And if ye shall at any tyme herafter perceyve any suspect person nyghe unto the see costes which shall seme unto you to be of the same affynyte, than His Grace will that ye put them in lyke suertie.
I pray you to purveye for me, such as ye seme necessary.
And I will and ordeyne that my seyd executores shull dispose all and senguler issewys, profitez, avaylez, and emolwementes afornseyd for my soule, and for the soulys aforn rehersyd, as they shall seme beste to the plesure of God.
And now be not greued therwith/ nether let it seme a cruel thinge in youre eyes/ that ye solde me hither.
That Ioseph brought the egiptians in to soch subiection wold seme vnto some a very cruell deade: how be it it was a very equall waye.
Wherefore I haue collected these fewe (from many others lefte for moore leysure) whiche seme to mee not to be fully explaned in their proper nature, thoughe peradventure yo{u} will seme to excuse them by a metaphoricall gloose.
Wherefore I will here shewe such thinges as, in mye opynione, may seme to be touched, not medlinge withe the seconde editione to one inferior personne then my fathers editione was.
Vppon these woordes you saye, this maye seme strange bothe in respecte that yt is not in the frenche, as also for that there was no lorde Windsore at those dayes.
For that is a tache of vncurtesye, But and ye seme ye be enbrasyde streite, 199 Or than ye sitte amende hit secrely, So couertly that no wyght hit espie.
There was a priest whiche knewe perfectly by longe experience and practise, the arte to make thynges seme that they were not, otherwise called, deceptio visus.
Forsoth I can not see, by what reason these saiynges of yours can be confuted al thoughe they seme too varye muche from the vulgar and cõmune opinion of men.
In lyke sorte, the necessary, wonderfull and Secret doctrine of Proportion, and proportionalytie hath purchased vnto it selfe a peculier maner of handlyng and workyng: and so may seme an other forme of Arithmetike.
Some, by other meanes, as the Images of Mercurie: and the brasen hed, made by Albertus Magnus, which dyd seme to speake.
Small thinges, to seme great: and great, to seme small.
Thynges, farre of, to seeme nere: and nere, to seme farre of.
Architecture‡+, to many may seme not worthy, or not mete, to be reckned among the Artes Mathematicall.
Pecockes tayle, and a Doues necke: or a whole ore, in water, holden, to seme broken.
The Venetians consideration of waight, may semeprecise enough: by eight descentes progressionall, * halfing, from a grayne.
But whan us lyketh, we can take us oon, Or elles make yow seme we ben shape Som-tyme lyk a man, or lyk an ape; Or lyk an angel can I ryde or go.
Your thridde resoun is this: ye seyn that "if ye governe yow by my conseil, it sholde seme that ye hadde yeve me the maistrie and the lordshipe over your persone.
Povert is this, al-though it seme elenge: Possessioun, that no wight wol chalenge.
Now as of the outrageous array of wommen, god woot, that though the visages of somme of hem seme ful chaast and debonaire, yet notifie they in hir array of atyr likerousnesse and pryde.
Thus quyte I folk that doon us displesances; 420 Thus spitte I out my venim under hewe Of holynesse, to seme holy and trewe.
And also certes, if I governed me by thy conseil, it sholde seme that I hadde yeve to thee over me the maistrie; and god forbede that it so were.
Seme Dono at Firando and served his turne in his junck, which now is com out.
Some of his contries are dispeopled, some barren, some so far asonder, also held by tyrannie, that in deed upon the due consideration of the matter, his mighte and greatenes is not suche as prima facie yt may seme to be.
I mak itseme that I beleive that all is trew, and takis heid thairto, and excusit my self for this nicht that I culd not walk.
Item, our Lord the King shall have for each seme of mine ore that is taken out of the Forest, .
These thinges are to be lefte so free that in the churches suche maie be vsed / as shall seme most meete for the edyfyinge of the people.
Yf it doth suffice to beleaue in harte / and the confession with the mowthe seme not necessarie / wherfor I praye you Hath the lorde sayed?
The which may in this case so ordeyne their Seats and Stalles, as that shallseme them beast, and at their Pleasure.
Well, than, as wyse as ye semeto be, Yet can ye se no wysdome in me.
In fayth, of us both I thynke never one sad, For I am not so mery but ye seme as mad!
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