An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . reeks, and give to them more worship than to the Trojans ;and Dares writeth otherwise than they do. And also as forthe proper names, it is no wonder that they accord not, forsome one name in these days have divers equivocationsafter the countries that they dwell in ; but all accord inconclusion the general destruction of that noble city ofTroy, and the death of so many noble princes, as kings,dukes, earls, barons, knights, and common people, and theruin irreparable of that city that never since was re-edified ;which may be examp
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . reeks, and give to them more worship than to the Trojans ;and Dares writeth otherwise than they do. And also as forthe proper names, it is no wonder that they accord not, forsome one name in these days have divers equivocationsafter the countries that they dwell in ; but all accord inconclusion the general destruction of that noble city ofTroy, and the death of so many noble princes, as kings,dukes, earls, barons, knights, and common people, and theruin irreparable of that city that never since was re-edified ;which may be example to all men during the world howdreadful and jeopardous it is to begin a war, and whatharms, losses, and death followeth. Therefore the Apostlesaith : All that is written is written to our doctrine, whichdoctrine for the common weal I beseech God may be takenin such place and time as shall be most needful in increasingof peace, love, and charity; which grant us He that sufferedfor the same to be crucified on the rood tree. And say weall Amen for charity 1 2l8. T2>ictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, First edition (1477). Epilogue. Ere endeth the book named The Dictesor Sayings of the Philosophers^ imprintedby me, William Caxton, at Westminster,the year of our Lord 1477. Which book islate translated out of French into Englishby the noble and puissant Lord LordAntony, Earl of Rivers, Lord of Scales,and of the Isle of Wight, defender anddirector of the siege apostolic for our holy father thePope in this royaume of England, and governor of my LordPrince of Wales. And it is so that at such time as he hadaccomplished this said work, it liked him to send it to mein certain quires to oversee, which forthwith I saw, andfound therein many great, notable, and wise sayings of thephilosophers, according unto the books made in Frenchwhich I had often before read ; but certainly I had seennone in English until that time. And so afterward I cameunto my said Lord, and told him how I had
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