Author(s): George Ashby

Poetry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...than their variance. 238 Qui reputat onmes Homines equaliter, Amicos habere non potest; hec Socrates. (35) Oon thing I wolde aduertise yowr hignesse, 239 Take not euery man in oon qualite: Don't think....., 1-11 every man is Oon is wise and a nother in lewdenesse, the same,, ., ., (some are Sura be in welth, sum i n aduersite, wise; some, fools;) or Sum be mery and sum in nycyte;l ' folly 243 JTM'ave Who that cannat disseure wise from bad friends. Shal haue no verrey freendes fat be sad. 245 A (tood Governor is lie who can rule himself. Qui gubernat bene seipswm, expedit esse gubernator; hfe Plato. /0-x (36) In this wise ye shul knowe a gouernour 246 liable to reule & guide in euery place, That can be in hym self a goode myrrowr, Guidynge hym selfe aftur oure lordes grace, Shewyng euer a playne & a trove face. 250 He that can not his owne pe?-onne gouerae, How shuld he other folkes therin lerne? 252 Three things to grieve a Tribus de causis dolet homo, de diuite qui venit ad paupertatem, de honorabili qui dispeccionem incurrit, & de sapiente que?- ignorans derisit; hec Plato. (37) Of thre thinges a man may be heuy: liiche man for to come to pouerte; A worshipful man in dispite reuly; A wiseman,2 of the ignorant to be Scorned or mocked, fat folk may it se. So this world is not certeine ne stable, But whirlyng a bowte and mutable. (1) (2) (3) expectes merentibus benefacere quousqwe reqi-rat illud, sed eis benefacias a tempore; hec Plato. (38) if a man has If any man haue deserued rewarde 260 For his meritis & goode goueniance, In his hasty recompense be toward, Competently betyme by yowr puissance, Er it be askad wtt/?oute daleancc, 264 And by yowr selfe lete it be doon frely: That shal be best, and the more price sette ...