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A19735	A svvete and deuoute sermon of holy saynt Ciprian of mortalitie of man. The rules of a christian lyfe made by Picus erle of Mirandula, bothe translated into englyshe by syr Thomas Elyot knyghte; De mortalitate. English	Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, Regulae duodecim portim excitantes portim dirigentes hominem in pugna spirituali. aut; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.	1534 (1534)	STC 6157; ESTC S108816	34,919	120

And pitie i● were that suche a flatterar as thou art shulde longe be vnhanged But passe on a goddis name GNA. I wiste well that in suche a frowarde piece of tymbre I shuld lose moche laboure yet will I proue if good counsayle may warke any thinge in the. Nowe here Pasquill what I say By thy longe rayling thy wit is well knowen Now tourne the lefe And whan thou hereste any thynge purposed by them whom thou haste offended what so euer it be affirme it to be well and therwith auaunce the wytte and intent of the persone that spake it whiche thou mayste do excellently wel For he that can dispise spitfully can if he liste prayse and commend also incomparably And if thou canst not refrain from rebukinge and tauntynge practyse thy naturall fury and woodnesse agayne them that repugne agayne the sayde purpose And where thou dyddest wonder to see me haue in my hande the Newe testament if thou woldist do the same and now in thine age laye aparte the lesson of gentyles called humanitie sens thou mayste haue good leysour beinge not yet called to counsaile picke out here and there sentences out of holy scripture to fournyshe thy reason with authoritie I make god auow thou shalt be within thre monethes able to confounde the greattest diuine in all Italy And whan thy conuersation and good opinion is knowen than shalte thou be called for But than alwaye remembre how so euer the tenoure bel ringeth he ringethe alway in tune and thoughe he iarre somwhat yet thou canste not here it his so●ne is so great and thine eares be so lytell And if other men fynde it saye that it is no faulte but a quauer in musicke and became the bell if they had the wytte to perceiue it I teach the in parables for this crafte wolde not be opened to euery man for it sholde not be for my profyte but thy subtill wyt comprehendeth al that I mene thou art so acquainted with all oure experience PAS Nowe on my feyth wel sayd I coude not haue founden a craftier knaue to lerne of betwene this and Hierusalem But who comethe here He semethe a reuerende personage he is none of thy sorte I trowe GNA. By god we be right cosens I by the mother syde and he by the father And that caused me to speake soo moche as I doo and him so lyttle and yet is there smal diuersite betwene oure condicions PAS What meaneste thou therby GNA. For we bothe haue one maister And whan he spekethe or doethe any thinge for his pleasure I study with wordes to commende it If my couseyn stande by he speketh littell or nothing but forminge his visage in to a grauitie with sylence lokethe as if he affirmed all thing that is spoken PAS what is his name GNA. Harpocrates PAS That is a harde name by Iesus But why holdethe he his finger at his mouthe GNA. For he hathe espied me talkynge and bycause he ●enethe that I speke to moche he makethe a sygne that I shulde cesse but I am gladde that I haue met with hym Cosin Harpocrates I haue sought for you this two houres PAS why speketh he not GNA. O that is his grauitie to pause a while or he speke he lerned it whan he was student at Bonony HAR. What is the matter Gnato GN My maister whan he hath dined wyll syt in counsail aboute waightie causes HAR. And whan I haue din●d I wil giue attendaunce PAS Lo is it not as I sayd a wonder to se this world In olde time men vsed to occupy the mornynge in deepe and subtile studies and in counsailes concerninge the cōmune weal and other matters of great importaunce In lyke wyse than to here controuersies and gyue iudgementes And if they had any causes of theyr owne than to treate of them and that didde they not without a greate consyderation procedynge bothe of naturall rayson and also counsayle of ph●yke And after diner they refreshed theyr wittes eyther with instrumentes of musyke or withe redinge or heringe some pleasant story or beholdinge some thinge delectable and hones●e And after theyr diner was digested than eyther they exercysed them selfes in rydinge runnynge on fote shotynge or other lyke pastyme or went with their haukes to se a f●ight at the ryuer or wold se their grehoundes course the hare for the dere whiche they didde as well to recreate theyr wittes as also to gette them good appetite But lo nowe all this is tourned in to a newe fascion god helpe vs the worlde is almoste at an ende For after noone is tourned to fore noone● vertue into vyce vice into vertu deuocion into hypocresie and in some places menne say fayth is tourned to herisye Dyd I not now say well at the beginninge That it is a wonder to see this worlde HAR. H●m Pasquillus PAS wel ye thinke as moche as I speke for al your poynting and wynkyng HAR. But in silence is surety PA. Per●haunce naye If I perceyued one at thy backe with a sworde drawen redy to strike the woldest thou that I shuld hold my peace or els tel the HA. Naye silence were than oute of season PAS Now wel fare you for your bald reson a manne may see what wisedome there is in youre compendiouse speaking ye wyll season silence Mary I wene my lorde shuld haue a better cooke of you than a counsayllour Not withstanding for youre silence ye mought be a confessour But yet I doute me for I remembre Gnato what thou say deste whyle ere that whan ye were present both with your mayster if thou commendest his sayenges or doinges this man wolde approue it with sylence and coūtenance whiche mought do more harme than all thy flatery than what mischiefe mought folow of his damnable sylence if in secrete tyme of confession wherein confessours haue aboue al men moste largest lyberte to blame and reproue he shulde eyther dissemble the vyces that he knoweth in him whom he hathe in confession or els forbeare to declare to hym the enormity of suche capytall synnes as he hath confessed GNA. By my trouthe thou arte a busy felowe doest thou remembre what thou saydeste whan thou dydest espie that I had a boke of the Newe Testament PAS what said I GNA. Mary this thou saydeste that some wolde be in the bowels of diuinite or they knowe what belongethe to good humanite Nowe thou takest thy selfe by the nose for without hauing regarde to whom thou spekest thou presumest to teche this worshipful man what he shal do in confession PAS It is well raysoned of you by swete saynt Ronion ye define teachynge as well as he dyd season his sylence Dydest thou here me teache hym what he shulde do Nay if thou haste so moch wit to remembre vpō the wordes that thou thy selfe speakest I declare what inconuenience inought happen by the flaterynge silence of ● confessour wenest thou that I was neuer confessed Yes I haue tolde a tale to a frier

called Why doest not thou thanke god and reioyce that thou arte out of the diuilles daunger ¶ The iuste man Symeon who verelye was a good and a iuste man and kepte the commaundementes of god fulle of faythe whan aunswere was made vnto hym from almyghty god that he shulde not dye vntyl he had seene Christe whan Christe beinge ababe came with his mother into the Temple he in spirite knewe that Christe was nowe borne of whose commynge he was before warned And whan he behelde hym he knewe that he hym selfe shulde shortly after departe from this worlde wherfore being ioyfull of death that approchid and beinge sure of his soone sendinge for he toke the blessed babe in his armes and with prayses thankes vnto god he sayde with a lowde voyce Nowe good lorde thou wylte lycence thy seruance to departe from this mortall lyfe in peace accordynge to the worde that thou sendest me For nowe myne eyen haue beholde thy prouision of remedye that thou haste prepared in the syghte of all people As who sayth prouynge and witnessynge also that then peace was comne to the seruantes of god and that then was a pesible quietnesse Whan we being drawen oute of the stormes of this worlde desyre to come to the hauen of parpetuall suretye and also whan deathe beinge from vs excluded we atteine to immortalite or life euerlastyng That is our peace that is our sure tranquillite that is our stedfast our fyrme perpetual suretie Furthermore what els do we in this world but fight against the deuyll daylye in batayle and agaynst his waypon and ordinaunce make resistence with contynuall conflictes we stryue dayly with auarice with lechery with wrathe with Ambicion we haue a busy payneful wrastlynge with carnall vices and worldlye delectacions The mynde of man is besyged and all aboute compassed and assaulted with synne and hardly is matched on al partes and may vneth resiste and defende hym frome all For if he ouerthrowe Auarice than sterteth vppe lecherye If lechery be oppressed ambicion cometh in her place althoughe ambition be neglected yet wrath wyll exasperate pride inflatith drunkennesse allureth enuy breketh concorde and by the same is frendshyp dissolued Thou arte constrayned to curse whiche the lawe of god doothe prohibite Thou arte compelled to sweare whiche is vnlefull These persecutions thy mynde daylye doeth suffer with these many perils thy stomake is vexed And yet doeste thou delyte to tarye longe here amonge the swordes of people malycious whan rather thou shuldest couayte and desire dethe settynge the forwarde to haste the towarde Christe he sayenge to vs in his doctryne I telle you verely ye shall boothe wepe and wayle but the worlde shal reioice and be mery ye sha● be heuy and sorowefulle but your heuynesse shal be torned into myrthe Nowe who wyll not make haste to come where he shall be mery who will not wyshe to lacke alwaye heuynesse But at what tyme our sorowe shall be torned to mirth our lorde hym selfe declareth sayeng I shal se you againe your hartes shal reioyce and that gladnes shall no man take from you Wherfore sith to see Christ is perfecte reioysyng and our gladnes maye not be without beholdinge of him what blyndenes of minde yea what madnesse were hit to loue the vexacions paynes and continual sorowes of this present worlde And not rather to make all spedy deligence to come to the ioyes whiche maye neuer be taken from the This doth happen dere frendes by cause that faythe lacketh for no man doeth beleue that suche thynges shall come whiche almyghty god who euer is trewe hath all redy promised whose worde is eternall and to theym that beleue alwaye sure and constant ¶ If an honorable man and of greate grauitie dyd promise the any thynge thou woldest truste him and woldest not thynke to be deceyued of hym whome thou knewest to be as well in worde as in dede substanciall and stedfaste But nowe all mighty god talkith with the in his scripture and thou as false and disloyall doste flitter in a mynde mistrustefull and wauerynge God hath promised to the whan thou shalt departe from this world immortalitie and lyfe euerlastynge And yet not withstandynge thou doubtest that is as moche to say as thou knoweste not god And also thou wyllynglye offendest Christe the mayster of all theym that beleue with the synne of incredulitie or lacke of beleue and that thou beinge constitute and admitted in to the church of god haste not faythe in the house of fayth How moche the departing from this worlde shall be to thy profite Christe him selfe master of our profyte and helthe dothe declare where he sayth to his disciples whiche sorowed by cause he tolde them that he wolde depart If ye loued me ye wolde reioyce for as moche as I goo to my father Therby teachinge and declaringe vnto vs that whan they whome we doo mooste fauour or loue doo departe oute of this worlde we shulde rather be glad than sorye Whiche thynge the blessed appostole remembrynge sayth in his Epistole My liuing is Christe death is to me gayne and auauntage Accomptinge the gretteste gayne not to be tangled in the snares of this worlde not to be subiecte to synne or carnall vices And beinge deliuered from troublous vexacions and from the venemouse teeth of the diuell to departe Christe calling vs to the ioye of helthe euerlastynge But there be some men which be greued for as moch as this trouble vexeth vs equallye as moche as the infydels As it were that a christen man beleueth to that intente onely that he wolde be free from the touche of al grefe and disease and inioy this worlde prosperousely Some be offended for as moche as mortalite is to vs with other in commune What thynge I pray you haue not we with other in commune as longe as this commune carnalytie remayneth accordynge to the ordinaunce of our fyrste natiuitie As longe as we be here in this world we be ioyned together with al man kynde in equalyty of fleshely substāce but in spirite we be separate Therfore vntyl this corruptible matter be with incorrupcion induyd and this mortall substance do receyue immortalite and this spirite do bringe vs vnto god our father what so euer incommodities do belong to this carnall bodye they be to vs with mankynde in commune For like as whan with colde blastes whiche do the cause barennesse the erthe is as it were fastinge and withoute foode hungre doethe excepte no man And whan a citie is wonne with enemyes by captiuitie all thynge is wasted And whan fayre wether restraynethe showers hit is but one drowth vnto all men And whan a shyppe is all to rent on a rocke the wrecke is cōmune to al them whiche be in it Also the payne of the eyen violence of feuers and disseasis of all other membres be to vs with all other in commune as longe as this commune bodye is borne aboute in