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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.
¶The first Flour / called / unfeigned Humility.
¶The fyrste Floure / called / vnfayned Humilite.
Philemon. Your first flour is plucked out of the first Epistle of S. Peter,1 & it is this, Have Humility and lowliness of mind engrafted in you. For God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.
Philemon. YOure fyrste floure is plucked out of the fyrste Epistle of S. Peter,1 & it is this, Haue Humilite and loulynes of mynde engraffed in you. For God resisteth the proude, but to the humble he gyueth grace.
Theo. This is a godly sweet flour, & garnisheth the life of a christen man very much.
Theo. This is a godly swete floure, & garnysshethe the lyfe of a christen man very muche.