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¶A lytell treatyse agaynst sedicyous persons. |
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¶To trolle awaye or trolle in / let not trolle spare | |
If trolle truly trolle / trolle nedeth not to care. | |
OF late I perused / two purposes seuerall | |
In their kyndes clerkely handeled / the truth for to tell | |
Trolle_awaye and Trolle_in / men do them call | |
Treatyng vpon mater / concernyng the late Crumwell | |
5 | The one vtterly myndyng / the other to repell |
Trolle_away (the trouth is) moche touched the quycke | |
And Trolle_in (somwhat galled) began for to kycke. | |
¶Yet Trolle_away tolde trouth / it can not be denyed | |
Declaryng the offence / wherin Crumwell offended | |
10 | Trolle_in beyng troubled / whan he it espyed |
With trollynges to couer it / full subtelly contended | |
Some trollers there be / I wolde were amended | |
For who that craftely couereth / any others offence | |
Of lykelyhode / in his owne herte / hath the same pretence. | |
15 | Truly to trolle / it is no maner of shame |
And trollyng vntrue / is not to be mayntayned | |
As euery-thyng is / so to gyue it propre name | |
Amonges all true honest men / shulde not be disdayned | |
The scripture so techeth vs / it can not be fayned Ve qui dicitis bonum malum et malum bonum. Esa. quinto. =Isaias 5: 20 =Isaias 5: 20 | |
20 | Agaynst scripture who stryueth / he is none other lyke |
Than a traytoure to his prince / and to god an heretyke. | |
I entende not to trolle / to take any parte | |
Diuisyon to encreace / it nedeth nothyng | |
But sorowfully syghyng / I trolle in my harte | |
25 | With my-selfe in mynde / many tymes reuoluyng |
How god to vs / hath ordayned the most noble kyng | |
Who vniformly to knyt vs / hath traueyled full sore | |
Yet many trifelyng trollers / care lytell therfore. | |
¶But as trollers troubelous / and full of enuy | |
30 | At the lawes of god / and of our good kyng |
In their trollynges do trust / yet that their olde heresy | |
All good ord[yr]s set a_parte / shall florisshe and sprynge ordyrs] ordrys 1540 | |
Their prechers / no lesse conforte / in their sermons do brynge | |
Euen lately exhortyng them / auoydyng all drede | |
35 | And persecution not regardyng / throughly to procede. |
¶With many wordes more troublous / than now I wyll reherce | |
Not doutyng at all / but at length they shalbe knowen | |
Suche trollyng trecherous / my herte doth sore perce | |
Consyderyng howe sedicyously / amonges vs they be sowen | |
40 | Of late I well trusted / they had ben ouer-blowen |
But now I well parceyue / that neither fauour nor smarte | |
From the body can expell / that is rooted in the harte. | |
¶A trewe trollyng hert / wolde be loth to pretende | |
Any purpose to mayntayne / agaynst god or his kyng | |
45 | The confessyon of an heretyke / that lately dyd offende |
And amonges others / suffred for his deseruyng | |
Secretly they embrace / as a most precyous thyng | |
And yet playnly wyll I proue / by good lawe and reason | |
Contayned therin / both heresy and treason. | |
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50 | In any wyse imprynted / they wyll not it shall be |
The daungers therof in them-selues mystrustynge | |
Wherfore euery man may well perceyue and se | |
What hertes they do beare to god and our good kynge | |
Euery of them secretly must haue it in wrytynge | |
55 | But Chryst sayeth verely there is n[o]thynge conceled nothynge] ndthynge 1540 |
But at length shalbe knowen / and openly reueled. Nihil est opertum quo[d] non reueletur. neque occultum quod non sciatur. Math, x, Vulgate, Matthew 10: 26: Nihil enim est opertum, quod non revelabitur: et occultum, quod non scietur. Vulgate, Matthew 10: 26: Nihil enim est opertum, quod non revelabitur: et occultum, quod non scietur. | |
¶Who against them trolleth / a Papyst they him name | |
They haue no other thing / themselues for to defende | |
I wolde that all Papystes / had an open shame | |
60 | And that all heretykes / them-selues wolde amende |
Than shuld we haue no cause / further to contende | |
But vniformly to lyue / the one with the other | |
And ioyfully to enhabyt / as brother with brother. Ecce quam bonum et quam iocundum habitare fratres in unum. psa, c,xxxij | |
Such shuld be our trollynges / Christ vs so teacheth | |
65 | Commaunding euer peace / amonges vs for to be Mathei. x. Luce. ij. Io, xiiij.xv, |
Untruly he trolleth / that otherwyse preacheth | |
Styreng to any sedicion / malyce or enuye | |
Where banisshed is discorde / and raygneth all charite | |
That realme in god resteth / and god is in it / | |
70 | Being charite him-selfe / as sayth the holy writ. Deus charitas est et qui manet in caritate in deo manet et deus in eo i. Ioh. iij. Recte: 1John 4:16 Recte: 1John 4:16 |
Than towardes that charite / trolle we on a_pace | |
Auauncyng our-selues / with all conuenyent spede | |
A more acceptable pilgrimage / surely neuer was | |
For which god gaue to man / any meryte or mede | |
75 | Our labour or gret burden / let vs nothing drede |
Nor regarding the wylfulnes / of our body or flesshe | |
For at the iorneyes ende / Christ wyll vs refresshe. Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis et onorati estis, et ego reficiam uos Mathei. xv | |
And than as true trollers / togither let vs remayne | |
Parfectly fast knyt / in one peace / vnyte and loue | |
80 | With glory vnto god / euermore glad and fayne |
Our noble Prince truly to serue / as doth vs behoue | |
And all others to tendre / as duty doth vs moue Omnis anima po[testatibus] sub[limioribus]potestatibus sublimioribus] po sub. 1540 subdita sit. ro. 13. potestatibus sublimioribus] po sub. 1540 | |
Usyng styll amonge vs / the selfe-same loue and concorde | |
Which is to vs commaunded / by Christ the eternall lorde. Hoc est mandatum meum u[t]ut] ur 1540 diligatis inuicem sicut Ioh. xv. ut] ur 1540 | |
85 | And nowe in that loue / let vs all with one voyce pray |
For the preseruacion of Henry our most noble kyng | |
And Katheren our Quene / that they togither may | |
Prosperously contynue / to their hertes desyring | |
And Edward our Prince / that most angelyke thing | |
90 | That they all togither may longe lyue and rest |
And after with him to raygne / qui in celis est. | |
God saue the Kyng. | |
To Trolle away or Trolle in / let not Trolle spare | |
If Trolle truly Trolle / Trolle nedeth not to care. | |
Composed by Thomas_Smyth / seruaunt to the kynges royall maiestye. | |
And clerke of the Quenes graces counsell / though most vnworthy. | |
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