Thoughe saye they it be a synne to go to Masse and suche popishe pelfe yet it is but a light synne / and not se seuerely to be reproued.
Yea they coulde not haue corrupted those bokes thoughe they wolde / but it shuld be easyly espied: for ther be of them many moste awncient in wryten hande / which haue bene kepte moste diligentlie of Christians.
Neither are they all yet vtterly to be despayred of / for the roote remaynethe into the which they maye be ingrafted agayne / and nowe and thẽ some of them / thoughe not many in Nombre / do come vnto Christe.
But this place of Iames / is not to be vnderstõded / as thoughe that all synnes wer equall and like.
Sum of the persequutours them selues verely / as thoughe they hadd vsed pitie / did bringe many of our mẽ to the wicked sacrifices / and made a noise as though thay hadd sacrificed / when indeede they hadd not sacrificed.
They do furthermore crie owt of all corners at all their altars vnto their sainctes / asthoughe they were present euerie where.
A courtier might have spared it And as he is a courtier beene excusd Thoughe it were false; for he whose tonge and harte Runne one selfe course shall seldome find the way To a preferment.
He shall not outlive mydnyght: here Ile lye, And thoughe I followe nexte thys lorde shall dye.
Thoughe I neare knew thee muche opprest with witt, I did not thynke thee such a foe to sence To speake with suche a daringe impudence.
Who reads thys, Thoughe flynte, must melt in pyttie.
I am resolvde; Thoughe I had thousand ways to scape besyde, Yet I will stay onlye to murther hym.
Be not offended, Sir, thoughe symple I Can live in peace at home with hungrye leeks And never curse my planettes.
Sir, to let passe somethynge without your power Nowe to be remedyed, I am persuaded (Thoughe I persuade my selfe to littill purposse) To tell you of a practyse gainst my life By Ganelon.
And alle thoughe it be clept a see, it is no see, ne it touchethe to non other see; but it is a lake, the grettest of the world.
And thoughethei wolden putten hem in to that see, thei ne wysten never, where that thei scholde arryven.
Of that frute I have eten; allethoughe it were wondirfulle: but that I knowe wel, that God is marveyllous in his werkes.
I my self have seen o ferrom in that see, as thoughe it hadde ben a gret yle fulle of trees and buscaylle, fulle of thornes and breres, gret plentee.
And there ben manye popegayes, that thei clepen psitakes in hire langage: and thei speken of hire propre nature, and salven men that gon thorghe the desertes, and speken to hem als appertely, as thoughe it were a man.
His seruantes GOD preserues, thoughe they in danger fall: Euen as from vipers deadlie bite, he kept th’ Appostle Paule.
No state so sure, no seate within this life But that maie fall, thoughe longe the same haue stoode: Here fauninge foes, here fained frendes are rife.
Erie Leofwinus throwghe the campe ypass'd, And sawe bothe men and erlies on the grounde; They slepte, as thoughe they woulde have slepte theyr last, And hadd alreadie felte theyr fatale wounde.
A troope of Normannes from the mass-songe came, Rousd from their praiers by the flotting crie; Thoughe Girthe and Ailwardus perceevd the same, Not once theie stoode abashd, or thoghte to flie.
These are the fishermen and I the fishe catcht in the nett; well my comfort is, thoughe my booty have made me no ritcher then I was, poorer then I am I canott bee.
I thinke rather lesse blessed and that shall approue by this excellent good ballet, thoughe sett to a scurvy tune.
Are not the bewtyous lyllyes, The gardens pryde and glorye of the feilds, Thoughe to the eye fayre and delectable, Yet ranke in smell?
Guilt, thoughe it weare a smooth and peacefull face, Yet is within full of seditious thoughts That makes continuall follie.
Faith these are wares in all parts vendible, No matter thoughe to Turke and infidell, So itt bringe gayne and profitt.
Which soone I did By th'helpe of a short ladder, sett him theire In a close-place andthoughe not of the sweetest Yet as I thought the safest; left him there.
By this tale a man may well perceyue that they, that be brought vp withoute lernynge or good maner, shall neuer be but rude and bestely, all thoughe they haue good naturall wyttes.
Than Gaius sayd to him: drede thou nat, Eumonus, thoughe I sayd all phisitians: for there is no man that hath wytte, that wylle take the for one.
The frere comforted her and said that, thoughe these were theyr fortunes, there myght be remedy had.
And all thoughe he sayde it was impossyble for him to do, yet the confessour wolde nat chaunge his sentence.
So home he brought hym, and layde hym in his bed, and than he fared with hym selfe, asthoughe he wolde gyue vp the gooste.
So the mayster forgaue hym hys saynge, all thoughe he sayd trouthe peraduenture.
Wherfore he was ioyfull, as thoughe the victorye from heuen had ben to him promised.
And the Nature and effect of a scorne, is properly to take a contentation and pleasure to do another man shame and villany: thoughe it do our selves no good in the world.
What thoughe thou thinke thy present small, for view of gallant ones This litle Diamond, shall out prize, a quarry full of stones.
This case is so clere that the Spaniardes themselves, thoughe full sore againste their willes, are constrained to yielde unto us therein.
And to encrease the some, the Kinge of Denmarke requireth a tribute of them, thoughethey touche not upon any of his domynions.
Neither ys it any marvaile thoughe (as Gomera saieth) the Pope gave all the West Indies of his free grace to the Kinge of Spaine, for they never coste him a penye.
For to take from one that which is his, to give it to another to whom it is not due, ys plaine injurie and no liberalitie, thoughe the gifte were bestowed upon him that were in nede.
Now turne, now turne thee, Aldingar, And eyther fighte or flee; I trust that I shall avenge the wronge, Thoughe I am so small to see.
Yet one thinge wolde I, sayd our king, If thou wilt not seeme strange: Thoughe my horse be better than thy mare, Yet with thee I fain wold change.
The first man, that Lord Howard chose, Was the ablest gunner in all the realm, Thoughe he was three score yeeres and ten; Good Peter Simon was his name.
And here have we lived in fortunes despite, Thoughe poore, yet contented with humble delighte: Full forty winters thus have I beene A silly blind beggar of Bednall-greene.
At length in the battle on Eveshame plaine The barons were routed, and Montford was slaine; Moste fatall that battel did prove unto thee, Thoughe thou wast not borne then, my prettye Bessee!
All this beheard a litle foot-page, By his ladyes coach as he ranne: 30 Quoth he, thoughe I am my ladyes page, Yet Ime my lord Barnardes manne.
Thoughe I am not that lady fayre, Yet let me go with thee.
Who strives to breake the sturdye steele, Or goeth about to staye the sunne; Who thinks to causse an oke to reele, Which never can by force be done: 10 That man likewise bestoweth paine, Thoughe that his laboure be in vaine.
And I knowe neuer, nowher fer ner neer, Man that was gladde to bynde him prysonier, Thoughe that his prysoun, his castell, or his holde Wer depeynted with asure or with golde.
Thoughe his bely were rounded lyche an ooke She wolde not fail to gyf the first strooke.
For this is no doute, euery prudent wyff Hathe redy aunswere in al suche maner stryff, Thoughe theos dotardes, with theyre dokked berdes Which strowtethe out as they were made of herdes, Haue ageyn hus a gret quarell nowe sette.
Thoughe Barclay haue presumed of audacite This Shyp to rule as chefe mayster and Captayne.
The uttermost walles were lime and bricke, But thoughe they won them soon anone, Long e'er they wan the innermost walles, For they were cut in rocke of stone.
The first man that Lord Howard chose, Was the ablest gunner in all the realm, Thoughe he was threescore yeeres and ten; Good Peter Simon was his name.
Which person thoughe in Court he be not esteemed, yet in schoolehouse of good arte he is deemed famouse, and for his worthy skill right worthy to be preferred aboue the heauens.
And if thou wilt lend me the Eldridge sworde, That lyeth within thy bowre, I truste in Christe for to slay this fiende 125 Thoughe he be stiff in stowre.
The uttermost walles were lime and bricke; But thoughe they won them soon anone, Long e'er they wan the innermost walles, For they were cut in rocke of stone.
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And if thou wilt lend me the Eldridge sworde, That lyeth within thy bowre, I truste in Christe for to slay this fiende, 125 Thoughe he be stiff in stowre.
Now turne, now turne thee, Aldingar, And eyther fighte or flee; I trust that I shall avenge the wronge, 175 Thoughe I am so small to see.
And surely the moste of th[~e] haue the spanishe scabbe, or as some terme it the frenche pockes: thoughe now adaies one nation hathe it commonlye asmuche as an other.
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And here have wee lived in fortunes despite, Thoughe poore, yet contented with humble delighte; Full forty winters thus have I beene A silly blind beggar of Bednall-greene.
At length in the battle on Eveshame plaine The barons were routed, and Montfort was slaine; Moste fatall that battel did prove unto thee, Thoughe thou wast not borne then, my prettye Bessee!
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