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 NOTE. 
 
 The earliest extant edition of William Bulleiu's Dialogne is 
 dated 1564 (8vo.). A unique copy of this edition, which differs 
 considerably from later editions, is preserved in the Britwell Collec- 
 tion; and the editors return their best thanks to Mr. Christie- 
 Miller for his kindness in allowing them to make free use of the 
 precious volume. The Dialogue, being full of merry tales (pills to 
 purge melancholy at plague-time), is one of those books that are 
 most easily thumbed out of existence ; and it is not surprising that 
 the Britwell copy is unique. On the title-page (which is here 
 reproduced in facsimile) the book is stated to be ' newly corrected ' j 
 bu.t occasionally publishers made statements of this kind without 
 any strict regard to truth, in order to push the sale of their ware. 
 ISTot improbably ed. 1564 is the genuine editio i^rinceps. Another 
 edition appeared in 1573,^ 8vo. ; a third in 1578, 8vo. ; and the 
 present edition is the fourth. 
 
 ITashe in his ' Address to all Christian Eeaders,' prefixed to 
 Heme rvith you to Saffron Walden, 1596, writes : 
 
 "Memorandum, I frame my icliole Boolce in the nature of a 
 Dialogue, much like Bullen and his Doctor Tocrub." 
 
 This passage shows that the Dialogue was well known in 1596 ; 
 but it must have dropped out of notice shortly afterwards. One 
 might have expected that it would be republished in the plague-year, 
 1603, when Dekker in The Wonderfidl Yeare gave his vivid account 
 
 1 A Dialogve hotJte pleasaunt and pietifiill, wherein is a godlie regiment 
 against the Feiier Pestilence, with a consolation and comforte againste death. 
 Nemlie corrected hy William Biillein, the authovr thereof. Imprinted at 
 London, hy Ilion Kingston. Inlij. 1573. 
 
of the awful visitation; or in 1G25, when (as described iu Dekker's 
 A Rod for Runaivayes, and Thomas Brewer's The Weeping Lady) 
 London underwent sufferings of exceptional severity. It is to be 
 noticed that Nashe used the edition of 1573 or 1578; for the name 
 "Dr. Tocrub" does not occur in ed. 1564. There can be no doubt 
 that "Dr. Tocrub" was intended (by way of anagram) for Dr. 
 Burcot, an ex})ert in metals and minerals, whose name turns up 
 frcipicntly iu the state-papers of the time. It will be remembered 
 that Chettle introduces Dr. Burcot (' tliough a stranger, yet in 
 England for phisicke famous') in Kind-Harts Dreame, n. d. [159:3]. 
 The editors are preparing some notes on the DiaJor/ue, which, 
 with a biographical and critical memoir of William BuUein, and 
 copious extracts from his remaining works, will form a separate Part. 
 In the present edition the text of ed. 1578 (from a copy belong- 
 ing to Mr. ]\Iark W. Bullen) has been followed in the main; and 
 the readings of eds. 1564, 1573 are recorded at the foot oP the 
 page. When the previous editions give an obviously better reading, 
 it has been used, and the reading of ed. 1578 noted. It has not 
 been thought advisable to reproduce in modern type the few con- 
 tractions used by the old printer, their meaning not admitting of 
 doubt in any case. In the labour of collation the editors have been 
 greatly assisted by INIr. W. H. Utley. 
 
 Facsimiles of the title-pages of eds. 1564, 1578, are given on the 
 opposite page. 
 
To the right worshipful! 
 
 and his singider frende^ Maister 
 
 Edward Barrette of Bel- 
 
 lious of Essex, Esqnier, Wil- 4 
 
 lyam Bulleyn sendeth 
 
 salutations. 
 
 Right worsliipfuli Sir, if my^ Chamber, Hall, Gallerie, or any 
 11 ewe decked house were apparelled or lianged al in one mournyng 8 
 darcke colour, it would rather moue sorowe then gladnes : but no 
 pleasure to the beholders of the same. Therefore the diuersitie or 
 variotie of pleasaunte colours dooe grace and beautifie the same 
 through the settyng forth of sondrie shapes : and as it were to com- 12 
 pell the commers in to beholde the whole worke. Euen so I dooe 
 commende vnto you this little Booke (wherein I writte part thereof 
 in your owne house) which dooe intreate of sonderie thynges to you 
 I dooe hope not vnprofi table, wherein I have shortly described our 16 
 poore nedie brothers^ pouertie. Callyng vpon the mercilesse riche, 
 whose whole trust is in the vain riches of this worlde, entangeled as 
 it were emong briers, so that in the hour of death God is farthest 
 from his mynde, and the gooddes euill gotten are worse spent and 20 
 come to nothyng, at what tyme Phisicke^ can not preuaile. I haue 
 also not forgotten the shamfull syn which raigneth in this woiide 
 called ingratitude, which linially came from the loines of that false 
 vilain Judas, neither the sicopantes,^ gnatoes, liars and flatterers of this 24 
 worlde, the verie poison of the soule. Oh better, saieth Salomon, is 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, singulare good frende ; ed. 1573, singuler good friende. 
 
 2 Ed. 1564, any. 3 Eds. 1564, 1573, brother his. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, DO Physicke can ; ed. 1573, Phisicke no can. 
 
 * Eds. 1564, 1573, Sicophantes. 
 
 DIALOGUE, B 
 
2 El'ISTLE DKDICATORIE. 
 
 the -wouiides of tho freud then the ki-sses of the flatterer. Further, 
 liow many meanes male be vsed againste the Pestilence, as good aire, 
 diete, medicines accordingly : the which, if it do not preuaile, then 
 
 4 conieth on the merciles power of death ouer all flesh : fearyng no 
 kyng, queene, lorde, ladie, bond, or slaue, but rather maketh all 
 creatures alike to him. Then doe I conclude with the diuine, gods 
 cheef and nioste best instrument in the church, &c. And as I do 
 
 8 well consider a gentleman of your good ]S"ature can but take youre 
 freendes simple token in good parte, Even so I am sorie tliat it is no 
 better to plasure you, yet giuyng God moste humble thankes for the 
 same, who keep you in good health & worship. 
 
 12 This twelfe of Marche 1564. 
 
 Yours euer, W. Bullein.^ 
 
 jSTullus vnquam homiiiem mortalem beatum indicet antequam bene 
 defunctum viderit. 
 
 1 Eds. 1564 and 1573, William Bulleyn 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 Good reader, ioheii aduersitie draioeth nearo to any Cltie or Toione, 
 and the vengeaunce of God a]pj)ereth either by Hunger, SicJcnesse, or 
 the Sworde, then mannes nature is moste fearefull, hut yet worldlie 4 
 proiddence to helpe theimselues : which in the tyme of inosjperitie or 
 quietnesse is carelesse and forgetful!, neither myndefull to feare God, 
 nor pitifuW^ to helpe their neighbor in aduersitie. And lohen thel 
 are touched by the fearfull strohe of the Pestilence of their nexte 8 
 neighbour, or els in their oione familie, then thei vse Medicines, flie 
 the Aire, ^c. Which indeede are verie good meanes, and not against 
 Gods woorde so to doe ; then other some falleth into sodaine deuotion, 
 in giuyng almose to the poore and needie, whiche before haue doen 12 
 nothing els but oppressed theim and haue dooen them ivrong : other 
 doe locJce'^ from their harfes Gods liuely ivorde, and refuse grace 
 offered by Christes spirite, thinJcyng there is no God. Some other are 
 preuented by death in their flourishyng yeres, lohich in the crosse o/ IG 
 death haue their onely consolation in Jesus Christe. All this is 
 
 descri- 
 bed here in this plain Dia- 
 logue : praiyiig you pa- 
 ciently to talte it in 20 
 
 good parte. 
 From 
 hym that is yours 
 to commaunde, 24 
 
 W, Bullein.^ 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, pietifuU. 2 Ed. 1564, looke. 3 Ed. 1504, Bulleyn. 
 
 B 2 
 
Sophoclet de 
 
 tortV Mors gloriosior est qiiam mala vita. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Tl}e Interlocutours are tioelue jp'^i'sones. 
 
 Mendicus i 
 
 Ciuis I 
 
 Vxor 
 
 Medicus 
 
 Antonius 
 
 Roger 
 
 r Grispinus 
 I Auarus 
 
 Amhodexter 
 Alendax 
 Mors 
 . Theologus 
 
 Mendicus. 
 God saue my gud Maister and Maistresse, the Barnes, and all this 
 halie houshatide, and shilde you from all doolie and shem, and sende 
 you comfort of all thynges that you waude haue gud of, and God and 1 2 
 our dere Leddie shilde and defende you from this Pest. Our father 
 whiche art in heauen, hallowed be your name ; ^ your kyngdome 
 come, your willes^ bee dooen^ in y earth as it is in heauen, &c. 
 
 Gilds. 16 
 
 Me thinke I doe heare a good manerly Begger at the doore, and 
 well brought vp. How reuerently he saietli his Pater noster ! he 
 thous not God, but you hym. Gods blessyng on his harte ! I praie 
 you, wife, giue the poore man somethyng to his dinner. 20 
 
 Vzor. 
 
 Sir, I will heare hym sale the Lordes praier better before I giue 
 
 hym any thing. 
 
 Gilds. 24 
 
 AVhat a reconyng is this ! Dame, doe as I coramaunde you ; he 
 
 is poore ; we haue plentie ; he is verie poore and hongrie ; therefore 
 
 dispatche hym a gods name, and let him go.* 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, names. 2 jgd. 1564, will. ^ jj^^ 1573^ your willes doen. 
 * The words " and let him go " are not in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 
 
 V.ror. 
 Softc fire maketh swctc Malte : he shall tary my leasure. 
 
 Mendictts. 
 4 ^laistrcpse, if you be angrie with the saiyng of my Patar noster 
 in Englishe, I will saic it in Latinc, and also my Dehrafundis.'^ But so 
 God helpe me, I do not ken nene of them bethe what thei meane.^ 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 8 I thinke tlic same : suche Carpenter, suche chips : your Curate is 
 
 some honest man, I warrant you, and taketh muche pain in feedyng 
 
 his flock, as semeth by your learning. I praie you, what countrio 
 
 man be you 1 
 1 2 Mendicus. 
 
 Sauyng you honour, gud Maistresse, I was borne in Eedesdalc in 
 
 K'orthumberland, and came of a wight ridyng sirname called the 
 
 Eobsons, gud honast men & true, sauyng a little shiftyng for their 
 
 16 lining. God and our Leddie helpe them, silie pure men ! 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 What doest thou here in this^ Countrie? me thinke thou art a 
 
 Scot by thy tongue. 
 20 Mendicus. 
 
 Trowe me neuer mare then, gud deara. I had better bee hangad 
 
 in a withie or* in a coAvtaile, then be a rowfooted Scot, for thei 
 
 are euer fare and fase : I haue been a fellon sharpe manne on my 
 
 24 handes in my yonge daies, and brought many of the Scottes to 
 grounde in the !N"orthe Marches, and gaue them many greisly woundes ; 
 no. manne for manne durste abide my^ lake, I was so fell. Then the 
 limmer Scottes hared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede 
 
 28 on'' me and my barnes, that now I haue nethyng but this sarie bagge 
 and this staffe, and the charitie of sike gud people as you are, gud 
 Maistresse : Ause I haue many of my sirename here in the Citie that 
 wade thinke ne shem on me, yea, honast handcraftie men. 
 
 1 Ed. 1.564, Deprofundis ; ed. 1573, De livafundis. 
 
 2 "what thei meane" — not in ed. lnG4. 
 
 3 So ed. mn-J.— Ed. 1.-73, thie; ed. lo78, the. * Ed. 1.504, of a cowtaile. 
 
 s Eds. 1564, 1573. nie. ^ e,]. ]5n4, witli. 
 
A DIAmGVR. 7 
 
 Giuis. 
 How gotte you in at the gates, my good freencle 1 
 
 Mendicus. 
 
 Dears sir, I liaue many Cuntritli men iu this faire Citie that came 4 
 of honest stock in our lande, and some beyonde'^ vs twentie or thirtie 
 lange^ miles, that naake^ pure shift in the citie and in the countrie 
 ause. I came in ne place, but either the Parsone, Bailie, Conestable, 
 or cheef of the Parishe is of our cuntrith borne, and same^ pure men 8 
 as mine awne self, God ken. Emong whom the Bedle of the Beggers 
 beyng a Ridesdale man borne, a gud man and a true, which for ill will 
 in his youth did fleem^ the Countrie, it was laied to his charge the 
 driuyng of kine hem to his Fathers byre. But Christe knaweth he 12 
 was sackless, and Hue as honestly in his age as his sire did when he 
 was yong, gud maister. 
 
 Giuis. 
 
 I was borne in the ISTorth, my felowe, and doe Hue here in this 16 
 Citie. I came hether when I was yonge, and when I was verie poore, 
 but now I am in good case to Hue emong the reste of my neighbours. 
 I<5 thank God for it. 
 
 Mendicus. 20 
 
 Gods benison on you, and oui- deare Leddies. I came'^ hether 
 purely in myne age ; I haue nethyng but wedom, Ave ladie,^ weesme.^ 
 
 Vxor. 
 Giue God onely thankes, for so is his holie will and commaunde- 24 
 ments that we should call vppon hym in the dales of trouble and 
 onely honour hym. We haue no commaundment to honor our Ladie 
 but^'* Christ onely. 
 
 Mendicus. 28 
 
 I thinke one Avaman wade take an other Avomans parte : doe as 
 it shall please you ; I am ne clerke, but an Ingram man of small 
 cideration in suche arogant buke farles. 
 
 1 Ed. 15f>4, a little beyonde. 2 Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, can make. * Eds. 1564, 1573, some. ^ Ed. 1564, fleen. 
 
 6 « I thank God for it"— omitted in ed. 1564. 7 Ed. 1564, come. 
 
 8 Ed. 1573, weladie. ^ "we ladie, weesme" — omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 1" "but Christ onely" — omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
8 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 C'i Ill's. 
 "What ncwes^ as you come by the waie, Couutrie niau] 
 
 Mendiciis. 
 4 Nene but aude maners, faire saiynges, fause hartes, and rie 
 deuotion, God amende the market ! Miccle tule^ for the purse, 
 decieuyng of eche other. In the countrie strife, debate, runnyng for 
 euery trifle to the Lawiers, hauyng nethyng but tlie nutshelles, the 
 8 Lawiers cate the carnelles. Ause muche reisyng of rentes and gres- 
 soniyng of men,^ causyng greate dearth, muche* pouertie. God helpe, 
 God helpe, the "warlde is sare chaunged ; extortioners, couetous men, 
 and hypocrites doe niuch^ preuaile. God cutte them shorter, for thei 
 
 12 doe make a blacke warlde, euen hell vpon yearth. I thinke the 
 greate feende or Ms deam will wearie them all. Nene other newes 
 I ken, but that I did se mucle prouidence made in the countrie for 
 you in the Citie, which doe feare the Pestilence. I met with 
 
 IG wagones, Cartes, & Horses fuU loden^ Avith yong barnes, for fear of 
 the blacke Pestilence, with their boxes of Medicens and sweete per- 
 fumes. God, how fast did thei run by hundredes, and were 
 afraied of eche other for feare of smityng. 
 
 20 Ciuis. 
 
 I haue some of my children forthe, God sende them well to 
 
 '■ ' Mendicity. 
 
 24 ]Maister, why goe you not with thcim your self? 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 No, youth are apte to take the Plague. And, further, parentes 
 
 are more naturall to their children then children to their fathers and 
 
 28 mothers. Nature dooeth descende, but not ascende. Also if the 
 
 citezen should depart when '^ the Plague dooe come, then there should 
 
 not onely be no Plague in the Citie, but also the Citie should be 
 
 voide and emptie for lacke of the inhabitauntes^ therein, therefore 
 
 32 Goddes will bee doen emong his people. I doe not intended to flee ; 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, in the Countree as, &c. ^ gd. 1564, moche toil^mg. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564. "and gressomyng of men" omitted. *, '' Ed. 1564, mucle. 
 
 c 8o ed. 1573.— Ed. 1564, ]ade ; ed. 1578, londen. 
 
 7 Eds. 1564, 1573, when as. « Eds. 1564, 1573, inhabitours. 
 
 9 Ed. 1578, incende. 
 
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 notwithstandyng, I praie God of liis mcrcie deliucr vs from tliis 
 Plague, for if it doe continewe, God knoweth it will not onely take 
 awaie a number of poore people, but many wealthie and lustie 
 
 Marchauntes also. 4 
 
 Mendicus. 
 
 If such plague doe ensue it is no greate losse. For, firste, it shall 
 not onely deliuer the miserable poore man, woman, and barnes^ from 
 hurte and carefulnesse into a better warkle, but ause cutte of many 8 
 coueteous vsurers, wliiche bee like fat vncleane swine, whiclie 
 dooe neuer good vntill thei come to the dishe, but wroote out 
 euery plante that thei can come by ; and like vnto greate stinkyng 
 mucle medin hilles, whiche neuer doe pleasure vnto the Lande or 12 
 grounde vntill their heapes are caste abroade to the profites of 
 many, whiche are kepte neither to their owne comfortes nor others, 
 but onely 2 in beheading ^ them; like vnto cruell Dogges liyng in a 
 Maunger, neither eatyng the Haye theim selues ne sufferyng the 16 
 Horse to feed thereof hymself. And in sike plagues we pure people 
 haue muccle* gud. Their losse is our lucke^ ; when thei dooe become 
 naked, we then are clethed againste their willes ; with their dooles 
 and almose we are reliued ; their sickness is our health, their death ^ 20 
 our life. Besides vs pakers,'^ many me men haue gud lucke, as the 
 Vicre,^ Parishe Clarke, and the Belle man ; often tymes the Execu- 
 tours bee no losers by this game. And in fine, in my fantasie it is 
 happy to the Huntman when he haue nethyng of the Catte but the 24 
 sillie skinne. We beggers recke^ nought of the carcas of the dead 
 body, but doe defie it ; we looke for aude caste coates, Jackettes,^*' 
 Hose, Cappes, Beltes, and Shoes by their deathes, which in their 
 Hues thei waude not departe from, and this is our happe. God^^ sende 28 
 
 me of niem. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Goe thy waies to Antonius'^^ gates, Por thether euen within this 
 twoo bowers I did see maister Tocriih'^^ solempnely ridyng vpon his 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, barne. 2 gd. 1564, enely. 3 -^ds. 1564, 1573, behadyng. 
 
 4 Ed. 1564, niicke. ^ gd. 1564, gaine. 
 
 6 So ed. 1564.— Eds. 1573, 1578, dede. ^ Ed. 1564, beggers. 
 
 8 Ed. 1564, Curate. ^ Ed. 1564, couet nought for. 
 
 10 Ed. 15G4, dubieties. " "God sende," &c.— omitted in ed. 1594. 
 
 12 Ed. 1564, Antonius Mantuauus. i^ Ed. 1564, Antonius Capistranus. 
 
10 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 mule, with a side goune, a greate chainc of gold about his nccke, his 
 
 Apothicarie Crispiiic,^ a neighboures childe borne hereby in Barbarie,^ 
 
 and his little Lackey, a proper yong applesquire called Pandurus, 
 
 4 whiche carricth the keye of his^ Chamber with hym. These are all 
 
 gone in at the gates to that noble Italian. His stewarde* this dale, 
 
 because his maister is^ verie sicke, applied the poore monnc with the 
 
 purse with muche deuotion for the tyme, beyng without hope of his 
 
 8 maistevs recouery. ,, ,. 
 
 Mendicus. 
 
 I praie God sende vs many sike praies, for it is merie with vs 
 
 when ene'' mannes hurte doe turne to many mennes gaines. I will 
 
 12 go thether; fare you well, gud maister. I will drawe ncre, and 
 
 lierken what mayster doctor will say, if I might be in place. 
 
 C'niis. 
 Farewell, for thou doest not care which endo doe goe forwarde 
 IG so that thy tourne may be serued. 
 
 Medicus. 
 How dooe you, good IMaister Antonius? Lorde God, howe are 
 you chaunged ! How chaunceth this? Wliat is the matter that 
 20 you looke so pale 1 You did send for mee by your seruaunte 
 lolianncs^ a gentle young man, which lamenteth^ muche for you; 
 Avhen^ I heard it, with all speede I came from my other pacients, of 
 whom I thinke I haue taken myne vltwmm vale. 
 
 24 Aidonius. 
 
 You are welcome, Maister doctour, with all my harte ; now helpe 
 
 at a pinche, or els neuer, for I doe feare my selfe verie much. Oh, 
 
 my harte ! , ^ ^ . 
 
 28 Medicus. 
 
 I warraunt you, man, let mee feele your pulse, and then shall I 
 
 precede to the cure with medicine and diet accordingly. 
 
 Antonius. 
 32 Take your pleasure, good Maister Doctour; here is my hande, 
 
 1 Ed. 15G4, Senior Crispinus ; ed. 1573, Crispinus. 
 
 2 Barbican? ^ Ed. 1564, the. * Ed. 15f.4, aulmuer. ^ Ed. 15G4, was. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1578, eny. "> Ed. 1564, Johannes de Corsica. 
 
 8 Ed. 1564, lamented. ^ Eds. 1564, 1573, and when. 
 
A DIALOQVE. 11 
 
 feele my pulse, and then you shall sec myne Vrino, an.1 knowo tlio 
 
 tyme of my sickness. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 These are no verie good tokens, neither in your Vrino, Pulse, 4 
 
 Stoole, &c. But I wil doe the best for you that I can doe by arte, 
 
 Antoiiins. 
 And then you shall wante no goldo, for though I lacke health, ^ yet 
 I want no golde of euery coigne, and siluer also. My warehouses are 8 
 well fitted^ with wares of sondrie kindes, which I doe sell vnto the 
 retailers. Further, I haue wares of most auncient seruice, whiche 
 owe me nothyng, bothe in packes, vesselles, and chestes, &c., which 
 are not fitte for the retailers. Them do I kepe for shiftes when any 12 
 gentlemen or longe suter in the Lawe are behinde hand, and knowe 
 not what to doe : then by good sureties, or assured landes by Statute 
 Marchaunt, &c., I doe sometyme make thirtie or fourtie^ in the 
 hundred by yere. I haue diuerse suche honeste wayes to Hue vppon, 16 
 through the wittie and secrete handelyng of my Brokers here in the 
 Citee, and my Factours which are at Antwarpe, &c.. By whom I do 
 vnderstande the state, and what commoditie is beste. Further, I 
 haue extended vpon aunciente landes in the Countrie for the breach 20 
 of couenauntes, That, to conclude with you, maister Doctor, I could 
 nener haue died in a worse tyme, my busines is such. I would of 
 all thinges Hue still, for here I do knowe what I haue and how I am 
 vsed, but when I am gone I doe not knowe what shall haj)pen vnto 24 
 me, nor whom to trust with that^ which I haue gotten with trauell 
 and obtained by fortune. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 You doe speake like a wise man as euer I heard, and moste 28 
 thynges that you haue taken in hand haue greate profite with you. 
 Of my parte, I would bee lothe to lose you, bothe for an vnfained 
 loue that I doe beare vnto you for your wisedome, and also for your 
 liberalitie and giftes giuen to me many a time. Lo, here is the 32 
 Damaske goune yet in store. Here is also a Flagone chaiue of the 
 hundred angelles that you did giue me in your laste greate Feuer. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, helpe; ed. 1578, heath. « ^ds. 1564, 1573, filled. 
 3 Ed. 1564, XXX or L. * Ed. 1564, y\ 
 
12 
 
 A DIALOGVK. 
 
 A}donius. 
 Who is able to resist suche a multitude of angelldl I thinke 
 fewe doctours of Phisicke. But rather then I would dye I wil let flie 
 4 a thousande more, for these are the Angelles that shall keepe niee.^ 
 
 Aled'tais. 
 
 That is the waie, I assure you, to perfite health ; for^ that cause 
 
 the Phisician was ordeined, as it is written : Honour the Phisician 
 
 8 with the lienor that is due vnto hym because of necessitie, for the 
 
 lord hath 3 created hym; and hee shall receiue giftes of the kyng, 
 
 yea, and of all men.* 
 
 Anto}iiiis. 
 
 12 That is a good swete text for Phisicians; but why doe you leaue 
 
 out these wordes in the middes of the matter, which is, Of the most 
 
 highest commeth learnyngl And so I doe remember I heard our 
 
 Curate reade in the Churche, as by chaunce I came in with a Sergeant 
 
 1 6 to arest a debter of mine,^ 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 What your Curate pleased hym to read I care not, for I meddle 
 
 with no Scripture matter*^ but to serue my tourne. But'' that whiche 
 
 20 I haue saied is written in the Bible, I haue heard sale so.^ 
 
 Antonius. 
 Be all thinges written in the Bible true 1 I praie you tell mee. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 24 God forbidde, IMaistev Antonius ! then it would make a fraie 
 emong Marchauntes ; for it is written,^ Xone shall enter into gods 
 dwellyng, or rest with hym vppon his holie^" mountaine, that lendeth 
 his money vpon vsurie, or to vsurie whereby to hinder his neigh- 
 
 28 hour. And this is nowe become the greatest trade, And many be 
 vndoen by borowyng, and fewe doe lose by lendyng, specially men 
 of your worshipfuU experience. And how like you this texte 1 
 
 1 The words " for these are the Angelles." &c., are not in ed. 15C4. 
 •^ Eds. loG4, 157.3, and for. 3 Ed. 15G4, haue. 
 
 * The words ")^ea. and of all men" are not in ed. 1564. 
 ° Ed. 1564, twoo Bankeroutes. ** Eds. 1564, 1573, matters. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564, But I Jinonv that which, &c. 
 
 ^ The words "I haue heard saie so" do not occur in ed. 15G4. 
 ^ In the margin of ed. 1504 is " Psal. xv."; in the margin of ed. 1573, 
 " Psalm 23," ^^ " holie " omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 13 
 
 Antoiiius. 
 
 Texte how they will texte, I will trust none of them all, say 
 
 Avhat they will ; there be many such sayings against men, as the ten 
 
 Commandementes, &c. "Well, for my part I haue little to doe in 4 
 
 these matters ; mary, I would be glad to Hue orderly and ciuillie, so 
 
 that the v/orlde should not wonder at my doiuges ; but if damnation 
 
 should arise when the scripture doth threaten it to men, then should 
 
 wittie wordes in bargainyng, with facing othes,^ and pleasaunt Ye- 8 
 
 nerous Table talke, and^ reuilyng of our enemies, &c., be accompted 
 
 dampnation. Then I warraunte you helle is well furnished with 
 
 Courtiers, Marchauntes, Soldiours, Housbandmen, and some of the 
 
 Cleargie, I warraunt you also, among whom there are many more 12 
 
 spitful then spirituall. Euen so^ there are emong the Phisicians 
 
 many more coueteous then kind harted. I meane not you, maister 
 
 doctour Tocrub.* 
 
 Medicus. 16 
 
 Sir, I doe knowe you doe not ; but so God helpe mee, one thing 
 
 doeth muche rejoyce ray harte in your communication. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 What is that? 20 
 
 Mediciis. 
 
 I thinke that we twoo are of one religion. 
 
 Antonius. 
 What is that, I praie you, for I knowe not myne owne religion? 24 
 
 Medicus. 
 Commaunde your folkes to departe out of the chamber, and your 
 yonge frie^ also, whiche you haue gotten by chaunce medley, for 
 want of Mariage ; for the old Prouerb is, Small Pitchers haue wide 28 
 eares. And the fielde haue eyes and the woodde eares also.'' There- 
 fore we must comen closelie, and beware of blabbes. There '^ are 
 many Protestantes. 
 
 1 Ed. 1573 reads "with braggyng." 2 gd. 1564, with. 
 
 3 Eds. 1564, 1578, euen as. * Ed. 1564 reads simply "Maister doctour." 
 
 * Ed. 1564, scapes, ^ Ed. 1564 reads "& the wood haue eares." 
 
 "^ The words " There are," &c., are omitted iu cd. 1564. 
 
u 
 
 A DIALOG VIC. 
 
 Aittoiiin,^. 
 AVl'11, now the dooros arc sparred, say on your inyude. Of 
 ■what Ecligion are youl Be jilaine with nie, man. 
 
 4 Medlciis. 
 
 Ilerke in your earc.^ I am neither Catholike, Papist, nor Pro- 
 testant,"^ I assure you. 
 
 Antonius. 
 8 "What then? You haue rehearsed choysc and plentie of religions. 
 AVhat do you honour, tlic Sonne, the Moone, or the Starresi boastc, 
 stone, or foule ? fishe or tree 1 
 
 Medicus. 
 12 j^o, forsothe, I doc none of theim all. To be plain, I am a Nulla 
 fidkut, and there are many of our secte. Marko our doynges.^ 
 
 Antonius, 
 Oh, Qui dixif^ in corde sua non est deus.^ Well, we differ verie 
 16 little in this poincte, but if I doc line, we shall drawc nere to an 
 vnitie. In the meane tyme, let your Pothecarie prouide some good 
 tliinges for the bodie. I praie you open the doore. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 20 Maisters, I pray you call CvUjplnus hether into the galarie, and 
 
 Lconardm^ with hyra. 
 
 Crlspine. 
 
 What is your pleasure, maister Doctour 1 
 
 24 Medicus. 
 
 How doe you like the''' gardein] 
 
 Crlsfniie. 
 
 There are plentie of goodly herbes, both clensiug, healyng, losyng, 
 
 28 bindyng, and restoryng. I neur did see more choise of sondri kindes 
 
 of straunge flowers, most pleasaunt to the eye, and sweete also. The 
 
 fine knottes are doen in^ good arte. Geometrically figured. A sweete 
 
 conduit in the middest, made of fine stone, plentifully castyng forthe 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564, " Herke in your eare, sir." 
 
 2 Ed. 15G1, Catholilie, Papiste, Protestante nor Auabaptiste. 
 
 3 "marke," &c. — omitted in ed. 15G4. * Ed. 1573, dixi. 
 
 * Ed. 1573 has in margin " Psalm 14." ^ Ed. 1504, Leouardus dc Montano. 
 7 Ed. 15(54, this. » Ed. 1573, by. 
 
A DIAL0GVJ5. 15 
 
 water like fine siluer streames many waies ; in which conduite I did 
 
 beholde by the space of one hower a maruelous thing, the meanyng 
 
 thereof 1 I knowe not. 
 
 Medicus. 4 
 
 What is 2 it, Crispinel 
 
 Crispine. 
 
 The piller was eight foote square, and xviij foote high, with com- 
 
 partementes of cunnyng masonrie curiously couered with fine golde. 8 
 
 Upon the toppe a Tyger fearefully, hauyng a yonge childe in his 
 
 armes readie to kill it ; the childe had a croune of golde upon his 
 
 head, and in his left hande a globe figuering the whole worlde, 
 
 and was called /it/cporaV^Ltoe,^ about which was written Globus con- 12 
 
 uersus est. ■,,-,. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 This gentleman came of a greate house, this is the crest of his 
 
 armes; for he descended of the most auncient Eomains, I warrant 16 
 
 you ; he is no vpstart, assure your self. 
 
 Crispine. 
 I had thought it had rather signified the conditions of a cruell 
 tyraunt or some bloodie conquerour, whiche by vsurpation getting 20 
 thy victorie of any common wealth, as landes, countries, or citees, 
 eftsones do spoile the true heires and owners of the lande whiche doe 
 weare the croune, chaunge the state of the Commons to the worser 
 part, spoylyng theim with the^ sworde and bondage, which appered 24 
 by these wordes, Globus conuersus est: the worlde is chaunged or 
 tourned in suche a common weale.^ 
 
 Medicus. 
 A good obseruation. What did you see then 1 28 
 
 Cris2oi7ie. 
 I did beholde on the other ^ side the nine Muses, with strange 
 instrumentes of Musicke, sittyng vnder the hille Parnasus; and 
 Poetes'^ sittyng under the grene trees with Laurell garlandes besette 32 
 with Eoses about their heades, hauyng golden Pennes in their 
 handes, as Homer, Hesiodus, Ennius, &c., writyng Verses of sondrie 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, whereof. 2 gd. 1564, was. 3 E{J. 1564, Microcosmos. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, "the" omitted. ^ Ed, 1564, "in suche," &c. omitted. 
 
 6 Ed. 1564, on the one side. ^ Ed. 1564, the poetes. 
 
16 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 . ki lidos. And Liccamts, sat there very high, ncre vnto the cloudcs, 
 apparelled iu purple, saiyiig, 
 
 quantum semotus'^ Eoo"^ 
 4 Cardine, Pcritasus gemino j^ctit cethera cuJIe, 
 
 Mons^ Plioiho Brumioque mcer. 
 
 And nere theim satte old Morall Goore with pleasaunt penne in 
 hande, comniendyng honest loue without luste, and pleasure without 
 8 pride ; Holinesse in the Cleargie without Ilypocrisie,^ no tyrannie in 
 rulers, no falshode in Lawiers, no Vsurie in Marchauntes, no rebellion 
 in the Commons, and vnitie emong kyngdomes, &c. Skelton satte 
 in the corner of a Filler with a Frostie bitten face, frownyng, and is 
 
 12 scante yet cleane cooled of the hotte burnyng Cholour kindeled 
 againste the cankered Cardinall Wolsey; wrytyng many^ sharpe 
 Didichons with bloudie penne againste hym, and sente them by the 
 infernal riuers Stijx, FJcgitoii, and Acheron by the Feriman of helle, 
 
 IG called Charon, to the saied Cardinall. 
 
 How the Cardiuall came of nought, 
 
 And his Prelacle solde and bought ; 
 
 And tvhere suche Prelates bee 
 20 Sprong of loive degree, 
 
 And sjnrituall dlgnitee, 
 
 Farewell benignitee. 
 
 Farewell simplidtee,^ 
 24 Farewell good charitee ! 
 
 Thus paruum literatus 
 
 Came from Rome gatus, 
 
 Dodour doiopatus, 
 28 Scante a Bachelarcdus : 
 
 And thus Sliclton did ende 
 
 With Wolseij his frende. 
 
 "Wittie Chaucer satte in a chaire of gold couered with Eoses, 
 
 32 writyng Prose and Risme, accompanied with the Spirites of many 
 
 kynges, knightes, and faire Ladies, whom hee plesauntly besprinkeled 
 
 with the sweete water of the welle consecrated unto the Muses, 
 
 ecleped Aganippe. And as the'^ heauenly spirite commended his 
 
 1 Old eds., sermotus. 2 Qld eds., ego. 
 
 3 Old eds., Motis. (Tlie quotation is from Book V. of Lucan's Pharsalia, 
 11.71-3.) * Ed. 15G4, " without liypocrisie" omitted. 
 
 ° Eds. ir)G4, 1573, many a. ^ Eds. 1561, 1573, have an extra line, 
 
 ^^ Farewell, humanitce," "^ Ed. 1564, his. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 1 7 
 
 deare Brigham for the worthy entombing of his bones, worthy of 
 memorie, in the long sleepyng chamber of most famous kingos, 
 Euen so in tragedie he bewailed the sodaine resurrection of many a 
 noble man before their time, in spoyling of Epitaphes, whereby 4 
 many haue loste their inheritaunce, &c. And further thus he saied 
 lamentyng : — 
 
 Oouetos men do catch al that thel may hauc, 
 
 The feeld ^ the flock, the tomhe ^ the <jra.ue, 8 
 
 And as they abuse riches, and, their graues th(d are gone. 
 
 The same measure they shall haue euery one. 
 
 Yet no burial hurteth holy men though beastes them deuour, 
 
 Nor riche graue preuaileth the wicked for all yeartJdy poivcr. 1 2 
 
 Lamenting Lidgate lurking emong the Lilie^ with a balde skons, 
 with a garland of Willowes about his pate : booted he was after 
 sainct Benets guise, and a black stamell robe with a lothly mon- 
 sterous hoode hanging backwarde ; his stoopyng forward bjwayling 1 6 
 euery estate, with the spirite of prouidence foreseyng the ftdles of 
 wicked men, and the slipprie seates of princes, the ebbyng and 
 flowyng, the risyng and falling of men in auctoritie, and how vertue 
 doth aduaunce the simple, and vice ouerthrowe the most noble of 20 
 the worlde. And thus he said : — 
 
 Oh, noble Princes, coneeiue and doe lere 
 
 The fall of kynges for misgouernire, 
 
 And prudently peisyng of^ this matter, 24 
 
 Virtue is stronger then either plate or made : 
 
 Therefore consider when toisdom doth^ coimsaile, 
 
 Chief preseruative of Princely magnificence. 
 
 Is to Almightie God to doe due reuerence. 28 
 
 Then Bartlet* with an hoopyng Eusset, long coate, with a prety hoode 
 in his necke, fine^ knottes vppon his girdle after Frances trickes. He 
 was borne beyond the colde riuer of Twede. He lodged vppon a 
 sweete bed of Camomill, under the Sinamum tree. Aboute hym 32 
 many Shepherdes and Sheepe with pleasaunt Pipes ; greatly abhorryng 
 the life of Courtiers, Citizens, Usurers, and Banckruptes, &c., whose 
 olde dales are miserable. And the estate of Shepheardes and countrey 
 people he accoumpted most happie and sure, &c., Saiyng : — 36 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, Lilies. 2 Omitted in eds. 1564, 1573. ^ Eds. 1564, 1573, dooe. 
 * Ed. 1564, Bartley. ^ Ed. 1564, and fiue ; ed. 1573, and fine. 
 DIALOGUE. C 
 
18 
 
 A DlALOGVl']. 
 
 Who entreth the court in yong ^ tender age, 
 Are lightly blinded with folij and outrage, 
 But suche as enter tcith witte and. grauUie 
 4 Bow not so sone to such enormitie ; 
 
 But ere^ thei enter, if the! lume lerned nought, 
 Afterwardes'^ Vertue the least of tlioyr thought. 
 
 [Nexte^ theim. in a blacke cliaire of Gette stone, in a coat of 
 
 8 armes, sate an aunciente knight in Orange Tawnie as -one forsaken, 
 
 beaiyng upon his breast a wliite Lion, with a Croune of riche 
 
 golde on his hedde. His name was sir Dauie Linse vppon the 
 
 mounte, witli a hammer of strong steels in his hande, breakyng a 
 
 1 2 sonder the counterfeicte crosse kaies of Rome, forged by Antichriste. 
 
 And thus this good knight of Scotlande saied to England the elder 
 
 brother and Scotlande the younger : — 
 
 Hahitare fratres in umim 
 IC Is a hlesfidl thyng, 
 
 One God, one faith, one hapttsme pure, 
 
 One lawe, one lande, and one lojug. 
 
 Clappe handes together, brethren dere, 
 20 Unfained truce together malce, 
 
 And like frendes dooe ever acorde. 
 
 But French and Romaine doe first forsake. 
 
 You are tvithotit the continent, 
 24 A sole lande of auncient fame, 
 
 Ab origine a people olde, 
 
 Bolde Britaines ecleped by name. 
 
 Sicut erat in pi'incipio. 
 28 Graunt, oh God, it maie bee 
 
 In saecula saecxdorum, 
 
 That loe maie have p)eace in thee. 
 
 Then loe shall feare no forein power 
 32 That againste vs shall advaunce, 
 
 The Tartre cruell, the curse of Rome, 
 
 Ne yet the power of Fraunce, ^-c. 
 
 On the second square] There'* was a faire Diall fur this Oiison, 
 
 36 vnto whiche was added the howers of the Pianettes : vpon the 
 
 same was written in large letters of fine gold, tempora labuntur. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 There stop and lay a strawe ; For Tempora labmdur is to say, 
 
 1 Ed. ]564, or. 2 ^(\^ i5G4, afterward is. 
 
 3 The whole of the bracketed passage was omitted in eds. 1.573, 1578. 
 
 4 Omitted in cd. 1564. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 19 
 
 by little and little tyme cloth ^ slip awaie. I will hoare the reste of 
 the matter at leasure. What is it a clocke 1 
 
 Crispine. 
 But early day, scant eight of the clocke. 4 
 
 MecUciis. 
 Well, I praie you dispence all thynges in order, Contixi Pestem, 
 in the same sorte as you did^ yesterday, which was giuen to Paule. 
 
 Grisjpine. 8 
 
 Sir, I haue spente all my fine Myrrhe ; what shall I doe 1 
 
 Medicus. 
 You are a wise man : put in quid pro quo, called auTi(3a\\6iJtva. 
 Hoc est simplieia que aliorum facuUati similium penuria subponi 12 
 possu7it viedici consilio. Intelligis ? 
 
 Crispme. 
 Etiam, domine doctor. 
 
 Medicus. 1 6 
 
 Moue te ocius et quicquid agas prudenter ages^ tu carnifex. 
 
 Crispine. 
 
 By God he shall paie for the Malte grindyng ; he hath* enough, 
 
 he knoweth no^ ende of his pelfe. It will come to an euill ende ; 20 
 
 God sende me more suche cheates. What ! me thinke I see twoo 
 
 men in long gounes with short beardes at the gates. What are they, 
 
 a Gods name 1 i,r t m 
 
 Medicus. 24 
 
 I knowe theim verie well ; they are two Pettifoggers in the 
 
 Lawe ; the one is called Maister Auarus, a good Gentleman and of a 
 
 greate house, a man of good conscience, in deede he is my cousin 
 
 germaine on my mothers side : surely hee can giue good connsaile, 28 
 
 and is fitte to be with such a man as Maister Antonius is : in deede 
 
 they hane been long acquainted, and will neuer giue ouer vnto the 
 
 ende. The^ Eauen will seeke the carrion. 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, dooe. 
 
 2 Ed. 1564, in the same sort, bothe noumber of the Simples, Dose and 
 quantitee, euen as you did it. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564 reads "agas," for "ages," and omits " tu carnifex." 
 * Ed. 1564, haue. ^ Ed. 1564, know none. 
 6 « The Rauen," &c., omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 2 
 
20 
 
 A DIALOG VIC. 
 
 Cnspinc. 
 Who is the other on the lefte haiule? Ilee seemeth to hco a 
 proper gentleman and a studious ; lie is Icaue, an handsome, cleiilie, 
 4 pretie^ man. Me thinke he hath- on echo side of his goune a Uagge, 
 and his handes^ in them ; he^ hath also a gogle eye. 
 
 Medicus. 
 Every man hath his grace and gesture. I promise you I durst 
 8 commit a greate secrete vnto him. Oh, he is a peragou. 
 
 Crlspine. 
 
 What meancth hee by winkyng like a Goose in the raine, and 
 
 hyting of his lippe? 
 1 2 Medicus. 
 
 Doe you note that? it is a good signe of a constant man : mavke 
 
 it when you will, he is a wittie felowe, and one that is a oonstamit 
 
 m greate estimation, iitte for Piaster Aiitoniu-'i ; his name looUc^ 
 
 IG is Amhodcxfer. Goe doune with spode, and saye you haue giueii Maister 
 A)ifo)iius his Purgation, and this day hee hath*^ no leasure to speake 
 with any man, and also how that he is amended. For if the Curate 
 were here for the soide, wee for the bodie, and Auarus AbiacUeaaiKins. 
 
 20 for the purse, here were but a madde companie ; wee should neuer 
 agree together, but fall into discordes. Dispatch them with speede. 
 fare ye well, I will goe and cause hym to bee letlen bloud, and kepe 
 hym from slepe ; then shall he bee purged to morowe in the 
 
 24 mornyng. Bryng the pouder against the plague with you. 
 
 Crispi7ie. 
 
 God giue you good morowe, gentle maister Auarus. "What, 
 
 Master Amhodexter ? how fare you both "? Maister Aidonias did •" 
 
 28 desire to haue spoken with you eight houres past. Indeede, within 
 
 this two houres, sauyng your worshippes, hee hath taken a purgation, 
 
 Avhiche hath^ caste suche ayre abroade that I was not able to abyde 
 
 in the chamber. I had forgotten my perfumes to make all well 
 
 32 against your commyng.^ 
 
 1 Ed. 1504, "pretie" omitted. " Ed. 1504, haue. ^ e^j i5(;4^ liandc. 
 
 4 "he hath," &c., omitted in ed. 1504. * Ed. 1504. gesture. 
 
 8 Ed. 1564, haue. ^ Ed. 1504. did moche. « Ed. 1504, l)aue. 
 
 ^ The words " against your comniyng " are not found in ed. 15C4. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 
 
 21 
 
 Auarus. 
 What thinke you of liyml shall he escape or no? Who is with 
 hyjii % I praie you tell niee and my brother Ambodaxter?- 
 
 Grisplne. 4 
 
 JSTone but Doctor Tocrut,'^ whiche also desire your absence, 
 because he hath^ hym in cure, and trust to make hym sleepe after 
 his lacks of rest, and to morow take your pleasure with hym. 
 
 Auarus. 8 
 
 Fare ye well : wee haue drawen and ingrossed his bookes ; com- 
 mende vs to Mayster Doctour. It were a good pastyme to take the 
 footeclothe from his Mule for two or three howers in pastyme. 
 
 Amhodexter. 12 
 
 I had rather haue the Mule. 
 
 Aiiarus. 
 What the deuill doeth this doctor here? If this purging were 
 not, we would dense and expulse with our resettes that whiche 16 
 should serue our tourne well enough, by sweete Sainct Laurence.* 
 
 Amhodexter. 
 I warraunt you the doctour doth^ make worke for vs both. We 
 shall bryng our matters to passe in good tyme ; take no care, mannc, 20 
 for the matter. Wee Avill preuente the doctour to morrow, when he 
 commeth hether with a present, and bryng him some pretie thynges 
 wherein Antonie^ deliteth. We shall finde suche a'' meanes to per- 
 swade with hym, by little and little, to bee Executours of his Will 24 
 according to his old promise. Further, hee will take it kindly that 
 wee doe claime kindred on hym by his mother's side, whiche was a 
 kinde harted woman, and full of meritrix,^ ha, ha, ha ! She was in 
 deede of those qualities ; her sonne is like the mother as seemeth by 28 
 one in the house, like Cowe like Calfe.^ 
 
 1 The words " and my brother Amhodexter," are not in ed. 1564. 
 
 2 Ed. 1564, Capistranus. 3 Ed. 1564, haue. 
 
 * The words "by sweete Sainct Lam-ence" do not occur in ed. 1564. 
 
 5 Ed. 1564, doe. ^ ga. 1564, he. 7 «a" omitted in ed. loG4. 
 
 8 Ed. 1564, metrir. 
 
 3 The words " lilie Cowe like Calfe " do not occur in ed. 1564. 
 
22 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Auariis. 
 I- feare that damosell will marre altogether : she doeth rule 
 the rost, she weares^ the keies. He can neuer haue her out of his 
 4 sight, yet Eeinolde, his man, thinketh hymselfe in better^ estimation 
 
 with lier then his master. 
 
 Amhodexter. 
 
 The last yere I counterfected a sickenes of purpose, as I can 
 
 8 when I lust ; I framed my Physicion to my phantasie, one master 
 
 Suilernoh ; ^ no manne thought that I should haue lined two daies ; 
 
 when I was alone I laughed. You remember whom I made myne 
 
 Executor, euen Antonius^ I then prouidently, by three thynges, 
 
 12 did foresee this tyme and cause. The firste was his grate surfettes 
 
 in banquetting ; the second his watchyng at Chesse and Gardes ; the 
 
 thirde, you knowe what,^ Venus, Venus, God wotte. 
 
 Auanis. 
 IG "Well, well, be as may be*^ is no banning. I doe feare many 
 thynges : Firste, the medicines may chaunce recouer hym, then shall 
 we haue'' nothyng. Well, Eeiuold and the damosell be euer in pre- 
 sence & watche hym ; she cheares her maister with a louyng coun- 
 20 tenaunce ; Eehiolde saies that he hath doen true seruice a long tyme, 
 &c. Well, I smell an other j)adde in the Strawe. When al this is 
 doen the curate is a craftie knaue :^ well can hee persuade and rehearse 
 Gods vengeance, threates, & plagues, by examples most fearefuU, like 
 24 thonderboltes, describing the scalding house of hell, ve, ve, ve, with 
 the story of Diues and Pauper, and the daie of iudgement ; readyng 
 the Homely of death, crying out, all is but vanite, vanitie and vex- 
 ation of mynde, damnation except repentaunce and true confession 
 28 from the harte and restitution of wronges ; he will keepe a stirr and 
 bryng our cousin into a fooles Paradise. It is hee that will raise vp 
 all the beggers in the toune. He will crie, giue with your owne 
 hande, for to day you are a man, to morowe earth and ashes ; 
 32 Dirige^ helpe not in this case. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, ware. ^ E(J_ 1554^ more. 
 
 3 The words '-one master Suilemob " are not found in ed. 156-t. 
 
 * Ed. 15G4-, Antonius Mantuanus. 
 
 ^ The sentence ends with the word "what" in ed. 1564. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564, be as be maie. ^ Ed. 1564, wee shall haue. 
 
 s Ed. 1564, Rhetorician. ^ The words "Dirige,"&;c. are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 23 
 
 Amhodexter. 
 
 First, let vs be sober and seeme to be sorrowfull for him, desiring 
 
 nothyiig but onely his life. If he stand in great daunger ACiafiie 
 
 the doctor shall haue his leaue and tary no longer with hym, ^'""""^- 4 
 
 in whom I thinke hee hath^ no hope to recouer ; let hym be well 
 
 rewarded. Secondlie, let Eeinolde bee sente into the Countrie to the 
 
 debitours^ for money; tell hym it shall turne to his greate profite, 
 
 and how his maister doeth intende to take hym as his sonne, and 8 
 
 will truste none but onely hym to fetche the money in the countrey. 
 
 Thirdly, I wil seeme to phantasie the minion, wishyng her to bee 
 
 my wife, alledging what broken slepes she hath caused me to haue, 
 
 and the causes^ of my comniyng hether onely for her stale. Then 112 
 
 will practise for the keies of the greate blacke chest, aud of the 
 
 Steele casket. Fourthly, maister Curate shall be gently saluted with 
 
 a Barnardes blowe ; we will commende hym, we will praie with 
 
 hym and also receive the Communion with our cousin, that he may 16 
 
 haue a good opinion in vs ; and deliuer hym a bagge with fine pound 
 
 in pence to giue to the poore, in whose absence peraduenture our 
 
 Scribe and wee shall frame the wille. How like you this practise 1 
 
 If this will not serue I haue a shift of discant'in store that I learned 20 
 
 in Blosomes* Inne. 
 
 Auarus. 
 
 The Deuill take altogeather so that we had the golde. Practise 
 
 this, I praie you ; you haue a good witte, by my troth. I could not 24 
 
 sleape all this night for this matter ; if you were not I could doe 
 
 nothyng but stande like a sheepe, Oh,^ his good, bolde cousin, that, 
 
 that, that. 
 
 Amhodexter. 28 
 
 I warrant you I haue had long experience in this trade. Every 
 where within this realme I can doe the like with the helpe of 
 Periurus,^ whiche is a verie good pen man, cloase and honeste; 
 he writeth sondrie handes, and is a liuely grauer of Scales Pettiefoggers 32 
 hymself ; also he '^ is a kinde harted felowe, for he Avill not PiiieHe.^^ 
 sticke to lende his frende an othe if neede doe require. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, haue. 2 gd. 1564, debtours. 3 Ed. 15G4, cause. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, Bosomes. ^ ji^ig sentence is not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 6 Ed. 1564, Avavus. ^ "he" omitted iu ed. 1564. 
 
21 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Tlie worlJe is full of starting holes, men may scant knowe how 
 
 to trust men now a dales ; but for the goode reporte that I doe heare 
 
 4 of this honest felowe I will bee glad to haue his acquaintance ; I 
 
 knewe diners of his kinsmen thirtie^ j'eres ago. God haue mercie 
 
 of all Christian soules ! it was then a merie world, and will neuer bee 
 
 so good againe vntill this Gospellyng Preachers haue a sweatyng 
 
 8 sickness in Sniithfielde and their Bible burnte. Well, would some 
 
 were at libertie for their sakes. AVell, well. 
 
 Amhodexter. 
 
 Oh, I doe remember that reuerent mortified father, that holy 
 
 12 man, Bishop Boner, that blessed Catholike Confessour of liome; if 
 
 hee were againe at libertie he would not dallie to mocke^ theim, but 
 
 triniely woulde roste these felowes and after burne them : you knowe 
 
 his workmanship verie well, a godly nian.^ 
 
 16 Auarus. 
 
 He is my cousin german, and Periurus, that honeste fellowe, 
 
 was his boye,* and brought vp with him in his youth ; Honest feiiow.s 
 
 and your Graundfather did penne his Prologue in the booke called 
 
 20 De Vera Ohedientia, when as they laughed merily, saiyng thei had 
 
 rather put to their handes than either their heddes or hartes j wise 
 
 men, wise men, by sainct Lambarte !^ 
 
 AmJiodexter. 
 
 24 Yea, suche Avisemen will serue the tyme, Prudenter agere, and 
 
 bee as wise as Serpentes and simple as Doues. 
 
 Aua7'2is. 
 
 To haue the nature of a Serpent I wil stande with them, but 
 
 28 beshrowe my harte if I would be as simple as a Doue,'^ but as gentle as 
 
 rather as my good Lorde Boner, Quasi Leo rugiens querens * ^""'-^ 
 
 quern deuoret. And thus he Avould expounde that text whiche 
 
 muste haue suche a glose vpon it. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, XX. 2 Ed. 15Gi,make. 
 
 3 The words " a godly man " do not occur in the 1st ed. 
 * Ed. 1573, doye. ^ Eds. 1564, 1573, felowes. 
 
 ^ The words "by sainct Lambarte" are not found in ed. 1564. 
 7 Ed. 15Gi after "Done," reads "either so simple, fearfull, or doltishc, but 
 rather as," ice, ^ This marginal note is not in ed. 1 oiji.. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 25 
 
 Amhodcxter. 
 I am alone vpon gloses, I haue arte in store to Sophist, I was 
 brought vp 3 yere with a Frier of Mont Filler ; he taught closes. 
 mee how to handle prosa, ohscurum, inordinatum, and harharum, with 4 
 genus and species. Full well I can handle the matter, bothe pro 
 and contra. Commonly these are the figures, and serue well to my 
 purpose, as Enigma, procemice, ironice, sarcasimus, anteplirasis, and 
 charientismus.'^ I have many rotten rules whiche do serue for the 8 
 purpose; 2 I learned theim in Louen,^ they are written in an old 
 barbarous^ booke. When wee are at more leasure I will shewe thee 
 all my cunnyng, my gaines and profites. i^owe lette vs conferre 
 botli together this afternoone aboute our matters. 12 
 
 Auarus. 
 Contented in that case ; as for termes and trickes in Logike, I 
 forse not of them, thei will paie for no horse bread. It ^ ^^^^ p^,„. 
 is golde that niaketh a gladde harte; he deserueth reuer- P'"g'"6. jg 
 ence and rule that hath it and kept it. Goe, let vs dine together and 
 sende for our friendes, Rapax, Capax, and Tenax to keepe vs com- 
 paignie an hower or twoo, for they are good fellowes, they haue 
 kindred^ through out all Eiiglande. 20 
 
 Amhodexter. 
 Agreed, I like their companie very wel, they are my frendes and 
 kind harted men. 
 
 Auarus. 24 
 
 And niine^ also. Go, let vs departe and not be seen muche 
 together abroad, stand yng in counsaile, because our matters are not 
 curraunt; but''^ it shall be shortly, there are so many of the kindred. 
 
 Medicus. 28 
 
 Grispinus, where hane you been so long 1 I thought it a yeere 
 since your departure, but I haue shortned^ the tyme in beholdyng 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, cJiatientlsniiis. 2 gj. 1564, purse. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, at Paris ; ed. 1573, at Louen. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, barbarous Frenche booke. 
 
 5 The words "they haue kindred," &c., are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 ^ This is the reading of ed. 1564. The later eds. give "And more also." 
 
 ^ The words "but . . kindred" are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 8 Ed. 1564, shorted. 
 
26 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 .tliis pitifull picture of Lucrefia & this feaifull siege of Pauie. 
 
 But this Mappe of the description of Terra Jlorida in America^ hath 
 
 reioysed lue ; tlicre the gold & precious stones and Balmes are so 
 
 4 plentiful], siluer and spice are nothj'^ng with them ; no labour is in 
 
 that hmil, long life they haue ; one thing there is which liketh me 
 
 not among them. 
 
 Crisidne. 
 
 8 What is that, maistcr Doctourl 
 
 Medicus. 
 They haue neuer sicknesse vntiU death doe come ; therefore there 
 is no goode dwellyng for vs in suche a land. Further, it is saied 
 12 that they haue no debate nor strife in their common wealthes. 
 
 Crisjnne. 
 Marie, then it is as vnprofitable for Lawiers as for Phisicians. I 
 truste we shall neuer be in that case in this our couutrie. 
 
 16 Medicus. 
 
 God defende vs from suche a Common wealthe, it would marre 
 altogether. Now let vs go to the chamber doore and see how the 
 worlde goeth with Master Antonius, and take our Phlebothomer 
 
 20 with vs to let hym bloud. 
 
 Crispine. 
 
 I will waitc on your niaistership. 
 
 Medicus. 
 24 How doe you, good Maister Antonius ? haue you taken any re.st 
 
 since I was with you ? 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 Ko more, maister doctour, then if I had been laied on hot 
 28 coales. Oh, sir, there was neuer manue in suche a case as ^ Dreadfuii 
 I am in ; I haue had moste fearefuU dreames of theues to *"'^®' 
 robbe mee. Me thought I was in the top of a high Tower, telling 
 of money, and sodainly there came an yearthquake and shooke the 
 32 Tower in peeces, and caste mee downe vpon weapons all bloudie, 
 whiche a great nomber of ]\Iorians had in their handes ; from them I 
 fell in the fire, which was like high mountaines aboute mee, whereas 
 
 1 Ed. 1578, Amiicia. 
 
A DIALOGVK 27 
 
 was muclie noyse and a cruell battaile, I did see there many 
 
 of myne olde acquaintaunce, whiclie sometyme were of greate honour, 
 
 both, men Spirituall and Temporal!, and the Pope hymself, with 
 
 many of his frendes. They were in extreme wretchednesse, and 4 
 
 sore handled of feareful monsters, and wormes gnawyng vppon their 
 
 breastes, vppon whom was written, Conscience hath accused me 
 
 and hell deuoured me, Ve, ve, ve ! And thus I am tossed ^ trouiiica 
 
 to and fro. Alas, what shall I doe] Also I did heare 'o"^^'^'"^^- 8 
 
 many ragged and sicke people crie vengeaunce on me, and men in 
 
 prison also, that said I had undoen them to inriche myself. Oh 
 
 good God ! . 
 
 (Jrispine. i ^ 
 
 Sir, I pray you let me herken in your eare. 
 
 Medicus. 
 What is the matter ? 
 
 Crispine. 16 
 
 I will departe : his talke doeth so muche trouble mee ; mee 
 thinke he doeth. wounde my conscience. Also I will home, and 
 caste awaie a greate nomber of rotten drugges wherewith I haue 
 gotten muche money in deceiuyng the people. God forgiue mee ! 20 
 
 Medicus. 
 The vicar of S. Fooles be your ghostly father. Are you so 
 wise 1 tary still with mee ; let hym pale for your rotten drugges, for 
 I may saye to you that he is almoste rotten alreadie hymself; me 24 
 think your conscience is to much spiced with sodaine deuotion. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 "What meane you, master doctor, to wisper in the Apothecaries 
 
 eare] 28 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 !N"othyng, sir; but I haue appoincted at what tyme that you 
 
 should receiue youre Glister, and how your Ptisante should bee 
 
 made, and in what order that your frontary should bee applied to 32 
 
 your forehed to cause you to sleape quietly. These dreames are 
 
 nothyng but proceading of the aboundance of choler, or els some 
 
 fearefull affection.^ You are hot and drie, also the time is verie hotte ; 
 
 1 The words "or . . . affection" are omitted io ed. 156-t. 
 
28 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 the Sunne is now 20 degrees in Leo, the Boggc daies are to he 
 ohseraed. ^otwithstandyng, feare nothyng ; I warrauut you, life 
 for life, discomfort not your selfe, a man or a mouse. 
 
 4 Antouius. 
 
 You are a merie geiitlemanne ; doe your pleasure witn mee ; I 
 will put myselfe into your handes, I tell you. Hold, here is^ twentie 
 olde Angels that did see no Sonne this ten yere. Your Pothicarie 
 
 8 shal he well considered ; he semeth to he an honest man and a 
 cunnyng fellowc ; let hym sette vp all the hoxes and glasses in the 
 windowe, and put on his honnette and sit doime there.^ 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 12 What meane you, Sir? I pray you remember your self. So 
 God helpe me, you are to blame. AYell, I will not contrary you ; my 
 chief desire is to helpe you Avithout the respect of money or gold or 
 other of your commoditie. Crisjniie, set the boxes in the windowe ; 
 
 IG and you, Surgian, prepare your lace, staffe, and launce, Maister wise.s 
 with your vnce vesselles, that I may consider his bloud in order and 
 due quantitie, for hether vnto hee is but in the augmentyng of his 
 Feuer ; further, he had no fitte this ten howers. Let hym bluud by 
 
 20 little and little, and although he doe fall into Lijjoth union , it is no 
 matter ; let hym bloudde vntill it partly doe chaunge into a good 
 colour. Oh lorde ! how might you liue if this bloud should haue 
 remained any longer? Did you euer see the like? "What a good 
 
 2-1: harte he hath! the worst is paste; this would haue been a greale 
 sore or Apostumation. Stop vp the vein a Gods name. 
 
 Wise^ 
 I did neuer see the like but once, whereas your maistership did a 
 28 greate cure vpon a noble man, as I haue doen many, I thanke God 
 and my cunnyng.^ ,r 7- 
 
 Oh, are you aduised of that, M. Wise :^ he is a good frcnde of 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, are. 
 
 ' The words "and sit doune there" are not found in cd. 1564. 
 
 3 'J"he marginal note is not in ed. 1564. ■* Ed. 1564, Crispine. 
 
 * The words "as I . . . cunning" are omitted in ed. 1504. 
 
 ^ For "M. Wise" ed. 1564 reads "Crispine." 
 
A DIALOG VE. 29 
 
 iiiyne, I haue twentie pounde yerely of liym. lie .soiitc nice a falt(3 
 Bucke vpon mondaie last, and gaue me my Mule also, with a Veluet 
 foote clothe. lie^ is well learned : he hath red the Apocalips, 
 
 Wise.^ 4 
 
 Sir, when you sent me home I left your Mule standing at the 
 
 doore ; but as I returned I mette a Lackey clothed in Orenge 
 
 Taunie and White, Avith a paire of hare tanned legges, and a blewo 
 
 night cap with a plume of Fethers, ridyng on him as faste as he 8 
 
 might gallop. 
 
 3Iedictts. 
 
 Oh, the passion of Christ ! my Mule is stolen. I will hence ; I 
 
 had rather lose .xx. li. ; I will tary no longer. My Mule ! Agreatiosse.s 12 
 
 I will teach hym to ride on my Mule, I warrant hjm. 
 
 Wise.^ 
 Sir, he needeth no teachyng, he can ride well, I warrante you. 
 I heard hym saie to a yonge man with a long cloke lined with 16 
 yellowe, that his maister sent hymi to cary a letter to a Marchaunte 
 Venterer that was crossailed into Terra Florida. 
 
 Modicus. 
 
 Giue me my goune ; fare ye well, Maister Antonms ; as euil 20 
 lucke as euer I had in all my life : my manne* is playing the knaue 
 while my Mule is stolen. 
 
 Antomiis. 
 
 I had thought the losse of your frend and of your Mule had not 24 
 been bothe a like to you. What 1 for .xx. li. 1 I will paie it 
 double; the knaue shal not escape. Wise^ hath taken good markes 
 vpon him. I will send to euery Warde, blinde lane, Junes, Wooddes, 
 and fields after the villaine. I will take the matter on me because 28 
 you come to me so gently ; quiet your selfe, sit doune againe in the 
 chaire ; I were cast awaie if you wer gone, good maister Doctoui 
 Tocrub.s 
 
 1 This sentence is not found in ed. 1564. ^ jjd. 1564, Crispine. 
 3 In eds. 1573, 1578, this marginal note is printed opposite Medicus' pre- 
 vious speech. 
 
 * The words " my manne," &c,, do not occur in ed. 1564. 
 5 Ed. 1564 omits "Tocrub." 
 
30 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Medic lift. 
 I care not so much for the Mule, but that the gentleman'^ will 
 take muche vnkimlenesse, and thinke I sliould sette light by his 
 
 4 gifte, and the Eufluuis M'ill laugh niee to skorne when they knows 
 howe I am handeled of the knaue boye. Well, I am contented with 
 your offer. I praie you beware you slepe not ; you shall suppe the 
 thiune brothe of a Chicken by and by, made with the fower greate 
 
 8 colde secdes and Cordial Ilearbes. Crispine, I praie you make the 
 brotlie in some stone or siluer vessell ; Copper or Brasse are not good 
 for Maister Antonius, suche vessels are leprous, 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 12 If you wil haue it made of gold, you shal ; I haue plentie, 
 
 plentie.2 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 Wee shall make shifte with other thynges ; golde shall serue to 
 
 IG deaurate or glide your Losenges, Electuaries, and Manuschristi 
 
 withall. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 Contented, so that it make on my side, whatsoeuer it bee. But 
 20 mee thinke I feele sleepe approachyng : what shall I doe? 
 
 MediciLs. 
 
 Drawe the Curtaines, open the luket^ of the windowe, set Sallowes 
 
 about the bed besprinkled with Vineger and rose water. Take of 
 
 24 that bote mantle; let his head and shoulders bee bolstered vp ; lye 
 
 not on youre backe, leane towardes this side. Let vs talke together 
 
 as^ frendes : why are you so heauy and earthlike ? God,^ your colour 
 
 is altered ! 
 28 Antonius. 
 
 I must nedes I was made of earth. But where is the earth 
 
 placed of whiche I was made, and of what fashion is it 1 Question. 
 
 Although I am of' the same, yet doe I stande in doubte of the 
 
 32 matter. 
 
 1 Ed. loG4 has "my lord " instead of " the gentleman." 
 
 2 The words "I haue plentie, plentie" are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, luketts. ^ Ed. 1564, like. 
 
 5 This sentence is not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564 has " walke vpon " instead of " am of." 
 
A DIALOG VE. 31 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 The earth is moste heauie, and can he in no place hut in the 
 
 middest of heauen; not moueahle, hut round, and hangeth Aristot. de c^io 
 
 continually, ahout the whiche are the landes and countries ^ '"""''o- 4 
 
 of the world fixed, whiche Aristotle doth call medium terrce, medium 
 
 mundi. 
 
 Auarus. 
 
 Are there not hodies whiche are called simple "? I haue heard 8 
 
 saie so.^ 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 Yes, forsoth, those are the fewer : the fire hote and drie, the ayre 
 
 hote and moyste, the water cold and moyste, the yearth Ele^^enu! ^2 
 
 cold and drie ; and these are called the Elementes, 
 
 Antonius. 
 Are there not bodies called mixed ? what are they ? 
 
 Medicus. 1 6 
 
 Aniinalia, as man, beast, fishe, foule, and wormes ; Vegetahilia, 
 as herbe, grasse, and Trees ; and Meneralia, thynges under Mixed bodies. 
 the yearth, as mettales. In the laste^ matter I am verie connyng. 
 
 Antonius. 20 
 
 Lorde, how is this worlde staied ] 
 
 Medicus. 
 The twoo Poles, Articus and Artarticus, Southe and E'orthe, are 
 the extreme limites about whom the whole frame of heauen is 24 
 wrapped, and is called Axis cceli. 
 
 Antonius. 
 Men. say that certaine starres doe gouerne the thinges beneth 
 here in. yearth. 28 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 They doe so in deede, as it is wel proued, when as the Sunne and 
 Moone doe enter into any of their circles in those greate bodies, then 
 our little bodies in earth do feele the goodnes or euilnesse of them, 32 
 
 1 The words " I haue heard saie so " are not in ed. 1564. 
 2 The words " In the laste," &c. are not in ed. 1564. 
 
32 A niALOGVE. 
 
 as Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius are hot, tlrie, and bitter, Cliolerike, and 
 are gouernyng hot and drie thiiiges, and tliis is called the fierie 
 triplicitie. The secoude triplicitie is of ayre, hot and moyste, 
 4 sanguine, sweete, and doe gouerne Sanguine jDcoplo. An otlier 
 tripHcitie is of water, cold and moiste, Flegniatikc, hauyng the 
 gouernment of cold rawe bodies. The laste is the yearth, the mother 
 of all thinges, colde and drie, Melancholie. 
 
 8 Antonixis. 
 
 Wliat doe the knowledge of these thynges profite to Pliisicko, I 
 praie you tel me 1 , ^ , . 
 
 \'2 Most chiefly, for where as the Philosopher doth leaue, there tlie 
 Phisition doth begin ; that is, he must be first a good natural 
 Philosopher, he must haue the knowledge of tymes and Agreatematici-.i 
 seasons, and bee acquainted with complexions of men, obseruyng the 
 
 10 nature of thynges, and the climates vnder heauen, with the course of 
 the Sunne, Moone, and Starres, ayre and diet, &c. 
 
 Antonins. 
 I pray you, is there a soule in manl 
 
 20 Medims. 
 
 Yea, forsothe. 
 
 Antonius. 
 "Why, then there must needes be a greater thing as the cause of 
 24 euery liuyng soule, which I take to be God, which hath Ooa. 
 made all thynges ; and when you and I talked together you seemed 
 
 that Non est deus. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 28 I professed to followe Aristotle, but my meanyng was that I 
 
 credite not the Bible matters ; I am no Diuine, I finde no reasons 
 
 there for my tourne, they are to harde thynges for me ; I commende 
 
 them to Darhel and Duns, &c. 
 
 32 Antonius. 
 
 Why, doeth Aristotle shewe any better reasons than is in the 
 Bible 1 Then I pray you what is the power of the soule ? 
 
 1 Not in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOOVE. 33 
 
 Medlciis. 
 lu tlie soule, saieth Aridotle in Lis booke of Etidques, he^ hath 
 three sundrie powers. The one is named vegitable, in Tiie ti.ree 
 
 powers of2 tlie 
 
 whiche euery man taketh part Avith herbes, trees, and souie. i 
 
 plantes. The seconde part of the soule is named sensible : in tliis 
 parte manne and beaste are bothe a like in mouyng, &c. The thirde 
 parte is more whiche is rationall or hauyng reason, and this parte of 
 reason hath bothe acte to do well and power to do3 euill. And 8 
 these two are called Intellectiue, whiche learneth, descerneth, and 
 judgeth in eiiry thyng that may be seen, felt, heard, or vnderstanded ; 
 but the power vnreasonable, as sodaine raging, crying, &c., is 
 ascribed vnto the Lion, Horse, Hogge, &c. How like you this 12 
 maner of talke ? yet here is no Scripture But Aristotle, I assure you. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 Then it should appeare that the soule hath vertues : howe many, 
 
 I praie you? ,, ,. 1^ 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 The first vertue is called Tntelledual, from whiche springeth 
 wisedome, Science, and prudence. And the seconde is called morall, 
 whiche is the mother of many good thynges, as chastitie, liberalitie, 20 
 humanitie, and good maners. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 What is the cause of these two vertues in the soule 1 
 
 Medicus. 24 
 
 The veitue Intellectuall engendereth and is nourished by learn- 
 yng of good tutours and men of experience, or readyng of good 
 bokes of Philosophic, which is a secret vertue in the soule. And 
 also the morall commeth by good custome, and not by nature, as 28 
 if one manne had two soonnes, the one brought vp in Example. 
 keepyng cattell, the other in daiely learnyng good lessons, although 
 nature did frame their bodies in like shape,^ yet they should not bee 
 like in conditiojis. Morall prouidelh that naturall thjmges in them 32 
 bothe can not be moued by contrarie custome. For stones naturally, 
 though they be cast neuer so high by arte, yet must they naturally 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, it. 2 Ed. 1564, partes. 
 
 3 Eds. 1564, 1573, like in shape. 
 
 DIALOGUE. D 
 
34 A DIALOGYE. 
 
 "full doune againe. Euen so of lire, beyng driueii donne, yet it Avill 
 cast his flames vpwarde ; so veituo is not in vs by nature, but onely 
 by power to receiue theini, for euery tliyng that is in vs by nature, 
 4 lirst it is^ by power, and after commeth to act as it a good note.' 
 commeth to the senses of inankiiule. For none can deny but first 
 man hath power to hearc, see, feolo, &c. So the power doth pre- 
 uent and coinmelh before the act in nature. 
 
 8 Antonius. 
 
 Then if power goeth before the act, then a man is called honeste, 
 
 good, or chaste, before either honestie,^ goodnesse, or chastitie 
 
 appeareth in hym. 
 12 Medicus. 
 
 In tliynges morall enermore the acte goeth before the power. 
 
 An example : a schoolmaister is called a teacher because of his learn- 
 
 yng, whiche is the woorke goyng before the power. And tlie cause 
 
 16 of a good man is his goode Avorkes, and so of the enill, whose woorke 
 
 is either dronkennesse, adulterie, thefte, &c., they make hym enill. 
 
 Antonius. 
 Then it should appeare that this thyiig called actus or worke 
 20 bringeth vertue and vice in man. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 What els'? doeth not euery man that liueth eate? But if he eate 
 
 to 7nuche or to little, doth it not bryng sicknesse. Euen so of to 
 
 24 muche labour or idlenesse, of to muche boldnesse or cowardnesse, 
 
 are not these actes vicious and euilH And dooeth not one means 
 
 moderate theim bothe? Extreames are euer hurtfull. 
 
 Antonius. 
 28 "What romedic then, I praie you? 
 
 Medicus. 
 Nothyng is better than a meane called temperaunce, whiche is 
 gouerned by Prudence, whiche is euer content betwene Temperance. 
 32 both, and reioyseth in it. 
 
 1 Ell. l."JC4r lias "iirst it is in vs by powers." ^ Not in ed. lo6t. 
 3 Ed. 1564, nonestie. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 35 
 
 Antonias. 
 So then if a man fell into extrcarae adiiersitie, and sustaine it 
 paciently in Ins sicknesse, pouertie, or cause of grief, Aduei-siiie. 
 calle you this a meane or no "? 4 
 
 Medlcus. 
 In euery woorke or sufferyng there is pleasure or displeasure. 
 If a man do reioyce in trouble, in chastitie, in bearyng Prudence, 
 of cruell woordes or slaunder, the same is a prudent man, and his 8 
 sufferyng maketh it a meane to hym. But other men that are 
 chastised and will suffer outwardly, and it greeueth theim in so 
 doyng ; the same is vicious, and laketh meane or prudence. 
 
 Antonius. 12 
 
 Hath the soule any delites in her or no 1 
 
 Medicus. 
 Yes, truely, in three thynges. The firste profitable, whereof 
 springeth housbandrie to nourishe the y earth, as also Profile. 16 
 
 Phisicke to help the body, knighthod to go to battel, &c. The 
 seconde is delectable, as takyng pleasure in thynges Pleasure. 
 doen, whiche is chiefly nourished of the soule, in whiche consisteth 
 all the pleasures of the worlde. The thirde is called vutue. 20 
 
 good, that is, to be verteous, louing, sober, pacient ; and also to the 
 soule or minde are enioyned habite, power, and passion. 
 
 Antonius. 
 Haue yong children the soule in all poinctes as women haue or 24 
 no, in operation or election 1 
 
 Medlcus. 
 Aristotle saith that operation of the will of the soule is common 
 to children, but the election or choyce be not in them to Avill. 28 
 
 AntoniMs. 
 What is will in the soule ] 
 
 Medicus. 
 The will is the intent, but election is the antecedent to the intent, 32 
 for election goeth before operation or worke, and the woorke doeth 
 folowe the same, as doyng of thynges, buying, sellyng, and all the 
 
 D 2 
 
36 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 avtos and sciences are so to bo considered. First hy olci'tion, thou 
 hy operation ; as by arte I do proue you to liaiie the pj,.gj election 
 ]icstilence; experience liatli taught mee, whiche yong t'"^" "i'*''"''""- 
 4 cliildren can not knowe, as Granimer, Ehetorick, Music, Pliisicke, 
 before thoy haue learned them or begon with their priuci[)les. 
 
 Anfonius. 
 'Kow I will stop and laie a strawe, and conien as yet no more of 
 8 tlie matters of tlie soule, but onely of the bodie, and namely in this 
 poincte of the Pestilence. What is the cause of tlie Pestilence, 
 same, good niaister doctour? 
 
 Medicns. 
 
 12 That which we do see we do testifie, and that whiche we do testifie 
 is true. Therefore no man ought in matters whiche aj)- xi,ec.inseoriiie 
 jtertaineth to the estate of life to Avrite fables or lyes, I'l^stiience. 
 but that whiche is of great aucthoritie and of good experience. Tiie^ 
 
 1 6 Pestilent feuer, saieth Hypocrates, is in twoo partes con- Hypocmtes cie 
 sidered ; the first is common to euery man by the cor- fl"''ij"s- 
 ruption of the^ ''^yre ; The second is priuate or particular to some 
 men through euill diete, repletion, whiche bringeth putiifaction, and 
 
 20 finally mortification. And Galen, in the differences of Cjaien libri i. de 
 
 differenliia Feb. 
 
 Feuers, doeth afnrme the same, saying, Vnam aeram Cap. v. 
 viciatum ac jpidridum, alteram hnmores'^ corporU viiioso^ vidu col- 
 ledos et ad putriscendum parains. Anicen also, Trad us quarfus de 
 
 24 febribus pesHlentlallhus, Cap. i. AVhen there doth come a sodaine 
 alteration or change in the qualitie of water from Colde to heate, or 
 transmutation from sweetenesse to stincke, as it chaunceth Aetius cie re- 
 
 Sleiiica, lib. .5. 
 
 in waters through corrupted mixture of putrified vapours'^ Pauius, libri 2. 
 
 25 infectyng bothe ayre and water, whiche of their owne simplicitie 
 are cleane, but through euill mixture are poysoned ; or when stronge 
 "Windes doe carrie pestilent fume or vapours from stink- uasis in lib. de 
 yng places to the cleane partes, as bodies dead of the onie. nb. i. oe 
 
 32 Plague vnburied. Or mortalitie in battaile, death of ;;'; ^' *'™'^' 
 cattell, rotten Fennes, commyiig sodainly by the impression of 
 
 1 Ed. 15G4, Tliis. 2 Omitted in ed. 1564. 3 old eds., homoree. 
 * Eds 15G4 1573, ririasD. '•> Ed. 1504, vapour. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 37 
 
 aire, creepyng to the harte, corruptyng the spiiites, tliis is a dis- 
 persed Pestilence by the inspiration of the^ ay re. Also by repletion, 
 Venus, Bathyng, or opening the poures, rotten foode, fruite, much 
 wine, or immoderate labour, or the tyme Ijeyng liotte and moyste. 4 
 
 These are greate causes. 
 
 Anton iub: 
 
 At what tyme of the yerc dooth the Pestilence cast forthe her 
 
 poysoni ,, -,. 8 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 In the time of Haruest, saieth Hypocrates, are most Hyp. Aph. xix. 
 sharpe and deadly sicknesses, but lesse daunger in the Spryng 
 tyme; and in the tyme of sundrie chaunge of windes, when the 12 
 we.tther is hotte and moyste. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 To what persones, I praie you, doeth the Pestilence come ? 
 
 Medicus. 16 
 
 Moste chiefly to theim vnder the place infected, then to sluttishe, 
 
 beastly people, that keepe their houses and lodynges vncleane, their 
 
 meate, drinke, and clothyng moste noysome, their laboure and 
 
 trauaile immoderate ; or to theim whiche lacke prouident wisedorae 20 
 
 to preuente the same by good diete, ayre, medicine, &c. ; or to the 
 
 bodies hotte and moyste ; and these bodies do infect other cleans 
 
 bodies, and Avhereas many people doe dwell on heapes together, as 
 
 Auecen saieth, Et communicat multitudiae liomimum, &c., Fen. I. 24 
 
 Tract, iiii. . 
 
 Antonitis. 
 
 By what signe or token is this perilous plague or stripe of the 
 
 pestilence best knowen eniong the Phisitions ? Goe not about the 28 
 
 bushe with subtile wordes, but plainely speake the truthe to nie, 
 
 beyng in this fearfull daunger as you do wel knowe that I am in. 
 
 Medicus. 
 The ^ignes are moste manifest, whiche are the starres running 32 
 course or rase after their causes. Oh, the most fearefull causes and 
 
 signes of pesti- 
 
 Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone, those heauenly bodies, lence. 
 
 are manifest signes of the pestilence emong men, and the starres 
 
 * Omitted in ed. 15G4. 
 
38 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 cadente in the beginnyng of Haniost or in tlic moneth of Sep- 
 tember ; or niuclie Southe "WinJe or Easte winde in the Canicular 
 daies, with stornies and clondes, and verie colde nightes and extreanie 
 
 4 hotte daies, and muclie chaunge of Avealher in a little time ; or when 
 birdes do forsake their cgges, flics or liiinges bredyng vnder the 
 ground do flie high by swarmes into the ayre, or death of fishe or 
 cattell, or any dearth goyng before, these are the signes of the 
 
 8 Pestilence and euident presages of the same, 
 
 Antonius. 
 These are good signes general; but particular, what^ manifest 
 tokeHS do signifie the Plague or Pestilence in a mannes owne proper 
 
 12 bodie] 
 
 Media IX. 
 
 They which are smitten with this stroke or plague are not so 
 open in the spirits as in other sicknesses are, but straite ^^^^^ Auicto ra- 
 
 16 winded; they do swone and vomite yellowe cholour, oli" xc^^ Libi-'. 
 swelled in the stomacke with muche paine, breaking LSbH'i rip"'"'' 
 foorth with stinking sweate ; the extreme partes very cold, "■'""'• 
 but the internall partes boiling Avith heate and burning ; no rest ; 
 
 20 bloud distillyng from the nose, Vrine somwhat watrie and sometyme 
 thick with stincke, sometyme of colour yellowe, sometyme blacke ; 
 scaldyng of the tongue ; ordure most stinckyng ; with red eyen, cor- 
 rupted mouthe, with blacknesse, quicke pulse and deepe but weake, 
 
 24 headache, altered voyce, losse of memorie, sometyme uith ragyng in 
 strong people. These and suche like are the manifeste signes howe 
 the harte hath drawne the venome to it by attraction of the ayre, by 
 the inspiration of the alters to the hart, and so confirming it to be 
 
 28 the perilous feuer pestilentiall. This is most true, of this commeth 
 foule l)uho^ antaxis and Carbuncles, Sores through pntrifaction, as 
 Galen saieth : li. Hi. De presage, Auicen Fe. i. tract ii.^ Galen, lib. i. 
 De Diffe. cap. iiiu Et Rasis de constitutlone pestllentice ad Man- 
 
 32 sorem. Also this feuer is scant to bee recoured and almost past 
 help when these Symptomcdas do appeare, as Galen saith, iii. De 
 prcesage cxpal, qua propter neqne^ hos ctirare teatandum erit. 
 
 1 Ed. 157H, but what, 2 g^]^ ]r,(;4^ l)ubos. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, iiii ; ed. 1573, iii. •* Ed. 1573, ncq. 
 
A DLVLOGVE. 39 
 
 Antonius. 
 You haue declared vnto me a fearefuU tale of the Plague, vvheroi'^ 
 tliousandes haue and shall die. A pitiful! case how it commeth 
 emoug people sodainly, eueii as you haue shewed the cause primatiue 4 
 iu the ayre;^ the antecedent when the same ayre is primaiiue ante- 
 drawen into the harte by attraction of the arters ; the ^'^'i^"'' ''""" 
 
 V ' luncte causes of 
 
 coniuncte when it with boyling heat doth chaunge by "'^ Pestilence. 
 putrifaction nature into the worse parte ; and almost past cure of any 8 
 phisicion when it is come to this point, as I gather by your late 
 talke, which doth put me in greate feare of my life. But I will 
 comen^ with you for others whiche are not infected ; ho we may 
 they bee moste safely defended, maister doctourl 12 
 
 Medicus. 
 Would you faine knowe"? Surely I wil declare thee the beste 
 defence that I can; I will hide nothyng. First of all, Good; 
 
 1 aire. 
 
 let all men, women, and children auoide out of the puo.' cap. xvi. 1^ 
 
 euill ayre into a good soyle, and then, accordyng to xxxvi.'AWc'en 
 
 their age, strength of nature, and complexion, let euery pes^^feuMi 
 
 one of them with some good medicine drawe from the ^^T\ ""' ,^r'^ 
 
 " ad almon. libr. 
 
 bodie superfluous moysture, and diminish humour, hotte ^^ p^^'- ^""p- "■ 20 
 and drie, and vse the regiment of diet to driyng, sharped with 
 vineger or tart thynges, and lesser meates ; not so much Avine as they 
 haue vsed in custome ; neither Potage, Milke, vnripe fruites, hotte 
 Spices, Dates, or Honie, or sweete meates, wine with Suger, are not 24 
 tollerable ; no anger or perturbations of the mynd, specially the 
 passion called feare, for that doth drawe the spirites and Trouble of mind 
 blood inwards to the hart, and is a very meane to °^' *'«'*'■• 
 receiue this plague ; neither vse actes venerous, nor bathyng, either 28 
 with Fume, stoue or warme water, (for this cause) — they all doe open 
 the pores of the bodie ; neither quaffyng or muche drinkyng. Euen 
 so thirste or drinesse is not tollerable, or immoderate exercise or 
 labour, specially after meate. Music is good in this case, a goodly rule 32 
 
 against the 
 
 and pleasaunt tales, and to haue the meates well sauced Plague. 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, whereof a, 2 gd. 15G4, thaire. 
 2 Ed. 1564, common (i. e. commune). * Ed. 1573, sen a tract. 4. 
 
40 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 ■with cleane sliarpe vineger. Forget not to keepe tlie Apoodiy 
 
 ' 111 -r-, medicine for 
 
 cliamber and c'othjTig cleane, no Pnuies at liand, a softe thesoie.i 
 fire witli perfumes in the niornyng. Shifte tlie lodgiug often time, 
 4 and close in the Southeaste windowes,^ specially in the tyme of 
 mistes, cloudes, and windes: And vse to smell vpon No'* "'-'o *>'"' 
 
 '■ clistei's are good 
 
 some pleasaimt perfume. And to bee letten bloud a little ^^^"^^ "'e 
 
 opening of 
 
 at once, and to take Pilles, contra pestem : that is a veines. 
 8 good preseruative against the plague. 
 
 Antouius. 
 
 These are good rules, & happie are they that doe wisely obserue 
 
 them in time, place, and maner accordingly ; but if one be newely 
 
 12 infected, what remedie then, as when a man is sicke, and the sore 
 
 appereth not ? 
 
 Medicits. 
 
 A com ray ng forthe like a Buhos are signes of those partes from 
 
 1 6 whiche they doe swel ; as example, in the left side, Libri Epid. 
 
 head, neck, flanckes, &c. But often tymes the Plague iiii. 
 
 sore will not appere ; the very cause is this : Xature is to weake, and 
 
 the poyson of the infection to strong that it can not be expelled, and 
 
 20 this is moste perilous of all, wlien such a cruell conquerour doth 
 
 raigne withia the harte, the priucipall part of life, nowe possessed 
 
 with death. The causes of this I haue declared before, with signes 
 
 to the same ; notwithstanding, consider two thinges : Consider 
 
 .... two speciall 
 
 24 hrst, whether it is m bodies Sanguine and Cholerike, or tiiynges. 
 theim whiche are Flegmatike or Mekncholie, or not. The firste 
 twoo, bloud is the cause, the seconde twoo aboundaunce of euill 
 humours. Therefore let blood, where as it hath the ^^.j^.^^ ^^^^j 
 
 28 victorie, and purge wheras other humours hath pre- !'*.'"i- ^*?';- ''\ 
 
 ' ■•■ ° -1 nil. Fen. 1. tract 
 
 domination or chief rule : in some men that haue verie ""• 
 stronge bodies, firste purge, then let bloud. Note this : Leo. Actus de 
 
 ,-, , ^ '11 • p 11 medend, mor. 
 
 that what side be infected let blood on that side ; if it Libri iiii. 
 32 be aboue the hedde, open Cephalica ; if it be vnder the armes, 
 Basilica, or harte veine ; if it be aboute the throte, then open 
 Melleola ; about the flankes, bealie, legges, &c., open lecoriaria. 
 If thei are verie weake or yong, then boxyng is good to the necke, 
 
 1 Not in ed. 1564. 2 Ed. 1564, wiudus. 
 
A DIALOG VE, 41 
 
 shoulders, backe and thighes ; if the stomacke bo full, then with 
 speed vomet, and these thinges drawe the venome fiom the hearte 
 and remoue the poison. 
 
 Aidonius. 4 
 
 This is good in the cure of the Pestilence, for I dooe praise this 
 blood lettyog verie well in the beginnyng of the siclvnesse. 
 
 Medicus. 
 Blood must be letten in the beginnyng of the sickenesse. For 8 
 example, like as a pot is clensed of the scumme or fome Example, 
 in the beginning when it plaieth on the fire, and thereby the 
 liquor is cleansed within the potte, euen so blood lettyng and pilles 
 doe helpe and cleanse the Pestilence when it beginneth firste to 12 
 boile within the bodie. Howbeit, certaine people male ^yj,^ ^^^jg ^^^^ 
 not bleede, as women whiche haue their times abound- '"^ '**"'^" ^'°°'^' 
 auntlie, or menne hauing fluxe of the Hemoroides, children verie 
 young, or people weake and aged. 1 6 
 
 Anto7iius. 
 I praie yon what quantitie of blood must be letten ? 
 
 3Iedicus. 
 Porsoth, fower vnces, or little more, and must bee doen euery 20 
 moneth, sometyme in the Median, sometyme in the QuantiUeof 
 Basilica, &c., And not to slepe after the same during ^^°°^ '*"''"• 
 six, seuen, or eight howers. 
 
 Antonius. 24 
 
 "What Pilles doo you vse againste the Plague ? 
 
 Medicus. 
 The beste Pilles generallie vnder heauen, and is thus made. 
 Take the beste Yellowe Aloes, twoo vnces, Myrrhe and ru^.^ ^^^^^^ 28 
 Saffron, of eche one vnce, beate them together in a fibHim^Fen'i 
 Morter a good while, putte in a little sweete wine, then '/?lf*. '.'."• ^""'' 
 
 o ^ r J Libn u. Cap. 
 
 roUe it vp, and of this make fine Pilles, or seuen of one ^^''*- 
 
 dragme ; whereof take eurie dale next your harte a Scruple or more, 32 
 
 it will expulse the Pestilence that daie, &c. 
 
42 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Aiitoinus. 
 Haue you anie good potion in store for tlie Pestilence, to be 
 dronke a morniiiges when the Pilles are not taken 1 
 
 4 Medicus. 
 
 ISToue better tlian this : take Theriuca, of tlie making of Aadro- 
 machtis, ij Scruples, Avhiche is a Triacle incomperable, passyng 
 againste bothe poison and Pestilence ; and the Antidotari^ Qaienus iibri 
 8 of Mithrldatls 1 Scruple; bole Amoniacke, prepared, ■". de simpiic. 
 half a Scruple ; and of the water of distilled Eoses, Fuch. de Meda. 
 Scabious and Buglosse, of eche one vnce, mingled to- iiii. 
 gcther. But this Medicine muste be had of Crispine, or one of his 
 12 companions, which vse no rotten ware, 
 
 Antonius. 
 Haue you any good ponder 1 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 16 One better, I assure you, then a kinges raunsorac, and thus it 
 must be made : take the leaues of Didamnus, and tlie rootes of 
 Turmentill, of Pimpernell, of Seduall, of Gentian, of Betonie, of 
 eche halfe an unce ; bole Arraoniacke, prepared, ^ an vnce; Tf.rva 
 
 20 Sirjellcda, iij dragmes ; fine Aloes & ]\Tyrrhe, of eche half an vnce ; 
 Safron, a dragnic ; j\Iasticke, ij dragmes : beate them togctlier finely 
 and searsed. This is the ponder : of this must a dragme be dronke 
 in iiij or vi sponfull of Pose or Sorell water, when danger ap- 
 
 2-i proacheth, or in the tyme of danger. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 These ar strong thinges for many weke stomakes : is there any 
 
 other holsom thinges 1 
 28 Medicus. 
 
 The sirrupes of Violettes, of Sorell, of Endiue, of sower Limondes, 
 
 of eche like, mingled with Burrage water, and a Ptisane made of 
 
 Barlie mingled together, is verie holsorae to drinke : put in tlic 
 
 32 pouder of bole Armoniack, Avliiche is of a singular vertue to code ; 
 
 for Galen did help thousandes at liome with the same Bole and the 
 
 Theriuca mingled togetlier, in a greate pestilence. But \\\ the pesti- 
 
 ^ Eds. 1573, 1578, antridotari. - Etls. 1573, 1578, Avmouiackle. 
 
A DIALOG VK. 43 
 
 lence tyme, one beyng infected therewith, let hym sweate hy warnie 
 thinges, as hot tiles, &c. ; and let not the pacient eate, sleejje, or^ 
 drinke ; and eate light meates, as Henne, Capon, Cheken, Partriclic, 
 eating often and little at once, "with sause made sharpe of veneger, 4 
 Oringes, sharpe Limondes, or Sorcl ; and in the first day of the 
 sickenes, that the pacient bee kept from sleepe by talkyng, sprink- 
 lyng of swete water, rubbyng of the bodie, as nose, eares, or^ soft 
 pullyng of the eares, as thei may be suffered, or a Sponge dipped 8 
 in Vineger applied to the nose ; and if vehement drinesse or heate 
 dooeth approache, then drinke the Syruppes laste rehearsed, and 
 liaue the chamber cleane kepte, and also parfumed fower tymes of 
 the dale. Beware of stincke; let the perfumes be made with 12 
 Olibanum, Mastike, wood of Alooes, Benjamin, Storax, Laudanum, 
 Clones, luniper, or suche like, and sprincle all the chamber about 
 with vineger ; roses in the windowes, or greene braunches of Sallowe 
 or of Quinces are good, sprinkled with Eose water and Vineger.^ 16 
 
 Autoidiis, 
 
 I haue heard sale that Garlike and newe Ale shoulde be good for 
 
 the Plague. 
 
 Medlcus. 20 
 
 You doe sale truthe. Garlike is good for to bryng it, but not 
 
 against it : it is so hotte, and hath power attractiue, and that is verie 
 
 euill, and a meane to bryng the plague ; so are Onions, Leekes, 
 
 Rocket, Eadishe, and suche baggage whiche are sokle Goodobsei-- ^^ 
 
 about in eurie streate in Plague* tyme as meanes for to "='*'0"5- 
 
 bring the same ; it is pittie to suffer suche thinges. Purder, the 
 
 multitudes of infected people emong the whole mfecting them, or 
 
 wearyng the apparell of the dedde bodies of the Pestilence, whiche 28 
 
 should bee burned ; for it is like a fire whan it hath gotten the 
 
 victorie, and can not bee quenched. Priueis, filthie houses, gutter 
 
 chanilles,^ uncleane kept ; also the people sicke goyng abrode with 
 
 the plague sore running, stinkyng, and infectyng the Avhole; or 32 
 
 vnwise, rashe, passing with an emptie stomake out of the house. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, nor. 2 Eds. lo73, 1578, of. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564 adds hi the margin, " Avicen. libr. iiii. Fen. 1. Tract iiii. Kas." 
 
 * Ed, 1564, Plaguie. ° Ed. 1564, gutters, chauilles. 
 
44 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 Neither to sitte tipplyng and drinking all the daie long, nor vse 
 riinnyng, wrestlyng, Daunsyng, or immoderate labour, whiclie doue 
 onely^ open the pores, but also cause the winde to bee shorte, and the 
 4 pulses to quicke, and the arters drawe to the liarte when it pantcth, 
 the pestilenciall ayre and poyson. And what is worse than feare of 
 niinde, when one doeth hoare ill tydyng, the death of the- father, 
 mother, cliild, &c.? By it the spirites and blood are drawen inwardes 
 8 to the harte. Also of care, anger, wrath, &c.: these are al perilous.-' 
 Mirth must be vsed specially in this case. Cattes, Dogges, The best remc- 
 Swine, Duckes, Doues, Hennes, or Gese are very vn- me'ane. 
 hulsonie nere vnto the place or mansion of dwellyng, or lye dedde 
 
 1 2 in diches nere the towne ; or many people lying together in one 
 bedde ; or longe watchyng in the night ; or costif nesse of the bealie. 
 Shut vp the hot house doores and tennis plaie, Avhiche are mosto 
 venemous. Be neuer without the electuarie of nuttes, thus made : 
 
 16 cleane Whalnuttes xx, fatte Figges xiij, lierbe Grace two fucIi lib. iiii. 
 handfidl, of Worme wodde, Fetherfu, or rather Cotula g* "tu^'j.";; ^e 
 Fa3tida, called BapldJmhnus, called Oxe eye, and Scabios, ^i'-''^"^- 
 of eche one bandfull, the rootes of Aristuluclna longa halfe an vnce, 
 
 20 Arlstolochia rotunda an vnce and a halfe. The rotes of Turmentill 
 and of the lesser Burre called Petasitus, Pimpernell, of eche ij vnces 
 and a halfe, the leaues of the berie* Dictamini one handful, Bay 
 belies iij Dragmes, the ponder of Hartes home twoo drames and 
 
 24 a halfe. Maces, Myrrrhe, Bole Armoniacke, and the yearth of 
 Limondes,^ of eche Dragmes three. Salt of the Sea a dragme and a 
 halfe, Nux vomica dragmes twoo, Buglos flowers one handfull, 
 stamped together by arte & with clarified honie make it ; this is good 
 
 28 to be eaten a dragme euerie mornyng. Forget not the Pilles of 
 Riiffi. : of them maie be taken one at once. 
 
 Antonius. 
 After or with this Pestilence there wil a f careful sore appere, as 
 32 we haue the knowledge vniuersall by painefull experience, whiche we 
 dooe call the plague sore. "What doe you saie to the same sore 1 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, not onely. '^ Omitted in ed. 15G4. 
 
 3 Ed. 1573, perious. ^ Eds. 1564, 1578, verie. 
 
 ^ Ed. 15G4, Li modes. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 45 
 
 Mcdicus. 
 This sore is called Carhuncalvs, of Carbo a Cole, or Anthrax, 
 tliey are botlie one and not tvvoo, and is ingeudered of carbo&An- 
 moste sharpe hotte and grosse blood, whiche nature '■''■'•'"' a'<= »"«• 4 
 doeth cast forthe through the skhine to one particular part with 
 extreme paine and perille to the bodie, whose Primatiue cause was 
 the corruption of aire or diete drawen to the harte, of which e pesti- 
 ferous smoke or poisoned fume this sore hath his cause, & the same 8 
 sore is the effect foUowyng, 
 
 Antonius. 
 What are the signes Avhen it commeth nere hande ? 
 
 Medicus. 12 
 
 A feuer going before, noisome and lothesomenesse of stomacke, 
 wambelyng of the harte, pulse not equall, vrine stinking, s;„ngofti,e ■ 
 desirous of slepe, perilous drearaes with startyng through ^'^sue. 
 the sharpnesse of hotte and burnyng humours ; and then a litle 16 
 pushe will creepe forth like a scabbe, sometyme more then one, then 
 it will increase, and shine like pitche or Bytumen with passyng pain, 
 and then it will haue a crust like vnto tlie squames or flakes of Iron 
 when tliei fall of when the Smith doeth worke, and in colour like 20 
 ashes is this cruste wrought by extreme heate and burnyng, therefore it 
 male be called the burnyng Cole or Ignem jJersicwn. Furder, there are 
 fower colours to bee obserued in the sore besides the crust : yelowe, 
 redde, grene, and blacke. The first twoo are not so daungerous as 24 
 the seconde twoo are. Yet, saieth Rasis, in his book of the Pestilence, 
 to Mansor the king, that the Carbuncle is deadlie and most perillous. 
 And Auicen affirmeth the blacke to be incurable, specially when a 
 feuer Pestilence doe reigne. Sometyme it is drawen backe againe 28 
 into the bodie, then no remeadie. Sometyme it happeneth in the 
 most noble places, as nere the harte, the throate, moste wiiere the 
 perilous, with sodaine stopping the spirites of life, placed. 
 Some pestilent sores do come in the clensing places, as arme holes, 32 
 flanckes, &c. And when nature is so stronge to caste it forthe with 
 a redde colour, palishe or yellowishe, the cure is not then verie 
 harde. 
 
46 A DIALOG VR. 
 
 Ant Old Hf^. 
 
 It should seeiue to bee moste liartle. You liaue shewed more 
 
 perilles then helpes bee therevnto :^ but if there be anj'' remedies, 
 
 4 what are thei 1 I praie you tell them, for in that poincte you maie 
 
 doe muche good. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 Euen as I haue rehearsed before so will I againe begin in the 
 
 8 cure of the carbuncle, of the openyng of a veine ; and if none other 
 
 thyng doe let, as extreme m eakeness, &c., then let the pacient bleede 
 
 vntill the defection of the spirites, or iierehande swonjaig. Let it 
 
 bee doen ou that side greued or afflicted, as I haue saied before in 
 
 12 the feuer Pestilence of the Mediane, &c. Also forget not eight 
 speciall thinges. First the substaunce, as compasse, lengthe, depthe, 
 hardnesse, &c. Second, the matter wherof it is bredde, as blood, &c. 
 The thirde as accidente through the dolor, as a I'euer, rednesse, &c. 
 
 16 Fowerth, to knowe it from a cause, whereof a doubte mighte arise 
 thereof. And this is the difference betwene theim : a Carbuncle in 
 the beginnyng is verie harde, flamyng xedde, extreme cai. attributns 
 
 „ -ri ■ T -I e i-n ■ ^ ^• alter dinamidis. 
 
 pame, &c., as 1 haue saied beiore, and will come quickelie ToUnowUie 
 20 to his hedde. But Cancer is not so redde, neither so ti," clneer.° 
 painefull, yet muche harder, and longer tyme or it commeth to the 
 head. But when it beginneth to waxe softe, then it ripeth faster 
 then the Carbuncle. The 6fte of the causes efficient, whether it bee 
 24 ripe through concoction or no, or the qualities of the corrupted 
 humours, or hardnesse, &c. The sixt in what place it is^ in place of 
 perill or no. The seuenth is to vvoorke by incision, plaster, &c. The 
 viii is good diet, as aire, meate, drinlces, slepe, &c. These are verie 
 28 good obseruations worthie of memorie in this case. And now foloweth 
 a perill to the (Jliirurgian, which must be richly rewarded, Acaviate 
 
 for the 
 
 for he putteth his life in daunger in that, that he helpeth ciiyraigian. 
 the sore bodie infected ; hee ought to be prouident that doth take 
 32 this matter in hand, and before he cometh to the pinch to eate his 
 antidotarie of Mdridatum, or to haue a sponge with strong vinegar 
 applied to his nosthrelles to arme hymselfe against the poisoned aire ; 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, hether vnto. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 47 
 
 and to take his launce in his hand accordyng to tlie art, taking lieedu 
 that in launcyng he cutte no vaine or Sencwe wliiclie haue sociotie 
 with eche otlier, therefore launce iiot verie depe. This is no straunge 
 thing after bloodlettyng, to launce the sore to let forthe the matter. 4 
 In some it will come forthe aboundauntlie when it is ripe or rotten ; 
 in other some not, because the humours are grosse and baken together, 
 or the runnyng matter farre in or skant ripe, and nothyng will come 
 forthe but Salte, sharpe, filthie, stinckyng water. Then beware of 8 
 any thing that might driue it backe againe into the bodie, as colde, 
 bole armen, &c.; then thinsicion must be made in the lowest place, 
 so that thereby the matter male the soner auoide, and muste be made 
 in the forme croked, if it bee not in a place full of senewes ; if it be, 12 
 then make the insicion long ; after the matter is run forth then couer 
 it with lint dipped in this followyng, which is excellent good, yea, 
 if the matter be stubborne in the sore. Take Quinse Note tins weii. 
 seede, Galles, of eche iij Dragmes, Myrrhe, Olihanum, and Aloes, 16 
 of eche ij Dragmes and halfe, Alom ij dragmes, Aristologla the round 
 rootes, Calamentlie as muche, Calamenthe i dragme and a halfe, 
 Calcantlium a scruple, all beaten finelie ; then temper it together in a 
 little Eedde Wine made in small rolles. You male kepe them drie, 20 
 and then in this case disolue it, or part of it, in the water of stilled 
 milke ; applie this with lint into the sore, also in this case to washe 
 the sore with a sponge dipped in the Avarme waters of ^^ „,j^g],g j.,jg 
 dragones. Scabious, swete wine, Arristologia, and Com- ^^'"'''' 24 
 
 phori, or their decoction. And to haue the rootes of Oomjyliorl, of 
 Lillies, of Mallowes sodden in white wine vntill they be softe, then 
 stamped and drawen through a strainer ; put thereunto barly meale & 
 honie of roses.^ This is a verie good thyng to applie to the sore after 28 
 the Avashing for iii^ hours, and will digest it. An other . ^ ^- • 
 
 ^ -J I o A good nieaiciiie 
 
 good medicen both to ripe and assuage the pain : mall .wes, *° "P''' 
 violets, camomile, of eche halfe an handfull. Dill half as much ; 
 seeth them and bray them, then ad to them barly meale & oyle of 32 
 roses, flax sede, beane meale, of eche iij vnces. Seeth them in SAvete 
 wine vntill they waxe thicke and make plaister ; and to the places 
 
 1 Ed. 1364: has in margiu, "a good medicen for the sore." 
 ^ Ed. 1564, xij. 
 
48 A DIALOGVK. 
 
 al)oute the rootes of tlic carbuncle round about it, tliis is good botli 
 to eradicate & defend tbe same. Seetli fower oringes por tiie rootes 
 in vinegar or sorell, and put a little bole arniiu to it, dip "f"'*^"'®- 
 
 4 a cloth or Haxc in it, and applio it round about tlio sore ; manic tymes 
 renewe it in this cure, reade M. Thomas Gailes Avorthie jj xiiomaa 
 bookc. And to take aAvaie the harde crust of the ^'"'"'^ 
 carbuncle doe this.- Take ceruse, Vermilion sublimated, of eche 
 
 8 iij dragmes, beaten finely in poiider ; and part of this To take awaie 
 
 tlie ci-ust & the 
 
 maic bee cast vpon the same. And to this niaie folovv pain, 
 nuillowes, violetes, lettes, of eche one handfull sodden in mutton 
 brothe, the yolkes of three cgges, barlie meale, oile of roses, and 
 
 12 freshe bntter, of eche three vnces. This j)laister applied on will take 
 awaie the Pestilent crust; also the emplastrum of Diach Hon 2^''(mum, 
 twoo vnces, with Amonialce and Galbanum, of eche one vncc, made 
 iu a plaister applied to the place, or a plaister of figges. Doues 
 
 16 doung and A'^allerian rootes and one^ roote of iNIallowes, made and 
 applied vpon the sore are verie good ripers, and do muche preuaile in 
 this cure; and, further, to bryng the cicatrice if need a cicatrice most 
 require. Take oile of INIyrrhe, of roses, of violettes, of ^®^*' 
 
 20 eche two vnces ; shepes Tallowe three vnces, gottes tallowe one vnce 
 and a halfe, Juice of Colew^ortes three vnces ; seeth them together 
 sofllie vntill the iuice bee consumed, then pntte thereunto halfe an 
 vnce of Vermilion, ceruse as muche, and ij Dragmes of letherge of 
 
 24 Gold, and seeth them vnto a blacknes, stirre theim Avith a sticke, 
 then put to theim six vnces of* Turpentine, and as muche waxe as 
 shall suflfice to make it in the forme of a carrot. And this Avill make 
 a strong cicatris ; and when the matter hath rnnne muche, and is 
 
 28 paste venim, then this is a powder moste precious to caste AmostenoUe 
 in and drie it up little & little : take nshes of Dyll, of p"^""^'''"- 
 burnt leade, of Terra lemnia, of eche one dragme ; litharge of siluer, 
 flowers cif pomgarnates, and gailes without holes, of eche ASheaiyng 
 
 32 two dragmes ; ceruse, Crenishelles, snailes homes, roche "'"'ement. 
 Alom burnt, of eche ij scruples beaten in powder ; this is the powder. 
 And hereafter followeth a good ointmente to heale the sore. Oile of 
 
 1 E<1. I."fi4, M. Gaile. ^ Y,^^_ i^cA, thus. ^ Ed. 1.564. the rootes. 
 
 ■1 Ed. 1578, omitted in ed. 1504, ^ ^.d. 15G4, an. 
 
A DIAr-OGVR. 49 
 
 Eoses ij vnces, Ceruse, burnt Icade, Litharge, of eclie one a scruple ; 
 red Eoses ij scruples in powder, the rootes of the grcate Comphorl, 
 and the flowers of Pomegranates, bole Avinen of eche one scruph;, 
 the seede of Purslen twoo graines, white waxc asniucho as shall 4 
 suffice ; and make this ointmente in a Leaden j\Iorter if it male be. 
 Eniong al simple^ Simjjharunt,^ called Goivj^liorl, is grcatlie lauded 
 for the healing or helpyng of the Carbuncle, beyng ground or beaten 
 betwene twoo stones, and warme applied to the place. So is the 8 
 herbs called Scahios in the same manner; so is the Good notes fm- 
 Lilie rootes rosted and brused and warme laied on. tiie Pestilence. 
 Lette not the greate white onion rosted, and the pith in the middest 
 beyng taken forthe, stopped with good Triacle or Mi/tJiridatum 12 
 warme and applied to the place, bee forgotten ; for some use none 
 other thinges for the Carbuncle to cure it. Also consider this ; to 
 kepe the bodie temperate in eating. Beware of repletion^ and swetyng ; 
 tarte sauces, Liniondes, Sorell, Oringes, thinne wine with water is 16 
 good,^ but no sugar or swete thinges. Forgette not sweete pestiiences 
 perfumes of Eose water, clones, maces, vinegar in a per- p^''"'""- 
 fuming pan, and bane the stomake annointed with oyle of maces, and 
 the complet ointment of Eoses, of eche ij scruples, & Gallce muscliata 20 
 X graines, and dip in a linnen cloth in white waxe, oyle of Eoses, 
 white and red Saunders, and the poAvder of orientall Pearles, fine 
 bole Armen, and the swete woodde of Aloes with Eose water made 
 warme in a little vessel vpon charcole and be not without a good 24 
 Pomeamber made of Storax, Calamite'^ three dragmes, Pomeamber 
 
 against tlie 
 
 Laudani half an vnce, flowers of water Lillies, Violettes, Pestilence. 
 the Avood of Aloes, Spikenarde, of eche a dragme and a halfe ; the 
 three Saunders, of eche half a dragme ; Cinamou two scruples, 28 
 Mastike xx graines, white Poppie seede, Campher, of eche a 
 Scruple ; Amber and Muske, of eche three graines, with rose Avater, 
 in a warme Morter ; make Pomamber, make a hole in it, Cordiaii. 
 and putte a silke lace through it, and Aveare this against corrupted 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1561, simples. 2 yA. 1564, Simpliatum. 
 
 ^ Eds. 1564, 1573, notes. 
 
 * Ed. 1564 reads, "Beware of repletio, light Fishe with tarte sauces." 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564 omits " is good." " Ed. 1564 omits " Pestilence." 
 
 7 Ed. 1573, Calamitie; ed. 1578, Cnlauiitie. 
 
 DIALOGUE. E 
 
50 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 aire. The bodie must liaue benefite by Purgation with Glister, or 
 Suppositer, or some Potion, as the sirup of Koscs solutiuo three 
 vnces, confection of Haraeche hue dragmcs, and wa'.er I'urgyng. 
 
 4 of Endiue iiij vnces, mingled together, and drinke it^ at once in the 
 jMornyng ; or Beitedida laxaUua with water of Buglosse. Be not with- 
 out Maims Christl to eate often tymes, and the conserue of Roses to 
 eate before meate daiely. Beware of muche slepe, whiche will make 
 
 8 the heate double about and within the harte, for slepe draweth in 
 
 heate, and in tyme of wakyng it is spread abroad, and the heate 
 
 draweth to the extreanies, as handes, heade, and feete. Sir, forget 
 
 not this, I praie you. 
 12 Antonius. 
 
 i^o, niaister doctour, I warrant you I haue noted it well ; and 
 
 though it helpe not me, yet I trust it shall doc good to others when 
 I am gone. 
 1 G Mediciis. 
 
 jSTow, sir, I will take my leaue for a time ; my calling is suche 
 that I must depart, and diuers of my pacientes diligently ^ doe loke 
 for me, as the birdes dooe for the dale after the ^ colde Avinters night. 
 
 20 And as tyme and. occasion shall serue, I Avill returne. I haue 
 hidden nothing from you that maie be a meanes to your health, for 
 when life is gone, farewell altogether, Avife, children, gold, landes. 
 Treasures, and all the golden glorie of this worlde, and frendes also. 
 
 24 Therefore, seyng life is the best iewell whiche bringeth ^n Epicures 
 delices* to the harte, pleasures to the eye and eare, '""'^' 
 swete sauors to the sence of smellyng, and many hidden Treasures ; 
 knowledge to the vertue of understandyug ; what is he that would 
 
 28 make suche an exchaunge if it were possible to the contrary 1 To 
 forsake his golden bedecked bedde,^ with sweete slepes, to lye 
 vtterly loste, rotten, forgotten an<l stinkyng, in a filthie pit of 
 darkenesse, inclosed and bewrapped*^ with Avormes. As by example 
 
 32 Ave maie see the multitude of graues in euery Church-yarde, and 
 greatc hea])es of rotten bones, Avhom ye knoAA'e not of Avhat degree 
 
 1 Ed. 1504 omits "it." 2 Etl. 1564, wliicli dili,<j;ently. 
 
 ^ Eds. 15G4, 1573, a. * gd. 1564, brings delites. 
 " Eds, 1573, 1578, heade. « Ed. 1564, wrapped. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 51 
 
 tliei were, riclie or poore, in their Hues. Therefore, sir, to conclude, 
 
 plucke vp that weake harte, rejojxe, he glad, and caste awaie all 
 
 care, I warrant you. 
 
 Ant on! us. 4 
 
 Gramercies, maister doctor, I haue put you to pain with muclie 
 
 talke and questions. I will kepe them in memore, thei shall not be 
 
 forgotten of my part. Euen so forget not your promise in commyng 
 
 to me again, my trust is in you : we shall make daily exchange, 8 
 
 cunnyng for gold, and loue for labor; yours I am. Haue,^ take you 
 
 that to buye you a newe Mule, a footeclothe, and a goune. 
 
 Medicus. 
 
 What meane your mastership? "Well, giue me your hande; and 12 
 
 here is myne, with myne harte also, euer yours at com- Anicegentie- 
 
 maundmente as your owne. Thus fare you well, vntill ""'*"■ 
 
 my returne ; in the meane while passe the tyme witli some pleasaunt 
 
 companie. Eate good broth made of chickens, leane Diete.2 16 
 
 Mutton, roste a little Partriche, eate light leauened breade ; beware 
 
 of grosse meates, Beefe, Porke, &c., and salletes, strong wine. Spice, 
 
 sweete meates, and rawe fruites. I praie you remember this, and 
 
 drinke your Diacodion at night to reconcile slepe again, and be 20 
 
 somewhat laxatiue. 
 
 Antonius. 
 
 I thanke you moste hartly ; fare you well. 
 
 Medicus. 2i 
 
 Crispine, where are you. Is it not tyme to depart 1 We haue 
 taried here verie long, but not without gaine. 
 
 Grispine.^ 
 Or we depart here in this garden, good Master Tocrub, sit doune 28 
 here a little while, and I will write, for I knowe you are a good 
 
 1 Ed. 1578, hane. 2 Omitted in Eds. 1573, 1578. 
 
 3 For " Or we depart," &c., ed. 1564 reads : 
 
 Crisjnne. 
 Sir, I haue thought it a moneth since our commyng hether : you haue 
 been sente for eight tymes this after nooue, and twoo of your pacientes are 
 dedde this daie. 
 
 3Iedicus. 
 
 That is no maruell, for who can hold that will awaie. I shall haue more 
 
 E 2 
 
yU A DIAI.OGVE. 
 
 ])i'nne inanne ; you wove Lornc in an otliov laiitlc, ami can Udt well 
 
 lirDiiounce Englislie, but speake it inditfieut well. I praie you tell 
 
 nie some vcric true experle medicons againsto the Pestilence, and I 
 
 4 will write tliem, and putte them in my hooke at home. And iirst of 
 
 two or three sii'upes.^ 
 
 MeiUniK. 
 
 ludeedc fur tliat you counte nie rude in English, marke what I 
 
 8 saie in plain Latin. A learned man hath witli greate niodestie, after 
 
 long studie, written it, I warrant you. Ref.^ Sijrupus For the bote 
 
 acetDtfitutis cifri, ac si/nqn de granatis ceque, 3 ^; k^nce'itib-r*'**" 
 
 Syrupi de agresta, 3 iiij ', aquarum Buglosste acetosse ^'horFir'" 
 
 12 paviter, 5 i, fs ; vmce quo synqjus acetosus cum sjiccie- '"''''• 
 
 has fr/'asantalorum temjjorihus PesUIentics diehi^ snmphis est bonus. 
 
 Ri'f? Sijrupi de 2'"»ii's descrlp. huhorrcgis, 3 '^'i > Syvup aretoli de 
 
 .sxcro acefnse equtUiter, 3 in ;'^ Syrup. Granatorum, 3 n; inMiieMe- 
 
 — r> liilicliliUe 
 
 16 Aquarum Ijuglosse^ lupulorum eque, 5 1, fs. niisce. Pestiieme. 
 
 worke tlien I can put my haude vnto. It is now a golden worlde with me, and 
 
 ■witli you also, 
 
 Cris2)inus. 
 
 God continue the same. I would thousandes were sicke, but I would hane 
 
 none dedde but the beggers that doe trouble the world, and liaue No winde but it 
 
 no money to paie. I nraie you what thiuke you of maister '^'^'^"' t'><"'"e 
 ,..,,,, -L () some men to 
 
 Antonuis ; shall he escape it or nor good. 
 
 ]\rcdlci(s, 
 I haue his plentiful! rewarde, and money for you also. I haue had log 
 talke with hym. But to bee plain with you, I thinke neuer to se hym again 
 aliue. He was paste cure or I came to hym, and he could not shape ; there- 
 lore I kepte hym with longe talke, but I spake but softly. 
 
 C'r'ixj/uie. 
 Then I jterceiue your talke was vnprofitable to him. Yet I wrote it in a 
 little paper booke in my hande. 
 
 Mcdiciis. 
 Not vnprofitable if the Phisicion come in the beginnyng or augmentyng of 
 the sicknesse. But in the full state of this sickness, it is most dangerous, 
 because death will preuente it or it cometh to the declinacion. Oh, it is a 
 strong poison if the Pestilence crepe to his harte. 
 
 Crts2)iiie. 
 This man loued you well iu his life, &c. [proceeding as on p. 55, "He loued 
 me," &c.] 
 
 1 Ed. ir;78, scrupes. 
 
 2 These recipes are printed as they stand in old ed. 
 
 3 Ed. l.")?:?, Jti'fi: * Ed. 1573, iiii. 
 
 ^ Ed. 157:>, For. •" Ed. 157H, Bugalossae. 
 
A DIxVLOGVE. 63 
 
 Item, one moste cxccllonlo in vertue agaiiiste tlic moste sharpest 
 ]'L'stilence and the sore, but it is costly, I warrant thee, tiicso arc eoo.i 
 Rcf. EiuUnce, Lactacm Scarlola acetosce, semenis Citri ^^'';'' ''''"''"^ 
 mundatl a cortlce, slngiiloram _f i ; Rosarum Rah. viola- "'' ^''""'- 4 
 rum florum, Nenuphar Is folio, Baglossce, Bo7'raglnis, ana i„ the winter 
 3/*'; florum Rosmarlni, 3 HI ; Succor um pomaruvi dulce, mi"i'e';ma"set- 
 santaloruvi succorum Ltmonum CUvangiolorum, 5 ana i ; ^''"" ''°"''^^- 
 at, 3 m ; Garijopldllorum, Giamomi, Ligni aloes, ana, 3 it' /*"• 8 
 Alaceris Oroci, 3 H f^; Macerenur in aquis Melissce, Buglossce, 
 vlolarum acetose, Boraginis, Rosacii, singulontm, J vi ; per triduum 
 e^j;er asemhicum in halneo marice distillentur cui addatur succharum 
 q. s. et fiat iulep cum. acelositate citri q. f. dosis est, 5 Hi. 12 
 
 Crispine. 
 
 Gramercies, good Master Doctor Tocruh, I haue written theim; 
 I praie you teache me one or twoo kinde^ of Pilles. 
 
 Medicus. 16 
 
 Ref. Aloes partes duas, Myrrhce, Croci, aque partem vnam 
 conficiantur pil, testatur Rasis nunquam vidi aliquem Three "i-aines of 
 deuorantem Jianc viedicinam qui nan liheretur aut ner- ?'"'''^'^.^'^'''i 
 
 -'■ '■ daily dnnke it 
 
 seruaretur ad epidemia. '" ^ ''"^® ^""®- ^0 
 
 Item. 
 
 Ref. Aloes select i, 5 i ; Scahiose, zedoarie, Tormentilice, Diptamni 
 ana,^i; Mijrrhce, '^ fs ; Xiloaloes, rosarum rub. Nucis loamies Damas. 
 moschate, Charyophilorum, Cinamomi, Santalorum, Sp>odii putTun tiie 24 
 de Canna Ana, G xv ; Agarici alhi leuis, 3 H fi ; Salts j[e':fi.bes"'[s'^ 
 Gemmce, 3 fo; cz6;m Syrupo acetositatis citri formentur pei°eTaiui""* 
 
 pil, dosis est, 3 i. germander. 
 
 Crispine. 28 
 
 Teache me a Pomeander, I praie you. 
 
 Medicus. 
 Ref. Florum nenupJmris, violarum, rosarum, florum Jniglossce, 
 
 ^ Ed. Io7o, kindes. 
 
54 A DIALUGVK. 
 
 ■ Santatorum oinm^ sjwdii, ana. 5 i fs ; campliorce, 5 Hi ; APihiceiie 
 cortiaim citri, macis, nucis moscate, maioruni, ozim i, gario- P"'"^'""'^^'^ 
 jUlati,cliarihi, styracis, cal, cardamomi, zediarii, lignialoes, cucnbamm, 
 4 ana, 3 fs; laudani o^timi, 3 Hj ; amhrce, musci ana, 5 fs. Confice 
 pilas parpTiuratas cum mucilagine dragani ; disolue in aqiia rcsata et 
 foraminihiis ahscondantur miiscus, anihra, et campliora, deinde malax- 
 entur. Vel talis midata a loanve Arcidano. 
 
 8 Crispine. 
 
 I haue also written this ; now of a trim perfume or twoo, and 
 a ponder, and an electuarie, and a cordial ointment against the 
 Pestilence, and then no more. 
 
 12 Mcdicus. 
 
 Rbf Benzoin, 3 Hi; ligni Aloes, 5 fs ; sacchari candi, 5 i fs ; 
 moscM finissimi, G xi ; cam muco draganti ex aqua rosata fiant 
 rotule depressce j^ro siiffitu. 
 16 Vel talis. 
 
 lief Carhonis salicis, 5 Hi ; cinamomi, gariofHorum, ana, 5 fs ; 
 Styracis, calamite, Laudani, ligni cup)ressi, henzoini, sacltari Perfumes 
 
 n . ^ ... J. , . „ , against tlie 
 
 Jim, ana, 5 ii%]s; rosaruni rub. siccarum, jiorum leuan- piague. 
 20 dule, spicce ana, J^; Amhne musci, 3 i; gummi draganti in aqua 
 rosata dissoluti et cum aqua vitce q. s. formentur trocliisci. 
 
 Item 2Jid"is solutivvs. 
 admiraVdis contra Pest cm, 
 24 Ref zedoariai,garriophiloru7n,zinzeheris, nucis muscJiatce,cinamoJ7vi, 
 piperis longi, ccdami aro. haccarum latiri, myrrhce, cdoes, epatici radi- 
 cum, heen Angelicai,p)impinellce, agarici, ana, 5 fs ; coriice a ponder 
 
 against the 
 
 de radice citri, cardui henedicti, ana, 3 ij ; camphor, 3 i ; Piaguc. 
 28 gentiance, 3 Hi J follicidorum sene, 5 fs ; puluerizentur omnia per se 
 
 deinde misceantur qui assumcdur, 3 * fs ; cum saccharo et aqua 
 
 hetonica. 
 
 Ref Aquarum rosarum, melisse, oxialidis, ana, 3 vi ; a„ Epitiiimum 
 32 vini veteris potentis, 3 i; aceti, § fs ; cortcis citri plague at the 
 
 jnduerizati, 3 t ; rub. spodii, carcd)e omnium santalorum, '""'*' 
 
 ^ Ed. 1573, Santalorum oniniuin.. 
 
A DIALOG VB. 55 
 
 fcrici comb iistt, ana, 3 i fs ; croci, 3 *'/*'»' tnaceris, 3 iff^; garynphii- 
 
 lonim, muds moscltatce ana, 3 i fs; moscld, G v ; fiat eplthimuni, 
 
 pro corde. 
 
 Vel iah. i 
 
 Ref. Aquarum Rosarum, Buf/loasce, acetosce, ana, ^^ Epitiicmu 
 § tiii. ; vini Antiqid p)otentis, 5 u; holi Armeni Orl- pf^ge\o drfnk 
 entatis, snhtlllssime triti, 3 H ; fiat ep)ithima de quo °IaI,',ste*'the ^"^ 
 etiam mane et sero hlhere poteris, 5 it ; yro vice. \yM:\.a. g 
 
 Eleotuariiim qvod aliqui 
 nu7icupant salutem 2f02}iili. 
 Ref. Radlcum enidce, 5 Hi, 3 vi ; haccarum luniperi, zedoariai, 
 ana,^x; Aristolocliice rot, '^ ii fs ; radicum aristolochice Anobiemedi- ^^ 
 louffs, zedoaricefoUorum hyper iconis, scabiosce retcei sauince, d" ^^drewe^ 
 ana, 3 vi ; hetonice, saluie prassii, spiccB, haccarum lauri, ^''^^f^^''" 
 gentiance, diptamni veri, torment iulhe, calami aro, ana, ^gaufs't'tiie 
 § fs; adicum assarij, pint, pimpineUoe, seminis ameos, P^^'^'^nce. jg 
 premorsiuce, corui, mads, angelica, astrucij, santalorum rub. ana, 3 
 ii; foliorum melissce, myrrhce opitime, ana, "^fs; castorii, 3 Hi; corra- 
 lorum rubrorum granatce proep. ahslnti calementi, zinzebris, piperis 
 nigri, ana, 3 * / caphure, 3 i f^ ; nucum inglandium mime, xiiii ; 20 
 oxymellis scyllitii, 5 ii ; old terreben, 5 i; mellis dispumati, q. s. fiat 
 electuarium secundum artern qui est minor Decern annorum propi- 
 netur, 3 i ; qui est oitatis, xv 3 i fs ; qui est intra xx. 3 i- ; qui est 
 
 ultra, XX. ii 3 /*'• 24 
 
 Crispine. 
 
 God reward yon, good Maister ; I praie God of his mercie make 
 
 the ayre, and our dwellyng places cleaue and pleasant, voide of 
 
 corruption or infection, as by gods grace I "vvill truely make my 28 
 
 medicines that I haue written. Lorde, how this gentleman hath 
 
 loued you Avell in his life ; if he dooe depart this present worlde, 
 
 will ye not be present at his buriall, Maister doctour 1 
 
 Medicus. 32 
 
 He loued me as I loued hym, He me for healthe, and I hym for 
 money ; And thei whiche are preseruers of the life of -wovidiie 
 manne, ought not to be present at the death or buriall ^I'^ei^uhip 
 of the same man, therefore I haue taken my leaue, I warranto yon, 36 
 
56 
 
 A niAi.otivi!;. 
 
 ■ Crisjyiiie ; T will retouvno to liym no ukuo. Tlius fare you well till 
 the iiiorowe in the mornyiig. 
 
 4 I must also depart to my Shop : I haue muche businesse to 
 dooe ; I will come to you at your commaundoment, maister Doctor. 
 Thus fare you well. 
 
 Clnis. 
 
 8 Good wife, the daicly ianglyng and rynging of the belles, the 
 commyug in of the minister to euery house in ministryng Tiie oiteezena 
 the communion, in readyng the TTomelie of Death, the *"'''"'''■' 
 diggyng vp of graues, the sparring in of windowes, & the blasyng 
 12 forth of the blewe crosse, doe make my harte tremble & quake. 
 Alas, what shall I doe to saue my lii'el 
 
 Vxor. 
 Sir, we are but yonge, and haue but a tyme in this Avorlde, what 
 
 16 doeth it profite vs to gather riches together, and can His\vifes=coun- 
 not enioy theim 1 Why tary wee here so long 1 I dooe ^■"'®' 
 thinke euery bower a yere vntill we begon ; my harte is as cold as 
 a stone, and as heauy as Leade, God helpe me. Seeyng that wee 
 
 20 haue sent our children foorthe three weekes past into a good ayre 
 and a sweete countrie, let us followe them. We shall be welcome to 
 your brothers house, I dare say ; my sistur will reioyce in our 
 commyng, and so Avill al our frcendes there. Let vs take leaue of 
 
 24 our neighbours, and rctourne merely home again when the Plague is 
 paste, and the Dogge dales ended ; and there you male occupie your 
 stocke, and haue gaine thereof. 
 
 Ciiiis. 
 28 Oh, wife, we knowe not our returne, for the Apostle saieth to 
 
 you that will saie, To dale or to morowe wee will goe to jamesiii. 
 
 suche a citie, and buie and sell, and haue gaine, and knowe not what 
 
 shall happen to morowe. What is our life 1 It is as a vapour that 
 32 appeareth for a little tyme, and afterward vanishe awaie ; for that 
 
 ye ought to saie, if the Lorde will and we Hue, we will to this or 
 
 1 Ed. luGt, "The citizeu his feare." ^ }^^\^ 15G4, "his wife her." 
 
A i)iAi.()(;vi'-:. 57 
 
 that place; and if it please God wee will Lothc departc and n;iouiiic 
 againe at his good will and pleasure, for wee are in his handc'S 
 whether so euer Avee doe go ; and I trust it is not againste Gods 
 commaundemente or pleasure that wee departe from this infected 4 
 
 Ayre. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 I knowe not what God will in our departyng, But my lleshe 
 tremhles when I doe heare the Death bell ryng. 8 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Yes surely, we haue the Apostle saiyng (for our defence in 
 fliyng), no man euer yet hath hated his own fleshe, but Ephe. v. 
 nourisheth^ and cherisheth it : therefore, who can nourishe his fleshe 12 
 in a corrupted ayre, but rather doe kill it? Further, I heare ^ a 
 doctour of Phisicke sale that one called Galen, in a booke of Triacle, 
 to one Pison,^ his friend, that the Pestilence was like a monsterous 
 hungrie beast, deuoUryng and eatyng not a fewe, but sometyraes 16 
 whole cities that by resperation or drawyng in their breath do take 
 the poisoned, aire. He lauded Hypocrates,^ whiche saieth that to 
 remoue from the infected ayre into a cleaner, thereby, saieth he, 
 thai did not draw in more foule ayre, and this was his Gaien ad Pi- 20 
 
 sonem. Nou 
 
 onely remedie for the plague : to them that did remaine aiiter cmavi 
 
 quam aeris 
 
 he commaunded not onelie simple "wood to be burned mutatione, &c. 
 within the Citie of Athens, but also most sweete flowers and spices, 
 perfumes, as gummes and ointementes, to purge the ayre. And, 24 
 Avife, feare of Death enforced many holie men to flie : as lacob from 
 his cruell brother Esau, Dauid from Saule, Elias from Gene. xxii. 
 Icsabcll. The Christian men from feare of Death did flie the 
 tyrannic of the Papistes, and although these men did not flie the 28 
 Pestilence, yet thei fledde all for feare of Death ; and so Avill w^e by 
 Gods grace obserue suche wholesome meanes, and obeye his Diuine 
 prouidence. Also I will leaue my house with my faithefull freendes, 
 and take the keyes of my^ chestes with me. Where are our horses'? 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, nurished & cherished. ^ -^^^ \t,6i:, heard. 
 
 3 Eds. 1573, 1578, Philon. * Ed. 1578, Hopocrates. 
 
 '" Ed. 1501, the. 
 
58 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 Our tliyngcs arc rcdie; luiue you taken your leauc of our^ 
 
 neighbours, Maul 
 4 Ciiiis. 
 
 I liauc doocn so ; now Icltc vs departc, a Gods Llossyng, good 
 
 "wife. 
 
 I xor. 
 
 8 Giue me my horse, liogcr. 
 
 Eager. 
 Maistres, he is here ready at your liand, a good geldyng. God 
 bless him and sweete sainct Loye. 
 
 12 Ciuis. 
 
 Eryng forthe myne also, and let the scruauntes forget nothyng 
 behinde them, specially the Steele Casket. Let vs ride faire and 
 softely vntill we bee out of tlie Tonne. 
 
 IG Vxor. 
 
 How pleasante are these sweete feeldes, garnished with faiie 
 plantes and flowers ! the birdes doe syng sweetely and pitifullie in 
 tlie bushes; here are pleasant woodes. lesus, man, who would 
 
 20 be in the citie againe'? Not I, for an hundred pound. Oh, helpe 
 
 me ! my horse starleth, and had like to haue been vnsadled ; let me 
 
 sitte faster for fallyng. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 2i He is a birde eyed iadc, I warrant you, and yon are no good 
 horsewoman, for I did neuer see you ride before in all my life ; but 
 exercise will make you perfecte. Your mother was a good horse- 
 Avoman, and loueJ ridyng well as any gentlewoman that euer I 
 
 28 knewe in my life. Well, she is gone, and Ave must followe : this is 
 
 the Avorlde. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 I neuer Avas so farre from London in all ray life. How farre 
 
 32 haue wee ridden alrcadie, sir, I praie yowl 
 
 Ciuis. 
 "Wife, Ave haue riden x mile this mornyng. 
 
 1 Ed. 15(34, your. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 69 
 
 Vxor. 
 What toune is tliis, I praie you, sir? 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 This is Barnet, whereas Samuel your soonne was nursed ; and 4 
 
 yonder is Eicharde Higmers house ; we will see hym as we doe 
 
 returne home againe ; we will not tary now, because euery Inne is 
 
 pestered with Londoners and Cariers, and it is earely dales. How 
 
 like you this toune, dame 1 8 
 
 Vxo}'. 
 
 A pretie streate ; but me thinke the people go very plain ; it is 
 
 no citie as I do suppose by their maners. What house is this at the 
 
 tonnes ende, compassed with a Moate 1 12 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Here dwelleth a freende of ours ; this is called the Folde. And^ 
 here before is Dansers hill, and Eigge hill. 
 
 Vxor. IG 
 
 What greate smoke is in yonder wood 1 God graunt it be well. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 It is nothyng but makyng of Charcole in that place. 
 
 Vxor. 20 
 
 Why, is Charcole made 1 I had thought all thynges had been 
 
 made at London, yet I did neuer see no Charcoles made a wise cockney. 
 
 there : by my trouth, I had thought that thei had growen vpon 
 
 trees, and had not been made. 2-4 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 You are a wise woman ; thei are made of woode. But how like 
 
 you this Heath 1 Here was foughten a fearf ull feeld, called Palme 
 
 Sondaie battaile, in kyng Edward the fowerthes time ; many thou- 28 
 
 sandes M-ere slain on this grounde ; here was slaine the noble Erie of 
 
 Warwicke. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 If it please your maistership, my graundfather was also here with 32 
 
 twentie tall men of the Parishe where ^ I was borne, and none of 
 
 1 The words "And here . . . liill " do not occur in ed. 1564. 
 2 Ed. 15G4, whereas. 
 
60 A DIAI.UGVK. 
 
 • them escaped but my graundfatlier onc^ly. I liad his r>owc in my 
 
 baimd many a tyme ; no mau can^ stirre the slryng -when it -was 
 
 bent; also his harnesse Avas wonic vpon our S. Georges backc in our 
 
 4 churt'lie many a cold ■winter alter; and I heard my Grandamc tell 
 
 how he escaped. ^. . 
 
 Cvuis. 
 
 Tell me, Eoger, I Y)\?aQ thee, how he did escape tlie daungor. 
 
 8 Roger. 
 
 Sir, when the battaile was pitched and appointed to bee foughten 
 ncare vnto this Windmill, and the Somons giuen by the Bamet field, 
 Harottes of Armcs, that Speare, Polaxe, blacke Bill, Anno m7i. 
 
 12 Bo we and Arrowes should be sette a worke the dale foUowyng, and 
 that it should bee tried by bloudie weapon, a sodaine feare fell on 
 my Clrandfather ; and the same night, when it was darke, he stale 
 out of the Erles canipe for feare of the kynges displeasure, and hid 
 
 16 hym in the Wood; and at length he espied a greate hoUoAve Oke 
 Tree with amies somewhat greene, and climbed vp partly through 
 cunnyng, for he was a Thatcher, but feare was worthe a Ladder to 
 hym ; and then by the helpe of a writhen arme of the Tree he went 
 
 20 doune and there remained a good while, and was fedde there by the 
 space of a Moncthe witl) olde Ackornes and I^uttcs whiche Squirels 
 had brought in, and also did in his Sallet keepe the Eaine water for 
 his drinke, and at length escaped the dannger. 
 
 2-1 Ciais. 
 
 So he might for anie stripes that he had there ; he was well 
 harnessed with a Tree, but I noucr read this in the Chronicle. 
 
 Roger. 
 28 There be many thinges (and it shall please your Maistership), 
 whiche are not written in the Chronicles, I do think are as true as 
 Jtihn your man doe read vnto me when we doe go to bedde, almost 
 euerie night. I shall neuer forget them : fare "svcl, good Ihon ! 
 
 32 CI Ills. 
 
 AVhat are they, Eoger ? 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, could. 
 
A IHALOOVn:. 
 
 Gl 
 
 Miirio, sir, he lokle me in the olde tynic howe Horses, Sheepe, 
 Ilogges, Dogges, Cattes, Eattes, and Mise did speake, and I dooe 
 partlie beleuc that, for as niuche as our Parate will saie, Parate is a 4 
 ininion, and beware the Catte, and she will call me Ptoger as pluine as 
 your Maistership ; and although Dogges haue loste their speache yet 
 thei doe vnderstande. When I doe whistell Trowle will come ; he 
 will fetche my gloue, my bolte in the water, or stoope or lye doune 8 
 when I bidde hym ; and surelie he whiche doeth vnderstand and 
 here Avhat T doe saie male speake also, but that there are so many 
 languages now adaies he can not tell whiche to speake and to leave 
 all alone, and tourneth all too plaine barkyng as women -aogg^s and ^ -^ 
 doe, when as thei doe fall from reasonyng into scoldyng. 
 
 women. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Thou foolishe knaue, what meanest thou to speake thus 1 Dogges 
 did neuer speake; thei doe want reason. For there are Three things to 16 
 
 consitlei-i in all 
 
 three thynges to be considered in eche liuyng creature ; creatures, 
 the first is vegitable, wherein a man, Dogge, and tree are all one. 
 The second is sensible ; in this man and Dogge are all one. The 
 third is, where man excelleth all other creatures, where he hath 20 
 reason and iudgement, hauynge acte to dooe w^ell and power to doe 
 euill ; althrough^ this reason man doeth speake. The beaste wanteth 
 reason, therefore he speaketh not, &c. But Dogges are taught by 
 custome, and not moued by reason. 24 
 
 Roger. 
 "VYell, sir, our lohns booke shall confounde your taike, for I did 
 see it in writyng; and that whiche is written I will beleue, and 
 follow by Gods grace, and no more. 28 
 
 Cluls. 
 Why, will ye doe no more for mee then I haue commanded you 
 by writyng % You are an honest felowe. 
 
 1 For "to consider" (the reading of ed. 1578) eds. 1564, 1573, road 
 " considered." 
 
 2 Eds. 15Gi, 1573, through. 
 
02 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 AVIicn I came to you first you gaue me a scroll of parcliment, 
 
 •\vlierciu saicd you, do no more but as this commaundeth, Rogers wntyng. 
 
 4 and I will aske no more of thee, but allowe tliy seruicc. Nowe, in 
 
 case your Maister.ship Avith your horse fell both into the m3're ouer 
 
 the cares, if it were not in my writyng to helpe you bothe forthe I 
 
 haue doen you no euill seruice. Ha, ha, ha, how cracke you this 
 
 8 nutte? 
 
 VXDT. 
 
 It wei'c a good deede to cracke your pate, you saucie verlet. 
 Gods den tie, lacke sauce, Avhence came you 1 
 
 12 Horjer. 
 
 Forsoothe, out of the countree, Maistres nisibicetur, as fine as 
 fippcnce ! How pretely you can call verlet and sweare by Gods 
 dentie ! God blesse you, I did neuer see you stomble before. 
 
 16 Vxor. 
 
 Out, Eoge and Slaue ! Auaunte, villaine ! Out of my sight, 
 
 knaue ! 
 
 Iio(jer. 
 
 20 I tliinke you learned your Eetorike in the vniuersitie of Bride- 
 well ; you were neuer well wormed when you were young. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Sir, you do ride too fast ; haue you not heard what this honest 
 
 24 man haue saied to meel 
 
 Chu's. 
 
 Dame, all thinges must be taken in good parte ; I heard 
 
 nothing. If any thing bee amisse, at our retourue it shall be 
 
 28 amended ; we must haue one ridyng foole by the waie, so that it bee 
 
 dooen merelie and exceade not. Well, felowe, you doe beleue that 
 
 beastes will spcake, because it is written so of them 1 
 
 Roger. 
 32 That I will; if that my Maistres will holde her peace, 1 will 
 proue it. 
 
A DIALOGVK. 
 
 63 
 
 I praie you geue eare to no suclie trifles and lies, good houscband. 
 
 Cmts. 
 I praie you bee contente, it is as good to beare a lye Avhicbe 4 
 burtetli not as sometyme a true tale that proliteth not. Tell on 
 geently, Eoger, a Gods name ; ride nere, and let vs be merie. 
 
 Roger. 
 It so cliaunsed in the pleasaunt tyme of Male, a lustie young 8 
 Lion after his praie or neAve eaten spoile did lye him 'pi.e taie of the 
 doune to slepe, and yet being a slepe the bsastes that ^^■""• 
 were nere hande did quake and tremble in beholding of his most 
 fearefull countenance and fledde awaie. The poore cillie Mouse 12 
 crept out of her small caue and came softelie, thinkyng no harme, 
 and plaied aboute the Lyon and piped merelie ; wherewith the Lyon 
 awaked sodainlie and was angrie, caught the^ Mouse forthwith, 
 tbinkyng to bane deuoured it, but this poore Mouse pacience in 1^ 
 kneled doune vpon her knees and held up her handes, pouei-ue. 
 saying, I haue offended your lordship, I praie you therefore forgeue 
 me and let me haue my life, and once, perhaps,^ I shall requite it 
 you again;2 whereat tbe Lion smiled, and let her pas^e awaie in 20 
 peace. Within fewe daies after ^ the same Lj^on was taken in a 
 strong ISTet, thinking neuer to haue been deliuered, and cried most 
 fearfullie with desperation. But gentle Margerie Mouse Avitli her 
 companions ^ withal speede came runnyng, and with sharpe tiled 24 
 teeth did gnawe and shread the strong cordes wbich intrapped the 
 Lion, wherewith hee stoode at libertie and wente bis waie. This is 
 true, when Mise and Lions did speake. I wil abide by the same, 
 sir, if it shal please your Maistership. 28 
 
 Ciuis. 
 ISTo, surelye, Lyons nor Mise did neuer speake, Eoger, but 
 some wise manne hath written this to this ende, that Note tins. 
 like as crueltie is to bee vtterlie auoided, euen so ingratitude is 32 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, this. 2 Omitted in ed. 156i. 
 ^ The words " with her companions" are not found in ed. 15Ci. 
 
Gl A DlAl.OtiVE. 
 
 to be ablioreil. "We niaie lierel)y consider that veric poore mcuiie in 
 the time of trouble iiuiie lielpe the miglitie and strong,^ an 1 oftentymes 
 doc indeede. Why sliould then the greate lorde forget the benefite 
 4 of a poore gromc, which many woics maie pleasure liim : (if the 
 simple Mouse wer from the Lyon) then the gentleman were most 
 wretched, in occupation and drudgerie most vile, if poore and simple 
 men in the tyme of extreme persecution by God's prouidence haue 
 8 deliuered the oppressed, whiche persecuted or oppressed men^ since 
 are come to greate promotion, both spirituall and temporall, doe 
 forget the same benelites again. It were not only the partes of 
 iufidels, but also more ingratefull then beastes, as horses which haue 
 
 12 rescued their maisters in battaile, and doggcs whiche would neuer 
 eate after their maisters death, but die iipon their graues. Another 
 kind of ingratitude is with Judas, when one bestowe a KnauisiieiM«'r;i- 
 benefite upon a man, the same manne to inuente to t'tu'ie. 
 
 IG murder his frende. As if a man in the tyme of colde should finde a 
 snake, and for foolishe pite put hym into his bosome to warme him, 
 I thinke his nature is to sting the man ; or if a Shepherde shoulde 
 bryng a young Wolfe vp eraong his Lambes and geue Q^nevi and his 
 
 20 him Milke, surelye he would fall to bloode at length and ^''^^"'''^'^ 
 kill the Shepherde himself, 
 
 Eor/er. 
 
 Sir, you haue well expounded my tale, now I knowe your mean- 
 
 24 ing. I perceiue it is not good keping of such vnkind beastes ; they 
 
 are verie costly and perilous, and would haue Jacke Jacke drake. 
 
 Drakes medicene. Sir, vpon a tyme when quacklyng Duckes did 
 
 spccike and caklyng hennes'^ could talke, whiche indeede are con- 
 
 28 tinually^ companions bicause they are Foules (Marie of sundrie 
 
 kyndes and names) ; for Duckes and all water foule doe not onely 
 
 take the benefite of goodly pondes, riuers, and pleasaunte waters in 
 
 the time of hotte Summer, with manie deintie meates, and at their 
 
 32 pleasures they doe take the commodetie of the lande also. The 
 
 1 lu the margin of ed. 156-t is wi-itteii •' lugratitiule." 
 
 - Omitted in ed. 15(i4. 
 
 3 The marginal annotation in ed. lo(U is ' Marke this.' 
 
 •• Kd. l.";G-t, and Hehcs kackling. " Ed. 15()4, continuall. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 65 
 
 lande birdes doe but onely liue vppoii the laude as footemen ; as for 
 Ilaukes and fleyng birdes of tlie woodde whiche daielic persecnteth 
 eche other, as murderers doc innocentes or cruell riche men tlio 
 poore that would liue in reste, I medle not with tliem. Vpon a 4 
 time the Drake with the^ duck and his neighbours, the Xraitours. 
 Gese, beyng pleasauntlie disposed ; as ludas was, in plaiyng the 
 traitour ; onely to destroie the lande foules to the ende that they 
 might enioye both land and water together at their pleasure. After 8 
 the example of couetous men that would haue all thinges j^ogg^s obseru- 
 in their handes, and when one manne hath^ anie good ^"°"" 
 profitable trade to liue vppon they will couette or vse the same, 
 although their poore neighbours do perishe, and that is the cause of 12 
 muche trouble, good maister, now adaies, that euerie callyng doe 
 pinche and poule eche other, and where the hedge is lowest that com- 
 monlie is sonest cast to grounde, but the stronge stakes will stande 
 in the storme. (I speake not of the lustie lawiers nor the mighty 16 
 marchauntes ; no, no, I will obserue nothing in them, let euerie Fatte 
 stande vpon his owne bottome.) iN'owe, saide the Drake to the 
 lande fowles, good cosins, we are muche bounds vnto you for your 
 daiely entertainement, good cliere,'^ and companie ;* we with our wiues 20 
 and children are muche bounde vnto you ; you are moste naturall 
 unto vs, we daielie feede and take of youre commoditie, come at 
 our pleasures. Nowe, therefore, take parte with vs, and vse j^our 
 pleasure upon the Water; there is plentie of young Trie, and Fishe 24 
 greate store, Sallet herbes of sonndrie kyndes, good against euery 
 wound or grief, both meate and medicine, &c. Oh Lord, what 
 pleasure is there to be had ! come, sweete hartes, and let us take our 
 progresse to the pleasaunt Eiuer of Tagus, whereas the sandes of 28 
 that flood are precious golde ; there is both pleasure and riches ; go 
 and gather wealth and treasure ; here is pouertie, there is sweet- 
 ness, and here but stinkyng doung hilles ; there is libertie, and here 
 in bondage; there is ioye of the niynd, and here dailey compai-isons. 32 
 feare of the Fox, that false Traitour. This sweet tale pleased well 
 the lande fowles, as it is often tymes seen that faire woordes make 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, his. ^ Eds. 1564, 157.3, haue. 3 Ed. 1564, in good chere. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, daiely companie. 
 
 DIALOGUE. F 
 
66 A DI.VIJ^GVE. 
 
 fooles fain ; notwiLlistamlyug, the Cucke suidc vnto the Drake : 
 Gossippe, our hniigyng vp liath^ been by ]ande, and our- lathers also ; 
 we can not swim, Avee haue no wcbbes in our feete to rowe witljall 
 
 4 as you have; Ave feare drownyng. "W'liat, saied the Drake, what 
 nedeth these wordes emong fiendes? A^se niaketh perlitenesse ; wee 
 will teache you to swim by arte as ■well as we doe by nature (nothing 
 is to hard^ to willing minds). AVell, let vs go together; haue Avith 
 
 8 you, saied the Cocke. Then, verie womanlie, the Duck J*'"''* «'»?'' 
 
 IVeiules dune 
 
 did take the Henne by the hand, following their house- meete. 
 bandes, whiche Avere arme and arme Avalking before ; the Chickens 
 and the Ducklynges followed in a goodlie traine, as it had been to a 
 
 12 sumpteous Mariage betwene the Cockes eldest soonne Avith the pale 
 face and the Drakes doughter Avith the pretie foote. At the Avater 
 side the Drake Avith all the Avater foules did stoupe lowe and receiue 
 their carriage, and when they Avere all a cockehoi'se Hcirsenien. 
 
 16 together they Avente into the water; and eftsones, Avhen the Drake 
 gaue his Avatclie Avoorde, the Avater foules did all siiicke at ones, and 
 all the land foides Avere sodainly in a Avrecke, and manie of tliem 
 perished, and some Avith muche a doe came to lande, as the Cocke 
 
 20 and the Henne, whiche returned home Avith care and shame, and 
 lined long in lamentation and remained solitarie, Avithout companie 
 of Avater foules. The Fox, Avhiche had games a both sides, made the 
 league Avith a learned oration painted ful of Ehetorike, between 
 
 24 them ; declaring Avhat unitie Avas between brethren and the fruictes 
 of ■^ peace, and so reconciled the Avater foules to lande, Avhere Avas a 
 feined truce taken with muche dissemblyng yet very good chere, 
 shaking of handes and'^ kissyng, &c. Greate Avas the feaste at the 
 
 28 Cockes place ; the !Nightyngale Avas there to pleasure them Avith 
 Musike, the*' CuckoAve songe the plaine song soberly, muche 
 daunsyng, and after the same a costlie banket. As you knowe the 
 manor of the water foules dooe commonly sitte nere the grounde, but 
 
 32 land foules dooe mounte vp to perclie," and so they did. And Avhen 
 
 1 EdK. 1564, 1573, haue. 2 Eds. 1573, 1578, your. 
 
 3 E.ls. 1573, 1578, deare. * Ed. 1564, and. ^ Omitted in ed. 15C4. 
 
 '^ The words 'the Cuckowe . . . soberly' are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, p^rke. 
 
A DIALOG VB. 67 
 
 all were at reste, secretly the cocke sent by the catte a token to the 
 Fox to come and doe execution eraong the ingratefulP traitors. The 
 cat was glad and ran to the Foxe, findyng him in praier,^ and shortly 
 declared thambassage ; the Fox at the first refused so hainous and 4 
 bloodye a deede, declaryng his indifferencie and lighteousuesse, like 
 a father emong his children,^ and also what euill opinion manie 
 creatures causelesse had in hym. Marie, saied he, I loue the cocke 
 and his wife verie well ; I also know how the water foules haue 8 
 doen, I haue made the vnitie betwene theim. I will therefore not 
 be seen in this matter my self, but two of my sonnes shal do the 
 featej goe you^ before and clime in at the Windowe and open the 
 dore. So in fine it was dooen ; sodainlye the water foules paied for 12 
 the Malte grindyng, and were slaine like flatryng ingratef ull villaines. 
 And this is John Drakes medicen : my^ tale is long. 
 
 Ci'uis. 
 This tale is well tolde ; Eoger, I thanke thee. Ingratef ull people 1 G 
 and flatterers bee moste wicked, and the children of Judas. If any 
 man be prepharred by another man and made riche, if this riche 
 manne shoulde forget that benefite to his friende if he fell into 
 pouertie, whether would the poore mans lacke more vexe himselfe or 20 
 the ingratitude of hym that he had pleasured (whiche, perhaps, hath 
 saied, if euer I haue suche a Mariage, yea, or such a ferme, and in 
 case if he be of the clergie, suche a bushoprike, pre- Note this note 
 bendarie, &c., thou shalt not Avant as long as I can ^'^''"" 24 
 
 helpe; I wil neuer forget your curtesie showed to me in these my 
 dales of trouble) — how saiest thou by this question, Eoger 1 
 
 Roger. 
 Sir, sauyng your reuerence, you male cal it ingratitude, but sla,i;n- 28 
 dering no man, in my iudgement it is plaine knauerie, Knaueiie. 
 therefore it is good trying of friendes before need do require ; as the 
 man which taught his sonne to kill a swine, and put hym in a sacks 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, grateful]. ^ Ed. 1564, in sacrifice and praier. 
 
 ^ The words ' emong his children ' are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 * Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 ^ The words ' my tale is long ' are not found in ed. 1564. 
 
 F 2 
 
GS A niALOGVE. 
 
 all blqodio, ami sccretlie to prone liis friondes, wliiclio of ^ f,vn,ic it 
 tlic'iiu would helpe not onelie to hide the slain man, but ""''*• 
 also helpe to conuaie hiiu in safetie. And to conclude, in the tyme 
 4 of trouble, eraong many be found but one. 
 
 Ciuts. 
 Marie, God defende that murder should bee clolced by friendship, 
 whiche, although it be, yet God often himself will take secret murther 
 
 . , . ~ . opeiilic punisli- 
 
 8 vengeaunce, be it neucr so cloasc, as example, m Caine. ed. 
 I like not this example of thyne. 
 
 Roger. 
 I hauc better in store, if you will here it. 
 
 12 Ciufs. 
 
 Saie on, a Gods name, it is good, passing the tymc ; but me 
 think we ride to faste : we haue dale enough. How doe you, wife? 
 Vrhat chore with you, Susan, ^ mine harte? 
 
 16 Vxor. 
 
 Well, sir, I thanke j'^ou ; I heare your talke well. God be witli 
 
 our frendes at home, and forgeue our foes, and ende these plagues at 
 
 London, and amend al people that through sinne haue moued God 
 
 20 to plague vs. 
 
 Civ is. 
 
 It is well saied, good wife. Amen, Anion. TJcmfmbcr 3'our 
 
 talke, good man Roger.^ 
 
 1 ' Susan, mine liarte ' omitted in ed. 1504. 
 ^ Ed. 1jG4 proceeds as follows: — 
 
 Jiofjer. 
 Sir, in our counti'ee there was a man wliiche l)y occupacion was a 
 Frier (or [of ?] Religion whether you will) : I did knowe a tale of a 
 him well ; he wore a graie cote well tucked vnder his F'iei-. 
 corded girdle with a pairo of trime white hose. The knane had a good 
 legge (for his brother was a Yeoman of the Garde, which was a great 
 wrestler) : Marie, this Frier although he did rise to the Quere by darcke 
 night, he neded no candell, his nose was so redde and brighte; and 
 although he had but little money in store in his purse, yet hits nose and 
 cheekes were well set with currall and rubies ; and I doe remember the 
 gentleman had one greate orient j^earle in his right iye. He neuer 
 trauelled without Aquaeviti and spectacles and fine Nedles with a 
 quarter stafft- in his neck, whicho he called a blesse-beggar. He had 
 
A UIAL(JGVK. 69 
 
 Roger. 
 Maistcr, it giueth me in mine liarte that wce^ slaall ncucr nicete 
 altogether againe in London. ^ 
 
 Oiais. 4 
 
 Wherefore 1 
 
 many proper colacions and pardons in store; he song his prickosong 
 verie trime ; he woukl have been lothe that any shoukl haue song one 
 note aboue him in the Quere. He was welbeloued in the countree, speciallie 8 
 emong women ; a close man. He was neuer without a bale riie Friers 
 of dice; Marie, he vsed no foisting nor cogging; he plaied deiites. 
 well at tables, and of all meates he moste loued a fat Pigge and a pud- 
 ding, but he might not awaie to eate Communions nor read the scripture, 12 
 it euer went against his stomacke, but he was cockhojje for Portas matters 
 and cakes. I dare saie he could raise belzebub and bring deuils to crepe 
 and crouche in a circle ; also he had the Foolosophers stone and taught 
 many his secretes therein. Ujion a tyme this holy Frier in the moneth 1 G 
 of June traueiled in his pleasaunt prograce with his boie followyng hym, 
 which was in deede his sisters sonne, one yong Renob by name, ^^^ 
 a pretie young stripplyng : and as thei had walked from the 
 morning vntill tenne of the clocke, after the Frier had saied our ladie 20 
 Mattens with a Collect of S. Fraunces his patron, he sat downe vnder a 
 hawthorne tree, to rest with his boie also, & gaue eare to the pleasaunte 
 charme of sweete brides, moche commending the Coko, because she 
 kept so constante her plain song, when the Nightingale did sing the 24 
 distant [descant]. Oh, saied the boie, this were Paradise, if here were 
 meate and drinke for our reliefe ; I would desire no better dwellyng. 
 Yes, saied the Frier, it were better to be a Pope, which is aboue all 
 men, Angelles & deuils; which haue the keyes of heauen gates under 28 
 his girdle : to whom the kinges of the worlde do seruice. That is past 
 my reche, said the boy ; I lacke frendes, age, and learnyng to take 
 that dignitie. Who will finde fault? and if thou wert the Poi^e, my 
 poore boie, said the Frier, by my preferment, what kindnesse wonkiest 32 
 thou shew to me, beyng so moche thy frend ? Sir, said the boie, you 
 should be a Latro Cardinall on my right hand, and be half p . j t ,. 
 with me in my kingdome. Remember, saied the Frier, your 
 promise ; giue me thy hande, my lad; I promise thee I will make thee 36 
 Pope. Then he raised sir Sathanas, the patron of Popes, Tiie Popes Pa- 
 transformed the tree where the boie was into kingly palace, "'""e. 
 with S. Peters throne, with infinite of the clergie, among whom sate 
 this yong Pope. Forthwith came the Frier in this golden dream ; verj'' 40 
 lowly he kneled and put the Pope in remembraunce who he was and 
 what he had doen, hoping to be gratified. To whom sir Pope said : I 
 knowe thee not, thou lowsie beggar and false Frier ; I am discended of 
 kingly parentage, aduaunced by God & learning ; awaie with thy blacke 44 
 cursse, awaie I Forthwith the frier by subtle calculacion withdrewe this 
 delusion of his master the deuil ; and the late Pope with his pride wiii imue 
 pompe became again the Friers boie, sitting in a Birche tree. ^ '^'^^^■ 
 To whom the Frier said : Now, you false, vile boie, I knowe what you 48 
 would haue dooen if you had been Pope. Come doune in the deuilles 
 
 ^ Ed. 15G4, you. ^ Mn Loudon' omitted ia ed. 15G4. 
 
70 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Sir, vpon a tyme a nouiber of Foxes assembled together at a 
 
 greate banket, Avhere as was greate plentie of Lambes Ataieofmanic 
 
 4 flcslie, Ilcnues, &c. In the cnde of the feaste this ^°''®'"* 
 
 blessed companie, lothe to doparte, inquired of old Eeinold the daie 
 
 wherein thei should mecte againc to bee merie. I Avill tell you, 
 
 saied l\einold,'^ when we shal meete againe ; and so trained theini vp 
 
 8 to a high niountaine, where as there were manie high wayes deriued 
 
 into sonderie countries. Fare well, saied he, my little children, 
 
 and follow your fathers steppes ; goe euery one a sondrie wale, for 
 
 we shall neuer mete againe vntill wee doc mecte together in the 
 
 12 Skinners shop. Sir, I haue waighed the matter; I warrant you it 
 
 Avill proue so. One of lato^ departed, I Avill not name hym^ unto 
 
 name and carry my wallet. And fh'st, for your knaucrie, I will make 
 you a banket of birche. And thus my yong master was serued in this 
 16 soi'te. 
 
 Oiuis. 
 
 Honours do chaunge maners, yet pride will haiie a fall. I dooo 
 
 remember a poore yong man by fortune was aduanced into promotion, 
 
 20 to whom one of his olde fellowes came and spake homelie viito hym, 
 
 after the olde fashion, as when they dwelte together. In scorne the 
 
 liche man answered disdainfully, after this manner : 
 
 Take me as I am, not as I was : 
 24 We ai'C now no fellowes, it is com to passe. 
 
 To whom the other made answere thus againe : 
 
 Sometime thou wart, that now thou art not, A churle incar- 
 And now thou art that that thou werst not, ""'®* 
 28 And what thou shalt be tell thou canst not, 
 
 Although a churles hart, Hue thou maist not. 
 
 Well, well, God sende every ship to a good hauen, and send vs peace 
 and sease this plague, that we male returne home againe to our old 
 
 32 acquaintance ; for this weeke I doe remember xx good felowes mot 
 together at one banket, my very frendes, Marchauntes and others : you 
 know them well, Roger ; towardes yong men & honest, great doers, 
 close and just, wittie, I warrant you, to preuent any prouiso in the lone 
 
 36 of monie by moneth or yere ; no state or time wil hip them; they can 
 wisely colour the matter, for, Eoger, that is an art emong ciosenesse in 
 marchauntes not to be reueled. God sende me into their Vsurei-s. 
 companie again ! Notwithstanding, I haue been no great doer in 
 
 40 lending forth mony. 
 
 Roger. 
 Maister, it geueth me, &c. 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, Reinarcl. 2 g^ ed. 1504. Eds. 1573, 1578, them. 
 3 Omitted iu ed. 1501. 
 
A I)IAI.O(iVi 
 
 71 
 
 you, which is dead and buried ; my felowe -John once did reade his 
 
 Epitaphe to mee. 
 
 Cluis. 
 
 What was it, I praie tliec % 4 
 
 Roger. 
 No, sir ; you Avill be aiigrie then. 
 
 Cluis. 
 Surely I will giue no place to anger to chafe my blood ; it is 8 
 perilous in the pestilent time. For next to the seruyng wimt wise men 
 
 slinulfl doe to 
 
 of Almightie God, and my Christian dutie to my neigh- preserue iieaiui. 
 
 hour, I will geue my self onely to mirthe, whiche is tlie greatest 
 
 iewll of this Avorld. 12 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Sir, thus it Avas an Epitaph of one that Avas a greate vsurer, 
 
 couetous, mercilesse and churlishe, but passyng riche ; he knewe no 
 
 ende of his goodes : it made hym look alofte, and manie louted full 16 
 
 lowe at his presence, and thus it was wiitten of hym : — 
 
 Here lieth Gathrall, that neuer did good, 
 
 A gentleynan degenerate, yet sprong of good Hod : An Epitaph of a 
 
 Mercilesse, an vsurer all the days 'of 'his life, couetous man. 20 
 
 A7i oppresser of poore men, a mouer of strife ; 
 
 A papiste of religion, a soldiour of Rome, 
 
 Here dwelletli his carhas till the dale of dome ; 
 
 Depriued of riches, spoyled of fame ; 24 
 
 Nothyng left in memorie but an euill name : 
 
 His iudgement lue commende to the seate dinine; 
 
 Yet liued^ lihe a Wolfe, and died like a swine. 
 
 Ciuis. 28 
 
 Who was this made vpon, Eoger? I praie thee tell me. 
 
 Roger. 
 1^0, so God helpe mee, I will not name hym ; inquire it out. 
 But I heard a frende of myne sale that hee had written Namenobodie. 32 
 a booke against Extorcioners and vsurers ; Avhiche if thei amende 
 not lie will name them, and paint them forthe, not only them, but 
 their parentes whiche are dead, Avhiche vsed that vile trade of Ysurie, 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, he liued. 
 
72 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 ■ procuryng Gods veiigeaunce iii castyng the pestilence vpon cities, 
 toune's, and countries; causyng ponevtie, brealtyng vp The fmu-tes of 
 
 Vsuiie and Ex- 
 
 houses moste aunciente, sellyng to Icnde vpon gainc, toition. 
 
 4 destroying hospitalitie with infinite incombraunces, by forfiture/ 
 statutes, &c. Oh that the Ysurers gooddes were confiscated after 
 their deathes to the common poore, as in case they liad slaine them- 
 sehies, and that thei had no power in lawe to bee will vnto their 
 
 8 children that which was gotten in scruyng the Deuill, whiche woulde 
 
 not prosper to the thirde- heire ; for enill gotten goodes are euill 
 
 spent, saied our curate vpon Sondaie. Oh that thcir-^ Godgraunt. 
 
 burying were tourned into open castyng forthe emong deade Cattell, 
 
 12 and not nombered in the Christian felloweship after death, Avhiche in 
 
 life hath been so wicked ; so saied our Curate. Sir, you heard not 
 
 hoAv a manne of late let forthe his cowe by the quarter and by the 
 
 yerel 
 16 Ciuis. 
 
 "So ; I praie thee tell me. 
 
 Roger. 
 There was a niaune of late, whiche had one hundreth pounde, 
 20 whiche he called his Cowe, and secretly did lende her q^ j,,^ vsurei-s 
 foorthe sometyme by the weeke, and his price was tenne '^°"''^" 
 shillynges the weeke ; and when her milke became dearer, and many 
 . fastyng dales at hande, he called for his Cowe, and saied that she 
 24 gaue indifferent Milke. But, saied he, I muste put her into a better 
 Pasture, and she shall giue more milke by fine shillynges in the 
 weeke, &c. And at lengthe Avhite Meate became a little Many Vsurevs. 
 better cheape because of the greate plentie of suche kine in the 
 28 toune, that his Cowe was broughte home againe because that she was 
 letten so deare. iSTowe, because she had dooen hym good seruice, and 
 he had no more but her at home, and calfe he had none by her to 
 kepe vp the stocke. His seruante loued Milke well, and could get 
 32 none of that CoAve ; Avhen his master Avas from home stale the coAve 
 and ranne his Avaie, and hetherto hath not been founde neither coAve 
 nor man, and all the milke is gone. FareAvell Frost ! ■* 
 
 1 Ed. 15G4, forfitures. 2 e^j. 156-f, iij. 3 Ed. 1564, the. 
 ■* The words 'Farewell Frost !' are not found in ed. 15G4. 
 
A DIAI.CKiVE. Y3 
 
 Oiuis. 
 
 A merneilous tliyng, good Lord ! What would suche Grasiers 
 doe if thei had many cattell or kine in store 1 
 
 Roger. 4 
 
 Thei would destroie all the^ Commonwealth; but we see what 
 mischief thei haue dooen. And^ also, niaister, what a worlde is 
 this 1 HuAv is it chaunged ! it is marueilous, it is monstrous ! I 
 lieare sale there is a yong woman, borne in the toune of Tiie maide and ^ 
 Harborough, one Booker, a Butchers dougbter, whiche of "'* '^''"®' 
 late, God wote, is brought to bed of a cat, or haue deliured a catte ; 
 or, if you will, sbe is the mother of a catt. Oh God ! how is 
 nature repugnant to her self. That a Avoman should bryng forth e 12 
 a verie catte or a very Dogge, &c., wantyng nothyng, neither 
 hauyng more then other Dogges or Cattes haue ! Takyng nothyng 
 of the mother but onely as I gesse her Cattishe condition. 
 
 Giuis. 16 
 
 It is a lie, Eoger, beleue it not ; it was but a Catte : it had 
 Baken founde in the bealie, and a strawe. It was an old a dogges tricke. 
 Catte, and she a yong Quene ; it was a pleasaunt practise of papistrie 
 to bring the people to newe wonders. If it had been a monster, 20 
 then it should haue had somewhat more or els lesse ; But an other 
 Catte was flaied in the same sorte, and in all poinctes like, or, as it 
 were, the self same ; thus can drabbes do somtime when thei haue 
 murthered their owne bastardes, with the helpe of an olde Witch 24 
 bryng a Catte in place. A toye to mocke an Ape withall. Eoger, 
 it should haue been a kitlyng first, and so growne to a Catt ; but it 
 was a Catte at the first. 
 
 Roger . 28 
 
 Yet there are many one do beleue it Avas a monster ; it maie be 
 as your masship sale, for I remember, God a mercie on al cursed 
 soules, as my brother, James Penyngton the Poticarie in Wodstrete 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, a. 
 
 '^ This passage, from And also, maister, Sec. to Ijjraie God that we mccte 
 &c. (p. 79), is not found in ed. 1564. 
 
71 A niALOGVE. 
 
 - told nie, vppou a time in London when he was a trim young man, 
 of a" woman that plaiod a pretie Dog tricke, and this Avas the 
 matter: She kept an Alehouse, she was leane, yellow James taic. 
 4 skinned, rustic teeth, thinne lipped, staryng eyen, and sometime 
 her face chaunged into palenesse ; she seldome laughed but at her 
 neighbours hurt. Her stomacke was full of choler, ergo a pacient, 
 quiet Avoman ; she receined both roges and liarlottes a quiet woman. 
 8 into her celler ; she had very good nappie ale. Mary, of all mennc 
 in the parishe she loued not the Conestable, he descased often tymes 
 her gestes, of verie kindenesse. She inuented a good tourne fur 
 masse Conestable, by the practise of a false drabbe ; she with the 
 
 12 helpe of a pillowe fained to bo with cliilde, and made this shewe to 
 the people, and vsed her accustomed trickcs with her gestes in the 
 dead time of the nyght, at whiche time came the Conestable, whom 
 she in her owne persone resisted ; so betwenc the Conestable and 
 
 16 this sober woman, the doore fell doune upon her, whiche willyngly 
 receined with an hellishe crie, like a wilde Catt j^ellyng, crying out 
 that she and that she was withall were bothe caste awaie ; and so 
 with speede she sent for her owne midwife, and suche like the 
 
 20 constables frendes ; and so she saied she was deliured of as goodlie 
 a boye as euer a poore woman groned for. His braine pan, &c., was 
 broken; he was christened in the birth, saied thei; his name was 
 Ihon or lone ; he was put in a little coffine. He had a little corner 
 
 24 of a Dirige, with Masse of Requiem ; the ale wife gaue some Ale 
 pence to praie for his soule ; he was buried by his graundame at the 
 steeples ende. Tlic mother all in white attire was brought to bedde. 
 Oh howe she cried, my boye ! my sweete boye ! man, you had neuer 
 
 28 a childe so like you ! Oh, cursed knaue Robinson, our Conestable! 
 Oh, niurdeiyng villaine ! This good Avoman (saied she) did see 
 him, but that tl.e bowelles and braines were putrified, that it was no 
 mans sight, the savour Avas suche. By God, saied the lionest 
 
 32 woman, it is no lye ; Avere it not for the feare of God, saied her 
 husbande, I AA'ould thruste my dagger into him. A greate rumour 
 rose ; all men and Avomen AA'oudered vpon Robinson ; the father and 
 mother attempted lawc. Robinson had nothyng to defende liym 
 
 30 but his office, yet he sccretlie offered money to the good manne ; and 
 
A DIALOGVE. 75 
 
 that made the good wife bohl, loking for a greater rcnengemente 
 against the Conestable. The women were sworne before masse 
 comisarie that it was a boye, and howe the constable did kill it. 
 Yea, quod masse Comisarie, the gallowes stretche hjmi : by saincte 4 
 Thomas, the Crouner shall knowe of this ; so he did. Whereat 
 Totnam was tourned into Frenche, and all ranne a repungnante 
 course backe againe againste the ale wife with a qnnrtile aspect. 
 Then the Graue Avas opened, the little Coffine opened, and the 8 
 Crouner presented with a cat : a goodlie childe. A pretie practise ! 
 Many such Dog trickes are vsed. Ah, ah, ah, ray harte ! oh the 
 craftie hores ; a Pestilence on them all ! This was true, quod lames. 
 
 Giuis. \ 2 
 
 Well said, Eoger; this is no lie, I assure thee. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 Why, man, what should we talke of such matters or of mon- 
 sters'? I thinke there wer neuer none borne of women. Mary, of 16 
 swine, kine or sheepe, I haue hard, and once I did see a chicken with 
 three feete by Goddes deintie, and an other time I did see a pretie 
 childe whiche looked a squint and had two sightes in the left eye 
 perde, 20 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Tushe, that is no marueile, that maie be by a thyng called im- 
 pression or some secrete affection of nature ; thei sale that one Plinie 
 and Lycosthenes doe write vppon many suche thynges, and I heard 24 
 one sale that a noble woman brought forthe a black childe like a 
 man childe of the blacke Moores. Her housebande and she were 
 white, so were all theim in her house ; yea, there was not one blacke 
 Moore in all that land. The marueill Avas greate; but in fine, a 28 
 learned Manne in Physicke founde forthe the cause, that in the tyme 
 of conception this woman behelde a picture in a clothe vppon the 
 wall like a More. And so did Jacob vse a meanes Avith spotted 
 stickes and Avater to haue the shepe of spotted colours for his OAAme 32 
 gaine, deceuing Laban : so, good maistres, this blinkyng Gene. xxx. 
 boycs mother mighte behold an Image double eyed, or els a feaifull 
 
7G 
 
 A niAI.OCIVK. 
 
 fatlier begotte it that Jiuste not abide by tlie reckcuyng, castyng liis 
 eye to the doorc with greate feare. 
 
 Ciuls. 
 4 Well, Eogcr, well, will you not leave your Rye? 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Why, sir, we do ride through a Rie field ; it niaketh me to 
 
 remember some Rye. 
 8 Vxor. 
 
 Good husbande, I praie you tell me, was there euer any monsters 
 borne of women? did you euer read of them, good man? tell me. 
 
 Ciiiis. 
 
 12 Yes, forsoothe, good Susan, it is truth; there haue been many 
 Monsters borne that is an extraordanarie or marueilous in their 
 shapes, fearefull to behold and wonderous ; and marke this, Susan, 
 Avhen these doe come, euer commeth either the alteration of king- 
 
 16 domes, destruction of Princes, greate battaile, insurrection, yearth- 
 q^uakes, honger or Pestilence after them. 
 
 Vxor. 
 I praie you tell me some of them. 
 
 20 Ciaia. 
 
 A little before the bloudie battaile between Marcellus and Han- 
 nibal was a childe borne with a hedde like a Elephant. Ainminunai, i^r.. 
 In Armenia twoo children borne, the one without eyen Aimo^iiitc 
 
 21 and nose, the other without handes and feete : after ^'''"='^"'°' i*'- 
 these monsters it rained stones in that region. 
 
 AVhen the temple of Juuo was builded, in the time of Quiiitus 
 Tullus, a man childe Avas borne with twoo hcddes, and a maiden 
 28 childe with all her teeth : this yeere did three Sunnes ic3. 
 appere in the firmament together. In Rome a childe borne with 
 fower handes and fower feete; greate Pestilence and famine did 
 folowe. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 77 
 
 Marcus Tullius Cicero being borne the iii daie of Januarii, many- 
 Monsters borne and the greate battaile fought betwene j^,,,^ chnstum 
 the Eomans and the Cibrians, about that tyrae. What '"'''• 
 
 shall I saie, wife'? but tyme Avill not serue : I might since the tyme 4 
 of Christes Incarnation vntill this daie rehearse many strange mon- 
 sters, bothe in Asia and AfFricke. But specially in Europe, bothe 
 Germanic, Fraunce, Spaine, Englande, Scotlande, &c., twoo or three 
 heddes of one body, many handes & legges to one body, somtyme 8 
 twoo bodies to one hedde, &c. ; the like maner of monsters of 
 beastes, some half hogge and halfe sheepe, some a hogge with the 
 hedde like a man, &c. ; so in foules and fishes ; moste fearfull to 
 beholde, and still after theim doe come greate battailes. Pestilence, 12 
 yearthquake, hunger, and marueilous changes in commonwealthes. 
 I haue doen of such'e talke of Monsters, Susan. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 In good faithe it is tyme, and please your mastership.^ I thinke 16 
 the conditions of men and women now adaies be as monsterous as 
 euer thei were in bodies mishapen. Bad is the best, the Avorlde 
 amendes like sower ale in Sommer, more worke for Lawiers, 
 more; now is their haruest greate, thei are the workemen, and of 20 
 very charitie many plaine plowe men, grasiars, and piainemens 
 mcnne of meane callyng put to their helping handes and cimntie. 
 put their children to this haruest, and all to quiet the people ; that I 
 doe thinke in a while there shall be as many of them as there are 24 
 Parishe Churches in Englande. And loke what the honest curate 
 will quiet in his Sermon in the fore noone ; I thinke thei Avill marre 
 all in the after noone, and bryng matters with coste into West- 
 minster liaull ; that with Codes worde onely, neither spendyng labour 28 
 or a penie, might haue been saued at home. These laAviers, I saie, 
 are cunnyng Carde plaiers; thei knowe howe to make Carde piaiers. 
 their games ; thei see what is in other mens handes, thei see the riche 
 deedes of landes, thei peruse the euidences, thei discomforte often .32 
 tymes their clientes, and for trifles buy the titles; wise men, honest 
 men, men of good conscience, robbing bothe the widowe and father- 
 1 Ed. 1573, masship. 
 
-8 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 lessc ! Thei liaue lawe for the matter. It is a baic pasture Abusers ..fhuve. 
 that tliei can not feede on. Thei Avil sette all men together by tJie 
 eares for the value of a strawe ; marke it well Avhat good neighbours 
 4 thei are, and howe madde thei are in many cases that set them a 
 woorke. Fellowes are so braine sicke now adaies it thei haue but 
 tenne shillynges, yea, thuugh thei doe borowe it, will be twoo or 
 three times a yere at Westminster haule ; let wife or children begge j 
 8 in the ende thei go home many miles, by foolam crosse, by weepyng 
 cross, by beggers Barne, and by knaues Acre, &c. This Home a'^Mine, 
 commeth of their lawing ; then thei crie, might doe ouer- |'i"e"n;u"keus 
 come right, would I had knowen as muche before, I am ''"^"' 
 
 12 vndoen, &c. For these good Avorkes of the lawyers, Christe saie, 
 with a blessyng vnto them (after that he had blessed the Scribes, 
 whiche I thinke were then as our menne and Proctors be at this 
 dale), Avo be to you lawyers, &c., whiche I thinke is, a a biessvnn- for 
 
 16 vengaunce or curse be vnto all lawiers spirituall or tem- eui'"-'«iers. 
 porall that doe wrong for bribes, friendship, malice, lande or money, 
 against the truthe, againste the innocentes, &c. Noav, Avhat doe 
 Lawiers in this pitifull cases, when Gods worde do rebuke them? 
 
 20 repent them ? No, no ; what then 1 Then thei go about to stop the 
 Preachers mouthes, or accusyng tlieim of railyng, slaunderyng, or 
 sedicion. Eede the ende of the xi chap of Sainct Lukes Lukexi. 
 Gospell : thei vsed Christe so ; I tell your masshippe, Light and 
 
 24 darkenes can not agree, neither the lawiers and the diuines, untill a 
 better reformation be had. All this I hearde a wise man saie, and 
 an honest man too. He said also, nowadaies how mens Permes are 
 taken ouer their hedde ten yeres, or their leases are Note tiiis well. 
 
 28 expired, and how iiij seruyng mens Avages for one yere will not paie 
 for one paire of their hose ; And hoAV every poore mans Avife will be 
 as trim as a gentlcAvoman ; she will laie hir self to gage for gaie geare 
 els. I thinke the daie of Dome is at hande, Euery man in a maner 
 
 32 is fallen into loue Avith hymselfe, either of his proper persone or 
 apparell ; his quallicomes dooe please hym Avell, or els Avhen he doe 
 heare hymself Avith his retricall trications, how he can compounde 
 the matter. Oh Lorde, it is a sportation to heare the cloutyng 
 
 36 beetles to rowle in their ropripe termes : the worlde, and please your 
 
A DIALOGVE. 79 
 
 niassliip, and my maistres honesiie and surreuereuce of mine owne 
 maulioode, is full of verletrie ; no, no, full of knaueric and liarlottiio, 
 coueteousnesse ; naie, naic, open extortion. Lone, louul naie, 1)y 
 Ladie, lecherie; Cleulinesse] fie, fie, it is piide. Wliat, I saieM 
 good chere ! Tush, tush, starke drunkennesse. Ease, ease"? verio 
 idlenesse. Sadde, sober countenance? mark it well : crewell, froun- 
 yng, cankered mynded. Pitifull ? no, no, spitefnll. Euery churle 
 would possesse al alone, and euery leclierer would peruse tlie faire 8 
 women hym selfe alone, and so forthe. Marke the worlde, note it 
 well, not onely emong the teniporall, but I praie you what see you 
 in the Churche 1 ISTo spite, no venerie, no coueteousnesse, &g. 1 
 Maister, maister, the worlde doe runne a wheeles. Oh, this geare 12 
 is monstcrous and vile. I doe see our Inne ; we shall haue good 
 chere ; I am glad of that, by Sainct Lambart. I jiraie God that we 
 mecte with some good merie coinpanie after this sadde talke. 
 
 Ciuis. ] 6 
 
 ^It is time to baite our horses in this toune. If there be any 
 
 good nieate, wee will dine; prepare, Eoger, for we haue far to ride 
 
 this night. Knowe what companie is in the Inne, and whether the 
 
 house be infected or no. 20 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Sir, I was in the haule and there sitteth our hoste, a pleasant, 
 merie man and a good companion, I warraunt hym. I of.'eastesintii 
 see by his nose that of al potage he loueth good Ale ; ^""- 24 
 
 he is mounsire graundpanche ; he hath chafed the Parsone wonder- 
 ously, wliiche Avith a paire of spectacles plaitli at Tables with hym ; 
 he stealeth faste the Table men from him. Our liostes hath a sharpe 
 ISTose, thinne lipped, a proper yonge woman with a shrill voyce like 28 
 a Catte ; but when she is pleased I warrante her to be a pleasannte 
 Avoman, and full of meritrix. The good man of this Meritrix. 
 house bringeth vp youth verie well, and is verie louyng to his sonne ; 
 and I perciue he will beare much with hym. 32 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Wherein 1 
 
 1 Here ed. 15G4 begins au;ain. 
 
80 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Roger. ^ 
 "When I tame into the liaiill my yonge maister leaned vpon his 
 fatliers shoulder with his cappe upon his hed, spittyng^ AvonReman 
 4 and coughyng like a lought. weiibrougi.tvp. 
 
 Giuis. 
 Call the Chamberlaine and let vs haue a chamber seuerally to^ 
 our sclues.'* 
 8 Roger. 
 
 With all spede a Gods name. Chamberlaine, prepare your 
 chamber with all thinges accordingly in the same for my master 
 and maistres. Whip, maister Ostler ! with a caste of legerdemaine 
 12 bestirre you, sirrha, and make a xij'^ of three bottles of ^i.e honostie of 
 stinkyng Haie and a pecke of Gates. You can make a "" '"^'''^''^''• 
 stoned horse a geklyng, and a longe taile a courtall. You knowe 
 my meanyng well enough; hem, sirrha, I sale nothing but mum. I 
 16 haue seen you often in Smitlifiekle. 
 
 Vxor. 
 What, sir sauce % you take vppon you to plaie the Comptroller ] 
 goe quietly aboute your owne busines and let the ostler alone. 
 
 20 Roger.^ 
 
 Maistres, it is merie when knaues are mette. I did see him ones 
 aske blessyng to xii. Godfathers at ones. 
 
 Ciuis.^ 
 24 This is a comely panour, very netly and trimely apparrelled, 
 London like ; the windowes are Avell glased, & faire a Pariuur. 
 clothes'^ with many wise saiynges painted vpon them. 
 
 Vxor. 
 28 I praie you, housbande, what is that writyng in those golden 
 letters 1 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, Vxor. ^ e^j. 1564, sittyng. 
 
 3 Ed. 1573, by. * The words 'to our selues' are not in ed. 1564. 
 
 5 This speech of Roger is omitted in eds. 1573 and 1578. 
 Eds. 1573 and 1578, Roger. 
 
 7 Ed. 1564, "faire clothes with jileasaunte borders aboute the same, 
 with," &c. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 81 
 
 Cuds. 
 Melius est claudus in via quam cursor prefer viam. That in, 
 better is au haltyiig man wliiche Icepeth the right waie than tlio 
 swift runner, besides, that wandereth a straie. 4 
 
 Vxor. 
 What is that, man, I praie you 1 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Non liominis consuetudinem sed dei veritatem sequi oportet : 8 
 which is, It behoueth vs not to folio we the constitu- The truthe must 
 tions or customes of men, but to followe the truthe of ^^^ followed. 
 Godes woorde. And also there is a good saiyng followyng the same. 
 
 Dodrinis variis et peregrinis ne circumferamini. That is, be not 12 
 ledde or caried about with diuerse or straunge doctrine. The best doc- 
 Here is more foloAvyng written vpon the chimney, good woorde. 
 wife, whiche I will kepe in store. Oh God, what serpentes thei are, 
 lorde def ende me from them ! I will rede it to my self. muUer 1 6 
 om7ie faeinus ausa est plus quam o?yme, verum niliil est peius nee erit 
 vnquam muliere'^ inter hominum calamitatis. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Well man, well ; truth seketh no corners ; I perceiue there is 20 
 some nougbtie matter that I knowe not, but by one thyng that I 
 doe here you rede, make me thinke all the rest is not Muiier is a 
 
 1 • -1 naughtie 
 
 well, because the lirste worde is starke nought, & that is woorde, saied 
 
 /~i Tit- T 1'iT • o ■. -.- the geutle- 
 
 U Mulier, which I am sure is nor neuer^ was good. I woman. 24 
 
 pray you, husbande, what picture is that followyng"? 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Oh, wife, it was the picture or Effigium of a noble man, whiche 
 in his dales serued a greate^ noble Kyng, and was like the ^he Lovde 28 
 cutter doune of Trees by tbe grounde. But if God had ^''™"^''^ii- 
 not vpon some secrete purpose preuented his labour in the woodde of 
 Antichriste, he would haue vtterly eradicated vp all Papistrie, whiche 
 
 ^ Old eds., mulierae. 2 y,A. 1564, euer. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, moste. 
 
 DIALOGUE. G 
 
82 A DIAT.OGYE. 
 
 ■ daiely spryngetli out in euery corner, to the liurto of better fruites ; 
 but by Godes grace tliei shall be confounded, as God wil : but^ thei 
 spring a pace. 
 4 V.r(n'. 
 
 "What picture is that whiche hath a gray hore lied, a long goune, 
 and a locko of Gold linkyng his lippes together, with Tins picture 
 
 syiiifielli a^ 
 
 manie goodlie bookes before hym, and a paire of blindc sraitcicrkc 
 
 euill occupied in 
 
 8 spectacles vpon his nose, Avitli a golden penne fallen kepyug silence. 
 
 from his handes 1 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Oh wife, wife, it is a candcll couered with a Eushell, and the 
 12 noble Tallente of Avisedome hidden, whiche muste make greate ac- 
 
 comptes for kepyng silence. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Sir, in that table enuironed rounde with antikes of sondrie por- 
 IG tratures — the ground thereof is hoping Eusset — are three pictures, 
 
 blacke, scholer like, or in mornyng clothyng ; the firste of them with 
 
 a Eake in his hande with teeth of golde, doe stoupe verie lowe, 
 
 groping belike in the Lake after some thyng that he would finde ; 
 20 and out of this deepe water, aboue the Kake, a little ^^'i''/""'*" 
 
 steple. The seconde gapeth vp towardes the Heauen, a gaper. 
 
 holdyng the lappe of his Goune abrode, as though he a catcher. 
 
 would catche something ; and towardes the same lappe or spred 
 24 goune doth fall as it were a churche witli a stiple, and quere, &c. 
 
 The third man standeth in poore apparell, with a booke a poore man. 
 
 in his righte hande, and his lefte hande vppon his breast, with a 
 
 lamentable countenaunce, in simple apparell. What meaneth this, 
 
 28 housbande 1 
 
 Ciuis, 
 
 Dame, I dare sale but little to this matter to others, but to you I 
 will speake a little, and not so much as I doe thinke. The first 
 32 man is one that hath but a verie small learnyng, lesser i meane no 
 
 lionest oi'lerned 
 
 wit, & lesse honesty. He hath no vertue to prefer him man. 
 
 to a-^ liuyng, but onely the name and title of a priest or minister. 
 
 1 The words 'but thei spring a pace' are not in ed. 1564. ■ 
 2 Eds. 1564, 1573, great clerkes. -^ Eds. 1573, 1578, 'a' omitted. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 83 
 
 Pie would faine haue a benefice or personage of some pretie donatiue ; 
 he cannot get it at the bislioppes handes : he laekoth Goddes plough. 
 This felowe raketh with the Deuils golden lake, euen in the conscience 
 of the coueitous patrons or conpounders hart, whiche gcueth the 4 
 benefice ; he plaieth Symon Magus, he will buy it, and JJ.^g^^g ^j^j 
 with Judas the other will sell it, and at length it is '^"''''^" 
 gotten for gold, and spent with wickednesse to the slaunder of the 
 Church, God defend us from such rakers and Simoniakers. ^ The 8 
 second is sicke of the mother, and like vnto heires, when as the 
 fathers haue left theim faire landes, they mourne of the chine, and 
 are never contented, but wimper and whine vntill the children sick of 
 mothers are dead ; and when it so cometh to passe, their remedie'ls'the ^ ^ 
 wicked couetousnes by one meanes or other cometb to g^'i''"'^- 
 sliame and pouertie. This honest man gapeth for a vouson of a 
 benefice before it is fallen, and doeth catche it or it cometh to the 
 grounde, before the death of the discombent. He will not suffer it to 16 
 fall into relappe. This man is a steward to a greate man, or kepeth 
 his hall garden or barnes, or is a wise man and a good husband. 
 Looke where his maister is patron ; there he hopeth to be person. 
 He gathereth for his yong maisters, his patrons sonne[s] ; his patron 20 
 must be his executor or some of his maisters kinsmen. This fellow 
 walloweth in benefices, as the Hedgehog doeth. with apples upon his 
 prickeSj & hath the benefite but of the apple in his mouth ; he gettethi 
 nothyng of his promocions but onely one little benefice, yet his master 24 
 wil snatch at that, either to saue the woll or lambe. And Patrons ciiaritio 
 so hee hath onely the shels or glorious titles of promotion, but the 
 geuer hath the swete kernels. God amend this, good spirituaii pro- 
 wife ! The third is one whiche sheweth the state of "°"°"- 28 
 learned men labouring long time in studie and diuine vertue, whiche 
 are wrapped in pouertie, wantyng the golden Eake or gapyng mouth. 
 This man hath verie fewe to preferre hym to that promo- ,^° 
 tion ; he smite th himself e vpon the breast, he wepeth symome. 32 
 and lamenteth that vice should thus be exalted, ignoraunce rewarded 
 with glorie, coueteous men spoilyng the Churche by the names of 
 Patrones and geuers, whiche are Extorcioners and Tellers ; they care 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, Simoniakes. 
 
 G 2 
 
84 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 iiol to. whom so tliat it be raked with tlio goklon racko.^ Wcl, wcl, 
 tlotl of his iiiercie amend this euill ^Market. 
 
 Vxor. 
 4 Ujjon that wall is painted a mans skin, and tanned, coloured like 
 vnto Leathei", with the skin of the handes and fecte, a Judges skinue. 
 iiayles and heare remainyng; and the skinne is spread abroad, in 
 tlic whiche is written certaine wordes, M'hich I doc not vnderstand. 
 
 8 Ciuis. 
 
 Wife, I Avishe more suche leather or els fewer suche Carcases as 
 suche skinne- hath conteined in it. It is the Skin of a wicked 
 Judge, a Lawier, whiche plaicd on bothe handes. This a wiiUcd 
 
 JiulKe, his le- 
 
 12 gentleman loued golde aboue God, and crueltie aboue wavde. 
 
 justice ; bothe his cares were stopped, his eyen open ; hee had 
 respect of persones, specially who brought in lucre, and made hym 
 humble courtesies : them he would defend, although their causes, 
 
 IG in righteousnes deserued it not. The innocent he oppressed that 
 wanted, and vndid manie a manne. His maister beyng a good Prince, 
 a greate prince (in the whole multitude of the people, and speeciallye 
 of the Lawiers to teache^ them to decline from euill and jjonevdoeUi 
 
 20 do gooil ; to haue the eares open, to heare bothe riche ^iXnn"tiTe 
 and jDoore alike in the seate of Judgemente, to haue "''^''•^'e. 
 lame handes in takyng of money, which is the roote of all cuil 
 omong them), commauuded his Skin to be flaine from his fleshe, he 
 
 24 beyng yet leuyng, roaryng, with blood runnyng from his bodie, and 
 died in a case moste miserable. Uppon whose Skin is this writyng, 
 hangyng in the judgement Halle before the place of Justice : 
 
 Judex qui mm cpierit'^ rerttatem debet exwrlarl : A Judge which 
 
 28 wall (for lucre) not seeke out the truthe (in the lawe) ought to haue 
 his Skin flaine from his bodie. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Here standeth a woman of moste excellent forme in shape, and 
 32 fairenes in beautie, with a croune of riche golde, with seuen precious 
 
 1 The words 'with the golden racke' arc not in ed. \'>M. 
 
 ^ Ed. l.-^r.-t, luiithcr. 
 
 3 Ed. \o('A, 'to certilie them. And to decline,' &c. * Ed. 15(54. tjueret. 
 
A DIALOGVB. 85 
 
 stones fixed in the border of her crouno, couered with a oo.stely 
 mautell from her pajipCvS dounwarde, her brcastes naked ; the riglit 
 brest geueth milke vnto the mouth of the yung childc on the right 
 side, and from the left brest floweth blood into the mouth of an other 4 
 childe : what meaneth this 1 
 
 C ill is. 
 It is a goodly [iicture, and signilieth the estate of an vniuersitie, 
 or multitude of scholers which comoth to be nourished uniuei-sitie ami ^ 
 in learnyng ; whiehe mother, the vniuersitie, beyng ''■"'''^''' '''""■''"^• 
 crouned with the seuin liberall artes fixed in her croune 3 and as 
 mauie as tast of her doctrine in the better part in vertue to this ende 
 to doe well, be blessed : thei do tast iipon the right breast ; but the 12 
 lefte breaste yeldeth forthe doctrine of Errours, Magiques, Papistrie, 
 &c. To this ende to persecute, robbe, and spoile Cliristes Churche, 
 God graunt that both these breastes maye geue good milke to 
 nouriahe the people of God in one holy doctrine, to eche one pure weii 16 
 
 geueth but 
 
 vocation, to agree in vnitie like brethren, and that the cieane water, 
 uniuersities maie teache the learned actes and one true religion in 
 this Christ our Lorde. 
 
 Vxor. 20 
 
 What is that picture whiehe graffeth a golden Impe upon a 
 Leaden stocke, with a bagge of money of greate bignesse hangyng 
 about his necke. 
 
 Ciuis. 24 
 
 It should seenie to be a pitifull case ; it is a noble, couetous 
 Senior, whiehe for goldes sake dooe make disperigiment of his blood, 
 mariyng and sellyng his sonne and heire vnto some Extoreioner, or 
 shamelesse vsurers daughter, whose fruites are so infected on the 28 
 mothers side that they Avill become as counterfect, craf tie, ^, 
 
 "^ ' ' Note also tliat 
 
 compounded niettal, and neuer come to the true touch vertue & geiuie- 
 
 nesse maketh 
 
 stone againe^ as pure gold, But corupted through couet- geutiemen. 
 
 Euen so auu- 
 
 ousnesse and naturall coniunction, as we doe se graffes cientbiood, 32 
 
 „ r> • 1 T 1 T • 1 wrapped iu vice, 
 
 01 trees nxe yonge impes, although the impe be of a fine isbutgrosse 
 Pippin, and grafted into an euill stocke. You shal know ^*" 
 
 1 Ed. 1564 omits ' as pure gold,' and proceeds ' The fine mettal is so cor- 
 rupted.' 
 
86 A DIALOGVB. 
 
 that fruicte by the tree, a plague prepared for gentlemen for their 
 abuse, und^ also for poore men matchyng the vngentle gentle. 
 
 Vxor. 
 4 Upon that Table before you is painted a naked manne, liyng 
 doune wounded, Upon whome feedeth mania Flies with full bellies ; 
 and there commeth an other man with^ a greene braunche of Eose- 
 niarie, aud^ beate them awaie. 
 
 8 Cm is. 
 
 It should appeare by the circumstaunce that it is not hurtfull lo 
 keepe officers still in place ; for when thei haue filled ^ Metaphor, 
 their purses, and haue all thiuges accordiuglie, they are Filewmmniu 
 1 2 well ; and if thei be remoued ef tesones, the newe hongrie ''^-''"'b- 
 
 Flies will vexe the bodie of tlie common weath, and neuer cease 
 untill thei be also satisfied, &c. 
 
 Vxor. 
 IG Yet what is that man, I praie you, that sitteth in a riche throne 
 a sleepe, and one dooe blowe in his eare with a paire of Golden 
 bellowes, and another do picke his pursed 
 
 Chiis. 
 20 That same is a migbtie persone, ouercome with adulation or 
 flatterie, carelesse swimming in pleasure and vain glory, ntittene of 
 whom his men do vse like an lionie combe, and daiely ""'^'^ menne. 
 spoile him of his riches by sondrie fraudes, whiche he perceiueth not. 
 
 2 -A Vxor. 
 
 And what meaneth yonder Mule, holdyng his bed so lowe, with 
 a plaine blacke f oote clothe, shodde with golden shoes 1 
 
 Ciuis. 
 28 Wife, silence nowe is beste ; I will sale nothyng to the matter. 
 The Mule carieth a Maister that will dooe nothyng but ^,^o g,,„„ g^^g 
 for golde, and the fooles of the worlde that louc debate "^^muie? 
 and strief must shooe this Mule. 
 
 1 Tlie words 'and also . . . gentle' are omitted in ed. 1564. 
 - Ed. Iy64, which with. ^ Omitted iu ed. 15G4. 
 
A DIALOaVE. 87 
 
 Vxor. 
 Here is a rowe of pictures like Prelates, painted one by an other 
 in the border, in three partes. The first are barefooted The description 
 
 of tiie Roinialie 
 
 men, barehedded, long garmentes, and bookes in their cimiciie. 4 
 
 handes : some of theym are bloodie. The seconde companie are 
 mitred, and shode with Sheperds hookes in one hande, and bookes 
 in the other hande. The thirde sorte haue Swordes in their handes, 
 crouned with triple crounes, clothed in kynglie robes, with frounyng 8 
 faces, and bookes vnder their feete ; and next after them sitteth an 
 olde mangie slaue naked, with a triple Croune, makyng or patchyng 
 of a I^ette, from whom goeth as it were menne laden with tonnes, 
 woddes, and treasure. 12 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Wife, this is the true Churche of God, and the malignaunte 
 Sinagoge of Antichrist figured ; firste the true preachers t,,^ description 
 and Martyres of Gods Church, simple menne, whiche "ftJieRomlsu ^^ 
 folowed most nere the Testament of Christe. After this cimrche. 
 persecution then entered Confessours, good men which lined well, and 
 accordyng to the Apostles doctrine were good Shepherdes, withstoode 
 the Wolues of heresies, &c. ; kept hospitalitie, and liue[d] accord- 20 
 ynglie, and wexe^ as Lambes and good Wheate. Then for the sinnes 
 of Princes and wickednes of men, came in Wolues emong Lambes, 
 Darnell choked the Lordes field, oppressours of Princes, emptiers of 
 Purgatorie, and fillers of helle, raisers of debate, shedders of bloodde, 24 
 makers of ]\Iartyres, menne of warre, destrowers of the true churche, 
 erectours^ of Idolles, vsurpers of kyngdomes, and tread ers -i.,,g p 
 of Goddes truthe vnder their vile feete ; whiche feete ^"''^«"^3- 
 kynges haue kissed, suche is the pride of the Pope. 28 
 
 Then the Pope sitteth all naked, woorkyng nowe through Gods 
 woorde; Antichrist is reueled and seen what hee is, foule, lothlie, 
 clothed in shamefull decrees, wicked lawes and filthie life, and^ 
 despised of manie nations, saue of his owne children ; nowe patched 32 
 his olde Bottelles, whiche will kepe no new wine, neither Tj^gp^, , 
 can he well peece Christes pure cloth and his ragged P^'^ctice. 
 
 1 Ed. 1578, waxe. 2 Eds. 1573, 1578, exectours. 
 
 3 Ed. 156-t, and is. 
 
bo A DIALOGVE. 
 
 .tradicions together; neitlier wil tliis^ net pleasure the Churche, in 
 uhiche nette hee hath- taken the seruauntes of Christe : shed their 
 bloodde. He maie bee rather called a murderer then a fisher ; he 
 4 neuer had sainct Peters nette since the Pope came to the church of 
 Rome ; now clouteth lie a nette with his rotten Decrees, Counsailes, 
 glosing it with Gods worde. Like the Angell of darkenesse trans- 
 formed into the similitude of an Angell of light ; but his nakednesse 
 8 is seen for all his title of his holiues and riche Croune. Now as 
 manie as will not obeie his maistership, he geueth awaie their king- 
 domes, dukedomes, prouinces, and gooddes, after the example of his 
 patrone, not S.^ Peter, whiche forsoke worldly thiuges, xhe Popes 
 
 12 but rather sathan, whiche would haue giuen Christe •'^•^osededes. 
 muehe riches to haue honored him. But the landes of Princes are 
 too heauie to be caried with his porters, and also too hotte Popes porters, 
 to be troden vpon of anie of his messengers ; his net is verie good to 
 
 16 catche the great Papist* withall, to store the Popes holie pondes at 
 Eome : this net is the inquisition.^ 
 
 Vxor. 
 I will aske but on or two questions ; and now our diner is redie. 
 20 I praie you what meaneth yonder shepherd to clip the sheepe so nere 
 that he bleedethi it is well painted. 
 
 Ccw's. 
 It semeth a coueteous land Lorde, that doe so oppresse the tenaunt 
 24 with fines,'' rents, bribes, &c., whereby he and his familie coueitous 
 dooe Hue in great miserie like slaues, with continuall lan'is^o'"*^' 
 penurie and affliction of mynde, and he will neuer suffer the woUe 
 too growe to the full staple, at length to his owne decaie. 
 
 28 Vxor. 
 
 What meaneth yonder foole, that stand upon the tree and cutteth 
 the arme thereof^ asonder where vpon he standeth with a Afooie. 
 sharpe axe, and is fallyng doune hymselfe?'^ 
 
 1 Ed. 1.5G4, his. 2 E(J_ 1554^ haue. ^ Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, Oncle. 
 
 ° The words 'this net is the inquisition ' are omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 « Ed. 1564, fine, rent, bribe, &c. ' Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 89 
 
 Gluis. 
 
 Under this^ predicament is comprehended all traitors against 
 
 princes, children against Parentes, seruauntes against Maisters, poorc 
 
 against rich, tenauntes against their ^ lordes, &c. ; therupon^ thei doe 4 
 
 line and haue their staie in this worlde, and will seeke their liurtes, 
 
 whiche in deede is their owne decaie, losse, and destruction in 
 
 the ende. 
 
 Vxor. 8 
 
 Good God ! what meaneth that hloudie, naked picture, with a 
 sharpe Eodde in eclie hande, woundyng his bodie, and J^g^,glg .^^^^^ 
 spoyled of all his apparein , "'"'"''• 
 
 Gilds. 12 
 
 God sende peace in the christen realmes, good Susan,^ that do 
 signifie by the circumstaunce of some old, wise Painter, Peace and 
 
 p'-ni unitie God 
 
 that when the bodie and state of anie Eealme or realmes sende us. 
 of vicinitie, or nerenes together; being as handes to one bodie, or 16 
 helpers to eche other ; If thei bee at strief, the whole bodie wher- 
 upon thei are deriued, shall eftesones through the same be ruinated 
 and brought into perill. In this matter I will talke no further as now.^ 
 
 Vxor. 20 
 
 Husbande, in this fine border is curiously painted a house, 
 builded of stone, and with manie strong doores and windowes, 
 barred and railed with strong yron barres ; And before one of the 
 doores standyng a man® in a plaine poore coate, with Ludgate. 24 
 white sleues, and a little bodie'' standyng behinde hym with a faire 
 goune in his armes, Marchaunt like, in a fine blacke Makeshifts, 
 cappe ■; and ouer the dore is written, Veritas non querit angulos. I 
 knowe not the meanyng. 28 
 
 Ciuis. 
 In deed, truthe seketh no corners, as these euill disposed, vile 
 Theeues doe, although it was ment to helpe some honest decaied 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, that. 2 Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, whereupon ; ed. 1573, whervpon. * Ed. 1564, good dame. 
 ^ Ed. 1564 adds ' let vs go to diner a Gods name. Eoger, what good felowe 
 is here, to kepe me and your maistres company.' 
 " Ed. 1564 adds ' with a yelow cappe.' 
 ^ Ed. 1564, and a little boie standeth behinde hym. 
 
90 A DIALOaVE. 
 
 ■citizens, that tliei should not bee vtterlie destroied of seig„ior 
 pitilesse creditours, but after thei might rise up againe ; *'^'"^'='*-' 
 now the banlceroote is in durauiice, hath lost his ere- Happy pnuiieBe 
 
 . . . and Bubtlf pruo- 
 
 4 dence ; hee is in prison, Avhere as his credence is spoiled Use, 
 and gone : no man v,-ill trust him. But that inne hath a priuiledge 
 to increase manie gestes by this meanes, that tliei maie haue libertie 
 with a little aplesquire, to be his keper, or agree with the keeper of 
 
 8 the place,2 which chaungeth his apparell and countinaunce, cropyng 
 into corners, making bargaines in Blackewelhaule,^ takyng vp euery* 
 commoditie, refusyng nothyng : all is fishe that commeth to the nette j 
 he setteth hande and seale to euerything, he sweareth he Periuous 
 
 tliieuish bank 
 
 12 would not lose his credence for thousandes, hee geueth routes. 
 
 swete wordes, he knanishly robbeth, undoeth, spoileth the widdowe 
 and the honeste pitifull couiitreman^ or true citizen; and when he 
 hath vndoen theim, he runneth to his place agaiiie, as the Fox dooetli 
 
 16 to his hole, and liues^ by the spoile. 
 
 VxoK 
 
 AVbat meaneth this straunge picture? Here standeth a manne 
 
 double, or in twoo, twinnes back to l)ack ; the one side is lustic, 
 
 20 faire, riche, and yonge, and beautiful ; the other side seemeth sicke, 
 
 foule, poore, and olde ; in the yong mannes hande was Yong & foUsiie, 
 
 okle and beg- 
 
 a grashopper, and in the old mannes an Ant without gei-iie. 
 
 feete 1 
 2i Ciuis. 
 
 In that table is liuely declared mankinde, both the tyme of his 
 youth, in felicitie, with the careless grasliopper, gatheryng nothing ; 
 but spoileth house, lande, &c., in bankettes, vice, apparell, and 
 
 28 harlottes, &c. ; and Avhen age commeth hee Avould be thryftie, and 
 then can get no more then the lame footeles ante. Then maketh he 
 exclamation, saiyng, oh! what gooddes did my father a wretci.e timt 
 leaue mee; Avhat good counsaill my frendes gaue me; com^saiiriu 
 
 32 Init I esteemed none of theim both, but in fine lost 'y™*' 
 
 ' Ed. LjGi. shifters. 2 Ed. 15G4 omits 'or agree .... piace.' 
 
 3 Ed. 15(M, bariraincs in euery place. * Omitted in eds. 1573, 1578. 
 
 "•> Ed. 15G-1, uiarchauute. ^ Ed. 15G-1, liuctli. 
 
A DIALOG VB. 91 
 
 both riches and frcndes, and now I am in great poucrtic, sicknes, 
 and age. Lette other men take example by mee, and remember 
 the wisedome of Salomon, saiyng : Vade ad formicum [sic] 6 piger et 
 considera vices eius et disce sapientiam, &c. Goe thou, idle bodie, to 4 
 the Ante; consider, and marke well her wales, and a lesson for a 
 learne wisedome ; she hath no guide, prince, nor law '"'''■"^'■• 
 geuer, but gathereth in somer to kepe her in winter, &c. 
 
 Vxor. 8 
 
 There is also painted a lustie yong man, stouping doune to a 
 vessell, in which swimmeth bothe Eles and Snakes ; he seemeth to 
 catche one of them : what meaneth that 1 
 
 Ciids. 1 2 
 
 Ha, ha, ha ! it is merrily'- handled ; forsothe, it is one that is ouer 
 come either with loue or coueteousnesse. He goeth a ofawower 
 Avoyng, my dyng, dyng ; and if he spedeth, my dear- '^°"' ''® ^^*''" 
 lyng, what getteth he, my swetyng^ Eorsoth, either a serpen te that 16 
 will styng hym all his life with cruell words, or els a^ swete harte 
 with pleasunt speache, that when hee thinketh her moste sure, hee 
 hath but a quicke Ele : you knowe where. Ha, ha, ha ! Wei fished.* 
 
 Vxor. 20 
 
 There* standeth a manne in comely, faire attire, like vnto purple 
 in Graine, A longe purse by his girdle, and a chaine of golde about 
 his necke. He hath a Lyon in a chaine on the one side, and a Fox 
 in a slippe on the other side ; it is a trim picture, well painted. 24 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Thus goeth it with the worlde, that Avhere as menne by crafte 
 and fiatterie of the Foxe can not deceiue the poore widow and 
 fartherlesse, as often tymes thei do, good Susan; then Eccie. v. 28 
 
 . , . , , IP Eccle. liii. 
 
 most cruellie, with violence, they use the forse of the Abacu.i. a. 
 Lion, with greuous wronges, extortion, and violence; neither regard- 
 yng the goodes, teares, or Hues of them whom thei doe oppresse, nor 
 
 1 Eds. 1573, 1578, merely. 2 Omitted iu ed. 1561. 
 
 3 Eds. 1573, 1578, finished. 
 
 * ' There standeth . . . Aske me no more questions, good Susan ' (p. 91) 
 omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
92 A IJIALOOVE. 
 
 Gods curse. This is a pitifull case, nuukc it well. That when God 
 (loeth laie on his crosso, as by the death of the liousobaiide, liow is 
 tliG widowe handled, and the fatherlesse, &c. Doe not the wicked 
 4 put to their handes Avith robberie, and thei whiche flattered the 
 father with tlic Fox, will destroie the sonnc with the Lyon. 
 
 Vxur. 
 "Who is he that sitteth betwcene twoo stooles in that corner 1 
 
 8 Ciuis. 
 
 This felowe would serue two niaisters ; his name is Jacke in- 
 
 difficrent, twoo faces in a hoode. He beareth fire in one Apoca. xx. 
 
 hande, and water in an other ; a Papiste and a Protestante, God and 
 
 12 Mammon ; the Alcaron of Mahomite is as good to hym as the Bible 
 
 of Christe. The childe when he thinketh hymselfe moste surely 
 
 sette, then falleth he sonest to the grounde. Bothe his inaisters 
 
 will slippe from hym; lie is spewed forthe for that he is neither 
 
 16 hotte nor coldf. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 There is painted a sober, modeste, and a comely picture ; in his 
 
 right hande a Cuppe of fine golde, and in the lefLe hande an olde 
 
 20 ragged garmeut : what meaneth this 1 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 This is an excellent inuention, and thus it is alluded verie well 
 
 to the saiyng of the Avisenian, admonishyng all men with these 
 
 24 woordes : Vse avcU the tyme of prosperitie, and remember the tyrae 
 
 of misfortune ; for God, saieth he, maketh the one by the other. So 
 
 that a man can finde nothyng els under the Soime. 
 
 Vxo): 
 
 28 What beaste is that hauyng many colours, one bodie, and seuen 
 
 horrible heddesl 
 
 Ciuifi. 
 
 The bodie of sinne Avith many infernall hcddcs : Avickednessc in 
 
 32 euery place under the Sonne. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 "What ship is that with so many owers and straunge tacle 1 it is 
 
 a great vessele ? 
 
A DIALOnVR. 
 
 93 
 
 C'mis. 
 This is the ship of fooles, whcrin saileth bothe Spiiituall anJ 
 Temporall of eneiy callyug. Some there are Kyiiges, Queenes, Popes, 
 Archbishoppes, Prelates, Lordes, Ladies, Knightes, Note this «oii. 4 
 Gentlemen, Phisicions, Lawiers, ]\Tarchauntes, Housebandemen, 
 Beggers, theeues, hores, knaues, &o. This sliip wantetli a good Pilot, 
 tlie storme, the rocke, and the wrecke at hand, all will come to naught 
 in this Ilulke for want of good governemen* 
 
 if. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 What nomber of men in harnesse are these"? Some sleapyng, 
 and many of theim semeth to goe wisperyng together, and behind 
 them there appereth other men putting forth their heddcs out of 12 
 corners wearyng no harnesse. 
 
 Ckds. 
 These are not only the Constables with the watchmen in London, 
 but also almoste through this realme, moste falsely abus- constables and ^^ 
 yng the tyme, commyng verie late to the watche, sitting *''^"" ^^'''^°''^- 
 doune in some common place of watchyng, wherein some falleth on 
 slepe by the reason of labour or muehe drinkyng before, or els nature 
 require th reste in the night. These fellowes thinke euery hower a 20 
 thousande vntill thei goe home, home, home, euery man to bed. 
 God night, God night ! God sane the Queene ! saieth the constables, 
 farewell, neighbours. Eftesones after their departyng creepeth 
 forthe the wilde roge and his fellowes, hauyng two or three other 24 
 harlottes for their tourne, with picklockes, handesawes, longe 
 Hookes, ladders, &c., to breake into houses, robbe, murther, steale, 
 and doe all mischief in the houses of true men, vtterly vndoyng 
 honest people to maintain their harlottes ; greate hoses, lined clokes, 28 
 long daggers, and feathers, these muste be paid for, &c. This 
 commeth for want of punishment by the daie, and idle watche in 
 the night. God graunt that some of the watche be not the scontes 
 to the theues. Yes ; God graunt that some men haue not conspira- 32 
 tours of Theues in their owne houses, wliiche, like Judasses, deciue 
 their maisters. If this watche bee not better looked vnto, good 
 
94 A DIALOG VK. 
 
 ■ wife, in euery place in this realms, and all the night long searchyiig 
 euery suspected corner, no man shall be ahle to kecpe a penie, no 
 scant his owne life in a while. For thei that dare attempt suche 
 
 4 matters in the citic of London, what will they doe in houses smally 
 garded, or by the high waiel Yet there is muche execution, but it 
 helpeth not, it is the eccesse of apparell. Hose, hose ! great hose ! 
 too little wages, too many seruing men, too many tipplyng houses, too 
 
 8 many drabbes, too many knaues, too little labour, too muche idlenes. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Jesus, Jesus ! good husband, but one question, and then to diner. 
 What are all these, two and two in a table 1 Oh, it is trim. 
 
 12 Ciuis. 
 
 These are old frendes ; it is well handled, and workemanly. 
 Willyam Boswell in Paternoster rowe painted them, wiiiyam Bos- 
 Here is Christ and Sathan, sainct Peter and Symon "■'='i. " i''""'*""- 
 
 IG Magus, Paule and Alexander the Copersniith, Trace and Becket, 
 I\Iartin Luther and the Pope, Ecolampadius and Fisher, sir Thomas 
 Moore and Jhon Frith, bishop Cranmer and bishop Gardiner, Boner 
 wepyng, Bartlet grene breche, Galen and Gregory Wisedom, Aiiicen 
 
 20 and George Salthous, Salomon and Will Sommer, The George saiihous. 
 Cocke and the Lyon, the Wolfe and the Lambe, and thus I doe 
 ende. Aske me no more questions, good Susan. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 24 Sir, there is one lately come into this Inne^ in a grcene Kendall 
 coate, with yellowe hose, a bearde of the same colour, onely upon the 
 upper lippe, a balde chin,^ a russet hatte, with a greate plume of 
 straunge feathers, and a braue scarffe about his necke, in cutte 
 
 28 buskens. He is plaiyng at the treatrip^ with our hoste Mendax is 
 Sonne ; he plaieth tricke vpon the Gitterne, and daunce ^^^'^''^'^'i- 
 Trenchemore and Hey de Gie, and telleth newes from Terra Florida. 
 He looketh a squinte, he daunceth vp and doune;^ I did see him 
 
 1 Ed. 15G4, hall. 2 e,|. 15(34 omits 'a balde chin.' 
 
 3 Eds. 1564, 1573, trea trippe. 
 
 * 'he daunceth vp and doune ' omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 
 
 95 
 
 giue the good man a pcce of a Unicornes hornc good against poison ; 
 
 he semeth a pretie scholer. But I heard hym praie the chamberlain 
 
 in his eare to lende him vi'' upon a pressing yron, which chamberlain 
 
 refused the gage. ^ 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Eoger, call hym to^ dinner, it is some pleasaunto fellowe, and 
 
 laketh money ; be like through trauaile the poore man is weii taken. 
 
 driuen to his shiftes, and would make otlier men merie 8 
 
 when he weepeth. in his owne^ harte. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Good bousebande, call in some graue companie. What should 
 suche Jackes and tospottes dooe herel He semeth to a good wife. 12 
 be some theef or ruffin. Fie on hym, verlet, fie, fie ! 
 
 Roger. 
 By our Ladie, I Avill f etche hym into diner ; he is a good com- 
 panion for me. Wee shall heare newes. News. IG 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Goe thy waies quickly. 
 
 Roger. 
 Sir, my maister and my maistres praie your Maistershippe to 20 
 take the paines to come to their chamber, whereas you a gentle 
 
 gretyiig. 
 
 shal be hartely welcome to their dinner. 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Sir, I will waite upon them, but first I will vpon this whetstone 24 
 
 sharpe my knife. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Sir, here is this gentleman come to keep you companie. 
 
 Ciuis. 28 
 
 He is moste hartely welcome, set hym a chaire ; giue hini a 
 
 trencher and a napkin. I praie you take parte of suche as God hath 
 
 sente ; if it were at London I might make you better chere, but here 
 
 I cannot. 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, into, ' ^ Omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
96 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Mendax. 
 Here is good cheare ; I Avas there within these teu weekes that 1 
 would haue giuen twentie shillynges for suche a loafe as jjendaxdoe 
 4 this, -whoreas no suclie cla'are was to be had. begiimc 
 
 Ciuis. 
 AVliere was it,i I praie you, gentle maisterl I cannot tell wliat 
 to call you, nor of what counti'ie you are. 
 
 8 Mendax. 
 
 Sir, I was borne nere vnto Tuubridge, where fine kniues are 
 made ; my name is Mendax, a yonger brother linially descended of 
 an auncient house before the conij^uest. We giue three Mend.ix 
 
 12 Whetstones in Gules with no difference, and vpon our '"«'"■'"««• 
 creste a lefte hand, with a home uppon the thonibe, and a knife in 
 the hande. The supporters are a Foxe on th' one side, and a Frier 
 on the other side. And of late I traueiled into Terra Florida, whereas 
 
 16 I felt both wealth and Avoe ; the blacke oxe neuer trode vpon my 
 foote before, a dogge hath but a daie. We are borne al a Ruffian. 
 to trauaile, and as for me I haue but little to lose, yet I am a gentle- 
 man, and cannot find in my harte to plaie the slaue, or go too cart ; 
 
 20 I neuer could abide it, by tlie masse. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 You speake like a wiseman. I perceiue by your behauioure that 
 
 you haue been well brought vp. I praie you, where is ii-onia. 
 
 24 that land? ,^ , 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Many M- miles beyonde Turrida Zona, on the Equinoctiall line, 
 
 in the Longitude nere vnto the Pole Antartike ; it is an Terra Florida 
 
 described by 
 
 28 C.M.^ miles long, and is in the part named America; maister Mendax. 
 and by the waie are the Islandes called Fortunato or Canaria, whose 
 west partes be situated in the thirde Climate. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 32 It was a daungerou? trauaile into that countrie ; where landed 
 you ] At what place 1 
 
 1 Eil.^. 1.-;G4, 1573, that. ■ Ed. 15G4, C. ^ g^^^ 15(35^ j^vij. M. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 97 
 
 Mendax, 
 Wee sailed to the Islandes of Portuin Sanctum, and then to 
 Medera, in whiche were sondrie countrees and islandes, as Eractel- 
 entie, Magnefortis, Grancamarie, Tenereffe, Palme Ferro, &c. And 4 
 our captaine went with his Soldiours to lande. And at our first 
 commyng nere vnto the Riuer in one of these Islandes, as we refreshed 
 our selues en].ong the Date trees, in the lande of Palmes, by the 
 sweete welles, we did, to the greate feare of vs all, se a great 8 
 battaile betwene the Dragon and the Vnicorne j^ and, as God would, 
 the vnicorne thrust the dragon to the hart ; and, againe, the dragon 
 with his taile sfcong the vnicorne to death. Here is a peece of his 
 home; the blood of dragons is riche ; the ^ battaile was a battaiie very 1^ 
 worth 200 markes to our capitain. Then we traueiled P^'o^'abie. 
 further into Teneriffa, into an exeedyng high niountaine, aboue the 
 middle region, wheras we had greate plentie of roche^ Alom, And 
 might well heare an heauenly Hermonie emong the Starres. The 16 
 moone was nere hand vs with marueilous heate; and He was near 
 when Ave came doune at the hill foote growe many the starres. 
 grosse herbes, as Louage, Laserpitium, Acanthus and Solanum ; and 
 whether it was by the eatyng of Solanum or no, there was a greate* 20 
 mightie man naked and hearie, in a deepe slepe, whom wee gently 
 suffered too lye still. He had a greate beard in which a birde did 
 breede, and brought her younge ones meate ; this° man slepte halfe 
 a yere, and waked not. Our capitain declared vnto vs no lie, no He. 24 
 that the spials had vewed the lande, and how that our enemies were 
 at hande. The next daie moste fearfull people painted with sondry 
 colours approached in strange beastes skinnes, with Flint so were 
 their shaftes and dartes made,*' Avith whom Avee fought and slewe, 28 
 and tooke some, and yet the people so assaulted vs, that Avith much 
 difficultie Avee recouered our P>arkes ; and then Avee sailed forthe, and 
 chaunced to let fal our sounding lead newe tallowed, Avhervpon did 
 sticke gold. With all spede we sent doune our diners, and so Avithin 32 
 three dales Ave gathered thirtie hogsheddes of fine gold, besides tAvoo 
 1 Eds. 1573, 1578, Vnicore. 2 gjjg^ i5g4_ ^573^ ^t^^^__ 
 3 'roche' omitted iu ed. 1564. * Ed. 1564, verie mightie. 
 
 ^ 'this man . . . waked not' omitted in ed. 1564. 
 6 Ed. 1564 omits 'made.' 
 DIALOGUE. H 
 
98 A DIALOQVE. 
 
 buttos of orient perlcs ; al tlie shore was full of currall. From 
 tlieuce wee sailed to the greate Isle called jSIadagasta,^ in Seorea, 
 "where were Kynges, Mahumitaines by religion, blacke 
 4 as deiiilles. Some had no heddes, but even in their Rood tidynges 
 
 of treasure and 
 
 breastes. Some, Avhen it rained, couered all the whole nciiesse, and 
 bodie with one foote. That^ land d:d abound in Ele- 
 phantes teetli ; the men did eate Camiles and Lions fleshe. Muske 
 8 and Zeuct in euery place did abounde, and the mother of perle, 
 ■wherof 2 the people made their platters to put in their meate ; thei 
 dwell emong spice ; the ground is moiste with oile of precious trees. 
 Plenty of wine out of grapes as big as this lofe ; muche Peper ; thei 
 
 12 cannot tell what to doe Avith Suger; but that their marchauntes of 
 Maabar, twentie daies iouriiey of, doe come and take of their gooddes 
 franckly for nothyng ; but some of them do bryng yron to make 
 edge tooles, for which thei haue for one pounde twentie* pounde of 
 
 16 fine gold; their pottes, pannes, and all vessell are^ cleane gold 
 garnished with Diamondes. I did see swine feede in them. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Did you se no strange foules there and fishes 1 
 
 20 Mendax. 
 
 In the isle called Euc, in the great Cans lande, I did see 
 Marmaides and Satyres with other fishes by night, came fower miles 
 from the sea, and climed into trees, and did eate dates and nufc- 
 
 24 megges, with whom the Apes and Eabians had muche fightyng, 
 yelling, and criyng. The people of the land do line by Ti.e teste meate 
 eating the fleshe of women. In this land did I se an =^"1 "'« ^o'-^t^.^ 
 Ape plaie at Ticketack, and after at Irishe on the tables with one of 
 
 28 tliat lande ; And also a Parate giue one of their gentlewomen a 
 checkmate at Chesse. There" Gese dauuce Trenchmore. 
 
 Cmis. 
 God keepe us^ from those cruell people. 
 
 1 'Madagastat' in Ed. 157.3. 2 gd. 1564, The. 
 
 3 'wherof ' omitted in ed. 1564. * Ed. 15G4. twelve. ^ Ed. 1564, i.s. 
 
 " Ed. 1564, worste meate. ^ ' There . . . Trenchmore ' omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 « Ed. 1564, me. 
 
A DIALOGVE, 
 
 99 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 But, sir, as for Birdes, thei are not onely infinit in numbers, but 
 also in kindes ; Some voyces moste sweete, and some pi,.,,gg ^f 
 moste fearfull ; Nightingales as bigge as Gese, Oules Btraungekindes. 4 
 greater then some horse ; and there are birdes that doe lye in a 
 rocke where Dragons are, whose Feathers on^ their wynges are thirtie 
 foote long, the quill as bigge as a canon roiall ; also I heard Parates 
 dispute in Philosophie, Freshe in Greke, and^ sing discant. Also 8 
 there are a people called Astomis,^ which line very long, and neither 
 eat nor drinke, but onely liue by ayre and the smell of fruites. In 
 Selenetide there are women, contrary to the nature of other women, 
 doe laie egges, and hatche them from whom doe children come 1. 12 
 tymes greater then those which are borne of women. There did I see 
 Scipodes hauyng but one foote, whiche is so broad that thei couer 
 all their bodies for the raine and the Sonne. 
 
 Item, I did see men hauyng feete like horse, called Ipopodes. 1 6 
 
 Item, I did see the Satyres halfe men and halfe Goates plaiyng 
 vpon Cornets. 
 
 Item, I did se Apothami, halfe horse and halfe man. 
 
 Item, I plaied at tables with the people called Fanesis,^ whose 20 
 eares were as long as clokes, coueryng all their bodies ; nere them is 
 the great citie called 0, iiij.c. miles within the wall ; the wall was 
 Brasse, twoo M gates, sixe C bridges as bigge as London bridge ; the 
 Citie paued with golde. Naked menne dwell there with twoo heades 24 
 and six handes euery man. There did I se apes plaie at Tennis. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 I praie you is there any plentie of precious stones 1 
 
 Mendax. 28 
 
 Yerie many, but harde to come by ; but in the island Zanzibar 
 is muche plentie of Ambergrise, that thei make claie Ambergvise as 
 
 plentiful! as 
 
 for their houses withall; there, if wee had holden ciaie. 
 
 together like frendes, we might haue gotten a worlde.^ When*^ I 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, in. 
 
 2 ' and sing discant . . . apes plaie at Tennis ' omitted in ed. 1564. 
 
 3 Ed. 1573, Astomij. * Ed. 1573, Fanesij. & Ed. 1564, a great kingdome. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1564, my hart I it maketh it blede when, &c. 
 
 H 2 
 
100 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 duo remember it, akis,'^ alas, euery man is but fur liymself ; you maie 
 consider wbat dinision is ; Emeroddes, Eubbies, Turkies, precious stones 
 Diamondes, & Sapliiers were solde when wo came "'"^'ep'entif""- 
 4 thether first for tlie waighte of yron ; a ]\I richc Turkcsses were 
 solde for iijs iiijd ;- to bee shorte, one with anotlier, after Diamomies 
 
 gatliered with 
 
 iijs uijd a pecke. Our men gather' vp Carbuncles and rakes. 
 Diamondes witli rakes under the spice trees. 
 
 8 Ciuis. 
 
 How chaunce you brought none home in to this realme. 
 
 Mendax. 
 Oil, sir, wee filled twoo shippes with fine gold, three shippes with 
 12 Ambergrise, Musko, and Vnicornes homes, and twoo tall a gicut toss, it 
 
 liatli iiiuloii all 
 
 Jjarkes, with precious stones, and sailed by the Adamante EnKiami. 
 stones, which will drawe yron vnto theim, and so caste awaie the 
 greatest riches in Heathenes or Christendome. After that cruell 
 
 16 chaunce we came vppon the maine lande of Cuba, in the greate and 
 mightie lande of America, where as the people called Canabals do 
 dwel in caues, rockes, and woodes ; there as women will Cruei women, 
 eate their owne children, and one man an other, and thei are 
 
 20 Gyantes moste high and fearfiill, all goe naked ; the[i] neither knowe 
 good humanitie, humaine policie, religion, lawe, nor ^good 
 chastitie. One is equal with another, the strongest of co""i>"'"^eat''- 
 bodie are chifest, for there al is ruled by force and not through 
 
 24 reason, after the manor of Swine.'' Children loue their fathers no 
 more than Pigges doe the Bores, for thei saie luste causeth generation. 
 And when their parentes are very old thei bryng them to an excead- 
 ing high mountain, where as is a greate tower builded vpon a Eocke, 
 
 28 vnder whiche tower is the golden Myne, in which Myne there bee 
 twoo greate monstrous dragons kepyng the same, which Tiie price of 
 Avil lienor suffer the children to come to receiue the ^°''^*" 
 benefites of that place vntil such tyme as thei haue slaine their 
 
 32 parentes, and cast their flesh into the cane, and washe[d] the dragons 
 Image Avhich are within that tower, mad.e of precious wood, with the 
 
 1 Ed, 15G4 omits 'alas, alas.' 2 Ed. 15G4, for iiij.d. 
 3 Ed. 15G4, gathered. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 
 
 101 
 
 bloud of their saied parentes. From whence^ wc traucileJ into an 
 island, where as it neucr raineth but once a yere, and that is in the 
 moneth of July, whereas ISTilus runneth by giuyng benefit vnto the 
 plaine countrie, whereas spice of all kindes doeth growe. In that 4 
 Island doeth growe Apples ^ most plentifully, whiche thai dooe call 
 Lupilum, A little before our commyng was a greate winde, whiche 
 had shaken doune muche fruite and precious spice, and ^ miracle of 
 many hundred carte loades of good Hoppes. After "oubieBere. g 
 wliiche fell doune plentie of raine, raisyng a myghtie floud, in- 
 continent succeded a burnyng heate, for it is vnder the Equinoctial 
 line or Torrida Zona. In fine, throwe this coniunction^ of the Sonne 
 niouing this boilyng of the water, through the help of where it re- ^^ 
 much© spice, I neuer dranke suche Hipocras wine nor "th'i'doubiT"' 
 Beere ; the Flemynges haue founde out the commoditie ^'*''®- 
 and caren to transport no more Hoppes hether vnto us. ^ ^^^^^^ j.^^. 
 And if good lucke had been our^ lord, we had made our ^le^aynges. jq 
 selues and all the christian kingdomes for euer. 
 
 Ciiiis. 
 Alas, alas, what was that'? I pray you tell me. I am sory that 
 you and your frendes haue traueiled thus long, and haue been in 20 
 daunger for nothing. But I perceiue you haue been a greate traueiler, 
 and haue seen many countries, woodes, and riuers. 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Non finis erif si prosequar omnia verbis, Loquax 24 
 
 FLumina et specon, campos, siluasque lacusque, 
 
 CoUes, ajJncosqiie siunosque undeque portits, 
 
 Omnia sunt vidi. Now let them go, 
 
 I haue seen those thynges and manie moe. 28 
 
 Syr, in the landes beyond Guha or as the Cosmographars cal 
 Lamiam or lanicam, whereas the people doe curse the Sunne at 
 noone because it burnetii them, there ^ is a fletyng Island 
 swymming about the sea, by what meanes I knowe not, a new land that 32 
 whether occasioned by Corcke, Wooll, &c. ; it woulde con^Tngfrom 
 by the winde shifte from place to place. Sume saied p*''*'^'^''- 
 
 1 Eds. 1564, 1573, thence. 2 Ed. 1564, hoppes. 
 
 3 Ed. 156i, concoction. * Ed. 1564, our good lord. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, there are many Islands emong them, there is, &o. 
 
102 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 it was a shred of the bankes of Paradise, broken through the force 
 of Ganges, and so in continuance brought downe. It was not brode. 
 In that Isle were but fewe people. And the menne of that place doe 
 4 by proper art, with a sharp flint stone, -worme the women, women with 
 
 1 1 1 • T 1 t> ^ ir wormes in tlieir 
 
 and pretcly cut their tongues, and take forth a smale feer- tongues, 
 pente aliue, and heale their Tongues agayne with herbe grace. The^ 
 Italians make poysons of this Serpent. This Island hath many riche 
 8 stones, gold and spice in it, with precious trees, as Agallicum and 
 Guiacum. In that Isle there had been some Frenche men, Guiacum. 
 whose skinnes were clene cast of in the maner of Snakes ; marie, they 
 were full of hooles. This Guiacum did much pleasure to them belike. 
 
 12 But as wee were deuising howe to steale this lande awaie, and bryng 
 it forthe to the maine Sea with our Pilottes twoo thinges a great loss, 
 letted our purpose. The one was the Hauen mouthe was to straighte, 
 the second the people were to vigilant and letted our purpose. But I 
 
 1 6 truste I and my companions will make oue lustie voyage, and geue an 
 onset, for all wee will either winne the saddle^ or loose the horse. We 
 are none but good fellowes ; of my parte, I will doe what lieth in me 
 to make menie prentises free, and cause other good yong Honest feiiowe 
 
 20 Gentlemen in sellyng their land to get thousandes. If men knewe 
 as muche as I dooe in this matter, they had rather venter the best 
 ioynt then be from thence, it is almoste heauen ; and if we do 
 wante by the waye, let euery man kepe close, and there we maie 
 
 24 chaunce to find some little fleting Islandes,^ wherein Pirates, heires 
 
 ofWappingfor 
 
 good Suger, Spice, Silke, Linnen, &c.,^ readie made, and their snapping, 
 that will make readie money, and money maketh a man. Oh, that 
 young menne woulde beleue me, and followe me, I woulde make 
 28 theym Lordes or K.^ 
 
 1 'The . . . serpent' omitted in ed. 1564. 2 ^o ed. 1564 ; ed. 1573, sandle. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, adds 'by the waie.' * Ed. 1564, adds 'do growe.' 
 5 Ed. 1564, omits 'or K,' and proceeds thus : — 
 
 Vxor. 
 Good housebande, hearken in your eare. I would speaks with you, 
 swete harte. 
 
 Ciiiis. 
 Speake on youre mynde, good Susan. What is the matter, woman ? 
 
 Vxor, 
 Sir, this is a bHndo iyed shameles ruffon, a roge, I warrautc hym, aud 
 
A DIALOGVE. 103 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Were you euer in the lanJe of Ethiopia ? 
 
 Mendax. 
 I knowe all that lande ; it is an exeedyng greate lande. It is 4 
 from the Equinoctial towarde the Pole Antartike, and is deriued 
 both of Asia and Affrike ; neere the famous Reuer, runnyng through 
 the Islande & the long mountaines called Luna. Prester Ihon do 
 dwell in the east parte. The chiefest citie is called Meroa, some- 8 
 tyme Saha. The Queene of that Citie came to Salomon. I did see 
 him toumbed in Meroa, nere hande as brode and as long as West- 
 minster Haule, made of pure Christall and Golde, garnished with 
 costly Saphires and Diamondes, xx pound waight euerie stone. 12 
 Through the whiche Christall, whosoeuer had eaten of the herbe 
 called Apium risiim, growynge in the land Lehthyophages, where 
 as the people doe bewitche eche other ; then fower houres in the 
 night, through the Christall, one may se King Salomon, Queue Saba, 16 
 & .iiij.c. ladies daunsing with noble graces in riche attyre, with gar- 
 landes of roses on their heddes ; and round about the inwarde border 
 of the tombe manie^ Seraphins with Lutes, Citrons and Harpes plaiyng 
 
 a thefe. This knaue is hable to make children run from, their parentes, 
 seruauntes robbe their maisters, yong heires to sell their landes, men to 
 run from their wiues, and women also. You male knowe she desoribeth 
 by his Armes of what stocke he cometh ; I warrant him ^ ruffian. 
 from drouning and diying of the Pestilence. Oh, villaine, he wilbe 
 hanged. I dare sale he knoweth al kindes of theues, vagabondes, 
 rouers & hasarders. I like not his words nor his braggyng countenance. 
 Let vs hence. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Well, moche good doe you ; you haue taken moche paine, but smalle 
 profite : you haue trauailed farre and male speake by aucthoritee. 
 Come, take awaie : paie the reconyng. Eoger, horse, horse, and awaie ! 
 
 Roger. 
 All thynares are readie, sir. Weiirid of euiil 
 
 •' ° store. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Fare ye well, gentle frende. 
 
 Menddx. 
 I thanke you of your gentle companie, good gentleman. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Whose faire fielde is yonder, &c. [Continuing as on p. 112.] 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, maie. 
 
104 
 
 A DIALOGUE. 
 
 witli greate joye. In tlie ende, Salomon, as liis daiely maner was, 
 kissed- only tlio Quene, and saluted the Ladies, so the Ladies with 
 the Cherubens vanished awaie, and Salomon laie downe by the 
 4 Queene vpon a riche bedde, and they twoo did sleepe there. 
 Betwene whona there was a red hande holdyng a long naked Sworde, 
 to guide the Queene, for feare of the thyng that you wot of. This did 
 I see by my troth, Now a little more of the walles. They vse their 
 8 niagike by stones, w'ordes, and herbes ; with herbcs of hot kyndes 
 I haue seen them transforme men into Lyons and Wohies, and manie 
 "VVomenne into Sowes, she Goates and Apes, "With moyste herbes, 
 men into fishes, and women into Apletrees. And in Somer the 
 
 12 trees full of Aples, and sodainly by a secret hid Anfijpotlila, these 
 Apples are all transformed into children aline, and grow a pace, as 
 Barnacles dooe in Scotlande, whiche barnacles do growe upon trees 
 by the Sea side. So doe their children in some places there, but not 
 
 16 euerie where, of this cometh it to passe that the Anthropojyhager are 
 desirous to eate of eche other through these Enchauutmentes and 
 coniuringes ; of all flesh they doe loue the Coniurers flesh, and all 
 their kynd, as example. The holie house of the Enquisiters of 
 
 20 Spain sente into that lande of late one hundredth Friars, commaund- 
 ing them onely, accordyng to the Komishe rules, to set up Aulters 
 at their arriual ; and so say masse in their holie golden clothes, 
 and so they did. But when the Canabales spied their bald pates, 
 
 24 and also their coniuringes, neither fearyng Deuell nor Pope that sent 
 theim, without anye scruple of conscience they did eate them all ; 
 and if I, by the eating of an herbe called Dorademus, which a witch 
 taught me, had not been turned into a Dogge, I had been eaten of 
 
 28 them also, and in thende, by good hap, I fed vpon the knaue Friers 
 bones six dayes. INIy boy was so stronglie bewitched tliat he is a 
 dogge still. This same is he ; he was a gentleman of a good house ; 
 he vnderstandeth vs well, and sometyme was a proper man, and 
 
 32 shoulde haue maried with one in London called lone Trim : whiche 
 nowe are, God wot, of sondrie kyndes, but differ not in conditions, 
 chast, religious, and kynd harted. When I departed from the Cana- 
 bales Then I ranne from Isle to Isle, and came through a lande of 
 
 36 fire called Hell ; it was full of burnynge Salamanders, no more hurtc 
 
A DIALOGVE. 105 
 
 ■with fire then fishes are with water. Indeede, a Witclic led nie 
 through there. I did see and heare many of mine olde ac(|uaint- 
 aunce, but thei did not see me ; shee tolde me in her language it was 
 purgatory, sayng thus, Irepop Si IreicanJc sina a yd. Then came 4 
 I into the Lande of Parthalia, whiche is a lande of Giantes, tall men, 
 sum one hundreth foote long, and verie olde ; the guide, by interpre- 
 tation, tolde mee that one was aliue there whiche was a labourer of 
 Eome when it was firste builded. I did see hym shake xxi bushelles 8 
 of Oysters from the tree wheras Oysters do growe, which tree was a 
 slight shoote of hight; this was aliue Anno 1562. Then came I 
 iust upon our Antipodie, foote against foote, in a land like ours, and 
 al had been in one climate, of Riuers, Hilles, and Valies like ours. 12 
 There is Gaddes hill, Stangate hole, Newe Market heath, like ours in 
 all pointes ; Also countries like Wales, Tinsdale and Eiddesdale ; 
 sauing there were some true men but here is scant one in them, I 
 trowe, in Tinsdale, 16 
 
 Roger. 
 
 I praie you honeste man surreuerence you ; cleane felow masse 
 mendhouse, is there any greate Citie in that land 1 
 
 Mendax. 20 
 
 Goodman Loquax, my name is not masse mendhouse ; I am no 
 Carpenter. My name is Mendax, whiche in the Et]iiop)e tongue 
 signifieth the name of a greate Citie, the mother of holie religion & 
 truth, and is called Emor, in maners like Modos & Romog. 24 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Is there any greate Citie 1 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 I, forsoth, there is one old famous Citie of a great antiquitie, the 28 
 best reformed Citie of this woorlde ; the like hath not been hard of, 
 neither red of, nor seen. Barbarous Grekes cal it in their language 
 Metonoyce, whiche by interpretation in their tongue is called Ecnat- 
 neper or Nodnol. The land is called Taerg Natrih, a most auncient 32 
 land, and Christians all sworne enemies to the Pope. 
 
106 A DIALOG VE, 
 
 Ciuis. 
 I praie you liowe is the Citie reformed ? 
 
 Mmdax. 
 
 4 I will begiime first of their Saboth daio, -wliiclie is the seuentli 
 
 dale, that is soudaio ; and as tliei doe in this hedde Citie, so all the 
 
 other Cities doe. Townes and Villages all dooe the same, for I doe 
 
 knowe theym all, for in that land are 1560 parish Churches. Some- 
 
 8 tyme they had nianie horrible dennes of Idolatrie called Seiahha, 
 
 verie riche, whose landes the wise Princes gaue, and changed euen 
 
 to some of the temporall priestes, and which haue suche swetenes in 
 
 the riches and gaine thereof. Although that many of theim doe 
 
 1 2 luue Papistrie, thei had rather the Citie of Rome with the Popes 
 
 holynes were vtterlie burned, yea, and Christes also together, then 
 
 they woulde loose their Abbaie Landes. Oh, it passeth Terra 
 
 Florida, and yet for all this I thinke they are Protestantes ; not one 
 
 16 Papiste in all that lande, I warrante you ; no, nor one wicked liuer. 
 
 Cluls. 
 Tushe man to the matter concerning the kepyng of the Saboth 
 dale tell that to the ende ; and then a reckning with our hostes, 
 20 and let vs departe, it is three of clocke smitten ; I must awaie ; I 
 haue farre to ride this euenyng. 
 
 ]\Ieiulax. 
 
 This Citie is greate, well walled, and strongly fortified ; warlike, 
 
 24 with greate gates, verie beautifull, as euen Hierusalem Avas. These 
 
 gates are locked faste vppon the Sabboth, sauyng the small portales, 
 
 to this ende that the Citizens dooe not goe, neither ride forth of the 
 
 Citie duryng that daie, except it be after the euenyng praier ; then 
 
 28 to walke honestlie into the sweete fieldes, and at euery gate in the 
 
 time of seruice there are warders. 
 
 Ciu!.'<. 
 
 What, then, Avill they not suffer the traueilers and countrie 
 32 dwellers to lorneye to their townes and dwellyng places ? 
 
A DIALOGVE. 107 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 '^0, surely, not one; but that^ so euer hee be he muste kepc 
 
 hoUie the Sabboth dale, and come to the churche, both man, woman, 
 
 yong and olde. 4 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 It is not possible ; who do loke to the yonge children, sicke 
 
 folkes, and make prouision for diner and supper ? 
 
 Mendax. 8 
 
 This is the matter; in euerie Churche they haue two worthie 
 ministers, for there are no phiralities. These men are knowen to be 
 wise, sober, honeste, and learned ; the better learned is the Preacher, 
 the other dooe minister the Sacramentes ; and both of these haue 1 2 
 good stipendes, and greate reuerence done to theim. They doe shewe 
 suche light to the blinde, thei visite the sick, they moue people to 
 pitie the poore, and forgeue their enemies ; and at the sounde of the 
 bell the seruauntes and such as muste attende at home when their 16 
 maisters dooe come from the Church, at the seconde Sermond all 
 here the first Sermon, wheras thei doe beginne to sing with holie 
 Psalmes before the Sermond and also after. And after the Com- 
 munion is done they soborlie departe, geuyng attendance, that the 20 
 familie at home of the yong children or sicke be deligentlye looked 
 vnto, prouidyng the diner for their masters, &c., whiche are present 
 at the second Sermonde with their wiues, &c. Oh, blessed sight ! 
 the heauenliest meeting that euer was seen or hearde with mortall 24 
 eyen or eares ; would God that I were there againe ! There is not 
 one Usurer : not one. 
 
 Ciids. 
 
 Why, what sight it is, I praie you, or what hearyng that is so 28 
 heauenly ] 
 
 Meyidax. 
 
 There is no mingled doctrine, no tromperie of Papistrie, but the 
 naked, true, and perfite worde of God. ISTo flattering in the preacher, 32 
 neither railing, but teaching truly euery maune his duetie to God, 
 their prince and one to another ; the greate curses of the lawe, and 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, what. 
 
103 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 ■sweete promises of the Gospel. There is excommunication of the 
 vngodly, Discipline to the penitentes, and godly reconciliation again 
 into the Churche, openly confessyng their faultes, makyng restitution 
 
 4 of wronges, breakyng the othes of wicked bargaines, hauyng the 
 greate feare of ludgement of God before their eycn, Avhiche niakcth 
 theim to tremble; doyng no wronge one vnto an other, neither by 
 extortion, vsurie, euill ware sold by vntruth for good, &c. With 
 
 8 collections of money for the poore in deede ; the idle are sette to 
 ■\voorke or sore punished for slothe. Is not this well doen, maister 
 Cuds ? 
 
 Cmis. 
 
 1 2 If this be true it is a blessed Citie. How doe tliey spendc the 
 af ternoone, I pray you ? 
 
 Meudax. 
 
 Euen as thei did in the fore IS'oone, the communion excepted, in 
 
 IG wliich place the yong people are examined in the principall partes of 
 
 the Christen faith. And one tliyng did I note in that Cittie, and 
 
 also in the other,^ there were no people walking abroad in tlie seruice 
 
 tyme ; no, not a Dogge or a catte in the streate, neither any Tauerne 
 
 20 doore open that dale, nor wine bibbyng in them, but ouely almosc, 
 
 fasting, and praier. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 How do they punishe the Sabboth daic breakers, and other 
 
 24 offences'? 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Accordyng to the offence ; there is no respecte of persones ; there 
 the magistrate is grcuously punished as the poore people for gcuing 
 28 euill example. 
 
 The drunkarde is punished with fasting in jirison certain dales. 
 
 The adulterer by death ; so is the fellon or murderer accordyng 
 to ]\Ioses lawes. 
 32 The vnreconciled stubborne againste the parentes are put to 
 death if they be companions by their parentes. 
 
 The berwardes are greuously Avhipped for that outrage with 
 Dogges, Beares, and Apes plaie on the Sabboth dale lyke our bedles. 
 
 ^ Ed. 1573, others. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 
 
 109 
 
 The Juglers eyes arc put out. 
 
 The common swearer doe lose his tonge. 
 
 The Euffin is chained & whipped like our Bedles. 
 
 The double handed Lawier, or double dealer in poore mennes 4 
 causes is kept in prison, and forfite his goodes to the prince, and the 
 wrongfull oppressed. 
 
 The extorcioner is made a begger. 
 
 The promoter for his own proper gaine is coumpted a K. 8 
 
 The informer for a Common wealthe is conmpted honest, and 
 well regarded. 
 
 The defraiider of the wages of the laborer and seruauntes so 
 proued is in case of Fellonie. 12 
 
 The wilfull periurie [sic] is stoned to death, with tongue cnt out. 
 
 The knowne peruerse Papiste is burned, for in hym is coumpted 
 a nomber of treasons, as he would the chaung of Religion, The 
 Pope to gouerne the Prince, the destruction of the faithful; Ergo, a IG 
 traitour, thefe, knaue, &e. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 So Goddes lawes and the Princes are obserued in that happie 
 lande. I praie you. what is the cause 1 20 
 
 Ilendax. 
 
 The are written ouer all the Citie gates, and in their Churches 
 
 in letters limned with golde. The woordes of Christe, sainct Peter, 
 
 or saincte Paule, omnes honorate fraternitatem diligite, i Peter 2. 24 
 
 deu7n timete, regem honorate. And they haue these wordes written 
 
 in their hartes and doynges, so their brotherly loue, their feare of 
 
 God, and the honor of the Prince or Kyng is the cause. The effecte 
 
 that dooe followe is justice, charite, quietnesse. And so God doe 28 
 
 cast his blessing vpon them, ij haruestes in one yeere. The holye 
 
 Curates make suche peace in their cures that the people goe to no 
 
 lawe, I warraunt you. 
 
 Roger. 32 
 
 Why, are there no theenes? Are not the Lawiers as riche as 
 
 they are here in our countrie ? for here the Lawiers doe swarme as 
 
 thicke as ener did Priers or Monkes in hell, and be as full of 
 
 coueteousnesse as euer the Friers were full of superstition. 36 
 
110 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 Mendax. 
 There was not a robberie, munler, periurie, or any horrible crime 
 committed this xxi. yeres : in this case why should the swordo bo 
 
 4 drawen] Euery manne doeth knowe his owne, and doe Hue in 
 peace, using much fasting and prayer. There are iudges and worthie 
 Lawiers in euerie Cittie whiche haue great stipendes of the prince, & 
 take no fees of the people ; not a pynne. They dooe giue counsaile 
 
 8 in the countrie freely. They are wise, godlie, & peacemakers ; they 
 
 haue no pettie Foggers, nor a swarme of sedicious disquieters of the 
 
 common wealth, like tliieues ; no, not like theues, but theeues 
 
 themselves. 
 1 2 Ciuis. 
 
 One question more. Are they at peace with their neighbours of 
 
 other nations % 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 16 Kature hath placed theii- lande within the Sea, like this lande. 
 That is one garde. Also they haue in store a greate strongc Nauie of 
 shippes well appointed, and all their coastes with Castles, Block- 
 houses, Beacons, watchemen. Thei haue many famous Mendax wouia 
 
 sooner saie tlie 
 
 20 men of warre, valiaunte, good of iudgemente, and also truth. 
 
 well trained Soldiours, faithful, hardie, and obedient ; euerie one of 
 these can well handle his peece or shoot in a Bowe. Their Capitaines, 
 in the tyme of peace, haue greate wages to maintaine them ; it behoueth 
 
 24 theim so to maintaine their men of Warre for feare the Golden 
 fleese be stolen. For it is a good Land for Woll and Corne, muche 
 desired of the Enemies ; and in the old tyme often runne ouer with 
 other nations. The men there are^ xx foote hyght. 
 
 28 Gluis. 
 
 How are the people appareled"? 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Verie plain, sauing the nobles, which are riche, in faire attire 
 
 32 Hke angelles. There the women are verie huswifly, the men homely, 
 
 greate labor, little silke is worne, no ieuels, no light colours, no 
 
 great hose, no long daggers, no cockscombe feathers, no double 
 
 1 Omitted in erl. 1573. 
 
A DIALOG VE. Ill 
 
 ruffes, not many seruyng men, no dising nor unlawfull games ; 
 neither coggyng, knauerie, foystyng, or cosenyng. Plaine, plaine ; 
 plain both in word and dede. Muche hospitalitie, speciallie among 
 the Cleargie ; no pride among them, but mercie, mercie, and pittie, 4 
 pittie. Also in their courte is no vanitie nor flatterers, but verie 
 curtesie, and in all pointes ruled by God's word in vnitie. 
 And thus fare you well, for this is true or els I doe lye, 
 
 Roger. 8 
 
 I will sweare vppon a Booke thy laste woordes are true, and all 
 the reste are lies. You might haue told the tale at Whetston,^ and 
 won the beste game ; thou went neuer in suche landes, neither hast 
 thou seen anie such comonwelth. Farewel, goodman knaue. 12 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Awaie, Eoger, fetche forthe my horse. Gentleman, fare you 
 
 well, I dooe giue credite to your tale. You muste here with my 
 
 man, he is a verlet, and you a gentleman of great trauel, iudgement, 16 
 
 and experience. 
 
 Mendax. 
 
 Sir, in your presence I will not deale with hym, for your courte- 
 ous entertainemente. But as I am true gentleman, as I am in deede, 20 
 I will whip the slaue if I doe meete hym alone, for giuyng me the 
 lye ; he doeth me great dishonour ; I will not beare it at his handes. 
 I haue slain aboue .30. for callyng me liyng knaue. God haue 
 mercie vpon their soules ; I am very cholericke. 24 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Giue me your hande ; you shall knowe this shalbe corrected of 
 my parte, God willyng, who keepe you. Fare you wel. Yet once 
 again, good Maister Mendax, fare ye well. 28 
 
 Mendax. 
 Fare you well, gentle Maister Ciuis ; and you, good maistres. 
 
 Vxor. 
 God be out of your waie for stomblyng. 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1573, Wheston. 
 
112 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Roger. 
 I praie God the Gallowcs giiawe thy knaucs bones. 
 
 Mendax. 
 4 "Well, knaue, well; by the Masse I will not forget you, you vile 
 Eoge ; I will trim you for this geare if I catche you. 
 
 Vxor. 
 "Whose^ faire fielde is yonder, I woulde faine knowe it, and let 
 8 trifles passe, I Avill not beleue theim ; let foolishe thynges Fair fieWes. 
 goe, and talke of matters profitable. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 ]\Iaistres, doe you not knoAve if? It is my Maisters ; T am the^ 
 
 1 2 Lailie there. He had a good bargaine, I assure you ; it was a^ morgage 
 
 to hym this twoo yeres ; I woulde he might finde the like purchesse. 
 
 All yonder tonne is his ; he hath raised the rent one hundreth markes 
 
 a yere more then it was. There were good liyng in the Honest land- 
 
 loi'des, God 
 
 10 plague time, for there are large pastures, and the houses amend them! 
 
 are doune, sauyng the Manner place, for the carles haue forfected 
 
 their Leases, and are gone a beggyng like villaines, and many of them 
 
 are dedde for honger. 
 20 Vxor. 
 
 "Whose oxen are these, Eoger? 
 
 Roger. 
 My maisters also, for he that hath money shall haue lande and 
 24 worshippe. My maister is a close wiseman, and lieth Aiiettefor 
 in the Avinde of theim tliat will buye money for lande. 
 He can handle a yong gentlemanne trimly, and ride him a horse maister. 
 with a golden snaffle ; he knoweth vpou whiche side his breade is 
 28 buttered well enough, I warranto you. My maister hath risen ^ so 
 earely this mornyng that he noddeth as he rideth. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Sir, me thinkes I doe well perceiue^ you totter as you ride. 
 32 "What ! are you asleepe ? Do you not heare your mannes prating ? 
 
 1 At this point ed. 1564 begins again. 2 Ed. 15C4, his. 3 yA. 1.o64, in. 
 ^ Ed. 1564, rised. ^ Ed. 1564 omits ' I do well perceiue.' 
 
A DIALOGVE. 113 
 
 He is pleasantely disposed ; he would make nie beleue that you were 
 a greate landed man, and had muchc cattell in store. Why, sir, 
 how doe you that you speake not to me 1 
 
 Gilds. 4 
 
 Wife, wife ! God sende vs good lucke : do you not see yonder 
 cloude in the Weste towardes the north commyng hether ? Feare and dread. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Moste fearfuU ; God sende vs good lucke. Sir, it is a sodaine 8 
 chaunge ; I will hide my face, it feareth me so muche. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 I am fourtie yeres olde, but I did neuer se the like hut once, and 
 that was betwene Godmichester and Gogmanshille, a little from Cam- 12 
 bridge, as I traueiled to Wolpit faire to buye Coltes. And ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 
 there appeared a straunge forme, as me thought, a greate ^'^^°"^* 
 nomber of steples were broken, and manie naked Friers, Bishops, and 
 the Pope hymself, did wryng their handes in ragged clothes; thei 16 
 looked all very leane : and then it thondered and lightened, a Pittifuii case. 
 in whiche storme many Gese were killed, and also shape and lambes. 
 The yere after was the tumblyng doune of Abbaies, and the reforma- 
 tion of 1 the Churche matters ; but this passeth.^ For the precious 20 
 passion of Christ let us run awaie with speede. I doe see a fearfull 
 thyng in the cloudes appering, a blacke leane naked bodie, very long, 
 ridyng vpon a pale, miserable foule iade ; he hath also Deatii ap- 
 three dartes in his left liande; the one is cole blacke, iy dartes. 24 
 
 the other bloud redde, and the third is a darcke pale ; he hath no 
 fleshe vppon hym, me thinketh that I doe see a greate fire, and 
 many fearfull monsters in the same followe hym, with a fearfull 
 voice, sayng, All the wicked shall come to vs. Wee are swallowed 28 
 vp^ in the seconde death. 
 
 Gilds. 
 
 Lette vs take this house : ride apace ! the storme doeth begin 
 moste fearfull. God help vs ! what shall we doe, or a greate thunder. 32 
 whether shall wee flie 1 Jesus, Jesus ! what a thoiider is this ! 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, for. 2 go ed. 156t ; eds. 1573, 1578, but let thi.s' passe, 
 
 3 Omitted in ed. 1561. 
 
 DIALOGUE. I 
 
114 A DIALOG VJi;. 
 
 As heaiieu and yearth slioiild goe togetlier. Lortlo, hoAv tlie liglit- 
 iiyng falletli from heaucn ! All this region is vpon a flamyng lire ; the 
 LirJcs fall from the trees : loke how the cattell tremble, and trees are 
 4 pulled vp by the rootes, and the houses are bunite with celestill fire ! 
 
 Vxor. 
 Lette Ts departe from these trees, for I haue heard saie to sit 
 under a white thorne is most safe and surest in a tempest, witche crafie. 
 8 I haue here many goodly ieuelss against lightning, as the Car- 
 buncle, Hemoralde, Hiasinthus, with Amber and Gold. God and 
 S. Barbara defende vs. I haue a S. Ions Gospell about my necke, 
 and a paire of braslettes of Corall about myne amies. Oh God, 
 1 2 defend us ! I am sory that we came forthe. 
 
 liofjer. 
 
 Maister and Maistres, come into this valley, and let vs sitte in 
 
 that same deepe close pitte vnder the hille side untill the soiiain fear. 
 
 IG storme be past, Sainte George to borrowe. Mercifull God, who did 
 
 euer see the like ! 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 I thinke it be the dale of iudgement ; the yearth docth quake, 
 20 the heauen doeth bume, and me thinke I doe see the fearfull horse- 
 man lighted in the valley with a mainelous fearfull sayng, En adsxbm 
 vobis mors vUima llnia rerum, (Jr. Oh, where shall we hide vs 
 from him? He casteth forthe his .iij. dartes, and taketh them vp 
 24 again. He is in a greate rage ; beholde how he destroieth Dj,,,t,i desu-oi- 
 man and beast in this valley! This is come in a mo- ture"" noile c«n 
 mente ; Avho Avould haue thought it in the mornyng 'i ''®*"*'® ''y™- 
 none of us, he draweth nere ; I knowe hym Avell, it is mercileesse 
 28 Death most fearfull. I am afraied of his presence ; he bendoth his 
 blacke darte against me; I haue no Target to beare it of, Alas,' 
 
 alas ! wife, wife ! 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 32 Good housband, remember that I am yonge, and with childe ; 
 also you are well stricken in yeres. Therefore plaie the ^he conauion 
 man, and take Roger with you, and intreate him; giue^ of ti'^ ^voman. 
 
 1 'Alas . . . wife' omitted in ed. 15()4. 
 2 ' giuo . . . imiindes' omitted in cd. 15C4. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 115 
 
 hyra an hundretli poundes, and if hee will needes haue you, yet for 
 
 Goddes sake be not acknowen tliat I am here, for fearc that he kill 
 
 me and your child e also, 
 
 Ciuls. 4 
 
 Kepe you close under that cloke, and stir not. I praie you be^ 
 
 not afraied. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 I can not abide hym, I will run awaie, for pouertie Gentle Roger.s 8 
 
 and death will part good fellowship. Sir, shift for your self, and 
 
 drawe your sworde against hym. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Alas, my wife in my trouble is to fainte harted, and will not keepe 12 
 me companie; my Seruaunte is ru.nne awaie from me: Afriendeat 
 whether male I flie from death ? If I doe runne, he is to ^^'^^^' 
 swifte for me ; if I tourne my backe, he will cowardlie kille me ; if I 
 dooe submitte my self to hym, he is mercilesse. I perhaps shall per- 16 
 swade hym with my golde : I haue an hundreth poundes in Angels, 
 I will giue it hym to saue my life. Oh, he is heere. peathwiUnot 
 Sir, moste humbly here vpon my knees, I desu'e your ^^ entreated, 
 lordship to pardon me, and suffer me to line still in this worlde, 20 
 and here I offer vnto you this purse of golde ; I shal alwaie doe you 
 seruice, and loue you with all my harte, and be at your lordshipes 
 commaundement, and to my power seke to please you as my good 
 lorde and maister, 24 
 
 Mors. 
 
 You are well ouertaken, I am glad that wee are mette together ; 
 I haue seen you since you were borne ; I haue threatened you in all 
 your sicknesse, but you did neuer see me nor remembred Death commetu 28 
 
 ,.,. .,, not before bis 
 
 me before this daie ; neither had I power to haue taken time. 
 
 you with me vntill nowe. For I haue Commission to strike you 
 
 with this blacke dart, called the pestilence ; my maister Pestilence. 
 
 hath so commaunded me ; and as for gold I take no thought for it ; 132 
 
 loue it not. JN'o treasure can keepe me back the twinckelyng of an 
 
 ^ 'be not afraid' omitted in ed. 156-lr. 
 ^ In eds. 1573, 1578, this side-note is placed opposite the preceding speech. 
 
 I 2 
 
116 A DIALOaVE. 
 
 eye from you ; you are my subiect, and I am your lordo, oiirdaiea are 
 I will cut of your iourney, and separate your mariage, **""■ 
 but not cut of your yeeres ; for thei are determined when I should 
 4 come : this is your appoincted tyme. And when the tyme shal be 
 appoincted me, I will smite your wife, children, and seruauntes ; thei 
 shall not bee hidden from me. I will finde them forthe, be thei 
 hidden neuer so secret, or flic neuer so swift or faiTC of; for I am 
 8 so swif te that in a moment of an eye I can compasse the whole worlde, 
 and am of so wonderful a nature, that I can bee in sondrie j^laces at 
 once, and in sondrie shapes. In flames of fire I often tymes doe con- 
 sume raankinde ; in the water I doe kill them ; I am wii-t death is. 
 12 marueilous in woorke, I spare nothing that hath life, but I bring 
 all to an ende, & to mine own nature, which is death. 
 
 Clids. 
 Sir, I moste humbly desire you too suffer nie too retourne home 
 16 againe into the citie, and set my goodes in order to the vse of my 
 wdfe and children, to paie my dcbtes, and tlien godlie to departe this 
 worlde, I desire no more, good maister death.^ 
 
 Mors. 
 20 I muste dispatche, and strike you with this blackc Darte ; I haue 
 muche businessc to doe with the other twoo Dartes. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Oh fearefull death, what is these twoo other Dartes in thyne 
 
 24 hande 1 
 
 Mors. 
 
 I will smite thee with this Pestilence darte, as I haue doen to 
 
 many kingdomes, cities, and people, bothe manne and benste, yong 
 
 28 and olde ; with this pale darte I will dcstroie infinite Honger. 
 nombers, with honger thei shall perishe for lacke of foode, in destruc- 
 tion of come, cattell, wine, oile, fruicte, herbe, grasse, foule, and fislie. 
 I will make theim eate their own fleshe, and make their Gicate 
 
 32 owne children to be sodden and rested for theim. With ^'e"s««»"<^«- 
 this thirde darte I will in bnttailc slaie in nomber more then the starres 
 
 1 'good niaister death' omitted in ed. 15G4. 
 
A DIALOGVli;. 117 
 
 of heauen, and batlic my self iu bloud ; I spare not one, neither 
 Prince nor Peasannte, against whom I doe cast this darte. I haue ■ 
 no respecte of any persone ; be thei neuer so noble, richc, strong, wise, 
 learned, or counnyng in Physicke, thei shall neuer preuaile againste 4 
 me, but I will ouercome theim ; I come into the kynges chamber at 
 the time appoincted, in force of Physicke, and cast my darte, that 
 none shall see, but feele. I often came into the comptyng house, 
 and sodainly killeth the money tellers 3 ^ I ouerthrowe the Daunser, 8 
 and stoppe the breathe of the synger, and trippe the runner in his 
 race ; I breake wedloeke,^ and make many widdowes ; I dooe sitte in 
 iudgment with the iudge, and vndo the life of the The greatest 
 prisoner, and at length kille the iudge also hymself • I °^*"' 12 
 
 doe sonion the greate Bishops, and cutte theim through the^ rochettes ; 
 I vtterlie blemishe the beautie of all Courtiers, and end the miseries 
 of the poore. I will neuer leaue till all fleshe shall bee vtterly 
 destroied ; I am the greatest crosse and scourge of God. 16 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 What is the cause, fearfull death, that thou dooest scourge the 
 
 face of the yearth with thy dartes, and who hath sente thee for that 
 
 purpose 1 -'^ 
 
 Mors. 
 
 j^either is the saiyng of the Philosophers or Poetes true, Avhiche 
 
 compt that I come by chaunce to mortall thinges, or Note tins. 
 
 inquiring the cause of the matter, or Deprhiatione in materia, or of 24: 
 
 generation and coruption ; and some other do affirme that I do come 
 
 through the concorse of the starres, infecting the aire and poisonyng 
 
 liuing thinges ; and therefore the Heathen in fearfull Tragidies and 
 
 Stories hath* admonished the vaine worlde to repente by settyng 28 
 
 forthe of mee Death. Some of them daiely had the dedde heddes of 
 
 their parentes broughte to their Tables, to mortifie their vanities 
 
 withall. And all these menne whom I haue slaine w^ere Heathen 
 
 menne. But I am the messenger of God, his scourge and crosse to all 32 
 
 fleshe, good and badde, and am the ende of life, whiche doe separate^ 
 
 the bodie from the soule. I am no feigned thyng by the wise 
 
 1 Ed. loGi. teller. 2 Ed. 1564, wedlockes. 3 Ed. 1564, their. 
 * Ed. 1564, liaue. ° Ed. 1573, separte. 
 
118 A DIALOGVE, 
 
 braines of the Philosophers ; but onelie through the disobedience of 
 yo\ir lirste Parentes, Adam and Eua, througli whose fault all fleshe is 
 corupted^ and subiecte to niee Death; for through synne came Death. 
 4 Truel}', my niaisters anger was so greate in youre Parentes, that he 
 suflfered me to plague "with my hande the beste in his Churche, as 
 Abell, Esaie, Hier[ejniie,2 Zacharie, John Baptiste, and Jesus Christe, 
 his onely Sonne, whiche suffered me; and seyng that my maister 
 8 hath commaunded me not to spare his onely childe, Avith his 
 Apostles and holy Martyres, Dooest thou thinke that I should beare 
 with thee, or suffer any in this wicked worlde? He sent me to 
 Sodome with liis Angels, to burne them, to droune bloudie Pharao, and 
 
 12 to slea the kinges of the Heathen; Also I was at their Death is 
 endes. Although al fleshe doeth abhorre me, yet Judas ''<'"■'*''«• 
 and all desperate men did call vpon me. Thus do I ende bothe 
 good and badde ; but precious in the sight of the lorde is the death 
 
 16 of his sainctes, and many be the scourges of wicked men. I am in 
 Gods handes as the sworde is in the man of warres ; as it is written : 
 The Lorde doeth kill, and quicken againe, and it is he that did 
 create euill, that is pain or death, light and darckness ; And whereas 
 
 20 he hath not sette his strong Angel to bridle me, I am Ezech. ix. 
 mercilesse, and will kille all whereas the token is not set vp, or 
 his marke vpon theim whom he dooeth forbid me to touche ; And 
 that is not vpon thee nor vpon many thousandes that lieue moste 
 
 24 wretchedlie. Thy duies is but a span long; thou art like Jobxim. 
 a flower in the field ; thy dales are passed like a shadowe ; Thou 
 haste run thy race, and thy dales are consumed like smoke, and 
 thou shalt scant Hue to drawe thy breath. I must destroye this, 
 
 28 thy ycarthly mansion, I am so commaunded : haue, here is thy 
 rewarde, suffer it paciently. I muste goe presently to visite a 
 greate nomber sodainly, that dooe not remember mee ; I will cutte 
 them doune with my sithe like Grasse, and kill theim with my 
 
 32 three fearfull dartes. The paines of helle doe follow me Heiicomeih 
 to swallowe vp al fleshe that doth not repent them of "f*-''' ''eatii. 
 their wickednesse. 
 
 1 In ed. 1564 is the side-note (omitted in later eds.) 'Adam caused death.' 
 - Ed. 15G4, leremie. 
 
A DIALOGVR. 119 
 
 Ciuis. 
 Oh, wretclicd man that I am ; whether shal I fly for succor. 
 IS^ow my body is past cure, no Phisicke can preuaile; Psaimeiss. 
 the sorowes of death doeth compasse me round about ; the policie of 4 
 the worldj with feare badde me flie, and vse Gods NopoHcie 
 meanes, as Lot did when Sodome was a fire. But now ^'s^!'''**' tieath. 
 doe I see who so escapeth honger and the sworde, shal be ouertaken 
 with the pestilence ; I am at the pittes brinke ; nowe begin I to 8 
 waxe weake in bodie ; I am verie drie, my paine doeth increase, he 
 is gone that did strike me, but I doe fele his wounde that he 
 gane me. Alas ! woe is my vile stinckyng carcas, and filthie fleshe, 
 conceiued and borne in sinne, depriued of original iustice, compared 12 
 to a beaste in Adam, fallen as a rotten aple from a liuyng tree. 
 What liaue I gotten, my lord God, by my fall? nothing Remember this, 
 els but onely darkenesse, care, miserie, affliction, sick- g'^°'i •■«'«^«''- 
 nesse, paine, anguishe ;^ and nowe in myne harte, death moste 16 
 painfull it self now, for all my pompe, healthe, wealthe, riches, and 
 vaine pleasures of this worlde. This my bodie, whiche I haue 
 bothe costlie clothed, well fedde, and garuished with all delightes, 
 for whose sake I haue been coueteous, and sinned against Jesus 20 
 Christ, to maintaine the same bodie. From henceforthe, jia„ moste viie 
 therefore, now shall I be tourned into a stinking carrion ^'''I'lo"- 
 for wormes delite, duste, claie, rotten, moste vile, forsaken of all 
 men, poore without substaunce, naked without clothyng, Sowne in 24 
 dishonour, forgotten of my posteritie, not knowen from icor. xv. 
 hencefoortbe, vanishe like a shadowe, wither like a leafe, and fade as 
 a Flower. Oh! vncertaine life, but moste assured death, Fie on 
 this filthie shadowe of this worlde, and flatteryng of the same, with all 28 
 the instrumentes of the fleshe. Oh Lorde ! although I ^ Psaimsiand 
 bee iu this extreame trouble, yet haxie mercie vpon me, ac- ^^'^' 
 cordyng to thy great mercie and louyng kindnesse ; For I dooe make 
 my praier in the time of trouble, trusting that thou wilt heare me. 32 
 
 Roger. 
 Maistres, the fear full thyng that talked with my maister is gone. 
 Let vs goe heare what newes with hym, 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, agues. 2 go ed. 1564. Eds. 1573, 1578, it. 
 
120 
 
 A DIALOGVB. 
 
 VXOJ'. 
 
 I am glad it is paste; thankes be to God. I will goe -with 
 speeds to see my liusbande, for he hath been in greate daunger. 
 
 4 Roger. 
 
 Sir, I am glad that he is gone ; the deuill go with hym. Hath 
 he taken all your gokle 1 
 
 Ciuis. 
 8 No ; I haue my gokle in store, for in the world I found it, and 
 in the world I must Icaue it ; it is but vaine, and cannot ^y^ g(j„ ^^^.-^^ 
 helpe in the tyme of this my trouble. God hath pre- """^^''^ """'"• 
 uented me, and somoned me to appeare before his seate. This 
 1 2 Death hath smitten me : I must dye. 
 
 Vxor. 
 Alas ! my good sweete housbande, what aileth you. Or what 
 would you haue me do for you to helpe you in this case 1 
 
 16 " Ciuis. 
 
 Helpe me into some house, whereas I might sende for some 
 manne of God to bee my heauenly Phisicion, teachyng The beste waic. 
 me the waie to the kyngdome of Christe. 
 
 20 Roger. 
 
 Here is a house at hand, and here is your horse also ; we will 
 helpe you vp, and carrie you to tliis place. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 24 Nowe, sir, you bee come here into this place, for Gods sake 
 discomforts not youreself, I truste you shall dooe well ; you shall 
 want nothing that maie be had for money, gold and Past remede. 
 siluer. I will sende for your owne brethren and sisters. You shall 
 
 28 haue with all speede the best learned Phisicions in this realme ; 
 I^ will sende for maister doctor Tocrub ; in the meane tyme drinke 
 Dragon water and Mithridatum mingled together, to putte this 
 passion from your liarte. Eide, Eoger ! and seeke a Phisition with 
 
 32 all speede : spare not the horse ! 
 
 ^ 'I . . . Tocrub' omitted in cd. 15C4. 
 
A DIALOGVK. 121 
 
 Cutis. 
 Softe, sirrah, and speake with me, and doe what that I dooe 
 commaunde you, in the name of lesus Christ. 
 
 Roger. 4 
 
 Sir, looke what your maistership shall commaunde me to doe, 
 that wil I doe with all speede, and tary not. 
 
 Gilds. 
 
 Goe thy waies, and praie maister Theologus to come to me, that I 8 
 
 male haue his counsaile ; praie hym to come with speede : deliuer 
 
 him this ryng.^ 
 
 Roger. 
 
 I shall ; in the meane tyme, good maister, bee of good cheare, for 1 2 
 
 Gods sake. 
 
 Vxor. 
 
 Alas ! what shall I dooe, and my poore children ? 
 
 Ciuis. 1 G 
 
 I haue sette my wordlie thynges in order, for so hath Gods's 
 woorde taught me to doe, I thanke God, and my debtes a wiseman. 
 shall be truly paied, and whatsouer any poore man doeth owe me I 
 doe forgiue theim, and restitution shall I make with all speede to as 20 
 many as I haue wronged. And I shall leaue plentie to you and my 
 children, requiryng you to liue accordyng to God's com- Tobyxij. 
 maundement, obeiyng hym all the dales of your life ; ^ and remember 
 Death, and to doe to all menne as you would bee dooen Admonition to 24 
 
 liis wife and 
 
 vnto. To liue chaste, either in mariage or a life sole ; children. 
 Yse praier, and chaste your bodies with abstinence. Bee pitifully 
 mynded and hate vice, beware of wicked companie, loue well the 
 Temple of God, visite the prisoners and helplesse ; this is good 28 
 Eeligion in the eyes of God. As nere as you can, keej)e the com- 
 maundementes of almyhtie God, and beware of idlnesse and pride of 
 harte. Lament no more, good wife, For who can kepe that must 
 needes awaie.^ 32 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, token. 2 -^^^ 15(54^ ijiies. 
 
 ^ Ed. loGJ: proceeds 'me thinke I heave Tlieologus come,' and then as on 
 p. 123, 'Sir, God the heauenlie Pliisick)u,' &c. 
 
122 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Roger to Injmself. 
 
 Iliaue spoil a fairc threde. I liaue serucd a good maister with a 
 
 luischeef ; he hath giueii me nothyiig in his will; ho is so spiritually 
 
 4 iiiynded that lie forgcttcth poore lioger, that hath taken paines for 
 
 liyni thcs ten yeres. Well, I haue had but small gaines in seruyng 
 
 hym, beyng an honest, faithf ull man. AVhat shall I doe 1 I will 
 
 now see if I can get entertainment to Hue emong knaues. I knowo 
 
 8 where a promoter dwellcth which hath muche annoyed the common 
 
 Avealthe. He hath gained muche, he is busie, braggyng, and shame- 
 
 lesse, he will despence with euery offence for money. If I misse of 
 
 hym then I will go to some impudent pettie Fogger, a periured iacke 
 
 12 sauce, which can make shifte for money to the hindorraunce of many : 
 if the worste faile [falle X\, I will be a Tapster, for of all Potage I loue 
 good Ale. I can also speake Pedlers French wel ; that I can doe well 
 with a foote packe. But now to the ende of my iourney; I will not 
 
 IG returne to my master againe^ he M'ill dye on this Plague. My Damo 
 
 w'ill haue newe "\Yedlocke within this sixe weekcs, and as the Avorlde 
 
 goeth noAV adaies, she will think it long ; out of sight out of myndc. 
 
 Yet, alas, wiiat shall I doe, poore knaue % I could goe to London, 
 
 20 and lurke in some baudie Lane. And in the nightc, when the 
 watche is either a sleepe or gone awaie (For when the moste neede is 
 then are the watch sonest gone), I could then, with my companions, 
 Avitli hookes, pick lockes, or ladders, or Gunpowder to open lockes, or 
 
 24 a Crowe of Yron make shifte for a bootie of plate, clothes, &c. But 
 I doe fear the Gallons. I knowe an olde stale hore of myne in 
 London; she is married to, au^ hoddie pecke, John a Noddcs. He 
 liueth by stealyng of Horse tailes and Calfes tailes, and dooeth 
 
 28 seethe them, and sell them to the Hosiers to stop hose (because men 
 noAV ailaies hath snial buttockes ; would God, theiefore, that their 
 hose wer greater, thei are to small). This queue Avill picke his purse 
 for my sake. She can make false Dice ; Hir firste housebande Avas 
 
 32 prentise Avith James EUes, and of hym learned to plaie at the sliorte 
 
 knife and the home Thimble. But these Dogge trickes Avill bryng 
 
 one to the Poxe, the Gallous, or to the Dcuill. Oh, tliat I liad as 
 
 muche money as my Maister, and Avere a free man in London, then 
 
 1 Ed. 1578, and. 
 
A DIALOGVE, 133 
 
 would I lende my money to Vsurie, and vse false wcightcs and 
 measures ; and tlien would I plaie the Brewer, and goe into tlic 
 countrie, and buie up malt as cheape as I could, and make Beere as 
 vnprofitable to the Common wealthe for myne owne gaine ; euen so 4 
 would I dooe in buiyng of Woode in the countrie, and causyng sliort 
 Billettes to bee made, and false niarke my woode when I doe sell it 
 in London or els where. So could I make a trim hotche potche in 
 bruyng of wine and all other wares ; mingle the good with the bad, 8 
 as men sale, Lette the quicke Horse drawe the deade Horse out of 
 the myre. A Dogge hath but a daie. Let the deuill paie the malt 
 manne. 'Now I am nere Maister Doctour Theologus place, that 
 diuine holie gentleman, he walketh in the spirite ; God blesse hym. 12 
 I thinke as holie as he is he care not if he had twentie Benefices, 
 thei would neuer trouble his holie conscience. Would God that I 
 could read English trimly, I would make f reendes to bee a Minister ; 
 I would learne to handle the matter well for my purpose. Well, 116 
 will be sober. Howe, howe ? where are you, Maister Theologus ? 
 
 Theologus. 
 In the name of God, who calleth me % I am here. 
 
 Roger. 20 
 
 By your leaue, sir. 
 
 Theologus. 
 Welcoine, good brother ; Avhat is your pleasure 1 
 
 Roger. 24 
 
 Sir, my Maister and Maistresse commendeth them to your 
 maistership. Hee is sicke ; he praies you to come : here is a token. 
 
 Theologus. 
 God's will bee doen ; I will goe with all speede. Depart Avith 28 
 speede, I will folowe. 
 
 Roger. 
 Fare ye well ; I praie you tary not. 
 
 Theologus. 32 
 
 With all speede, g^ood freende. GooJ tiaynges.i 
 
 Sir,2 God, the heauenlie Phisition, blesse you, and giue you the 
 1 Ed. 1564, thiugti. ^ jj^re ed. 156i begiurf agaiu. 
 
124 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 • perfect consolation of conscience in Cliriste his Sonne, and glue you 
 gracG mekely to bcarc this his Crosse. 
 
 Cluis. 
 4 You are hartely welcome, deare Tlieolurjus ; I have thought it 
 longe since I did seude for you. 
 
 Theologns. 
 Your man declared to me by the waie a pitifull storie which 
 8 happened to you this daie. Further, I had soner been with you, but 
 one Maister Antoitlus sent for me ; but or I came he Avas Toiate. 
 dedde 3 and Auarus and Amhodexter is in his house preparyng a 
 solempne Fuuerall for hym. 
 1 2 Ciuis. 
 
 Oh, sir, then I haue no cause to rehearse the matter newe again, 
 but seyng my flesho is nere the pitte, and in a manner my breath 
 faileth me, beyng wounded with death ; and that I am of twoo 
 IG partes, bodie and soule; the one past all cure, the other in hope of 
 saluation ; I desire, if it please God, that I may Hue to the cnde of 
 your Orations. Declare vnto me what is the cause of synne. 
 
 Theologus. 
 
 20 The deuill Avas the first cause of sjame, as it is written in 
 Genesis, how with a lye he deceiued the woman ; and sathans worke. 
 thei that commit synne are of the Deuill, for he lialh synned from 
 the beginnyng of the worlde, and is the first aucthour of nf^nngg 
 
 2-i synne. The seconde cause was man declinyng from God, "'''etd'ednes. 
 credityng the Deuill, by whiche man synne entered into the Avorld ; 
 and all the calamities and crosses therein, as sorowe, dread c, fearc, 
 pouertie, sickncssc, and Death it self, all to punishe Synne. 
 
 28 Cluu. 
 
 Oh, Lorde, how haue I^ erred; I had thought God had been the 
 cause, as when I reade these woordes, Tnduraho cor Pharonis, I will 
 indurate the harte of Pharao with such like places ; and his indura- 
 
 32 tion Avas the cause of his synne, and Avho did indurate hym but God ? 
 And Avhen it is saied, Ne nos inducas in tentatlone^n, K^either leado 
 
 ' Eds. loG-i, 1573, I litvuc. 
 
A DIALOQVE. 125 
 
 110 into temptation, &c. Here I gathered it was God iliat led vs 
 
 into tenijitation, for wliich cause we desire hym not to ledc vs into 
 
 temptation, &c. 
 
 Tlieologus. 4 
 
 You haue mistaken those places, for God is not the auctliour or 
 cause of synne, for he did so muche abhorre the same, that nothing 
 could pacifie his wraths under Heauen, no merits or woorke, but 
 onelie the bloudds of Jesus Ohriste his Soonns ; for this christes death 8 
 woords I will indurats ths verie woorde in Hebrue is, I wil suffer 
 Pharoes harte to bee hardeined. And so it was in the Lordes 
 praier, Ne sinas nos induci, neither suffer vs to be ledde or fall into 
 temptation, &c. Therefore, my brother, it was the will of Sathan 12 
 and man that caused synne. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Why, hath not manne will to doos good againe if he Manns wui. 
 
 luste? 16 
 
 Theologus. 
 
 1^0, if he had ths election to will as first he had, he would doe 
 the like, therefore it is in a sure hande, euen in Goddes, and not in 
 ours ; as when men doe speake the truths, it is not of Miuii. x. 20 
 
 their owne wil or power, but the heauenly spirits in theim. And 
 by Alinightie God are all the steppes of menne directed ; though 
 man fall into sondrie temptationes he shall not be casts of, for 
 ths Lords putteth vnder his hand, whichs is a grsate Psaimxc.i 24 
 comfort to vs in trouble when wee are vnderneath the crosse. 
 Without hym wee can doos nothyng that is good. K"o Jiion xi. 
 man can taks any good thyng vpon hym except it be giuen to hym 
 from heauen ; and no manne, deare brother, can come to ths Soonns 28 
 of God vnlesse the Father hath drawen,^ and not his will, whiche 
 is moste wicked from his youth vpward, as appeareth in our vile 
 nature, thought, Avoorde, and deeds ; And who sosuer Roma viii. 
 hath not the spirite of Christs is not of Christe, but thoss Avhiche 32 
 ars ledde of the Spirite of God are the Soonnes of God ; and this 
 commeth not by mannes will and power. For the worldlie mynded 
 
 1 So ed. 1564.— Ed. 157.3, xxx. (cut in ed. 1578). 
 ^ Ed. 15G4, drawen him. 
 
126 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 iDaniic docth net vndcrstandc or percciuo tliynges^ that are of 
 God's Spirite, without wiclie it^ can not bee saued, bee he neuer so 
 learned and can dispute of the Soule, nialcyng distinc- ■wiiattue 
 4 tious of knowledge and iudgcmente, callyng it the mynde ^°"'® '^' 
 or intellection, or reason, or desire, ■whiche is the will vnder whom 
 the affection is gouerned, whose spryng is the harte. All these make 
 not to the heauenlie purjiose, but rather standing vpon suche trifles 
 8 doeth hinder the waie to saluation in Christ, and robbe hym of his 
 Passion when wee doe attribute freedome or freewill to come of our 
 selues, but that we are in God's handes as his instru- of freewill, 
 nientes through hym to woorke suche thynges as beste maye please 
 
 1 2 hym ; and he withdrawe his holy handes, wee can doe no good, 
 therefore submit your self to Christ and his will, for our willes are 
 malignante and dampnable in his^ eyes. Forsake your jiraue will, and 
 submit'* your self to Jesus Christe, sayng, now before [y]our death, 
 
 IG Our Father whiche art in heauen, hallowed bee thy Piaier. 
 
 name ; thy kyngdome come, Thy will be doen in yearth as it is in 
 heauen, &c. And thus I doe conclude of freewill in vs, and faith- 
 fully to^ looke for the rewarde, not of woorkes but of mercie onely ; 
 
 20 ouely purchased by the Sacrifice of Christe; thankyng Mercie and 
 hym that he hath made you mercifull to your brethren ^^'oo'''^^^- 
 in this world, whiche was the fruites of Faith, by which faith in his 
 bloude wee are saued, and shall receiue our almose or rewarde, and 
 
 24 not our duetie ; for we are vnprofitable when wee haue doen our 
 
 beste. 
 
 Ciiiis. 
 
 "What reward is that, I praie you % Or what promises are granted 
 
 28 by Christe 1 
 
 Tlieolofjus. 
 
 The reward is the remission of synnes and life euerlastyng, 
 graunted by the father for Jesus Christes sake, freely, Rewarde in 
 32 without our workes, for there is none other Saluation c''»st^ Jesus, 
 vnder heauen given vnto menne but onely Christe ; in hym wee dooe 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, those thynges that. ^ ej. 1564, he. 3 Eds. 1573, 1578, our. 
 
 * Ed. 1564, humbly submit. ^ Ed. 1573 omits 'to.' 
 
 « So ed. 1578.— Eds. 1564, 1573, Jesus Christ. 
 
A DIALOGVE, 
 
 127 
 
 merite, as when we are merciful we haue a promise of iliis present 
 life and the life to come. And in this worklc also an hundreth folde, 
 and in tlie worldo to come euerlastyng life. And Avho Muttii. x. 
 that giueth one of these little ones a Cuppe of Water for my names 4 
 sake, shall not lose his rewarde. And he commaunded to giuc, 
 promisyng it shall be giueu to them againe. And further he saieth, 
 Breake the Lreade to the poore and it shall bee to thee like a 
 gardein. He saieth not, let thyne Exeeutoiirs or Assignes giue the 8 
 poore when thou art ded, but thou must doe it thy self in this 
 worlde, ISToav, while it is Light; for the night ^ is at Lukexv. 
 hande, I meane death, when thou canst not woorke. Eemember 
 Dines loste the tyme, and could not call it backe againe, whiche 12 
 wa^eth in helle, hath no reward, for he trusted not God, nor 
 rewarded any man. Further, reconcile thy self to thy brother, for els 
 thou canst not please God, though thou^ wroughtest all good workes, 
 and gaue thy bodie to be burned; for Charitie is so icorxm. 16 
 precious in Gods eyen, that who so wante it cannot reigne with 
 Christ ; Therefore, forgiue from thy hart and thou shalte be forgiuen. 
 Make not thy will vpon goodes gotten by Ysurie, nor by any thing 
 falsely^ in bargainyng thou hast taken from thy brother, Psaimexiiii. 20 
 for then thou shalt not dwell in gods tabernacle, neither shall thy 
 children prosper upon the yearth, but God will hate theim to the 
 thirde and fowerth generation, for thy synne. Examine Psaime iUi 
 well thy conscience. Death hath wounded thee, whiche is common 24 
 to all fleshe : in thus doyng thou shalt passe from Death to euer- 
 lastyng life by Christ, And neuer taste vpon the seconde death emong 
 the impious or caste awaies. Confesse thy synnes from thy harte ; 
 aske mercie, bee thei neuer so red and many in number; Psaimeij. 28 
 Jesus hath washed them in his bloud, and sprinckled them with 
 Hysope, and made theim as white as Snowe. 'Now plaie the manne 
 in Christe ; feare not to departe this worlde ; Christe is gone before 
 with his holie Prophetes,^ Apostles, Martyres, Confessours, and Virgins, 32 
 penitent theeues, and harlottes, also there is the Armie of Angelles 
 before his Throne, with ioye incessantly honouryng hym. Hell 
 
 1 Eds. 1573, 1578, light. 2 gd. 1578, ye. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, thing that falsly. * Ed. 15G4, Apostles, Prophetes. 
 
128 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 gates are sparred, Satlian beaten dounc, thy synnes rased, Apoc. viiimo. 
 the good Angell at hande to conducte thee to that blessed lande 
 of rest ; here is nothyng but labour, dales of care, synne, wretched- 
 4 nesse, a thousande crosses, the snares of the deuil, and many vanities, 
 the fleshe moste inconstaunte, the worlde a place of miserie and 
 synne : bidde it farewell, takyng thy leaue with the badge ci.ristian mans 
 of a Christian manne of Cliriste crucified; remember '^'"''''®' 
 8 that promise made in thy Baptisme. Arme thy self with the breast 
 plate of faithe, continiie to the ende. And thou shalt receiue a 
 crowne of life ; thy crosse taken awaie, cast thy whole 2 Cor. xv. 
 care vppon Christe, and he shall Jeliuer thee at hande, and giue 
 1 2 thee the holy Eesurrection of bodie and soule to dwell in one for 
 
 euer with hym. 
 
 Cmis. 
 
 Oh, what comforte in conscience I haue receiued. First, I 
 
 16 render thankes to God the Father, the Soonne, and the comfortein 
 Holie Ghostc. Secondlie, blessed bee the hower of <;o"^cie'«:<'- 
 yonre commyng liether in this time^ of my trouble with this holie 
 consolation in Christe, in whom I dooe beleue, renounsyng the 
 
 20 worlde, the fleshe, and the deuill ; beleuyng all the Articles of my 
 Christian faithe, acknowledgyng the blessed Sacramentes Sacramentcs. 
 to bee the instrumentes to euerlastyng life. And saluation in Christ, 
 by the whiche God doeth woorke in his Churche to the worldes ende, 
 
 24 to them that shall bee saued ; one Trinitie, and three distincte 
 persones, coequall in vnitie, in one essence and beyng is Tiie hoUe 
 my God : the Father created me, the Sonne redemcd me, "'""''•'• 
 and the Holie Ghost sanctified me and inspired me, whereby I 
 
 28 knowe that I am his elected ; and one vndefilcd mother, the churche, 
 hath thus taught me in that blessed booke of Patriarkes,- Prophetes, 
 Martyres, and Jesus Avith his Apostles, which is Goddes Avoorke. 
 Now, ]\Iaister Theologus, my tyme is at hande ; I praie you sale 
 
 32 some thyng of the Eesurrection, and then let vs praie in the name 
 of God together, that it maie please hym to forgiue me ThehoUe 
 my synnes, whiche I have committed against heauen ''^"'■<^''®- 
 and yearth, and to receiue my Soule into his blessed handes. 
 
 1 Eds. 1.373, 1578, into tlie time. 
 
A DIALOaVE. 129 
 
 Theolorjus. 
 Good brother, not onely the doctrine of Prophctcs and tlie 
 Euangelisles doe promise the Resurrection to come, of some to 
 saluation, and some to dampnation, but the same Eesur- Mattii. xwii. 4 
 rection is most manifeste. As, for example, Christe hymself and 
 other did rise, and were seen to many in Hierusalem ; and by the 
 space of fourtie daies he taughte the Apostles, and was conuersaunte 
 with theim, and then ascended into glorie, vntil the Matth. xiii. 8 
 tyme appointed to judge the quicke and the dedde, when he shall 
 sende his Angclles to gather all fleshe vnder heauen from the fower 
 Windes, and sitte doune to Judgement, saiyng, Come to me, you 
 blessed of my^ Father, and receiue the kyngdome prepared for you 12 
 from the beginnyng. Further he saith, this is the wiil of my father 
 whiche hath sent me, that all that doe see the Soone, and beleue^ 
 in him, shall haue euerlasting life, and I will raise hym in the last 
 daie. And the holie Apostle Sainct Paule moste heauenly doeth 16 
 preach the resurrection to the Corinthians. The^ dead shall liue, 
 saieth Esai, and thy slaine shall rise againe ; and thei* Esaieiviu. 
 whiche slepe in the duste shall rise ; the yearth shall cast forLhe 
 their dead bodies. I will create bothe Heauen and Yearth newe, 20 
 saieth the Lorde, and putte the old out of my remembraunce. 
 Many, saith Daniel, that lye a slepe in the dust shalbe Daniel xii. 
 wakened againe, some to life euerlastyng, and other to reprobation. 
 God saieth, I will open their tombes, and bryng them Math. xxv. 24 
 forthe. And the holie man Job saieth, I knowe that Job xix. 
 my Eedemer liueth, and that iu the last daie he shall raise me again 
 out of the yearth, and shall be clothed again with my skin, and in 
 my fleshe. I shall se God, whom I shall se with these ^ same eyes, 28 
 and with none other. These are comfortable and most true places 
 of holie Scripture for the resurrection of the dead. You are assured 
 iu conscience of this blessed resurrection and life euerlasting in 
 
 Christ Jesus our Lorde. 32 
 
 Gilds. 
 
 Yea, forsouthe, deare Theologus, but my speache is almoste paste, 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, the. 2 gd. 1564, beleueth. 3 gd. 1564, Thy. 
 
 * Ed. 15G4, those. ^ go ed. 15G4.— Eds. 1573. 1578, the." 
 
 DIALOGUE. K 
 
130 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 ■yet I thank God I know you all, and I beseclie him to hlesso you, 
 and Wlien my Spirite is gone, I praio you burie my bodie witli 
 comelinesse, not witli pompe, and vse it as an instrumente wherein 
 4 the Soule hath dwelled, and whiche the Soule shall possesse again in 
 honour in that blessed Eesurrection. 
 
 T/icoIogus. 
 Lette vs moste humblie, here upon our knees, with our handes 
 8 lifted vp towardes the heauen, desire God the Father, Exiiortation to 
 for Christes sake, to receiue your Soule into his glorious ''^"''''• 
 kyngdonie. 
 
 0, deare citezen, reioyce and be glad that thy labour is almoste 
 
 12 past; rest is at hande ; feare not the Paine of Death, For it is 
 impossible to escape that which can not bee fledde or auoidcd. For 
 it is written, Avho is that man that liueth and shal not see death'? 
 none ; no, not one. Therefore sutler it, my swete harte, paciently ; 
 
 16 and that is an argument of good conscience, and of an heauenly 
 myndc. Youre wife mourneth immoderately. Oh God, ^„ ^gg,^ ^^^,^^^i 
 all fleshe was borne to dye. This happened to our ^^^' 
 parentes, as father, mother, &c., And shall not faile to all that shall 
 
 20 followe vnto the ende of the woorlde, or commyng of Christe. For 
 surely sweete life was neuer without the exception of bitter death ; it 
 is no noueltie ; therefore, when Ave dooe heare tell of the departure 
 of anie of our frendes, let vs not fall into a sodaine passion, as 
 
 24 one Ely the high priest did, whiche hearyng of the death of his chil- 
 dren, felle doune and brake his necke : but rather constantly Avith 
 wise Anaxagoras, which hearyng of the death of his a constant 
 
 wiseni.in in 
 
 beloued sonne, saied to the messenger, this is no newe acWersitie. 
 
 28 tidynges, nor strange to me ; as sone as he Avas borne, I knewe that 
 he should die, for of ]^atures laAve is learned life to be taken and 
 resigned, and no man dye but he AA^hich hath lined. Oh, leaue your 
 lamentyng, good maistres ; why rage ye like one Avhiche haue no 
 
 32 hope? Be absent, or vse moderation; remember holie ofjobes 
 Job, the same daies Avhen the lord permitted Sathan not P'''"^"^^- 
 onely to destroy his seruants and cattell, but also, before age, in the 
 lustie tyme of youth, in the feast daie, at one table, his deare children 
 1 Omitted in eds. Ifi73, 1578. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 131 
 
 of his bodie were all broken in peeces and slaine with the violent fall 
 of the house. What, did he rende his hears or fleshe 1 no, no ; he 
 considered who sent them, and who did take them ; euen the lorde, 
 whom he moste obediently suffered, and reuerently thanked. Further, 4 
 good sister, remember Saincte Hierome takyng God too witnesse 
 of an holie woman whose husbande was dedde, whom a constant 
 
 woman in 
 
 she^ moste tenderly loued, by whom she had but twoo trouble. 
 Sonnes of singular beautie, wantyug no gifte of grace, or of nature, 8 
 whiche bothe died the same dale wherein their father departed. 
 When this Crosse was, saieth S. Hierome, who would not haue 
 thoughte that she woulde haue fallen madde in rendyng her heare, 
 breastes, clothes, and skin, running vp and doune, wailyng and cryng 12 
 with pitiful wryngyng of handes 1 What did she 1 First she weped 
 not one teare, but moste soberly, with a womanly countenance, she 
 humbly kneled upon her knes, holdyng up her handes, rendering 
 thankes, and makyng praiers to Almightie God, sayng. Most humblie 16 
 I thanke thee, good Lorde, for that that it hath pleased thee to take 
 me into thy seruice ; I am sped, Oh Lorde, for thou haste discharged 
 me, &c. Take also for an example the moste worthie Counsaiie: a 
 
 „ . blessed woman, 
 
 Constance^ of that paciente woman, whicne, without 2Macha. vii. 20 
 muche lamentation, did with her own eyen beholde her deare children 
 slaine, their members cutte in peces and boiled in Caldrens. Marke 
 how constauntly of late yeres children did see the fleshe of their 
 fathers, mothers, &c., burne in the fire moste pacientlie sufferyng; 24 
 And, againe, fathers beholdyng their children dooe the like. What, 
 did thei roare like Lyons, &c. 1 IsTo, no ; but reioysed that God had 
 of their bloud and stocke erected a people to reigne with hym in life, 
 whiche witnessed him in death. The examples should Remember our ^8 
 moue all Christiana perfecte, mortification is not muche ^"''®" 
 to lamente for our frendes diyng, but rather by the example of their 
 deathes to remember our ende, and then wee shall not synne. There- 
 fore, better it is to goe to the house of mournyng then to the house of 32 
 banquettyng ; and when it shall please God to call your housebande 
 awaie, and the dales of forgetfulnesse shall approche, as euery thing 
 vnder heauen haue the tynie bothe of mournyng and reioysyng. 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, he. 2 ^d. 1564, constauncie. 
 
 K 2 
 
132 A DIALOG VE. 
 
 "When you doe beholde your self in a glassc, remember Aginsse. 
 your face sliall bee leano and. pale, your nose rotten, your tethe 
 stiiikyng and blacke, your eyen dimme and blinde, your eares deafe, 
 4 and rannyng, your Heeres fallen awaie, your A^aines broken, your 
 tSencwcs relaxed, and wasted, bones corupted, bowels ful of roumes, 
 and all your fleshe consumed. Beholde, beliolde, you damosels of 
 vanities, and lustie youth, the pleasure of this worlde, Apiassefor 
 
 faire gcntle- 
 
 8 how it endeth with stinke, filthe, &c., not reserued after women, 
 death to any good purpose, as timber when it is cutte doune, but 
 because it is so vile and will infecte the ayre, The corps inclosed^ 
 in a pitte, as we daiely see, wliereas it consumeth, as I haue saied. 
 12 Eemember this ; be not proude of noble parentage, of riches, beautie, 
 or cunyng, but rather consider where are the old lustie whcvc are 
 
 the old noble 
 
 Kynges, Queenes, Lordes, Knightes, Ladies? Where are persons? 
 the old courtiers, and valiaunt men of warre 1 Where are the Maiors 
 
 16 of cities, Lawiers, Lishoppes, Phisicions 1 Where are all the pleausante 
 Musicions? Where are become the olde Commons in euery Kyngdome? 
 Where is Ijccome the Popes rotten holinesse, with all the infernall 
 malignaunte Synagoge of Antichriste, &c. ? All are gone and passed 
 
 20 like shadowes, wasted, and come to nothing, as Saincte Augustine 
 aflfirmeth. Oh man, saieth he, goe to the cha[r]nell house Devan.hujui 
 or graues, take vp the bones, marke well if thou canst ti"" greatest of 
 knowc the master from the seruaunt, the faire from the "'«'^'^''^«- 
 
 24 foule, the riche from the poore, the Avise from the foole, &c. Thou 
 canste not dooe it ; it is impossible to knows theim. Well, worlde, 
 well, what dooest thou promise vnto all theim wliiche doe loue thee? 
 perhaps niucbe ricbes or dignite. How noisome to the Tiie imnicn of 
 
 28 soule is riches; the verie minister of, or to, all cuill^ rule ™''^®' 
 
 and mischief, as damnable Vsurie, Adulteiie, Treason, !Mnrther ; it 
 maketh one proude, high minded, and forgetfull of hymself. It 
 deludeth hym with flatterers and curtesies of Ilypocrisie, it is the 
 
 32 mother of vaunglorie, and nourisher of Pride and idle life, and 
 
 lothlie glottonie. It is remembered by our IMaister Jesus Christe, 
 
 Avhiche calleth it thornes, and by his Apostles, whiche nametli it 
 
 the roote of al cuill. It is the maister of some riche men and 
 
 1 Ed. loi'A, is enclosed. ^ ej \",>^, ciuill. 
 
A UIALOGVE. 133 
 
 women, wliiche kcputli it U)u tlifir grcate luirtc. And spcu.ic.v.i 
 
 dui'd'cdyn;; 
 
 the foolislie Prodigall waster, wliiche comnionlie sue- oaiiiniii. 
 cedeth the gatherer, spendetli it sone awaie in wiclcednesse, as it is 
 saied, easie gotten gooddes are sone spente. Therefore, sufficient, or 4 
 a meane, is well to a Christen man for sundrie causes. For thei that 
 wiU be riclie fall into sondrie temptations, cares, broken sleapes. 
 He gapeth and looketh for muche, and spendeth little; Coueteous 
 
 meiiiie slill 
 
 hee can not bee merie for feare of losse. The more he couet. 8 
 
 getteth he is neuer satisfied ; that is a coueteous man, but still 
 desiereth, and neuer pacified, like vnto the drie man in a hotte 
 burning Feuer. Eiches hath poisoned the churche, and transformed 
 the Cleargie, specially in Roame, emong the Popes, and many greate 12 
 men, whose auncestours^ did keepe plentifull houses of the one halfe, 
 whiche nowe is come too passe that nowe a dales in kepyng hospi- 
 talitie, or mynisteryng of charite, but breake vp houses, and hurt 
 nianie poore, euen for the loue of one glotton hymself, which will not 16 
 well spende it, nor for his children, whiche can not well vse riches. 
 For we doe see how God doeth plague the sede of ex- Riches heipe 
 
 not ill tlie day 
 
 torcioners, vile vsurers, &c. What if thei had moun- of vengeance. 
 taines of golde, so increased dolour of mynde, and death stealeth on 20 
 all fleshe like a theefe, and smiteth the money louer, the Vsurer, the 
 Oppressour, the golden watchman, the greate ofiicer, marchaunt, the 
 wise gentleman, that hath purchased so muche. "What is the ende 
 of this geare 1 a dedde carkesse and scant a good windyng shete : out 2-1 
 of the doore he must too graue; he shall farewell Gloria mundi, and 
 welcome silie Wormes. I praie God that this tourneth not to damp- 
 nation. Oh, what is become of riche Segnior Antonius treasures 1^ 
 Capax, Rapax, Tenax, Amtodexter (euill gotten goodes are worse 28 
 spente). Sower sweetenesse and slippyng ise, The golden intangled 
 hooke, and the drinke of Midas hath vtterly destrcied hym, and, or 
 euer he was aware, death hath slaine hym. He loued wiiatpaines 
 
 Til- 11 TTi-- 1 1 ■ f ^ ■ A ™®" ' "'^" suffer 
 
 SO well this worlde, and lite m the same, that if his* to flie death. 32 
 Phisicion might haue saued his life he would haue loste one of his 
 handes, and suffered his fleshe to haue been cut, with some broken 
 
 1 Ed. 156J:, auncitours. ^ Ed. loG-t, treasurers. 
 
 3 Ed. 1564, mail. * Ed. 1578, this. 
 
13Jr A DIALOGVE. 
 
 bones, with the continuance of paine, ache, and griefe, with dreadfull 
 slopes ) and when he did see no rcniedie, the torrour of conscience 
 tormented hym, vexed liym, and ouercame hjMn, made him rage and 
 4 curse the tyme of his birthe ; his life was so horrible in the eyes of 
 God and man ; whose iudgement I doe commende to God, but surely 
 greate plagues doe remaine for the vngodlie. Therefore, let vs bee 
 conuerted, and tourne cleane from our synnes and wickednesse, and 
 8 so there shall no synue dooe vs harme. Lette us faste and praie, 
 hate euill, and cleaue to good, make restitution, forgiue porgiue 
 our enemies, abliorre vice, and be sorie that we can not •='"'""^^' 
 be sorier. Remember our accomptes, and come betimes vnto the 
 
 12 Lorde ; make no tarryng too tourne vnto the Lorde ; put not of from 
 dale to daie. For sodainly shall his Avrathe come, and in socUniic cometh 
 tyme of vengeance shall he destroy vs, and excepte wee ^■'^"S''""'^^' 
 doe all repent we shall perishe, saieth Christ. Let vs repent, there- 
 
 16 fore, and tourne vnto God, that he may forgiue vs, that our synnes 
 male bee dooen awaie, that we male sale. From Plague, Pestilence, and 
 Famine, from battaile and murther, and from sodaine death. Oh 
 Lorde, deliuer us. From hardnesse of harte, and contempte of thy 
 
 20 woorde and commaundment, whiche is the greateste cause of the 
 wrathe and indignation. Oh good Lorde, deliuer thy people, for thy 
 holie name sake. Amen. Amen. 
 
 A^ praier in the tijme of death. 
 
 24 Almightie and moste deare Father of heauen, wee moste humblie 
 beseche thee, for Jesus^ Christe sake, haue mercie vpon Hebr. xi. 
 this thy seruaunt, which now is nailed to the painfull crosse of death 
 for Adams offence. Impute no synne unto this penitent, whiche 
 
 28 moste willingly^ hath submitted hymself to thy fatherly correction ; 
 but behold thy sonne on the right hande, the onely Mediatoure for 
 all the elected, whose names are written in the booke of life. Let 
 this thy seruaunt, we beseche thee, moste mightie God, haue cleane 
 
 32 remission and forgiuenesse of all his sinne, by thought, woorde, and 
 
 deede, committed against thy diuine Maiestie ; now in ,j,|,g j,^^^ 
 
 this perill of death, assiste hym with thy holie Aungell, ™«'^'™"- 
 
 1 Ed. loGi (where the words stand as a sidu-iiote), "A praier in trouble 
 or death." 2 jjd. 1564, Jesus sake. ^ ^^A 1504, willing. 
 
A DIALOGVE. 135 
 
 commaunde Sathan to departe, make clcane his conscience, "with a 
 glad minde to reioice onely in thy mercic, for vaine is the helpe of 
 man; but thy mercie doeth endur3 for eucr; we are thy people, and 
 the shepe of thy pasture : to thee we shall giue praise, for euer and 4 
 euer. Amen. 
 
 Ciuis. 
 
 Amen, Amen. Lorde, receiue my soul into thy handes, a blessed ende. 
 thou God of truth. 8 
 
 Theologus. 
 
 The almighty^ God of Angelles, and the former of all thynges 
 visible and vnuisible,^ in whose handes is onely life & Apraierin 
 
 the tyme of 
 
 death, light and darknesse, and all the motions of the death. 12 
 
 soule and bodie ; without the, moste mightie God, all thinges had 
 been nothyng, and of nothyng all thinges are made by thee ; with 
 out thee,^ Christe and thy blessed Spirite, whiche is one coeternall 
 Trinitie, all fleshe were accursed, all consciences molested, and al 16 
 soules vtterly dampned. From light into darknesse, from freedome 
 into euerlastyng reprobation. But by Jesus Christe, Through tiie 
 thyne onely Sonne, wee thanke thee, deare father of !>oiyTnnitie 
 
 •1 -J ' ' IS ereacion & 
 
 all mercie, that nowe it hath pleased thee to take to thy saiuacion. 20 
 mercie at this present tyme our brother, whom thou hast elected, 
 consecrated ; and now he shall by thy mercie and pitte be sanctified 
 vnto thee to bee a Citezen of eternall glorie, now dooe fleshe and 
 bloudde forsake hym, and all his worldlie strength faileth hym. 24 
 JS^ow is the Orgaines yeldyng up the heauenly sounde, his soule 
 commeth nowe vnto thee, good Lorde ; receiue it to 
 thy mercie, into thyne euerlasting glorie, where 
 as Abraham, Isaac, and lacob are : continu- 28 
 
 ally to thee, oh heauenlie father, 
 be incessaunte honour 
 and glorie. Amen. 
 
 The ende of the 32 
 
 Dialogue. 
 
 1 Ed. 15G4, mightie. 2 E(J_ jsg^^ inuisible. 3 ej. 1oG4, thy Christ. 
 
136 A DI.ALOGVE. 
 
 A copie of a letter to 
 
 Prances Barlow by W. B. 
 
 TVlien the tyme of trouble draweth iiere (good Frances Barlowe), 
 4 as Death, whiche shall separate the soule from the bodie ; if we bee 
 not ware, and wisely prouidente, Avee shall stands in greats daunger 
 of losses; first we shall lose o\;r health, strength, and vanitie, iiiaine 
 
 vanite in this 
 
 beantie, wherein wee hane delighted ; and all our senses, woriue. 
 8 as pleasure of speache, ioye of harte, and the comfortable sighte of 
 the eyes, whersAvith we dooe daiely beholde all the pleasures of this 
 worlde, &c. Wee shall lose all our further treasures, landes, and 
 substaunce, and also our lines, and as dunge bee cast into the yearth, 
 
 12 and finallie, our soules banished from Goddes blessed presence or 
 restyng place. Therefore let vs call, my Frances, to our remem- 
 braunce the fearefull curses of almightie God againste our synnes, 
 and the cause of our plagues, whiche is our abhominabls liuyng in 
 
 16 synnyng againste God, in thought, woorde, and deeds, againste 
 heauen and yearth ; in pride, wrathe, Idolatrie, fornication, swear- 
 yng, luste, glottonie, and stoppyng our eares againste grace and the 
 woorde of truthe. Lette vs call to remembraunce how that we haue 
 
 20 doen wrong to eclie other in woorde and deede, in slaunderyng, or^ 
 hinderyng, by bargainyng, &c., our brethren for whom Christ hath 
 died ; whom wee haue hated, and not pitied in their extreame 
 sorowes and aduersities, and haue not paied their labours Restitution. 
 
 24 and trauailes ; lette vs repente and call for grace, and restore now 
 while Ave are in the Avaie of grace, and in that that Avee cannot make 
 satisfaction for our synnes by no merites of almose, praiers, oblations, 
 &c., Avhiche are vncleane in Gods eyes, as concernyng the remission 
 
 28 of our synnes; as Job saieth : Hoaa-c can he bee cleane Jobxxiij. 
 that is borne of a woman 1 Beholde he Avil gius no light vnto the 
 Moons, and the Starres are vncleane in his sight ; hoAV muche more 
 man, a worms, euen the Sonne of manne,^ Avhiche is but a worme, 
 
 32 Avhiche in beholdyng of his synne, hath no cause but to dispaire and 
 to bee dampned. What remedie in this case] Kone, but Avith all 
 speede, by faithe, lifte vp our hedde, and beholde euen Jesus Christe 
 1 Ed. lo6i, or in. '^ Ed. 15C4, of a man. 
 
A DlALOaVK. 137 
 
 on Gods right hande, pleading oui- case, excusing vs to his father, 
 whiche praieth to hym for vs ; and is hearde, and Satlian beaten 
 doune, and Gods Angell set at our bedside Avith siuiituall armour 
 for vs, in this battail of death against Sathan, to conducte vs to that 4 
 happie lands ; let vs kneele doune, and first saie, v^rhatsoeuer God 
 dooeth sende to vs, life or death, his name be praised ; ooda win. 
 his will be doen in yearth as it is with his Angels in heauen, 
 desyring hym to bee fedde with his liuelie woorde and blessed 8 
 Sacramente, the immortal foode for the soule, passing al worldly 
 treasures or Phisicke for the bodie^ and that it would please hym to 
 pardons our trespasses and oflfences, in thought, words, and deede, 
 against his diuine Maiestie, euen as wee doe forgius our enemies 12 
 suche faultes as thsi doos here in yearth againste vs ; and that in 
 the tyme of agonie, or paines of death, he suffsr vs not to fall into 
 tsmptation or be ouerladen vnder our crosse, But that his hande 
 maie help vs, and deliuer vs from this vile life, full of miseries, and 16 
 bryng vs into the land of the lining. In doyng this Tiieiandeof 
 you shalbe moste happie and blessed ; let vs submit our *''® i'"y"g- 
 selues to hym that hath mads vs : wee haus not made our selues ; 
 wee are his vessels, and are in his sight, and cannot flie^ Genesis ii. 20 
 from his presence nor run beyonde that rase whiche he jo^'li":!''' 
 hath appoincted us; he bringeth Death, and rsstoreth ^ath. xxv. 
 again e to life in the resurrection. Oh ! be contented^ to render ths 
 same talent, whiche was but lent vnto you, euen your bodie, the 24 
 giftes of nature and grace : Committe wife, childrsn, and all to 
 hym. He dooeth no wrong : he taketh but his owne, VeUe aii to 
 Eemember he brought you in hether naked, and how jobxiiii. 
 you doos Hue but a small tyme, and are full of miserie ; Like a 28 
 flower for the tyme, and shall passe awaie like a shadowe. Alas, 
 wee dooe deserue greats punishment, but he plageth vs not ac- 
 cordyng to the grauitis of our synnes, for then were Avee dampned, 
 or like vnto Sodome, that perished without handes in Lamen. iii. 32 
 the dale of Gods wrath and vengaunce. Consider, Prances, that 
 this is no nsAves or marueilous chauncs that you should change 
 your life; well, it happened to all our forefathers, from Adam to 
 1 Ed. 156i, flee. 2 -^^^ 15(54^ j^i^ ^iii. 3 Ed. 1564, content. 
 
13S A UIALOQVE. 
 
 kyngos, and all the nobles of the ycarth, and to the poore also. 
 All floslie is grasse, and the ^ wornies are the com- ^„ ^^3,,^ j^ 
 panions to the corps, in darke grauo ov house of dale, em-sse. 
 4 Yet there is a dale whiche God hath appoincted, wliiche none can 
 tell hut hyniself,- in whiche he will iudge hoLhe the quicke and 
 dedde, and call all fleshe before hym. Bothe his vcrie electe and 
 the mercilesse reprobates, and then bodie and soule shall reniaine 
 8 immortall together, and haue life euerlastyng. This holde faste, 
 deare Frances, as an anker in this storme from death to life euer- 
 lastyng. Holde faste the twelue articles of the Christian faithe ; 
 Praie to the ende, onely to God the father, by Christ; remember 
 
 12 his promises, that at what tyme soeuer a synner doeth repente, he 
 will forgiue ; Call, he will aunswcr vnto thy soule ; Ecci. xi. 
 knocke, and he will open. This tyme of your aduersite, and plague 
 of the Pestilence, doeth make you forget all pleasures and delites 
 
 1 G paste ; euen so remember this worldc is the more slipperie, and the 
 pleasures doe compasse all vnderstandyng to Gods elected. Because 
 I will conclude, the tyme draweth at hande of oure deliueraunce ; 
 caste your care onely vpon God almiglitie^ looke not backe againe, 
 
 20 beware of by patlies, either vppon the righte or lefte hande, but 
 treade in the true pathe or verie waie of Jesus Christe hymself. 
 I praie you let Ambrose Barnes rede the xi Chapiter of sainct Ihons 
 Gospel], and the firste Epistle to the Corinthians, the xv Chapiter.^ 
 
 24 If the tyme had not been so muche spent, and the vonime so 
 daungerous, and the partes* so weake and feble, I would haue caused 
 you to be letten bloud, and giuen you pilles contra pestem, wiih 
 cordials accordyngly, by Gods grace, if that Avould haue doen you any 
 
 28 good : but take this cordial in good part. Thus God giue you the 
 Croune of life, whiche Jesus Christe, without our deseruynges, hath 
 purchased for vs in liis precious Lluud : His name bee praised. Amen. 
 
 Your W. B. 
 
 32 Fare ye well. TVe must followe 
 
 when it pleaseth God. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 1 Ed. lofi-l omits 'the.' 
 
 2 Ed.s. 15G4, 1573, have here a marginal uote : ' Matth. xviij (ir>73, xxv) ; 
 Luke xix.' ^ Ed. 1564, ohai)iter xv. * Ed. 1501, parties. 
 
A UIALOGVE. 139 
 
 To^ his loityng frende and brother, M. 
 
 Willyam Conscience, Minister, 
 
 "W, B. sendeth salutacion. 
 
 If the almigiitie God do take care for the foules of the aire and 4 
 flowers of the fielde, and prouideth noiirishement for them, ^^^^^ xii. 
 how much more for his beloued men that do faithfully serue *^^''''' '^' 
 him in the holy ministerie of his worde and sacramentes, visiting the 
 sicke and buriyng the dedde ? The capitaine that doeth but serue a 8 
 mortal Prince, how so euer he spedeth, life or death, behauing himself 
 wisely and valiauntly against the enemie, is worthy of worldly fame 
 and honor; moche more the Lordes armoured knight, beyng go^g messen- 
 his Aungel and mouth, betwene him and his people that s*^''- ^aia. i. ^2 
 stande in daunger, is worthie in Christe to bee noumbred, crouned and 
 placed among his Aungelles immortall : by this I knowe that you are 
 no hireling, but (under Christe) the true Shepeherde, in that that 
 you flie not from youre foldo when that "Wolfe Sathan with his com- 1 6 
 panion Death dooe woorke their violence against the flesh & soule. In 
 this case remember these wordes : NoUte eos timere qui occi- ihon. x. 
 dunt corpus, &c. Peare not them whiche doe kill the bodie, thei can 
 not kill the soule. In this we dooe see what the power of death is, 20 
 onely^ to kille in us the fower Elementes whereof the bodie is framed 
 (by sworde, fire, water, sicknes, &c.). But the soule is not made of 
 any of theim, but the Creatour of al thing hath made it moste pure of 
 nothing, vpon which soule death hath no power, because it is of nature 24 
 immortall. But so long as bodie and soule are together & 
 not deuided, that is called manne. And whatsoeuer thinges ntu & anima. 
 are seen with bodily iyen are ordeined for the same bodie, "^' '^ "'' 
 and the bodie for the soule, and the soule for God. The life of the bodie 28 
 is the soule, and the life of the soule is God : so for synne the bodie is 
 ruinated and shalbe in dust until the resiirrection. But in the fal or 
 death of the bodie the soule dieth not but is deliuered, when the snare of 
 this flesh is broked. The fleshe with the sences are dedde, „ 32 
 
 Psnl. cxxiiii. 
 
 but Anima cum ratione sua doe still Hue : therefore I trust The souie dietii 
 
 and knowe that you doe consider wisely thre thinges. The 
 
 first is, the world with the wretchednesse therein worthy to bee despised. 
 
 1 These epistles and the 2\ible are found only in ed. I56i. 
 2 Ed. 1564, not onely. 
 
140 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 Tho second, our owno knowledge of our seines, our synno, our sick- 
 nesse, and whereof wee are made, even of roi^ugnaunte cclementos. 
 Thirdly, is to laie hande of eternall blossednesso, remembring tho morci- 
 
 4 full promises of God : As come to me all you that are Matt. xii. 
 heauie laden either with affliction of niindc, pouci'tie in Christ, sicknesso 
 or death, and I shall refreshe you. This is tho verio Phi- xiie bost riii- 
 sicion of the soule, even Chiiste, and the perfit quietnesse ^"^^'^• 
 
 5 of conscience. God hath geuen you a talent full godlie, you doc 
 lucrefie the same and hide it not. Therefore it shalbee said mosto ioy- 
 fully: it is well dooen good seruaunt and faithfull, thou haste been 
 faithfull in little, I will make thee ruler ouer mocho, enter Matt. xxv. 
 
 1 2 into thj'- maistors ioie. And againe, ho whiche doth continue to thendo 
 shall haue the croune of life. Bee paciente, my brother J.imes v. 
 (Conscience) and settle your harte, for the commynge of the Lordo 
 draweth nere, and blessed are the deddo w^hich dye in the Lorde, for 
 IG thei shall reigne with Christe in glory, his name be euer praised; 
 and his will be fulfilled. Amen. Be of 
 good comforte, and caste awaye 
 feare: be meiie, let not tho 
 20 Pestilent corses nor 
 
 the noyso of 
 belles ter- 
 rifie 
 24 you. 
 
 Inter mortales te uon mihi charior vllus : 
 To plus quam verum. diligo amoque fratrom. 
 
 Finis. 
 
A DIALOG VE. 141 
 
 COLENDISSIMO PEA- 
 
 TRI SUO IN CHRISTO, MAGISTRO 
 Kicliardo Turnero Tlieologo, 
 
 Gulielmus Bullemis. ^ 4 
 
 S. P. D. 
 
 Meuerendissime & ohser- 
 
 uandissime frater, puto te literas meas recepisse, in quibus tibi scribe- 
 bam regimen contra pestem, ac ideirco modo non ero prolixior in febre 8 
 pestilenti. Nam omnis febris qiiam pestilentem vocamus provenit e putre- 
 dine quae sit ab excessu^ liumidi. Ha[n]c vero (tit inquit Causa pestis. 
 Galenus) febrem ex plurima humiditate putrefacta prouenire putrefac- 
 ta[m] sine dubio potius quam a calore aucto fatendum est. Huniiditas 12 
 ideo materia est putrescens in venis unde calor naturalis sicma pestis. 
 valde efficitur & uno die omnes virtutes decidunt, urinae sunt fcetentes, 
 &c. Galenus, Auic.j Easis, Trallianus, &c. affirmant : in febre pestilenti 
 est multitude obstructionum et praecipue iibi materia urget ad cutim & 1 6 
 caput. Multitude materiae et cruditatum in causa est. 
 
 Cura est probibere putredinem. Obstructiones igitur sunt aperiendae. 
 Sed si natura movit tunc nihil movendum est. Hoc est „ . . 
 
 Curatio in 
 
 autem remedium, ut inquit Jobannes Baptist. Monta. Vu'o- auam consider- 20 
 nensis : R Syrup de Cicborio cum Ebabarbaro 3 1. ss., aqua 
 Boraginis, acetosae 3 3 in quibus citrum sit impositum & decoctum 
 deinde ynguentum pectorale contra pestem, R vnguenti Eosacei confor- 
 tatiui mesues 3 j., specierum cordialium 3 j. Sandalorum alborum 9 j. 24 
 Eosarum siccarum 3 ss. misce simul artificiose & fiat linimentum pro corde 
 & pro toto \sic] regione ventris. Mirum est hoc remedium ^. , . ^ 
 
 ••^ . . . . Sieta in tem- 
 
 contra venenum pestis. Quod ad rationem Tictus attinet, porae [sicj pes- 
 ubi est maxima putredo (ut inquit. Hyppo. 17. Aphoris.), ' 28 
 
 ubi corrupti humores & putridi, nihil perniciosius quam instituere 
 tenuem victum quia inter exhibeas ius puUi & ponas semper in tuo cibo 
 preter acetosam \_sic] succum citri. De reliquo yelim tibi persuadeas 
 quemadmodum legisti in Galeno, &c. Yale & vale iterum (eruditiss. vir) 32 
 sis que ; bono animo. Nunc literas concludo. Nam plura non opus 
 habeo scribere, ne tuis optimis occupationibus (in vinea domini) im- 
 portune nunc obstrepere videar. Martii Incarnati. 1564. 
 
 Thus ad omnia Guil. Bullenus. 3G 
 
 1 Ed. 1564, exccssum. 
 
142 
 
 A DIALOGVE. 
 
 AMANTISSIMO AC PRO- 
 
 bissimo viro magistro T. Gaylo, 
 Cliyrurgo. Guilihelmus 
 4 Bullenus. S. P. D. 
 
 J^Onam valetudinem cum corjioris turn ani'mi a deo opt. max. tibi precor 
 (optime vir). Nihil est hoc tempore quod tibi scribam quam quad libcUttm 
 qiiem mihi donasti lecji et iterum legi, quo tibi ago gratias & habeo ut piro 
 8 swnno [sic] munere. Nam ex eo & intellexi amorem et animuvi quern ercja, 
 me geris, & operam tuam perspexi non solum mihi sed omnibus qui ubique 
 sunt Anglis futuram utiUtati. Nostrum enim omnium haberi possunt ama- 
 tores & cidtores libri tui insignissimi. Quamobrein quid magis mihi gratum 
 12 esse potuit hoc munere, praesertim cum a tali Chirurgo mihi datum siff cuj'us 
 rei nunquam me capiet oblivio, sed quantum, potero gratias referri libenti 
 animo faciam.. Opto te bene vahre ac interim me tibi comendo ; doctissimo 
 viro magistro Bactero humillime 
 16 meis verbis gratias agi 
 
 meque plurimuvi co- 
 mend are desi- 
 dero. 
 
 20 Martii 28. Anno incur nati 
 
 1564. 
 
 Tibi deditissimus 
 Guilihelmus Bu. 
 
143 
 
 The Table of this 
 presente booke. 
 
 A poore manne seking relief ^ Page 5 
 A wives answer to tlie poore 
 
 man idem 
 A tale of tlie poore manne 
 
 against couetousnes 6, 7, 8, 9 
 Antonius Capistranus the 
 
 riche man 9 
 
 Antonius tlie Phisician idem 
 
 A subtile marchaunt man 1 1 
 
 Antonies aungelles 12 
 
 A swete texte idem 
 
 A medler with no scripture idem 
 
 A good indifferent man 13 
 
 Aninfidell _ _ 14 
 
 A man of good religion idem 
 
 A papist, a protestant idem 
 
 A nulla fidian idem 
 
 A fine garden idem 
 
 A piiler in a garden 1 5 
 
 Antonies armes idem 
 
 A good observacion idem 
 
 An exclamation of Skelton 16 
 
 A saiyng of Chaucer 17 
 
 An admonishion of Lidgat idem 
 
 A young Courtier idem 
 A saiyng of sir Davie Linse 
 
 to Englande and Scotland 18 
 A saiyng of the Phisicion 19 
 Avarus a pettie fogger idem 
 Ambo dexter 20 
 A blacke Sainctus idem 
 Ambo dexter gapeth for An- 
 tonius death 21 
 A maiden in Antonius house 22 
 A simple practise idem 
 A craftie villaine 23 
 A cousin made idem 
 A periurer idem 
 A serpent 24 
 A good companie 25 
 
 A iande where as no sick- 
 
 nesse is 26 
 
 America idem 
 
 A dreadfuU case idem 
 
 A troubled conscience 27 
 
 A Pothicaries repentaunce idem 
 
 A tyme to purge idem 
 
 A yerely reward 29 
 
 A greate losse idem 
 
 A knavishe lackey idem 
 
 A mule loste idem 
 
 Aristot'le de coeJo & mundo 31 
 
 A description of the soule 32 
 
 Actus, what it is 34 
 
 Adversitee 35 
 
 Aetuis de rei medicae 36 
 
 Avicen noteth of the pestil. idem 
 
 Anticedent of the pestilence idem 
 
 Aire infected idem 
 
 Avicens counsaill 40 
 
 A pouder for the plague 42 
 
 A drinke for the pestilence idem 
 A perfume for the pestilence 43 
 
 A medicen for a carbuncle 47, 48 
 
 A caviat for a Chyrurgian 46 
 
 A lotion for a sore 47 
 
 A medicen for a plage sore idem 
 
 A Cicatrice moste best 48 
 
 A healyng oyntment idem 
 
 A Cordiall 55 
 
 An Epicures talke 50 
 
 A horsewoman 58 
 
 A nise cockney of London 59 
 
 A churle incarnate 70 
 
 A tale of Eoxes 70 
 
 An epitaph of a covetous 7 1 
 
 A young man well nurtred 80 
 
 A parler with many things 80 
 
 A taker, a catcher 82 
 
 1 A wicked iudee 84 
 
 ' Fol. in Ed. 1564. The figures have been altered to agree with the present Edilion. 
 
144 
 
 TOR TABLE. 
 
 
 Noto advovsitoo 
 
 85 
 
 Golden raake 
 
 82 
 
 A lessou for a lubbar 
 
 91 
 
 Good ayre 
 
 39 
 
 A WTotclie wliich refuscil 
 
 
 Good observations 
 
 43 
 
 good couusail 
 
 00 
 
 Gentle Roger 
 
 62 
 
 A ruffen 
 
 95 
 
 Galen ad Pisonem 
 
 39 
 
 Auiber grice 
 
 99 
 
 Gentleman, what he is 
 
 110 
 
 A greate lossc to England 
 
 100 
 
 Galen de diffo. feb. 
 
 36 
 
 A good common -n'oalth lOo 
 
 110 
 
 
 
 A swymmyng lando 
 
 101 
 
 II 
 
 
 A praicr in death 
 
 134 
 
 Honest landlordcs 
 
 112 
 
 A letter to maister AVillyam 
 
 
 His wiues councell 
 
 56, 57 
 
 Ailoward called Conscience 
 
 139 
 
 Honger 
 
 116 
 
 A letter to maister Richard 
 
 
 Hosteler 
 
 80 
 
 Turner of Canterburie 
 
 141 
 
 
 
 A letter to maister Thomas 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 Gaile Chyrurgian 
 
 142 
 
 Ingratitude 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 lacke Drake 
 
 64 
 
 B 
 
 
 longe Renob 
 
 69 
 
 Beastes did speake page 61 
 
 lacke a napes played at 
 
 
 Borders in a cloth 
 
 89 
 
 tables 
 
 99 
 
 Barnit fieldo 
 
 60 
 
 longe and folishe 
 
 90 
 
 Byrdes of straunge shapes 
 
 99 
 
 
 
 Bankruptes 
 
 90 
 
 K 
 
 
 C 
 
 Glisters 
 
 
 Knavery 
 
 67 
 
 27 
 
 M 
 
 
 Closenes in usury 
 
 70 
 
 Mony doth great mischief 
 
 84 
 
 Children sicke of the mother 
 
 83 
 
 Mulier a naughty worde 
 
 81 
 
 Cruell women 
 
 100 
 
 Many usurers 
 
 72 
 
 Christes death 
 
 126 
 
 Magus and ludas 
 
 83 
 
 Carbo & antrax 
 
 45 
 
 Makeshiftes 
 
 90 
 
 Causes of the pestilence 
 
 36 
 
 Mendax is described 
 
 94 
 
 
 
 Mendax kinred & armes 
 
 96 
 
 P ■ 
 
 
 Mendax hath been in florida 
 
 idem 
 
 Dogges and women 
 
 61 
 
 Mendax bringeth good ncwes 98 
 
 Death killeth ] 
 
 
 Mixed bodies 
 
 31 
 
 Death worketh > pp. US 
 
 , 119 
 
 
 
 Death horrible ) 
 
 
 N 
 
 
 Death wil not be intreated 
 
 115 
 
 Newes from Florida 
 
 96 
 
 Death, what it is 
 
 116 
 
 No winde but turne some to 
 
 
 Death endeth all 
 
 119 
 
 profite 
 
 9 
 
 Death destroieth all 
 
 114 
 
 Note this well 
 
 63,67 
 
 Death apereth with thi-ee 
 
 
 
 
 dartes 
 
 idem 
 
 P 
 
 
 
 
 Phisition doth well 36 until 50 
 
 F 
 
 
 Pirates undoes 
 
 102 
 
 Flatterers of noble men 
 
 86 
 
 Promotion spirituall 
 
 83 
 
 Faire fieldes 
 
 112 
 
 Pomeamber 
 
 49 
 
 Feare and dred 
 
 113 
 
 Perfume 
 
 idem 
 
 Fre will in man 
 
 126 
 
 Peace and unite 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 Prudence 
 
 35 
 
 G 
 
 
 Pestilence 
 
 37 
 
 Gloses 
 
 25 
 
 Petty foggers 
 
 19 
 
 God 
 
 32 
 
 Purging the body 
 
 60 
 
TllJi; TABLIC. 
 
 145 
 
 E 
 
 Easis cle pesto 30 
 
 Euf. contra pcstem 4 1 
 
 Eogers writing 62 
 Eogors pleasant talke by the 
 
 waye GO &c. 
 
 Eewarde in Christ no merit 
 
 in us 126 
 
 Eesurrection of the dead 129 
 
 T 
 
 The iij. elementes 31 
 
 Trouble of mynde 26 
 
 The best remedy of the plague 44 
 
 To know the antrax 46 
 
 The tale of a Lion 63 
 
 The frutes of usury 1 1 
 
 The Lorde Crumwell 81 
 
 The discription of Eo. prolu. 86 
 
 The Popes practise 87 
 
 The g7'catcst crosso 117 
 
 The holy trinito 128 
 
 The holy churcho idem 
 
 W 
 
 Weomen have wormes in 
 
 their tongues 102 
 
 Witchcrafte IQi 
 
 What the soule is 33 
 
 We can cary nothing away 120 
 
 Wher it raincth double beer 101 
 
 Who shall shoe the mule 86 
 
 Who may not blede 41 
 
 Well fished 91 
 
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 Barbour's Bruce, cd. Rev. Prof. M ?\V. Skeat. Part IV. 
 Lonelioh's Holy Grail, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. Part V. 
 Robert of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, A.D. I30:j, re-edited by Dr. Furnivall. 
 Caxton's englishing of the Eneydos, A.D. 1590, with its Frencli original, ed. M. CuUey, M.A. 
 Caxton's Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, ab. U8t, with Loutfut's Scotch copy of it, «d. W. Bayne, B.A. 
 Caxton's Englishing of Alain Chartier's Curial, ed. F. J. Furnivall, M.A., Ph.D. 
 
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 X.X:x;. Lonelich's Holy Grail, ed. F. .J. Furnivall, M. A.. Ph.D. Part IV. 15.^. 187S 
 XX.XI. The Alliterative Romance of Alexander and Dindimus. ed. Rev. AV. W. Skeat. 6s. ,, 
 
 XX.XII. Starkey's "England in Henry Vni's time." Pt I. Starkey's Life and Letters, ed.S.J. Herrtage. 8«. 
 
 X.XXIII. Gesta Romanorum (ensrlisht ab. UIO), cd. S. J. Hernajte, B.A. 15«. 1879 
 XXXIV. The Charlemagne Romances;— 1. Sir Ferumbras, from Ashm. MS. 3.3, ed.S.J. Herrtage. 15s. 
 
 XX.XV. Charlemagne Romances :— 2. The Sege off Melayne. Sir Otuell, &c., ed. S. .1. Herrtage. 12s. 1880 
 XX.XVI. Charlemagne Romances :— 3. Lyf of Charles the Grete, Pt. I., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 16s. „ 
 
 XXXV'II. Charlemagne Romances :— 4. Lyf of Charles the Grete, Pt. II., ed. S. J. Herrtage. 15s. 1881 
 
 XXXVIII. Charlemagne Romances:— 5. The Sowdone of Babylone, ed. Dr. Hausknecht. 15s. „ 
 
 XXXIX. Charlemagne Romances :— 6. Rauf Colyear, Roland, Otuel, &c., ed.S. .7. Herrtage, B.A. \5s. 1882 
 XL. Charlemagne Romances:— 7. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Beriiers, ed. S.L. Lee, B.A. Part I. 1.5s. ,, 
 XLI. Charlemagne Romances:— 8. Huon of Burdeux, bv Lord Bernors, ed.S. L. Leei B.A. Ptll. 1.5s. 1883 
 XLII. Guy of Warwick: 2 texts (Auchinleck MS. and Cains MS.), ed. Prof. Zunitza. Part I. 15.?. ,, 
 XLIII. Charlemagne Romances :— 9. Huon of Burdeux, by Lord Berners, ed. S. L. Lee, B.A. Ptlll. 15,s. 1884 
 XLIV. Charlemagne Romances :— 10. The Four Sons of Aymon, ed. Miss Octavia Richardson. Pt I. 15s. „ 
 XLV. Charlemagne Romances :— 11. The Four Sonsof Aymoir, ed. Miss 0. Richardson; Part II. 20s. 1885 
 XLVI. Sir Bevis of Hamton, from the Auchinleck and other MSS., ed. Prof. B^Kolbing. Part L 10s. „ 
 XLVII. The Wars of Alexander, ed. Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., LL.D. 20s. 1886 
 XLVIII. SirBevis of Hamton, ed. Prof. E. Kolbing. Part II. 10s. „ 
 
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