For the haue I sene rightuous before me in thys generacion.
That be farre from the/ that thou shuldest be after thys maner/ to sley the rightwes with the weked/ ad that the rightwes shulde be as the weked: that be farre from the.
Then the LORde apeared vnto Abram ad sayd: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thys lade.
Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the erth/ and fro thy syghte must I hyde my selfe ad I must be wandrynge and a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me/ wyll kyll me.
And thys haue they begon to do/ and wyll not leaue of from all that they haue purposed to do.
Chapter Thys is the boke of the generacion of man/ In the daye when God created man and made hym after the symilytude of god Male and female made he th[~e] and called their names man/ in the daye when they were created.
And than Abram departed and toke his iourney southwarde After thysthere came a derth in the lande.
The day that Roulland the marter rendred hys soule unto God, I Turpyn, archbysshop of Raymes, was in the valeye of Rouncyval, tofore Charles the Emperour, and sayde masse for the soules whych were passed out of thys world.
Thus in thys manere Ganellon brought gold and sylver, wyn wymmen and other richesses as tofore he had enterprysed.
Nevertheles Rolland beynge in thys sorowe, he peased hys woundes al so wel as he myght, and stratched himself on the grasse to the fressheness for to forget hys thurst, whych was over grete.
But I merveille moche of Ganellon, whyche madethys treason without to have cause, coloured ne juste.
And alle the hondred crysten men that were wyth Roulland in thys rencountre were dolorously slayn and put to deth, except onely Baulduyn and Thyerry, whych for fere fled into the wode.
And whan thysdiscomfiture was doon, Ganellon was with Charles, and also tharchebysshop Turpyn, whych knew nothyng of this werke so sorouful, sauf onely the traytre, whyche supposed that they had al ben destroyed and put to deth.
O good Lord, I beseche the to pardone and forgive alle theym that thys daye ben deed in my companye, that they may be saved.
As all thys is trewe, pardone me, comforte my spyryte, receyve my soule, and brynge me to reste perdurable.
But heed thys my warning, ye who hast gayned this knowledge.
And to gyve knowledge for theyr hyther resorte We wolde thys afore proclaymed to be, To all our people, by some one of thys sorte,[105] Whome we lyste to choyse here amongest all ye.
But I marvell I see hym not all thys same day, I wyll seeke him out: But loe he commeth thys way, I have yond espied hym sadly comming, A iii b 65 And in love for twentie pounde, by hys glommyng.
Go beare me thys token, carrie me this letter, Nowe this is the best way, nowe that way is better.
Thys Lesson must I practise, or else ere long, Wyth mee Mathew Merygreeke[333] it will be wrong.
Yf drought toke place, as ye say, yet maye ye se, Lytell helpeth the wynde in thys commodyte.
More-over for wynde thys thynge I fynde 600 For the most parte all maner mynstrelsy, By wynde they delyver theyr sound chefly, Fyll me a bagpype of your water full, As swetely shall it sounde as it were stuffyd with wull.
All thys tyme I perceyve is spent in wast, To wayte for mo sewters I se none make hast.
Yf that there come no wyser after thyscry I wyll to the god and make an ende quyckely.
Now thys man towarde you being so kinde, You not to make him an answere somewhat to his minde.
And thys schal stonde for the prebende, which is a pounde of brede, welle weyed, with a potel of ale and a messe of mete.
And than experience to me came, And seyde, kateryne, I the ensuer, Thyslady ys but seldom fro home.
Alyce, And syghed wonderous sore, ‘Thys place hath ben besette for you Thys halfe yere and more.
And at the shyrife shote I wyll Strongly wyth an arrowe kene; A better shote in mery Carlile Thys seven yere was not sene.
She went unto the justice hall, As fast as she could hye: ‘Thys night is come unto this town Wyllyam of Cloudesle.
God’s curse on his hart,’ saide William, ‘Thys day thy cote dyd on!
My hart is wonderous sore; I had lever than a thousande pounde, I had knowne of thys before; 137.
If I come ageyne, Robyn, Here by thys contrë, As gode a dyner I shall thee make As thou haest made to me.
Sore syghed there fayre Alyce, and sayd, ‘Alas, that ever I see thys day!
Wyllyam sayde to hys brethren two, ‘Thys daye let us lyve and die, If ever you have nede, as I have now, The same shall you finde by me.
For if ye go to Carlile, brother, And from thys wylde wode wende, If that the justice may you take, Your lyfe were at an ende.
For I have y-graunted them grace, And that forthynketh me: But had I knowne all thys before, They had been hanged all thre.
Beside all this tell me trueth hast thou none euyll wyllers, Besyde all thys tell me trueth, hast thou none euyll wyllers.
A] "By thys tale ye may se that the olde prouerbe ys trew that yt is as gret pyte to se a woman wepe as a gose to go barefoote.
A] "Daughter, in this I can thinke none other But that it is truethys prouerbe old, Hastye loue is soone hot and soone cold.
Cato maketh hym thys answere, Certes my frend it is no m[=o]strouse syght to se rattes eat mens hose, but yf thy hose had eaten the rattes that had been a monstrouse syght.
And when the play was done, thys John Adroyns in the euynyng departyd fro the sayde market towne to go home to hys own house.
By thys tale ye may se, that anger oftymes puttyth away the bodely payne.
Thys preste, whan mas was done, putte wyne in the chales, and cam to the skoler knelyng in the pew, profferyng hym to drynk of the chales.
Also yet by thys tale they that be vnlearnyd in the laten tonge may know the sestence[95] of the Aue Maria.
Thys fyrste at hys houre apoynted came, and in the bedde chanced to lese a rynge.
By thys tale ye may perceyue, that the more yee forbydde some women a thynge, the greater desyre they haue to do it.
Thys gentylman in the meane whyle departyd out of the chyrche.
By thys tale ye may percyue, it is no wysdom for a man to truste to a man to do a thing, that is contrary to hys old accustumyd condycyons.
Thys gentylman began and sayd thus:-- "The son on the Sonday.
A frere Lymytour[67] come into a pore mannys howse in the countrey, and because thys pore man thought thys frere myght do hym some good, he therefore thought to make hym good chere.
LVII ‘Who is there now,’ sayd the porter, ‘That maketh all thys knockinge?
XXXIV The sparkles brent and fell upon Good Wyllyam of Cloudesley: Than was he a wofull man, and sayde, ‘Thys is a cowardes death to me.
Alyce, And syghèd wonderous sore, ‘Thys place hath ben besette for you Thys halfè yere and more.
XCIX Sore syghèd there fayre Alyce, and sayd ‘That ever I sawe thys day!
A better shote in mery Carleile Thys seven yere was not sene.
The worst porter to merry Carleile That ye had thyshundred yere.
I should advise you to drive gently but steadily at hunting and country subjects, and if you get a good idea of any sort have a shy at it, and encourage your friends to look out for you.
Yet hath none of al these set furth any thyng other to the generall profit of hole Christendome in latin and to the honor of thys realme, nether in Englysh to the proper profit of their naturall countre.
At the foot of page 3 is written "Robert Hychys is the ower of thys boke.
Of wine made of it, he says: "If they drynk thys drynke they shall fele no payne, but they shall fall into a forgetfull and slepishe drowsiness.
The Northern men call thys herbe banwurt because it helpeth bones to knyt agayne.
Thys herb was consecrated by the wyse men of Egypt unto the sonne and was rekened to be the only remedy of all agues.
I stoppe thys ouyn wythowtyn dowte, With clay I clome yt uppe ryght fast, That non heat cum [ther] owte.
So fare men here by thys tale, Some holde it but a trotevale,[24] Yn other stedys hyt ys ful dere, And for grete merveyle they wyl hyt here.
And fyl thys chaunce yn thys londe, Yn Ingland as y undyrstonde, Yn a kynges tyme that hyght Edward, Fyl this chaunce that was so hard.
Yet in thys thynge also must I warne everye reasonable & honest parson to beware, that in contractyng of maryage they dyssemble not, nor set forthe any lye.
The Baron of Grastoke ys com owt of the west, With him a noble companye; All they loge at your fathers thys nyght, And the battell fayne wold they see.
For thow haste brente Northumberlonde, 5 And done me grete envye; For thystrespasse thou hast me done, The tone of us schall dye.
My trowth ys plyght to yonne Skottysh knyght, 45 It nedes me not to layne, That I schulde byde hym upon thys bent, And I have hys trowth agayne.
Thys fraye bygan at Otterborne, Bytwene the nyghte and the day: Ther the Dowglas lost hys lyfe, And the Percy was lede awaye.
And if that I wende off thys grownde, For soth, unfoughten awaye, 50 He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght In hys londe another daye.
The Percy was a man of strenghth, 105 I tell yow in thys stounde; He smote the Dowglas at the swordes length, That he felle to the growynde.
Every man thynke on hys trewe love, And marke hym to the Trenite; For to God I make myne avowe Thys day wyll I not fle.
Thys howse ys all coveryde w{t} slatte and no ledde.
And if I myght have thys sygned of the kynge, sayde the Welshman, I care for no more, as longe as I dooe lyve.
Nowe, sayd the Welshman, putte to allthys dryncke a littell crome of breade, and a great deale of drynke to it, and reade once agayne.
Well then, sayde Skelton, when you have thys signed of the kyng, then wyll I labour for a patent to have bread, that you wyth your drynke and I with the bread may fare well, and seeke our livinge with bagge and staffe.
Thys rehearsed hystorie, for the better and sweeter pleasing to the eye, the workeman had graced in this sort.
And for thys ambiguous aunswere they were reserued by their Parents.
And thus my insatiable and wanton eyes, were the euill beginning of all thys perturbing and contentious commotion, whome I founde the seminaries and moouers of all so great strife and trouble, in my wounded and festering heart.
Which being thus brought to thys passe, by a prouoked inward desire, yet inwardly as I reasoned with my selfe, it was wonderfully variable and doubtfull.
O Poliphilus be not wearie to take paynes in thys place, for when labour and trauell is ouer-come, there will be a tyme of rest.
Thys woorke and musaicall painting, was rightlye placed in order, as the beginning and end of the historie required with fictions in theyr naturall coulers, theyr actions and degrees tightlye expressed.
It may that thys Nymph is spowsed to some high and mightie Prince, and I to offer her this dishonour, what am I worthy of?
In the lowest Cubicall Figure, vpon the smoth plaine of euery square, were ingrauen Greeke Letters, three, one, two and three onthys sort.
Thys craft com into England, as y yow say, Yn tyme of good Kyng Adelstone's day.
Indeed, there is an old English verse that relates: The clerk Euclide on this wyse hit fonde Thys craft of gemetry yn Egypte londe .
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