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A69244	Here foloweth the. C. hystoryes of Troye Lepistre de Othea deesse de Prudence, enuoyee a lesperit cheualereny [sic] Hector de Troye, auec cent histoires.; Epître d'Othéa à Hector. English	Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.; Wyer, Robert, fl. 1530-1556.	1549 (1549)	STC 7272; ESTC S108381	74,324	323

sēblaunce ne to no maner of creature for y e is the honoure due alonely vnto god in this cōmaūdement is defended al Idolatry of this speketh our Lorde in his Gospell Dominum deum tuum adorabis et miso●● seruies Mathei quarto capitulo The .xxxvi. Hystorie The .xxxvi. Texte MEnymon thy loyall Cousen Germayne Vvhiche doth the assyst in eche daungerous place And loueth the so well thou oughtest to loue agayne And at his nede with Armoure the enbrace The .xxxvi. Glose MEnymon was cousen to Hector of the lyne of Troyens and when Hector was in fyerce Estours and battayles where many tymes he was hardly empressed with his enemyes Menymon whiche was a ryghte valyaunte knyght folowed hym nygh so succoured he Hector and departed the great prease as wel it appered for whan Achylles had slaine Hector by treason Menimon wounded greuously Achylles had him slayne had not bryefely come vnto hym succour Therfore sayth wysdom to the good knyght y t he ought to loue hym succour his nede that is to vnderstan̄d that euery prynce good knyght whiche hath any parentes be they lytell or poore so that they be good and loyall he hought to loue them and ought to bere and supporte them ī their affayres and in speciall when he fyndeth him loyall true to hym and it fortuneth somtymes y t a great prynce is more loued more loyall of his poore parent than of them that be ryght puyssaunte And to this purpose saith the Philosopher Rabion multiply thy frendes for they shal be to the succourable The .xxxvi. Allegorie MEnymon the loyal cousen we may yet take for the god of Paradyce which is well vnto vs a loyal cousen to take our humanite for y e which we may not him guerdon So here we may take the second cōmaundement that sayth thou shalt not take y e name of god ī vayne that is as writeth s. Augustine thou shalt not swere deshonestly ne without cause to colour falsyte for there may b● no greater abusion than to bring in witnes of falsite Othe soueraygne most stedfast verite and in this commaundement is defended all lesynges all periurie and all blasphemynge To this purpose sayth the Lawe Non habit dūs insontem eum qui assumserit nomen dūi dei sui frustra Exodi xx capitulo The .xxxvii. Hystorie The .xxxvii. Texte ADuyse the well that wordes of great menace Of nycetie or folye that commeth to dyshonoure Procede not from thy mouthe and in this case Of Leomedon make to the a myrroure The .xxxvii. Glose LEomedon was kynge of Troy and father to Priam. And when Iason Hercules and theyr companyons went into Colcos to get the golden flees and were descended at the porte of Troy for to refresshe them without doynge any dōmage to the countre Than Leomedon as euyll aduysed sende to them by his messagers shamefully to go out of his lande strongly them menaced yf they auoyded not shortly Wherof th● Barons of Grece by this cōmaūdemēt of auoydaunce helde them so moch Iniuried that therof after ensued the fyrst destruction of Troy Therfore woll Othea say to the good knyght that in so moch as the word menace is fowle vylayne it ought well to be prepensed and delivered afore that it be said for many euils therof oftimes ensue To this purpose sayth the Poete Omere he is sage whiche can refrayne his tonge The .xxxvii. Allegorie AS the word of menace cōmeth of arrogauncie pryde and to breke cōmaundemēt is also oultre euydaunce or orguyl we may take that man ought to breke the feastes or holy dayes for it is agaynst the cōmaundement whiche sayth Remembre the to sanctyfye the Sabboth day by the which is vnto vs cōmaunded as saith S. Augustine that the Sonday we halowe in place of the Sabboth day to the Iues we ought to solempnyse it in repose rest of the body and in cesynge from all bodely workes of bondage and in repose of the soule in cesynge fro all synnes And of this rest speketh Esay the Prophet Quiescite agere prouerse discite benefacere The .xxxviii. Hystorie The .xxxviii. Texte SVppose not euery thynge to be certayne At the fyrst Sygne but take delyberacyon Tyll treuth be knowen as for a whyle refrayne Of this can Pyramus gyue best informacion The .xxxviii. Glose PYramus was a yonge Bacheler of the Cytie of Babylon and when he had no more but .vij. yeres of age loue him wounded with his darte he was esprised with the loue of Thesbe a fayre damosyl gent of his parell of age and for the great frequentaunce of these .ij. louers togyther was apperceyued their great loue and by a seruaūt was accused to the mother of the damosell whiche toke her doughter and her enclosed fermly in her chambers and sayd that she shuld well kepe her from hauntyng Pyramus great was the dolour of the two chyldren for this cause and theyr plaintes wepinges moch pituous longe endured this pryson but the more y ● theyr age encreased y ● more was embrased in them the instygacion whiche for the absence was not destayned nor arrased But as betwyxt the pallays of y e two louers was but one wall Thesbe vpon a day aduysed the wall broken by the which she myght perceyue the lyght on the other parte Than fyxed she her gyrdle in the creuesse of the wall to the ende that her loue myght apperceyue it whiche he dyd shortly ynoughe there often they made theyr assemble the .ij. louers with moche pytuous complayntes in conclusyon as by great loue constrayned made was theyr accorde such that vpon a nyght in tyme of the fyrst stepe they wolde secretly departe from theyr frendes shuld assemble vnder a whyte brere bery tre without the cytie at a fountayne where ī theyr childhod they had ben acustomed to dysporte thē whan Thesbe was come to the fountaine alone all paruorous full of drede than hard she a Lyon come moch rudely wherof she al replenished with drede fled thens to hide her in a busshe y ● next she founde but in the way fell from her her whyte wymple whiche the Lyon defouled soyled and made blody whiche vomyted cast forth vpon it the entrayles of beestes which he had deuoured aboue mesure great was the doloure of Piramus which beleued none other but that his loue was deuoured with fierce beestes wherfore after many pytuous regretes he slewe hym self w t his sworde Thesbe came out of the busshe but when she vnderstode the syghes of her louer which was at the poynt of death and sawe the sworde the blode than by great dolour she fell vpon her louer which myght nor speke to her and after many great plaine●s regretes swames and trauntes she slewe her self w t the same sworde And the fable sayth that for this pytuous case y ● beryes of the brere tre became blacke whiche ere were whyte And bycause y t for so