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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.
Theo. Nothing can be given to us more grate, acceptable & pleasant, than this your gift now promised, neither can any thing at this present beatify us on such sort.
Theo. Nothynge can be gyuen to vs more grate, acceptable & pleasaūt, than this your gyfte nowe promised, neyther can any thyng at this present beatify vs on suche sorte.
Chri. No verily, this is without doubt.
Chri. No verely, this is wtout dout.
Phil. I shall be the gladder to impart• it to you. But neighbours know this one thing, that even as your Banquet & Potation were not made of corruptible meat,1 but of such as permayneth, continueth & abideth unto eternal life, so likewise this your Nosegay shall not be made of such Herbs, as the flowers whereof, will wither away & dry up with the heat of the sun but puissantly abide for ever and ever so valiant, that no heat, no tempest, no troublous weather, shall may be able at any time to obfuscitate ⟨image 18⟩or blemish the native beauty thereof. For out of the divine scriptures shall your Nosegay be selected, & it shall contain in it five flowers. But now will I declare unto you, what the names of the flowers, and of what virtue, efficacy, strength and power they be.
Phil. I shall be the gladder to īpart• it to you. But neyghbours knowe this one thyng, that euen as your Banket & Potaciō were not made of corruptible meate,