Gyles Dewes, somtyme instructor to your noble grace in this selfe tong, at the especiall instaunce and request of dyvers of your highe estates and noble men, hath also for his partye written in this matter.
God gladlie and orderlie for conscience sake, not coldlie, and somtyme for maner sake, you carie all the Courte with yow, and the whole Realme beside, earnestlie and orderlie to do the same.
Somtyme I am religious; Now lyk an anker in an hous.
And right thus were men wont to teche; And in this wyse wolde it preche The maistres of divinitee Somtyme in Paris the citee.
Somtyme am I prioresse, And now a nonne, and now abbesse; 6350 And go thurgh alle regiouns, Seking alle religiouns.
Somtyme a wommans cloth take I; 6345 Now am I mayde, now lady.
Begins--'Somtyme the worlde so stedfast was and stable.
Somtyme hir ladies will not on hem rewe, Somtyme, yif that Ielosye hit knewe, They mighten lightly leye hir heed to borowe; 205 Somtyme envyous folke with tunges horowe Depraven hem; alas!
I entremete me of brocages, I make pees and mariages, I am gladly executour, And many tymes procuratour; I am somtyme messager; 6975 That falleth not to my mister.
I give and bequeath to Lewes Rogers[337] somtyme my servaunte my greater surgery Chest which is in my Chamber here at London with all that is therein except golde and silver.
And werke nat alwey in every nede by oon counseillour allone; forsomtyme bihoveth it to been conseilled by manye.
Trusteth me wel, in his prosperitee; Somtyme his good is drenched in the see, And somtym comth it sauf un-to the londe.
And understond, that Avarice ne stant nat only in lond ne catel, but somtyme in science [618] and in glorie, and in every manere of outrageous thing is Avarice and Coveitise.
After bakbyting cometh grucching or murmuracion; andsomtyme it springeth of inpacience agayns god, and somtyme agayns man.
And somtymebe we suffred for to seke Up-on a man, and doon his soule unreste, 1495 And nat his body, and al is for the beste.
And somtyme grucching sourdeth of Envye; whan men discovereth a mannes harm that was privee, or bereth him on hond thing that is fals.
What seye we eek of putours that liven by the horrible sinne of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hir bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child; as doon this baudes?
Master Maier I hartely recommende me vnto you And where for Certaine causes ye toke bounde of Sir William Wolff clerke somtyme chapplaine vnto Rice app Griff.
Somtyme it is ta- ken for fortunate, ryche, or noble.
And on this half is the kyngdom of Comanye, where of the Comayns that dwelleden in Grece, somtyme weren chaced out.
It wassomtyme an Emperour there, that was a worthi and a fulle noble prynce, that hadde Cristene knyghtes in his companye, as he hathe that is how.
Skeat SS 30: "After bakbyting cometh grucching or murmuracion; and somtyme it springeth of impacience agayns God, and somtyme agayns man.
The mightie O- kes are somtymecaste from roote, the Ceadars high by tempestes falle, so bitter stormes dooe force their strength.
Neuer the lesse / somtymemay chau[n]ce a thyng that must be either defended or els at the leest excused.
Neuer the lesse / somtyme it happeneth (how beit it is seldome) that a doubte may come / which must be either defended / or at the leest excused.
They brynge theyr lytle children to great and longe feastes, yea feastyng sometyme vntyl farre forth nyghtes, they fyl them wyth salt and hoat meates, somtyme euẽ tyl thei vomite.
And in euerye thynge the gretest part of payne is imaginacion, whych somtyme maketh vs feele harme, when there is no harme at all.
By this ye se that they that couet the best partesomtyme therfore lese the meane parte and all.
By this ye may se, that they that use to deride and mok other, somtyme it tornyth to theyre owne losse and damage.
By this ye may se that he that vseth to deryde other folkes is somtymehim selfe more deryded and mocked.
By this tale a man may perceyue, that somtyme peraduenture yonge Innocentes speke truely vnaduysed.
Somtyme there dwelled a preest in Stretforde vpon Auyne of small lernyng, which vndeuoutly sange masse and oftentymes twyse on one day.
By this tale a man may se, that he that useth to deryde and mocke other folkes, is somtymehim selfe more deryded and mocked.
Ever the deper thou 60 somtyme wadest, the soner thou it founde; if it had thee killed, it had be litel wonder.
How shulde ever goodnesse of pees have 85 ben knowe, but-if unpees somtyme reigne, and mokel yvel +wrathe?
Right suffred yet never but every good dede somtyme to be yolde.
Than saye I that no man may shorte ne lengthe the day ordayned of his +dying, altho[ugh] somtyme to us it semeth som man to do a thing of free wil, wherthorow his deeth he henteth.
After diner, anon they hem avaunced To daunce about, these folkes everichoon; And forth-withal this hevy lover daunced Somtyme with twayn, and somtyme but with oon.
For certes, that adversitee comth somtyme to shrewes, and somtyme that that they desiren, it comth of thise forseide causes.
But thou mayst seyn, what unreste may ben a worse confusioun than that gode men han somtyme adversitee and somtyme prosperitee, and shrewes also now han thinges that they desiren, and now 125 thinges that they haten?
For somtyme we ben Goddis instrumentes God's And menes to don his comaundementes, means When that Him list, upon His creatures, He chooses In divers acts and in divers figures.
Or ellis make yow seme that we ben schape It seem to you Somtyme like a man, or like an ape; Or lik an aungel can I ryde or go; It is no wonder thing though it be so.
Somtyme they hurtled to-gyder that they felle grovelyng on the ground'; Morte Arthure; by Sir T.
And grete wel my doghter and thy wyf, And yive her leve somtyme for to pleye, 2300 That she may seen me ones er I deye.
We waid ancor an hower before day and rowed it up, haveing somtyme wynd and somtyme calme.
These vnrewly rascales, in their roylynge, disperse them selues into seuerall companyes, as occation serueth, sometyme more and somtyme lesse.
As somtyme a whole bucke of clothes caryed awaye at a tyme.
Ye folys that haue in fortune confydence: And boste you of welth and of prosperyte Leue of your foly, and note by euydence: Hir cours vnsure: and hir mutabylyte None in this lyfe can byde in one degre But somtyme hye, than after pore and lowe.
Sholde be at last vnto thyer destruccyon Examples hereof thou canst nat lacke nor want The great Medas somtyme kynge tryumphant.
Of þe noumbre of whiche accuso{ur}s one basilius þat somtyme was chased out of þe kynges seruice.
And ry[gh]t so ben we gladed somtyme of þe face of þe see whan it is clere.
Certys þe dignite of þe p{ro}uostrie of Rome was somtyme a grete power.
And if þei somtyme 220 maky{n}g an ost a[gh]eynest vs assaile vs as strengere.
Somtyme he wolde gaspe Whan he sawe a waspe; A fly or a gnat, He wolde flye at that; And prytely he wold pant Whan he saw an ant; Lord, how he wolde pry After the butterfly!
It had a veluet cap, And wold syt upon my lap, And seke after small wormes, And somtyme white bred crommes; And many tymes and ofte Betwene my brestes softe It wolde lye and rest; It was propre and prest.
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