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wytnessith in the same Chapiter That loue of neybour is profytable and doth neuir harm wherfor let vs go and make owr dwellyng togider And whan they were dwellynge togider they cowde neuir accorde / for the Fire made the watyr hote consumyd her The watyr oftyntymes qwenchid the fire wherfore they continuyd euyr in contencyon and discord For the which cawse they departyd asonder and sayde It wyll not be at one worde That tway contraryes shuld kyndely acorde ONe that is of good disposicion owith not to dwell with hym that is badde / which is to hym contrary for lyghtly he may lese his godenes / his good name all his good operacyon workyng / for cause of his euil companye / as a philosofre saith Chese thou good folke and meke that thowe mayste lyue and be goode / For it is wryttyn Psalmo .xvii. wyth a goode man thowe shalte be goode / and with a wrayward man thow shalt be lyke hym The apostill consyderinge that it is periloꝰ to lede the lyfe with bad people wrote ad Thessalo .iiij. saynge Bredryn we shewe vnto yow in the name of out lorde Iesu Christe / that ye withdrawe yowre self from the compeny of euery brodir that walkith inordynatlye for Isidir sayth Hitte is perylous to lede owre lyfe with them that be knowyn bad and synfull / and hit is dought full to be associate vnto them that be of bad mynde A fable is tolde that heuyn sent dowu faire watyr to wasshe the erthe / and whan this watyr shulde haue bene lodgid all nyght with a colier she sayd vnto hym Brodyr we maye not dwell togithyr / for all that euyr I may clense and make clene in the longe daye tyme / thowe mayst spotte it with blaknes in an owre So lyke wyse all that euyr a wiseman or a godeman getyth in longe season / a sole or a bad man may destroye in an owre Of the floode and the see Dialogo .xi. AS the Philosofre sayth the floode ys a continuall rynnyng / a refresshynge of the sonne and moystre of the erth / and at a tyme of oportunite / the flode wēt to the see that is callyd Mare in laten and sayde to hym Thowe arte ryghtfully callyd mare / that is bytternes / for thow contynuyst euir in great bitternes Is not thy bitternes great and thyn vnkyndenes moche more / whan thow continually drinkest of my swetnes and thou euir gyuest to me agayne nothinge but bytternes The see answered and sayd Gold and syluer haue I none Such as I haue of the beste and of the inwarde partye of my body I gyue vnto the as to my feythfull frende Therfore thow owyst paciently to suffir my bytternesse for yf thow loke consydre wel / therof is deryuyd thy most grete swetnesse and thy incomparable goodnesse This hearinge the floode / was all pleasyd and sayd Who that desyryth the swete to Assaye He muste taste byttyr this is no Naye Lykewyse it behouithe euery man to suffyr the bittyr scourge of trybulacyon that desireth to haue the swetnes of euerlasting cōsolation as Gregory saith Tribulacion is the gate of the kyngdom of heuyn The psalter witnessith the same cxvij where it is thus writtyn / This is the gate of owre lorde Rightfull men shal entyr by it It is also redde Actu .xiiij. Be many tribulacions it behouith vs to entre in to the kyngdome of heuyn But many on may be lyknyd to an Ape / the which clymyth into a tre of nottys / and whan she tastithe the owte parte that is byttyr / she castith awaye all the Remnaunte or she come to the Cornell / and therfore she tastyth neuyr of the swetnes of the Notte So many vnwyse folkys cast awaye Tribulacion lightly as sone a● euyr they fele itte / and therfore of the swetnes of the heuynly rewarde whiche shall be geuyn to them that pacyently suffyr tribulacyon they shal neuyr taste As a sertayn abbotte sayde whan he was blynde I gyue thā kinge to my lorde God / that hath wrokyn me on myne enymye Which were wonde to do me so moche hurte / that were to me lyke theuys and traytowres / whiche wold haue destroyd me I meane my wanton eyn twayn But godde of his grace hath now destroyed them An othyr Relygyous man made greate ioye / whan he had loste oon of his eyn / and othir folkis made greate sorow for hym And he askyd of them for which of his eyen th●i made that heuynes / and they sayde for that that was owte And he answerde and sayd to them He that hath tway enymyes / if one be destroyed the othyr is to be drad and not he that is goon redye Wherfore Iherome saith and wrytyth to a sertayn persone Sorowe thowe notte nor mourne though thowe haue not that flyes and serpentis haue For we haue sene and knowyn dyuers philosofirs that haue wylfully put owte ther eyen Intendynge to kepe ther myndys the bettyr inwardlye and to eschewe vanyteys which growe be occasion of the eyen / and therfore some payne muste be suffirde of hym that desireth euerlastinge reste ¶ Of the Hyll and the Valey Dialogo .xii. A Vale lay low in a sertayne place hauynge to her ioyned an hyghe mownte which kepte the vale in subieccion / At laste this vale grutchid and was sore vexyd with impacyēce / and brak owte and multyplyed greate wordis agayne the hyll / and sayde euyn thus to hym Thow wycked and Comberows caytyf why greuyst thow me so longe and neuyr secyste Cece trowbelous wretche of the greate greef that thou doyst to me change thy place for thou hast long kept me vndir / yf thou wilt not I shal be vengid on the. To whom the hyll answerd sayd Thy complaynt cannot be refourmed as yet For our maker hath erect me / set me aboue for the beginning / he hath ordeynd the to be benethe and vndir Therfor be paciēt suffir to the last day of iugemēt than shal mowntes hylles be made law / as wrytith Isaye .xl. But the vale toke none hede of al this / but in greate hastynes brought with her treys herbys / began batell agayn the hyll / woundid hym sore with shot of arowys dartys The hyll seynge that / began to waxe woode with that vale sayde Of thyn own dedys I iuge the thow shewid seruaunte / for thow arte not ashamyd to begyn batell agayne thy soueraigne and thy bettyr And thus saynge the mownte threwe downe stonys ād all to knockyd the vale and stoppid the wayes that she myght not flye nor none of her Companye And so the vale was humilyate subduyd and brought vndir with correction and sayde Seruauntis be bownde at all tymes to obaye To ther souereygnes and not to saye Naye MAnyon impacyent repugne agayne ther bettyrs Wherfore they owe to be holde vndyr the yocke of seruyce / For it is wryttyn Eccles
vnto me and suffir me neuer to be punyshed / with the payne that I loke aftir daylye fro the. For I shal gyue to the what someuit thow wilt haue / that is to saye Golde / Syluer / Precyows stonys / Seruauntis / horse / londes / lyueloade / Palacys / Possessions / all oonly the to towche not me To whom deth answerde and sayde Brother thow askyste thinges impossible Nothinge shuld be desired of God / but honest and possible And therfor thou spekist not wysely For it is sayd vnto man Deth abydith the euery where And yf thou be wyse / thow shalt abyde it in euery place For it is wrytten psal lxxxviii Who is that man that lyuyth / and shall not see deth / as whoo sayth Noon Therfore receyue me pacyently for I come to the to do no noueltye For Seneca saith Noman is so vnwise / but he knowith he shaldye Neuerthelesse whan deth drawith nere he dredith and wepith Why wepist thou man Why mournyst thow for cawse of deth To that thow were ordeyned and borne what thinge of newe is done to the. To this law thou art born This happid to thifader / to thimoder / to thy bettirs also and generally to all that haue bene before the / and it shall not fayle to come to all them that shal be For lyfe is not geuyn to any creature with excepcyon of deth Ther is a law vnyuersall / which ordeynith to be born and to dye all thinge that berith lyfe And also he saith We owe to suffir pacyently that thing that we may not escape fro Example of Dauid that sayde whan his childe was dede Nowe that he is dede why doo I faste whether I may call him agayne I shal rather go to him / for he shal not retourne to me Whan it was shewyd vnto a philosofre that his sonne was ded he answerde and sayde whan I gate him I knew he shulde dye Valery tellyth li .v. ca .x. that Anaxagoras herynge the deth of his sonne / sayde to the messengere Thow bringest me no newe tydynges Nor merue lowse I knewe him mortall / as sone as I knewe hym born For of the lawe of nature I haue lernyd lyfe to be takyn and lefte And no man can dye / but he that hath leuyd Nor no man maye lyue but he shall dye naturally / In the same place it is made mencyon / that zenophon heringe the deth of his eldest sonne which was slayne in batell was contente / aloonly he put the crowne frō his heede / for he was doynge solempne sacryfice And aftirward he inqueryd how his sonne dyed / and it was shewyd him that he was slayne moost manly fighting and he sware by his goddis to whom he dyd sacrifice that he conceyuyd more gladnesse therof / then henynesse of his deth Sainte Ierome tellyth that an holy woman / and mooste noble / whan her husbonde was dede whō she especyally louyd and mournyd and his body lay vnburyed in the same daye of his buryinge she loste tway sonnes which she hadde and no moo I am to tell a thinge incredyble saith saynt Ierome / but God by wytnesse not false Who wold not haue trowyd / that she myghte a goone pluckynge her brestis / her clothis teryng her herys downe hangynge / certaynly from her fel not a droope of terys She stoode immoueable / and fallynge downe to the feete of cryste / she helde them and sayde / I am spedde good lorde and redy to thy seruyce / for thou hast dischargyd me of so greate a burdon It is redde also in the cronycles of Emperowrs / that the wyse of Octauyan buryed her sonne namyd druse And though she were a paynyme / neuerthelesse by the greate Naturall sense that was in her / she put from her all the tokyns of merowre and heuynesse / that were in her and sayde What profit is to drede that may not be reuokyd / wherfore Seneca saith / a wyseman is not afflycte for losse of his children or frendes For in suche mode he may sustayne ther deth / as he daylye awaytith for his owne And truly the Remembraunce of deth is lyke a brydell refraynynge a man that he efflowe not to moche / and Rynne in the greate brede of couetyse and lechery The meditacyon of deth Is moost greate philosofre as saith Plato Wherfore it is tolde in the lyfe of Saynt Iehan the ampuere That in the olde tyme aftir that an Emperowre was crownyd / by the Eleccyon of his Lordes / Immediatelye masons / and makers of tombis wente vnto him and sayde O Emperowre of what stone or metall wylt thow commaunde thy graue to be made They shewyd this vnto him that he shulde knowe remembyr that he was transitorye / and but a corruptible man / that he shulde thinke on the we le of his sowle / and gide the reeme wysely and vertuowsly / aftir the saynge of Scrypture Eccle .vi. Remembyr thy last thingis / and thow shalt neuer synne Alfonse tellyth in his tretyse de Prudencia That whan Alexander was dede and to him was made a Sepulchre of Golde / many philosofres came thedir togider And oon of them sayde Alexander made his Tresowre of Golde / and nowe in contrarywyse Golde hath made Cresowre of him / an othir sayde Alexander yisterdaye rulyd people / nowe people maye soone Rule him / an othir sayde yistirdaye alexander myght haue delyueryd manyon from deth This daye he cowde not escape from the dartys of deth that were caste to him an othir sayde alexander yistirdaye led a greate hoste This daye of them he is ledde to his graue / an othir / yistirday alexander pressyd the erthe This daye he is pressyd of the erthe an other yisterdaye moch people dredde alexander / this daye they despise him an other yisterday had many frendes this day al be equal with hī an other yisterday to hī sufficid not al the world / this daye is he content with a graue of .vii. foote longe He that inwardely wolde oftyn consydre this / shulde be refraynyd frome the fowle apetyte of synne It is sayde of a lyuynge man / that he shall be destroyde at last / and rote lyke a downghil Iob .xx. Therfore it is commaundyd Ecclesiast .vii. Remembir the ende For it is bettyr to goo to an how 's of lamentacyon and wepinge / than to an how 's of welfare gladnes For ther as is mourninge / the laste ende of euery Creature is remembryd And a man thinkyth what shall fall to him self / that is to saye that he shall come to suche an ende Therfore attende ye and consydre wel that in the deth of euery creature / the noose waxith colde / the teth blacke The face waxith pale / the vaynys and synowys of the body breke The harte as it is sayde deuydeth a sondir for greate paynes Al the lymmes and membris waxe drye / and styfe lyke Tymber / and stoonys / Nothinge in all this worlde is so abhominable and tedyows as is a dede corps / It is not caste in to watirs for cause of infeccyō It is nat hangid in the ayre / for corrupcyon But lyke poyson most perylows / It is cast in to a pytte no more to be sene / and erth is lyghtlye cast on it Beholde the ioye of the worlde howe it endith It is closyd in a moost stynkynge dyche where the harte consumyth The Iendrye vp The erys fall from the hede The noose rotith from the face The tonge stynkith in the mowth The harte putrifieth in the bodye But alas alas goode lorde to me what shuld these yen delyghte to see fayre thinges The erys te here vanyteys The noose to smell swete thinges The tonge to speke fowle thinges and vnprofitable The mowth to taste swete thinges The harte to thinke vayne and vyle thinges wherfore Bernarde saith why art thou prowde / thow asshyn and duste The concepcyon of the is synne Thy byrth is mysery Thy lyfe is payne / and deth is greate angwyssh As this Figure shewith Not oonly of sympel powre wretchis / but also of al maner of noble estatys / both Emperowr kynge knight whiche must chaunge this transitory lyfe / and folowe the Daunce of deth / throughe age his harte is heuy / his hede akyth / his spirite is vexyd / his breth stinkith his face ryuelyth / his backe stowpith His Ien waxe dymme His erys Ronne His Herys fall awaye His teth stinke / He lesyth his strenghtis Now is he gladde Now is he sadde / Nowe is he syke O myserable and wretchid condycyon why beholdist not thow the mysery of this mortall lyfe Consydre where by thy genytowris thy frendes and antecessowris / that occupyed here before the. and bernarde saith Tell me where be the louers of this wolde / that in shorte tyme paste were here with vs. Nothinge remaynyth of them / but oonlye asshyn and therfore I praye the / tell me where be the Barownys Where be the princes and rulers / Where be the prymatis Certaynly they be passyd lyke a shadowe / and come to nothinge / also saynte augustyn sait● Goo to the graue and take vppe the bonys / and discerne yf thow canste / which was a lorde which was a seruaunte / which was fayre / whiche was fowle whiche was riche / which was pouer / which was wyse / which was Idyote / and thow mayste not knowe in nowyse Therfore remembyr fro whense thow comyste / and be ashamyd / where thou arte / and make mournyng / whedir thou goyste / and be aferde / that thow mayst come to that celestial place aboue From the which thowe arte nowe expulsyd / which that moost blessid lorde graunt vnto vs that lyuyth and regnith eternally amen ¶ Thus endith the Dialogus of Creatures Moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly / to euery mery and iocounde mater / of late trāslated out of latyn into our Englysshe tonge right profitable to the gouernaunce of man ¶ And they be to sell / vpō Powlys churche yarde