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 vayne glory nat to be coueted.

Syth all worldly glory / is small and transitory* 1.1
And all holy lyuers / the same / in hert dispyse
Therfore thou oughtest nat / to study for vayne glory
What man it desyreth / ought nat be coūted wyse
But vayne is all glory / nowe haue I tolde the twyse
For what good we wretches do / any tyme or tyde
Our selfe it perfourme nat / but god whiche is our gyde

And therfore all glory / all prayse / laude and honour* 1.2
As dewe to the father / hye and celestyall
So teacheth holy churche / spouse of our sauiour
Wherfore if glory / or honour temporall
Be gyuen here in erthe / to be people mortall
Suche honour and glory / may well be called vayne
As waynyng & fadyng / nat able to remayne

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* 1.1

Gloria nam studio non est tibi vana petenda▪ Non sapit is: sicui glo∣ria vana placet. At vana est oisquia: quicq̲d gessimus ipsi / Nō nos sed sūmus dux suit ipse deus.

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* 1.2

Propterea ē omnis coe lesti debita patri: Gloria sic Christi dice responsa docet. Immeritis igi•• nobis est siqua tributa: Haec poterit vana di∣cie•• atque leuis.

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