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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.
Shall I say, Be my wife, to whom I may not say,1 Be my companion? Or, Come to my bed, to whom I may not say, Come to my table? ⟨p. 32⟩How should my marriage speed well,2 when I marry one to whom I may not say, God speed, because she is none of Gods friends?
Shall I say, Be my wife, to whome I may not say,1 Be my companion? Or, Come to my bed, to whom I may not say, Come to my table? ⟨p. 32⟩How should my mariage speed well,2 when I marrie one to whom I may not say, God speed, because she is none of Gods friends?
If a man long for a bad wife, he were best go to hell a wooing, that he may have choice. Is there no friend but the enemy? no tree but the forbidden tree? He marrieth with the devil, which marrieth with the tempter: for Tempter is his name,