
this
shadowe
of
glory
/
he
laboured
for
very
glorye
/
which
euer
more
foloweth
vertue
as
an
vnseparable
seruaunt
/
he
sayd
that
same
often
tymes
dyd
hurte
to
men
while
they
lyue
/
&
neuer
good
whan
they
be
deed
/
so
moche
onely
set
he
by
his
lernynge
in
how
moche
he
knewe
that
hit
was
profytable
to
the
chyrche
&
to
the
extermynation
of
errours
.
And
ouer
that
he
was
come
to
that
prycke
of
perfyte
humilite
that
he
lytell
forced
wyther
his
workes
went
out
vnder
his
owne
name
or
not
so
that
they
myght
as
moche
profite
as
yf
they
were
gyuen
oute
vnder
his
name
.
And
nowe
set
he
lytel
by
ony
other
bokes
saueouely
the
bible
/
in
y●
onely
studi
of
which
:
he
had
appoynted
hym selfe
to
spende
the
resedewe
of
his
lyfe
/
sauynge
that
the
commune
profyte
pricked
him
whan
he
consydered
so
many
&
so
grete
werkes
as
he
had
conceyued
&
longe
trauayled
vnpon
howe
they
were
of
euery
man
by
and
by
desyred
and
loked
after
.
How
moche
he
set
more
by
deuceyon
then
connynge
.
THe
lytell
affeccyon
of
an
olde
man
or
an
olde
woman
to
godwarde
(
were
it
neuer
so
small
)
he
set
more
by
:
than
by
all
his
owene
knowlege
aswell
of
naturall
thynges
as
godly
.
And
oftentymes
in
communicacyon
he
wolde
admonysshe
his
familyar
frendes
how
gretly
these
mortall
thynges
bowe
and
drawe
to
an
ende
howe
slyper
&
how
fallynge
hit
is
that
we
lyue
in
now
:
how
ferme
how
stable
it
shall
b●
that
we
shal
here
after
lyue
in
/
whether
we
be
throwen
downe
in
to
hell
or
lyfce
vp
in
to
heuen
.
Wherfore
he
exhorted
them
to
turne
vp
theyr
myndes
to
loue
god
which
was
a
thynge
farre
excellynge
all
the
connynge
that
is
possible
for
vs
in
this
lyfe
to
obtaine
.
The
same
thynge
also
in
his
boke
whiche
he
entytled
de
ente
et
vnolyghtsomely
he
treateth
where
he
interupteth
the
course
of
his
dispicion
and
turnynge
his
wordes
to
Angelus
Politianus
(
to
whom
he
dedycateth
that
boke
)
he
wryteth
in
this
wyse
.
But
now
beholde
o
my
welbeloued
Angell
what
madnes
holdeth
vs
.
Loue
god
(
while
we
be
in
this
body
)
we
rather
maye
:
than
eyther
knowe
hym
or
by
speche
vtter
hym
.
In
louyng
him
also
we
more
profyte
our selfe
/
we
laboure
lesse
&
serue
hym
more
/
&
yet
had
we
leuer
alwaye
by
knowlege
neuer
fynde
the
thynge
that
we
seke
:
then
by
loue
to
possede
the
thynge
:
whiche
also
without
loue
were
in
vayne
founde
.
Of
his
liberalite
&
contempt
of
rychesse
.
LIberalite
onely
in
hym
passed
measure
for
so
ferre
was
he
from
the
begynnyng
of
ony
diligence
to
erthely
thynges
that
he
semed
somwhat
be●prent
with
the
frekyll
of
negligence
/
his
frendes
oftentymes
admonysshed
hym
that
he
sholde
not
all
vtterly
dispycerychesse
/
shewynge
hym
y●
hit
was
his
dishoneste
and
rebuke
whan
it
was
reported
(
were
it
treue
or
false
)
that
his
negligence
&
settyng
nought
by
money
gaue
his
seruauntes
occasyon
of
disceye
&
robbry
Neuertheles
that
mynde
of
his
:
(
which
euermore
on
hyghe
cleued
fast
in
cōtēp●acion
&
in
th
enserchynge
of
natures
counsel
)
coulde
neuer
let
downe
hit
selfe
to
the
consideracion
and
ouerseynge
of
these
base
abiecte
and
vyle
erthly
tryfles
.
His
hygh
stuarde
came
on
a
tyme
to
hym
&
desyred
hym
to
receyue
his
accomt
of
suche
money
as
he
had
in
many
yeres
receyued
of
his
:
and
brought
forth
his
bokes
of
rekenynge
.
Picus
answered
hym
in
this
wyse
/
my
frende
(
sayth
he
)
I
knowe
well
ye
haue
mought
oftentimes
and
yet
may
desceyue
me
and
ye
lyst
/
wherfore
the
examinacyon
of
these
expenses
shall
not
nede
.
There
is
no
more
to
do
/
yf
I
be
ought
in
your
det
I
shall
pay
you
by
&
by
/
yf
ye
be
in
myn
pay
me
/
eyther
now
yf
ye
haue
hit
:
or
here
after
yf
ye
be
now
not
able
.
Of
his
louynge
mynde
&
●tuouse
behauour
to
his
frēndes
.
HIs
louers
and
frendes
with
grete
benygnite
&
curtesye
he
entreted
/
whom
he
vsed
in
all
secrete
communinge
●tuously
to
exhorte
to
godward
whose
goodely
wordes
so
effectually
wrought
in
the
herers
:
that
where
a
connynge
man
(
but
not
so
good
as
connynge
)
came
to
him
on
a
daye
for
the
grete
fame
of
his
lernyng
to
commune
with
hym
as
they
fell
in
talkynge
of
●tue
he
was
with
the
wordes
of
Picus
so
throughly
perced
that
forth
withall
he
forsoke
his
accustomed
vyce
and
reformed
his
condicyons
.
The
wordes
that
he
sayd
vnto
hym
were
these
yf
we
hadde
euer
more
before
our
eyen
the
paynful
deth
of
chryst
which
he
suffred
for
the
loue
of
vs
:
and
than
yf
we
wolde
agayne
thynke
vpon
our
deth
we
sholde
wele
beware
of
synne
.
Merueylouse
benignyte
&
curtesy
he
shewed
vnto
th●●
not
whom
strength
of
body
or
goodes
of
fortune
magnified
but
to
them
whom
lernynge
&
condicions
bounde
him
to
fauoure
/
for
simylytude
of
maners
is
a
cause
of
loue
&
frendeshyp
.
Alikenes
of
condicions
is
(
as
Appollonius
sayth
an
affinyte
.
¶
what
he
hated
&
what
he
loued
.
THere
was
nohyng
more
odiouse
nor
more
intoliberable
to
him
than
as
(
horace
sayth
)
the
proud
palaces
of
stately
lordes
/
weddynge
and
wordly
besynes
/
he
fled
almoost
a
lyke
:
notwithstondynge
whan
he
was
axed
ones
in
sporte
whyther
of
those
two
burdeynes
semed
lyghter
&
whiche
he
wolde
chese
yf
he
sholde
of
necessite
be
dryuen
to
that
one
and
at
his
elec●●n
:
whiche
he
stiked
thereat
a
wyle
but
at
the
last
he
shoke
his
heed
and
a
lytell
smylyng
he
answered
that
he
had
leuer
take
him
to
maryage
/
as
the
thynge
in
whiche
was
lesse
seruytude
&
not
so
moche
ieoperdy
/
lyberte
aboue
all
thynge
he
loued
to
which
both
his
owne
natural
affeccon
&
the
study
of
phylosophy
enclyned
hym
:
&
for
that
was
he
alwaye
wanderyng
&
flytynge
&
wolde
neuer
take
hym sefe
to
ony
certayne
dwellynge
.
Of
his
feruent
loue
to
god
.
OF
outward
obseruaunces
he
gaue
no
very
grete
force
we
speke
not
of
those
obseruaunces
which
the
chyrche
commaundeth
to
be
obserued
for
in
those
he
was
dilygent
but
we
speke
of
those
cerymonyes
which
folke
brynge
vp
settynge
the
very
seruyce
of
god
a
syde
which
is
(
as
chryst
sayth
)
to
be
worshipped
in
spirite
&
in
treuth
.
But
in
the
inwarde
affectes
of
the
mynde
he
cleued
to
god
with
very
feruent
loue
and
deuocyon
/
some
tyme
that
meruelouse
alacrite
langwysshed
and
almoost
fell
:
and
efte
agayne
with
grete
ftrength
rose
vp
in
to
god
.
In
the
loue
of
whome
he
so
feruently
burned
that
on
a
tyme
as
he
walked
with
Iohan
frauncis
his
neuewe
in
an
orcharde
at
farrare
in
the
talkynge
of
the
loue
of
chryst
he
brake
out
in
to
these
wordes
/
neuew
sayd
he
this
wyll
I
shewe
the
I
warne
the
kepe
it
secrete
:
the
substaunce
that
I
haue
lefte
after
c●rtayne
bokes
of
myne
finysshed
I
entende
to
gyue
out
to
pore
folke
&
seneynge
my selfe
with
the
crucifyx
〈…〉
about
the
worlde
in
euery
towne
and
ca●●
〈…〉
pose
to
preche
of
chryst
.
Afterwarde
I
〈…〉
by
the
e●pecyall
commaundement
of
god
he
〈◊〉
that
purpose
and
appoynted
to
pro●●●●
〈◊〉
in
the
ordre
of
freres
prechours
.
¶
Of
his
deth
.
IN
the
yere
of
our
redempcion
.
M.
CCCC.iCiiij
.
whan
he
had
fulfylled
the
.xxxij.
yere
of
his
age
&
〈◊〉
at
florence
he
was
sodenly
taken
with
a
feruent
axes
which
so
ferforth
crepte
in
to
the
interior●
pert●s
of
his
body
y●
hit
dyspysed
all
medycynes
&
ouercame
all
remedy
and
compelled
him
within
thre
dayes
to
●atisfye
nature
and
repaye
her
the
lyfe
whiche
he
receyued
of
her
.
¶
Of
his
behauyour
in
the
extremes
of
his
lyfe
.
AFter
that
he
hadde
r●ceyued
the
holy
body
of
our
sauyour
whan
they
offred
vnto
hym
the
crucyfyx
(
that
the
ymage
of
chrystes
ineffable
passion
suffred
for
oure
sake
:
he
myght
ere
he
gaue
vp
the
ghost
/
receyue
his
full
draught
of
loue
and
compassyon
in
the
beholdynge
of
that
pytefull
figure
as
a
stronge
defence
agaynst
all
aduersyte
and
a
sure
port
culiouse
agaynst
wikked
spirites
/
the
preest
demaunded
hym
whether
he
fermly
beleued
the
crucyfyx
to
be
the
Image
of
hym
that
was
very
god
&
very
man
whiche
in
his
godhed
was
before
all
time
begoten
of
his
father
:
to
whome
he
is
also
equall
in
all
thynge
:
and
whiche
of
the
holy
ghos●
god
also
:
of
hym
&
of
the
father
coeternalli
goy●ge
forth
(
whiche
.iij.
persones
be
one
god
)
was
in
the
chaste
wombe
of
our
lady
a
perpetuall
virgyne
conceyued
in
time
/
which
suffred
hungre
/
thrust
/
hete
/
colde
/
laboure
/
trauayle
/
&
watche
.
And
whiche
at
the
laste
for
wasshynge
of
our
spotty
synne
contracted
and
drawen
vnto
vs
in
the
synne
of
Adame
for
the
soueraigne
loue
that
he
had
to
mankynde
:
in
the
aulter
of
the
crosse
wyllyngely
&
gladly
shedde
out
his
moost
precyouse
blode
.
when
the
preest
enquyred
of
him
these
thynges
&
suche
other
as
they
be
wonte
to
enquere
of
folke
in
suche
case
.
Picus
answered
hym
that
he
not
onely
beleued
hit
but
also
certaynly
knewe
it
.
¶
whan
y●
one
Abertus
his
systers
sone
a
yonge
man
both
of
wit
/
concōnynge
/
&
condicyons
:
excellent
:
began
to
conforte
hym
agaynst
deth
:
&
by
natural
reason
to
shewe
hym
why
hit
was
not
to
be
fered
but
strongely
to
be
taken
:
as
the
onely
thynge
which
maketh
an
ende
of
all
the
laboure
/
payne
/
trouble
/
&
sorowe
of
this
short
miserable
deedly
lyfe
:
he
answered
that
this
was
not
the
cheyese
thyng
that
sholde
make
hym
●tent
to
dye
:
bycause
the
deth
determyneth
the
many
folde
incommoditees
and
paynfull
wretchednes
of
this
life
:
but
rather
this
cause
sholde
make
hym
not
content
onely
:
but
also
glad
to
dye
:
for
that
deth
maketh
an
ende
of
synne
:
in
as
moche
as
he
trusted
:
the
shortnes
of
his
lyfe
sholde
leue
hym
no
space
to
synne
and
offende
.
He
asked
also
all
his
seruauntes
forgyuenes
/
yf
he
had
euer
before
that
daye
offended
ony
of
them
.
for
whom
he
had
prouyded
by
his
testament
.viij.
yeres
before
/
for
some
of
them
mete
and
drynk
/
for
some
money
/
eche
of
them
after
theyr
deseruynge
.
He
shewed
also
to
the
aboue
named
Albertus
&
many
other
credible
persons
y●
the
quene
of
heuen
came
to
hym
the
nyght
with
a
meruaylouse
fragrant
odour
refresshynge
all
his
membres
that
were
brosed
&
frusshed
with
that
feuer
&
ꝓmysed
him
that
he
shold
not
vtterly
dye
.
He
lay
alwaye
with
a
plesaunt
and
a
mery
countenaunce
and
in
the
verye
twytches
and
panges
of
deth
he
spake
as
though
he
behelde
the
heuens
opene
.
And
all
that
came
to
hym
&
saluted
hym
offerynge
theyr
seruyce
:
with
very
louyng
wordes
he
receyued
/
thanked
/
&
kyssed
.
The
executour
of
his
moueable
goodes
he
made
one
Antony
his
brother
.
The
heyer
of
his
landes
he
made
the
pore
people
of
the
hospytall
of
florence
.
And
in
this
wyse
in
to
the
handes
of
oure
sauyoure
he
gaue
vp
his
spiryte
.
How
his
deth
was
taken
.
What
sorowe
and
heuynes
his
departyng
out
of
this
worlde
was
:
both
to
ryche
and
pore
hygh
&
lowe
:
well
testyfyeth
the
prynces
of
Italye
/
well
wytnesseth
the
citees
&
people
/
well
recordeth
the
grete
benygnyte
and
synguler
curtesye
of
Charles
kynge
of
fraunce
/
which
as
he
came
to
florence
entendynge
from
thens
to
Rome
and
so
forth
in
his
vyage
agaynst
the
Realme
of
Naples
herynge
of
the
sykenes
of
Picus
in
all
conuenyent
haste
he
sent
hym
two
of
his
owne
phisicions
as
embassiatours
both
to
viset
hym
and
to
do
hym
all
the
helpe
they
myght
.
And
ouer
that
sent
vnto
hym
letters
susbcribed
with
his
owne
hande
full
of
suche
humanyte
and
courteyse
offres
:
as
the
bene
volent
mynde
of
suche
a
noble
prince
and
the
worthy
vertues
of
Picus
required
.
Of
the
state
of
his
soule
.
AFter
his
deth
(
and
not
longe
after
)
one
hieronimus
a
frere
prechour
of
●errare
a
man
aswell
in
connynge
as
holynes
of
lyuynge
moost
famous
.
In
a
sermone
whiche
he
reherced
in
the
cheyfe
chyrche
〈◊〉
all
florence
sayd
vnto
the
people
in
this
wyse
.
O
thou
Cyte
of
florence
I
haue
a
secrete
thynge
to
shewe
the
which
is
as
true
as
yn
gospell
of
saynt
Iohn
I
wolde
haue
kept
hit
secrete
but
I
am
compelled
to
shewe
hit
.
For
he
that
hathe
auctoryte
to
commaunde
me
/
hath
byd
me
publysshe
hit
.
I
suppose
veryly
that
there
be
none
of
you
but
ye
knewe
Iohn
Picus
erle
of
Mirandula
/
a
man
in
whom
god
had
heped
many
grete
gyftes
and
synguler
graces
/
the
chyrche
had
of
hym
an
inestymable
losse
/
for
I
suppose
yf
he
myght
haue
had
the
space
of
his
lyfe
prorogyd
:
he
sholde
haue
excelled
(
by
suche
workes
as
he
shold
haue
lefte
behynde
him
)
all
them
that
dyed
this
.viij.
C.
yere
before
him
/
he
was
wonte
to
be
conuersaunt
with
me
and
to
breke
to
me
the
secretes
of
his
herte
in
whiche
I
perceyued
that
he
was
by
priuey
inspyraciou
called
of
god
vnto
rely
gion
.
wherfore
he
purposed
oftentymes
to
obey
this
inspyracyon
and
folowe
his
callynge
.
howbehit
not
beynge
kynde
ynoughe
for
so
grete
benefices
of
god
:
or
called
bak
by
the
tendernes
of
his
flesshe
(
as
he
was
a
man
of
delicate
complexion
)
he
shranke
frome
the
laboure
/
or
thinkynge
happely
that
the
religion
had
no
nede
of
hym
differred
hit
for
a
tyme
/
howbehit
this
I
speke
onely
by
coniecture
.
But
for
this
delaye
I
thretened
hym
two
yere
togyther
:
yn
he
wolde
be
punysshed
yf
he
for
slowthed
that
purpose
which
our
lorde
had
put
in
his
mynde
/
&
certeynely
I
prayed
to
god
my sefe
(
I
wyll
not
lye
therfore
)
that
he
myght
be
somwhat
beten
:
to
compell
hym
to
take
that
waye
whiche
god
had
from
aboue
shewed
hym
.
But
I
desyred
not
this
scourge
vpon
hym
that
he
was
beten
with
:
I
loked
not
for
that
:
but
oure
lorde
hadde
so
decreed
that
he
sholde
forsake
this
present
lyfe
and
leue
a
parte
of
that
noble
crowne
that
he
sholde
haue
had
in
heuen
.
Notwithstondyng
the
most
benygne
iuge
hath
dalt
mercyfully
with
him
:
and
for
his
plentyouse
almes
gyuen
out
with
a
free
and
liberall
hande
vnto
poore
people
&
for
the
deuout
prayers
whiche
he
moost
instantly
offred
vnto
god
this
fauoure
he
hath
:
thought
his
soule
be
not
yet
in
the
bosome
of
oure
lorde
in
the
heuenly
Ioye
:
yet
is
hit
not
on
that
other
syde
deputed
vnto
perpetual
payne
but
he
is
adiuged
for
a
whyle
to
the
fyre
of
purgatory
there
to
suffre
payne
for
a
season
/
which
I
am
the
gladder
to
shewe
you
in
this
byhalfe
:
so
the
entent
that
they
which
knewe
hym
:
&
suche
inspectally
as
for
his
many
folde
benyfy●●s
are
singulerly
beholden
vnto
him
:
sholde
now
with
theyr
prayers
almes
&
other
suffrages
helpe
hym
.
These
thynges
this
holy
man
hierom
this
seruaunt
of
god
openly
affermed
/
and
also
sayde
that
he
kn●w
wel
if
helyed
in
that
place
:
he
were
worthy
eternall
dampnacion
.
And
ouer
that
he
sayd
yn
he
had
knowen
all
those
thinges
wythin
a
certain
tyme
/
bu●
the
wordes
which
Picus
had
sayde
in
his
sykenes
of
the
aperyng
of
our
lady
caused
him
to
doubt
&
to
fere
lest
Picus
had
be
deceyued
by
some
illusyon
of
y●
deuyll●
In
as
moch
as
the
ꝓmyse
of
our
lady
semed
to
haue
ben
frustrate
by
his
dethe
/
but
afterward
he
vudersode
that
Picus
was
deceyued
in
the
e●ocacyon
of
the
worde
whyle
she
spake
of
the
seconde
deth
&
euer
lastyng
:
&
he
vndertoke
her
of
the
fyrst
deth
&
temporall
.
And
after
this
the
same
hierom
shewed
to
his
acquayntaunce
that
Picus
had
after
his
deth
apered
vnto
him
all
●paced
in
fire
&
shewed
vnto
him
that
he
was
such
wise
in
purgatorye
punyshed
for
his
neglygence
&
his
vnkyndnes
.
Now
syth
hit
is
so
that
he
is
abiuged
to
the
fyre
from
which
he
shal
vndoubtedly
deꝑt
vnto
glory
&
no
man
is
sure
how
longe
hit
shal
be
fyrst
:
&
may
be
the
shorter
tyme
for
our
intercessyons
.
Let
euery
chrysten
body
shewe
theyr
charite
vpon
hym
to
helpe
to
spede
hym
thyder
where
after
the
longe
habitacion
with
the
inhabytauntes
of
this
derke
worlde
(
to
whom
his
goodly
conuersacion
gaue
grete
lyght
)
&
after
the
darke
fyre
of
purgatory
(
in
whiche
venyall
offences
be
clensed
)
he
may
shortly
(
yf
he
be
not
all
redy
)
entre
the
inaccessible
&
infinite
light
of
heuen
where
he
may
in
y●●sence
of
the
soueraygne
godhed
so
praye
for
vs
that
we
may
the
rather
by
his
in●cession
be
perteyners
of
the
inspecable
Ioy
which
we
haue
prayed
to
bryng
him
spedely
to
.
Amen
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
lyfe
of
Iohn
Picus
erle
of
Mirandula
.
¶
Here
foloweth
thre
epistles
of
the
sayd
Picus
of
which
thre
:
two
be
wryten
vnto
Iohan
Fraunsces
his
neuew
/
the
thyrde
vnto
one
Andrewe
Corneus
a
noble
man
of
Italy
.
¶
The
argument
&
mater
of
the
fyrst
epystle
of
Picus
vnto
his
neuew
Iohan
Fraunsces
.
HIt
apereth
by
this
epistle
that
Iohan
Fraunsces
the
neuew
of
Picus
had
broken
his
mynde
vnto
Picus
and
had
made
hym
of
counceyll
in
some
secrete
godly
purpose
whiche
he
entended
to
take
vpon
hym
/
but
what
this
purpose
sholde
be
:
vpon
this
lettre
can
we
not
fully
perceyue
.
Nowe
after
that
he
thus
entended
/
there
fell
vnto
hym
many
impedunentes
&
diuers
occasyons
whiche
withs●ode
his
entent
and
in
maner
letted
hym
&
pulled
hym
bak
/
wherfore
Picus
conforteth
hym
in
this
epystle
and
exorteth
hym
to
perseueraunce
/
by
suche
meanes
as
are
in
the
epystle
euydent
and
playne
ynough
.
Notwithstondynge
in
the
begynnyng
of
this
lettre
where
he
sayth
that
the
fleshe
shall
(
but
yf
we
take
good
hede
)
make
vs
dronke
in
the
cuppes
of
Cerces
and
mysshappe
vs
in
to
the
lykenes
a
fygure
of
bruyte
beestes
:
those
wordes
yf
ye
perceyue
theym
not
:
be
in
this
wyse
vnderstonden
.
There
was
somtyme
in
a
woman
called
Circes
whiche
by
enchauntemente
as
vyrgyll
maketh
mencyon
vsed
with
a
drynke
to
turne
as
many
men
:
as
receyued
hit
in
to
dyuers
likenes
a
fygures
of
sondrye
beestes
/
some
in
to
lyones
/
some
in
to
beeres
/
some
in
to
swyne
/
some
in
to
wolfes
/
which
afterwarde
walked
euer
tame
aboute
her
house
and
wayted
vpon
her
in
suche
vse
or
seruyce
as
she
lyst
to
put
vnto
them
.
In
lykewyse
the
flesshe
yf
it
make
vs
dronke
in
the
wyne
of
voluptuous
pleasure
or
make
the
soule
leue
the
noble
vse
of
his
reason
&
enclyne
vnto
sensualite
and
affeccions
of
the
body
:
then
the
flesshe
chaungeth
vs
from
the
figure
of
reasonable
men
in
the
lykenes
of
vnreasonable
beestes
/
and
y●
dyuersly
:
after
the
conuenience
&
symylytude
betwene
our
sensuall
affeccyons
and
the
brutysshe
proprytees
of
sondry
beestes
.
As
the
proude
harted
man
in
to
a
lyon
/
the
Irous
in
to
a
beere
/
the
lecherouse
in
to
a
gote
.
The
dronken
gloten
in
to
a
swyne
/
the
rauenous
extorcyoner
in
to
a
wolfe
the
false
desceyuoure
in
to
a
foxe
/
mokkynge
gester
in
to
an
ape
.
From
which
beestly
shappe
may
we
neuer
be
restored
to
our
owne
lykenes
agayn
:
vnto
the
tyme
we
haue
cast
vp
agayne
the
drynke
of
the
bodely
affeccyons
by
which
we
were
in
to
these
fygures
enchaunted
.
Whan
there
cometh
somtyme
a
monstrouse
beest
to
the
towne
we
ronne
and
are
glad
to
paye
some
money
to
haue
syght
therof
/
but
I
fere
yf
men
wolde
loke
vpon
them selfe
aduysedly
:
they
sholde
se
a
more
monstrouse
beest
nerer
home
:
for
they
sholde
perceyue
themselfe
by
the
wretched
inclinacion
to
diuers
beestly
passyons
chaunged
in
theyr
soule
not
in
to
the
shap
of
one
but
of
many
beestes
/
that
is
to
saye
of
all
them
whose
brutysh
appetytes
they
folow
.
Let
vs
then
beware
as
picus
cōcelleth
vs
that
we
be
not
dronken
in
the
cuppes
of
cereꝭ
that
is
to
say
in
the
sensuall
affeccions
of
the
flessh
lest
/
we
deforme
the
image
of
god
in
our
soules
after
whose
image
we
be
made
&
make
our selfe
worse
then
idolatres
for
yf
he
be
odiouse
to
god
whiche
turneth
the
image
of
a
beest
in
to
god
:
how
moche
is
he
more
odious
which
corneth
the
ymage
of
god
in
to
a
beest
.
Iohan
Picus
erle
of
Mirandula
to
Iohan
Fraunsces
his
neuew
by
his
brother
helth
in
hym
that
is
very
helth
.
THat
thou
hast
had
many
euyll
occasyons
after
thy
departynge
which
trouble
the
&
stonde
agaynst
the
vertuouse
purpose
that
thou
hast
taken
there
is
no
cause
my
sone
why
thou
sholdest
eyther
meruayle
therof
/
be
sory
therfore
/
or
drede
hit
/
but
rather
how
grete
a
wondre
were
this
yf
onely
to
the
amonge
mortall
men
the
way
laye
open
to
heuen
with
out
swet
as
thought
that
now
at
erst
/
the
disceytfull
worlde
&
the
cursed
deuyll
fayled
/
&
as
thoughe
thou
were
not
yet
in
the
flesshe
:
which
coueyteth
agaynst
the
spyrite
:
and
which
false
flessh
(
but
yf
we
watche
&
loke
wel
to
ourself
)
shal
make
vs
dronke
in
the
cuppes
of
circes
&
so
deforme
vs
in
to
monstrous
shappes
of
brutyssh
&
vnreasonable
beestes
.
Remembre
also
that
of
this
euyll
occasyons
the
holy
apostle
saynt
Iames
sayth
thou
hast
cause
to
be
glad
writynge
in
this
wyse
.
●
aude●e
fratres
qm
in
temptationes
varias
in
cideritis
.
Be
glad
sayth
he
my
brethren
whan
ye
fall
in
dyuers
temptacions
/
and
not
causeles
for
what
hope
is
there
of
glorye
yf
there
be
none
hope
of
victorye
:
or
what
place
is
there
for
victory
where
there
is
no
batayl
:
he
is
called
to
the
crowne
&
triumphe
whiche
is
ꝓuoked
to
the
conflycte
&
namely
to
that
conflyct
:
in
which
no
man
may
be
ouercom
against
his
will
/
&
in
which
we
nede
none
other
strength
to
vaynquyssh
but
that
we
lyst
our selfe
to
vaynquissh
.
Uery
happy
is
a
christen
man
syth
y●
the
victory
is
bothe
put
in
his
owne
frewyll
:
&
the
rewarde
of
the
vyctory
shal
be
farre
greter
than
we
can
eyther
hope
or
wysshe
.
Tell
me
I
praye
that
my
moost
dere
sone
if
ther
be
ought
in
this
life
of
all
those
thingis
:
the
delite
wherof
so
vexeth
and
tossith
these
erthly
myndes
Is
ther
I
say
oni
of
those
trif●es
:
in
the
geting
of
which
a
man
must
not
suffre
many
labours
many
displeasurs
&
many
miseries
or
he
get
hit
.
The
marchaunt
thinkith
him selfe
well
serued
if
after
.x.
yeres
sailing
/
after
a.m.
incommoditees
/
after
a.m.
Ieopardyes
of
his
lyfe
he
may
at
last
haue
a
litle
the
more
gadered
to gyther
.
Of
the
court
&
seruyce
of
this
worlde
there
is
nothyng
that
I
nede
to
wryte
vnto
the
/
the
wretchednes
wherof
the
experience
hit
selfe
hath
taught
the
&
dayly
techeth
.
In
obtaynyng
the
fauour
of
the
prynces
/
in
purchasynge
the
frendshyp
of
the
company
in
ambicyouse
labour
for
offyces
&
honoures
.
What
an
hepe
of
heuynes
there
is
:
how
grete
anguissh
:
how
moche
besynes
&
trouble
.
I
may
rather
lerne
of
the
then
teche
y●
/
which
holdynge
my self
con●ent
with
my
bokes
&
reste
/
of
a
chylde
haue
lerned
to
lyue
within
my
degree
&
as
moche
as
I
maye
dwellynge
with
my selfe
nothynge
out
of
my self
labour
for
/
or
longe
for
.
Now
then
these
erthly
thynges
slyper
/
vncertayne
/
vyle
&
commune
/
also
to
vs
and
bruyte
beest
:
swetynge
&
pantynge
we
shall
vnneth
obtayne
:
and
loke
we
than
to
heuenly
thynges
&
goodly
(
whiche
neyther
eye
hath
seen
nor
ere
hath
herde
nor
herte
hath
thought
)
to
be
drawen
slumbry
&
slepyng
magrey
our
teth
:
as
though
neyther
god
myght
reygne
nor
those
heuenly
citezyns
lyue
without
vs
.
Certaynely
of
this
worldly
felicite
were
goten
to
vs
with
ydelnes
and
ease
than
myght
some
man
that
shrynketh
frome
labour
:
rather
chese
to
serue
the
worlde
then
god
.
But
now
yf
we
be
for
labored
in
the
waye
of
synne
as
moche
as
in
the
way
of
god
and
moche
more
(
wherof
the
dampned
wretches
crye
out
.
●
assatisumus
in
via
iniquitatis
.
we
be
weryed
in
the
waye
of
wyckednes
)
then
must
it
nedes
be
apoynte
of
extreme
madnes
yf
we
had
not
leuer
labour
there
where
we
go
from
labour
to
rewarde
then
where
we
go
from
labour
to
payne
.
I
passe
ouer
how
grete
peace
&
felycite
hit
is
to
the
mynde
whan
a
man
hath
nothinge
that
grudgeth
his
conscience
nor
is
not
appaled
with
the
secrete
twiche
of
ony
preuye
cryme●
this
pleasure
vndoubtedly
farre
excelleth
all
the
pleasurs
that
in
this
lyfe
may
be
obteyned
or
desyred
:
what
thyng
is
there
to
be
desyred
amonge
the
delytes
of
this
worlde
?
which
in
the
sekynge
wery
vs
/
in
the
hauynge
blyndeth
vs
/
in
the
lesyng
payneth
bs.
Doubtest
y●
my
sone
whether
the
myndes
of
wycked
men
be
vexed
or
not
with
contynuall
thought
and
torment
:
hit
is
the
worde
of
god
whiche
neyther
maye
deceyue
nor
be
deceyuer
Cor
impij
quasi
mare
feruens
quod
quicscere
non
potest
.
The
wycked
mannes
herte
is
lyke
a
stormy
see
that
maye
not
rest
/
there
is
to
him
nothynge
sure
/
nothyng
peseable
but
all
thynge
ferefull
/
all
thynge
sorowfull
/
all
thyng
deedly
.
Shall
we
then
enuye
these
men
:
shall
we
folow
them
:
&
forgetynge
our
owne
countre
heuen
/
&
our
owne
heuenly
father
where
we
were
/
free
borne
:
shall
we
wylfully
make
our selfe
theyr
bondemen
:
&
with
them
wretchedly
lyuyng
:
more
wretchedly
dye
.
And
at
the
last
moost
wretchedly
in
euerlastyng
fyre
be
punisshed
.
O
the
derke
myndes
of
men
.
O
the
blynde
hertes
.
Who
seyth
not
more
clere
than
lyght
that
all
these
thynges
be
(
as
they
say
)
truer
than
trueth
hit
self
/
&
yet
do
we
not
that
that
we
knowe
is
to
be
done
.
In
vayne
we
wolde
pluk
our
fote
out
of
the
clay
but
we
styk
styll
.
There
shall
come
to
the
my
sone
doubte
hit
not
(
in
these
places
namely
where
thou
art
conuersaunt
innumerable
impedimentes
euery
hour
:
which
myght
fere
the
frome
the
purpose
of
good
and
vertuouse
lyuynge
(
&
but
yf
thou
be
ware
)
shall
throwe
the
downe
hedlynge
.
But
amonge
all
thynges
the
very
deedly
pestylence
is
this
:
to
be
conuersaunt
daye
and
nyght
among
them
whose
lyfe
is
not
onely
on
euery
syde
an
allectyue
to
synne
:
but
ouer
that
all
set
in
the
expugnacion
of
vertue
/
vnder
theyr
capitayne
the
deuyll
/
vnder
the
banayre
of
deth
/
vnder
the
stipende
of
hell
/
fightynge
agaynst
heuen
/
agaynst
our
lorde
god
and
agaynst
his
chyrch
.
But
crye
thou
therfore
with
the
prophete
.
Dirum
pamus
vincula
corum
&
proijciamus
a
nobis
iugum
ipsorum
.
Let
vs
breke
the
bandes
of
them
and
let
vs
cast
of
the
yooke
of
them
.
These
be
they
whom
(
as
the
gloriouse
apostle
saynt
Paule
seith
)
our
lorde
hath
delyuered
in
to
the
passyons
of
rebuke
and
to
a
reprouable
sense
to
do
those
thynges
that
are
not
conuenyente
/
full
of
all
iniquite
/
full
of
enuye
/
manslaughter
/
contenton
/
gyle
/
&
malice
/
backbiters
odiouse
to
god
●tumeliouse
proude
/
stately
/
fynders
of
euell
thynges
/
folysshe
/
dissolute
/
without
affecion
without
couenaunt
/
without
merry
whiche
whan
they
dayely
the
iustice
of
god
/
yet
vnderstonde
they
not
that
suche
as
these
thynges
commytte
:
are
worthy
deth
/
not
onely
they
that
do
suche
thynges
:
but
also
they
which
consent
to
the
doynge
:
wherfore
my
chylde
go
thou
neuer
about
to
please
them
:
whome
vertue
displeaseth
/
but
euermore
let
these
wordes
of
the
apostyll
be
before
thyn
eyen
.
O
porter
magis
deo
placere
qd
hominibus
.
We
must
rather
please
god
then
men
/
and
rembēbre
these
wordes
of
saynt
Paule
also
.
Sihominibus
placerem
●eruus
christi
non
essem
If
I
sholde
please
men
I
were
not
christes
seruaunt
.
Let
entre
to
thyn
herte
an
holy
pryde
&
haue
dysdayne
to
take
them
for
maysters
of
thy
lyuynge
whiche
haue
more
nede
to
take
y●
for
a
maister
of
theyrs
.
Hit
were
farre
more
semynge
that
they
sholde
with
that
by
good
lyuynge
begyn
to
be
men
then
thou
sholdest
with
them
by
the
leuynge
of
the
good
purpose
shamfully
begyn
to
be
a
best
.
There
holdeth
me
somtyme
by
almyghty
god
as
hit
were
euen
a
swone
and
〈◊〉
insensibilite
for
wondre
when
I
begyn
in
my selfe
:
I
wot
neuer
whether
I
shall
sey
:
to
remembre
or
to
sorowe
/
to
meruayule
or
to
bewayle
the
apetytes
of
men
/
or
yf
I
shall
more
playnly
speke
:
the
very
madnes
not
to
beleue
the
gospell
whose
trouthe
the
blode
of
marters
cryeth
/
the
voyce
of
apostles
sowneth
/
miracles
proueth
/
reason
confermeth
/
the
worlde
testifyeth
/
the
elementes
speketh
/
deuylles
confesseth
.
But
a
ferre
gr●●●●
madness
is
hit
yf
thou
doubt
not
but
that
the
gospell
is
true
:
to
lyue
then
as
though
thou
doubtest
not
but
that
hit
were
false
.
For
yf
these
wordes
of
the
wordes
of
the
gospell
be
true
/
that
hit
is
very
harde
for
〈…〉
kyngedome
of
heuen
why
do
we
dayly
th●●
gape
after
the
hepynge
vp
of
riches
.
And
yf
this
be
true
that
we
sholde
seke
for
the
glorye
and
prayse
not
that
cometh
of
men
/
but
that
cometh
of
god
/
why
do
we
then
euer
hange
vpon
the
iugement
&
opinyon
of
men
and
no
man
rekketh
whether
god
lyke
hym
or
not
.
And
yf
we
surely
beleue
y●
ones
the
tyme
shall
come
in
whiche
our
lorde
shall
saye
go
ye
cursed
people
in
to
eueuerlastynge
fyre
/
&
agayne
come
ye
my
blessed
chyldren
possede
ye
the
kyngdome
that
hath
ben
prepared
for
you
from
the
fourmynge
of
the
world
/
why
is
there
nothyng
then
that
we
lesse
fere
then
hell
or
that
we
lesse
hope
for
then
the
kyngedome
of
god
.
What
shall
we
say
elles
but
that
there
be
many
chrysten
men
in
name
but
fewe
in
dede
.
But
thou
my
sone
enforce
thy selfe
to
entre
by
the
streygh
gate
that
ledeth
to
heuen
&
take
no
hede
what
thynge
many
men
do
:
but
what
thyng
the
verey
law
of
nature
/
what
thyng
very
reason
what
thynge
our
lorde
him
selfe
sheweth
y●
to
be
done
for
neyther
thy
glory
shal
be
lesse
yf
y●
be
happy
with
fewe
nor
thy
payne
more
easy
yf
y●
be
wretched
with
many
.
Thou
shalt
hour
.ij.
specyally
effectuall
remedyes
agaynst
the
worlde
&
the
deuyll
with
whiche
two
as
with
.ij.
whynges
:
thou
shalt
out
of
this
vale
of
miserye
be
lyfte
vp
in
heuen
/
that
is
to
saye
almes
dede
&
prayer
/
what
maye
we
do
without
the
helpe
of
god
or
how
shall
he
helpe
vs
yf
he
be
not
called
vpon
.
But
ouer
that
certaynely
he
shall
not
here
the
whan
thou
callest
on
hym
yf
thou
here
not
fyrst
the
pore
man
whai
.
he
calleth
vpon
y●
and
verely
hit
is
accordynge
that
god
sholde
despyse
the
beynge
a
man
whan
thou
beynge
a
man
despysest
a
man
.
For
hit
is
wryten
in
what
mesure
that
ye
mete
:
hit
shall
be
mete
you
agayne
And
in
an
other
place
of
the
gospell
hit
is
sayd
blyssed
be
mercyfull
men
for
they
shall
gete
mercy
/
whan
I
styre
the
to
prayer
I
styre
y●
not
to
the
prayer
whiche
stondeth
in
many
wordes
but
to
that
prayer
whiche
in
the
secrete
chambre
of
the
mynde
/
in
the
preuy
closet
of
the
soule
with
very
affecte
speketh
to
god
and
in
the
moost
lyghtsome
darkenes
of
contemplacion
not
onely
presenteth
the
mynde
to
the
father
:
but
also
vnteth
hit
with
him
by
inspekable
wayes
which
onely
they
knowe
that
haue
assayed
.
Nor
I
care
not
how
longe
or
how
short
thy
prayer
be
/
but
how
effectuall
how
ardente
and
rather
interrupted
&
broken
betwene
with
sighes
then
drawen
on
length
with
a
contynuall
rowe
&
nombre
of
wordes
/
yf
thou
loue
thyne
helth
yf
thou
desyre
to
be
sure
from
the
grennes
of
the
deuyll
/
frome
the
stormes
of
this
worlde
/
frome
th
awayte
of
thyn
enemyes
yf
y●
long
to
be
acceptable
to
god
yf
thou
coueyte
to
be
happy
at
the
last
:
let
no
day
passe
the
but
thou
ones
at
the
lestwise
present
thy selfe
to
god
by
prayer
and
fallyng
downe
before
hym
flat
to
the
grounde
with
an
humble
affecte
of
deuout
mynde
not
frome
the
extremyte
of
thy
lippes
but
out
of
the
inwardnes
of
thyn
herte
cry
these
wordes
of
the
prophete
.
Delicta
iuuentutis
mee
ignorantias
meas
ne
meminer●s
sed
secundum
misericordiam
tuam
memento
mei
ꝓpter
bonitatem
tuam
dne
.
The
effences
of
my
youth
and
myn
ignoraunces
remembre
not
good
lorde
/
but
after
thy
mercy
lorde
for
thy
goodnes
remembre
me
.
whan
y●
shalt
in
thy
prayer
axe
of
god
:
both
the
holy
spyryte
which
prayeth
for
vs
&
eke
thyn
owne
necessyte
shall
euery
houre
put
in
thy
mynde
/
&
also
what
thou
shalte
praye
for
:
thou
shall
fynde
mater
ynough
in
the
redynge
of
holy
scrypture
which
that
thou
woldest
now
(
settynge
poetes
fables
&
tryfles
a
syde
)
take
euer
in
thyn
hand
I
hartly
pray
y●
.
Thou
mayst
do
nothynge
more
pleasaunte
to
god
nothynge
more
profitable
to
thy selfe
:
then
yf
thyn
hande
cease
not
day
nor
nyght
to
turne
and
rede
the
volumes
of
holy
scrypture
.
There
lyeth
pryuely
in
them
a
certayn
heuenly
strength
quyk
and
effectual
with
a
merueylous
power
transfourmeth
&
chaungeth
the
reders
mynde
in
to
the
loue
of
god
yf
they
be
clene
and
lowly
entreated
.
But
I
haue
passed
nowe
the
boundes
of
lettre
/
the
mater
drawynge
me
forth
&
the
grete
loue
that
I
haue
had
to
the
/
bothe
euer
before
:
&
specyally
:
syth
the
houre
in
which
I
haue
had
fyrst
knowledge
of
thy
moost
holy
purpose
.
Now
to
make
an
ende
with
this
one
thynge
I
warne
y●
(
of
which
whan
we
were
last
togyther
I
often
talked
with
y●
)
that
y●
neuer
forget
these
.ij.
thynges
/
that
both
the
sone
of
god
dyed
for
y●
&
that
thou
shalt
also
thy selfe
dye
shortly
lyue
that
neuer
so
longe
/
with
these
twayne
as
with
two
spurres
y●
one
of
fere
that
other
of
loue
:
spurre
forthe
thyn
hors
thorugh
the
shorte
way
of
this
momentarye
lyfe
to
the
rewarde
of
eternall
felicyte
syth
we
neyther
ought
nor
maye
prefexe
our selfe
onye
other
ende
than
the
endles
fruycion
of
the
infinite
goodnes
bothe
to
soule
&
body
in
euerlastynge
peace
.
Fare
well
and
fere
god
.
The
mater
or
argument
of
the
epistle
of
Picus
to
Andrewe
Corncus
.
THis
Andrewe
a
worshypfull
man
and
a
especiall
frende
of
Picus
hadde
by
his
lettres
gyuen
hym
counceyll
to
leue
the
study
of
phylosophy
as
a
thynge
in
which
he
thought
Picus
to
haue
spent
tyme
ynough
&
whiche
:
but
yf
it
were
applyed
to
the
vse
of
some
actuall
besmes
:
he
iuged
a
thyng
vayne
&
vnprofytable
/
wherfore
he
counceyled
Pycus
to
surceace
of
study
and
put
hym selfe
with
some
of
the
grete
prynces
of
Italy
/
with
whome
(
as
this
Andrew
sayd
)
he
sholde
be
moche
more
fruytefully
occupyed
than
alway
in
the
studye
&
lernyng
of
philosophye
/
to
whom
Picus
answered
as
in
this
present
epestle
appereth
where
he
sayth
these
wordes
(
By
this
hit
shold
folowe
y●
hit
were
eyther
seruyle
or
at
the
lestwyse
not
pryncely
to
make
the
study
of
phylosophy
other
then
mercennari
)
thus
he
meaneth
.
Mercennary
we
cal
all
those
thinges
whiche
we
do
for
hyre
or
rewarde
.
Then
he
maketh
philosophy
mercennary
&
vseth
hit
not
as
connynge
but
as
marchaundyse
whiche
studyeth
hit
not
for
pleasure
of
hit
selfe
:
or
for
the
instruccyon
of
his
mynde
in
mortall
vertue
:
but
to
applye
hit
to
suche
thynges
where
he
may
get
some
lucre
or
worldly
aduauntage
.
Iohan
Picus
erle
of
Myrandula
to
Andrewe
Corneus
gretynge
.
Ye
exhorte
me
by
your
letters
to
the
cyuyle
and
actyue
lyfe
sayenge
that
in
vayne
:
and
in
maner
to
my
rebuke
&
shame
haue
I
so
longe
studyed
in
philosophy
.
But
yf
I
wolde
at
the
last
excercise
the
lernynge
in
the
entretynge
of
some
ꝓfitable
actes
&
outwarde
bysynes
.
Certaynly
my
welbeloued
Andrewe
I
had
cast
awaye
bothe
cost
and
laboure
of
my
study
:
yf
I
were
to
mynded
that
I
coude
fynde
in
my
herte
in
this
mater
to
assent
vnto
you
&
folowe
your
councell
.
This
is
a
very
deedly
and
monstrous
persuacyon
which
hath
entred
the
myndes
of
men
:
beleuynge
that
the
studyes
of
phylosophye
are
of
estates
&
prynces
:
eyther
vtterly
not
to
be
touched
:
or
at
lest
wise
with
extreme
lyppes
to
be
sypped
(
and
rather
to
the
pompe
&
ostentacion
of
theyr
wit
)
then
to
the
culture
&
ꝓfyte
of
theyr
myndes
to
be
lytel
&
easely
tasted
.
The
wordes
of
Neoptolentus
they
holde
vtterly
for
a
sure
decree
that
phylosophy
is
to
be
studyed
eyther
neuer
or
not
longe
/
but
the
sayenges
of
wyse
men
they
repute
for
I
apes
&
v●ry
fables
:
that
sure
&
stedfast
felicite
stondeth
onely
in
the
goodnes
of
the
mynde
&
that
these
outwarde
thynges
of
the
body
or
of
fortune
lytle
or
nought
pertayne
vnto
vs
.
But
here
ye
wyll
saye
to
me
thus
.
I
am
contente
ye
studye
/
but
I
wolde
haue
you
outwardly
occupyed
also
.
Ind
I
desyre
you
not
so
to
embrace
martha
that
ye
sholde
vtterly
forsake
Mary
.
Loue
them
&
vse
them
both
aswell
study
as
worldly
occupacion
.
Trewly
my
welbe
loued
frende
in
this
poynt
I
gayne
sey
you
not
/
they
that
so
do
I
fynde
no
fault
in
nor
I
blame
them
not
/
but
certaynly
hit
is
not
all
one
to
sey
we
do
well
yf
we
do
so
:
and
to
sey
me
do
euyll
but
yf
we
do
so
/
this
is
farre
out
of
the
way
:
to
think
that
from
contemplacyon
to
the
actyse
lyuing
that
is
to
sey
from
the
better
to
the
worse
is
none
errour
to
declyne
And
to
thynke
that
it
were
shame
to
abyde
styll
in
the
better
and
not
declyne
.
Shall
a
man
then
be
rebuked
by
cause
that
he
desyryth
and
ensueth
vertue
only
for
hit
selfe
:
by
cause
he
studyeth
the
mysteryes
of
god
:
by
cause
he
ensercheth
the
counceyll
of
nature
by
cause
he
vseth
continually
this
plesaunt
ease
&
rest
:
sekynge
none
outwarde
thyng
dispising
all
other
thynge
:
sych
those
thynges
are
able
suffyciently
to
satisfye
the
desyre
of
theyr
folowers
.
By
this
rakenynge
hit
is
a
thynge
eyther
seruyle
or
at
the
lest
wise
not
princely
to
make
the
study
of
wysdom
other
then
mercēnarye
/
who
may
well
here
this
who
may
suffre
hit
.
Certaynly
he
neuer
studyed
for
wysedome
which
so
studied
therfore
that
in
tyme
to
come
eyther
he
myght
not
or
wolde
not
study
therfore
/
this
man
rather
excercised
the
study
of
marchaundyse
then
of
wysedom
.
Ye
wryte
vnto
me
that
hit
is
tyme
for
me
now
to
put
my selfe
in
houshoulde
with
some
of
the
grete
prynces
of
Italy
but
I
se
well
that
as
yet
ye
haue
not
knowen
the
opynion
that
phylosophres
haue
of
them selfe
which
(
as
horace
sayth
)
repute
them selfe
kynges
of
kinges
:
they
loue
lyberte
:
they
can
not
bere
the
proud
maners
of
estates
:
they
can
not
serue
.
They
dwell
with
them selfe
and
be
content
with
the
tranquyllyte
of
theyr
owne
mynde
they
suffyce
them selfe
&
more
/
they
seke
nothynge
out
of
them selfe
:
the
thynges
that
are
had
in
honoure
amonge
the
conmune
people
:
amonge
them
be
not
holden
honourable
.
All
that
euer
the
voluptuouse
desyre
of
men
thyrsteth
for
:
or
ambycyon
sygheth
for
:
they
set
at
nought
&
despise
.
Which
while
hit
belongeth
to
all
men
:
yet
vndoubtedly
it
perteyneth
moost
proprely
to
them
whome
fortune
hath
so
lyberaly
fauoured
that
they
may
lyue
not
onely
well
and
plenteously
but
also
nobly
.
These
grete
fortunes
lyft
vp
a
man
hye
and
setteh
hym
out
to
the
shewe
:
but
oftentymes
as
a
fyerse
and
a
skyttyssh
hors
they
cast
of
theyr
mayster
.
Certeynly
alway
they
greue
and
vexe
hym
and
rather
tere
hym
then
bere
hym
.
The
golden
mediocrite
the
meane
estate
is
to
be
desyred
whiche
shall
bere
vs
as
hit
were
in
handes
more
easeli
.
which
shall
obey
vs
&
not
maystre
vs
.
I
therfore
abydyng
fermely
in
this
opynyon
:
set
more
by
my
litle
house
my
study
the
pleasure
of
my
bokes
/
the
rest
and
peace
of
my
mynde
:
then
by
all
your
kynges
palaces
all
your
commune
besynes
/
all
your
glory
/
all
the
aduauntage
that
ye
hawke
after
and
all
the
fauoure
of
the
court
.
Nor
I
loke
not
for
this
fruyte
of
my
study
that
I
may
therby
herafter
be
tossed
in
the
flode
and
rombelyng
of
your
worldly
besynesse
:
but
that
I
may
ones
bryng
forth
the
chyldren
that
I
trauayle
on
:
that
I
may
gyue
out
some
bokes
of
my
nowne
to
the
commune
proffyte
which
may
sumwhat
sauour
:
yf
not
of
connyng
yet
at
the
lest
wyse
of
wyt
and
dylygence
.
And
by
cause
ye
shall
not
thynk
that
my
trauayle
&
dyligence
in
study
is
ony
thyng
remytted
or
slakked
.
I
gyue
you
knowledge
that
after
grete
feruent
labour
with
moch
watch
and
infatygable
trauayle
I
haue
lerned
both
the
he
brew
language
and
the
chaldey
and
now
haue
I
set
hande
to
ouercome
the
grete
dyffyculte
of
the
Araby
tonge
.
These
my
dere
frende
be
thynges
:
whiche
to
apertaine
to
a
noble
prynce
I
haue
euer
thought
and
yet
thynke
.
Fare
ye
well
.
wryten
at
Paris
the
.xv.
daye
of
Octobre
the
yere
of
grace
.
M.
CCCClxxxxij
.
The
argument
of
the
epystle
folowynge
.
AFter
that
Iohan
Fraunsces
the
neuew
of
Picus
had
(
as
hit
apereth
in
the
fyrst
epistle
of
Picus
to
hym
)
begon
a
chaunge
in
his
lyuynge
:
hit
semeth
by
this
lettre
that
the
company
of
the
court
where
he
was
conuersaunt
diuersly
(
as
hit
is
there
vnmanerly
maner
)
descanted
therof
to
his
rebuke
as
them
thought
:
but
as
trueth
was
vnto
theyr
owne
.
Some
of
them
iuged
hit
foly
/
some
called
hit
ypocresy
/
some
scorned
him
/
some
sclaundred
hym
/
of
all
whiche
demeanour
(
as
we
maye
of
this
epistle
coniecture
)
he
wrote
vnto
this
erle
Picus
his
vncle
whiche
in
this
lettre
conforted
&
encourageth
him
as
hit
is
in
the
course
therof
euydent
.
Iohan
Picus
erle
of
Myrandula
to
Fraunsces
his
neuew
gretynge
in
our
lorde
.
HAppy
art
thou
my
sone
whan
that
oure
lorde
not
onely
gyueth
the
grace
wel
to
lyue
but
also
that
whyle
thou
lyuest
wel
he
gyueth
the
grace
to
bere
euyl
wordes
of
euyll
people
for
thy
lyuynge
well
.
Certaynly
as
grete
a
prayse
as
hit
is
to
be
commended
of
them
that
are
commendable
as
grete
a
commendacion
it
is
to
be
reproued
of
them
that
are
reprouable
.
Notwithstondynge
my
sone
I
call
the
not
therfor
happy
by
cause
this
fals
reprofe
is
worshypfull
&
gloryous
vnto
the
/
but
for
bycause
that
our
lorde
Iesu
chryst
(
which
is
not
onely
true
but
also
trueth
hit
selfe
)
affermeth
that
oure
rewarde
shall
be
plenteous
in
heuen
when
men
speke
euyll
to
vs
&
speke
all
euyll
agaynst
vs
lyuynge
for
his
name
.
This
is
an
Apostles
dignyte
:
to
be
reputed
dygne
afore
god
to
be
defamed
of
wykked
folke
for
his
name
.
For
we
rede
in
the
gospell
of
luke
that
the
appostles
went
ioyfull
and
glad
frome
the
counseill
house
of
the
iewes
bycause
god
had
accepted
theym
as
worthy
to
suffre
wronge
and
repreffe
for
his
sake
.
Let
vs
therfore
Ioye
and
be
glad
yf
we
be
worthy
so
grete
worshyp
before
god
that
his
worshyp
be
shewed
in
our
rebuke
.
And
yf
we
suffre
of
the
world
ony
thyng
that
is
greuous
or
bytter
:
let
this
swete
voyce
of
our
lorde
be
our
consolacion
.
Simundus
vos
odio
habet
scitote
●priorē
me
vobis
habuit
.
Yf
the
worlde
(
sayth
our
lorde
)
hate
you
:
knowe
ye
y●
hit
hated
me
before
you
.
If
the
worlde
then
hated
him
by
whome
the
worlde
was
made
:
we
moost
vyle
&
simple
men
and
worthy
(
yf
we
consydre
out
wreched
lyuynge
well
)
all
shame
&
reproufe
:
yf
folke
bakbyte
vs
&
saye
euyll
of
vs
:
shall
we
so
greuously
take
hit
y●
lest
they
shold
say
euyll
we
sholde
begyn
to
do
euyll
.
Let
vs
rather
gladly
receyue
these
euyl
wordes
and
yf
we
be
not
so
happy
to
suffre
for
vertue
&
trueth
as
the
olde
seyntes
suffred
betynges
/
byndynges
/
pryson
/
swerdes
/
&
deth
.
Let
vs
thynke
at
the
lest
wise
we
be
well
serued
yf
we
haue
the
grace
to
suffre
chydynge
/
detraccion
/
&
hatred
of
wikked
men
/
lest
that
yf
all
occasion
of
deseruynge
be
taken
awaye
ther
be
lefte
vs
none
hope
of
rewarde
/
yf
men
for
thy
good
lyuynge
prayse
the
:
thy
vertue
certaynly
in
y●
hit
is
vertue
maketh
the
lyke
vnto
chryst
:
but
in
that
hit
is
praysed
hit
maketh
the
vnlike
him
:
which
for
the
reward
of
his
vertue
receyued
the
opprobryouse
deth
of
the
crosse
for
which
as
the
apopstle
sayth
god
hath
exalted
hym
and
gyuen
hym
a
name
that
is
aboue
all
names
.
More
desyrefull
is
than
to
be
condempned
of
the
worlde
and
exalted
of
god
then
to
be
exalte●
of
the
worlde
and
condempned
of
god
/
the
worlde
condemneth
to
lyfe
:
god
exalteth
to
glorye
:
the
worlde
exateth
to
a
fall
/
god
condempneth
to
the
iyre
of
hell
/
fynably
yf
the
worlde
fawne
vpon
y●
:
vnneth
hit
may
be
but
that
thy
vertue
(
which
all
lyfte
vpwarde
sholde
haue
god
alone
to
please
)
shall
somwhat
vnto
the
blandisshynge
of
the
worlde
&
fauoure
of
the
people
inclyne
.
And
so
thoughe
hit
lese
nothynge
of
the
integrite
of
our
perfeccion
yet
hit
leseth
of
the
rewarde
which
reward
whyle
hit
begynneth
to
be
payde
in
the
worlde
where
all
thynge
is
lytle
hit
shal
be
lesse
in
heuen
where
al
thing
is
grete
.
O
happy
rebukes
which
make
vs
sure
:
that
neither
the
floure
of
our
vertue
shall
wyther
with
the
pestile●t
blast
of
vaynglorye
:
nor
our
eternall
rewarde
be
mynysshed
for
the
vayn
promocion
of
a
lytell
populate
fame
.
Let
vs
my
sone
loue
these
rebukes
&
onely
of
the
ignomynye
and
reprefe
of
our
lordes
crosse
.
Let
vs
lyke
feythfull
seruauntes
with
an
holy
ambyeyon
be
proude
.
we
(
sayth
saynt
Paule
)
preche
chryst
cruci●yed
which
is
vnto
the
iewes
dispite
/
vnto
the
gentyles
foly
/
vnto
vs
the
vertue
and
wysedom
of
god
.
The
wysdom
of
this
worlde
is
folysshnes
afore
god
&
the
foly
of
chryst
is
y●
:
by
which
he
hath
ouercome
the
wysedom
of
the
worlde
by
whiche
hit
hath
pleased
god
to
make
his
beliuyng
people
safe
.
If
that
thou
doubte
not
but
that
they
be
madde
whiche
bakbite
thy
vertue
:
which
:
the
chrysten
lyuynge
that
is
very
wisedom
reputeth
for
madnes
/
●sidre
than
how
moche
were
thy
madnes
:
yf
thou
sholdest
for
the
iugement
of
madde
men
swarue
frome
the
good
institucion
of
thy
lyfe
namely
sith
all
errour
is
with
amendement
to
be
taken
awaye
&
not
with
imitation
&
folowynge
to
be
encreaced
.
Let
theym
therfore
nyghe
/
let
theym
bawl
/
let
them
karke
/
go
thou
baldely
forth
thy
iourney
as
thou
hast
begone
and
of
the
wyckednes
&
mysery
considre
how
moche
thy selfe
arte
beholden
to
god
whiche
hath
illumined
the
syttynge
in
the
shadowe
of
dethe
and
translatynge
the
out
of
the
company
of
them
(
which
lyke
dronken
men
with
out
aguyde
wandre
hyther
and
thyther
in
obscure
derkenes
)
hath
associate
the
to
the
chyldren
of
lyght
.
Let
that
same
swete
voyce
of
our
lorde
alwaye
sowne
in
thyn
eres
.
Sine
mortuos
sepclire
mortuos
suos
tu
me
sequere
.
Let
deed
men
alone
with
deed
men
:
folowe
thou
me
/
deed
be
they
that
lyue
not
to
god
and
in
the
space
of
this
temporall
dethe
laboryously
purchase
them selfe
eternall
deth
.
Of
whom
yf
y●
axe
wherto
they
drawe
:
wherto
they
referre
theyr
studyes
/
theyr
werkes
&
theyr
besynes
&
fynally
what
ende
they
haue
appoynted
them selfe
in
the
adopcyon
wherof
they
sholde
be
happy
/
eyther
they
shall
haue
vtterly
nothynge
to
answere
/
or
they
shall
bryng
forth
wordes
repugnaunt
in
them self
&
contrary
eche
to
other
lyke
the
rauynge
of
bedelem
people
.
Nor
they
wot
neuer
them selfe
what
they
do
but
lyke
them
that
swyme
in
swyfte
flodes
they
be
borne
forth
with
the
violence
of
euyll
custom
as
hit
were
with
the
boystious
course
of
the
streme
.
And
theyr
wikkednes
blyndynge
them
on
this
syde
:
&
the
deuyl
prikkynge
them
forwarde
on
that
syde
:
they
renne
for
the
hedlyng
in
to
all
mischiefe
.
As
blynde
guydes
of
blynde
men
/
tyll
that
dethe
set
on
them
vnware
&
tyll
that
hit
be
sayd
vnto
them
that
chryst
sayth
in
the
gospell
my
frende
this
nyght
the
deuylles
shall
take
thy
soule
frome
the
:
these
goodes
then
that
thou
haste
gedered
whose
shall
they
be
.
Then
shall
they
enuy
them
whom
they
despised
.
Then
shal
they
commend
them
that
they
mokked
then
shall
they
coueyte
to
ensew
them
in
lyuyng
whan
they
may
not
:
whom
whan
they
myght
haue
ensewed
they
pursewed
/
stop
therfore
thyn
eres
my
moost
dere
sone
&
what
so
euer
men
sey
of
that
what
so
euer
men
thynke
on
the
accompt
hit
for
nothynge
/
but
regarde
onely
the
iugement
of
god
which
shall
yelde
euery
man
after
his
owne
werkes
when
he
shall
shewe
hym selfe
frome
heuen
with
the
aungels
of
his
vertue
:
in
flame
of
fyre
doynge
vengeaunce
vpon
them
that
haue
not
knowen
god
nor
obeyed
his
gospell
wich
(
as
the
apostle
seyth
)
shal
suffre
in
deth
eternall
peyn
.
From
the
face
of
our
lorde
&
frome
the
glory
of
his
vertue
whan
he
shall
come
to
be
gloryed
of
his
seyntes
&
to
be
made
merueylous
in
all
them
that
haue
beleued
.
Hit
is
wryten
.
Qolite
timere
qui
corpus
possunt
occidere
sed
qui
animam
potest
mittere
in
gehennam
.
Fere
not
them
(
seyth
our
lorde
)
that
may
slethe
body
:
but
fere
hym
that
may
cast
the
soule
in
to
helle
.
How
moche
lesse
then
be
they
to
be
fered
:
that
may
neyther
hurt
soule
nor
body
which
yf
they
now
bakbyte
y●
lyunnge
vertuously
they
shall
do
the
same
neuer
the
lesse
:
yf
(
vertue
forsaken
)
thou
were
ouer
whelmed
with
vyce
not
for
the
vyce
displeaseth
them
but
for
y●
the
vyce
of
bakbytynge
alway
pleaseth
them
flee
yf
thou
loue
thyn
helth
flee
as
ferre
as
thou
mayst
theyr
companye
/
and
retournynge
to
thy selfe
oftentymes
secretly
pray
vnto
the
moost
benygne
father
of
heuen
cryenge
with
the
prophete
.
Adtedn̄e
leuaui
animam
meam
deus
meus
in
te
confido
non
erubescam
etiam
si
irrideant
me
inimici
mei
etenim
vniuersi
qui
sperant
in
●e
non
confunde●r̄
.
Cōfundantur
miqua
agentes
suꝑuacue
.
vias
tuas
dne
demonstra
mihi
et
semitas
tuas
edoce
me
.
dirige
me
in
veritate
tua
et
doce
me
quia
tu
es
deus
saluator
meus
et
in
te
sperabo
tota
die
.
That
is
to
saye
.
To
the
lorde
I
lyfte
vp
my
soule
in
the
I
trust
I
shall
not
be
shamed
&
thoughe
myne
enemies
mok
me
.
Certaynly
all
they
that
trust
in
the
shall
not
be
a
shamed
.
Let
them
be
a
shamed
that
worke
wyckednes
in
vayne
.
Thy
weyes
good
lorde
shewe
me
and
thy
pathes
teche
me
directe
me
in
thy
trueth
and
teche
me
for
thou
arte
god
my
sauyoure
in
the
shall
I
trust
all
the
daye
.
Remembre
also
my
sone
that
the
dethe
lyeth
at
hande
.
Remember
that
all
the
tyme
of
our
lyfe
is
but
a
moment
&
yet
lesse
than
a
moment
Remembre
how
cursed
our
olde
enemy
is
:
whiche
offereth
vs
the
kyngdomes
of
this
world
that
he
myght
beryue
vs
the
kyngdome
of
heuen
/
how
false
the
flesshly
plesures
:
which
therfore
embrace
vs
that
they
might
strangle
vs
.
how
disceyteful
these
worldly
honoures
:
which
therfore
lyfte
vs
vp
:
that
they
myght
throwe
vs
downe
/
how
deedly
these
rychesses
:
whiche
the
more
they
fede
vs
:
the
more
they
poyson
vs
/
how
shorte
how
vncertayne
how
shadowe
like
false
ymaginary
hit
is
that
all
these
thynges
togyther
may
brynge
vs
:
&
though
they
flowe
to
vs
as
we
wolde
wyssh
them
.
Remember
agayne
how
grete
thynges
be
ꝓmysed
and
prepared
for
them
:
which
●ispisynge
these
present
thynges
desire
and
longe
for
that
countre
whose
kynge
is
the
godheed
/
whose
law
is
charite
/
whose
mesure
is
etnite
.
Occupi
thy
mynde
with
these
meditacyons
and
suche
other
that
may
waken
the
when
thou
slepest
/
kyndle
that
when
thou
waxes
colde
/
conferme
the
when
thou
wauerest
&
exhibit
the
whynges
of
the
loue
of
god
whyle
thou
laborest
to
heuenwarde
that
whan
thou
comest
home
to
vs
(
which
with
grete
desyre
we
loke
for
)
we
may
se
not
onely
him
that
we
coueyte
but
also
suche
a
maner
one
as
we
coueyte
.
Fare
well
and
loue
god
whom
of
olde
thou
hast
begon
to
fere
.
At
ferare
the
.ij.
day
of
Iuly
the
yere
of
our
redempcion
.
M.
CCCC.lxxxxij
.
¶
The
interpretacion
of
Iohan
Picus
vpon
this
psalme
Conserua
me
domine
.
COnserua
me
dne
qm
speraui
in
te
.
Dixi
domino
deus
meus
es
tu
qm
bonorum
meorum
non
eges
Sanctis
q
sunt
in
terra
mirificauit
voluntates
suas
.
Multiplicate
sunt
infirmitates
postea
accelerauerunt
.
Non
congregabo
conuenticula
eorum
de
sanguinibus
:
nec
memor
ero
noīm
eorum
per
labia
mea
.
Dns
pars
hereditatis
mee
&
calicis
mei
:
tu
es
qui
restitues
hereditatem
meam
mihi
.
Funes
ceciderunt
mihi
in
preclaris
etenim
hereditas
mea
●clara
est
mihi
.
Ben̄dicam
dumm
qui
tribuit
mihi
intelleccū
insuper
et
vsque
ad
noctem
increpuerunt
me
renes
met
.
Prouidebam
dnm
in
conspectu
meo
semper
qm
a
dextris
est
mihi
ne
commouca●
Propter
hoc
letatum
est
cor
meum
et
exultauit
lingua
mea
insuper
et
caro
mea
requiescet
in
spe
.
Quoniam
non
derelinques
animam
meam
in
inferno
nec
dabis
sanctum
tuum
videre
corruptionem
.
Notas
mihi
fecisti
vias
vite
adunplebis
me
leticia
cum
vultu
tuo
.
Delectationes
in
dextera
tua
vsque
in
finem
.
Conserua
me
domine
.
Kepe
me
good
lorde
.
¶
If
ony
perfyte
man
loke
vpon
his
owne
estate
there
is
one
parell
therin
that
is
to
wyte
lest
he
wax
proude
of
his
vertue
and
therfore
Dauyd
spekyng
in
the
person
of
a
ryghteous
man
of
his
estate
begynneth
with
these
wordes
.
Conserua
me
domine
.
That
is
to
saye
kepe
me
good
lorde
whiche
worde
kepe
me
:
yf
it
be
well
consydered
taketh
awaye
all
occasyon
of
pryde
.
For
he
that
is
able
of
hym self
ony
thynge
to
gete
:
is
able
of
him self
that
same
thynge
to
kepe
.
He
that
asketh
then
of
god
to
be
kepte
in
the
state
of
vertue
signifyeth
in
that
askynge
that
from
the
begynnynge
he
gote
not
that
vertue
by
hym selfe
.
He
then
whiche
remembreth
that
he
attayned
his
vertue
:
nor
by
his
owne
power
but
by
the
power
of
god
may
not
be
proude
therof
but
rather
humbled
before
god
after
those
wordes
of
th
apostle
.
Quid
habes
quod
non
accepisti
.
What
hast
thou
that
thou
hast
not
receyued
and
yf
thou
hast
not
receyued
hit
:
why
arte
thou
proude
therof
as
though
thou
had
dest
not
receyued
it
.
Two
wordes
then
be
there
which
we
sholde
euer
haue
in
our
mouthe
:
y●
one
.
Miserere
mei
deus
.
Haue
mercy
on
me
lorde
whan
we
remembre
our
vyce
:
that
other
.
Conserua
me
deus
.
Kepe
me
good
lorde
when
we
remembre
our
vertue
.
Quoniam
speraui
in
te
.
For
I
haue
trusted
in
ye.
This
one
thynge
is
it
that
maketh
vs
obtayne
of
god
oure
petycion
that
is
to
wyte
whan
we
haue
a
full
hope
&
trust
that
we
shall
spede
.
Yf
we
obserue
these
two
thynges
in
our
req●estes
that
is
to
wyte
that
we
requyre
nothynge
but
that
whiche
is
good
for
vs
and
that
we
requyre
hit
ardently
with
a
sure
hope
that
god
shall
here
vs
/
our
prayers
shall
neuer
be
voide
wherfore
whan
we
misse
the
effecte
of
our
petycyon
eyther
hit
is
for
that
we
aske
such
thynge
as
is
noyous
vnto
vs
(
for
as
christ
sayth
)
we
wot
neuer
what
we
aske
and
Iesus
sayd
what
so
euer
ye
shall
aske
in
my
name
hit
shall
be
gyuen
you
.
This
name
Iesus
signifyeth
a
sauyour
and
therfore
there
is
nothynge
asked
in
the
name
of
Iesus
but
that
is
holsome
and
helpyng
to
the
saluacion
of
the
asker
)
or
elles
god
hereth
not
oure
prayoure
bycause
that
thoughe
the
thynge
that
we
requyre
be
good
yet
we
aske
hit
not
well
/
for
we
aske
hit
with
lytle
hope
.
And
he
that
asketh
doubtyngely
asketh
coldely
&
therfore
saynt
Iames
biddeth
vs
aske
in
fayth
nothyng
doubtyng
.
Dixi
dnon
deus
meus
es
tu
.
I
haue
sayd
to
our
lorde
my
god
arte
thou
.
After
that
he
hath
warded
&
fenced
him selfe
agaynst
pryd
he
descrybeth
in
these
wordes
his
estate
.
All
the
estate
of
a
ryghteous
man
standeth
in
these
wordes
.
Dixi
domino
deus
meus
es
tu
.
I
haue
sayd
to
oure
lorde
my
god
arte
thou
.
whiche
wordes
though
they
seme
comune
to
all
folke
yet
are
there
very
few
that
maye
saye
them
truely
/
that
thyng
a
man
taketh
for
his
god
that
he
taketh
for
his
chyefe
good
.
And
that
thynge
taketh
he
for
his
chyefe
good
which
onely
had
thought
all
other
thynges
●ak
he
thynketh
hym selfe
happy
&
whiche
onely
lakyng
though
he
haue
al
other
thynges
he
thinketh
him self
vnhappy
.
The
negard
then
seyth
to
his
money
.
Deus
meus
es
tu
.
My
god
art
thou
.
For
though
honour
fayle
&
helth
and
strenghte
and
frendes
so
he
haue
money
he
thynketh
him selfe
well
.
And
yf
he
haue
al
those
thinges
that
we
haue
spoken
of
yf
money
fayle
.
he
thinketh
him selfe
vnhappy
.
The
gloton
seyth
vnto
his
flesshly
lust
the
ambyciouse
man
leyth
to
his
vaynglory
my
god
art
thou
.
Se
than
how
few
may
trewly
sey
these
wordes
I
haue
sayde
to
oure
lorde
my
god
arte
thou
.
For
onely
he
maye
trewly
saye
it
whiche
is
content
with
god
alone
:
so
that
yf
there
were
offred
hym
all
the
kyngdomes
of
the
worlde
and
all
the
good
that
is
in
erth
and
all
the
good
that
is
in
heuen
he
wolde
not
ones
offende
god
to
haue
them
all
.
In
these
wordes
than
/
I
haue
seyd
to
our
lord
my
god
art
thou
/
standeth
all
the
state
of
a
ryght
wyse
man
.
Quoniam
bonorum
meorum
non
eges
.
For
thou
hast
no
nede
of
my
good
in
these
wordes
he
sheweth
the
cause
why
he
sayth
onely
to
our
lorde
.
Deus
meus
es
tu
.
My
god
art
thou
the
cause
is
for
that
onely
oure
lorde
hath
no
nede
of
oure
good
.
There
is
no
creature
but
that
it
nedeth
other
creatures
and
though
they
be
of
lesse
perfeccyon
than
hit
selfe
as
phylosophers
and
diuynes
ꝓuen
:
for
yf
these
more
imperfyte
creatures
were
not
/
that
other
that
are
more
parfyte
coude
not
be
.
For
yf
ony
parte
of
the
hole
vnyuersyte
of
creatures
were
distroyed
&
fallen
to
nought
all
the
hole
were
subuerted
.
For
certaynly
one
part
of
that
vniuersyte
perisshyng
all
parties
perissh
and
all
creatures
be
partis
to
the
vniuersyte
of
which
vniuersite
god
is
no
parte
but
he
is
the
begynnyng
nothyng
there
vpon
dependynge
.
For
nothynge
truely
wanne
he
by
the
creacyon
of
this
worlde
nor
nothynge
sholde
he
lese
yf
the
worlde
were
adnychylate
and
turned
to
nought
agayn
.
Than
onely
god
is
he
whiche
hath
no
nede
of
oure
good
/
well
ought
we
certaynly
to
be
a
shamed
to
take
suche
thynge
for
god
as
hath
nede
of
vs
/
&
suche
is
euery
creature
.
Moreouer
we
shold
not
accept
for
god
that
is
to
saye
for
the
chyefe
goodnes
but
onely
the
thynge
whiche
is
the
moost
souerayne
goodnes
of
all
thynges
and
that
is
not
the
goodnes
of
ony
creature
/
onely
therfor
to
our
lorde
ought
we
to
saye
my
god
art
thou
.
Sanctis
qui
sunt
in
terra
eius
mirificauit
voluntares
suas
.
To
his
sayntes
that
are
in
the
londe
of
hym
he
hath
made
meruelous
his
willes
.
After
god
sholde
we
specially
loue
them
which
are
nerest
ioyned
vnto
god
as
be
the
holy
aungelles
&
blyssed
sayntes
that
are
in
theyr
countree
of
heuen
therfore
after
that
he
had
sayd
to
oure
lorde
my
god
arte
thou
he
addeth
therunto
that
oure
lorde
hathe
made
meruelous
his
wylles
that
is
to
saye
he
hathe
made
meruelous
his
loues
and
his
desyres
towarde
his
seyntes
that
are
in
the
londe
of
hym
that
is
to
wyte
in
the
countree
of
heuen
whiche
is
called
the
londe
of
god
and
the
londe
of
lyuynge
people
.
And
veryly
yf
we
inwardly
consydre
how
grete
is
the
felicite
of
that
countree
&
how
moche
is
the
misery
of
this
worlde
how
grete
is
the
goodnes
and
charyte
of
those
blessed
citezyns
:
we
shall
continually
desyre
to
be
hens
that
we
were
there
.
These
thynges
&
such
other
whan
we
remember
we
shold
euer
more
take
hede
that
our
meditacions
be
not
vnfruytfull
but
that
of
euery
meditacyon
we
shold
alwayes
purchase
one
vertue
or
other
/
as
for
ensample
by
this
meditacyon
of
the
goodnes
of
that
heuenly
countree
we
sholde
wynne
this
vertue
that
we
sholde
not
onely
strongly
suffre
deth
and
pacyently
whan
our
tyme
cometh
or
yf
hit
were
put
vnto
vs
for
the
faith
of
chryst
:
vut
also
we
sholde
wyllyngely
and
gladly
longe
therfore
desyrynge
to
be
departed
out
of
this
vale
of
wretchydnes
that
we
may
reygne
in
the
heuenly
countree
with
god
&
his
holy
sayntes
.
Multiplicate
sunt
infirmitates
eorum
postea
accelerauerunt
.
Theyr
infyrmytees
be
multyplyed
and
after
they
hasted
.
These
wordes
the
ꝓphete
speketh
of
wycked
men
.
By
infyrmytees
he
vnderstondeth
Idoles
&
so
hit
is
in
the
hebriew
text
.
For
as
good
folke
haue
but
one
god
whom
they
worshyp
so
euyll
folke
haue
many
goddes
and
Idoles
for
they
haue
many
voluptuouse
pleasurs
many
vayne
desyres
many
dyuers
passyons
whiche
they
serue
/
&
wherfore
seke
they
many
sondry
pleasures
?
certainly
for
by
cause
they
can
fynde
none
that
can
set
theyr
herte
at
rest
&
for
y●
(
as
the
prophete
sayth
)
wycked
men
walk
about
in
a
circuet
or
compace
wherof
there
is
none
ende
Now
after
these
wordes
:
theyr
Idoles
be
multiplied
hit
foloweth
.
After
they
hasted
that
is
to
say
:
after
theyr
Idoles
after
theyr
passyons
and
beestly
desyres
they
rō●e
forth
hedlynge
vnaduysedly
without
ony
consideracyon
.
And
in
this
be
we
taught
that
we
sholde
as
spedely
ronne
to
vertue
as
they
ronne
to
vyce
&
that
we
shold
with
no
lesse
dylygence
serue
our
lorde
god
than
they
serue
theyr
lorde
the
deuyll
.
The
iuste
man
consyderyng
the
estate
of
euyll
folke
determineth
fermly
with
hym selfe
(
as
we
sholde
also
)
that
vtterly
he
wyll
in
no
wyse
folowe
them
&
therfore
he
saith
.
Non
congregabo
conuenticulā
eorum
de
sanguinibus
nec
memor
nominum
.
I
shall
not
gather
the
congregacyon
of
them
frome
the
blode
nor
I
shall
not
remembre
theyr
names
he
sayth
from
the
blode
both
bycause
Idolatres
were
wont
to
gather
the
blode
of
theyr
sacrefyce
togyther
and
theraboute
to
do
theyr
serymonyes
.
And
also
for
that
all
the
lyfe
of
euyll
men
forsaken
reason
whiche
stondeth
all
in
the
soule
and
folowen
sensualyte
that
stondeth
all
in
the
blode
/
the
ꝓphete
saith
not
ouely
that
he
wyll
not
gather
theyr
congregacyon
togyther
from
the
blode
that
is
to
say
that
he
wolde
do
no
sacrefyce
to
those
Idoles
but
also
that
he
wolde
not
remembre
theyr
names
that
is
to
say
that
he
wolde
not
talke
nor
speake
of
the
voluptuouse
delytes
whiche
are
euyll
peoples
goddes
which
we
myght
yet
lawfully
do
:
shewynge
vs
by
y●
:
that
a
parfyte
man
sholde
abstayne
not
onley
from
vnlawfull
pleasures
but
also
frome
lawfull
/
to
th
ende
that
he
may
all
togyther
hole
haue
his
mynde
in
to
heuen
warde
and
the
more
purely
entende
vnto
the
contemplacion
of
heuenly
thynges
.
And
for
as
moche
as
some
man
wolde
peraduenture
thynke
y●
hit
were
foly
for
a
man
vtterly
to
depryue
him selfe
from
all
pleasures
therfor
the
ꝓphete
addeth
.
Dns
pars
hereditatꝭ
mee
.
Our
lorde
is
the
part
of
myn
enheretaunce
/
as
though
he
wolde
saye
meruayle
the
not
though
I
forsake
all
thynge
to
th
entent
that
I
may
haue
the
possessyon
of
god
in
whom
al
other
thynges
also
be
possessed
.
This
shold
be
the
voyce
of
euery
good
chrysten
man
.
Dns
pars
hereditatis
mee
.
God
is
the
parte
of
myne
enheretaunce
.
For
certaynly
we
chrysten
people
to
whom
god
is
promysed
for
an
enheretaunce
ought
to
be
a
shamed
to
desyre
ony
thyng
besyde
hym
.
But
for
that
some
man
myght
happely
repute
hit
for
a
grete
●sumpcion
that
a
man
sholde
ꝓmyse
hymselfe
god
for
his
enherytaunce
therfore
the
prophete
putteth
therto
.
Tu
es
qui
restitues
hereditatem
meam
michi
.
Thou
good
lorde
arte
he
that
shall
restore
myne
enherytaunce
vnto
me
.
As
though
he
wolde
saye
.
O
good
lorde
my
god
I
know
well
that
I
am
nothynge
in
respect
of
that
I
wote
well
I
am
vnable
to
assende
by
myne
owne
strength
/
so
hyghe
/
to
haue
y●
in
possessyon
but
thou
arte
he
that
shalt
drawe
me
to
the
by
thy
grace
thou
arte
he
that
shalte
gyue
thy selfe
in
possession
vnto
me
.
Let
a
ryghteous
man
then
consydre
how
grete
a
felicite
hit
is
to
haue
god
fall
vnto
hym
as
his
enherytaunce
hit
foloweth
in
the
psalme
.
Eunes
ceciderunt
michi
in
preclaris
.
The
cordes
haue
fall
to
me
nobly
.
The
partes
and
lottes
of
enherytaunces
were
of
olde
tyme
met
out
and
dyuyded
by
cordes
or
ropes
.
These
wordes
then
the
ropes
or
cordes
haue
fallen
to
me
nobly
be
asmoche
to
say
as
the
parte
of
lot
of
myne
enherytaunce
is
noble
.
But
for
as
moche
as
there
be
many
men
which
though
they
be
called
to
this
grete
felycite
(
as
in
dede
all
christen
people
are
)
yet
they
set
lytel
therby
and
often
tymes
chaunge
hit
for
a
small
symple
delyte
therfore
the
prophete
saith
suyngly
.
Hereditas
me●●clara
est
michi
.
Myn
enheritaunce
is
noble
to
me
.
As
though
he
wolde
say
that
as
hit
is
noble
in
hit
selfe
so
hit
is
noble
to
me
that
is
to
saye
I
reputed
hit
noble
.
And
all
other
thynges
in
respecte
of
hit
/
I
repute
(
as
saynt
Paule
sayth
/
for
donge
/
but
for
as
moche
as
to
haue
this
lyght
of
vnderstandynge
whereby
a
man
may
know
this
gyft
that
is
gyuen
hym
of
god
to
be
the
gyft
of
god
/
therfore
the
prophete
suyngely
sayth
.
Būdicam
dnm
qui
tribuit
intellectum
.
That
is
to
saye
I
shall
blysse
our
lorde
whiche
hath
gyuen
me
vnder
stondinge
but
in
so
moche
as
a
man
oftentymes
entendeth
after
reason
to
serue
god
and
that
notwithstondyng
yet
sensualite
and
the
flessh
repugneth
:
than
is
a
man
perfyte
whan
that
not
his
soule
onely
but
also
his
flessh
drawe
forthe
to
godwarde
after
those
wordes
of
the
ꝓphete
in
an
other
psalme
.
Cor
meum
&
caro
mea
exultauerunt
in
deum
viuum
.
That
is
to
saye
my
mynde
&
my
flesshe
both
haue
ioyed
in
to
liuynge
god
&
for
this
the
prophete
sayth
here
suyngely
.
●t
vsque
ad
noctem
mere
puerūt
me
renes
mei
.
My
reynes
or
kidney
hath
chyden
me
vnto
the
nyght
:
that
is
to
saye
my
reynes
in
which
is
wont
to
be
the
gretest
inclinacyon
to
concupiscence
not
onely
nowe
enclyne
me
not
to
synne
but
also
chydeth
me
that
is
to
say
withdrawe
me
fro
synne
vnto
the
nyght
that
is
to
saye
they
so
fersorth
withdraw
me
from
synne
that
wyllyngly
that
afflyet
and
payne
my
body
.
Afflyccyon
is
in
scrypture
oftentymes
signified
by
the
nyght
bycause
hit
is
the
moost
dyscōfortable
season
.
Then
suyngly
the
prophete
sheweth
what
is
the
rote
of
this
priuacion
or
takynge
awaye
of
flesshly
concupiscence
in
a
man
sayenge
.
Prouidebam
deum
sem
per
in
●spectu
meo
.
I
prouyded
god
alway
before
me
sight
/
for
yf
a
man
had
god
alwaye
before
this
eyen
as
a
ruler
of
all
his
werkes
&
in
all
his
werkes
he
sholde
neyther
seke
his
owne
lucre
his
glorye
nor
his
owne
pleasure
but
onely
to
the
pleasure
of
god
he
shold
shortly
be
perfyte
.
And
for
as
moche
as
he
that
so
dooth
prospereth
in
al
thynge
therfore
it
foloweth
.
Ipse
a
dextris
est
mihi
ne
commouear
.
He
is
on
my
ryght
hand
that
I
be
not
moued
or
troubled
.
Then
the
ꝓphete
declareth
how
grete
is
the
felycite
of
a
iuste
man
whiche
shall
be
euerlastyngly
blyssed
bothe
in
body
and
in
soule
and
therfore
he
sayth
.
Letatum
est
cor
meum
.
My
soule
is
glad
knowyng
that
after
deth
heuen
is
made
redy
for
hym
.
●t
caro
mea
requiescet
in
spe
&
my
flesshe
shall
rest
in
hope
that
is
to
saye
that
thoughe
it
ioye
not
by
and
by
as
in
receyuynge
his
gloryous
estate
medyatly
after
the
dethe
yet
hit
resteth
in
the
sepulcre
with
this
hope
that
hit
shall
aryse
in
the
daye
of
Iudgemente
unmortall
and
shynynge
with
his
soule
.
And
also
the
ꝓphete
more
expressely
declareth
in
the
verse
folowing
.
For
where
he
sayd
thus
my
soule
is
glad
he
addeth
the
cause
sayenge
.
Quoniam
non
derelinques
animam
in
inferno
.
For
thou
shalt
not
leue
my
soule
in
hell
.
Also
where
the
prophete
sayd
that
his
flessh
sholde
rest
in
hope
he
sheweth
the
cause
sayeng
.
Q●●
dabis
sanctum
tuum
videre
corruptionem
.
Nor
thou
shalte
not
suffre
thy
saynt
to
se
corrupcyon
that
is
to
saye
thou
shalte
not
suffre
the
flesshe
of
a
good
man
to
be
corrupted
.
For
that
that
was
corruptyble
shall
aryse
incorruptible
.
And
for
as
moche
as
chryst
was
the
fyrst
whiche
entred
paradise
and
opened
the
lyfe
vnto
vs
and
was
the
fyrst
that
rose
agayne
and
the
cause
of
our
resurreccyon
:
therfore
these
wordes
that
we
haue
spoken
of
the
resurreccyon
ben
pryncipally
vnderstonden
of
christ
as
saynt
peter
the
apostle
hath
declared
/
&
secondaryly
they
may
be
vnderstonden
of
vs
in
that
we
be
the
membres
of
christ
which
onely
neuer
sawe
corrupcyon
for
his
holy
body
was
in
his
sepulcre
nothyng
putrified
/
for
asmoche
then
as
the
way
of
good
lyuyng
bryngeth
vs
to
a
perpetuall
lyfe
of
soule
&
body
therfore
the
ꝓphete
sayth
.
Qotas
michi
fecisti
vias
vite
.
Thou
hast
made
the
wayes
of
lyfe
knowen
vnto
me
and
bycause
that
all
the
felycyte
of
that
stondeth
in
the
clere
beholdynge
and
ftuycion
of
god
/
therfore
hit
foloweth
.
Adimplebis
meleticus
cum
vultu
tuo
.
Thou
shalt
fyll
me
full
of
gladnes
with
the
chere
&
for
that
our
felicite
shall
be
euerlastynge
therfore
he
sayth
.
Delectationes
in
dextra
tua
vsque
in
finem
.
Delectacion
&
Ioy
shall
be
on
thy
ryght
hande
for
euer
:
he
sayth
on
thy
ryght
hand
bycause
that
our
felycite
is
fulfylled
in
the
bysyon
and
fruytion
of
the
humanyte
of
chryst
which
sytteth
in
heuen
on
the
ryght
hande
of
his
fathers
maieste
/
after
the
wordes
of
saint
Iohan.
Hee
est
tota
merces
vt
videamus
deum
quem
misisti
Iesum
christum
.
That
is
all
oure
rewarde
that
we
maye
beholde
god
and
Iesus
chryst
whome
thou
hast
sent
:
to
whiche
rewarde
he
brynge
vs
that
sytteth
there
and
prayeth
for
vs
.
Amen
.
Here
folow
the
.xii.
wepens
of
spirytual
batayle
which
euery
man
shuld
haue
at
hand
when
the
plesure
of
a
synful
temptacyon
commeth
to
his
mynde
.
-
The
plesure
lytle
&
short
-
The
folowers
gryef
&
heuynes
-
The
losse
of
a
bettyr
thyng
-
This
lyfe
a
dreme
and
a
shadowe
-
The
deth
at
out
hand
&
vnware
-
the
fere
of
īpenitēt
departyng
-
Eternal
ioy
etnal
payne
the
nature
&
dygnyte
of
man
-
the
peace
of
a
good
mynde
-
The
gret
vn̄fytes
of
god
-
The
peynful
cros
of
cryst
-
The
wytnes
of
martyrs
and
example
of
sayntes
.
The
.xii.
wepens
haue
we
more
at
lengh
declared
as
hit
folowyth
.
The
pleasure
lytle
and
short
Consydre
well
the
pleasure
that
thou
hast
Stande
hit
in
towchyng
or
in
wanton
syght
In
vayne
smell
or
in
thy
lycorouse
tast
Or
fynally
in
what
so
euer
delyght
Occupyed
is
thy
wretched
appetyght
Thou
shalt
hit
fynde
when
thou
hast
al
cast
Lytle
/
symple
/
short
/
and
sodenly
past
The
folowers
gryefe
&
heuynes
Ony
good
wark
yf
thou
iwth
labour
do
The
labour
goth
/
the
goodnes
doth
remayne
If
thou
do
euyl
with
pleasure
ioyned
therto
The
pleasure
which
thyne
euyll
wark
doth
contayne
Glydeth
his
wey
thou
mast
hym
not
restrayne
The
euyl
then
in
thy
brest
cleueth
behynde
Wyth
grudge
of
hert
&
heuynes
of
mynde
The
losse
of
a
better
thyng
.
When
thou
laborest
thy
plesure
for
to
bye
Upon
the
pryce
loke
thou
the
well
aduyse
Thou
sellest
thy
soule
therfore
euyn
by
&
by
To
thy
moost
vttre
dispitcouse
enemyes
O
mad
merchaunt
o
folissh
merchaundyse
To
by
a
tryfle
/
o
chyldysshe
rekenynge
And
pay
therefore
so
dere
a
precyouse
thyng
This
lyfe
a
dreme
and
a
shadow
This
wretched
life
(
the
trust
&
confidence
Of
whose
contynuaunce
maketh
vs
bolde
to
synne
)
Thou
perceiuest
well
by
experience
Sith
that
houre
in
wiche
hit
dyde
begynne
Hit
holdeth
on
the
course
and
wyll
not
lynne
But
fast
hit
rynneth
on
and
passen
shall
As
doth
a
dreme
or
a
sadowe
on
the
wall
Deth
at
our
hand
and
vnware
Consydre
well
that
euer
nyght
and
daye
Whyle
that
we
besyly
prouyde
and
care
For
oure
disport
reuell
myrth
and
play
For
plesaunt
melody
and
deynty
fare
Deth
stelyth
on
ful
●yly
and
vnware
He
lieth
at
hand
and
shall
vs
entreprise
We
not
how
soone
nor
in
what
maner
wise
Fere
of
impenitent
departynge
If
thou
sholdest
god
offende
thynke
how
therfore
Thou
were
forthwith
in
very
Ieoperdous
case
For
happely
thou
shouldest
not
lyue
an
houre
more
Thy
synne
to
clense
/
&
thought
thou
haddest
space
.
Yet
peraduenture
sholdest
thou
lacke
the
grace
Well
ought
we
then
be
a
ferde
to
done
offence
Impenitent
lest
we
departen
hens
Eternall
rewarde
eternall
payne
Thou
seest
this
worlde
is
but
a
thorowfare
Se
thou
behaue
the
wisely
with
thy
hoost
Hens
must
thou
nedes
departe
naked
&
bare
And
after
thy
deserte
loke
to
what
coost
Thou
arte
conuayed
at
suche
tyme
as
thy
goost
From
this
wretched
carkas
shall
dysseuer
Be
hit
Ioye
or
payne
/
endure
hit
thou
shall
for
euer
.
The
nature
and
dygnite
of
man
Remembre
how
god
hath
made
the
resonable
Lyke
vnto
his
Image
and
fygure
And
for
the
suffred
paynes
intollerable
That
he
for
aungell
neuer
wolde
endure
Regarde
o
man
thyne
excellent
nature
Thou
that
with
aungell
arte
made
to
bene
egall
For
very
shame
be
not
the
deuyllles
thrall
.
The
peace
of
a
good
mynde
.
Why
louest
thou
so
this
brotle
worldes
Ioye
Take
all
the
myrth
take
all
the
fantasies
Take
euery
game
/
take
euery
wanton
●oye
Take
euery
sport
that
men
can
the
deuyse
And
amonge
them
all
on
warantyse
Thou
shalt
no
pleasure
comparable
fynde
To
thynwarde
gladnes
of
a
vertuous
mynde
The
grete
benefyces
of
god
.
By
syde
that
god
the
bought
&
fourmed
both
Many
a
benefyte
hast
thou
receyued
of
his
Though
thou
haue
moued
hym
often
to
be
wroth
Yet
he
the
kepte
hath
and
brought
vs
vp
to
this
And
dayly
calleth
vpon
the
to
his
blys
How
mayst
thou
then
to
hym
vnlouynge
be
That
euer
hath
ben
so
louynge
vnto
the.
The
paynfull
crosse
of
chryst
.
Whan
thou
in
flame
of
the
temptacyon
fryest
Thynke
on
the
very
lamentable
payne
Thynke
on
the
pyteouse
crosse
of
wofull
chryst
thynke
on
his
blode
vet
out
at
euery
vayne
Thynke
on
his
precyous
herte
kerued
in
twayne
Thynke
how
for
thy
redempcyon
all
was
wrought
Let
hym
not
lese
that
he
so
dere
hath
bought
The
wytnes
of
martyrs
&
example
of
sayntes
Synne
to
withstonde
saye
not
thou
lakkest
myght
Suche
allegacyons
folye
hit
is
to
vse
The
wytnes
of
sayntes
&
martyrs
constant
fyght
Shall
the
of
slouthfull
cowardyse
accuse
God
wyll
the
helpe
yf
thou
do
not
refuse
Yf
other
haue
stande
or
this
:
thou
mayst
eft
soone
Nothynge
impossible
is
that
hath
bene
doone
The
.xij.
ꝓpertees
or
condicyons
of
a
louer
To
loue
one
alone
and
contempne
all
other
for
that
one
To
thynke
hym
vnhappy
that
is
not
with
his
loue
To
adourne
hym selfe
for
the
pleasure
of
his
loue
To
suffre
all
thyng
thoughe
hit
were
deth
to
be
with
his
loue
To
desyre
also
to
suffre
shame
harme
for
his
loue
and
to
thynke
that
hurte
swete
To
be
with
his
loue
euer
as
he
may
yf
not
in
dede
yet
in
thought
To
loue
all
thynge
that
perteyneth
vnto
his
loue
To
coueite
the
prayse
of
his
loue
and
not
to
suffre
ony
dysprayse
To
beleue
of
his
loue
all
thynges
excellent
&
to
desyre
that
all
folke
sholde
thynke
the
same
To
wepe
often
with
his
loue
:
in
presence
for
Ioye
in
absence
for
sorowe
To
languysshe
euer
and
euer
to
burne
in
the
desyre
of
his
loue
.
To
serue
his
loue
nothyng
thynkynge
of
ony
rewarde
or
profyte
.
The
.xij.
propertees
we
haue
at
length
more
openly
expressed
in
balade
as
hit
foloweth
.
THe
fyrst
poynt
is
to
loue
but
one
alone
And
for
that
one
all
other
to
forsake
For
who
so
loueth
many
loueth
none
The
flode
that
is
in
many
chanelles
take
In
eche
of
them
shall
feble
stremes
make
The
loue
that
is
deuyded
amonge
many
Unneth
suffyseth
that
ony
parte
haue
ony
So
thou
that
hast
thy
loue
set
vnto
god
In
thy
remembraunce
this
enprynt
&
graue
As
he
in
souerayne
dignyte
is
odde
So
wyll
he
in
loue
no
partynge
felowes
haue
Loue
hym
therfore
with
all
that
he
the
gaue
For
body
/
sowle
wytte
/
connynge
/
mynde
&
thought
Parte
wyll
he
none
but
eyther
all
or
nought
The
seconde
properte
.
Of
his
loue
lo
the
syght
and
company
To
the
louer
so
glad
and
pleasaunt
is
That
who
so
hath
the
grace
to
come
therby
He
iudgeth
hym
in
perfyte
Ioye
and
blys
And
who
so
of
that
company
doth
mysse
Lyue
he
in
neuer
so
prosperous
estate
He
thynketh
hym
wretched
and
infortunate
So
sholde
the
louer
of
god
esteme
that
he
whiche
all
the
pleasure
hath
/
myrth
and
disporte
That
in
this
worlde
is
possible
to
be
Yet
tyll
the
tyme
that
he
maye
ones
resorte
Unto
that
blyssed
to
ioyfull
heuenly
porte
Where
he
of
god
may
haue
the
glorious
syght
Is
voyde
of
parfyte
ioye
and
delyght
The
thyrde
properte
.
The
thyrde
poynt
of
a
parfyte
louer
is
To
make
hym
fresshe
to
se
that
all
thynge
bene
Apoynted
well
and
nothynge
set
a
mys
But
all
well
fasshoned
/
propre
/
goodly
/
&
clene
That
in
his
parsone
there
be
nothynge
sene
In
speche
/
apparayll
/
gesture
/
loke
or
pace
That
may
offende
or
mynysshe
ony
grace
So
thou
that
wylte
with
god
gete
in
to
fauoure
Garnysshe
thy selfe
vp
in
as
goodly
wyse
As
comely
be
as
honest
in
behauoure
As
hit
is
possyble
for
the
to
deuyse
I
meane
not
hereby
that
thou
sholdest
aryse
And
in
the
glasse
vpon
thy
body
prowle
But
with
fayre
vertue
to
adourne
thy
●oule
The
fourth
properte
.
If
loue
be
stronge
/
hote
/
myghty
/
and
feruent
There
may
no
trouble
greyfe
or
sorow
fall
But
that
the
louer
wolde
be
well
content
All
to
endure
and
thynke
hit
eke
to
small
Thoughe
hit
were
deth
so
he
myght
therwithall
The
ioyfull
presence
of
that
persone
get
On
whom
he
hath
his
herte
and
loue
I
set
Thus
sholde
of
god
the
louer
be
content
Ony
dystres
or
sorow
to
endure
Rather
then
to
be
from
god
absent
And
glad
to
dye
so
that
he
maye
be
sure
By
his
departynge
hens
for
to
procure
After
this
valey
darke
/
the
heuenly
/
lyght
And
of
his
loue
the
gloryouse
blessed
sight
The
fyft
properte
.
Not
onely
a
louer
content
is
in
his
herte
But
coueyteth
eke
and
longeth
to
sustayne
Some
laboure
incommodite
or
smarte
Losse
aduersyte
/
trouble
/
greyfe
or
payne
And
of
his
sorowe
Ioyfull
is
and
fayne
And
happy
thynketh
hym selfe
that
he
may
take
Some
mysaduenture
for
his
louers
sake
Thus
sholdest
thou
that
louest
god
also
In
thyne
herte
wysshe
/
coueyte
and
be
glad
For
hym
to
suffre
trouble
payne
and
woo
For
whom
yf
thou
be
neuer
so
woo
bestade
yet
thou
ne
shalt
susteyne
(
be
not
adrad
)
Halfe
the
dolour
gryefe
and
aduersyte
That
he
all
redy
suffred
hath
for
the
The
.vi.
properte
.
The
parfyte
louer
longeth
for
to
be
In
presence
of
his
loue
both
nyght
&
daye
And
yf
hit
happely
so
be
fall
that
he
May
not
as
he
wolde
:
he
wyl
yet
as
he
may
Euer
be
with
his
loue
that
is
to
saye
where
his
heuy
nyl
be
brought
He
wyll
be
conuersaunt
in
mynd
and
thought
Lo
in
lyke
maner
the
louer
of
god
sholde
At
the
lest
in
suche
wyse
as
he
may
If
he
may
not
in
suche
wyse
as
he
wolde
Be
present
with
god
and
conuersaunt
alway
For
certes
who
●o
lyst
he
may
puruey
Though
al
the
worlde
wolde
hym
therfro
beryuen
To
bere
his
body
in
erth
his
mynde
in
heuen
The
.vii.
properte
There
is
no
page
or
seruaunt
most
or
lest
That
doth
vpon
his
loue
attende
&
wayte
There
is
no
lytle
worme
no
symple
best
Ne
none
so
small
a
tryfle
or
conceyte
Lase
/
gyrdell
/
poynt
/
or
propre
gloue
strayte
But
that
yf
to
his
loue
hit
haue
ben
nere
The
louer
hath
hit
precyous
/
leyfe
/
&
dere
So
euery
relyque
Image
or
pycture
That
doth
pertayne
to
goddes
magnyfycence
The
louer
of
god
sholde
wyth
all
besy
cure
Haue
hit
in
loue
honoure
and
reuerence
And
specyally
gyue
them
preemynence
which
dayly
done
his
blessed
body
wyrche
The
quyk
relyques
the
mynystres
of
his
chyrch
The
.viii.
properte
A
very
louer
aboue
all
erthly
thyng
Coueyteth
and
longeth
euermore
to
here
T
honoure
lawde
commendacyon
and
praysyng
And
euery
thyng
that
may
the
fame
clere
Of
this
loue
/
he
may
in
no
manere
Endure
to
here
that
ther●fro
myghten
vary
Or
ony
thyng
sowne
in
to
the
contrary
The
louer
of
god
sholde
coueyte
in
lyke
wyse
To
here
his
honoure
worshyp
laude
and
prayse
whose
souereygne
goodnes
none
herte
may
compryse
whom
hell
/
erth
/
and
all
the
heuen
obayse
Whose
parfyte
louer
ought
by
no
maner
wayes
To
suffre
the
cursed
wordes
of
blasphemy
Or
ony
thynge
spoken
of
god
vnreuerently
The
.ix.
properte
.
A
very
louer
beleueth
in
his
mynde
On
whom
so
euer
he
hath
his
herte
I
bent
That
in
that
persone
men
may
nothynge
fynde
But
honorable
worthy
and
excellent
And
eke
surmountynge
farre
in
his
entent
All
other
that
he
hath
knowen
by
syght
or
name
And
wolde
that
euery
man
sholde
thynke
the
same
Of
god
lyke
wyse
so
wonderfull
and
hye
All
thynge
esteme
&
iudge
his
louer
ought
So
reuerence
worshyp
honour
&
magnyfye
That
all
the
creatures
in
this
worlde
I
wrought
In
comparyson
sholde
he
set
at
nought
And
glad
be
yf
he
myght
the
meane
deuyse
That
all
the
worlde
wolde
thynken
in
lyke
wyse
The
.x.
properte
The
louer
is
of
colour
deed
and
pale
There
wyll
no
slepe
in
to
his
eyen
stalk
He
sauoreth
neyther
mete
/
wyne
/
nor
ale
He
myndeth
not
what
men
about
hym
talke
But
etc
he
drynke
he
syt
lye
downe
or
walke
He
burneth
euer
as
hit
were
with
a
fyre
In
the
feruent
hete
of
his
desyre
Here
sholde
the
louer
of
god
ensample
take
To
haue
hym
contynually
in
remembraunce
With
hym
in
prayer
and
medytacyon
wake
Whyle
other
playe
/
reuell
/
synge
/
and
daunce
None
erthly
Ioy
/
disport
/
or
vayne
plesaunce
Solde
hym
delyte
or
ony
thynge
remoue
His
ardent
mynde
from
god
his
heuynly
loue
The
.xi.
properte
.
Dyuersly
passyoned
is
the
louers
herte
Now
plesaunt
hope
now
drede
and
greuous
fere
Now
parfyte
blysse
now
bytter
sorowe
smarte
And
whether
his
loue
be
with
hym
or
elles
where
Oft
from
his
eyen
there
falleth
many
a
tere
For
very
Ioy
/
when
they
togyther
be
Whan
they
be
sondred
:
for
aduersyte
.
Lyke
affeccyons
feleth
eke
the
brest
Of
goddes
louer
in
prayer
and
meditacyon
Whan
that
his
loue
lyketh
in
hym
rest
With
inwarde
gladnes
of
pleasaunt
contemplacyon
Out
breke
the
teres
for
Igye
and
delectacyon
And
whan
his
loue
lyst
efte
to
parte
hym
fro
Out
breke
the
teres
agayne
for
payne
&
woo
The
.xii.
properte
.
A
very
louer
wyll
his
loue
obaye
His
Ioye
it
is
and
all
his
appetyght
To
payne
hym selfe
in
all
that
euer
he
maye
That
parsone
in
whom
he
set
hathe
his
delyght
Dylygent
to
serue
bothe
day
and
nyght
For
very
loue
/
without
ony
regarde
To
ony
profyte
gwerdon
or
rewarde
So
thou
lyke
wyse
that
hast
thyne
herte
I
set
Upwarde
to
god
so
well
thy selfe
endeuere
So
studyously
that
nothynge
may
the
let
Not
for
his
seruyce
ony
wyse
disseuere
Frely
loke
eke
thou
serue
that
therto
neuer
Trust
of
rewarde
or
profyte
do
the
bynde
But
onely
faythfull
herte
&
louynge
mynde
wageles
to
serue
.iij.
thynges
may
vs
moue
Fyrst
yf
the
seruyce
selfe
be
desyrable
Seconde
yf
they
whom
that
we
serue
&
loue
Be
very
good
and
very
amyable
Thyrdely
of
reason
be
we
seruysable
Without
the
gapynge
after
ony
more
To
suche
as
haue
done
moche
for
vs
before
Serue
god
for
loue
then
/
not
for
hope
of
mede
What
seruyce
maye
so
desyrable
be
As
where
all
turneth
to
thyne
owne
spede
Who
is
so
good
so
louely
eke
as
he
Who
hath
all
redy
done
so
moche
for
the
As
he
that
fyrst
the
made
:
and
on
the
rode
Eft
the
redemed
with
his
precyous
blode