errour the more to be remēbred ¶ And said. the ignoraunt persone is but litil. al be it he be old. and the wiese is moche. al be it he be yong ¶ And the worlde dispraiseth nowe adays thoos
for your sekenesses come but of goddis wylle. He ansuerd Therfore am I the more aferd. ¶ He sawe an old man that dyede his heeres ¶ To whom he sayde ¶ Thou maiste wel hyde thy whyte heeres. but
of the departyng of the turkes. Anone after that they wereputte to flyght: they wente bakward a large myle: andthere they made newe tentes / to abyde there: whyle they char¦gedtheir shippes and galeyes with all their ordonnances ofwere.
by an en∣chauntement she made hym chace an herte by hym self alone / til that he came to an old Castel / and there anone he was taken prysoner by the lady that hym loued / Whanne Elyzabeth kyng
of haukynge and hunty∣nge is called the book of syr Trystram / Wherfor as me semeth alle gentylmen that beren old armes oughte of ryght to ho∣noure syre Trystram for the goodly termes that gentilmen ha¦ue and vse / and
with alle / There with alle she pulled out a blo¦dy dobblet and a blody sherte that were bebledde with old blo∣od / whanne Alysander sawe this / he starte abak and waxed paale / and sayd fayre moder what
a Castel that hyʒt Vagon / there they entrid in to the castel / and the lord therof was an old man / that hyght Vagon / and he was a good man of his lyuynge / and sette open
kynge Euelake / and told hym he shold be discomfyt and slayne but yf he lefte his bileue of the old lawe and by loue vpon the newe lawe / And thenne there he shewed hym the ryght bileue of
hit / Thus as Ector and Gawayne rode more than eyghte dayes / And on a saterday they fond an old chappel the whiche was wasted that there semed no man thy∣der repayred / and there they alyghte / and
and the moost party were knyghtes of the table round that were proued noble knyghtes / / and there were old knyghtes sette in skaffoldes for to Iuge with the quene who dyd best / ¶Capitulum xxijTHenne they blewe to
of oure forn faders / of stalworth / wight wyse. and worthy and of dyuerse maner men that were in old tyme ¶For in the makynge of bookes of storyes that ben to vs sente and byquethen by grete besynesse
in the southe weste to dalmacia / Misia is a good lond of corne and of whete / therfor the old cereris called it a berne· Sclauia is a partye of Misia. ¶ ther ben also two londes eyther is
and the chyualrye helde so to geders that in the comyn prouffyte was alwaye good peed / ¶ And the old Graij auentured and gate many thynges by Clergye and dedes of Armes / But that vertue keled and withdrowhe
in eyther tyme is the stinting of the sonne¶ De hybernia ¶ Capitulum 32HYbernia that is Irlond. And was of old tyme incorperate in to the lordship of britain so seith Giraldus in sua topo∣graphia where he descriueth it at
nought y lefte / soo he that bre∣keth the couenaunt shuld be deed and al his kyn· Also men in old tyme vsed to arere and enhaunce signes and tokens that myght longe dure in mynde of couenaunt of hem
come of stones and of trees / but that was feyned for the manere of dwellynge of men in the old tyme / for somme went about as they were beestes Augustinus libro octodecimo capitulo decimo tercio After Io∣sues deth
yere so seyth Iosephus libro octauo Capitulo quinto / and seuenten yere as other wryten Roboas forsoke the counseyl of old men / and was ruled by the counseyl of yonglynges· that tyme Ieroboam Nabathes sonne regned in Samarya vpon
men be next god ¶Ysidorus libro octauo capitulo sexto¶ Capitulum 12THe name of philosophres had begynnyng of Pyctagoras / for old grekes callyd hym self sophistris that is wyse / but Pyctagoras whan me axed what man he was /
them was named gracus The bataylle was bygonne for the lawe called agaria / In that lawe it was of old tyme that the senatours sholde entremete of no dede mennes feldes / that he hadde while he was lyuynge
and of cirillus bisshop of Alexandria the thyrdde grete synode of thre honderd Bisshops was made at ephesus ayenst nestorius the heretyk ¶ There it was demed that in crist is one persone and two kyndes the godheede and