Saynt Mary abbay,’ sayd the monke, ‘Though I besymple here.
They put on their symple wedes,] They came to the gates anone; The porter was redy hymselfe And welcomed them everychone.
His hode hanged in his iyn two; He rode in symple aray; A soriar man than he was one Rode never in somer day.
Than bespake that gentyll knyght Untyll his meynë: ‘Now put on your symple wedes That ye brought fro the see.
Do hereyn now as it please you, and Allmighti God have you and all youres in Hese kepyng; besechyng you that this symple bille may recomaunde my pouer wiff un to your maistershipp.
I have purchased moche of my saide fe symple landes, which also canne geve best enformacion how all suche landes as I have purchased stonden, and what consciens is there in, and howe every thyng shalbe ordred.
I mad noght for no disours, Ne for no seggers no harpours, Bot for þe luf of symplemenn That strange Inglis cann not kenn.
But [th]ou has leued ay like a ladde, And in sorowe, as a symple knaue.
I thank The, Lord so dere, that wold vowchsayf Thus low to appere to a symple knafe.
Than bespake that gentyll knyght Untyll hys meyne, "Now put on your symple wedes That ye brought fro the see.
Hys hode hangynge over hys eyen two, He rode in symple aray; 90 A soryer man than he was one Rode never in somers-day.
They put on their symple wedes,] 65 And came to the gates anone; The porter was redy hymselfe, And welcomed them everychone.
Saynt Mary abbay," sayd the monke, "Though I besymple here.
The best to my symple dyscrecon whyche is fysshynge: called Anglynge wyth a rodde: and a lyne and an hoke.
And thereof to treate as my symple wytte may suffyce: both for the said reason of Salomon and also for the reason that phisyk makyth in this wyse.
Alle for the luf of symple men, That strange Inglis cannot ken.
Or weryth by his symple wyt, and vanyte Gyuyth by his foly and vnthryfty gyses Moche yl example to yonge Comontye.
Illustration: He that iniustyce vseth and greuance Agaynst all reason lawe and equyte By vyolent force puttynge to vtteraunce A symple man full of humylyte Suche by his lewdnes and iniquyte.
If any hym for his dedes worthely accuse He couereth his venym: as symple of intent.
But lawde thy maker and thy sauyour With fere, mekenes, fayth, glory, and honoure Let thy treasoure onely in his seruyce be And here be content with symple behauoure Hauynge in this lorde trust and felycyte Of to moche spekynge or bablynge.
Than have I fe symple londe the maner of Wynterton with Bastwyk and Billys, whyche in alle is nott xx.
As for cloth for my gowne, I can non gete in this town better than that is that I send yow an exsample of, whiche me thynkith to symple bothe of colour and of cloth.
Thus doe these popish pristes envent lies to deceave the pore symple people.
In fyne, this kyng is a symple man and led per bad councell, and so I think it will prove in the end.
Miaco from Mr. Wickham, dated this day, advising that he is offerd but a symple price for our silk, etc.
Dono seventy taies in plate of bars, in full payment of the fee symple of the gadonge over the way, to westward of English howse, wherof one hundred taies was paid before.
God forbyd elles, yea & many tymes a symple shepe lyeth hyd in a wolfes skynne, and yf a man maye credite and beleue the fables of Aesope, an asse maye lye secretely unknowen by cause he is in a lyons skynne.
Sidenote: 1436] Paston recomaund hym to youre good lordeship, willyng with all his herte to doo yow servise to his symple power.
How Kingis and Princis are of the samyn nature with symple men.
I wold this mater sped the bety[r] be cause my Lady spoke so feythefully to me therin, and that mevyth me to wryte to yow this long symple lettyr of myn intent.
I dowt not thoughe he be Sumwhat Symple in Aparence yet he shall discharge hymself yf ye put hym in trust and A lityll auctoryte.
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.
Who hearing but the symple name of hir supposed Ennimy, began to sighe so straungely, as a Man would haue thought hir soule presently would haue departed hir Body.
What wronge hath bene done to many symple Women, for being buryed in the Tombe of dark obliuion, which for their vertue and pudique Lyfe, meryted Eternall prayse?
But the Rhethorician seketh about & bo- roweth where he can asmoche as he may for to make the sympleand playne Logi- call argumentes gaye & delectable to the eare.
And this is the maner of handelynge of a symple Theme dialectycall.
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