The Ship of Fools

About this eBook

Author

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521

Title

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1

Credits

Produced by Frank van Drogen, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

English poetry -- Translations from German

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20179

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20179

Release Date

December 23, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SHIP OF FOOLS
2. 2.ALEXANDER BARCLAY
3. 3.EDINBURGH: WILLIAM PATERSON — LONDON: HENRY SOTHERAN & CO. — PREFATORY NOTE. — Volume I. — Introduction — Notice of Barclay and his Writings — Barclay's Will — Notes — Bibliographical Catalogue of Barclay's Works — The Ship of Fools — Volume II. — The Ship of Fools (concluded) — Glossary — Chapter I. of the Original (German), and of the Latin, and French Versions of the Ship of Fools — INTRODUCTION. — NOTICE
4. 4.Life and Writings of Alexander Barclay , — the translator of brandt's ship of fools. — ALEXANDER BARCLAY. — THE WILL OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY. — In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. — NOTES. — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE — BARCLAY'S WORKS. — CONTENTS. — THE SHIP OF FOOLS. — TABULA. — [VOLUME I.] — Alexander Barclay excusynge the rudenes of his translacion. — An exhortacion of Alexander Barclay. — Barclay the translatour tho the Foles. — [The Prologe of James Locher.] — Here begynneth the prologe. — [The Argument.] — Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes. — Of euyl Counsellours, Juges and men of lawe. — Of Auaryce or Couetyse and prodygalyte. — Of newe fassions and disgised Garmentes. — Of old folys that is to say the longer they lyue the more they ar gyuen to foly. — Of the erudicion of neglygent faders anenst theyr chyldren. — Of tale berers, fals reporters, and prometers of stryfes. — Of hym that wyll nat folowe nor ensue good counsell, and necessary. — Of disordred and vngoodly maners. — Of brekynge and hurtynge of amyte and frendshyp. — Of contempt, or dispisynge of holy scripture. — Of folys without prouysyon. — Of disordred loue and veneryous. — Of them y t synne trustynge vpon the mercy of god. — Of the folisshe begynnynge of great bildynges without sufficient prouision. — Of glotons and dronkardes. — Of ryches vnprofytable. — Of hym that togyder wyll serue two maysters. — Of to moche spekynge or bablynge. — Of them that correct other and yet them selfe do nought and synne worse than they whom they so correct. — Of hym that fyndeth ought of another mannys it nat restorynge to the owner. — Of the sermon or erudicion of wysdome bothe to wyse men and folys. — Of bostynge or hauynge confydence in fortune. — Of the ouer great and chargeable curyosyte of men. — Of them that ar alway borowynge. — Of inprofytable and vayne prayers vowes and peticyons. — Of vnprofytable stody. — Of them that folysshly speke agaynst the workes of god. — Of them that gyue jugement on other. — Of pluralitees that is to say of them whiche charge them selfe with many benefycis. — Of them that prolonge from day to day to amende themselfe. — Of hym that is Jelous ouer his wyfe and watcheth hir wayes without cause, or euydent tokyn of hir myslyuynge. — Of auoutry, and specially of them y t ar bawdes to their wyues, knowynge and wyll nat knowe, but kepe counseyll, for couetyse, and gaynes or auauntage. — Of hym that nought can and nought wyll lerne, and seyth moche, lytell berynge away, I mene nat theuys. — Of great wrathe, procedynge of small occasyon. — Of the mutabylyte of fortune. — Of them that be diseasyd and seke and ar impacient and inobedyent to the Phesycyan. — Of ouer open takynges of counsel. — Of folys that can nat beware by the mysfortune and example of others damage. — Of them that forceth or careth for the bacbytynge of lewde people. — Of mockers, and scorners, and false accusers. — Of them that dyspyse euerlastynge ioye, and settyth thynges transytory before thynges eternall and euerlastynge. — Of them that make noyses rehersynges of talys and do other thynges vnlaufull and dishonest in y e chirche of god. — Of them that wyllynge and knowyngly put them self in ieopardy and peryll. — Of the way of felycyte and godnes, and of the payne to come vnto synners. — Of the yll example of elders gyuyn vnto youth. — Of bodely pleasour or corporall voluptuosyte — Of folys that can nat kepe secrete theyr owne counsell. — Of yonge folys that take olde wymen to theyr wyues, for theyr ryches. — Of enuyous Folys. — Of impacient Folys that wyll nat abyde correccion. — Of folysshe Fesycyans and vnlerned that onely folowe paractyke knowynge nought of the speculacyon of theyr faculte. — Of the ende of worldly honour and power and of Folys that trust therein. — Of predestynacion. — Of folys that forget them selfe and do another mannys besynes leuynge theyr owne vndone. — Of the vyce of vnkyndnes. — Of folys that stande so well in their owne conceyt that they thinke none so wyse, stronge, fayre, nor eloquent, as they ar themself. — Of lepynges and dauncis and Folys that pas theyr tyme in suche vanyte. — Of nyght watchers and beters of the stretes playnge by nyght on instrumentes and vsynge lyke Folyes whan tyme is to rest. — Of folysshe beggers and of theyr vanytees.

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