ever in ioy and rest without trouble and sure never to lose it Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven as to love all that thou lovest and to hate all that thou hatest and that wee keep evermore thy commandements Our daily bread give us to day that is to say bread of doctrin bread of penance and bread for our bodily sustentation And forgive us all our sins that we have done against thee against our neighbours and against our self Semblably as we forgive other that have offended us by words in our bodies or our goods And suffer not that we be overcome in temptation that is to say as by the devill the world and the flesh But deliver us from all evill works ready done and also them for to come Here followeth the History of the Pater noster row OVR Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name Let thy kingdome come Thy will be done as well in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive our trespassers And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill For thine is the kingdome and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen IN the story here before sheweth the simple people how this holy praier the Pater noster should be said to God the father to God the son God the holy Ghost to none other The which praier containeth and taketh all that be rightfully asked of God our Lord Iesus Christ made it there to the intēt that we should have more hope and devotion and he made it on a time when he taught his Apostles speally to make orison And then the disciples said Lord and master learn us to pray and then our Lord opened his holy mouth and said to his Apostles when ye will make any prayers after this maner as here followeth shall you begin saying thus Our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and let us not be led into temptation But deliver vs from evill Amen Hereafter followeth the salutation that the Angell Gabriel made to the glorious Virgin Mary with the greeting of the holy woman S. Elizabeth Haile Mary full of grace our Lord is with thee Blessed art thou of all women and blessed be the fruit of thy wombe Iesus Secondly in the booke of Iesus the Salutation is such Haile Mary full of grace our Lord is with thee Blessed be thou amongst all women and blessed be the fruit of thy wombe Iesus Christ Amen The salutation of the Angel Gabriel IN this salutation is three mysteries The first is the salutation that the Angell Gabriel made The second is the loving commendation that S. Elizabeth made mother to S. Iohn Baptist The third is the supplicatiō that our mother holy church maketh And they be the most fair words that we can say to our Lady that is the Ave Maria wherin we salute her praise her pray her and speak to het And therfore it is only said to her and not to S. Katherine nor to S. Margaret nor to none other Saint And if thou demaund how thou maist then pray to other saints I say to thee thou must pray as our mother holy Church praieth in saying to Saint Peter Holy S. Peter pray for us S. Thomas pray for us That they may pray to God to give us grace he forgive us our sins And that he give us grace to doe his will penance keep his commandements so we shall pray to the saints in heaven after the necessity that we have S. Peter S. Andrew S. Iames the great S. Iohn S. Thomas S. Iames the lesse S. Philip S. Bartholomew S. Matthew S. Simon S. Iude and S. Matthias CHAP XI Thirdly in the book of Iesus is salutary science and is the Credo which we ought to beleeve on pain of damnation I beleeve in God the father almighty maker of heaven and Earth and in Iesus Christ his only Sonne our Lord. which was conceived of the holy Ghost and suffered passion under Ponce Pilate crucified dead and buried went into hell the third day rose from death Ascended into heaven and siteth on the right hand of God the Father And after shall come to iudge the quick and the dead I beleeve in the holy Ghost The Holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints and remission of sinnes The rising of the flesh The life everlasting Amen SAint Peter put the first article and said I believe in God the Father almightie creator of heaven and earth Saint Andrew put to the second and said I beleeve in Iesus Christ his onely son our Lord. Saint Iames the great put to the third saying I beleeve that he was conceived of the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Saint Iohn put to the fourth saying I beleeve that he suffered passion under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried Saint Thomas put to the fift saying I beleeve that he descended into hell and the third day arose from death to life Saint Iames the lesse put to the sixt saying I beleeve that he ascended into heavē and sitteth on the right hand of God the father omnipotent Saint Philip put to the seventh saying I beleeve that after he shall come to iudge the quick and the dead S. Bartholomew put to the eight saying I beleeve in the holy Ghost S. Matthew put to the ninth saying I beleeve in the holy Church Catholike S. Simon put to the tenth saying I beleeve the communion of saints and remission of sinnes Saint Iude put to the eleventh saying I beleeve the resurrection of the flesh Saint Matthias put to the twelfth saying I beleeve the life eternall Amen Here followeth the Creed as it ought to be said I Beleeve in God the father almighty creator of heaven earth And in Iesus Christ his only son our Lord. That was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Sufferd passion under Ponce Pilate crucified dead and buried Descended into hel and the third day arose from death Ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the father omnipotent And after shall come to iudge the quick and the dead I beleeve in the holy Ghost The holy Church Catholike The communion of saints Remission of sins Resurrection of the flesh and life eternall Amen THis Creede was made composed by the xii Apostles of our Lord of the which every Apostle hath put to his Article as is here above shewed in the Creed as much of one part as of the other our faith Catholike is cōtained in the said xii Articles that is the begining of our health without which none may be saved ne do nothing that is agreeable to God and faith ought to be at the
be noysome and after labour it well and then sow good seeds In like wise a man should labour and cleanse his conscience of all his sins labour by holy meditations and sow vertues and good operations for to gather fruit of everlasting life Then sith that here before hath been spoken of vices rudely and lightly now it behoveth hereafter to speak of vertues in the third part of this present book the which shall be as a little garden pleasant full of trees flowers in the which the contemplative person may sport play by good ensignments gather sundry vertues and edify himself in good exercise wherewith his soul shall bee enormed and ordained after his spouse Iesus Christ when he shall come to visit and dwell with him In the beginning of the which part shall be the Orason dominicall of our Lord with the declaration the better to understand it and the said part shall contain six parts The first part shall be the declaration of the said prayer the second of the salutation Angelike that Gabriel made to Mary when shee conceived her child Iesus the third shall be of the twelve articles of our faith the iv shall be of the ten Commandements of the Law the v. shal be of the field of vertues For the first ye ought to know that by the orison of our Lord that is the Pater noster when wee say it wee demand of God suffisance of all things necessary for salute and help of our souls and of our bodys not only for us but for all other and for all this cause we ought to have the said orison in great contemplation say it with great devotion unto God And unto young people it should be taught and said to them for though they understand it not yet it profiteth them to have the kingdom of heaven and they say it in perfect love and charity In the Pater noster we ask seven petitions by each petition we may understand seven other things as the seven Sacraments of holy Church the seven gifts of the holy ghost the seven armours of iustice spirituall The seven vertues principall that wee should exercise The seven works of mercy bodily The seven works of mercy ghostly The seven deadly sinnes that we should dread The declaration is this Our father which art in heaven thy name be made holy In this petition we ask of God our Father to be his Sons for otherwise we cannot be called his Sons nor he our Father and that his name may be made by us more holy than any other thing wherefore we receive the Sacrament of baptism without that man may not be made the Son of God and to receive the vertue of meeknesse against pride and then to cloth the naked and help the needy both bodily and ghostly The second is thy kingdome come to us in this petition Insomuch the name of God may not be perfectly hallowed of us in this world we ask his realm in the which perfectly we shall hallow it for to that kingdome we be very heirs This petition is the sacrament of priesthood by the which we are taught to good works and the gift of the holy ghost is the gift of understanding for to understand and desire the kingdome of heaven and we arm us with the helm of largess against covetous The third petition is thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven for it is the perfect will of God that his will should be fulfilled that is his commandement by this petition we make obeisance to God in our hearts when we desire to do his will by this is understood the sacrament of marriage by the which we avoid fornication and the gift of counsell of the holy ghost for to order our obeysance veritably and so we arm us with the armour of salvation against Envy The fourth petition is our daily bread give us this day Here we ask of God to be sustained with materiall bread for our bodies and spirituall bread for our souls that is the bread of life the body of Iesus Christ the which wee receive by faith in mind of his passion The gift of the holy ghost is strength to be faithfull in our belief take we the sword of patience against the sinne of ire and visit the sick men bodily and use vertue of temperance against wrath The fift petition is forgive us our sinnes as we forgive all men for trust well he that will not forgive for the love of God God will never forgive him his sinnes And these three petitions following we ask of God to be delivered from all evill as of the sin that we have done deadly and by these wee ask of God to be assoiled and to give us pardon by his mercy by the which we understand the sacrament of penance and forgiveness of sinne the holy ghosts gift is science for to understand the works of mercy and to escape sin And so clothe us with lightnes against covetise comfort poor prisoners and give good counsell to them that ask and need it and take the vertue of faith against covetise The vi petition is suffer us not to be overcome in temptation by the second evill that is done but it may happen and we fall by the way of temptation Here we ask of God to be stedfast in the faith that we may gladly do good works in the vertue of hope and strength to do good deeds and to withstand temptation to the which profiteth to us the sacrament of confirmation which giveth to us the knowledge of God by the vertue of verity The gift of the holy ghost so take we the spear of soberness against gluttony comfort Pilgrims by vertue of hope The vii petition is to deliver us from evill Amen The third evill is evill of pain that sinners may have if they serve not God by this petition we ask that we may be delivered from all pains and saved in Paradice unto this say we all Amen By these we ask so it be done as we desire By the which we receive the sacrament of the latter annointing which giveth us the sure way of salvation the gift of the holy ghost is dread of iudgements of God and gird us with the girdle of chastity against letchery and bury we them that be dead bodily and pray for our enemies ghostly get in us the vertue of charity and eschue the sin of letchery Thus endeth the Salutary science of the garden of vertues CHAP. X. Hereafter followeth another declaration of the Pater noster OVr Father right marvellous in his creation sweet and loving rich of all goods that be in heaven mirror of trinity crown of iocundity and treasure of felicity Holy be thy name and sweet as hony in our mouth thou art the melodious harp that causeth devotion to sound in our ears and to have it continually by the desire of our hearts Thy realm come to us in the which we shall be
sun-setting totally darkned All the Eclipses of the Sun be in the day and of the Moon by night And yee shall with the Eclipse of the Sun and of the Moon appeareth sometime ohterwise than we see it for the Eclipse of the Sun may well be by night and the Eclipse of the Moon may be by day but such Eclipse appeareth not to us Shepheards NO marvell that mans mind is mutable And will you know wherfore and why For he is made of things variable As of hot cold moist and dry The wit is light and passeth lightly And sith we be made of four changeable How should man be stedfast and stable An Eclipse shall be marvellous to behold Through which many shall be the worse For many shall find neither silver nor gold It shall be so dark within their purse Pocula Ianus amat Tangere crura cave quum luna videbit aquosa Insere tunc plantas excelsas erige turres Et si carpis iter tunc tardius ad loca transi Febrius urgeo clamat Pisces habens lunam noli curare podagram Carpe viam tutus sit potio modo salubris Martius arva colit Nil capiti noceas Aries cum luna refulget De vena minuas balnea tutius intres Non tangas aures nec barbam radere debes Aprilis florida prodit Arbor plantetur cum in luna Taurus habetur Non minuas tamen edifices nec semina sparges Et medicus caveat cum ferro tangere collum Ros flos nemorum Maio sunt comes amorum Brachia non minuas cum lustrat luna Gemellos Unguibus manibus cum ferro curra negitur Nunquam sortabis a promissore petitum Dat Iunius faena Pectus pulmo jecur in Cancro non minuantur Somnia falsa vides utilis sit emptio rerum Potio sumatur securus perge viator Iulio resecatur avena Cor gravat stomachum cum cernit Luna Leonem Non facies vestes nec ad convivia vades Et nil ore vomas nec sumas tunc medicinam Augustus spicas Lunam Virgo tenens uxorem ducere noli Viscera cum costis caveas tractare cruorem Semen datur agro dubites intrare carinam September colligit uvas Libra Lunam tenens nemo genitalia tangat Aut renes nates nec iter capere debes Extremam partem Librae cum luna tenebit Seminat October Scorpius augmentat morbos in parte pudenda Vulnera non cures caveas ascendere naves Et si carpis iter timeas de morte ruinam Spoliat virgulta November Luna nocet femori per partes mota Sagitta Vngues vel crines poteris praâ—â—cindere tutò De vena minuas balnea tutius intres Quaerit habere cibum porcum mactando December Capra nocet genibus ipsam cum Luna tenebit Intrat aqua novam citius curabitur aeger Fundamenta ruunt modicum tunc durat id ipsum Epilogus sequitur omnium supra dictorum QVae viri antiqui potuerunt scribere libris Decurrendo polum constanti mente rotundum AEreasque domos temptando sydera cuncta Quaeque fluunt ex his quomodo nunc sol moveatur Intus habes collecta brevi compendio arte De duodecim signis Signorum princeps Aries Taurus Urna Tindaride juvenes fervida brachia Cancri Herculeusque Leo Nemeae pavor asmaque Virgo Libra jugo aequaliter pendent scorpius acris Centaurusque senex Chiron cornua Capri Dilectusque Iovi puer duo sidera Pisces Idem de signis Corniger in primis Aries corniger alter Taurus item Gemini sequitur quos Cancer adustus Terribilisque ferae species justa puella Libra simul nigrum portans in acumine virus Centaurusque biformis adest pelagique puella Et qui portat aquam puer urniger duo Pisces De quatuor partibus anni De vere Verque novum stabit cinctum florente corona Pingens purpureo venantia prata colore Ver pallidum vario nectitâ— de flore coronas Vere novo lectis decorantur floribus arva Veris honos tepidum floret vere omnia rident De aestate Stabat nuda aestas spicea serta gerebat Horridaque Aethiopis signis imitata figuram Scindit agros aestas Phaebeis ignibus ardens Torrida fert arvis aestas frugifera mella Flava Ceres aestatis habet sua tempore regna De autumno Stabat Autumnus calcatis surdibus uvis Libra per autumnum musto spumantia fervent Pomifer Autumnus tenero dat palmite fructum Vite coronatas Autumnus degravat ulnos Faecundos Autumne locos de vitibus imples De Hyeme Stabat Hyems glacies canos hirsuta capillos Cujus nix humeros circundat flumina montes Praecipitant semperque riget glacie horrida barba Albentes haec durat aquas flumina nectit Tristis Hyems niveo montes velamine vestit CHAP. VII Hereafter followeth the second part of the Compost and Kalender which sheweth of the tree of Vices and of the pains of Hell IN the name of the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Amen We purpose to shew the tree of vices for sinners to take example by to understand their sinnes which is divided in twelve principall parts after the seven deadly sins and each deadly sin is likened to a tree and every tree having eight small branches and all these seven trees come out of one tree by it self that is evil and comes of one beginning and that is the devil and it bideth an end that is everlasting damnation which is ordained for all them that seek not remedy betimes by penance and repentance of their life in time After this tree of vices followeth the pains of hell to shew the lay people what punishment is ordained for every deadly sin and that the people may better shew their sins in contrition and make clean their conscience and that they may be the houses of God so that vertues may grow fructifie to the profit of their souls The first great branch of the tree of vices is pride and he hath xvii branches grow in out of him as vain glory of himself vain-glory of the world praising himself in evill boasting of sin inobedient disdain to tempt God excesse dispraising false goodness hardiness presumption rebellion obstination sin wittingly communing of the sacrament shame to do good Out of every the which branches springeth three branches and out of every the said three branches groweth three small branches to the number of sevenscore and thirteen and in so many manner of ways ye may sin in the sin of pride which is the root and beginning of all the seven deadly sins and therefore shall be shewed first of pride and after the other six sins as they follow in order The i. branch of Pride Vain-glory of himself Seeking ioy and not the glory of God When any weeneth his goods come of himself Or that such goods be due for their merits If they beleeve to
he suffered when it was let fall into the morteis And think also of the dolours of his sorrowfull mother At high noon it behoveth to think what dolour he was in when he said my God my God wherefore hast thou left me And when he said I thirst they gave him vineger and gall mingled and how he abode the death after sighes made he gave up the ghost to God his father And how his mother had great sorrow also At Evensong it behoveth to think how Iesus had his side opened with a speare and how he hung dead on the Crosse full of wounds from the top of his head to the soles of his feet and he taken down and how his mother layed him on her lappe weeping At Complyne think how Iesus was wounded and layed in sepulture and kept of the Iewes to the end that he should not rise Clarkes and lay people ought to think on these or they go to Matins CHAP. XLIX The saying of a dead man Man look and see Take heed of me How thou shalt be When thou art dead Dry as a tree Worms shall eat thee Thy great beautie Shal be like lead The time hath been In my youth green That I was clean Of body as ye are But for mine eyne Now two holes been Of me is seen But bones all bare Now intend For to amend O Mortall creatures sayling in the waves of mysery Avail the sail of your conscience unpure Flee from the perills of this unstedfast wherry Drive to the haven of charity most sure And cast the anker of true confession Fastened with the great cable of contrition clean Wind up the marchandise of whole satisfaction Which of true customers shal be over seen And brought to the warehouse of perfection As perfect marchants of God by election CHAP. L. How every man and woman ought to cease of their sins at the sounding of a dreadfull horn HO ho you blind folk darkned in the cloud Of ignorant fumes thick and mystical Take heed of my horn toting all aloud With boystrous sounds and blastes Boreal Giving you warning of the iudgment finall The which dayly is ready to give sentence On perverse people replete with negligence Ho ho betime or that it be too late Cease while ye have space and portunate Leave your follies or death make you chekmate Cease your ignorant incredulitie Clense your thoughts of immundicity Cease of your pecuniall pensement The which defieth your entendement Ho ho people infect with negligence Cease your sins that manyfold cruelties Dread God your maker and rightwise sentence Cease your blindnesse of worldly vanities Lest he you smite with endlesse infirmities Cease your covetise gluttony and pride And cease your superfluous garments wide Cease of your oathes cease of your great swearing Cease of your pomp cease of your vain glory Cease of your hate cease of your blaspheming Cease of your malice cease of envy Cease of your wrath cease of your letchery Cease of your fraud cease of your deception Cease of your tongues making detraction Flee faint falshood fickle fuol and fell Flee fatall flatterers full of fairnesse Flee fair feigning fables of favell Flee folkes fellowship frequenting falsenesse Flee frantick facers fulfilled of frowardnesse Flee fooles fallacies flee fond fantasies Flee from fresh fables feigning flatteries Thus endeth the horner CHAP. LI. To know the fortunes and destinies of man born under the xii signes after Ptolomeus prince of Astronomy Prince of Astronomy Ptolomeus TO know under what planet a man or a woman is born it is needfull to wit that there is seven planets on the sky that is to say Sol Venus Mars Mercurius Iupiter Luna and Saturnus Of the seven planets is named the seven days of the week for every day hath his name of the planet reigning in the beginning of it The ancient Philosophers saith that Sol domineth the Sunday the cause is they say for the Sun among other planets is most worthy wherefore it taketh the worthyest day that is Sunday Luna domineth the first hour of Munday Mars the first hour of Tuesday Mercurius of Wensday Iupiter for Thursday Venus for Friday and Saturnus for Saturday The day naturall hath xxiv hours and every hour reigneth a planet It is to be noted that when a man will begin to reckon at Sunday he must reckon thus Sol Venus Mercurius Luna Saturnus Iupiter Mars And when the number is failed he must begin at the hour that he would know what planet reigneth The Munday he ought to begin at Luna the Tuesday at Mars the Wensday at Mercury the Thursday at Iupiter the Fryday at Venus the Saturday at Saturnus And ever when the numbers of the planets is failed he must begin by order as it is afore-said Also it is to be noted that the Greeks beginneth their day in the morning The Iewes at noon And the Christian-men at mid-night and there we ought to begin to reckon For at one of the clock on Sunday in the morning reigneth Sol at two reigneth Venus at three reigneth Mercurius at four reigneth Luna at five Saturnus at six Iupiter at seven Mars at eight begin againe at Sol at nine at Venus at ten Mercury and consequently of the other by order in order in every hour When a child is born it is to be known at what hour and if it be in the begining of the hour in the middest at the end If it be in the begining he shall hold of the same planet and of the other before If it be in the middest it shall hold of that only If it be born in the end it shall hold of the same and of that that commeth next after but neverthelesse the planet that it is born under ne shall not domineth other and that of the day shal be above it which is the cause that a child holdeth of divers planets and hath divers conditions He that is born under Sol shal be prudent and wise a great speaker and that which he praiseth hee holdeth vertuous in himself Who that is born under Venus is loved of every man good to God-ward and regular Who that is born under Mercurie is well bearded subtile milde veritable and is not most prudent Who that is born under Luna hath an high forehead ruddy merry visage shamefast and religious Who that is born under Saturn is hardy curteous of living is not avaricious Who that is born under Iupiter is hardy fair visage and ruddy chast and vagabond Who that is born under Mars is a great speaker a lyer a theef a deceiver big and ofred colour They that will know of this more evidently let them turn to the properties of the seven Planets afore rehearsed CHAP. LII A prologue of the Author upon the twelve signes I Considering the course of the Celestiall bodies and the puissance of the high God Omnipotent the which hath made the Sun to shine upon the good and evill that governeth all things contained in the firmament and on