clerkly

“the clerkly life”

“Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.”

“For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.”

“Hath he not tvvit our Soueraigne Lady here / VVith ignominious vvords, though Clarkely coucht? / As if ſhe had ſuborned ſome to ſvveare / Falſe allegations, to o'rethrovv his ſtate.”

“If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely.”

“For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke: That in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke Mo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage, Mo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age, Mo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit, No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit.”