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A17594
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A dyalogue bitwene the playntife and the defendaunt. Compyled by Wylliam Caluerley, whyles he was prisoner in the towre of London
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Calverley, William.
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1535
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STC 4370; ESTC S104869
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I shulde to reason my promyse fulfyll Standyng waueringe betwene good and yll ¶ Deffendant DIspayre I say nay that is contrary It is Idlenesse here in thys present lyfe Which hath drawen many from their lybrary And wyll nat suffre them to be contemplatyfe For her condicion is to holde stryfe With euery vertuouse occupacion Which men shulde voyde by wysedom reason ¶ Remembre thy busynesse loke thou take hede Procede with thy worke thou hast take in hande Grace shall crosse thy sayle with good spede And kepe thy shyp from neglygeÌ„ces sande Good counsell shall brynge thy shyp to lande And hope shall brynge vnto the socour Trustyng some man shall acquyte thy labour ¶ I meane as thus the shyppe of thy traueyle Which hath passed the great dangerouse seuen Cast nat anker tyll thou hast good riuale Let no tempest thunder nor leuyn Nor no wyndes of the cloudy heuyn Cause idlenesse to lay thy pyllow eueÌ„ nor morow Voyde her and let her go with sorowe ¶ Playntyffe THis writyng my letter I wrapped all in drede In my right haÌ„de my penne begineth to quake And for fere my hert is lyke to blede Yet must I forth and this vndertake For to Reason promyse dyd I make The teres distillynge fro myne eyes brinke At this begynnyng I tempre with my inke But hope and trust putteth away dispayre In to my mynde of newe I gan redresse To make the wether bright and fayre Reasons promyse with his bouÌ„tuous largenesse Brought in to my herte so moche gladnesse That without any maner of delay As is this tenour this fyrst I gan say CReatures all in your fyrst prouydence Be right well ware any thyng to attame Whiche vnto god shulde be offence For if ye do the ende of it is shame And in this worlde appalled is your name But you repente god of his iustyce your vicious lyueng vnwarely wyll chastyce ¶ Except you folowe vertue with dilygence Forsaking vice the mother of Idlenesse your ende you may se by other experience Which is nought but misery and wretchednesse Forsake wronge and folowe rightwisenesse Or elles of one thinge be you sure God wyll nat suffre you longe to endure ¶ Vnto false prophetes gyue no credence Folowyng mans lerninge and their tradicion But to goddes preceptes with all reuerence Put thy mynde and hole entencyon Forsake nat god for all their punission For they be wolues wrapped in a lammes skinne Honey without and poyson within ¶ The wyly wolues that casteth to deuour The sely lammes which can no defence Nor no helpe them for to socoure So feble they ar to make resystence Whiche denyeth trewth by false apparence What wonder is it the fraude nat conceyued Though such lammes vnwarely be deceyued ¶ LaÌ„mes they ar i she wyng shadowed w t mekenesse Cruell as tygers who doth theÌ„ offence Of great holynes pretendynge a lykenesse But wo alas what harme doth apparence What domage doth countrefayt innocence Vnder a mantell of false simplicite Very hipocrites full of crueltie ¶ RemeÌ„bre Rome cal now vnto thy mynde The dayes ar passed of thy felicyte Thy great coÌ„questes are lefte behynde To lyght is come all thy iniquite Thy decrees sent forth in to euery countre Suche as agreed nat with Christes scripture Ar clene extyncke no lenger may endure ¶ FroÌ„ Theest to y e Weest thy lybertê dyd attayn Aboue all power most excellent and royall But now truth brought out so euideÌ„t and plain Hath hyndred fore thy seate imperiall In peoples hertes to remayne perpetuall Your hye prydes are now defaced Your bulles and pardons almoste out raced ¶ Kynges and princes were to the tryputary Of all welth so gret was your flode Vntyll from god so fare you dyd vary That all creatures knowynge yl from good Perceyued you bare two faces in one hood Than by good reason sone they prouyded From your burdens for to be deuyded ¶ O Rome Rome loke all thy olde abusion Of thy Ceremonies and false disgysynge Laye them asyde and now inconclusion Cry god mercy thy trespas repentyng Trust he wyll nat at length refuse thy askyng The to receyue to worke in his vyne And to haue asmoche as he that cam at prime Vnto the kyng with faythfull obeysaunce Towardes his grace shewe thy humilyte Agaynst him nor his holde no varyaunce But fyght for him in euery countre Desyre to se him in ioye and felycite Kepe his preceptes as thy lorde and souerayne Euer as pleasure thinking them no payne ¶ Thy obeysaunce playnly at a worde By god thou arte coÌ„mauÌ„ded to owe in souerente Vnto thy kynge thy gouernour thy lorde In payne of dedly synne so he coÌ„maundeth the Both to him and to such as he a gre Of his people to take the gouernaunce Them to folowe with their good ordinaunce ¶ Consyder thou it is a hertely reioysinge To serue a prince that well doth aduertyse Of his seruantes the faithfull iust meanynge And wyll consyder to gwerdon their seruyce Which at a nede wyll them nat despyce But froÌ„ all danger that shulde theÌ„ noye or greue Be euer redy to helpe them and releue ¶ As in this lande I dare affirme a thyng Henry the eight full myghty of puisaunce Of England and Fraunce our most noble king Defensor of the faith hauig IrelaÌ„de in gouernaÌ„ce To al his subiectes greatest ioye pleasaÌ„ce By whose noble polycie and also discecyon Conserued is this most noble regyon ¶ Duringe his tyme longe by his prudence Pease and quiete he sustayneth by right That nat withstanding his noble prouydence In this worlde lyueth nat a better knight Eyed as Argus with reason and foresyth And in good lerninge I dare of him tell Of his predecessours the most he doth excell ¶ This with his prudence and his manhede Trewth he sustayneth fauour settyng a syde To Christes scripture a mayntenour with dede That in this lande false ê“phetes dare nat byde A very supporter vpholder and also guyde Of Christes churche defence noble champion To chastyce all tho that be Christes fone ¶ Obseruinge alwayes the testament of Jesu Studyenge euer to haue the trewe intellygence Gyuenge his subiectes the lyght of vertue I pocrisy excluding vnder false apparence Thus of the trewth he hath experience Knowing him selfe in many sondry wyse Where they trespace their errour to chastyce ¶ Reuolue how our souerayne a mirrour of liÈt TraÌ„scendeth all other by vertuouse exellence Eschewinge all visyons sekinge the right By his noble descrecyon naturall prouydence Temperinge his nature by mercy clemence Kepynge dangers from his subiectê in all thiÌ„ge As appertayneth to a most noble kynge ¶ ThiÌ„ges longe passed he kepeth in remeÌ„braÌ„ce Conseruing all thinges with honour in presence For thinges to come maketh good ordinaunce Folowing the traces of vertuouse contynence Agaynst rayned myracles makynge resistence By the great vertue and magnanimyte Whiche is apropred to his roiall maiestie ¶ Also his manhode sheweth him lyke a kyng From other princes by maner