STUDIOUS DESIRE

¶And sith it hath pleased thy grace to admit Me upon this man to gyve attendance with thy doctrine here showed I shall Q I kkyn his wit And daily put him in remembrance His courage and desire I shall also inhance So that his f lycyte shall be most of all To study and to search for causys natural ¶Now humanity call to your memory The continued ̄ nynge poyntꝭ that nature hath declared And though he have showed dyuers poitꝭ & many Of the el mentis so wondrously formed yet many other causys there are would be learned As to know the generation of thyngꝭ all Here in the earth / how they be engendered As herbs plantys well spryngꝭ ston and me all ¶Than ̄ mark well in y day or in a winters night The soon and moan and sterris celestial In the est First they do apere to thy sight after in the west they do down fallen again in the morrow next of all .xxiv. hours they be come Just To est poi ̄ tꝭ again where thou sawist them fur ¶TO and if the earth should be of endless de nes Or should stand upon any other grose that g It should be and impediment doubtless To the soon moan and sterris in their moving They should not so in the est again Spring Therefore in reason it seemeth most convenient The earth to hang in y e myddꝭ of the fyrmame ̄ to ¶Me thinketh my self as to some of those poi ̄ tꝭ I could gyve a sufficient solution For First of all thou must needs grant this That the earth is so deep and bottom hath non Or else there is some grose thing hit sto ̄ dyth upon Or else that it hangyth thou must nedꝭ consent Even in the myddꝭ of the firmament ¶That it can not be plain I shall well ꝓue the Be cause the sterris that a rise in the oryent Appear more sooner to them that there be Than to the other dwelling in the occident The eclipse is thereof a plain experymente Of the soon or moan which whane it doth f Is never one time of the day in places all ¶yet the eclyps generally is alway In the hold world as one time being But when we that dwell here see it in y e midday They in the west partis see it in the Morning And they in the est behold it in the evening And why that should so be no cause can be found But only by reason that the yerthe is Round Nam no doubt that is Round every where which I could prove thou shouldst not say nay if I had thereto any time and leser But I know a man called experyens Of dyuers instruments is never without Cowde prove all these points & yet by his scye ̄ Can tell how many mile the earth is a bowte many other strau ̄ ge continued ̄ clusio ̄ S no doubt is instruments cowde show the ̄ so certain at every rude carter should them ꝑsayue plain ¶if you will I shall for him inquire And bring him header if I can him find I shall assay by God that me dear bought For cunning is the thing y to would be sought ¶you peradventure what than ¶Hold your peas sir you mys take me what I trow that you would make me Like to one of your kin you sir beware yet what you do For if you forsake my company so Lord nature will not be content. Of him you shall never learn good thing Neither virtue nor no other continued ̄ nynge This dare I well say well for your pleasure I will depart Sir I understand that you have be In many a stram nge country And have had great fylycyte Strange causes to seek and find Marvelous to understand. Sir if a man have such courage Or devotion in pilgrimage Iheruzalem unto For to account the next way How many mile is it I you pray who think you brought here this figure Sir this realm you knou is called e ̄ gla ̄ de Sometime brettayne I understand Therefore I prey you poi ̄ to with your would ̄ de In what place it should lie. ¶Than ̄ at your pleasure show some other Thy ̄ ge y liketh me so well your continued ̄ myni ̄ ge you can not talk a mys ¶Pese sir no more of this matter Behold where humanity continued ̄ meth here ¶Thy lewd conditions thou dost Still occupy As thou art wont to do ¶Sir this is the man called experiens That I spoke of before ¶Certain this is a solution Meet for such a boys question ¶you sir and I say for my ꝑte He is the continued ̄ nyngest man in that art That ever I could find For ask what question you will do How the earth is round or other more He will satisfy your mind ¶So doth it in mine opinion But know you any other conclusion To prove it round save that alone ¶Certes lord nature Him self not long a gone ¶which was here personally Declaring hie philosophy And lafte this figure purposely For humanities instruction ¶you shall know sir or I go ¶So am I for good will he do none To no man living But this is the man with whom you shall I trust be well content with all And glad of his continued ̄ ming ¶For he hath exponed cunningly Dyuers points of Cosmogryfy In few words and short clause