5. "Here be the Gathered Counsales of Sainete Isidorie, &c.,
1539.
6. "A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye
of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men
of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose
sowle Jesu have mercy. 1541."
Almost all these treatises are printed by Thomas Berthelet. I know not
if any of these treatises are now scarce. On the fly-leaf opposite the
first page we find the following scriptural sentences, which are, in my
opinion, and in that of others to whom I have shown the book, evidently
written by the hand of the queen.
It will be only necessary to give the first and last of these sentences:
"Delyte not in Þe multytude of ungodly men, and haue no pleasure
in Þem, for they feare not God.
"Refuse not Þe prayer of one yt is in trouble, and turne not
away thy face from the nedye."
We need not quote more; but on the opposite side of the fly-leaf are
some verses of a different character, and which I suspect to be from the
royal pen of Henry VIII. The writing is uncommonly difficult to
decypher, but it bears a strong resemblance to all that I have seen of
Henry's handwriting. A portion of the verses, as far as I can make them
out, are here subjoined:
Respect.
"Blush not, fayre nimphe, tho (nee?) of nobell blod,
I fain avoutch it, and of manners good,
Spottles in lyf, of mynd sencere and sound,
In whoam a world of vertues doth abowend,
And sith besyd yt ye lycens giv withall
Set doughts asyd and to some sporting fall,
Therefoor, suspysion, I do banyshe thee"