A brefe declaration of the great, and innumerable myseries [and] wretchednesses vsed i[n] courte tyall, made by a lettre, whych mayster Alayn Charatre wrote to hys brother, which desyred to come dwel in the court, for to aduyse, [and] counsell hym not to enter into it, lest he after repe[n]t, newly augme[n]ted, amplified, [and] inrytched, by Francis Segar. Curial. English Chartier, Alain, 15th cent. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A18508 of text S109737 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 5058). 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. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A18508 STC 5058 ESTC S109737 99845383 99845383 10280 2248528893

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A18508) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 10280) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 61:14) A brefe declaration of the great, and innumerable myseries [and] wretchednesses vsed i[n] courte tyall, made by a lettre, whych mayster Alayn Charatre wrote to hys brother, which desyred to come dwel in the court, for to aduyse, [and] counsell hym not to enter into it, lest he after repe[n]t, newly augme[n]ted, amplified, [and] inrytched, by Francis Segar. Curial. English Chartier, Alain, 15th cent. F. S. (Francis Segar), fl. 1549-1563. [4+] p. J. Day and W. Seres?], [London : 1549. A translation of: Chartier, Alain. Le curial. Place of publication and printer's name suggested by STC. Imperfect; a fragment. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Courts and courtiers -- Early works to 1800. France -- Social life and customs -- 1328-1600 -- Early works to 1800. eebo A brefe declaration of the great, and innumerable myseries, [and] wretchednesses vsed i[n] courte tyall, made by a lettre, whych mayster Alayn Charatr Chartier, Alain, 1549 6 648 5 0 0 0 0 4 18595.68 F The rate of 18595.68 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2009-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-03 Sampled and proofread 2010-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A Brefe declaration of the great / and innumerable myseries / & wretchednesses vsed in courtes ryall , made by a lettre , whych mayster Alayn Charatre wrote to hys brother , which desyred to come dwel in the court , for to aduyse , & counsell hym not to enter into it , lest he after repent , newly augmented , amplified , & inrytched , By Francis Segar .

1549

He that doth couyt the courtly lyfe to know Yf it wyl please him , to take a lyttle payne To rede this treatyse , whych here doth folow Wherin it is discrybed , brefely , and playn .
F.S. to the reader . Here hast thou expressed before thy eyse The mysery and wretchednes of the lyfe curial And howe that by fortune some dayly do ryse . And contrary wyse by hee agean do fall , Trust not to fortune which alway is variable For some she doth exalt & some she bringeth low ●he is neuer true , constant and sta●le But as tydes vse theyr tymes , to ebbe & to flow Couetousnes causeth myschefe to ryse Desyre of dignite with pompous ambition Which the wyse man , doth alwaye dispyse And is content , wyth hys vocation When froward fortune , with frownyng face At your inhauncinge , taketh grudge or enuy In short tyme , she wyl you displace And bring you to shame ruen and mysery Ill you that ar called , vnto any hygh place Be true vnto your , anoynted Kynge And call vnto God , to geue you the grace So to contynu● , to your lyues endynge , AMEN .

court , that they that be symple , be dispraysed , the vertuous enuyed , & the proud arrogaūtes , in mortal peryl . And yf thou be placed vnder the other courchiers , thou shalt enuy at theyr power , yf thou be in mean estate , in the which thou hast not suffisaunce , thou shalt labour & striue for to mounte & ryse hyer , & yf thou mayst come to the hye secretes whiche be strongly to doubte , feare , & drede , in the doubtous courteyns of the most hie princes , them shalt thou be most infortunate , for so moch as yn s●i●est to be most fortunate & happy , so moch more shalt thou be in great daunger & peril to fal , like to him that is mounted into the most hys place , for to them , whom fortune the variable hath most hyghly lyfte vp , and inhaunsed , resteth nomore , but for to falle fro so hye , downe , bycause she oweth to them , nothyng but shame , ruine , and destruction yf that thou hast taken of her al that thou myghteste , and that she woulde geue , then arte thou detter of thy selfe , to the ende that she render & yelde the infortunate , and vnhappy , whom she hadde before inhaunced . And that she mocke hym of hys mischefe whom she had made blind of vayn glory of hys inhaunsyng for the great wyndes that blowe in hye courtes , be of soche nature , and condicion , that they only that be hyghest inhaunsed , be after theyr dispoyntmente / as a spectacle of enuy , detractyon or of hate , vnto all people , and fynd them self , subiectes , tyl they be shamed and put down among the people , and that they that before siewed to them and flattered them reporte of them more greater blames and deuysyons , than the other , for the multitude of people disprayse them alway that fortune hath most altered , & throwen down , and also is enuious at them