Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) by Desiderius Erasmus
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Two Dyaloges (c. 1549)
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Title: Two Dyaloges (c. 1549)
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Release Date: December 28, 2004 [EBook #14500]
Language: English
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[C]Two dyaloges wrytten in laten by the famous clerke. D. Eras- mus of Roterodame/ one called Polyphemus or the gospeller/ the other dysposyng of thynges and names/ translated in to Englyshe by Edmonde Becke. And prynted at Cantorbury in saynt Paules paryshe by Johñ Mychell. [+]
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The preface to the Reader.
Lucius Anneus Seneca amonge many other pratie saienges (gentle reder) hathe this also, whiche in my iudgement is as trew as it is wittie. Rogãdo cogit qui rogat superior. And in effecte is thus moch to say, yf a mãnes superior or his better desyre any thige, he might aswell cõmãde it by authoritie as ones to desyre it.
A gentleman a nere cosyn of myne, but mo