Here begynneth a ryght frutefull treatyse, intituled the myrrour of good maners co[n]teynyng the .iiii. vertues, called cardynall, compyled in latyn by Domynike Mancyn: and translate into englysshe: at the desyre of syr Gyles Alyngton knyght: by Alexander Bercley prest and monke of Ely.

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Title: Here begynneth a ryght frutefull treatyse, intituled the myrrour of good maners co[n]teynyng the .iiii. vertues, called cardynall, compyled in latyn by Domynike Mancyn: and translate into englysshe: at the desyre of syr Gyles Alyngton knyght: by Alexander Bercley prest and monke of Ely.
Author: Mancinus, Dominicus, fl. 1478-1491.
Publication: [London :: Imprynted by Rychard Pynson, prynter vnto the kynges noble grace: with his gracyous pryuylege, the whiche boke I haue prynted, at the instance of Rychard yerle of Kent,; 1518?]
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Subject terms: Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.; Cardinal virtues -- Early works to 1800.
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¶ Of the duty of a Cytezyne anenst a forayne

¶ But thou a Cytezyne / dispyse thou no forayne
Receyue euery stranger / with maner amyable
One harde vnto strangers / sheweth hymselfe vyllayne
More lyke to a tyran / than to a man companable
And proueth hym as badde / as beast vnresonable
Consyder that here after / thy selfe may forrayne be
Than dele as thou woldest / that men shulde dele with the* 1.2

All men may nat dyscende / of hye and noble blode
Nor all men be borne / in one lande of best name
What force of the countrey / so that the man be good
Some good / for theyr coūtrey / byde ofte outbrayde & bla∣me
And ofte an other wretche / to his hole lande is shame
Shulde men out of Englande: our lorde Jesu exclude
By cause that he was borne / within the lande of Jude

Whan frō this wretched lyfe / at last thou must departe
And come to heuyn gates / to se••be eternall kyng
It shall nat be asked / what countrey man thou arte
Frenche / englysshe / scot / lumbarde / pycarde / or flē••••ng
But onely shalbe asked / thy meryte and lyuyng
A poore scot of good lyfe / shall fynde hym better than
Than some ryche lumbarde / or noble Englysshe man

Therfore / thou shulde strangers: in no maner dispyse
Out••raydyng nor scornyng / with dede or wordes fell
For none other cause / but for lyke cruell gyse
Lycaon the tyran / as olde poetes do tell
Was iustly transformed / to ragynge wolfe cruell
To rage amonge beastes / excluded from pyte
As he fyrst one strangers / had vsed cruelte.

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* 1.1

Sed ne{que} tu debes {per}e∣grinos spernere ciuis. Accipias quenque mi∣tis in vrbe tua. Durus in externos: ho minē sese exuit omnē. Et versum in ••ae••am se probat esse feram.

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* 1.2

Non alia causa vertit sua membra lycaon: Quam{que} in externos saeuus & asper erat.

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