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Bot if vs liste hafe aii}^ disporte we take & redej }>e lyfes But they

&, pe dedis of oure Auncestres, and oure \)redicessours. And of the lives

if we fynde any thynge in f>am) )?at es cause of laugbtre and deeds

4 par-tit we wepe & makes dole. Neuer-]:>e-lesse we behalde forefathers

olper thynges of Ipe whilke oure hertis ere gladdide and grete if th^T^'

lykyng has, pat es at say, lieuen)-scliyne wit sternes w^t-owt ^® ^^y

nowm^r; pe son) faire & bryghte, of wliase bryghtnesse att laughter.

8 pe werlde takes Ij^gbte and hete. The see we se alwaye giaTin^the

of pw?'powr coloure, and when) tempestej ryse^ pare-ii^ it dis- brightness

truyes no^te pe land? pat es nere it, as it does in joure and its

partes. Bot he embrace5 it as his sister and gase aboute it. ^g wilAell

12 And in be se we see many dyue?*se kynde3 of Fisches, '^^?f^^^®'^

Delphines & porpase3 layke fam). We hafe lykyng also for their doe-

to bihalde faire feldes alouer floresched? wit flores of pe whilke Alexander

a swete reflaire enters in-titt oure noses, in be whilke has con-

... quered the

i6 a sensible saule base maste delite. Also we delit vs in faire world,

place^ of wodde^ & of swete welles whare we here swete ^^g g^^^^^ ^

sange^ of fewles. This customs hafe we al-way, pe whilke, & ^^^

poll walde halde nojte bot a while, we trowe J^ou suld thynke visages

2o ftam) ri^te hard". Blame no3te me, for att pat pon reqwerede ^^^ ^^^^

me be bi le^^res I send be wretyiD. Neuer-be-less, and it t^^

' I -J r ' hungry.

sulde no3t displese the, I walde tett pe a littitt of oure They offer

doctryne pe whilke makes oure lyfe to seme harde vn-to pe. children to

24 2ee hafe wz't-in a schorte while conquered" & made sugete Maumets.

vn-to ^our empire att Asy, Europe, & Affryke. As '^our selfe sows
base ^ sayde * ^e make pe lighte of pe son) to faile, when) 56 .^®^^ 34-

seke pe t^rmes of his course thurgh werre. 3^ ^^^ ^^ manere between

28 of thynges^ pat come^ till hande. And jour vesages semej as J^^^^

je ware fastande & hungry. 3® slaa ^our childre makande more

sacrafice of J^am) to Mawmetes. }e sawe discorde bi-twix Ihe^gods

kynges and thase pat schulde be meke je stirre for to be ^^^?

32 prowde. ^e make men) to thynke ]:»at grete space of landes do ill deeds

suficej psi,m) nojte And so paj seke duellynge placej of heuen). ^^g f^^^
' Also thurgh ^our goddes je do many ill dedis, as j^ay didd" *hat serve

J?am) selfe, Ensample of lubiter ^our godd" & of Proserpyna J^at The Greeks

36 36 wirchipe as a goddess^. For lubiter defouled? many mens ^^^ ^^^'

^ Scribblings at the bottom of leaf 33 ^ Scribe originally wrote ihi/nkes, but

bk. : — * P.', ' G.' below the P., then ' H. changed the k into a ^, thus thynges.
Amen. Do For '.