Oure Blissed Lorde have you in His governaunce and be your conduytour to His pleisur, Amen.
My refformacyon and counforte in eschewyng that lythe holly in your helpe and Jenneyez at thys tyme, be cause my maystyr hathe comytted the governaunce of the seyd matere to yow, and what expense it draweth he agreyth to bere it, &c.
Sidenote: 1462] Sere, I have receyved your lettre, wherin I undrestand that my maistre desired that my maistre your brother myght have the gidyng and governaunce of the Barge of Yermouthe.
My will is, ye have the chief governaunce of this matier, and that this article be counseille [i.
God defende that any of my saide kyn shuld be of swyche governaunce as he is of!
And yf your Lordshep seme necessary that I now beynge at Westminster shall any thynge laboure or des[ire for the rule] and governaunce of the counte forsayd, or for reformacion of suche wronge as the peples herts most agrugge as .
God amend it; for qwych sad rule and governaunce to be had I wold full fayn a ben with your good [Lordship].
And for-as-moch as al thinges by me shulden of right ben governed, 75 I am sory to see that governaunce fayleth, as thus: to sene smale and lowe governe the hye and bodies above.
Certes, that policye is naught; it is forbode by them that of governaunce treten and enformen.
But trewly, other governaunce ne other medlinge ought they not to clayme, ne the heedes on hem to putte.
How felest thou in thyn hert, by what governauncethat this cometh aboute?
It maketh misse to ben amended with good governaunce in doing.
In alle governaunce and policye 600 He is, as by commune opinoun, Y-holde the lasse in reputacioun.
What governaunce is in this prescience, That giltelees tormenteth innocence?
This gentil cok hadde in his governaunce 4055 Sevene hennes, for to doon al his plesaunce, Whiche were his sustres and his paramours, And wonder lyk to him, as of colours.
Thou hast bitaken thy-self to the governaunce of Fortune, and for-thy it bihoveth thee to ben obeisaunt to the maneres of thy lady.
A Scots translation by sir Gilbert de Hay, entitled "The Buke of the Governaunce of Princis," is contained in a MS.
And that we may withedraw and leve oure wrecchid governaunce that temporelle men wolde so inordinatlie rule and oppresse the Chirche.
Lo, is it not a greet mischaunce, To lete a fole han governaunce (450) Of thing that he can not demeine?
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