Juliana Berners

Quotes

• “Where so ever ye fare by fryth or by fell:My dere chylde take hede how Trystam doo you tell.How many manere bestys of venery there were:Lysten to your dame and she shall you lere.Four manere of bestis of venere there are:The fyrste of theym is the harte: the seconde is the hare:The boore is one of tho: the wulfe and not one mo.”
• “And where that ye come in playne or in place:I shall you tell whyche ben bestys of en chace:One of theym is the bucke: a nother is the doo:The foxe and the marteron: and the wylde roo:And ye shall my dere chylde other bestys all:Where so ye theym fynde Rascall ye shall them call.”
• “A faythfulle frende wold I fayne finde,   To fynde hym there he myghte be founde;But now is the worlde wext so unkynde,   Yet frenship is fall to the grounde;(Now a frende I have founde)   That I woll nother banne ne curse,But of all frendes in felde or towne,   Ever, gramercy, myn own purse.”
• “Also ye shall not be ravenous in takyng of your sayd game as to moche at one tyme...whyche lyghtly be occasyon to dystroye your owne dysporte and other mennys also. As whan ye have suffycyent mese ye sholde coveyte nomore as at that tyme. Also ye shall besye yourselfe to nourysh the game in all that ye maye: and to destroye all such thynges as ben devourers of it.”

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