XXXIII The Fifteen Oes. [1490] Thiese prayers tofore wreton ben en By their most humble subget and seruaunt William Caxton XXXIV Earl Rivers' Prologue In order that Caxton's English style may be compared with the t style of his day, the first few lines of Earl Rivers' Prologue to the "Dictes" follow below: (leaf 1, recto.) Where it is so that every humayn Creature by the suffraunce of our 1 god is boren Jordeigned to be subgette and thral vnto the stormes of Sune And so in diuerse ។ many sondry wyses man is perplexid h worldly aduersitees Of the whiche I, Antoine Wydeuille, Erle uyeres / lord Scales Jc. haue largely J in many different maners te had my parte And of hem releued by thynfynyte grace J dnes of our said lord thurgh the meane of the Mediatrice of Mercy/ iche grace euidently to me knowen J understonde hath compelled to sette a parte all in gratitude/ And droof me by reson y conscience far as my wrecchednes wold suffyse to gyue therfore synguler ynges thankes / And exorted me to dispose my recouerd lyf his seruyce in folowing his lawes and commandements / And satisfaction J recompence of myne Inyquytees J fawtes n before done, to seke J execute y werkes that myght be acceptable to hy And as fer as myn frayines wold suffre me rested in that "wyil y purpose Duryng that season I vnderstode Jubylee parlonse to be at the holy Appostle Seynt James Spayne whiche was the yere of grace a thousand CCCClxxiii. Thera I determyned me to take that voyage ] shipped from Southampton in t moneth of Iuyll the said yere And so sayled from thens til I cor into the Spaynyssh see there lackyng syght of all londes / the wyn heyng good and the weder fayr, Thenne for a recreacion J a passyn of tyme I had delyte Jaxed to rede somme good historye And amon other ther was that season in my companye a worshipful gentylma called lowys de Bretaylles, whiche gretly delited hym in all vertuouse honest thynges / that sayd to me / he hath there a book that h trusted I shuld lyke it right wele / and brought it to me / whyche book I had neuer seen before. and is called the saynges or dictis of the Philosophers. Cinque Ports, lxxxix Blades, Wm., xxvii, lii, lxxxvi, lxxxvii, Olarence, George, Duke of, lxxv, xcix, cxi Boccaccio, 34, 93 Boethius, 36 Bologne, Godfrey of, 92, 96 Bolonnier, Henry, 98 Brabant, 4, 74 Brekerfeld, J., xciv Brown, Steven, xxxvi Bruges, xli, xliii, xlix, 1, lvii, lxii, lxvi, 10 Clyfton, Gervase, xliv Cologne, lxvi, lxvii, lxviii, lxxi, lxxiv, cxvi, 2, 6, 7 Colville, Major, cxxv Common Pleas, c, 14, 15 Copland, R., cxxii Cosyn, R., xlv Craes, Wm., xliii, xlv Crop, Elizabeth, daughter of the Dantzic, lxvii-lxix, lxxxv Daubeney, Wm., cxxi, 99 Delf, xcv, xcvi Deneye, Abbess of, xxxv Dollyng, Wm., xev Duerkoep, J., xciii, xciv Edelfla (a tree), 26, 27 Edward IV, xliii, xlviii, lvii, lx, lxii, Elizabeth, Queen, 111 Bruns, Gerard, xcv Bryce, Hugh, Alderman of London, Richard, xliv, xlv Butt, A. N., lxxxi Calais, lxxi, xci Camelot, 94 Canon of Waterford, 56, 57 Capons, Sir John, 74 William de, xxxi, xxxii, cvii William, xxxii; 'taillour,' Caxton, Hugh, xxxiv, xxxv lxxxviii Richard, xxxii, xliv, cv-cvii Thomas, xxxiii, xxxiv, xe, cv, CAXTON. Poland, King of, lxviii, lxix Pope, the, 18, 19 Pratt, Wm., xlv, cx, cxxii, 99 Prince of Wales, 18, 19, 34, 36, 110 Prout, J., Mayor of Calais, lxxii Pykeryng, John, lxxii, lxxviii, lxxix, Ranulph of Chester, 67, 68 Redeknap, E., xliv W., lix, lxxii Richard I, 83 Richard II, xxxi, xciv Richard III, cxvii, cxxi, 79, 84, 87, 89, Rivers, Anthony, Earl, xxxiv, lxv, Rome, 14, 15 Rosse, J., xci Rotterdam, xcv Russell, J., lxv, lxxviii, lxxx, xci St. Omers, lix, lxii, lxxi Salford, J., cii Scipios, the, 77 Scofield, Miss C. L., ciii Scot, J., xciv Scott, E. J. L., xxi Selle, J., xliii Selley, Cecile, cvi David, cvi, cxvii Shamwell, xxxv Solomon, 11 Spayne, R., cvi |