hadde his syght they knowleched that seynt Austyns waye was trewe / ¶But they sayde they myght not forsake theyr old vsages without assente of hem that vsed the sa¦me Thenne be gadred a synode / therto cam seuen bisshops
the see of york yet he hadde scorn to doo lawful obedyence to the Archebisshop of Caunterbury / than the old stryf was renewed ageyn / fyrst there the pope promysed to the kyng of englond and to Raaf Archebis∣shop
me to wryte fyrst ouer all the sayd book of proloconycon / and som what haue chaunged the rude and old englyssh̄ / that is to wete certayn wor¦des / which in these dayes be neither vsyd ne vnderstanden /
¶ Capitulum 17AFter kyng harry the fyfthe regned harry his sonne a chil / de and not fully a yere old / whoos regne began the fyrst da∣ye of september / the yere of our lord a thousand four honderd
for by lawe of nature all thinge ought to be comyn to euery man / and this lawe was of old tyme And men wene yet specially yt the troians kept this lawe And we rede that the multitude of
him go to the bishop & id him caste oute the he hath beri∣ed he shall be dayes & o old not Narracio. in the ge¦stis of rome that an āgell tolde an holy bishop that hight. Encres how that
holy Bisshop reprysed / and taught many ladyes / Capitulo / xlviijo.How yong ladyes were scorned & mocked of the old & aun∣cyent ladyes / Capitulo xlixo.Yet of the same / Capitulo lo.Of the good knyght that had thre wyues
I shalle speke / and saye to them thus / My ryght dere doughters for as moche as I am old / and I haue sene the world more lenger than ye haue / I shall to yow a partye
in your old ageHow good doughters ought to fast / till they be maryed Capitulo septimoaLso my dere doughters / ye ought to faste tyll that be maryed thre or foure dayes in the weke. For to adaunte youre flesshe
bifore them / at the said place / And soo they tooke their weye thorugh the medowe / where were old cloddes all roten / And as they were vpon them / they brake vnder theyr feet / And soo
/ Notwithstondyng the yong age whiche I was of whanne she deyde / For I was not aboue ten yere old / She had a ryghte noble ende / and as I wene ryght agreable to god / And as
horsback were not passyng a / xv.C· Alle the other were feble men as seke men and wymmen and also old peple· within the toun were men able to bere Armes .xl. thousand whiche were comen in fro cytees and
that ye shal haue good ryght / Cosyn this shal I wel gete / for the pope is so sore old that he is but lytil sette by / And the cardynal of pure gold hath alle the myght of
were to swyft and shold haue byten hym / But he had one auenture that ther by he fond an old hole / wherin he crepte / and escaped thus the honters and houndes / Thus helde this false deceyuer
rasyng ayenst he sayd my lord yf ye wyl he hole / Ye muste of a wulf of vij yere old / that may ye not lue or ellis ye shal deye / for your vryne sheweth it playnly /
a garlond of rooses. Whiche he muste alway were on his heed. but now this is al torned· Alle the old good thinges that he dyde. ben forgeten▪ And thise couetouse and rauenous shrewys ben taken vp and sette on
a lābe & destro¦yed many a symple beest / & now falsely haue appeled me & brought me in this trouble / al this shal I now auēge on the / I am chosen to reward the forthyn old synnes
thys tyme of the cir∣cumcision of our lord Jhesu. But now in tyme of grace cea¦ceth this circumcision of the old lawe. & we haue in that stede baptysme ordeyned by Cryst. that is the sacramente of more grace &
lyue in suffysaunce / But emōg vs courtyours that be seruauntes to fortune / we lyue disordynat¦ly / we wexen old more by force of charges than by the nombre of yeres / And by defaulte of wel lyuyng we
to escuse hym self of that he hath not yet ler¦ned / than to make sorowe & mourne in his old age of that he conde neuer nothyng / wherfore thauncyent praysed so ly∣tel the noble men that coude nothyng