to the copweb euin by and bie Wherwith much more wilfullie then wittelie And yet not witlesse into a ray they got Marching toward the copweb within goon shot The watch towre strake a larum thenmyes discrieng The goonners gaue fire and first at raundon thay Shot of the goonstones among the flies flying Which gald the flies curstlie cumming on the way But foorth flying the flies now as fast as they may Without trenching or such defensife forstalles Ordnance they ley to batter that castell walles ¶ ‡ Great shot and greuous slaughter of flies there was Ere they could anie peece of the walles batter To make it sawtable but so cam to passe That in short time that wall they did so shatter That theyr waielaie playne and streyght to the matter For which they cam they went To such a fears fight As neuer fought spiders and flies in mannes sight ¶ The flies geue onset in assawte vpon the castell the spiders defending it in furious fighte And vpon the slaughter on both sides the flies retire to their campe The spiders wife and childerne on knese to him beseching him to take peace with the flies Cap. 66. IN aÌ„li battred brackes flies rageing in a ranke Ferstie flew in all blacke as the cloudie skie Spiders defending them Spider nor flie shrancke Hundreds strikin with gouâ—es in peeses twentie Theare a leg here an arme there a head doth flie And peece from peece by violence flowne round A flight shoote a sonder and as fer from ground Both sides to se so busilie occupide With polaxis partisans hawberds billes goons Trompets on both sides ech tencoorage theyr side The auoyans of the noise thorough my head roons The soonlesse flies fathers the fatherlesse flies soons With this thing aboue all thing a lacke alacke Oh what wofull widow flies go now in blacke Thre quarters of an houre this fight endewred Which time I imagined domes daie present And that all the damd soules had bene procured To cum with the deuill thither in his band hent There to set vp hell to suffer theyr tornment For dewring the time I thinke no worldlie sight More like hell then was sight of that hellie fight Terrour wherof was to be witnessed well To se so manie aliue so late now dead Thousandes setting on that copweb with hart fell Hang now there like hearings in nettes by the head And spiders for their part not scorfree lead Here sum and there sum snacht vp a mid the rour That were within halfe a houre a fore full stout At end of this fraie no part saw cause to bost Fiue thousand flies and fiue hundred spiders sleyne Wherwith the flies seeing so manie flies lost And of theyr purpose could yet no part obteyne At retret of trompet they retyred a meyne Where they before had campt There to take a breath To saue their honesti and kepe them from death The spiders were as glad to se the flies backes As flies were to show them For what time thay Beholding dead spiders ech seeth his freend lackes Few spiders or none saw cause to ioye that daie The spiders wife and childerne nere dead in fraie On knees besought him in waie of petiscion With the flies to take peace on sum condiscion ¶ The spider hauing compassion on his wyfe and childerne as on him selfe he saith that he will with the aduice of his councell in their sute do all that maie be done for the best Cap. 67. THe spider in hering of this theyr request Seeing them in such feare as he saw them there That sight and hering maie at first sight be gest In husband and fathers that anie zele bere To their deare wiues and swete babes at iye and ere The sight showth and hering soundth such sight and sound As maie their zelus harts to death welnie wound What kind harted husband can se his kind wife In like carefull case without wo at his hart What naturall father can se for his life His naturall childerne in dread quake and start Without his hart smarting in most smartfull smart I thinke ye thinke none and euin so thinke I. Meruell not then though the spider be toucht nie He tenderlie tendreth his childerne and wife Refusing to stand vp when he bad them rise Till he wold graunt them his grace to stint this strife His sight of feare in them and furie in flies Added his more perplexite to deuise To vse pittie to them as nature draue him And polisie to flies as reason gaue him To this he saide my dere wife and sweet babes two Great weare the thing by you of me desired That I could denie in what I can do But for this treason spightfullie conspired And so put in vre by flies now retired Your sute therin yf I should graunt out of hand As the case standth I dout how that graunt should stand This case touching me and ill spiders most nie In me and my counsell shall forthwith be scand Go in and be cherfull and feare not but I Wyll fauer and forder your sute as maie stand With most safte of vs and all our whole band They rase and made curtsie forthwith whervpone They and he weeping they from him thens are gone ¶ The spider set with twelue of his counsaile declareth his wiues and childerns sute adioyning therunto eocideracions of his owne for peace to be taken with the flies Requiring those counsellers while he departe and returne to determine what waie he shall take Cap. 68. THe spider with his counsell to counsell gat The flies stocking togither as was then neede In consultacion full besilie sat Eche side for them selues best waie to se decreede I gaue eare to both sides to here them proseede Stretching my memorie to a double charge To hold vpon hering both theffectes at large And first what I gathred on the spiders side That shall ye haue and then the talke of the flise The spiders at a bord them selues did deuide Sir on th one six on thother side To deuise And diside such matter as should there arise The head spider in a cheyre at the boordes end Entrith as foloweth here after pend Dere freendes our present parell in wordes to dilate It in deede in hart felt and at iye here seene Should show follie Our case is now to debate Our best waie to winde out of this daunger cleene To stey our state as before stayde hath beene Wherin betwene two things I doutfullie dout To which one I shall vndoutedlie stand stout My wife and children vpon their knees all three With dead hartes as death in their faces did show As I loue theyr liues humblie be sought me By some meane forthwith to peace with flies to grow For should they said they se the like ouerthrow That they had sene betwene our enmies and vs Of theyr present deathes they felt feling discus This perplexth me what one waie to take of twaine Nature prokth me in pitteing those three To take peace with the
fathers aduersitee As rightlie and rightfully on thee to light As on thy father thou seest it now light right Now to you of his counsell marke what I deuies In you lithe the putting in vre of all this You are his hands his feete his eares and his iyes Hering feeling or seeing in him small is To walke or to woorke with you woorking amis You are the myrrors that all lookers looke in As you woorke they woorke but you must first begin In which woorke this walke I exorte you to take Walke in amite woorke in vnite The answere of suters expeditelie make Serch their subiestions how they maie agree To be graunted with honorable honeste Offenders against you when ye will chalenge Neuer draw his sword your quarels to reuenge These be the great grounds presentlie brought in minde They passing two parts of my promised thre Me to declare you to exort in such kinde As maie show cause of repentance in me For ils past and for thills to cum in ye Warning to a voide thirdli and lastlie now To witnesse my submission I shall pray you First to the great god I humblie and wholie Submitte me euine so beseching his mercie For all my great sin and all offensife follie Against him committed Secondarilie Of all the whole worlde here I generallie Are forgeuenesse Where and in what mine offence To craue forgeuenesse chargith my conscience Thirdlie and speciallie good maistres maide Your displeasure toward me to bring appeased I praye your beningnite to be displaide To forgiue my gilt which hath you displeased And not onlie displeased but diseased Namelie now in streyning your arms long and small To clense your window of vncumlie copwebs all Fourthlie and finallie remission sought By submission to all spiders and flise That I in this window haue offended ought In taking or geuing the hooles in such sise Or stretched my copwebs here in such wide wise As streightned anie part of their lawfull right Of them on knees I praye forgeuenesse in sight Here end I sauing six woords here to be saide Vnto my child I him in mine arms haning Pronounsed in your hering good maistres maide Your lisence wherto is mine humble crauing Without woord of anie ill in deprauing Content quoth she whet with in arms he tooke him Saying these woordes while she did ouer looke him ¶ After a few wofull woordes of the spider had to his sonne they bothe claspynge eche other in armes verie naturally he â—ysseth and blisseth him Wherewyth that sonne with all the twelue spiders dolefullie departe from the spider Cap. 93. OH depe desired sight of thee my childe dere Behold thy father how he beholdeth thee To thy mother and brother thou shalt appere After this weeping time worne out of you three To your comforts oftimes but no time more to me Our departings differ nothing more vnneth You fro me to life I from you to death Now here in sight as I should neuer be hence Streight hence from sight as I had neuer bene here Well farewell vse to thy mother obedience To thy brother let brotherlie loue appere Commend me to them both my Iuels dere I blisse thee kisse thou me they did so and so Lothlie he losed his arms and leete him go ¶ The mayde appeering as woe to distroye the spider as he is to be dystroyde wyth her foote presseth hym to death Cap. 94. The water ran downe the cheekes of them both two The maide pitteing both wept as fast thaie But for that she must do more then she wold do The spider had bene forgeeuen and gone his waie But they gone weeping awaie without delaie The spider laying prostrate she thervpon Seiting her foote on him he was foorthwith gon ¶ The mayde hath before her the twelue spiders and the twelue flies that had bene before in place And vpon her show that all harms doone by those generacions is growne by mysorder she fynally deuiseth full redresse in poynting them to grow to order Cap. 95. VPpon this execucion done she hath now Before her these twelue spiders with those twelue 〈◊〉 That erst weare there they erst mensioned to you Vnto which nombre she did the are deuise Certaine precepts geeuen in woords weightie and wise Which to repeate as rightlie as I can I will And in this wise her tale began To traine the time and tarie you quoth she In talke of your forefauts folli it weare The smart both doth and will still tell it ye But what thing brought that smart eche when and wheare That heare to here eche one ley to his care Which thing brieflie to tell brief end to forder Was onlie in you all this thing misorder As god orderlie created creatures all So weare they treated to orderlie entent To vse them selues ech creature in his call Of which created sort the creator ment Spiders and flies twayne to order to relent The lacke wherof on your sides witnesseth wee le To haue wrought displeasure on all sides euerideele On all sides I saie meaning these sides therby Your sides my side my master and masters side First for your sides the smart showth feelingly On my side â—uch rebukes as I a bide Of them for you seeming your fauts to hide And on their sides their most displesaunt sight To se spiders and flies out of order quight Spiders spinning in windows welnie in their faris Spightfullie haue sponne And flies innumerablie To blow their meate haue made their commun tracis Thus lacke of order on your two sides proue I To haue brought all sides to liue displesantlie To my masters and maistres greefe greatli growne Whose which greefe to me is more then mine owne By whose appointment vnder them as now I hauing here the cure must haue the care To assine redresse for which I sent for you To you and to all yours in you to declare Order to ease all spiders and flies that are And all other such as haue bene anoide By lacke of order which ye ere this distroide That spiders and flies are the creatures of god And all his creatures in their creacion good I know and aknowledge Or els gods forbod I hate neither the spiders nor the flies brood I loue all as behoueth maidenlie mood All his creatures in an order we must loue That orderlie vse them selues as doth behoue And such as be ill yet maie we not hate The persons but the ill in the persons seene This learnd I of a preacher that preached late And of my selfe I thanke god I haue not beene So much giuen to hate anie person I meene Be they spiders be they flies what euer they be But I can vse all as standth with charite And charitablie such an order to set To set you in rest and the sayde rest therby All fauts in all past to forgeue and forget That will I you all to do And orderly Ethone to vse him selfe ordinarilie And eche vse other in euerie kind of cause As thold knowne well ordered
order Wherevpon the captaine goinge to the question the ant is condemde by the voyce of the most nombre The captaine then willing hym to make his last prayers he doth so Cap. 62. ¶ While the ant saith his prayers on the ladder two â—lies thinking him to be wrongfullie cast a waie pitteing the case They touche in talke three sortes of flies seene there then Wherin is toucht sum parte of properties of newâ—er flies Cap. 63. ¶ The ant hauing now made his prayers beinge at poynt to be turnd from the ladder a flie a far of crieth holde Who lighting in the tree bringeth suche a message from the hed spider as the Ant thereby is repride and caried to prison Cap. 64. ¶ The captaine flie inueith vpon matter before past in such sorte so encoraging the flies againe that anone thei all crying to the captaine to march forwarde thei brauely set foorth And laiyng their ordinaunce to the copweb castell thei besege it rownde Cap. 65. ¶ The flies geue onset in assawte vpon the castell the spiders defending it in furious fighte And vpon the slaughter on both sides the flies retire to their campe The spiders wife and childerne on knese to him beseching him to take peace with the flies Cap. 66. ¶ The spider hauing compassion on his wyfe and childerne as on him selfe he saith that he will with the aduice of his councell in their sute do all that maie be done for the best Cap. 67. ¶ The spider set with twelue of his counsaile declareth his wiues and childerns sute adioyning therunto coÌ„cideracions of his owne for peace to be taken with the flies Requiring those counsellers while he departe and returne to determine what waie he shall take Cap. 68. ¶ Straight as the spider is gone the rest arise withdrawing a sonder in three plumpes fowre in a plumpe no one knot knowing what the rest saith which done thei all set downe again against the spiders returne Cap. 69. ¶ The spider set againe with his cownsaile in those three said sortes arise thre diuers waies to take herin The best one wherof to choose the spider departeth to deuise vpon Willing them to cause all corners of that castell to be clensed and all battred places made stronge againe Cap. 70. ¶ The flies in campe be at cownsell desirously deuising by what meane to get peace best Whervpon the captaine inuenting a meane to driue thaÌ„t to sew for peace if thei will be ruled by him thei thervnto agree And thervpon the ant is brought before the flies Cap. 71. ¶ The captaine telth the ant that the flies haue retired from thassaute wheare manie spiders are slayne to se whether the spiders wyll sew for peace for which since they sew not the flies will assaute them agayne But the ant they wyll hang streyght before they go Cap. 72. ¶ The Ant vpon soden shorte warning of his death beynge much dismayde laying all that he can for his life and yet can get no grace he prayth respight while he be brought to the spider to se whether he wyll grow to anie peace to saus the antes life Whiche graunted the ant is brought before the spider Cap. 73. ¶ Thant in waie of peticion sewinge to the spider for peace laying consideracâ—ons to prouoke him the rather therto the spider doth attentiuelie geue the ant hering Cap. 74. ¶ The spider vpon thants tale tolde to him alegith certaine thinges by which he â—emeth in doubte much to graunt peace to the flies Wherin the ant and he trauersing sumwhat anon he graunteth peace to them vnder condicion exprest wherewith thant is brought to the flies agayne Cap. 75. ¶ Thant declaring peace as it is graunted the flies in muche ioye set the ant thankfullie at libertie and home goeth he Whervpon the captaine commaundeth all flies to draw nere to here him speake ere they depart But they flee all awaye a few excepte Cap. 76. ¶ Vpon a litle talke had betweene the captaine and the few flies there lefte touchinge the rewdnesse and lightnesse of the common sort of flies misliking their former light lewde demenure they depart The campes on both sides clere brooken vp Cap. 77. ¶ Thant being cum to the molehill solemlie receiued of hys wyfe and childerne and a great numbre of ants he telth to them all a tale discorsinge theffect of all his trouble had amoÌ„g the spiders and flies Willing them diligentlie to marke what he saith Cap. 78. ¶ Thant hauing said what he wyll saie willeth all ants to note whie he saide that he saide Whiche is to warne them by his armes to beware how they meddle in matters betweene spiders and flies Cap. 79. ¶ Foure flies in the name of all â—lies at the copweb thanking the spider for pardon and peace declaringe the conditions and the performance on their parte â—ew to the spider on his parte to performe his graunt in laying out and possessing them of theyr limitts with halfe the hooles in the window which he graunteth bidding them a litle time staie in which while he sendth the yongest spider of his twaine to the ant praying him to cum to him againe To deuide and deliuer the hooles to the flies as the spider will apoinct them Cap. 80. ¶ Vpon this message done thant feinth a let of his cuÌ„ming bi a hurt mischansing him that morning with which answere the yonge spider returneth to the olde Cap. 81 ¶ The spider after a few woords to the foure flies assineth to them al the smal holes beneth Halfe the holes in numbre but scant the sixt parte of the roome At whiche they sumwhat grudge But they must take them or none Cap. 82. ¶ The foure flies flowne thence the spider to the flie in prison leith that in all kinds of triall that daie on both parts laide he thinketh his owne part approued best as he thinketh the flis wolde thinke were he a spider contrarie iudgement wherof the flie thinketh in the spider were he a flie wherupon they agree to change places eche for the time to imagin and set foorth others part the best they can Cap. 83. ¶ They hauing Chaunged places they alege eche for his dissembled side Wherin the flie anone is so alured to pride and ambyssyon in occupying for the while the spiders statelie place that he at last with an othe affirmeth that spiders are owners of all windowes The spider graunting it trew sterteth to the flie seeming to â—ake end vpon the flies owne iudgement Cap. 84. ¶ The flie out of that chaier falne flat before the spider perseyuing his ouersight and daunger therin he declareth howe change of place changed his affection In discoorsing of which case he partlie toucheth the commoditie of aduersitie and the discommoditie of prosperitie Beseeching the spider to relinquishe all aduauntage therin to be taken against him Which the spider graunteth Cap. 85. ¶ The spâ—der vpon a glaunce geuen at his desert of thanke to be had at the flies hand allegeth custom
ye procede Contrary therto in hope of whiche dealing I did at beginninge renoke apealyng But if your dealyng deale dole otherwise Contrarying iustice erst graunted here My reuocacion of apeale lykewyse I wyll reuoke and as thinges nowe apere I muste reuoke that reuocacion clere Or els that iustice here although ye wolde Can not acording to your promesse holde For so is nowe this matter brought aboute That it to iudge neither can you nor I We both be parties so perciall that this doute Muste be discuste and iudgde indifferently By folke indifferent which if ye deny In suche fourme as I haue here erste deuised Then by the Iustice whiche ye erste promised I claime thre comon lawe where I am sure To saue me safe from harme that lawe hath grounde For if your euidence be put in vre That is so sleight I shall be gilteles founde And being silent if no witnes sounde Then this bondage of prison to discharge Proclamacion streight shal set me at large Naie sir ye must paie your fees er ye go But goth my parte flie in thine opinion No nere vnto the pyth for sooth syr no. Your case in lawe is not worth an inion Well flie quoth he sins thou arte a minion Of so large learninge I praie the teache me Sum lesson in this tale to beleue the. That lesson shewth here not so ferre behyndâ— In lacke of learning as of remembrance For if it lyke you here to calle to mynde By brefe recytall the very substance Argude as yet betwene vs in this chance I doute not in the same your selfe to se Cause in my former wordes to credite me As thus ye remember our mattier paste Your selfe hath deuided into partes thre Burglary felonie and trepas laste And firste for burglary ye saw and muste se That flies by nature no night theues can be And though we coulde yet might your selfe in sight Witnes with me to cum nowe by daie lighte And vnto this touchinge the seconde charge Whiche chargeth me with single felonie I am assured you serching at large Remembring my cumminge vnwillinglie Shall well perceiue my pure innocencie In talke wherof the trewthe muste make vs saiâ— That we at length were driuen to ye and naie Wherin I proue that mine affirmatiue Your negatiue so crerely doth confute That I dare saie any iewry alyue You letting not the case fall to nonsute But stande to triall in that we dispute Shall vpon hearinge what this mounth vntill Geue verdite with cumming againste my will And thirdely in trespas you charginge me With the hurte of your howse I nothinge donte The carte case shall make iewry and iudge se This trespas on my syde cleane scraped out And this debate at ende so brought aboute That in this lates lawe shall well aproue The holes all mine and you to bylde aboue Now sins of vs twaine no one can be iudge Because we be both extreme perciall partise I wonder what cause doth cause you to grudge At the arbitermente that I deuise In these thre saide cases there can arise In your recouery by the comon lawe None aduauntage to the value of a strawe ¶ The spider puth a case in appeale ill in apparence for the flie as the spider drawth it and anone he by example of the lordes will had in courtes of copie holde seming to leane to warde will the flie laboreth to qualefie that will Cap. 24. THou shalte quoth the spider in this strife all Answere thy selfe by thy answering me To one question whiche nowe demaunde I shall My felow flie I put this case to the. That this same daie at London chaunste to be Some man committing suche a heinous dede That death by lawe in London should procede The whiche dede being at Louane committed Lawe there for that dede no death doth prouide The faughter herin so wilely witted To saue his lyfe apealth to be repride From London to Louane there to be tride Were it flie quoth he reason in this case That this mans apeale shoulde take any plase I thinke sir quoth the flie it were no reason To graunte requeste of suche apeale in race Of trymes deseruing death at any season But thottender being taken in place Where he hid the dede to stande to the grace Of lawful lawe in that precinkte presente Whiche so iudgeing him I take iuste iudgemente Ouoth the spider god haue mercie on the. A men quoth the flie but why speake you that I speake and praie it euen of charite Neuer was there yet any larke or wat Before hawke or dog flatter darde or squat Then by this answere al thy matter is Thou haste condemde thy selfe now in all this How so quoth the flie thus quoth the spyder Thou grantst where faughters do an enterprise Whiche worthy death the lawe doth cosider Thenterpriser shall apeale in no wise But take suche chaunce as by lawe there doth ryse Adewe arbiterment and nisi prius In stede of twelue or twaine one shall nowe trie vs. What one shall that be my selfe quoth he Thy dede done here hath by lawe here death sure Alonely to be tride at wyll of me At mine erste sewte saide the flie here in vre Ye promised iustice to be so pure That with or against me ye wolde nought do But as my selfe in reason muste gre to Wherin we being cumminge towarde the pointe In performance of promise to see triall Nowe is iuste iustice so iotted out of ieinte That ye here vniustely stande at deniall To do me iustice and wolde by power ryall Sirecte mine acquitall or condemnacion Euen as wyll in both weith your acceptacion Flie doest thou waie my will herein thus lighte In euery pety courte of copy holde All grauntes that passe passing in their moste mighte Passe to holde at lordes will and so enrolde Syr quoth the flie copy holders of olde Holde to them and theirs at wyll of the lorde As with custome of the maner doth acorde But this terme custome standeth not here idle Custome in many cases semeth to me To tenauntes a bukler to lordes a bridle From trespassing wherin if tenauntes se On their partes customes kepte as thei shoulde be The will of the lorde moste wilfully bente Winthe nought worthe a bente by customs extents Were this windowe your maner in freholde And flies here your copie holders knowne clere And that I being your tenaunt ye wolde Ley in me breche of custome to apere Yet shoulde not your onely will be iudge here For as thomage vpon their othe present So custome bindthe the lordes wyll in iudgement Flie thinkste thou this case a bukler for the This case to our case quoth the flie being scande Is nother sworde to you nor bukler to me With sworde and bukler we maie goe or stande Betwene bothe cases and touche neither hande This case to lordes and tenauntes is concurrant But you are not my lorde nor I your tenant ¶ The â—â—ie claimeth all holes in all windowes to be â—â—â—es
their agrement of conclusion wherin thei haue before them those other spiders and â—lies againe Cap. 46. TO pas this last case quoth thant as in award Which part is most dishonest the case erst weid Resoning which is most honest part to regard Is a plaine plat to proue this likekise leid As honestie there is equally displeid To show the tone part as honest as the tother So show both here like dishonest th one and tâ—other What kinds of â—auts we mai in the spiders find The same or the like we mai find in the flise So that I say as equitee hath asinde One degre of dishonestie in both lise Where our former talke quoth the butterflie trise Thonestie one in both the sides yet ye know That honestie in the flies shinth most in show For that which I told you I wold in mind bere Flies fer mo in nomber then spiders apere Trew quoth thant and as most nomber winth flies there Most show of honestie so most nomber here Most show of dishonestie showth in flies clere As most nomber of thonest shine most in fame Most nomber of dishonest shine most in shame Then quoth the buterflie as flies here nought get So loose thei nought wherin let vs be content To set the hares head against the goose ieblet Both sides to adiudge lyke honest I assent And I quoth the ant do geue the same iudgement Herevpon thei cald all again to stand nere To whom wherin thant declard as ensuth here ¶ Thant declarth to those spiders flies that the tales of the pearte spider and â—lie before tolde do charge ech others part in such sort that thei can not sai which side is most dishonest but thei two adiudge clerely in dishonest thinges both sides of lyke dishonestie wherwith thei al auoided backe again tharbiters talke to fal to a point betwene them selues what report finally and fully to make Cap. 47. ALthough the railyng of those railers late gone For it selfe or them selues vnmeete may be thought Either to be talkt vpon or thought vpon Yet since the matter of their talke such talke brought That as one ground of our talke talke hath it wrought We haue wrought therto conciderate consent To conclude therin this extended extent Dishonestie in spiders and in flies both Apereth aproued so indiffrently That on which side the most dishonestie goth We can not know nor otherwise verify But like dishonestie on both sides doth ly So that out of hande to declare our decre Both parts in dishonestie haue one degre But for as much as dishonestie here toucht Was to proue or disproue honestie before Which part of both most or least honestie auouâ—ht And that dishonestie doth deside no more Then honestie did leaue dishonesties lore And by former talke in honestie alone Take honestie on both parts here iudged one The graue nombre on both sides agrede to this Whervpon thant axt who had furder to sey Concerning euidence in the premissis Thei all saide thei had to say no fuder they Well said thei both ye all yet again awey Which done thei both ech to other their mindes brake What end now at end thei finally might take ¶ Tharbiters being agreed on their report thei call to them againe the spiders and the flies Cap. 48. BRother butterflie quoth shant how thinke ye now What makth all this euidence for either side All alich for both quoth he now how say you I sei the same quoth thant wherin is specifide To hard a triall to iudge the best side tride The best side of both since doute hath thus drownd it Letê at last leaue it as we at first found it Agrede quoth the butterflie by my good sooth Thei herewith cald againe the spiders and flise Ech hoping to here a tale for his own tooth But thant being for an ant lerned and wise Otherwise weiyng otherwise did deuise Of this proces past where to report the pith For which vnto them all he made wei forthwith ¶ Thant shewth them that the butterflie and he are at point what to reporte deuising it to be reported before the head spider and the flie in the copweb the two principall parties and to haue with them to here and witnes their reporte two spiders and two flies witty and discrete and the rest to staie there till their returne Which being agreed thei set foorth streight to the said copweb Cap. 49. KNow ye all that we two being full agreede What we shall say we must now full agre Where we shall say Which saiyng must be decreede Before those two that did vs two decre As friendes of trust in this autorite The spider and flie meane I which two are Chefe grownds in the case that we must now declare The butterflie and all the rest there seide For that report that was the place most fit Let vs with vs quoth thant haue forth in eide Two spiders and two flies of credence and wit And all the rest till our returne here to sit Thei two with the two twose folowing in order Past on till thei cam to the copwebs border The flie in copweb stoode vp and praier lefte Longing for meede of preier preide ere than With deadly looke as death had lyfe berefte But when the spider into place cam than Alas poore flie how he lookte pale and wan All those without vnto the spider within At their low curtsy done thant did thus begin ¶ The ant associate with the saide sort pronounceth at length to the spider and slie in the copweb this brief effect that in as much as on both sides the euidence is one and that the credence is one by shonestie being one they two can in reason no waie â—rie howe to ley thaccustomed right more on th one side then on thother they finallie leaue the case euin at libertie as they sounde it and so departe to the place of abitrement againe Cap. 50. MY great good vncle and litle good friend â—â—ie Where you two chose vs two your arbytres late To adiudge by reason the custome rightlie Of spiders and flies in all windowes situate Which part should haue all or what part we should rates To eyther part what hath theron risin sith And what in fine for fine doth rise here the pith In the first talke betwene you tweyne and vs tweine Thissew to try was as ye sayde vnto vs How right in all windowes I sey doth remaine To both sides as reason may custome discus You for you and all spiders a leging thus All parts in all windowes none except sayde ye Are yours and all spiders as in tenure fre Wherin you flie as ye then affirmed heelde All holse in all windowes are flies free of olde Toys and sides being spiders hold free to beelde Hed houses or tenantrees or what ye woolde So that for the hoise only is all the holde Which vpon furder euidence to consither We as ye wyld vs to go went to gyther Where spiders and flies
to mislike war moste When spiders and flies haue falne at this lyke iar For quarels wherin flies might most their ryght boste Who euer had the right the flies the feeld loste To one score spyders sleyne flies slayne twentyscore And much of their ofspring lost for euermore Which showth as spiders calte that no sedicion Can haue good sucses In flies inferior By stoburne war but by humbyll peticion For thing interior or exterior Flies must sew to the spider superior They take this as a full hold not to be remist Well framid flies wyll suffre and not resist Flies wreks in wars in time past yf flies reuolue How spiders copwebs flies sepultures haue beene Your wise quiet retire shall this war disolue But yf smart of time past be forgoton cleene Cast Iye to parell at Iye presentlie seene Uew yonder copweb castell with endifrent iye And marke whether ye be macht endifrentlye Behold the batilments in euerie loope How thordinance lieth flies fer and nere to fach Behold how euerie peece that lith there in groope Hath a spider gonner with redy fired mach Behold on the wals spiders waking ware wach The wach spider in the towre a larum to strike At a proch of any nomber showing war like Se thenprenabill for t in euery border How euerie spider with his weapon doth stand So thorowlie harnest in so good order The capitall spider with weapon in hand For that sort of sowdiers so manfully mand With copwebs like casting netts all flies to quell My hart shaketh at the sight be hold it is hell Against whose strength there your weaknes here behold Sum haue harnes most haue none all out of rey Capitaynes practised politike and bold Few or none haue ye this armie to conuey But eche in others neck as sheepe start a strey Ordinance meete for the ship ye bring to the feelde But force without order winth victorie seelde And put case that of you fortie thousand flise Thirtie thousand shall scape and his window win Yet if ech one of you in him selfe surmise That he shal be one that shall die entring in What one flie of all flies wil thassaute begin No one but that one that from home now come Shall thinke him selfe wisest that sonest goth home But to die all and in this window nought geyne Of that sayde practise of time past assewrth ye To venter life and suffer deth are thinges tweyne Ventring of life tobteyne right oft se we But to benter life where deth hath certente For these kinds of right to die while ye may liue No wise flie will but right rather ouer giue But if your harms of time past be forgoten Warning of present harms at present time take Of which two measures if none may be moten Time past nor time present of which two I spake Let the third time to cum be meane thend to make Weying that in time to cum The end must cum To one end of foure which folow here in sum After this war begoon either both parts shall Take ende with condision as both partê can gre Or continew in war time perpetuall Or the flies by the spiders conquered shal be Or the spiders conquered by the flies Now se How in eche one end of these fowre shall a rise Paynfull perelus penuries to all flies First if ye after a time had in conflickt Take ende with the spider by composicion Beside the flies that to death shal be addickt The suruiuers shall receyue such condicion At the spiders hand as the distribicion Shall make flies at end bid fie on their winning And after that end repent their beginning Second this war continuing continualy Euery yere moneth weeke day howre euery minute Many flies shall die and all may feare to dy What flie can besure one howres life texecute At poyntes of all weapons euer had in pursute In vndoughted death and doughtfull deadly life This ende sheweth small difrens where reason is rife Thirdly yf the spider do conquere you flise What so euer flie then him selfe best be haues The best and the worste all in one rate shall rise Now frank free franklin flies then all vile bonde slaues Now flie in light windowse then sit in darke caues Flies beginning war ending thus they shall clere Their hell or purgatory begin euine here The fourth yf you flies shall the spider conqueare Then shall all spiders go to wracke first no dout And after shall the flies folow eueri wheare When flies haue kild spiders that stey the rewde rout Then flie against flie comun cuthrote moste stout Foure endes in this one war show th one and thother The last being worste ech end wors then other In time past time present and in time to coome Sins ye haue woon do win nor shall win here ought Beter wende your ship a loofe and take sea roome Then roon here on rockes and to shipwrak be brought It is to fer fet and ferder to dere bought To fet and bye thinges with no les los in striues But with los both of all your liuinges and liues Here haue I sayde my minde vnder principles few First desiring you to here me thorowly Ere ye iudge any part of what I should shew And then to iudge me by equite equaly Whervnto for hereing in this case sewde I First for me next for you and me last for you Of which proses a brigde brefe pith aprochth now For me the flies and butterflies tales I weyde To my discharge Sins I cam of all offence And before I cam my discharge my selfe leyde Wherin my case being giltles inosence For you and me both in reson and consiens To saue both sides vpright this counsell I gaue You to saue my life your honestie to saue For you and not me in your present quarell On this principle my hole talke did depende Ere we ought begin namelie thing of parell Wisdom wilth vs to haue an Iye to the ende In parelus quarelus case to contende Chieflie this in time past present and to cum How ye sped and be like to spede I shoud the sum But to end at beginning you casting Iye At this poore counsell of poore Antonie ant Of shap and good wit small of good will great and hye I shall reioyse Hoping here shall be no want Of equite in my discharge this instant Which I humbly pray and so to end to fall I say no more but the great God saue you all This done a noyse began of such a huzzing Ech one flie blowing in an other flies eare As if ten milions of flies had ben buzzing And all by this tale so astonide in feare That most of them their weapons could scantly beare Thants perswasions in drede of deth strake them so That hundreds cride oute home a gayne let vs go With this mounser graund captayne the great bragger Was much a mased and vengeably vext To se these flies now so vnstedily stagger So late so redie to bring their foose
that God vpon them to strike strokes extreeme As by thexample told the show doth well seeme Thus for the flies conquering of vs this daye Goddes eyde all dayes before takth all feare awaye But put case we had not as we haue the Godds eide But both sides acording to force of our powers Shuld conquere or be conquered or as thant saide Hap hapth in one houre as hath hapt in no houres Which he last a leaged to schape our sharp showres With other his framd feares of our confusion Yet thant here to confute here my conclusion In the later part of his saing I say He saith we maie be distroide as hap may fall And it must be graunted that hap so fall may But graunt that hap so maie ergo hap so shall That argument hath strength like a paper wall May fall and shall fall are fer diferent marks To shote at But when the skie faith we shall haue larks For the feare that his tongtromp to you did sowne By thus manie flies to thus few spiders seene Setten flies with ten axes one oke to hew downe That Oke shall be hackt at a good while I weene Ere it will shrinke for flies be it seare or greene And the leaste twig that out of that Oke can fall The Oke standing still shall slea those ten flies all And so we Oke spiders against these twig flise Were they all great flies as most of them be gnatts And to one of vs fortie of them do rise Yet as the giantes pawes pat downe dandipratts So shall we put downe these dandiprat brag bratts Their most nombre with our most strength to compare â—ooding prikes they mylposts we comparde are And where he saith though flies thinke manie shall dy Yet ech flie thinking him self shall scape with life They will striue who shall set on first here saie I At end of that strife they entred in this strife The foole hardie flies now most redie or rife To cum with the first shall feele the taste so tough That who cumth last shall thinke he cumth time inough Thants tale from point to point now full answered All force of our feare here it wiping a waie Tenforce you from feare furder encoraged Heare and beare a waie what I shall herin saie A few woords hilie to your comfort this daie Which shall set you all as fer out of all feare As the antê tale set you all in feare while eare Mark all you that in marking your enemies Their force and not your owne do onlie behold A deadlie dreadfull sight it is in your iyes But on your owne force your iyes being round rold The selfe sight of this force shall you so enbold That had you no weapons here but hasill wands Yet might ye count your enemies now in your hands Mark more that your foes in beholding you Are strikin in as deepe dread your force to vew As you are of theirs which setth both sides euine now Marke yet more they haue y â— wroÌ„g part you haue the trew Against godds and manns law this wrong thei pursew Both which so strike them when they wold preuayle That their atempt euer hath quaild and shall quaile So coward a spider where can be sene one That will not liue and die in this his knowne right Shuld all spiders die as few shall or none Yet in this quarell spiders go to blisse quight And flies to bale without respect of respight Wherfore let the flies the ants lesson atend At their this beginning to haue iye to thend ⋆ ♣ And now at end dere freends all pluck vp your hartes Take your weapons in hand and stand vp againe Sticke to your takling in this plat on all partes And as for the flies their fare to show them plaine When euer they cum they shall cum to their paine Stand stiffe to me and stand stiffe to you I shall Flies and flies kin we defie you traytours all The spider thus answering thants tale at length From poynt to point no poynt therof omitted All spiders agains in full coorage and strength Those flies to their flock with thant againe flitted Two of them to the captayne knowne well witted Tostie into the tree he streight commaundeth And thant vnto the ladder againe forthwith ¶ Vpon defiaÌ„ce geuin by the spider to the flies the ant brought agayne to the flies maketh full report of all sayde at the copweb At end wherof two flies argue wether thant haue deserued life or death By keeping or breaking former comnant to bring the spiders in feare of the flies Cap. 61. THat Captaine wild one of those flies to declare What had since they parted passed in this case And if he ought addid or minished thare The Captaine wild thother tentrupt him in place That trewth trewlie might appere without deface Whervpon the flie assigned to saie than In a solem order the processe began First thants tale told the spiders he did repeate And the feare that that tale brought the spiders in Then in repeate the spiders tale he did treate And what recoorage that did the spiders win With defiance giuen flies their alie and kin The captayne then axt you that went forth tell me Is this tale trew and the whole treuth all saide ye Two thinges quoth the captayne are to touch here on First whether thant haue deserued to liue or die The seconde apeece of the spiders tale gon Which I shall touch soone but first thantes case le ts trie Vpon his life or death standing presentlie To se that case by agrement fullie scande It being I saie first case to take in hande It is so in deede quoth one flie in the tree Wherin whsle memorie keepeth matter in minde I praie you all pacientlie to here me Vprightlie declare as equite doth binde Without affection anie wrong waie to winde But enin as conscience to speake doth me compell So shall I speake this tale which I shall now tell Where I haue heard wise flies talke I haue herd l 〈…〉 In weightie cause weightie considerasion And ther 's no matter more weightie to be weide Then that in which vpon consultasion â—ithe life or death in determinasion And presentlie present this Ants case meane I To waâ—e consideratelie and indifferentlie Whose life or whose death before we determin Which of both to determin meete is to wey Your late determind condicion pith wherin Mas that thant should bring spiders in such like â—rey Of vs as he brought vs of them and I saâ—e Behath done so So that in my conscience Life and liberte must he haue to go hence And I saie naie quoth the flie in the tree by He hath not performed that condision at full To haue his life hath he not quoth thother flie To make profe a pere here to witts quicke and dull That performance will wee reason if ye wull Beet quoth thother flie but all flies giue an eare To one thing good for all awaie to beare My brother flie and I seeming
here to varie Both being on one part seeming on parts twaine In that in this one point we are contrarie Ech one to other it maie make you retaine And detaine a dout whether we both remaine Constant on that part that we professe or no. But here me furder here ere we furder go Th argument of vs tweine is onlie this one Concerning the condision toucht formerlie Either by performance or performance none How the ants desert standth to liue or to die Thant should liue sayth he thant shuld die say I. Now consider that this present argument Is to principall case but an incident Our cheife cuming is on spiders to make war By cause we no way els can obtaine our right Wherin we ioyne with you without iote of iar This remembre I you of to scrape out quight All doughtes of our trewth in iudgement of heddes light For this case or like case in case vsed thus Showth mistrust in no wight anie case to discus And now we tweine to satisfie as we can Our selues and to se you the rest satisfide Aleage brother flie what ye can herin scan Wherto mine answere shall forthwith be applide Thants life or death in our iudgements to se tride That shall quoth the other flie without delay Cum in vre as brieflie as it fullie may Thant in his charged tale to spiders told erst Grounded thus ere ought begin haue iye to thend At end of thants talke spiders harts it so perst That it stagard and stonide all that hole bend Weapons falne to ground this out crie they extend Shaking of their headdes and casting vp their iyes Take peace with the flies take peace with the flies Thant made spiders of flies as much a frayde tho As he made flies of spiders in tale erst told I graunt quoth thother flie in deede he did so Wherto you must graunt that that feare did not hold For spiders forthwith were againe brag and bolde Though they so were quoth he thant performde cumnaūt That quoth thother flie for trew I can not graunt There is in thants cumnant further meaning ment Then the verie wordes therin fullie expresse To bring spiders in feare of flies by bond bent Is not all that all flies looke fore in sucsesse But to bring and keepe them in that fearefulnesse Bringing them in feare not keping them in feare As fruitfull to flies as paring of a peare To answere this quidite quoth thother flie You can haue no more of the Fore but the skin The ant hath done all that he can possiblie To bring spiders in feare and kepe them therin Whose good will not wanting though powre cannot win Thing that good will wold win yet is it not ill Rather then blame lacke of power to thank good will Put case quoth thother thant outh you fortie pound bound in obligacion to paie at a daie At which daie he cumth to you as he is bound And where he should bring powre fortie pounde to paie He bringth good will and will paie you when he maie Whether wold ye more in this case of your Accept thants good will or blame thants lacke of pour What I wold do quoth the other I know nat But what I should do that right well I know Thant showing full good will to paie me that And that lacke of pour without his faut did grow I would in trobling thant in consciens show A rigur ye quoth thother flie but in law To what end wold thants good will without pour draw In this case quoth he commun law condemth thant In that the woordes of the bond are fulfild no whit Performance wherof in thants case hath no want Which maie a pere to flies of most simple wit In marking these wordes of this cumnant here knit Thant paine of death shall bring spiders in like feare Of flies as he brought flies of spiders here care These are in thanis cumnant the wordes in effect Which bind the ant the spiders in feare to bring But to keepe them in feare no woord runth direct And commun law commonlie in euerie thing Constrewth woordes in their common plaine se 〈…〉 lieing And that thant made spiders a fraide ye do graunt Ergo thant by common law hath kept cummant Now to bring this case in courte of consience Declaring our meaning in these woordes to be That thant should kepe spiders in feareful suspence Thant answering to this that neuer ment he To be bounde to that inconuenient decre The iudge in this case and place must nedes assent With thants meaning against oures to geue iudgement ‡ * ‡ In law conscience and reason as thinkth me The desert of this ant doth his pardon craue Landes goods bag baggage life and liberte Freends quoth thother flie I haue a soule to saue Whervpon I proteast I no malice haue To thant But in reason I thinke he should die This saide those flies to their place againe did flie ¶ At ende of this last argument The captayne axing the ant what he can saye whye he should not die the ant after a few woordes submitteth him to their order Wherevpon the captaine goinge to the question the ant is condemde by the voyce of the most nombre The captaine then willing hym to make his last prayers he doth so Cap. 62. THe captaine to this axt thant how sayst thou What hast thou to saie why thou shouldst not die here The talke quoth he for me by the flie had now In reason law and conscience doth me clere Whose which tale doth much more pithilie appere For my selfe then if my selfe had told it And as he told it I pray all to hold it Wherin as I haue kept comnant at the full So craue I of you to kepe cumnant with me Here stand I to liue or die now as ye wull But in killing me a poore an t what win ye Or what leese I neither profite nor honeste Honest death in honest fame shall perseuer Vnhonest life vnhonest shame shall haue euer Then saide the captaine freends though I now at will Onlie by vertue of mine auctoritee Might geue iudgement here this ant to saue or spill Yet will I not geue it but graunt to agree To se this case decreede by comun decree Which shal be tride by these two wordes ye and no. And streight to the question herein let vs go All you that will haue the ant liue say ye Ye ye with a loude voice cride a great nomber tho Now quoth the captaine on thother side le ts see All that will not haue the ant to liue saie no. No no cride out manie and showde manie mo Then weare on thother part Then saide the captaine Ant of thine owne death thou herest here iudgement plaine I commit me quoth thant to the great gods will Say thy prayers quoth the captaine ere thou dye On the ladder downe on knees half dead he fill Forthwith saying his deuocion deuoutlie In which while two flies togither wondringlie Thinking thant to be
ANt pleyne and trew short and sharp a tale of me Told to thee thou must here Thus standith the case A great conflict euin now the spiders and we Haue had which slew spiders a piteous pace Tyll pittie wrought our retire to se what grace Might a pere in them to sew to vs for peace In giuing vs our right this war to sursease And that they do vs wrong intolerable I durst make thee their frend our iudge for my part The abhominacion is enscrewtable To pronounce at full how they by will peruart Haue wrongfullie wroong vs to wronges of most smart Which we haue borne and neuer theron wrokun Till the burden our backs and necks hath brokun And when we hope if we at anie time hope That our breakbacke burdens shall cum to ende Then showth thencrese of our burdens so large scope That they seme but be goon None end sene tentende Wherin their force forsith vs to band in bende Rather then bide their perpetuall shakling To stand agaynst them and stick to our takling As we haue stikt now here I saie to their payne And to avoide their more payne I say and sayde Being loth to set a broch their blood againe We haue traynd a long time endiffrentlie weyde To kepe them from thextreme extremite stayde To se their sewt for peace vs to peace tatempt Which thorow their owne faut we saie is exempt But since they sew not we will set on a gayne To leaue no spider or els no flie a liue But ere we go we haue made decre certaine To hang thee streight Ant it booteth not to striue Get a gostlifather that can shortlie shriue Dispatch hangman Sum flie go sum bell to toule That spiders and flies may praie for thants soule ¶ The Ant vpon soden shorte warning of his death beynge much dismayde laying all that he can for his life and yet can get no grace he prayth respight while he be brought to the spider to se whether he wyll grow to anie peace to saue the antes life Whiche graunted the ant is brought before the spider Cap. 73. NEuer was there an t I wene so assonsde As was this ant vpon this chiefe flies tale told Had he bene an ant plenteouslie â—â—onide He wold haue geuen sacks full of siluer and gold To haue bene safe thens but he preide them to hold And heare him speake once againe before he die Which graunted this began the ant by and bie Maister Captaine and all my maisters here flise I besech you consider consideratlie Not onlie that none enmite doth a rise In me to ward you proued aprobatlie Before nor since my suffrance captiuatlie But frendship in aduising you peace to kepe Wheare war hath sins brought manie flies in dead flepe Also to vewe I humblie you instant What time ye haue hangd me what thing ye haue woon The carcas of a poore wretched seelie ant Not worth the rope that it hangth by in the soon Way well with your selues what a threede this were spooâ— An innosent by tiranie to death to draw No stie therby winner the worth of a straw Note more this thing once done can neuer be vndoone And till it be doone maie be doone when ye will Which being now doone and repented as soone To late cumth that repentaunce to auoyde thill Marke more If you in this furie me here kill Then the feyre flowre of flies as ye take him dieth As from the spider thretning therin erst lieth Quoth the captaine turne the ladder thant cride stay If all this afore saide my life will not saue Here this deuice deuised an other way That is it maie like you I your graunt to haue Of one poore petission which I last here craue Let me go gardid to the spiders againe To proue what peace I can for my life obtaine Beete so cride the flies who made a harold go To make most humble sute in behalfe of thant That he and saue fortie flies with him no mo Might be admitted to his speche that instant The spider seming to graunt it hard and scant Bad him cum Wherwith awaie the harold went Showing the flies and ant the spiders assent Fortie flies garding the ant flew forth brauely The spiders fort renewde and furnisht agayne The hed spider in the mids standing grauelie And for terror on Iebets and galows remaine Flies thousands hanging sum in rope sum in chaine Thant being brought before the spider to speake His minde as folowith forthwith he did breake ¶ Thant in waie of peticion sewinge to the spider for peace laying consideracions to prouoke him the rather therto the spider doth attentiuelie geue the ant hering Cap. 74. RYght exelent hunkill if I wofull wretche To call you mine vnkill may here be so bold Two things to pronounce playnlie without fer fetche Is my present purpose First of which doth hold Thankes for sauing my life Seconde to be told Standth vpon a request by petiscion For parell like the first in condiscion As thus of life I am in like daunger now As I was then â–ª except your mercifull eyde The flies being bent to liue and die on you To sawt this castell a fresh they haue purueyde And had bene here ere this sauing that they steyde To hang me first which hath no longer stay But till I of peace bring them word yea or nay Nowhit at their sute but all togither at mine They respight my life till my returne to trie What good lucke your good loue to me may a sine By enclinacion to peace charitablie At my sute for my sake Both to saue therby My life and as manie of yours as shall In this feerce force be clapt in the necks withal And since your owne estate ye can better wey What waie is best for you and yours then I can And that ye know the worst peace as wise wights sey Is better then is the best war to scan As profe showth partlie here since this war began This considered considering of your part here I leane of to consider mine owne part clere Fyrst beseching you with me and for me now To consider I am in this parell brought By my selfe for my selfe naie by you for you Without my seeking by your owne request wrought And stinted reward coruptlie to be bought None ye offred none I axid nor none I haue Nor none I sought but your fauer to vowsaue Secondarâ—lie your case erst arbitrated I forthered as fer as my wit might force pour Which showde so when I the same Iterated That I had woordes of thanke from the mouth of your Thirdlie where chaunce of war was to me so sour That I for you was captiue and should haue dide What and how things grew theron here them specifide At the flies first approch toward this assaâ—t To a tree they drew me streight to hang me there Axing of me or laying to me no faut But that I was your freend In which deadly fere One flie erst at tharbiterment as
other were I prayd to speake that I might speake ere I dide Which was at last graunted but fyrst long denide My tale there stood on two entents in effect One to saue mie selfe an other to saue you ▪ And yours And therin to scape vnsuspect Fyrst for my selfe I layde that no flie could ad 〈…〉 That euer I offended flie ere naw or now Praing them thervpon to here and adiudge m◠As might most equallie stand with equite And for the saftie of you and of yours here To qualifie the feerce furie of the flies All trembling terror that I could make apere That might discorage the flies in anie wise That did I at the full to the flies deuice Which wrought such effect and did their harts so pall That they cride for peace and wold haue fled ny all But the cheefe flie steying them then against me Spake his pleasure theare as you did after here He saw and saide to the flies that they might se My counsell giuen them was against them clere And that I put them in feare to cum here mere Onlie for the loue that I to spiders bare And to set my selfe at liberte from flies snare Whervpon he moued and they did consent That I shuld be sent hither as sent was I To tell a tale to abate your furie bent Wherin if I brought you all as fearefullie To feare them as I had brought them formerly To feare you then should I be set frank and free Or els at my returne hangd streyght should I bee Here to prolong my life nature prouokt me To make you afraide of them sumwhat to saie But yet againe to that affection yokt To reason so fayntlie when that I did inuey That you by reason streight wiped that feare away For which I was no soner returnd vnneth Ere I had at the flies handes iudgement of deth ☞ ☜ Fyrst at your request for you and not for me I cam crauing no reward but your good will Second in tharbitrate case I wrought decre To the best for you As fer as I could skill Thirdlie for your sake to death most vile or ill I was then drawne and am now drawing againe Except my greefe sum grace of you obtaine That is that it maie like you to flies to graunt Peace Such as dispaire giue no cause to refuse And pride giue no cause it proudlie to auaunt But as mesurable meane measure endewse So of your grace graciouslie them to vse This loue toward my life please it you to show No reward els at your handes craue I to grow This endid the ant made curtsey to the ground At which the spider gaue him a beck low boude But before he anie woord to thant did sound He pawsde solemlie as any spider coude Which doone verie louinglie but not verie loude In maner assewred And in woordes right graue First thentre and then th end of answere he gaue ¶ The spider vpon thants tale colde to him alegith certaine thinges by which he semeth in doubte much to graunt peace to the flies Wherin the ant and he trauersing sum what anon he graunteth peace to them vnder condicion exprest wherewith thant is brought to the flies agayne Cap. 75. COsin an t a long matter in short speeche here Ye haue as ye can right wiselie declared Which as ye grounded on three things to apere To draw me to pittie you in case thus snared So this mine answere to those three prepared Hath in it other three thinges Two of which three Stand sore agaynst ye and the third standth with ye First the harme by wrong that flies haue doone me Second my will to be reuengde on the same Third the pittie I haue of you I promise ye Of two thinges betweene these three which one to name I can as yet no determinacion frame Which is one of these two to determin at eende Whether to slea all my foes or saue one freende Naie whether to slea or to saue foes and freend both And whether to slea or saue both you and yours On this question quoth thant this case rightlie goth But peace sauith them and theirs vs and ours War sleath or daungerth all in short sharp showrs Ye saue all in pitteing me the least one Not pitteing me ye slea as semth euerychone But two of your three points last toucht here me touch Omitting the third till I them haue touched Of your harme your will to reuenge as ye a vouch To th one ill past thother ill to cum couched When all is reuoluid that can be a vouched Your reuengement to cum of the flies ill past May bring you more harme and the flies away cast Yea cast you and yours awaie to I say it may And vnder your pardon to speake my minde plaine Your desire of furder reuengment to way Declarth much crewelte in you to remaine The least flies raunsum hath bene losse of his braine That in time past hath toucht here and now in sight Thousands of flies slaine and hangd in present fight Thus for their yll and your will thill to reuenge Your pointing of those two points dispoynted be In that quarell charitee doth you chalenge In deadlie defiance of all enmite Then passing these two points to this thyrd pas we Pittie wherby charitee here to enbrase A boue all cases pittie this pitefull case And pittie in you showde here now vnto me Commodite is your selfe I thinke shall gaine If you in this respect of pittie agre To take peace with the flies though ye losse sustaine My life to saue in recompence of my payne Hands and harts of Ants old and yong great and small To serue you in your neede ye are sure of all And contrariwise if I here now go to wracke Where you shall me flea in that ye maie me saue Not onlie freendship of all ants ye shall lacke But all creaturs liuing shall you depraue And abhor where they speech or thought of you haue Agaynst you in this case least mite in a cheese In his most might will fight in blood to his kneese To this all that I can saie what ye will do I humblie beseche you foorthwith to declare Life or death which one of two to trust vnto Is my deepe desire That I maie now prepare My stomacke redie according to my fare My minde I meane to die or els to liue As your pleasure is my death or life to giue Cosin an t quoth the spider pittie toward you And anger toward them wreastleth in me sore The flies spight to spiders to show what and how They haue spighted vs from long before Laying their fauts on our backs and euermore By clayming our commons and such other like Slaundring our titles quarels still they pike Sir quoth the flie fauts on both sides I haue herd Which on both parts I wish to be mendid The next waie wherto is peace to be preferd By war no part mended all parts offended War wasteth all things where war is
report shall Of my trobulus tragidie theffeet feruent In telling which tale mine effectuall entent Is that ye all shall now marke much what I saie And all marke much more whie I saie that I saie But what I saie mark first I thinke ye know all That my yong cosin spider was with me here To cum to his father my hunkle at call But the cause wherfore he wild me to appere Whether ye know or not that know I not clere My knowledge wherof to witnes that ye know In full and few woordes as I can I shall show A notable flie hath late chaunsed to light In that spiders copweb the spider by that Charging the flie with desert of death by right The flie to deserue to die denying flat Beseching the spider to here him speake sumwhat He graunting him speeche and to iudge his offence Standing with reason law custome and conscience The spiders chalenge to the flie gaue great charge Wherto as fer as I could there vnderstand The flies defence was very lusty and large In whith chalenge and defence when all was scand To cum to ende they two could not take in hand But being dreuen to choose arbiters tagre The flie choose a butterflie the spider chese me This one of their manie matters tarbitrate At triall by custom on which side to lay All holes in that and all windows in eche state The flies claiming freehold for free passing way The spiders for spiders saide so all hold they Wheron we hering all sides what could be leide We could not agree how the case might be weide To anie one side of both so that at ende In our report to that spider and that flie The case as we first founde we left it to depende The spider and flie in copweb th end to trie Whervpon the flies in a fume by and bie Were sodenlie vp in a rought on a rore Such a flock as I haue neuer seene before Nonede to aske them wherfore their cuming was Their warlike fashin showde them bent to fight But in a moment a bout me they compas And withoutworde of cause declarde wrong or right They drew me to a tree standing nie in sight Wheare with halter aboute my neck on ladder set Turne the ladder they cride none other glace to get Sauing the forsayde arbitter butterflie Vpon great and longe sute at last obteynde Of them to here me speake before I fhoule die But ere I spake what to speake seeing vnfaynd Life or death lie before me I was constraind As that short time wolde serue to premeditate How to conserue my selfe and the spiders state As affection naturall moued me more To leane to the spiders then toward the flies And of my tale the verie carnell or core Must stand on two points me thought in anie wise Thone to perswade no faute in me to surmise Against them Thother to make them to relent By enforsing the force of spiders force bent In first part of which tale my fautes I clered That they to touche me with could anie waie late And where by the reste of my tale appered Their deaths plaine as I there fooes force did displase They thervpon all weinie ronning awaie I handling the tale so from first part to eende That the most part simple flies tooke me their freende But the craftie flie capitall captiteyne Opening to the flies my politik intent Vnseene to the flies till he made them se it plaine Him selfe seeing his daunger aboue all bent If the flies did flee their flight then to preuent He inueyde such matter to them that a none He coraged them to stand all former feare gone Whervpon with their consent he awarded That I before the spiders a tale to tell Should be sent forwith with fortie flies garded Wherin if I made spiders feare flies as well Or as much in my saying serius or fell As I brought flies of spiders before in feare I should go quight Yf not at returne hang theare I sayde I wolde do my best and therwithall Standing on the ladder my two winges stert out As in a time of our time is naturall Which had I flew garded with this garded rout Before the spider hauing looke straunge and stout But what of that my curtsie ons low made I vsed wordes my matter to perswade Where although I wolde haue told an other tale Yet who maie not as he will must as he maie Life was sweete death was sowre nature did me hale To saue my life while my life in my tounge laie Short tale to make in tale so did I there saie That spiders in feare of flies had agony As much as flies of spiders had formerly Wherwith the hed spider fell in fell furie I feard he wold with his wepon haue kild me And suer all my frendes from Iersey to Iurie Had not saued my life but he wolde haue spild me Had not his fore graunt waranted and wild me To cum and go safe but this passing ouer He entred a talke the spiders to recouer And encorage agayne Which in fine he did Bringing me in much disdayne and more distrust He saide that one both those parts I disemblid Creeping with spiders at times when I lust And flieng with flies othertimes euine as Iust Where I to him ment nothing but honestlie He reported my meaning cleane contrarie Ensampled by my creeping with spiders furst And last exampled by my fleeing with flise In reste of his tale told he telling the wurst Against me and my tale that he could deuise He such matter layde and layde it in such wise That in corage I saie were the spiders agayne We with his defiance returning a mayne To the flies by one flie all past repeated Which declaring me the spiders to haue frayde As I was wild to do streyght was it treated Vpon demaund whether in that I there saide I should haue my life or not which to be waide Betwene two flies a serius argument Whether I should liue or die was biglie bent The one saide that I by cumnant ought to line Nai saide thother by cumnant he ought to die The first saide as wordes of cumnant do giue To bring the spider in feare euine so did I. Thother said that feare heeld not permanentlie And the woordes fulfild the meaning not fulfild The cumnant is not kept In iudgement well skild This argument they turnd and tost till at last The freend quight ouerthrew thaduersarie And yet against me the most nombre streight past As though thargument had ron cleane contrarie On the ladder I stoode streight to miscarie From which at turning of by the flie hangman Hold cride a flie fer of flinging toward vs than Which flie saide the spider had made a decree The flie in close prison with him deteynde Should streyght leese his life if the flies did kill me Whervpon they repryede me to prison cheynde With harnest flies watcht and in stocks remeinde Betwene hope and dread whether to liue or die As
case stands thus That die I must follie were it for me here To pleade this cass furder it past by discus All pleading or reasoning I geue ouer clere Submitting and committing my life most dere Into your hands beseching you ere I di To graunt me one petission mo craue not I That is that I before you my minde maie saie To twelue flies which speech I promise faithfullie Eyther with you or not against you shall waie I graunt quoth the spider and by and bie I know not whether by chaunce or purpostie A dosen flies aboute the copwebs side plaste weare To whom this folowing the flie said then and theare ¶ The flie to twelue graue flies for all flies geueth his aduice for a voiding their parels by their sâ—rife had in windowes against spiders the great gronnde of which tale standeth most vpon consideration of these three things wherfore they striue with whom they striue and how they striue Cap. 88. COsins and contrie flies ech one of you all Another my selfe as ech of all flies are I haue at sute obteind you hither to call Minding my conscience to you to declare In such a time and such a thing to prepare As the time most meete to make you credit me And the thing most meete to you told to be First as touchinge time no time in my time past When I was more prosperous and so more fraile Then I this time am yet all times first and last Your trust in my trewth did not anie time faile But what time should credence set vp so his saile As this time when life time shall no more time hold But till time this my tale to be told be told In all sorts of seckts of ciuile dissipline Of all times in life of anie flie I trow In time of his knowne death cumming streight like mine Credence of his woord he feende nor foole in show To credit his matter must that time most grow What vanite weare this in ought to deuise â—ieing now a dieing to lie and deuise lise Of all times for credit I saie none like this And secondlie touching the thing here to tell Hering therof no dout most meete for you is Which thing is the strife of furius force fell Betwene spiders and flies wherin to exepell And kill all occasions in time to cum Of my last will in my last woords here the sum What waie is herein best for spiders to take That can them selues tell much better then can I I am a flie no spider nor spiders make To controle the spiders part but hartily I pray the great God their harts to molify As temperance maie temper their cleime touching this To geue right and take right as most rightfull is But in right of either part to determin ought What thei for their part or you for yours should haue Shift that among you for it forsith me nought Me semth I here the matok digging my graue The crowne of the whole world who it me now gaue His good will must I thanke but for ought to win I take not the gift worth the point of a pin And wheare you and all flies are as sure to die As am I now your times to you vnknowne sure Aduantage of you in my knowne death haue I In hauing some time of remors to procure Forgeuenesse of former life led in lewde lure Wheare you maie without remors sodenlie go And where the tree faith theare lithe it clarks say so But for profitable purpose toward you In purpose purposed to you here by me Your imaginasions I praie to draw you now Into my person as in my case to be To woork affection to win effect in ye To consceiue and resceiue things that I shall moue Which to your behofe behouinglie behoue Thre principles Whereon my tale to contriue And to proseede vpon are these to prepose Wherfore we striue with whom we striue how we striue Wherfore we striue ye know the cause therof gose For hooles in windows which quarels to disclose Our cumming to them and going from them sought Shall show our winning small or rather rightnought First for our cumming to them who can disscriue How manie flies haue preaste possession to win That neuer could get possession a liue But maimd and kild downe right at their entre in And such as do cum in where spiders do spin Most wise flie deuising to sit there most fast Maie thinke his first hour or ech hour there his last Few flies I thinke haue scapt longer here then I My which time being spent betwene hope and feare Yet at last for all my shifts lo where I lie Where no raunsum my redemption maie reare But my life remedilesse I must forbeare Cum with daunger bide with feare depart with deth To hastie a iorney to take with one breth In this saide first principle what we striue fore Commodite therin profe doth thus witnesse The more flies haue of it flies daunger the more The lesse flies haue of it flies daunger the lesse Then is nowhit best for who doth ought possesse Ech peniworth of pleasure of such possest ware Bringth more then counterpaise of daunger and care Beggers flies before theeuis flies maie 〈◊〉 we saie Rich flies before trâ—w flies here do weepe we see The richest winning flie in windows to waie If anie winning there anie riches be As the best thing woon theare is but flies liberto What is the winning woon and kept with such strife That hourlie winth deth or deadlie feare of life It is a winning better lost then woon And so these windows are wherefore we striue With whom we striue now secondli to roon With our biggers to contend we here contriue A mach as much vnmeete for vs to thriue As maie be macht for two things here to trie First thing their pour most thing their pollisie To their much pour our pour oftimes thought more â–ª By nomber manie small making a greate There pollisie keping their pour in store Hath most times erst brought vs our selues to beate What winning is in this macht mache to geate None Wherfore with whome we striue I thinke it best To leaue of strife and liue by losse in rest Now thirdlie how or in what maner we striue To tell plaine trouth in my worst time to lie Spice of rebellion our strife showth to contriue Spiders are plaste a boue superiorlie And flies beneth them plaste inferiorlie Then maie it seme as they aboue vs haue plase So haue they aboue vs like rule in like case Which case graunted in striuing ageinst them thus Our matter standing in state of most right Yet is our maner wrong and sedicius No law alowth flies to win their right by fight Betwene priuate flies and law inibbitih quight Anie flies to fight against their hygh heades But rather suffer as obedience leades Wherefore we striue ye se trifils thei are With whom we striue their pollisie passeth our pour How we striue doth sedicion declare
custome dewli drawse And that is this ye spiders in tip of top Or in top sides of windows copwebs shall make Aboue the rech of my broome to crush or crop Anie part therof not set like an ale stake Proudlie to brag your selues and bring flies in brake But in place to lie most hie and most hiddin Spiders thus plaste customs order hath biddin Flies in the bodie of the window shall passe Not by thousands at once sediciouslie But thorough hooles of lattes or broken glasse Not blowing hensforth so sawsmalapertlie My masters and maistres meate as yeares latlie They haue dane but passe and repasse in nombre And vsage such as shall no house accombre This auncient order in few woordes here geeuene Is all that I axe in you to be vsed In lacke wherof in all sorow you are dreeuene In vse therof in solace you in clused Mysorder bringing you thus confused Let order by your leauing of misorder Quietnesse on your sides and all sides forder By order from misorder you to redeeme From sorowes of all sorts to solace so sorted Is cause of my cuming Not by meanes extreeme But by most milde meanes that maie be imported In order to set you and se you comforted To kepe order Wherin you obeying mee We may liue in loue all eche in his degree Eche in his degree I saie mark that point well Your lacke of liuing so ye see mard you all Cheeflie you spiders vsurping to excell In gouernance out of your place naturall Which for few yeares past brought and kept flies so thrall That you welnie brought flies to graunt to agree You as head gouernous generall bee In which vsurpacion ye offended Nature reason my master maistres and me Gouernours nature hath commonlie bended Ouer such kinds to gouerne as them selues be Beast ouer beasts foull ouer fowls as we se Man ouer men And in feare and aw is than Thunreasonable beaste to reasonable man Nature ye offend in planted plaine profe here To take rule of other kinds then your kind is Reason ye offend in that ye here appere To take vpon you the vse of mine offis Me ye offend in the same and vnto this My master and maistres ye offend As thus Hed rule here is their gift by customs discus But leaue this and take that mine order erst told Keepe you your places and let me keepe mine As nature and custom willeth you of old While reason and custom do me clere encline My masters and maistres will to woork in fine As I vnder them and you vnder me May louelie liue I saie ech in dew degree The spiders and flies perceyuing by her staie That she in this matter had saide what she wold All reioysing one spider assinde to saie In such maner as good maner might him bold This effect in these woords to this maide he told At beginning of whose talke she set her iye And layde her eare toward him diligentlie ¶ The twelue spiders and twelue flies hauyng herde theyr order set by the mayde they thankefullie receyue it And vpon her commaundement to them to put thys order in vre amonge all spyders and flies they ioyfullye departe that commaundement to fulfill Cap. 96. MOst excelent maide and maistres of ours Your milde and motherlie precepts geuen vs thus In order old reuiued now at hand of yours Lack wherof as ye saide the sorowes in vs Haue witnest that of them the cause in discus Your woords wherin told to our deedes therin felt Do instruct vs with a doble witnesse delt And double or freble yea quatreble cause With manie causes mo then I can now tell Haue we to kepe order as your will vs drawse Spiders and fllies haue liued like as in hell Sins new misorder did thold order expell Thus our bound dutie obaiyng your precept Is your pleasure but our profits to se kept Which I promise for vs and all spiders els To be obserued As ferfoorth as we maie And I quoth one flie for all flies as he tels Promise for order to walke the same waie Reioysing all that euer we saw this daie Praying the great god for you now and euer In prosperus prosperite to perseuer Well freends quoth the maide to enter order now Depart And plant this in all spiders and fliese In top of windows spiders exercise you And flies the hooles moderateli excercise In most ioyfull ioy that both sorts can deuise From thence most ioyfullie they all flang and flew While the mayde vsde her will there as doth ensew ¶ The spiders and flies beynge now absent The mayde sweepyth the wyndow cleane in euerie place As far as her brome and arme wyll stretch which doone she departeth Cap. 97 THe spiders and flies for the time being gon The maide swept that window cleane in all places In all corners that her broome might light vpon Ech copweb with her broome she full defaces No wem seene in casemunds nor casemund cases Vpon her cleare clensing wherof out went she And in cam I her woorkmanship there to se ¶ The maide being gone the auctor cūmeth in And vpon hys beholding the wyndow fayre and cleane swept wythoute anie comberus copwebs or excessiue flockes of flies he departeth Cap. 98. BEholding the window seeing euerie roome Cleane and emptie saue three flies amid that plat And in the top without reche of the maids broome Corners of copwebs vnneth sene and to that All thinges in quiet case so that I could nat Of anie matter be anie furder winner I went from the window to the boorde to dinner FINIS The conclusion with an exposission of the Auctor touching one peece of the latter part of this parable I Haue good readers this parable here pende After olde beginning newly brought to ende The thing yeres mo then twentie since it begoon To the thing yeres mo then ninetene nothing doon The frewte was grene I durst not gather it than For feare of rotting before riping began The losse it on the frewterers hande lying Had in that mistery mard his occupying This worke among my poore workes thus hath it past Begon with the first and ended with the last At ende wherof as at beginning I pray All readers that reade it in al that we may Ech one reader to scan this parable so As our most scanning diligently may go In speech of spiders and flies fautes here showne To considerate weying of fautes of our owne And them by grace t amend for concord growing As spiders and flies grow to here in showing But fauts and fauters erst repented and past Which fauts I hope none on him self can now cast Figured here in the spiders cruelte Touching deedes and deathes of those that so past be Let vs rather when memorie them to mind calls Lament their false facktes then reioyce their foule falls And praie for them as we hope they pray for vs That they and we by goddes mercifull discus May after strife together in life carnall Liue and loue
together in life eternall And for the chief spider and flie vnderstand Spider that dide and flie that scapte at maydes hand As in that figure both most charitablie Thone in deede dieing thother redie to die So should we not onlie die but also liue As gods preseptes paine of endelesse deth do giue Ye se also that this fygure here implies For strife in windowes betweene spiders and flies The plat of all the world and people therin In which world which people if all now begin And hensforth endeuer them deuring theyr liues By counsell of those two to cut of all striues By cuting of all cause of strife in all parties As they both eche in his last tale did deuise The first tale in chapter four score and eight here The second in foure score and twelue doth a pere Thaduice in both turnd to it to here and hold Turning their persons to oures in those tales told Then shall we first se and after feele what frewte Our right doing against wrong shall execute Which since ye maie turne and behold as a glasse Tedius Iteracion therof I let passe As I for tediousnesse and other causes Omit to remit the nombre of clauses To those learnd and geuen in enterpretacion More them am I vnto moralisacion I leaue to the learnd the corps of this matter How beete as I can I craue leaue to smatter In vttring my fancie vnder submission Touching the taking of one exposission In one peece herof one sence tenterpretate Of apt aplication to sence literate In this the last saide part of this saide fygure That maide I meane putting her office in vre Sweping downe copwebs in euerie border That she in that window saw set out of order Setting all flies at their lawfull libertie And spiders also tavoyde all ieobertie They bilding in windowes without her broms rech Where bilding within it brought much of this brech Keeping them selues within their boundes as they ought Harme she none did them none saide nor none thought But spiders hauing past their boundes as they had And flies hauing flowne more brode then order bad Thone to nie her masters and maistres iye showing Thother her masters and maistres meate blowing She thought it her dutie it being her charge To do sum execucion for warning large Both to spiders and flies the flockes euerichone By executing of spiders onlie one And saue custom of iustice forst her therto Both was she execusion on him to do Her brome not sword of rigor doble edgid blade But the branche of mercie that milde maiden made Finallie vpon her benigne behauer Appeasing all this furie with all this fauer In spiders and flies without stripes to stint strife All plaste in right place to place prosperus life Ech one in him selfe in most ioyfull ioy ioyde And eche one to other their ioyes they imploide All loying in her as their redempsion Of rest long erst had in exsempsion All bent as all weare bounde in all that they maie That maide in her office to loue and obaie Wherwith as this parable here taketh ende So I with a few wordes therin an ende intende Of this last peece pleine interpretacion Lighteth in the lap of imaginacion Which of force in weying the sence literall Clerelie conueithe the sence alligoricall To our sufferaigne Ladie Queene Marie and maide At gods bringing whom to her crowne may be laide Our lyke strife rissen and more then like to rise Then showth here risen betweene spiders and flies Whose sworde like a brome that swepth out filth cleane Not a sword that fileth the house by blodie meane This mercifull maiden tooke in hand to sweepe Her window this realme Not to kill but to keepe All in quiet On her bringing vs therto As that maide all spiders and flies showth to do And as vnder that mayde spider dide but one So vnder this maide saue one in effect none And as that one vnder that one maide did die Repentaunt so this other repentauntlie Vnder this other maide the deth meeklie tooke All sin with all sinfull errours he forsooke Of god crauing forgiuenesse principallie And then of the world And most speciallie Of this mayde his mastres Who clerlie him forgaue As that maide did that spider when he did craue And as that maide lothlie forst by iust custum Was dreuin to bring that one texcucion to cum So this maide saue like that maide by force was dreuine Was with that maide for pitie more then euine And as that maidins most quarell was addikt For that spiders and flies in that window kikt Against the will of her master and maistres So did this maide her cheefe quarell addres To vs or to such of vs as the presept Of her master and maistres had not kept And as that maide tooke those fautes much more to hart In respect of her masters and maistres part Then for her owne part her part being not small In that the redres she was charged with all So vnder her master and maistres this meyde Being theyr like instrument to se thinges weyde She weyde that With more greefe to se them offendid Then for ought that on her owne part dependid Her master Christ the head master principall Her maistres mother hollie church catholicall And as that one maide with that one stroke of her broome Clensed her window clere in euerie roome Setting flies at liberte in their right rate Plasing spiders likewise in accustumd state Poynting both partes path of direct direction To trace and treade in as welthes protection So this one mayde with this one stroke of her sword From long thrall thraldom hath set vs clere a bord Poynting vs our places and pathes of old knowne Great gides both to gostlie and worldlie welth growne Thus fer goth this figure and this exposiscion Betweene that mayde and this maide The condiscion On her part fulfild Whervpon let vs here Plaie our parts in this part all parts to apere To this maide as spiders and flies to that maide Let our baners of obedience be displaide Of loue the bage of reioysing the right roote And of our owne welthis the right and full boote Loue we her and obey we her as we ought And also our suffrayne Lorde Philip to her brought By god as god brought her to vs. Which twaine Conioyned one in matrimoniall trayne Both one also in auctorite regall These two thus made one bothe one here we call Which two thus one reioyse we eueriechone And these two thus one obey we all as one Effectuallie as those spiders and flies Figuratiuelie that one recongnies Beseching god that brought them to keepe them here In long prosperus raigne And of his mercie mere So to blisse vs that on this blessed stocke He bring such impes as ouer their faythfull flocke As their progenitors do raygne presentlie They after them maie raigne perpetuallie And for gift of these two thus one to vs geuine â—o yeld the three and one thankes as we are dreuine And also them conclude we this euen thus Thanke we god for them and god and them for vs FINIS ♣ IMPRINTED AT LONDON ♣ IN FLETESTRETE BY THO. 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