A man dwellyng in the countrey, takynge his iourney, bad hys wife in his absence playe the good husewyfe, that he at his home comyng[306] might finde all thynges well.
For all they that shoulde playe therin were gentilmen.
And yf you beleue not me, than for a more surete and suffycyent auctoryte go your way to Couentre, and there ye shall se them all playe in Corpus Cristi playe.
The first book printed by him in this country was called ‘The Game and Playe of the Chesse.
Yea they loue to playe the thefe well inoughe, but they loue nothynge worse then to here of it.
Wherefore all their warres are no more warres, then the playenge of children when as they playe at jogo de cane or reedes.
Martine's touche, to deceiue him that would playe the foole to buy them.
This playe consists of short dialogues between Robyn Hode, Lytell John, Fryer Tucke, a potter's boy, and the potter.
The poet tells us, that the sherif of Notyngham, Did crye a ful fayre playe That all the best archyres of the north Should come upon a daye; And they that shote, al of the best, The prize should bear away.
Behold here one of the effects of humane follie: this was the firste acte of the Tragedie, wherein loue maketh this brainlesse man to playe the first and principall parte vpon the Stage.
This game (as I take it) is used of children in Northfolke, and they cal it the Chaunce Bone; they playewith three or foure of those bones together; it is either the same or very lyke to it.
Clowt-clowt "A kinde of playe called clowt-clowt, to beare about, or my hen hath layd.
Foure maye playe it easely, takyng such partes as they thinke best: so that any one take of those partes that be not in place at once.
A new Enterlued for Chyldren to playenamed Iacke Iugeler both wytte and very playsent.
The first traytee is of the Invencion of this playe of the chesse/ and conteyneth.
And in this playe we ought to knowe by the nature of hit how the kynge meueth hym and yssueth oute of his place/ For y'e shall vnderstande that he is sette in the fourth quadrante or poynt of theschequer.
Illustration] This second chapitre of the first tra3tate sheweth who fonde first the playe of the chesse.
The causes wherfore this playe was founden ben thre/ the first was for to correcte and repreue the kynge .
To playe my wiffe and me a Fitt,[463] When abed together wee bee.
Because playe is fitte for that age, and they imagine it a playe and no labour.
And yet for al that they spare no costly feastes, nyght & day thei playe at dice, and bestowe moch vpon houndes & fooles.
For what may not a man learne, when an Eliphant maye be taught to walke vpõ a corde, a bear to daunse, and an asse to playe the foole.
I wolde wyshe to haue one of a lustye yonge age, whome the chylde myght delyght in, and which wold not be lothe to playe euerye parte.
Of that playe commeth more fruite, if two or thre matches playe together.
He that played thys playe was a chylde borne to all myschiefe, whiche by other vngracious deedes afterwardes, made men beleue the other to be true that were done before.
Other haue made the fashion of iuorie, that the chylde shulde playe wyth them, or if there were any other thyng wherin that age is specially delited.
What wyll a chyld hear more gladlye then Esops fabels, whyche in sporte and playe teache earnest preceptes of philosophy?
Accepte this myn honest chaunge from vice to virtue, from prodigalitee to frugall livyng, from negligence of teachyng to assiduitee, from playe to studie, from lightness to gravitee.
The first English book with woodcuts was Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, published about 1476, the first edition of which was issued two years earlier, without illustrations.
Caxton, William: Game and Playe of the Chesse, 63.
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