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A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gatheredA pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered
A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gathered by Theodore Basil.A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1543printed for Ioha, 1543
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. It is the more pity. Not withstanding neighbours, be not ye infected with like pestiferous contagion. Remember your profession, and follow not the common fashion, unless ye fall into damnation, and lose the favour of GOD. Smell well on this your flour,1 Ready assistance. Let every man look not for his own profit, but for the profit of other. For seeing ye have hitherto learned your duty both toward your self▪ God, & our king, ye must now learn also your office & duty toward your neighbour. For God hath also given us a commandment to love our neighbour.2 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self, saith the scripture. That thou wilt not another should do ⟨image 85⟩to thee,3 do thou not the same to him. And this commandment have we of God, that he, which loveth God, should also love his neighbour. For he ye loveth not his brother, whom he seethe, God, whom he hath not seen, how can he love? That ye might natively & unfeignedly on this sort love your• neighbour, I have selected this shem tense of s. Paul to put you in remembrance of your duty.4 Let every man look not for his own profit, but for the profit of other.5
Phil. It is the more pytye. Not withstondynge neyghbours, be not ye infected withe lyke pestiferous contagion. Remember your profession, and followe not the cōmon fasshion, vnlesse ye fall into damnacion, and lose the fauoure of GOD. Smel wel on this your floure,1 Redy assistence. Let euery man looke not for his owne profit, but for the profyt of other. For seynge ye haue hytherto learned your dutye both toward your selfe▪ God, & our kynge, ye must now learne also your office & duty toward youre neyghboure. For God hath also gyuen vs a commaūdemēt to loue our neyghbour.