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Title: A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Release Date: July 8, 2005 [EBook #16246]

Language: English

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A VE-
ry pleasaunt &
fruitful Dio-
loge called the
*Epicure*,
made by that fa-
mous clerke Eras
mus of Rotero-
dame, newly
translated.
1545.

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_S. Paule to the Ephesians_

You that haue professed Christ,
suffre not your selues to be deceyued
vvith false doctrine, nor vaine
and noughtie talkyng, but herken
vnto all Godly thynges, and
especially too the doctryne
of the Gospell.

||A.ii.||

THE HABOVN-
daunt mercie and grace of our
heauenly father Iesu Christ,
maye alwaies strengthen
and defende oure noble
& vertuous Prynce Ed-
ward too the mainte-
naunce of the liue-
ly woord of
God.

Whereas manye histories of olde & auncient antiquitie,
and also al godly & Christia writers most playnely conset