The life of St. George / compiled by Greg Waite
| dc.contributor | Waite, Greg D of English U of Otago |
| dc.contributor.author | Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:53:06Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:53:06Z |
| dc.date.created | 1515 |
| dc.date.issued | 1988-06-30 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1238 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1238 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1238 |
| dc.description.abstract | In English Title from title page of source text Early English Text Society (series). Original series ; 230 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data 135 KB Contains markup characters |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Biographies -- Scotland -- 16th century |
| dc.subject.other | Biographies |
| dc.title | The life of St. George / compiled by Greg Waite |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 139971 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1500-1599 |
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<L I> <P 3>
Prologue
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Unto the ryght hye and myghty Prynce / Thomas /
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Duke of Norfolke / tresorer / & Erle marchall of
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Englonde: Alexander barclay contynuall Helth / with
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encreas of welthe / & honour.
<L 1>
The auncyent wryters / with wysdom decorate
Composynge maters / in fruytfull eloquence
Were wont theyr warkys / to wryte & dedycate
In name of rulers / and men of excellence
In which warkys / they dyd theyr dylygence
To wyn them fauour / and to to delate theyr fame
And of suche pryncys / to prayse the noble name
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Of whiche wryters / this was also thintent
To haue theyr warkys / defendyd from envy
By auctoryte / of lordys excellent
And by theyr wrytynge / also to testyfy
Theyr loue and seruyce / which they had inwardly
Towarde suche lordys / for theyr great worthynes
Which in theyr styles / they laboured to expresse
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Beholde what fruyt / cam of suche besynes
Fyrst the sayd actours / by godly exercyse
Subdued all vyce / and coward ydylnes
Theyr wyttes quy . . .
