¶ Likewise yf a man praise peace / & shewe
what a commodiouse thynge it is / he may
make suche a proposicion.
AMonge all the thynges whiche per[-]
teine to mānes commoditie / of what
someuer condicion or nature so euer they
be / non is so excellent and so worthy to be
had in honour and loue / as is peace.
¶ The confirmacion.
THe places of confirmacion be in
this oracion. The same yt were
in the other [( of] whome mencion
was made afore / honesty / profite / easynes /
or difficulty. Honesty is considered in the
nature of the thynge / also in the persones
that haue excercysed it / and the inuenters
thereof. And in the auctour of it. As in the
laude of matrimony be considered the auc[-]
tour thereof / whiche was god hym selfe /
the antiquite that it was made in the fyrst
begynnynge of the worlde / and continued
(as reason is) to this hour in great honour
and reuerēce. The persones that haue vsed
it / were bothe patriarches / as Abraham.
Prophetes / as Dauyd. Apostels / as saynt
Peter. Martyrs / saynt Eustache. And cō-
fessours / as saynt Edwarde. And (whiche
thyng was fyrst proposed) the nature ther-
of is suche / that without it: man shulde be
like vnto beest / oneles all generacion shuld
be put aparte. And the commaūdement of
almighty god nat regarded / who bad man
and woman shulde engender & multiply.
¶ Profite and easines is considered in the
circumstaunces. Examples may be taken
out of Policians oraciō / made to the laude
of histories—And two oracions of Erasm[us] /
one to the laude of phisike / and an other to
the laude of matrimony.
Confutacion hath contrary places to con-
firmacion.
¶ Of the conclusion.
THe periode or conclusion stan-
deth in the briefe enumeracion
of thinges spoken afore / and in
mouyng the affections / as hath ben aboue
expressed.
¶ Of an oracion deliberatiue.