Part 8 (1/2)

31 _Reign of Edward VI, 1553 to 1547--Exaraces manyfolde Which are in vertue, shall finde auauncement: Wherefore ye fooles that in your sinne are bolde, Ensue ye wisdome, and leaue your lewde intent, Wisdome is the way of men most excellent: Therefore haue done, and shortly spede your pace, To quaynt your self and corace”

ALEXANDER BARCLAY: _Johnson's Hist E L_, p 44

32 _Reign of Henry VIII, 1547 to 1509--Exary euen at the fyrste consyder one of these thinges, that like as he is a ry, and therefore it is as lefull for the other to be angry, as unto hyer be to hyrye”--SIR THOMAS ELLIOTT: _Castel of Helthe_

33 _Exalish Blank Verse; written about 1540_

The supposed author died in 1541, aged 38 The piece from which these lines are taken describes the death of _Zoroas_, an Egyptian astronomer, slain in Alexander's first battle with the Persians

”The Persians waild such sapience to foregoe; And very sone the Macedonians wisht He would have lived; king Alexander selfe Demde him a man unmete to dye at all; Who wonne like praise for conquest of his yre, As for stoute ht how to discerne a man, That in his head so rare a jewel beares; But over all those same Camenes,[49] those same Divine Camenes, whose honour he procurde, As tender parent doth his daughters weale, Lamented, and for thankes, all that they can, Do cherish hy death”

_Probably written by SIR THOMAS WYAT_

34 _A Letter written from prison, with a coal_ The writer, _Sir Thomas More_, whose works, both in prose and verse, were considered land, and the familiar confidant of Henry VIII, by whose order he was beheaded in 1535

”Myne own good doughter, our Lorde be thanked I aood quiet of es I no more desyer then I haue I beseche hyes as I so the worlde to come, our Lorde put theim into your myndes, as I truste he doth and better to by hys holy spirite: who blesse you and preserue you all Written wyth a cole by your tender louing father, who in hys pore prayers forgetteth none of you all, nor your babes, nor your nources, nor your good husbandes, nor your good husbandes shreyues, nor your fathers shreyfe neither, nor our other frendes And thus fare ye hartely well for lacke of paper THOMAS MORE, knight”--_Johnson's Hist E Lang_, p 42

35 _From More's Description of Richard III--Probably written about 1520_

”Richarde the third sonne, of e entreate, was in witte and courage egall with either of them, in bodye and prowesse farre vnder them bothe, little of stature, ill fetured of liht, hard fauoured of visage, and such as is in states called warlye, in other menne otherwise, he was malicious, wrathfull, enuious, and from afore his birth euer frowardeHee was close and secrete, a deep dissiant of heart--dispitious and cruell, not for euill will alway, but after for ambicion, and either for the suretie and encrease of his estate Frende and foo was rew, he spared no mans deathe, whose life withstoode his purpose He sleith his owne handes king Henry the sixt, being prisoner in the Tower”--SIR THOMAS MORE: _Johnson's History of the English Language_, p 39

36 _From his description of Fortune, written about the year 1500_

”Fortune is stately, soleeueth, to haue seruyce therefore

The nedy begger catcheth an half peny: Some manne a thousaude pounde, some lesse some more

But for all that she kepeth euer in store, From euery manne some parcell of his wyll, That he may pray therefore and serve her styll

Soood, but chyldren hath he none

Soet none health

Some hath al thre, but vp to honours trone, Can he not crepe, by no maner of stelth

To some she sendeth chyldren, ryches, welthe, Honour, woorshyp, and reuerence all hys lyfe: But yet she pyncheth hym with a shreife”

SIR THOMAS MORE

V ENGLISH OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

37 _Exan of Henry VII, as crowned on Bosworth field, 1485, and who died in 1509_

”Wherefor and forasmoche as we haue sent for our derrest wif, and for our derrest moder, to come unto us, and that old have your advis and counsail also in socheof the rebelles, we praie you, that, yeving your due attendaunce vppon our said derrest wif and ladyherof as ye purpose to doo us plaisir Yeven undre our signett, at our Castell of Kenelworth, the xiii daie of Maye”--HENRY VII: _Letter to the Earl of Ormond: Bucke's Classical Gran of Richard III,--froht trusty and right wel-beloved, we grete yoele, and wol and charge you that under oure greate seale, being in your warde, ye do make in all haist our lettres of proclamation severally to be directed unto the shi+rrefs of everie countie within this oure royaume”--RICHARD III: _Letter to his Chancellor_

39 _Reign of Edward IV,--from 1483 to 1461--Example written in 1463_

”Forasmoche as we by divers meanes bene credebly enforreate adversary Henry, naland, by the e hir selfe queane of England, have conspired,” &c--EDWARD IV: _Letter of Privy Seal_