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¶This lytle treatyse declareth the study and frutes of Barnes borned in west smyth_felde in London the .xxx. daye of Iuly in the .xxxii. yeare of the raygn of our Soueraygne Lorde Kynge
Henry the viij. Newely compyled, and nowe newely Imprynted.
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¶The Gospell.
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NOwe it is true, that I harde tell |
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Whiche to me is no great meruell |
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Barnes the bolde / the vicar of hell |
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In learnynge som sayde, he dyd excell |
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Yet he expoundeth, wronge the gospell |
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Wrestyng and wrythyng it lyke a false fryer. |
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Which hath brought hym to a fayre fyer. |
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¶Of prechynge
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¶Many he hath / to the trade brought |
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By his teachynge and preachyng, in pulpyt al ofte |
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Sayenge (we haue founde) that no ma[n] hath sought |
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Our wyttes, our lernynge, the spryte in vs wrought |
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Deceyuyng the people / tyl his workes came to nought |
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Suche was the study, of the false fryer |
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Who is now brent, in a fayre fyer. |
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¶Of fastyng and praying.
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¶His carnall belly-ioye, whiche neuer wolde faste
carnall] carnanall 1540
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Gullynge and drynkynge, as he wolde braste |
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Despysyng al prayers / sayeng our wynd we dyde waste |
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And all holy sayntes, he dyde out_caste |
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To turne mens hertes, tyl nowe at the laste |
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He is prouyd an herytyke, and a false lyer |
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And brent to poudre, in a fayre fyre. |
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¶Of Dissimulacion.
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¶Many thynges / he wolde, haue brought to passe. |
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[Through dissymulacion / ................................]
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To blynde the people [styll, warne and .................] |
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But what he thought (the Sacrament was) |
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I wyll not iudge, but we maye synge, and say (alas) |
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That euer was borne, this Antechrist fryer |
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Which by true iudgement, was brent in the fyer. |
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¶Of Holy-breade and Holy-water.
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God blessed the erth, and the fyrst creature |
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That euer was made of, mans nature |
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Moche more blessed is he, that is our sauyour |
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Receyuyng his baptysme / blessed the water |
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In thy name Iesus, the worlde to endure |
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This name ones spoken, with hartty desyre |
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Shall halowe / both bread, water and fyer. |
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¶Of lawe,
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¶Yf his great-graund-father /longe had ben suffered |
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Both gods lawe, and mans lawe, wold haue ben subuertid |
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Lyke bestyall beastes, we shulde then haue raygned |
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Wtout lawe or good ordre, he had so Imagynyd |
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After the luteryan fasshyoned, but god be thanked |
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To put in our Kynges hed: further to enquyre |
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Of the false heretyke, and braynles fryer. |
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¶Of Prestes to haue wyues.
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¶All thynges in commune, is the luteryans lyfe |
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A preest / a fryer, must nedes haue a wyfe |
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Who wolde blame Barnes then, to begyn the stryfe |
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Betwene the spyrytuall, and temporall, it was ryfe |
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It grudged, good mens conscyence, this great myschefe |
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And the conuycyous wordes of the false fryer |
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Whiche for his heresyes, is burnt in a fayre fyer. |
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¶Of Repentaunce.
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¶O howe [lyk]e / a Christen man he dyed
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Styffly hol[dy]nge / his handes by his syde |
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Sayeng, yf euer were any saynt / that dyed |
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I wyll be one / that must nedes be tryed |
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Without repentaunce, the deuyll was his gwyde |
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All this he sayd / lyke a false lyer |
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Yet all coulde not saue hym, from the fayre fyer. |
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¶Of Presumpcion.
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 To se the pryde / and great presumpcyon |
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Of the false heretyke, that wolde become |
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A saynt in the deuyls name, throughe dissimulacyon |
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Without gods mercy / it is his confusyon |
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I praye god there be no mo (I saye but mom) |
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Awaye with hym, away with hym, quod barnes
the fryer |
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Somtyme in the pulpyt, and nowe in the fyer |
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¶Of Reliquis.
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Hys stampynge, his starynge, is [.......]ne.
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Thankes be to god, and our kyng a[l]one |
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And that I myght haue, of hym a stynky[nge] bone |
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To make it a relyke / for he sayd, there is none |
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That he coulde fynde, in
Mathewe
or in
Iohnn
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Whether he sayd true / or spake lyke a lyer |
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Let other trye the trueth / for he was / an heretyke fryer |
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¶Of a Marter.
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[O] holy Barnes / of all Heretykes the father
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[Y]e be a saynte / yet ye [be no confessour]
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[Sm]ylynge and iestynge / when ye lyste clatter
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[Bu]t I thynke surely, ye be a stynkynge marter |
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[W]ho that thynketh contrary, thynketh lyke a lyer |
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L[e]t hym that so thynketh / beware of the fyer |
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¶Of his Newe lernynge.
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Take hede and beware / of his false doctryne |
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And to bele[u]e Christes churche, let vs inclyneletter illegible
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Our hertes to god, and to our kynge, both thyne and myne |
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To serue them truely / with hart diuyne |
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Then mayst thou saye, thou drawest the tr[ewe] lyne
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Le[t] of his newe lernyng, I the requyre |
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An[d] gyue [n]o credence, to the heretyke fryer |
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¶[A]nd nowe louyngly, let vs all [with o]ne voyce pray.
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For the preseruacyon, of Henry, our m[ost no]ble kynge |
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And katherine / our Quene, that they togyther may |
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Prosperously contynue, to theyr hertes desyrynge, |
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And Edwarde our Prynce that most angelyke thyng |
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That they all-togyther, may long lyue and reste |
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And after with hym to raygne / Qui in celis est
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Amen. |
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God saue the Kynge. |
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¶Imprynted at London in Pater_noster_rowe by Iohnn_Redman, for Richard_bankes, |
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Cum priuilegio Regali. et Ad imprime[n]dumimprimendum] imprimemdum 1540 solum
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