And I most be at Castre by Thursday next; and I pray yow let me not be lete of my voyage yn to my contree, and I shall kepe Yorkesshyre with Spyrlyng, or such as shall ryde.
I lete you wete the moste parte of alle the tenaunts have bene here with me for to see me, and they have tolde me all the demenyng as it is undrewrete.
I lete yow wete this is the furst day that I herd of any seche, but I wold wete the namys of hem that utter this langage and the mater of the bill.
I lete yow wete that the seid Wychyngham, when I departid from hym, had knowleche that Jane Boys shuld that nyght be come to London, and he put in a bylle to the Lordis for to have delyverauns of hyr and to have hese adversarys arestid.
And lete Richard Kalle spede hym hidderward, and come by Snaylwel, and take suyche mony as may be getyn there, and that he suffre not the mony that the tenauntes owe to come in the fermours handes.
Worshipfull Sir, soo ye will send a polletik person to Ludgate in secrete wise to comune with me, and lete hym not in no wise speke of you to hove (?
Item, in case it can be understood that he made none estate, 'than lete Wodesyde goo to Robert Prymer in his owyn name, saying that John P.
The under-shrefe dotht Mortoft favour, and lete hym goo yn Norwich as hym lyst, and al the contre abought me sey right evyll of hym for a mayntenor of the Kynges enime; for there ben an C.
In armes everich of hem other taketh, And thus I lete hem in hir sorwe dwelle.
Or, at the leste, but thou woldest so, Yit woldestow but ones lete us mete, 760 Or ones that we mighte kissen swete, Than were we covered of our cares colde.
Lo, is it not a greet mischaunce, To lete a fole han governaunce (450) Of thing that he can not demeine?
Had lete me knowen / and began to wryte[66] Lyke as ye haue herd me endyte Wherfor to studye and rede alway[67] I purpose to doo day by day Thus in dremyng and in game Endeth thys lytyl book of Fame.
And than the kyng lete parten his hoste to journey diverse weys; that is to say, oone partie the duke of Clarence with many ful worthis with hym: and he gate many townes, castells and strong abbeis.
This yere was the fight in Smythefeld betuen Gloucestre and Artour, for wordes that Gloucestre hadde appeled Arthur of: and whanne they hadde well foughten, the kyng tok the bataille into his hond, and wolde lete them feighte no more.
But who-so wol not trowen reed ne lore, I can not seen in him no remedye, But lete him worthen with his fantasye.
But whether that she children hadde or noon, I rede it nought; therfore I lete it goon.
This Troilus, with herte and eres spradde, Herde al this thing devysen to and fro; And verraylich him semed that he hadde The selve wit; but yet to lete hir go 1425 His herte misforyaf him ever-mo.
Paraunter, she mighte holden thee for nyce To lete hir go thus to the Grekes ost.
For many a lovere hastow shent, and wilt; Thy pouring in wol no-wher lete hem dwelle.
And in this blisse lete I now Arcite, And speke I wol of Palamon a lyte.
But thus I letein lust and Iolitee This Cambynskan his lordes festeyinge, 345 Til wel ny the day bigan to springe.
Dispeyred in this torment and this thoghtLete I this woful creature lye; 1085 Chese he, for me, whether he wol live or dye.
To Cristes chirche he dide greet honour; But I lete al his storie passen by, Of Custance is my tale specially.
He neither pleyeth at the dees ne daunceth; But as a marchant, shortly for to telle, 1495 He let his lyf, and there I lete him dwelle.
Nou lete we this maiden hiere, And speke of Dionise ayein And of Theophile the vilein, 1500 Of whiche I spak of nou tofore.
Wherof full many a gret debat Reformed is to good astat, And pes sustiened up alofte With esy wordes and with softe, 1540 Wher strengthe scholde lete it falle.
For what so falle, or wel or wo, That thoght foryete I neveremo, 640 Wher so I lawhe or so I loure: Noght half the Minut of an houre Ne mihte I lete out of my mende, Bot if I thoghte upon that hende.
Fortune with hire blinde whiel Ne wol noght lete ous stonde wel: For this I dar wel undertake, That if Paris his weie take, As it is seid that he schal do, We ben for evere thanne undo.
Mi Sone, unto the trouthe wende 2060 Now wol I for the love of thee, And lete alle othre truffles be.
Whan thei him povere and nedy se, Thei lete him passe and farwel he; Al that he wende of compainie Is thanne torned to folie.
And suche adaies be now fele In loves Court, as it is seid, That lete here tunges gon unteid.
It is gret wonder hou he mihte Towardes me nou ben unkinde, And so to lete out of his mynde Thing which he seide his oghne mouth.
Forthi, my Sone, I wolde rede 2020 To leteal other love aweie, Bot if it be thurgh such a weie As love and reson wolde acorde.
And lete þe fig{ur}e of 2 in þe nether rewe stonde stil.
And thenne they dressyd hem on bothe partyes of the felde, & lete their horses renne so fast that eyther smote other in the myddes of the shelde, with their speres hede, that bothe hors and man wente to the erthe.
Now lete me see my lytel child for whome I haue had alle this sorowe.
They lete make in a Chirche As swithe feire g{ra}ue wyrche.
Ne vpon the table / it shold not lye Lete your trenchour / be clene for ony thing 269 [Sidenote: Keep your trencher clean.
Lete maner & mesure / be your gydes tweyne [Sidenote: Let Manners and Moderation guide you.
Lete not your spone / in your disshe stonding [Sidenote: Don't leave your spoon in your dish or on the table.
Yet eft sones my childe / lete vs resorte [Sidenote: But let us return to our first subject.
Ouer mesure and maner, but saue them clene; Ensoyle not youre cuppe, but kepe hit clenely, 185 Lete no fatte ferthyng of youre lippe be sen.
And for Goddis love leteyour brother and ye be ware how that ye walken, and with what felesshep ye etyn or drynkyn, and in what place, for it was seid here pleynly that your brothere was poysoned.
Item, I lete you wete that Hastyngis hath entred ageyn in to his fee of the Constabyllshep of the Castell of Norwich be the vertu of his patent that he had of Kyng Harry; and I here sey he hath it graunted to hym and his heyeris.
Iff ye be dysposyd to goo, as I tolde hym that ye weer, yett wer it nott best that ye lete it be knowe tyll thys mater be doone, and then ye maye acordyng to yowr promyse lete my Ladye have knowleche ther off.
Lete me have an answer ther of in hast, and sende me woord how ywyr brother and ye spede in ywyr maters; and Goddes blissyng and myn mut ye have both, and send yw good sped in all ywyr maters.
I prey yow send me woord by hym hough ye do with your maters, and I prey yow in eny wyse lete me undyrstand, by the berer heroff, hough Bowen of the Cheker wyll dele with me; vj^xx.
I lete hym weete that ye weer wrothe, and that he shall nowther please yowe ner me, but iff he dele curteyslye with Saundre.
As sone as ye have redde it lete it be brent, for I wolde no man schulde se it in no wise; ye had no wrytyng from me this ij.
Thenne the quene lete al the other goo, and reteyned Iudas without moo[21]/.
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