rdes I auyse you to them seye
[Sidenote: speak pleasant words to them.]
And in alle wyse / do ye your diligence
To do them plesure / and reuerence 511

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And at this tyme this tretye shal suffise
[Sidenote: This is enough for the present.]
Dispose you / to kepe it in your mynde
[Sidenote: Mind you attend to it,]
The doctrine whiche for you I deuyse 514
And doubteth not / ful wel ye shal it finde
To your honour / enrolle it vp and bynde
Right in your breste / and at your riper age
I shal wryte to you / herof the surplusage 518
[Sidenote: and when you're older I'll write you the rest.]

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THE ORIEL TEXT.

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Goo, litle childe, and who doth you Appose,
Seying, your_e_ quaire kepeth non accordaunce,
Tell [hym], as yite neyther of ryme ne prose 521
Ye be experte; pray hym of sufferaunce;
Childer must be of childly gouernaunce,
And they must also entredet[1] be
[Sidenote 1: _Read_ entreted]
Wyth esy thyng, [and not] of subtilte. 525

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Your_e_ lytil quaier su_m_mitteth euery where
To corecc_i_on and beneuolence,
But where enuie is, loke hit come not there, 528
For eny thing kepith your_e_ trety thense;
Enuie is full of frowarde reprehense,
And howe to hurte liethe eu_er_e in awayte,
Kepeth your_e_ quaier_e_, that hit be not her baite.

EXPLICIT.

DOMINE, SALUU_M_ FAC REGEM.

[Sidenote: _Hill's Text._]

P) Go, litill[e] Ioh[=n], & who doth you oppose,
sayenge yo_u_r quayre, kepeth no_n_ accordavnce; 520
Tell[e] hy_m_ as 3*et neyther_e_ i_n_ ryme ne p_r_ose
ye ben exp_er_te; p_ra_y hy_m_ of suffraunce.
Chyldren[1] muste be of childy gou_er_navnce,
[Sidenote 1: MS. Clyldren.]
& also _the_i muste entreted be 524
W_i_t_h_ easy thynge, & not w_i_t_h_ subtilte.

P) Go, lytill[e] quayer, submyte you eu_er_y where
vnder correcc_i_on of benevolence;
& wher envy ys, loke you cu_m_ not ther_e_, 528
ffor any thyng kepe yo_u_r treatye thens;
Envye ys full of froward reprehens,
& how to hurte lyeth ever i_n_ a-wayte;
kepe yo_u_r quayre _th_at yt be not ther bayte. 532

Here endyth A lytyll[e] treatyse
called _th_e boke of curtesy or litill[e] Ioh_a_n.

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