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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08836	Here begynneth a goodly treatyse, and it is called, A notable lesson, otherwyse it is called The golden pystle	Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Epistola de perfectione vitae.	1530 (1530)	STC 1912; ESTC S664	3,317	11

¶ Here begynneth a goodly treatyse / and it is called / a notable lesson / otherwyse it is called the golden pystle Impressus Anno domini M. CCCCC.xxx A Good / holsome lesson profytable vnto al chrystianes / ascrybed vnto saynt Bernarde / and put amonge his werkes I thynke by some good man / that wolde it shulde therby haue the more authoryte / and the rather be redde / and better be borne away For doubtles it is a good mater / and edificatyue vnto all them that haue a zele / and cure vnto soule helthe desyre of saluacyon It is called in the tytle Notabile documētum that is to say / a notable lesson And some done call it the goldē pystle It foloweth immedyately after a lytell werke called Formula honeste vite the forme / and maner of an honest lyfe / or of honest lyuynge YF you intende to please god / and wolde obteyne grace to fulfyll the same / two thynges ben vnto you very necessary The fyrst You must withdrawe your mynde from all worldly trāsytory thȳges / in suche maner / as though you cared not wheder any suche thynges were in this worlde / or no. The secunde is That you gyue and apply youre selfe so wholy to god / and haue youre selfe in suche a wayte / that you neuer do / say / ne thynke / that you knowe / suppose / or byleue shulde offende or dysplease god / for by this meane / you may sonest and most redely obtayne / and wynne his fauour and grace In all thynges esteme and acount your selfe most vyle / most symple / and as very nought in respecte / and regarde of vertue / and thynke / suppose / byleue that all persones ben good / better than you be / for so shall you moche please our lorde What so euer you se / or seme to ꝑecyue / in any person / or yet here of any chrystyane / take you none occasion therin / but rather ascrybe / apply you all vnto the best / thynke or suppose / all is done or sayde for a good intent / or purpose / though it seme contrary For mannes suspicions and lyght iudgmentes ben soone / and lyghtly deceyued / or begyled Dysplease no person wyllyngly Ne euer speke euyll of any person / though it were neuer so true that you say For it is not lawfull to shewe in cōfession the vyce / or defaute of any ꝑson / excepte you myght otherwyse shewe declare your owne offence Speke lytell or nought vnto your ꝓpre / selfe laude / or prayse / thoughe it were true / and vnto your famylyer felowe / or feythfull frēde But study to kepe secrete / and pryuey your vertue / rather than your vyce Yet were it a cruell dede for any ꝑsons to defame them selfe Be more gladde to gyue your eare / herynge vnto the prayse / rather thā vnto the dysprayse of any person And euer byware as well of herynge / as spekynge of detraccyon And whan you speke / take good deliberacion / haue fewe wordes / let those be true / and good sadly set wysely ordred Yf any wordes be spoken vnto you of vyce / or vanyte as soone as you may breke of / leue the talke / or cōmunycacion And euer returne / and apply your selfe vnto some appoynted good / godly occupacyon / bodyly / or ghostly Yf any soden chaunce fall or happe vnto you / or vnto any of youres / leyne not to lyghtly ther vnto / ne care moch therfore Yf it be of ꝓsperite / reioyce not moch therin / ne be ouer glad therof Yf it be aduersite / be not ouercast / or ouerthrowen therw t / ne brought to sorowe / or sadnes / thanke god of all / set lytle therby Repute all thȳges transytorye as of lytle pryce or valure Gyue euer most thought / care vnto those thynges / that may profyte promote the soule Fle / auoyde the persones / places of moche speche / for better is to kepe scylēce / than to speke Kepe the tymes places of scilēce precysely / so that you speke not wtout reasonable vnfeyned cause The tymes of scilēce in religion bē these From collacion vnto masse be ended after the houre of terce Frō the fyrst grace ī the fraytour / vnto the ende of the later grace And frō the begȳnynge of euē long / vnto grace be ended after souꝑ / or els En̄dicite / after the cōmune bouer The places of scilēce / ben the churche the claustre / the fraytour the dortour Yf you ye sclaūdred / done take occasyon at the faute / or offence of any person / than loke well vpon youre selfe / wheder you be in the same defaute sumtyme your selfe / than haue cōpassion vpon your brother / or syster Yf ther be none suche defaut in you / thȳke verely / byleue / ther may be / thā do as done soone fade / and fle for euer The good persones / for theyr troubles suffred here vpon erthe done get wȳne eterne euerlastynge glorye / whiche the euyll persones done lose And contrary these euyll / synfull persones / for theyr ioy pleasures here / done reyue by exchaunge eterne euerlastynge shame / rebuke with peyne / wo vnspecable Whan so euer thā you ben dysposed to slugyshnes / or to be drowsy / remysse in prayer / or dull in deuocyon thā take this lytle werke / or some other good treaty / rede therin / euer note well the contentes therof / and what is ment therby And yf you be not therby delyuered or eased therof / than shyfte vnto some other werke / or occupacyon / so that euer you auoyde ydlenes / al vayne pastymes / whiche in dede ben lose tyme. And than remēbre that those that nowe byde in peyne / other in hell / or yet in purgagory for suche tymes so passed / or lost / had leuer thā all the worlde / haue suche tyme to redeme theyr peynes by / as you may haue yf you wyl Tyme thā vnto al ꝑsones wel ocupied / is veray precious / dere Byware well therfore how you spende it / or passe it For you can neuer reuoke it / nor call it bakke Yf the tyme passe you by trouble / vexacyon / thynke they ben happy / and gracyous that ben past this wretched lyfe / and nowe in blys / for they shall neuer haue any suche miserye And whan you fele a conforde or consolacyon spyrytuall / thanke god therof / thynke the dampned soules shall neuer haue any suche pleasure And thus let this be for your exercyse in the datyue At nyght whan you go rest / fyrst make a counte with your selfe / remēbre how you haue spende / or passed that day tyme / that was gyuen you to be vsed in vertue / how you haue bystowed your thoughtes / your wordes / and your werkes And yf you fynde no great thynge amys / gyue the whole laud and prayse vnto our lorde god And yf you perceyue cōtrary / that you haue mysspende any parte therof / be sory therfore / and byseche our lorde of mercy / and forgyuenesse / promyse and verely purpose to make amendes the nexte day And yf you haue portunyte ther vpon / it shal be full conuenyent for you to be cōfessed on the nexte morowe And specyally yf the mater done / sayde / or thought by deliberate consent / do greuously wey / worke with a grudge in your conscyēce than wolde I aduyse you neuer to ete nor drynke / tyll you be dyscharged therof / yf you may cōuenyently get a ghostly father Now for a conclusyon of this werke / put byfore you / as by case or ymaginacyon ij large cytyes / one full of trouble / turmoyle / and myserye / and let that be hell The other cyte full of ioye / gladnes / conforte / and pleasure / and let that be heuen Loke well on them bothe / for in bothe be many dwellers / and great compeny Then cast and thynke within your selfe what thynge here myght so please you that you shulde chuse the wors cyte / or what thynge shulde dysplease you on the other parte / wherby you shulde withdrawe your selfe from that vertue that myght cōuaye brynge you vnto the other cyte And whan you haue studyed well here vpon / and can nothynge fynde / I dare well assure you yf you kepe well the preceptes and coūseyles of this lytle lesson / you shall fynde the ryght way / for the holy ghost wyll instructe / teche you where you be not suffycyent of your selfe / so you endeuoyre gyue dylygēce / to bere away to folowe that here is taught Rede it euery weke ones / or twyse / or oftener yf you wyll And where you profyte / gyue thankes / laude / and prayse vnto oure lorde god / most swete sauyour Iesu chryst / who sende you his mercy and grace / that alway lyueth god In secula seculorum Amen ¶ This was brought vnto me in englysshe of an olde translacyon rugh / and rude / and requyred to amende it I thought lesse labour to wryte newe the whole / and I haue done vnto the sentence not very nere the letter / and in dyuers places added some thynges folowynge vpon the same to make the mater more sentencyous / and full I byseche you take all vnto the best / and praye for the olde wretched brother of Syon Rychatde Whytforde ¶ Imprȳted by me Wynkyn de Worde / dwellynge in London / in Flete strete / at the sygne of the Sonne The .xxiij. daye of Nouēber In the yere of our lorde god M. CCCCC and .xxx. wynkyn de worde