Rede Me and Be Nott Wrothe, for I Saye No Thinge But Trothe (Paperback)

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. 1871 Excerpt: ...silver/ To make theym a recreacion. EJEat. They will not sor all Englonde/ Handill money with their bare honde/ As I have had insormacion. Eef. f Yett in golden cuppes to dryncke/ And to touche wemen I thyncke/ No grett parell they do adverte. And though some of theym never dare/ Touche eny coyne with hondes bare/ Yett they touche it with their hertt. They have also withouten lesynge/ Money in wother mens kepynge/ Redy at their commaundment. Which by the wryttynge of a bill/ In whatt soever vses they will/ Dayly is bestowed and spent. In eny covent where they be/ Very seawe of theym thou shalt se/ But have a frende temporally. To whom for every tryfill vayne/ That commeth once into their brayne/ Yf by wrytynge they signisy. Though it cost a noble or twayne/ By and by they shall it attayne/ Not foarsynge what is layde oute. Which truly yf they shulde purchace/ With laboure and swett of their sace/ They wolde wotherwyse loke aboute. Yf it be as thou dost expresse/ Playnly their rule they do transgresse/ Retaynynge in commen or in proper. les. f They have the popis declaracion/ Makynge therof a mitigacion/ In most savorable maner. Vnder whose divlysshe proteccion/ They have put theym in subieccion As children of iniquite. Wherfore he taketh to his person/ The name of their dominion/ To vse it gevynge liberte. They have scant as moche as a loufie/ Nether clothes/ churche/ nor housse/ But the pope there of is awner. BEtat. C Why ascrybe they it to the pope? let C By cause with soche crast they hope/ To begylde people seculer. For where as they live welthyly/ And have all thyngis abundantly/ Acordynge to their apetyte. Yet vnder soche salce pretence/ They sayne to sofifre indigence/ Contempnynge all worldly delyte. The pope also for this intent/ Because to his er...