one gētylman of an other gentylmans armes / without that it be soo / that he can shewe that of old tyme they be or haue ben longyng to his predecessours or that som lord had gyuen som bēde or
almayn wyl chalenge but the frēshman ansuereth that he hath not foūden them of late but that his antecessours of old tyme had & yet dyde bere them / The almayn saith that his lynage is more aūcyent than the
affectuousLoue & desyre he cherysshed in his howsA commaundement yafe his seruaunt in certaynThe whiche he brake· & deth sh̄ old he his paynFoure tormentours the kyng cleped to hymBad one h̄ym to put in pryson soureAnd other sh̄old quyck
ententI wol thou wyte quod sapyence to meThis myghty kyng is god omnypotentIn one godhede regnaunt. and persones threHis sone is Cryst / his dough̄ters in degreBen vertues four annext to his godhedeHis seruaunt is old Adam as I rede
wentThe Ierarch̄yes with theyr heuenly collageTo pray for man / it was theyr hole ententThat he myght come to his old herytageOute from the Carybde / and the smoky cageOf seruytude· the whiche hym had incluseFour thousand yere / he
was the good Irys of ArebyeHolsome for women in theyr chyldledThe stone Iona that techeth prophecyeThe sad Camen with dyuers coloure ledeThe dropcy / whiche he leth as I deIn bookes old and the byguriusThat colour lost restoreth vnto vs
ful of al pure delyteBut I of force must be compendyousTherfor of them I wyl no ferther wryteOf theyr vertues I touche here but a lyteTheyr propertees who lust to haue toldI counceyl them / go loke in bookes old
gan sh̄e for to dresseAs Tryones / Boetes / YadesAricturus. Oryon / and plyadesAs Lucyfer / Cometes / VesperusTheyr names old sh̄e told ful craftelyThe planetes seuen sh̄e neuened vnto vsSaturne· Ioue / Mars / Phebus / and MercuryeThe Mone
pen̄e for to write & put in memre my faites & de∣des / The king Iupiter of crete wa myn old bel fader & he engedrid king of mydene / Th Cacus engendred my fder Eson. I am Iason that
And no thing of their desire befelle vnto them vnto the tyme that the king began to fall and wexe old by aage. Then̄e hs wyf conceyued of his seed and multeplied the generaci∣on humayn of a right fayr sone
hit is grete Rychesse to a man whan that hono∣rably may amasse and bringe his dayes vnto the degre of old aage· And yet ben ther children that don worse. for they desire and wisshe their faders and moders ded.
asmoche sayd Iason as I haue not cessed this nyght to dreme· By my loyaulte fayr sire ansuerde the good old knighte. yf ye haue dremed ony thing that haue nede of exposicion or ony interpretacōn. there is noman is
shippe of the Grekes that ther was no more distance but a stone caste· Then̄e the fayr Medea and the old woman̄ fylled there handes with the membris of the noble child Absirthius in she∣wyng them to the kyng Oetes
she was thus rauisshed in grete Ioye & that her semed that Iason cam seuerly vnto her· With̄ that the old maystresse and the far Medea putte their sor∣ceries to werke and theire enchantements. wherof thauen∣ture of the shippe sorted
for euery creature as the deth̄. And that the god∣des wold take her sowle. After many dayes Medea toke hede that among all other sciences she had one for to ma∣ke old peple to become yong and specially men. And
comen in his royaume. Then̄e the king Eson knowing their recon∣siliacion contented him self with̄ Iason in pardonyng him all old Rancour and maletalents / And hit was not long after that the king Eson resigned in the handes of
is in the condicions & in the maners of the men & not in the age / ffor certaynly the old temperate men which be not dangero{us} ne cruell / enduryn & bere lygh¦tly their olde age / but importunyte
Ther was at Rome one Appi∣us an old agid preest whiche seruid in the temple of Mi¦nerua othir wise callid Pallas whiche preest was fulle olde and with that he was blynde / And it fortuned that at that tyme
you that the olde man is not hatefull to anothir / but is glad & amyable / for as the old wise man hath delectacyon with the adolescence / and in yong men / whiche haue in them some tokyns
soroufull & harde / And by that the adolescentes & yong men as me semyth dyen like as old men / which quencheth a strong & a right grete fflame of fyre / by castyng in of moche watir /