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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68491	A pleasant dialogue. betweene a lady called Listra, and a pilgrim Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great prouince of Crangalor. 1579.	T. N., fl. 1579.; Nicholas, Thomas, b. ca. 1532, attributed name.	1579 (1579)	STC 18335.5; ESTC S110071	9,624	36

¶ A pleasant Dialogue betweene a Lady called Listra and a Pilgrim Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great prouince of Crangalor 1579. ❧ Imprinted at London by John Charlewood dwelling in Barbican at the signe of the halfe Egle and Keye ❧ To the Worshipfull Maister Edward Diar Esquier Listra wisheth prosperity I Iudge worshipful sir that you wil wonder how I a strainger presume to write this little dialogue to your Worship Nay rather you will maruell how also I write in the Englishe tongue But to make plaine these causes fyrst I say although I dwell so far from your natiue soyle yet by trauelers I haue heard of your parentage vertuous minde touching the publike weale of your Country and this is the cause wherefore I offer this Pilgrimes talke vnto your Worship and where I write in your owne language you shal vnderstand that I proceede out of a noble house and linage where my deare and louing parents wished yea and also procured that I mought haue vnderstanding in forreyn languages among the which I chiefely desired to speake and write the English tongue wherefore I craue of your worship to receyue this Pamphlet and to pardon my base stile in your language considering I am a strainger and so dooing my desire shal be fully satisfied and God graunt your gentle harts desire Your louing friend Listra of Corinth ❧ The Dialogue IT fortuned the Lady Listra comming from her sumptuous house in the Countrey and going toward Corinth accompanied with two proper younge Gentlemen her Pages she by chaunce ouertooke a poore Pilgrime clothed with a longe vesture of Sackcloth and an vpper garment of the same with a large Felt Hat on his head this Pilgrime was a man well growne in yeeres as appeared by his white head and longe beard vnto whom the Lady sayeth as followeth Lady Well ouertaken father Pilgrime and in good time Pilgrime Good Madam you are moste hartely welcome L. Father I pray you whether doo you iourney this waye P. Forsooth Madam now God willing I meane to passe to Corinth and from thence into Asia Maior L. I perceyue your Pilgrimage hath bin longe but when meane you to cease and take your rest P Madam when my body is layed in Graue For truely al mankinde hath but a pilgrimage in this worlde yea although they liue at home in their natiue Countrey and delectable houses an ende they must haue of their pilgrimage But I and suche other poore Pilgrimes doo often see by Lande and Sea the admyrable workes of the almightie The which to tell when I come home the foolish wyll holde me for a lyar yet I dooe dayly more and more praise God who is so great and this is my only contentacion L. But tell me father Pilgrime go you now to visit any monument of the Goddesse Flora here in Corinth P. No Madam I care not forsuch relikes For my frend a Philosopher warned me by the waye a●●●●ame saying Non licet omnibus adicere Corinthum yea also he wished me not to buye repentance too deare among Dame Floras dames L. Well father doo you meane to abide heere any long season P. No lenger Madam then I may amend my Shooes Hose and also prouide other furniture for my Scrippe and Bottell L. I pray you good father holde me not for importunate to demaund of you a question or two P. Rather Madam you seeme so wise that I receyue pleasure by your communication therfore good Madam say on L. I will not require of you to signifye vnto me the lawes customes rites ceremonies and strainge vsages of the Hethites among whom you haue trauailed for I know the same to be horryble and abhominable But tell me I pray you haue you bin among the Christians in East India P. Yea Madam I abode a certaine time in the famous Cittie called Crangalor which standeth scituated neare the pleasaunt Riuer of Guadalquiuer This Cittie is not onely adorned with beautie of sumptuous Temples Towers costly Howses plesant Orchards sweete Gardeins but cheefely decked with notable gouernment and celestiall Iustice L. Hath this Countrey a kinge or a Prince for chiefe Lord and Ruler P. A Prince forsooth called Basha Haily L. Then I praye you tell what reuerence doth those subiects to their Prince P. O Madam truely exceeding great But first they say yea and stedfastly beleeue that theyr Prince is the onely Deputie and Lutenaunt of God him selfe within his dominions to execute and maintaine Iustice yea such a one that is not noted of any great crime for say they God is pure and holy euen so ought his Deputie to be in maintayninge right and Iustice So that the subiects of this Prince are wonderfull obedient with life and goods and other loyall seruice L. Then must needes follow that the Nobilitye are vertuous and prudent P. Yea Madam as members so necessarye to so godly a Prince they are decked with humble harts and farre from all corruption L. The Cleargye then should seeme to liue according to the Gospell P. O Madam I cannot let but highly cōmend the Cleargye for the ritchest Bishops Prelats are not trimmed in sylkes but clothed in honest decet attire These men name themselues the Criers of God and Steward of the poore For saye they euen as the lawes of the Prince are Proclaimed through his dominions to the intent his subiects should know his will euen so say they are we the Cryers of God to proclayme preache and set foorth the lawes of the euerlasting God as well in teaching as in our liuing behaueour for if we do not so say they the Prophet telleth vs that the bloud of our flock shal be demaūded at our hands L. But why do they go so plaine appareled being Lords and of great calling P. I of my selfe Madam will say no more then I haue harde at their owne mouthes They say that Christ willed his holy Apostels to leaue their Nets and other worldly goods and follow him who in al the time that his sacred Maiestie abode vpon earth had neuer any great bodilye 〈◊〉 but continuallye like a good Shepheard went from valley to valley from hill to hill from pasture to pasture to seeke his lost Sheepe and being foūd brought them home vpon his blessed shoulders to his hierd and Sheepefolde calling allwayes synners to repentaunce so say they we being his disciples must euery one of vs take vp his owne Crosse and followe him L. Way thē how can they dispend the great profit and reuenues of their bishoprikes and other benefices P. Why Madam doo you maruell at that Then harken I pray you These good Prelats doo weekely go vnto the common Iaile where a great number of prisoners are some for debt and some for other offence and there doo they preache the worde of God amonge them perswading them to repentance and to forsake their euill liuing they doo not onely in this sort comfort the poore afflicted prisoners but also