item: #1 of 7
          id: 14031
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.
        date: None
       words: 155679
      flesch: 94
     summary: Scotus _is slighted in Comparison of_ Cicero _and_ Plutarch. Christ_ himself gave us this Example, that we should sit down to the Table with a Hymn; and I take it from this, that we frequently read in the Evangelists, that he bless'd or gave Thanks to his Father before he broke Bread, and that he concluded with giving of Thanks: And if you please, I'll say you a Grace that St. _Chrysostom_ commends to the Skies in one of his Homilies, which he himself interpreted.
    keywords: age; ans; ant; art; body; book; boy; business; care; case; christ; co.; common; company; con; country; day; days; erasmus; eyes; father; god; going; good; greek; hand; head; heart; holy; home; house; husband; innk; kind; king; latin; leave; left; letters; life; like; look; love; mag; man; manner; matter; men; mind; money; mother; nature; nay; opinion; parents; people; persons; place; play; pleasure; priest; reason; right; set; sort; soul; speak; supper; table; thing; thou; time; tis; truth; use; want; way; wife; wine; wish; woman; words; world; years; young
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 14282
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives
        date: None
       words: 6541
      flesch: 92
     summary: Yf mi good man had a fantasye to this thynge, or to that thyng, or if he would haue his meate dressed on this fashion, or that fashion. What saieth other men by thin husband, they that be his companions, they delite with him abrode xan, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do euery man pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
    keywords: eula; eulalia; good; haue; husband; husbandes; hym; hys; man; neuer; suche; thou; vnto; woman; xantip; xantippa
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 14500
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) Wrytten in laten by the famous clerke, D. Erasm[us] of Roterodame, one called Polyphemus or the gospeller, the other dysposyng of thynges and names, translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke.
        date: None
       words: 8373
      flesch: 94
     summary: So can he transforme you in to hogges and swyne, the whiche maye soner be done I iudge thê to chaunge you into good men for ye are halfe swynyshe & hoggyshe alredy, your lyuynge is so beastlie. The fauoure that is shewed to men of warre, for by suche shyftes and thus they practyse before to be good men of warre that they ||maye be more redy & hansome to spoyle theyr enemyes when they shall encounter with thê.
    keywords: bea; cannius; god; good; gospell; haue; hym; man; men; poli; poliphe; saye; suche; theyr; thou; thy; thynge; vpon; whiche; yea
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 14746
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: A dialoge or communication of two persons Deuysyd and set forthe in the late[n] tonge, by the noble and famose clarke. Desiderius Erasmus intituled [the] pylgremage of pure deuotyon. Newly tra[n]slatyd into Englishe.
        date: None
       words: 14736
      flesch: 98
     summary: To them that thay hate, thay be Chanones, and to them that thay loue thay be Monkes _Menede._ Ye trewly there be some so gyuê to our blessyd lady, that whan thay apere to put vpe thayr handes to offre, with a pure cõusyance, thay stayl that whiche other men hathe gyuen.
    keywords: apon; certayne; churche; doo; dothe; dyd; forthe; frome; god; good; gyue; hathe; haue; holy; hym; hys; lady; man; moche; mylke; nat; ogy; owt; sayd; saynt; saythe; shuld; suche; tell; thay; ther; thes; thou; thynges; thys; thã; whan; whiche; wold; wyll
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 16246
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure
        date: None
       words: 11545
      flesch: 87
     summary: _ || This fearfull saiyng (most excellent Prynce) shulde moue all men to take hede vnto their duties and to praie that gods word maie take place emõgist vs. O that al men would ||fantasie the scriptures of God, and saye with the vertuous man Iob.
    keywords: bee; christ; doo; god; godly; good; grace; great; hath; haue; hedo; hym; loue; man; men; mynde; nowe; pleasure; suche; thei; ther; thynges; thê; vnto; whiche; woulde; yea
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 39038
      author: Erasmus, Desiderius
       title: One dialogue, or Colloquye of Erasmus (entituled Diuersoria) Translated oute of Latten into Englyshe: And Imprinted, to the ende that the Judgement of the Learned maye be hadde before the Translator procede in the reste.
        date: None
       words: 3804
      flesch: 85
     summary: I tell thee thou shalt paye no more for thy Supper heere, then other men do. And because the Mother and the Daughter coulde not bee alwayes in the waye (for that they muste goe aboute theyr houssholde businesse, and welcome their other guestes in other places) a pretye little minion Girle stode forthe there by and by (hauinge learned her liripuppe and lesson alreadye in all pointes I warraunte you) to make all the pastime that mighte be possible, and to aunswere (at omnia quare) all such as shoulde be busye to talke and dally with her, So shee didde prolonge or vpholde the Enterlude, till the goodwifes Daughter came vnto vs againe.
    keywords: againe; bee; bertulphe; doe; good; haue; man; men; time; william
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 49450
      author: Petrarca, Francesco
       title: Petrarch's Secret; or, the Soul's Conflict with Passion Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine
        date: None
       words: 51615
      flesch: 85
     summary: Think also of the shortness of our life, concerning which many great men have left their books. Not to speak of other men, I call to witness Her who has ever been the ruling spirit of my life; you yourself also I call to witness how many times I have pondered over my own misery and over the subject of Death; with what floods of tears I have sought to wash away my stains, so that I can scarce speak of it without weeping; yet hitherto, as you see, all is in vain.
    keywords: body; case; cicero; day; death; desire; end; eyes; god; good; hand; heart; hope; know; life; look; love; man; men; mind; nature; petrarch; place; reason; s. augustine; soul; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; wish; words; world
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