A lytell treatyse agaynst sedicyous persons Smyth, Thomas, servaunt to the Quenes most excellent Majestie. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A12561 of text S2983 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 22880.4). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A12561 STC 22880.4 ESTC S2983 29631896 ocm 29631896 28043 2240914606

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A12561) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28043) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1861:5) A lytell treatyse agaynst sedicyous persons Smyth, Thomas, servaunt to the Quenes most excellent Majestie. 1 sheet ([2] p.). R. Lant, [S.l. : 1540] In verse. Imprint information from STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries. eng Ballads, English. eebo A lytell treatyse agaynst sedicyous persons Smyth, Thomas, servaunt to the Quenes most excellent Majestie 1540 2 1109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2011-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2011-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2011-08 Sampled and proofread 2011-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2012-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A lytell treatyse agaynst sedicyous persons . To trolle awaye or trolle in / let not trolle spare If trolle truly trolle / trolle nedeth not to care . OF late I perused / two purposes seuerall In their kyndes clerkely handeled / the truth for to tell Trolle awaye and Trolle in / men do them call Treatyng vpon mater / concernyng the late Crumwell The one vtterly myndyng / the other to repell Trolle away ( the trouth is ) moche touched the quycke And Trolle in ( somwhat galled ) began for to kycke . yet Trolle away tolde trouth / it can not be denyed Declaryng the offence / wherin Crumwell offended Trolle in beyng troubled / whan he it espyed With trollynges to couer it / full subtelly contended Some trollers there be / I wolde were amended For who that craftely couereth / any others offence Of lykelyhode / in his owne herte / hath the same pretence . ☞ Truly to trolle / it is no maner of shame And trollyng vntrue / is not to be mayntayned As euery thyng is / so to gyue it propre name Amonges all true honest men / shulde not be disdayned The scripture so techeth vs / it can not be fayned Agaynst scripture who stryueth / he is none other lyke Than a traytoure to his prince / and to god an heretyke , Ve qui dicitis bonum malum et malum bonum . Esa. quinto . ❧ I entende not to trolle / to take any parte Diuisyon to encreace / it nedeth nothyng But sorowfully syghyng / I trolle in my harte With my selfe in mynde / many tymes reuoluyng How god to vs / hath ordayned the most noble kyng Who vniformly to knyt vs / hath traueyled full sore Yet many trifelyng trollers / care lytell therfore . But as trollers troubelous and full of enuy At the lawes of god / and of our good kyng In their trollynges do trust / yet that their olde heresy All good ordrys set a parte / shall florisshe and sprynge Their prechers / no lesse conforte / in their sermons do brynge Euen lately exhortyng them / auoydyng all drede And persecution not regardyng / throughly to procede . With many wordes more troublous / than now I wyll reherce Not doutyng at all / but at length they shal be knowen Suche trollyng trecherous / my herte doth sore perce Consyderyng howe sedicyously / amonges vs they besowen Of late I well trusted / they had ben ouer blowen But now I well parceyue / that neither fauour nor smarte From the body can expell / that is rooted in the harte . A trewe trollyng hert / wolde be loth to pretende Any purpose to mayntayne / agaynst god or his kyng The confessyon of an heretyke / that lately dyd offende And amonges others / suffred for his deseruyng Secretly they embrace / as a most precyous thyng And yet playnly wyll I proue / by good lawe and reason Contayned therin / both heresy and treason . ❧ In any wyse imprynted / they wyll not it shall be The daungers therof in themselues mystrustynge Wherfore euery man may well perceyue and se What hertes they do beare to god and our good kynge Euery of them secretly must haue it in wrytynge But Chryst sayeth verely there is ndthynge conceled But at length shal be knowen / and openly reueled . Nihil est opertum quoq non reueletur . neque occultum ꝙ non sciatur . Math , x , Who against them trolleth / a Papyst they him name They haue no other thing / themselues for to defende I wolde that all Papystes / had an open shame And that all heretykes / them selues wold amende Than shuld we haue no cause / further to contende But vniformly to lyue / the one with the other And ioyfully to enhabyt / as brother with brother . Ecce quam bonum et quam iocūdum habitare fratres in unum . psa , c , xxxij ☞ Such shuld be our trollynges / Christ vs so teacheth Commaunding euer peace / amonges vs for to be Mathei . x. Luce. ij . Io , xiiij . xv , Vntruly he trolleth / that otherwyse preacheth Styreng to any sedicion / malyce or enuye Where banisshed is discorde / and raygneth all charite That realme in god resteth / and god is in it / Being charite him selfe / as sayth the holy writ . Deus charitas est & qui manet in caritate in deo manet et deus in eo i. Ioha . iij. ☞ Than towardes that charite / trolle we on a pace Auauncyng our selues / with all conuenyent spede Amore acceptable pilgrimage / surely neuer was For which god gaue to man / any meryte or mede Our labour or gret burden / let vs nothing drede Nor regarding the wylfulnes / of our body or flesshe For at the iorneyes ende / Christ wyll vs refresshe . Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis & onorati estis , et ego reficiam uos Mathei . xv ❧ And than as true trollers / togither let vs remayne Parfectly fast knyt / in one peace / vnyte and loue With glory vnto god / euermore glad and fayne Our noble Prince truly to serue / as doth vs behoue omnis anima po sub . subdita sit . ro , 13. And all others to tendre / as duty doth vs moue Vsyng styll amonge vs / the selfe same loue and concorde Which is to vs commaunded / by Christ the eternall lorde . Hoc est mandatum meum ut diligatis īuicem sicut Ioh. xv . ❧ And nowe in that loue / let vs all with one voyce pray For the preseruacion of Henry our most noble kyng And Katheren our Quene / that they togither may Prosperously contynue / to their hertes desyring And Edward our Prince / that most angelyke thing That they all togither may longe lyue and rest And after with him to raygne / qui in celis est . God saue the Kyng . To Trolle away or Trolle in / let not Trolle spare If Trolle truly Trolle / Trolle nedeth not to care . ❧ Composed by Thomas Smyth / seruaunt to the kynges royall maiestye . And clerke of the Quenes graces counsell / though most vnworthy , FINIS .