PEACE

For sooth and so said I. What people are though. I say the universal people does best obtain where as peace is ever abiding That is not for the commons increase For by peace they profit in many a thing Peace sets amity between king & King In time of peace merchants have their course To pass and repass Hold thy hands thou lewd fellow Thou art of evil dysposycion thus against peace to repugn The which from heaven descended down to bring man out of captivity that were no sin to hang the by the throat Thy words be envious, not grounded on charity. What is that Why ask you so Give her such punishment as longeth thereto I break not peace with doing endue correction For correction should be done charitably Irascemini et nolite peccare Go hence wretch thou make bore that were alms to set the in newgate How master constable come never Here is a wretch without reason Take and put him in prison With as many irons as he may bear Oh thou wretch thou ought to remorde That so tar art exiled from charity Lo he thinketh not, how meekly his maker & Lord Suffered reprefe and died upon a tree Giving us example that with humility Every man should follow his trace That in heaven will claim a place Why art thou so out of patience Take heed my friend thus sayeth the text In little meddling stands great rest Therefore pay thy duty well and honestly With few words discretely Another time you shall be the better trust This is but a wilful mind if thou wilt not pay Thy very duty, which can not be denade Giving of thy write and expense in the law Will cost more then thy duty, this well I gnaw Thy debt therewith can not be paid that is only a deferring of the payment. Thou shalt pay by rightful judgement For the law is indifferent to every person I see thou art and evil disposed man I utterly forsake thy condition Also to warriors I do reprove For peace loves not to fight youth with his courage light Nor strength with multitude I do y e plighted Are not only the cause of victory Grace and good governance of man For with good discretion they began That were the great wynners of victory I hold it punishment for thy sin Show me what is thy name For sooth that may well be Thou art so full of wrath and envy In thee can grow no grace But if thou Wilt forsake sensuality And be governed by reason, as I shall induce thee Thou shalt come to richesse, within short space Thou must love thy neighbour with charity Do unto him, no manner of disease Look how thou would he did to thee Do to him no worse in no degree And then thou shalt our lord please. Thou must charitably all faults forgive Wwat soever any man to thee say Let as thou hardest it not, turn thine care away Thou halt please God, if thou so do. to suffer for christ's sake I shall have mede Hold thy hand and keep Patience think what Christ suffered for our offence He was beat ̄ scourged, & spite on w to violent ̄ ce And suffered death for our sake yet he took it patiently He forgave his death, & prayed for his enmys Pater dimite illis, his saying was truly And exam us to take to be meek in heart: beati pauperes spiritum Shall Christ say full even. Et venite benediciti: come my blessed children To the kingdom of heaven. Then to my saying, take good remembrance Exercise yourself in virtue, from this time hence And unto peace evermore be obedient Fit before every sharp word, a Shield of sufferance And when time is of your concupissaunce Now or we any further proceed Hold this vesture and put it on thee From henceforth thou shalt be called prosperytie Now unto you I shall here show Of such things as you shall eschew First your soul look that you keep clean Beware of mysrule in any wise Play not at caylles, cards nor dice Also from miswomen, for by them mischief may rise As it doth often, this daily is seen Haunt no taverns, nor fit not up late Let no hazards nor riotours, w to you be check mat For then will envy come, and make debate The which shall cause great trouble Be plentiful of such as God hath sent Unto y e poor people give with good inte ̄ to For every penny that is so spent God will send the double. Take heed and do as I have said Then let us depart for a season plyenede I will be your protection. Exiu ̄ to ambo yet I say beware of had I wist yet man I say remember thee And think what I to the have said. Escheue evermore these ryatours company And be ruled by reason as I thee bad Put from the these two parsons by who ̄ thou art lad Envy & mysrule with their sinful & great abusion Which if thou Wilt not forsake, will be thy confuison It is better to forsake them betime then to late This knave would have a broken pate And take heed what I do say Remember in what condition thou was when I First met the in this place Full simple in poor array Now by the grace of God and counsel of me Thou art come to great prosperity And so mayest continue until thou die if thou wisely take heed Let not sensuality lede the bridle Be ocupied in virtue, and be not Idle The better shalt thou proceed These wretches will thy goods spend and waste then shalt thou be taken for and out cast And mocked and scorned with most and least Then will no man the help at need Then to almighty God I betake you The puysaunt prince and innocent most pure which hu ̄ bly desce ̄ dead from y e sete see ̄ piternall Illumyne his beams of grace to every creature To withstand the conflict of our enemies mortal The devil, the world, & the flesh, these three in special which sets deuysion between y e soul & the body Inlike wise envy sets debate between party & party I speak for this cause, daily you may see How that by envy and malice, many be destroyed Which if they had lived in peace w to patient humility Riches and prosperity with them had been employed For there as is peace, no man is annoyed For by peace men grow to great richesse And by peace men live in great quietness I am nam peace, which envy doth expel Envy with me shall never rest For envy is one of the pains of hell When that he soiourneth in a men breast Like the burning Fenix in her own nest Though she can none other hurt ne grieve yet she doth not cease her self to myscheue What prosperity is it come hereto When phebus draws into the occydentall And observed with clouds mysty and dark Then trees, herbs, and grass, by course natural want their chief continued ̄ fort, thus say many a clack And likewise that man in his work Is destitute of reason, following sensual operation The last time I was in this place Prosperity unto mysrule put his hold confidence He regarded not my counsel, he lacked grace which in time coming shall turn him to inco ̄ venie ̄ ce with hassarders, and ryotters, he keepeth resydence At clas he and cards with all vnthryfty game which in continuance shall bring him to shame To him yet I will resort if he be brought in poverty I shall do him all the comfort And all the help that lies in me I will never rest till I him see But seek about from place, to place And bring him to some better grace. 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