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An exhortation to yonge men perswading them to walke in the pathe way that leadeth to honeste and goodnes: writen to a frend of his by Thomas Lupsete Londoner.
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Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.
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1535
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STC 16936; ESTC S104339
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AN EXHORTATION TO YONGE men perswadinge them to walke in the pathe way that leadeth to honeste and goodnes writen to a frend of his by Thomas Lupsete Londoner ⧠1534 To my vvithipol IT happeneth atte this tyme my harty beloued Edmonde that I am in such place wher I haue no maner of bokes with me to passe the tyme after my maner and custome And thoughe I had here with me plenty of bokes yet the place suffrethe me not to spende in them any study For you shal vnderstand that I lye waytynge on my lorde Cardinal whose houres I muste obserue to be alwaye at hande lest I be called whan I am not bye the whiche shuld be streight taken for a faute of gret negligence Wherfore nowe that I am well satiated with the beholdynge of these gaye hangynges that garnissheth here euery wall I wyll turne me and talke with you For you muste knowe that my mynde hath longe coueted to shewe what affecte I beare to warde you the which hytherto parauenture I neuer vttered vnto yon soo playnelye that you might take therof any perfect knowlege And that I so dyd kepe in suche outwarde tokyns wherof when you were with me you shoulde haue perceyued my loue the cause was none other but that in dede I loued you For longe I haue ben taught that the mayster neuer hurtethe his scholer more than whan he vttereth shewethe by cheryshyng and cokerynge the loue that he bearethe to his scholers I thinke you lacked with me no cheryshinge but of cokerynge you hadde very lyttel bycause I was loth to hurt you the whiche lothnesse cam I saye of that I loued you But nowe in as moche you be of age and also by the common borde of houselynge admytted into the nombre of men to be no more in the company of chyldren and speciallye for as moche as my rule ouer you is cessed I wyl not deferre any longer the expressynge of myne harte that no lesse louethe and fauourethe you than yf nature had made you eyther my sonne or my brother For this alway is my mynde if I haue a frende in whom I fynde suche feythe honestie that I inwardly ioy in harte with hym I reken streyght that al his be myne with out any exception So that in very dede I take to my care as myn owne all thynges that be in my frendes care This mynde had I to my frende Andrewe Smythe whose son Christofer your felow I euer toke for my sonne nowe I thynke playnely that he is so in very dede This strengthe hathe true loue in frendshyp the whiche hath likewyse ioyned your father in suche maner to my harte that one thynke you shulde be no more his sonne then you be myne And thoughe I can suffre your father to take the rule of you more then I do Yet I can not suffre that he shulde care more for your profyte then I do For as I desire wishe that you neuer haue nede of me so surely if you euer shulde haue it shulde well then appere that as nature hath giuen you one father so your fathers frendshyppe hathe prouided for you an other father Wherfore good Edmonde reken noo lesse affecte in me to doo you good than is in your owne father whose only study and care is to se you growe prosper towarde the state of an honeste man and I to further you to the same am as desyrous as he is and as moche as I can I wyl helpe you both with my counsayle and power suche as I haue ¶ If you wyll call to your minde all the frayes that haue benne betwene you and me or betwene me and Smythe you shall fynde the causes euer depended of a care I had for your and his maniers When I sawe certayne phantasies in you or him that iarred frō true opinions the which true opinions aboue al lernyng I wolde haue masters euer tech theyr scholers But nowe that you be of better habilite to take coūseyll I wyl begynne to shewe you my mynde in stayinge you for the hole course of your lyfe that you may in time lerne what is to be done to be a good an honest man You be yet in the first entree of your lyfe and nowe is the tyme to haue a guyde that may faithfully conducte you in the ryght way For there be so many by pathes and for the most parte all by pathes be more worne with the steppes of your fore goers thā is the very true path of liuing that if you go alone you may paraduenture long wandre out of the streyghte way Wherfore as nere as I can I wylle in fewe wordes appoynte vnto you certayne markes vppon the whiche if you dilygentlye loke you canne not erre nor fayle of the waye that leadeth to the rewarde of an honeste good man whose vertue sauoureth plesantly to heuen pleseth the world and nourisheth hym selfe with an incomperable delite and gladnes that continually reygneth in his clene pure consciēce With these markes tokēs the which I wold you loked stil vpon I wil assigne you certaine auctors in whose workes I wold you shuld bestow your lesure when you may haue time to rede y t by them you may at the full be instructed in al thinges apperteining to vertu in al your life I wold you medled not greatly with any other bokes then with these y t I shal name vnto you it is not the reding of many bokes that getteth increace of knowlege iudgement for the most parte of them that redeth al indifferētly confoūd their wittes and memorie without any notable fruite of their redyng It muste be a diligent reder that shal take the profyte of his labour and diligence No man specially of them that haue other occupations can vse redinge but in verye fewe workes the whiche I wolde shuld be piked out of the best sorte that the fruite of the reders diligence maye be the greatter I se many lose theyr tyme when they thinke to bestowe their time beste bicause they lacke iudgemente or knowelege to pyke oute the bokes the whiche be worthye to be studied And in euerye thynge an order wel obserued bringeth more profitte then any labour or peine besyde Wherfore my good Withipolle take hede to my lesson I am in doubte whether you haue anye other louer that canne and wylle shewe you a lyke tale but welle I am assured that you haue none that can thus teache you with a better will to haue you take profite by him then I do of me howe longe you shall haue this vse it is in goddes wil to determyne As moche as lyeth in me I wyl nowe procure and prouide that these letters shal kepe to your vse the summe of my councell by the whiche if you order your will I putte noo doubte but fyrste the grace of god shal be rooted in you and next you shal liue with a mery harte and finally