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The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his…
The sermons of Master Henry Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.The sermons of Maister Henrie Smith gathered into one volume. Printed according to his corrected copies in his life time.
London: printed by Richard Field for Thomas Man, 1593
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 parents commit their children to Tutors, but themselves are more then Tutors. If children may not make other contracts without their good will, shall they contract marriage, which have nothing to maintain it after, unless they return to beg of them whom they scorned before.
The parents commit their children to Tutors, but themselues are more then Tutors. If children may not make other contracts without their good will, shall they contract marriage, which haue nothing to maintaine it after, vnlesse they return to beg of them whom they scorned before.
Will you take your fathers money, and will you not take his instruction? Marriage hath need of many Counsellors, and doest thou count thy father too many, which is like the foreman of thy instructors? If you mark what kind of youths they be, which have such hast, that they dare not stay for their parents advise, they are such as hunt for nothing but beauty, and for punishment hereof they marry to beggary, and lose their father and mother for their wife: Therefore honour thy parents in this, as thou wouldest that thy children should honour thee.
Wil you take your fathers money, and wil you not take his instruction? Mariage hath neede of many Counsellers, and doest thou count thy father too many, which is like the foreman of thy instructors? If you mark what kinde of youthes they be, which haue such hast, that they dare not stay for their parentes aduise, they are such as hunt for nothing but beauty, and for punishment hereof they marrie to beggerie, and lose their father and mother for their wife: Therefore honor thy parents in this, as thou wouldest that thy children should honour thee.