This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... a myte Some to opteyn favour wyll flatter and glose Some wryte curyous termes nothyng to purpose 43 Thus every man after his fantesye Wyll wryte his conseyte be it never so rude Be it vertuous vycyous wysedome or foly Wherfore to my purpose thus I conclude f Why shold not than the auctour of this interlude I Utter his owne fantesy and conseyte also As well as dyvers other now a dayes do 50 For wysedome and foly is as it is takyn For the one callyth wysedome another callyth foly Yet amonge moste folke that man is holdyn Most wyse whiche to be ryche studyeth only But he that for a comniyn welth bysyly Studyeth and laboryth and lyvyth by Goddes law Except he wax ryche men count hym but a daw 57 So he that is ryche is ever honouryd Allthough he have got it never so falsely The pore beynge never so wyse is reprovyd 56 daw = fool. Halliwell verweist auf 1 Henry VI., II, 4. 58 Allthough All though 0. m This is the oppynyon moste commynly Thorowe out the worlde and yet no reason why Therfore in my mynd whan that all suche dawis Have babelyd what they can no force of II strawis 64 For every man in reason thus ought to do To labour for his owne necessary lyvynge And than for the welth of his neyghbour also But what dyvylish mynd have they which musing And labouryng all their lyffes do no other thyng But bringe ryches to their owne possessyon Nothyng regardinge their neyghbours distruccion 71 Yet all the ryches in the worlde that is Rysyth of the grounde by Goddys sendynge And by the labour of pore mennys handys And though thou ryche man have therof the kepynge Yet is not this ryches of thy gettynge Nor oughtyst not in reason to be preysyd the more A III, 2. For by other mennys labour it is got before 78 A great wytted man may sone be enrychyd That...