Impenitence Infidelity Ignorance Vain Sorrow slowly evill hope Curiosity Idlenesse Evagation letting to do good Desolation Out of the which xvii branches commeth Cliv small branches which bringeth a man to everlasting damnation and pains perpetuall The first branch of Sloth Evâ—l thought Superfluous thoughts To delight in thinking evil Thinking that sin is a sweet thing Long abiding in thinking evill Dolorous cogitations How they may hurt any secretly That imputeth his deed unto other How doing evill they may be said good Detestable thought How they may do evill How doing evil they may persevere How they may resist to the good The ii branch of Sloth Annoy of wealth To sinne by custome For that other sinneth in like wise For the custome is so for to do For there is none that reproveth the evill doing Sinning by malice When any loveth evill and doth accomplish it When any loveth the good and doth it not When any hateth the good and loveth the evill Or by desire not to love it When any doth good against his will When any reioyceth not in doing good When it displeaseth them not if they do evill The iii. branch of Sloth Readiness to ill By constance In leaving the good which they know Changing oft times their purpose and counsell Weak in adversity and raise himself in prosperity By pusillanimity Withdrawing him from the good Mistrusting in the grace of God Fearing to begin any good thing By curiosity Seeking new things and unprofitable Pleasantly to hear tales and fables Seeking new tydings by his own will The iiii branch of Sloth Pusillanimity Dread where they ought not Dreading that which is to come is no domage Loosing the spirituall goods for the temporall If temporall adversity seem over grievous Dread more than they should Making great sorrow for that thou hast lost Sorrowing that they have which they desire Making sorrow if any thing hap against thy will Dread them they should not As detractors when thou livest iustly As defending the evill for to please them Or it noyeth them not if any do well The v. branch of Sloth Evill will Will to do evill That it be to the dishonor of God To the damage and preiudice of his neighbours To the damnation of the soul. Customably for to do evill For the declaration of thy evill For the displeasure of the good For they do that which they please and will Delighting in evill as much as they may Not resisting evill cogitations Loving evill delectations Appetiting that they may delight in evill The vi branch of Sloth Breaking vows By negligence When any maketh a vow and mispraiseth to do it That doth lesse to vow then he hath promised That fullfilleth not his vow as he should By forgetting Of secret vows or things to them belonging Of vow promised to himself or other Of vow made to enter into religion By dispraising Not accomplishing his vow when he may Or that may not and doth none other good semblable Or that they have no letting for to accomplish it The vii branch of Sloth Impenitence Living and do no penance By finall penance and never to repent By delation from day to day of repenting By misprising that they will not repent them Not having shame to sin When after sin they be ready to sin again When they shame not of the sin they have done Or without sorrow reioyce them to have done ill Purpose for to sin Being in will to accomplish mortall sinne After they have sinned purpose to abide in it Seeking occasion to fall into every sin The viii branch of Sloth Infidelity Not beleeving that they should beleeve As the Iews beleeved and other unfaithfull men That will not hear the articles of the faith Or that heareth them and will not beleeve in them Beleeving that they should not In false Gods as doe the Sarazens In Idols or in some Simulachres Or beleeve in devilish things as witches do Beleeving unstedfastly Doubt in that they ought to beleeve stedfastly Beleeve and not stedfastly as they ought to do Easily to let himself be deceived of his faith The ix branch of Sloth Ignorance Indiscretion Do without counsell which should be counselled Doing without manner they ought to hold Doing without wisedome things that is needfull That they ought to understand Dispraising knowledge and will not be taught Not travelling to learn that they ought to know Not purposing and not caring for to learn Not willing to know For they run and will take no pain to learn For to have excusation of not knowing For sloth and negligence of learning The x. branch of Sloth Vain sorrow In noysomness of living When good things bee displeasant When all things been annoying When all that they do is done heavily False hope Presuming too much of the mercy of God Not going from sin trust in the mercy of God Living in sin without the dread of God Dispraising For the straightnesse of iustice of God For the greatness of the sinne that they have coÌ„mited To mistrust in the mercy of God The xi branch of Sloth Slownesse Toward forbidden things When any exposeth him too much in perill of sin When any are too much assured for to do sin When any exposeth him too much in temptations Toward holsome counsell Not willing to be good and leave the doing ill Not honoring the good and love it better than the ill Dispraising the counsell of good folk Toward the commandement Not doing the commandement that they ought Dispraising the commandement or him that made it Not loving any thing that is commanded The xii branch of Sloth Evill hope Despise men of good fame Continuing in doing evill operations In having hope to do evill all only Or doing them both together Not fearing shame Not caring what thing is said of thee Nor caring if any be slandered by thee Not seeking that any be edified by thee Doing good in evill intention Fraudulently and thou knowest it well Without discretion not caring to whom nor how Cauteously for thou wilt not know it The xiii branch of Sloth Curiosity Seeking unprofitable things Willing to understand the thing that is cause of sin Laboring to confound other by force of language For to be called wise of Ideots and fools Delighting to vain things To draw and go to such as be dissolutioâ—s Or that they do and make dissolute Or make thee take heed unto all vanities Doing that none other can do Making new things that were never seen Or that they learn things that be evill Or things that bee only for to make folk laugh The xiv branch of Sloth Idlenesse Ceasing to do good That is to say good cogitations To good words And to good works Seeking to do evill That is to know the concupiscence of the flesh The concupisence of the eyne is avarice And to live proudly Not resisting to do evill For love that they have to evill For annoy they have to goodnesse For negligence of themselves The xv branch of Sloth
nigh the which unity in the end of the bodies above every day is one letter of the A. b. c. for to understand in what signs the Moon is in that day And yet the said letters and the rubrish for the which shall be one figure before the Kalender which shall shew how they should understand it This yeer of this present Kalender which began to have course the first day of Ianuary M. CCCC.xcvii In the which raigneth for the golden number sixteen The letter dominical A. The letter tabular f. and b. In the first lines and their figures neerest the golden number xvi the yeer of this Kalender To know the letter Dominical by the verse underneath Filius esto dei coelum bonus accipe gratis Or by these other verses here following Fructus alit Canos el gelica bellica danos El genitir bona dat Finis amara cadat Dat floris anni caler ejus gaudia busti Cambit edens griffo boabel dicens fiat agur For to set the month A dam de ge bat er go ci phos a dri phos For the golden number and the new Moon Ter nus un din nod octo sex quinque tred ambo ve cem duc Septem quin quar tus doc io ta no vem vi quar An ingenious practice or Compost of Shepheards Newly and subtilly shepheards have found a short practice for to know the golden number the letter dominicall the tabular letters as ensueth the which for subtilty is difficil to be understood if first it be not shewed by such as understand it well but as to this it behoveth not to tarry travel for cause of the figures that ensigneth and sheweth how to find and know the said practice Finis canos agur ejus bona fructus Dicens anni bellica griffo dant amara El cambet gaudit dat alit fiet color Genitrix danos boabel flores cadat gelica Edens busti Four secrets of the Compost of Shepheards Mobilis alta dies C currens aureus octo Sexdeno cum D non erit inferior B Veneris sancta sed quinque tred ambo Maria Nec erit in toto dicens similis simul octo The manner to know the festival daies on the hand and on what days they bee WHo so will know on his hand when the holy days falleth take heed of the same letters A. b c. d e. f. g. The days of the week bee vii one for Sunday and for the other days vi Put them in the ioynts of the left hand on iiii fingers and with the right hand they ought to be marked for the more certainty A b c. on the back of the hand and g. above d e f. within the hād Then ye ought to know in what place every month should be A little after dam of g. b E. g. c. bee on the month of the little finger F. a. on the leach finger February and March on the learh finger together April on g. May on b. Iune on the middle finger above ◠Iuly upon g. and August upon c. September upon f. October on a. of the fourth finger Then November above d. and December above f. of the little finger And thus the twelve months be set on the fingers After bran pen cru lucy the Embre dayes be set truly In each of these two lines here under be as many sillables as there be festivall days in the yeer and every day ought to be set on the joynts of the left hand as is shewed here in this present book January Cir o ia nus e pi lu fe la nus et keu fe man mar an Pis ca fab ag vin cen ti pau lum iul ag que ba tilde February Bre pur blas et a ue fe bru o sco la sli ca va lent Iul con um ge tur cum pe tro math so ci e tur March Mo sed mar ci us bal to duth kes con gre go ri um bo Pat ed ward cuth be ne ca pe ma ri am ge ni tri cem Aprill Gil gip ric et am bro si i dat a pril le on eu fe ti bur ci Post al phe fe sta ge or mar ci que vi ta lis May. Phi li cruc may i un la tin nic gor de ne re i que Post e a don se qui tur post fal phe sest ta ger ad en pe que June Nic mar in bo ni fa med co lum bar ba ci ba vi ti Bo mar marg ed ward si mil la ba el io le on pe pau July Ser ui iul mar ti ni tho mo que fra be dic ti suth un ken Ar nulf marg prax mag ap cris ia an dor sam sun ob gre August Pe steph aug gust trans do ci ro lau ti bur ri ip on Sump ta sit a mag ni bar tho lo ruff ag io oon fel on cut September E gis sep cup bert ha bet nat gort gon pro thi que curt Lam ber ti quo math ma mar te cle fer cip da con mich ier October Rem le o fran ci fi mar tunc dig er a ni a ed. Post lu cas iu in de ro ma cris pi ni si no nis quin. November Om nis tunc sanc ti le o mar ti bri ci a ni a ed. Pre te cle gri ka li ni a que sat an December E le gi bar ba ni co con cep et lu ce i al ma. O sa pi en que tho mas pro pe nat steph io tho me sil How every month praiseth it self of some good property January I Make me to be called Janivere In my time is great storms of coldness For unto me no month of the year May compare if I advance me doubtlesse For in my time was as clarks do expresse Circumcised the Lord omnipotent And adored by Kings of the Orient February I am February the most hardy In my season the pure mother Virginal Offered her sonne in the Temple truly Making to God a present speciall Of Iesus Christ the King of kings all Between the arms of the Bishop Simeon To whom pray we to have his remission March March am I called in noblenesse flourishing Which among months am of great Nobless For in my time all the fruits do bud and spring To the service of man in great largess And Lent is in me the time of holiness That every man ought to have repentance Of his sins done by long continuance April Among all months I am iustly April Fresh and wholesome unto each creature And in my time the dulcet drops distill Called Christall as Poets put in Scripture Causing all stones the longer to endure In my time was the resurrection Of God and man by divine election May. Of all the months in the year I am King Fourishing in beauty excellently For in my time in vertue
Evagation In idle things Exposing him in vanities Not withdrawing him from vanities Willing to abide in vanities Or delectable things For they been evill and pleasant Abiding by long time and space When thy will is thereunto provoked And wicked things How cautiously they may endomage and hurt Or the more grievously hinder Or the more longer annoy The xvi branch of Sloth Letting to do good Consenting to them that do evill By malice for to accomplish their will For hate that they have to the good folk Or for hate of good they might do Not helping the good When they may have no profit without they help There as they be in perill Whereas they defail without having succour Hindering the good As by himself Or by other persons Or hold from them that they owe them The xvii branch of Sloth Dissolution As in vain things In the beholding folk sporting them by vanity Setting their eye to behold any vanity Being in places popular and publike In wanton things In lusts of the body In lightnesse of courage By force of singing and crying Or in foolish reioycing By laughing too much and over long To be without gravity when they should be so To provoke other to laugh Here beginneth the twenty branches and boughs of Covetise as compunction Rapine Vsury with-holding debt Not yeelding commited Simony Sacriledge Theft being proprietary taking gifts uniustly To have too much Expending abundantly Fraude false compunction Leasing Swearing Forswearing False witnesse Plays being vagabond Of the which twenty branches commeth other small twiggs or branches to the number of an hundred and thirty And so the whole number of them is an hundred and fifty The first branch of Covetise Compunction Solicitude of thought Forget the spirituall goods for the temporall goods Be negligent to the spiritual diligeÌ„t to the temporal Dispraise the goods of the soul for them of the body How to winne without convenance Holding that without noysance they ne may Procuring goods of other for to have profit Willing to have profit for their solicitude And may not withdraw them from it Getting temporall goods by great delectation Being holden in love to get temporall goods Or to vaunt him to get more than he can The ii branch of Covetise Rapine Taking by force the goods of other To his subiects or lesse than he To his enemies by what manner that it be To his neighbour by subtil mean Doing violence To his subiects for him of temporall goods Or likewise by spiritual things with threatnings Or in spirituall things making promises By curveis and subsedies Doing unduly without right and reason Or that before they were accustomed so to do Or that they be done by force of threatnings The iii. branch of Covetise Vsury By covenant made When any sels the dearer because of abiding Lend mony to have more largely Or for because they lend and do abide Without covenant but in hope Not lend without they have a pledge Or by signs to be sure to win by lending When any receiveth or lendeth to have benefit To sell for more for giving days As be open usurers Or that they think to get mony by they sell. Or by accustomance so for to sell. The iiii branch of Covetise Withholding Denying it Debt thou knowest well thou dost owe. Or the debt thou hast forgotten The which is openly know that thou owest Or stealing it Hoping to give it him another time Without will to give it him though thou may Not having power to pay and ask no mercy To forget it Which be paid and ask it him again Not giving children that they have of their friends Detaining willingly that to other belongeth The v. branch of Covetise not yeild things commised Withholding them by deed By strength or violence distribute them to himself By fraud make them to lose them that owe them Saying they hold them under colour of love Defer for to yeeld them To the end mean while they may profit them Or that by some mean they may keep them Or to have meed for yeelding them Lending them to other To have recompence for such lending By curiosity to lend that which is not his By ambition to say is his which is not The vi branch of Covetise Simony Selling spirituall things by words To people adulterous by their flattering By leading of processe and to unworthy people By the evill words of other Selling spirituall things by price And taken before such thing be common Or taken after they be common Putting cause wherefore the same was not Selling spirituall things by praiers Sometime doing with threatnings Or sometime without threatnings And sometime with violence and force The vii branch of Covetise Sacrilege Taking sacred things in holy places As the goods of the Church to be taken in thâ— Church Withholding dismes and things of the 〈◊〉 Taking the goods of the Church undeserved Or hallowed things in place not hallowed Taking the goods of the Church where they â—e Vnworthily distributing the goods of the 〈◊〉 A lay man having dismes saying to be his Or things not hallowed in holy places By quests or any thing longing to the Church All goods for surety put in the Church Things or casualties to them allowed The viii branch of Covetise Theft stealing without it be known For him that thou robbst did thee domage aforetime Or thou dost it of thy proper malice Or for thy simplenesse and ignorance Having the goods of other hiding them For to withhold them more peaceably For fear to be punished Or for thou wilt always persevere in ill Consenting to him that doth evill For it pleaseth thee that such robbery be done Or thou hast profit by such robbery Or for thou fearest him that doth such theft The ix branch of Covetise Being proprietary A religious of the goods of his religion To have without knowledge of his prelate Or by consent of the prelate which appertaineth not Or have licence to approper too much to him Men or women married WheÌ„ one hath good without knowledge of the other Or that one giveth too much to his kin When one spendeth privily the common goods Of the patrimony of the crucifixe In taking more than of necessity Vnworthily and where it appertaineth not to be Spending it in evill usage The x. branch of Covetise Taking gifts uniustly To do hurt And for to bear domage unto other In accusing other wrongfully Or sometime accusing for a iust cause To cause dishonesty As for to make treason or conspiration To make immundicity and dishonest things Or in taking both the adverse parties To sell iustice To the end to do his particular profit Hasting iustice and to wrong him that hath right Deferring to do right to him it longeth to The xi branch of Covetise Having too much Getting overmuch By violence done for friends or for silver Or by usury uniustly common to Or by frauds and deceptions acquired Withholding overmuch To the end they may be more honored and dread To the end to have