The Conuercyon of swerers / (The Conversion of Swearers)

by Stephen Hawes

¶The Auctour as foloweth.

¶Go lytell treatyse deuoyde of eloquence

Tremblynge for dreade to approche the maieste

Of our souereynge lord surmountynge in excellence

Put under the wynge of his benygnyte

Submyttynge the to his mercyfull pytie.

And beseche hys grace to pardon thy rudnesse

Whych of late was made to eschewe ydlenesse.

¶Thus endeth the conuersyon of swerers, made and compyled by Stephen Hawys, groome of the chambre of our souerigne lorde Kyng Henry the seuenth. Enprynted at London, in Fletestrete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by Wynken de Worde, Prynter vnto the moost excellent prynses, my lady the kynges graundame, the yere of our Lord a MCCCCCIX. the first yere of the reigne of our souerayne lord kyng Henry the VIII.