Suffer these bookes to be read, and they shall soone displace all bookesof godly learnyng.
Papistes at home, procured bawdie bookes to be translated out of the Italian tonge, whereby ouer many yong willes and wittes allured to wantonnes, do now boldly contemne all seuere bookes that sounde to honestie and godlines.
Mo Papistes be made, by your mery bookes of Italie, than by your earnest bookes of Louain.
Varro, in his bookes de lingua Latina, et Analogia as these be left mangled and patched vnto vs, doth not enter // Varro.
For this I know, not onelie by reading of bookes learnyng.
That the bookes of the discoveries and conquests of the Easte Indies be carried with you.
Nexte, that you bringe no manner of bookes but suche as are allowed by our Catholicke Churche of Rome; and that you use no manner of prayers but suche as are allowed by our Churche of Rome.
Then they open their chestes, and looke if the master and maryners bringe any bookes with them in their chests.
This worthy beginning of Constantine, both his sonnes succeeding his roome, and also diuers other Emperours afterward to their vttermost endeauour followed and continued, which all the bookes of Eusebius more at large set foorth.
That the voyadge be furnished with Bibles and with Bookes of service.
Especially, when the fate of all Bookes depends vpon your capacities: and not of your heads alone, but of your purses.
So halfe vnwilling from their bookes them brought, And fairely feasted, as so +noble+ knights she ought.
But wondrously they were begot, and bred 2 Through influence of th'heauens fruitfull ray, As it in antique bookes is mentioned.
Vnto their lodgings then his guestes he riddes: 6 Where when all drownd in deadly sleepe he findes, He to his study goes, and there amiddes 8 His Magick bookes and artes of sundry kindes, He seekes out mighty charmes, to trouble sleepy mindes.
But when he saw his threatning was but vaine, He cast about, and searcht his balefull bookes againe.
By strange occasion she did him behold, 2 And much more strangely gan to loue his sight, As it in bookes hath written bene of old.
Entered for his Copye a book intituled the fayre Queene, dyposed into xii bookes &c.
I sorted many bookes in my house, to be sent up to me at my goeing to Virginia; amongst them a Bible.
Yt was aunswered him that the courte sate not to trye matters of religion, but a matter de facto, that whether he browght the said slaunderous bookes into the realme, and whether he had disparsed them.
To the which he aunswered that he had brought ffyve or syx hundreth of the same bookes into the realme, and that he had disparced them as he sawe occasion.
All all, hee's nothing, A bunch of bookes shall be his patrimony, And more then he can manage too.
But can you find among your bundle of bookes (And put in all your Dictionaries that speak all tongu's) What pleasure they enjoy, that do embrace A well shap'd wealthy Bride?
I hope I shall be; Have I swept bookes so often to know nothing?
In Brinsley's Grammar Schoole, written in 1612, he enumerates the "bookes to bee first learned of children.
Only one hundred and seventy-seven volumes were left: "moste parse of all theis bookes be of velam and parchment, but very sore cut and mangled for the lymned letters and pictures.
Ascham avers that "in our fathers tyme nothing was red, butbookes of fayned cheualrie, wherein a man by redinge, shuld be led to none other ende, but onely to manslaughter and baudrye.
I have sent up two of your bookes which have much pleasured me.
Manie herbals, or bookes of herbes, for phisitions, shewing how they should be applied to heale infirmities.
The substance and manner of those bookes that Frier Herrada and his companions brought from China.
He had before this interview "caused diverse popish bookes and pictures taken out of churches, and of papish houses, here and abroad, to be burned in the street over against the signe of the Starre, where his Lordship laye.
We know not what is meant by "papish bookes and pictures," but the Puritan Lord Say may not have discriminated sharply between them and the books and ornaments of the High Party in the Church of England.
Yet was his glory never set on shelfe, Nor never shall, whyles any worlde may stande Where men have minde to take good bookes in hande.
Thus came ye bookes of Amadis into light among us in this last age.
Bookes are a part of man's prerogative, In formal inke they thoughts and voyces hold, That we to them our solitude may give, And make time present travel that of old.
Our life fame peceth longer at the end, And bookes it farther backward doe extend.
Some Bookes also may be read by Deputy, and Extracts made of them by Others.
But that would be onely in the lesse important Arguments, and the Meaner Sort of Bookes: else distilled Bookes are like Common distilled Waters, Flashy Things.
And thus much concerning the time of the writing of the Bookes of the Old Testament.
The Like Of The Bookes Of Samuel That the Books of Samuel were also written after his own time, there are the like arguments, 1 Sam.
I am very well satisfied you have layd aside your designe for the Army; which I think had not been safe or pertinent, at least not soe much as Bookes & Conversation with ye learned.
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