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Show - T the fame time with Ckancer Out of his prologu to his third book of The Fall of Princes ftanzas are fele@ed, which, being compare the fiyle of his two contemporaries, will fho our language was then not written by' caprice was in a fettled ftate LIK fe wit tha bu a pilgrime which that goeth on foote And hath none horfe to releue his trauayle Whote, drye and wery, and may finde no bot Of wel cold whan' thruft doth bym affayle Wine nor licour, that may to hym auayle Tight fo fare I which in my'bufineffe No fuccour fynde my rudenes to redreffe I meane as thus, I' haue no freth licou Out of the conduités of Calliope Nor through Clio in rhetorike no floure In mylabour for 1o refreth me Nor of the fufters in noumber thrife three Which with Cithera on Parnafo dwell They neuer me gaue drinke once of their wel Nor of theyr fpringes clere and chriftaline "That {prange by touchyng of the Pegafe "Their fauour lacketh my making ten lumin 1 fynde theyr bawme of {o great fcarcitie To tame their tunnes with fome drop of plenti Fot Poliphemus throw his great blindnes Hath in me derked of Argos the brightnes Our life here fhort of wit the great dulne The heuy foule troubled with trauayle And of memorye the glafyng brotelnes Drede and vncunning haue made a ftrong batai ~ With werines my fpirite to aflayle And with their {ubtil creping in molt quein Hach made my {pirit in makyng for to feint And ouermore, the ferefull forwardne Of my ftepmother called obliuion Hath a baftyll of foryerfulnes To floppe the paffage, and thadow my reafo That | might haue no clere direccion In tranflating of new to quicke me Stories to write of olde antiquite Thus was I fet and ftode in double werr At the metyng of feareful wayes tweyne The one was this "O R R ' W Lydgate was a monk of Bury, who wrote abou who euer lift to lere Whereas good wyll gan me conftrayne Bochas taccomplifh for to doe my payne Came ignoraunce, with a menace of drede My penne to reft I durft not procede TH of The Difference between an abfolute and limite 15 narchy HY may peraventure be marvelid by fome men is a Lord(hy Realm why on only R@'df and the Pryncé thereof rulyth yt by his Law, calfi Sfus Regale; and another Kyngdome is a Lordfchip Royall and Politike, and the Prince thereof rulyth b a Lawe, callyd us Politicum & Regale; fythen they iy s two Princes beth of egall Aftate T this dowte it may be an{weryd in this man ner; The firlt Inftitution of thes twoo Realmy upon the Incorporation of them, is the caufe o this diverfyte i When Nembroth by Might, for his own Glorye made and incorporate the firft Realme, and fub duyd it to hymfelf by Tyrannye, he would ne hav bu it governy b by an his own Will complithmen other Rule or Lave, by Whlch_ and for th' a thereof he mad it And therfor, though he had thus made a Realme, holy Scripture denyid to cal hym a Kyng, Quia Rex diciturg Ree gendo ;3 Whych thyng he dyd not, bat oppreflyd the People by Myght, and therfor he wa a T rant, and callid Primus Tyrannorum But holy Writ callith hym Robuftus Venator coram Deo. For as the Hunter takyth the wyld befte for to fcle and eate hym ; fo Nembroth fubduyd to him the Peog with Might to hav their fervice and th'e‘{r goods, ufing upon them the Lordfchip that is callid Domi ninm Regale tantum After hym Belus that wa callid firft 2 Kyng, and after hym his Sone Nynus and after hym other Panyms ; They, by Example of Nembroth mad the Realmys woul not have them rulyd by other Lawys than by their ow Wills Which Lawys ben'right good under goo Princes; and their Kyngdoms athen mof'c'rc‘fembl}{d to the Kyngdome of God, which reynith upon Man rulyng him by hys own Will Wherfor many Cryftyn Princes ufenthe fame Lawe; and therforit is, that the Lawys {ayen, Quod Principi placuit Legi babet vigorem. And thus I fuppofe firft beganne i Realmys, Dominium tantum Regale But afterward whan Mankynd was more manfuete, and better dif polyd to Vertue, Grete Communalties Felifhip, tha wyllyn cam to be unye as was th into this Lond with Brute an mad a Bod Politik callid a Realme, havyng an Heed to governe it; a after the Saying of the philofopher, every Com- munaltie unyed of many parts muft needs hav a heed ; than they chofe the fame Brute to be their Fortefiue was chief juftice of the Common-Ple in the reign of King Hemy VI He retired i 1471, after the barttle of Tewkefbury, bably wrote moft of his works i his privacy The following paflage is felected from h s boo Hee and Kyng And they and he upon this In corporation and Inftitution, and onyng of themfel into a Realme, ordeynyd the fame Realme fo tobe ruly and juftyfyd by fuch Lawys, as they al woul affent unto; which Law therfor is callid Politicim and bycaufe it is mynyftrid by a Kyng, it is ca Re |
