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A17158	A dialogue bothe pleasaunte and pietifull wherein is a goodly regimente against the feuer pestilence with a consolacion and comfort against death / newly corrected by Willyam Belleyn, the autour thereof.	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1564 (1564)	STC 4036.5; ESTC S255	80,303	210

Crispine I did beholde on the one side the .ix. Muses with straunge instrumentes of Musike sittyng vnder the hille Parnasus and the Poetes sittyng vnder the grene trees with Laurell garlandes besette with Roses about their heddes hauyng golden pennes in their handes as Homer He●iodus Ennius c. writing verses of sondrie kindes And Lucanus sa●te there verie highe nere vnto the Cloudes appareilled in Purple saiyng Quantum sermotus ego Cardine Pernasus gemino petit ethera colle Motis Phoebo Bromioque sacer And nere them satte old Morall Goore with pleasaun● penne in hande commending honeste loue without luste and pleasure without pride Holinesse in the Clergie no tirannie in rew●ers no falshode in Lawiers no Usurie in Marchauntes no rebellion in the Commons and vnitee emong kingdomes c. Skelton satte in the corner of a Piller with a froste bitten face frowning and is scante yet cleane cooled of the hotte burning cholour kindled againste the cankered Cardinalle Wolsey writing many a sharpe disticons with bloodie pēne against him and sente theim by the infernalle riuers Stvx Flegiton and Acheron by the Feriman of helle called Charon to the said Cardinalle How the Cardinall came of nought And his prelacie solde and bought And where soche Prelates bee Sprong of lowe degree And spirituall dignitee Farewell benignitee Farewell simplicitee Farewell humanitee Farewell good charitee Thus paruum literatus Came from Rome gatus Doctour dawpatus Scante a bachelaratus And thus Skelton did ende with wolsey his frende Wittie Chaucer sat● in a chaire of gold couered with Roses writyng Prose and Rime accoumpanied with the spirites of many Kinges Knightes and faire ladies Whom he pleasauntlie besprinkeled with the sweet● water of the welle consecrated vnto the Muses ecleped Aganippe And as his heauenlie spirite cōmended his dere Brigham for the woorthie intombing of his bones worthie of memorie in the long sleping chamber of moste famous kinges Euen so in tragedie he bewailed the sodaine resurreccion of many a noble man before their time in spoiling of Epitaphes wherby many haue loste their inheritaūce c. And furder thus he saied lamenting Coueteous menne dooe catche all that thei maie haue The fielde and the flocke the toumbe and the graue And as thei abuse riches and their graues that are gone The same measure thei shall haue euery one Yet no buriall hurteth holie menne though beastes them deuour Nor riche graue preuaileth the wicked for all yearthly power Lamentyng Lidgate lurkyng emong the Lilies with a balde skons with a garlande of Willowes aboute his pate booted he was after Saincte Benettes guise and a blacke Stamell robe with a lothlie monsterous hoode hanging backward his stooping forwarde bewailing euery estate with the spirite of prouidence Forese●ng the falles of wicked men and the slipperie seates of Princes the ebbyng and flowing the risyng and fallyng of men in aucthoritée and how vertue doe aduaunce the simple and vice ouerthrowe the mooste noble of the worlde And thus he saied Oh noble Princes conceiue and dooe lere The fall of kynges for misgouernere And prudently peisyng this matter Vertue is stronger then either plate or maile Therefore consider when wisedome dooe counsaile Chief preseruatiue of Princelie magnificence Is to almightie GOD to dooe due reueren●e Then Bartley with an hoopyng Russette long coate with a pretie hoode in his necke and fiue knottes vppon his girdle after Fraunces trickes He was borne beyonde the colde Riuer of Twede He lodged vppon a sweete bedde of Chamomill vnder the Sinamon tree aboute him many Shepherdes and shepe with pleasaunt pipes greatlie abhorring the life of Courtiers Citezens Usurers and Banckruptes c. whose old daies are miserable And the estate of shepherdes and countree people he compted moste happiest and sure c. Saiyng VVho entreth the Courte in young tender age Are lightlie blinded with folie and outrage But soche as entre with witte and grauitee Bowe not so sone to soche enormitee But or thei enter if thei haue learned nought Afterward is vertue the lest of their thought Nexte theim in a blacke chaire of Gette stone in a coate of armes satte an aunciente knight in Orenge Tawnie as one forsaken bearyng vpon his breast a white Lion with a Croune of riche golde on his hedde his name was sir Dauie Linse vppon the mounte with a hammer of strong steele in his hande breakyng a sonder the counterfeicte crosse kaies of Rome forged by Antichriste And thus this good knight of Scotlande saied to Englande the elder brother and Scotlande the younger Habitare fratres in vnum Is a blesfull thyng One God one faith one baptisme pure One lawe one lande and one kyng Clappe handes together brethren dere Vnfained truce together make And like frendes dooe euer accorde But Frenche and Romaine doe firste forsake You are without the continent A sole lande of auncient fame Ab origine a people olde Bolde Britaines ecleped by name S●cut erat in principio Graunt oh God it maie bee In saecula saeculorum That we maie haue peace in thee Then we shall feare no forein power That againste vs shall aduaunce The Tartre cruell the curse of Rome Ne yet the power of Fraunce c. On the seconde square was a faire diall for this Orison vnto whiche was added the howers of the planettes vpon thesame was written in large letters of fine golde Tempora labuntur Medicus There stoppe and laie a Strawe For Tempora labuntur is to saie by little and little time dooe slippe awaie I will hear● the reste of the matter at leasure What is it a clocke Crispine But early daie skant .viij. of the clocke Medicus Well I praie you dispence all thinges in order Contra Pestem in thesame sorte bothe noumber of the Simples Dose and quantitee euen as you did it yesterdaie whiche was geuen to Paule Crispine Sir I haue spente all my fine Myrrhe what shall I doe Medicus You are a wise manne put in Quid pro quo called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hoc est simplicia que aliorum facultati similium penuria subponi possunt medici consilio Intelligis Crispinus Etiam domine Doctor Medicus Moue te otius quicquid agas prudenter agas Crispine By God he shall paie for the malt grinding he haue enough he know none ende of his pelfe it will come to an euill ende God sende me more soche cheates What me thinke I se twoo men in long gounes with shorte beardes at the gates what are thei a Gods name Medicus I knowe them verie well thei are twoo petti foggers in the Lawe the one is called maister Auarus a good gentleman and of a greate house a man of good conscience in déede he is my c●sen germaine on my mothers side Surelie he can geue good counsaile and is ●itte to be with soche a manne as maister Antonius is in deede thei haue been long acquainted and will neuer giue ouer vnto the ende Crispine Who is the other on the lefte