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The temporiser (that is to sayThe temporysour (that is to saye
The temporiser (that is to say: the observer of time, or he that changeth with the time.) Compiled in Latin by the excellent clerk Wolfangus Musculus, and tra[n]slated into French by M. Vallerain Pullain. And out of French into English by R.P. 1555.The temporysour (that is to saye: the obseruer of tyme, or he that chaungeth with the tyme.) Compyled in Latyn by the excellent clarke Wolfangus Musculus, and tra[n]slated into Frenche by M. Vallerain Pullain. And out of Frenche into Inglishe by R.P. 1555.
printed by H. Singleton?, 1555
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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.
¶Temporiser. Hearest thou Eusebe? Stay a little, if thy busyness require not to much hast.
¶Temporisour. Hearest thou Eusebe? Stay a lytle, yf thy busynes requyre not to much hast.
¶Eusebius. Yonder cometh he that I have divers times desired to talk withal,1 to prove if I could reduce him into the right way: but I fear me it is but lost labour, for he is a perfect Temporiser as well in name as in fact, ⟨image 15⟩such a one as believeth for a time, and when temptation cometh, withereth away. And more over me think I see with him his Cousin Mom dayn, a man alienated and divided from all religion. But for as much as he calleth me, I will stay, and see what he would have.
¶Eusebius. Yonder commeth he that I haue dyuers tymes desyred to talke withall,1 to proue yf I coulde reduce him into the righte waye: but I feare me it is but lost laboure, for he is a perfyte Temporisour as well in name as in facte, ⟨image 15⟩suche a one as beleueth for a tyme, and when temptaciō cometh, wythereth away. And more ouer me thinke I see with him his Cosyn Mō dayn, a man allienated and deuyded from all religion. But for as muche as he calleth me, I wyll staye, and see what he would haue.
- 1Eusebius speaketh to himself.Eusebius speaketh to himselfe.