A full deuoute and gostely treatyse of the imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull Sauyour cryste compyled in Laten by the right worshypful Doctor Mayster Iohn Gerson: and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by maister william Atkynson Doctor of diuinite: at ye speciall request [and] co[m]maundeme[n]t of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the. vii. and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.

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Title: A full deuoute and gostely treatyse of the imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull Sauyour cryste compyled in Laten by the right worshypful Doctor Mayster Iohn Gerson: and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by maister william Atkynson Doctor of diuinite: at ye speciall request [and] co[m]maundeme[n]t of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the. vii. and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.
Publication: [Emprynted in London :: By Rycharde Pynson, in Flete strete at the sygne of the george, at the commaundement and instaunce of the right noble [and] excelle[n]t princes Margarete moder to our soueraygne lorde Kyng Henry the. vii. [and] cou[n]tesse of Rychmou[n]t [and] Derby,; the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC. and. xvii. The. vii. day of October.] [1517]
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¶ The .xxxiii. chapt how a man shuld behaue hī ayenst detracciō.

SOne sayth our lorde to his louer / thou shalte nat be heuy if a man say yll or haue an yll o∣pynyon of the that thou wolde nat gladlye here / for thou ought to iuge thy selfe to be worse & more vyle of cōdycion than other people be / if thou gader thy selfe so īwardly thou shalt nat greatly pōder fleyng wordes / it is nat a lytell argumēt prudēs or wysdō a man to kepe scylens in tyme of yll sayd or done to hym & to {con}uert hym selfe īwardly to god & nat to be inquyete of mannes iugemēt / let nat thy peace be in mānes worde whether they say well of y^• or yll thou art one and nat chaūged by theyr wordes / where is true peace & true glory but in god / he that desyreth neyther to please men nor drede the nat to dysplease them / he shall fynally haue great peace / for of īordy nat loue & vayne drede cometh all in••etnes of herte and dystruccyon of soule.