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A Christmas banquet garnished with many pleasant and dainty dishes, newly preparedA Christmas bankette garnyshed with many pleasaunt and deynty disshes, newely prepared
A Christmas banquet garnished with many pleasant and dainty dishes, newly prepared by Theodore BasilA Christmas bankette garnyshed with many pleasaunt and deynty disshes, newely prepared by Theodore Basille
printed for John̄ Gough, 1542printed for Iohn̄ Gough, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHIL. If it shall please you, I will now gather together in few words that which hitherto I have dispersed in many, that they may the more easily remain in your breast.1
PHIL. If it shall please you, I wyll nowe gather togither in few wordes that which hytherto I haue dispersed in many, that they may the more easly remaine in your brest.1
- 1A brief rehe• sal of all thi• ges spoken of before.A brefe rehe• sal of al thi• ges spoken of before.
THEO. I pray you let it be so.
PHIL. In your first dish I ministered unto you y• knowledge of your selves, & declared what ye are by Adam, that is to say, children of wrath, all carnal, & without the spirit of God,1 as S. Austen sayeth, let no man stand in his own conceit. For of his own, he is very Satan, but of Gods, he is blessed. What is this to say, of his own, but of his sin? Take away the sin, which is thine, & the righteousness, sayeth god,2 is of mine. Fore what hast thou, that thou hast not taken? In your second dish ye received the knowledge of God's favour toward you freely through Jesus Christ. In your third dish, ye perceived by what