Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

XXV. THE SCHOLEMASTER. BOOK I.309part of this gracelesse grace was discribed by me, in a litlerude verse long ago.To laughe, to lie, to flatter, toface :Foure wai'es inCourt to win men grace.130 If thou he thrall to none of thiese.Away, good Peek-goos, hence, lohn Cheese:Marke well my word, and marke their dede,And thinke this verse part of thy Crede[Leaf 18, back.']It is a notable tale, that old Syr Roger Chaviloe,135 sometime cheife lustice, wold tell of him-selfe. syt Roger'^^"''"^''^•Whan he was Auncient in Inne of Courte,Certaine yong lentlemen were brought before him, to becorrected for certaine misorders : And one of the lustiestsaide :'Syr, we be yong ientlemen, and wise men before vs140 have proued all facions, and yet those haue done full well :'this they said because it was well knowen, that Syr Rogerhad bene a good feloe in his yougth. But he aunswered'them verie wiselie. In deede,' saith he, ' in yougthe, I was,as you ar now : and I had twelue feloes like vnto my-self,145 but not one of them came to a good ende. And therfore,folow not my example in yougth, but folow my councell inaige, if euer ye thinke to cum to this place, or to thiesyeares, that I am cum vnto, lesse ye meete either with pouertieor Tiburn in the way.'[Leaf 19.]150 And I do not meene, by all this my taulke, thatyong lentlemen should alwaies be poring on Dingent leamabooke, and by vsing good studies shold '>;:°i Slt'h°'''lease honest pleasure and haunt no good pas- £es!nan^i"ie_ ,, . I -r> ' A. ' 11 in a ientleman.time, I meene nothmge lesse : t or it is well155 knowne that I both like and loue, and haue alwaies, and do