¶Example of Ire. ¶The .xxii. Chapter. (Book 22)
OF the vice of Ire,* 1.1 it is redde in the old Testament, that Dauid the prophete beinge in greate loue wyth Barsabe, wife
The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565.
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- The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565.
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"The boke of wisdome otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowing the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuiding and speaking of vices [and] vertues, wyth many goodly examples wherby a man may be praysed or dyspraysed, wyth the maner to speake well and wyselie to al folkes, of what estate so euer they bee. Translated first out of Italion into French, [and] out of french into English, by Iohn Larke. 1565." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16439.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.
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of Vrye, dyd beget a chylde of the sayde Barsave. And when he dyd see that she was with chyld, he did sende for her husbande Vrye, the whyche was at the besegynge of a certayne towne, whyche the said king Dauid caused to be besyeged. And when the sayde Vrye came, he was informed of the sayde kyng Dauid, yt the child wherwyth hys wyfe Barsabe was greate, was of hys begettynge. And so the sayde Vrye dyd thynke and beleue none other, but that it was hys owne, but when Vrye came amon∣gest his frendes, they shewed hym how y• king Dauyd had gouerned hys wyfe, wherwyth he was sore dyspleased bothe agaynste Kynge Dauyd, and also agaynste Barsa∣be hyswyfe.* 1.2 And after that tyme wolde company no more with her.
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And when Dauid vnderstode that the sayde Vrye had forsaken hys wyfe, he was so ful of Ire and wra∣the in his hearte, that he did write a Letter to the Constable of the Hoste, wherein Vrye was, whyche Letter dyd contayne, that he shold put Vrye so farre forthe in the bat∣taile, that he shoulde be slaine. And so it was done.
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