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A Dialogue between Pole and Lupset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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Lup. much […] past mastur pole I have desyryd wyth you movyd therto by the frenchyp & famylyaryte, wych of youth growyng betwyx us, ys now so by vertue <encresyd &> confyrmyd, that nature hathe not so sure a band & knot, to coupul & joyne any hartys togyddur in true love & amyte, wherfor I am ryght glad mastur pole that I have <now at thys tyme> here found you both as me semyth at convenyent leser to commyn & talke *<Octavus> & also in thys place of Bysham, where as the image & memory of your old aunceturys <of grete nobylyte> schal as I trust styr & morre your <hart &> mynd to *<I pray you< the <same> purpos that I wold <now & long have desyryd to commyn unto you>, p <troth hyt ys that leyser here as you say lakkyth non> * <Illegible> but what ys that gud mastur lup. that you seme so ernystely to wyl, Hyt apperyth to be <by your begynyng> some grete mater <& weyghty>, .Lup troth hyt ys a grete mater in dede & <as to me hyt semyth> touchyng the hole ordur of your lyfe <mastur pole>, & schortly to schow you <wythout long cyrcumstance>, thus hyt ys. I have much & many tymys marvelyd <resonyng> wyth my selfe, why <you mastur pole> aftur so many yerys spent in quyet studys of letturys <& lernyng>, & <aftur> such experyence of the manerys of man <, taken> in dyvers partyss beyond the see, have not <before thys> settylyd your selfe, […] applyd your mynd to the handelyng of the materys of the commyn wele <here in our owne natyon to the intent> that, <bothe> your frendys & cuntrey myght now at the last *receyve & take some frute of your <long> studys <wherin you have spent your hole youth as I […] ever toke hyt to the same purpos & end>, you know ryght wel <mastur pole> that to thys al men are borne >& of nature brought forth, to commyn such gyftys as be to them gyven, ychone to the profyt of other, in perfayt cyvylyte>, & not to lyve to theyr owne plesure & […] wyth […] regard of the wele of theyr cuntrey <forgettyng al justyce & equyte.>

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1989

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