The tayler, herynge the backe dore openynge, wente to the other syde of the myll, and there saw the mylner ronnyng away, and stode ther a lytyll whyle musyng wyth the shepe on his necke.
I sen my lady a lytyll pes of Renysch wyne of the best, of x.
And so I am leek to have lytyll or nowt for all my lawbour and costis withowt my Lord be my good lord in that be halff be your mene.
Y ley forty shillings," seyde Lytyll John, 25 "To pay het thes same day, Ther ys nat a man among hus all A wed schall make hem ley.
I shall the lene Lytyll Johan my man, For he shall be thy knave; In a yemans steed he may the stonde, Yf thou grete nede have.
Lytyll Johan let it lye full styll, And went to his mayster full lowe: 170 "What tydynge, Johan?
And I trust to God to mak yt so sewyr that he shall do me lytyll harm.
For some of them be but yonge sawgeres, and wote full lytyll what yt meneth to be as a sauger, nor for to endure to do as a sawger shuld do.
Wyntyrton, we ar lyke to have but lytyll mor mony besyd the barly.
I wold she war her in Norffolk, as well at es as evyr I sy hyr, and as lytyll rewlyd be hyr son as evyr she was, and than I wold hope that we alle shuld far the bettyr for hyr.
I herd a lytyll word that ye purposeid to be here in Norwyche thys next week.
Of the violet we read: "Violet is a lytyll herbe in substaunce and is better fresshe and newe than whan it is olde.
For the leves of the wylde rose ben fewe and brode and whytyssh: meddlyd wyth lytyll rednesse: and smellyth not so wel as the tame rose, nother is so vertuous in medicyn.
Whom I assure yow yf it were in my lytyll power I coulde be well contentyd to preferre as ferre as any one man lyuyng.
I most humblye beseche your grace to be good lorde vnto my poore kynsman Doctour Karbott and let hym haue sum lytyll offyce vnder your grace.
In yow that ye will witsaffe as I may euer herafter ow vnto yow my Symple seruyce or any pleasure that shalbe within my lytyll power [747] c.
Colophon: Here endeth a lytyll treatyse for to lerne Englysshe and Frensshe.
I cannot eate but lytyll meate; My stomacke ys not goode; But sure I thyncke that I cowde dryncke With hym that werythe an hoode.
I love no roste but a browne toste, Or a crabbe in the fyer; A lytyll breade shall do me steade, Mooche breade I never desyer.
Herry the sexte myght have ben stole a way at a lytyll posterne on the bak syde; at whiche byker ben slayn iij.
My Lord of Oxforthe is come azen fro the se, and he hath geth hymlytyll thank in this countre.
Item, I take your sonne of your faders oode mony, that was in the lytyll trussyng cofyr x.
God for Hys holy mersy geve grace that ther may be set a good rewyll and a sad in this contre in hast, for I herd nevyr sey of so myche robry and manslawter in thys contre as is now within a lytyll tyme.
And as for gadyryng of mony, I sey nevyr a werse seson, for Rychard Calle seyth he can get but lytyll in substans of that is owyng, nowthyr of yowyr lyvelod nor of Fastolfys th'eyr.
And, modyr, I beseche yow that ye wolbe good mastras to my lytyll man, and to se that he go to scole.
Syr John Stylle, and to pray hym to be good mastyr to lytyll Jak, and to lerne hym well; and I pray yow that thys byll may recomand me to all your folkys, and my wellwyllers.
The second (with the colophon 'Here endeth a lytyll treatyse called the booke of Curtesye or lytyll John.
Original has ¶ A lytyll tyne abacke to make abew retret.
And whan Vertu had to Nature sayd thus ¶ A lytyll tyne his ey castyng hym besyde.
Nay he sayde myn abydyng most commonly ¶ Is in a lytyll corner called fantasy.
Y ley forty shillings," seyde Lytyll John, "To pay het thes same day, Ther ys nat a man arnong hus all A wed schall make hem ley.
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