Here beginneth the history of Tytus & Gesyppus translated out of latin in to english by William Walter/ sometime servant to sir Henry Marney knight/ chancellor of the duchy of Lancastre. Tytus. Sophrone Gesyppus. WHat time in Rome reigned Octavyan There was a senator called Fuluius which had a son/ a noble gentleman Of wit excellent/ whose name was Tytus His noble virtues were hard to dyscus Fuluius sent him/ forth to his study Unto Athenes/ to learn phylozophy This Tytus was put to be sojourning With one Cremes a noble man of fame Which had a son going to like learning Gesyppus was this noble young man's name And for that Tytus should go to the same He put his son with hy●●n company To arystip to learn phylosopy These. ij. young men led together their life Each to other was so favourable That never between them was any strife That one would the other was agreeable In learning they were equiperable Thus they continued by years three At their learning as brethren they had be At which time from this world did pass cremes Whose death these young men took right heavily Tytus made like sorrow & heaviness As if he where his son naturally Cremes friends that were in company knew not which of them for to comfort best For with like sorrow they were both oppressed But shortly after Cremes obscque Gesyppus kinsmen came incontinent saying if that he married would be They knew a wife for him expedient Of beauty & substance right excellent Of athens borne and come of noble blood Which unto him should be propice & good Sophrone was the name of this damosel Which if he would have her in marriage He should have her that doth other excel In beauty/ wisdom/ & eke parsonage And yet she is but xv. years of age Gesyppus of this report set on fire With glad semblant granted to their desire And on a day this damosel to see He took the way unto her mansion Tytus kept him famyliaryte And after they had take refection Gesyppus to have communication Took her a part his mind for to disclose Whereby he might know her will & purpose As Tytus sat by & did contemplayre Her noble beauty with the curius Her goodly countenance & visage fair Her membres and wisdom compendius Of her he was so hot and amorous His blood enchau●ed so that with great pain From changing colour he could him refrain After Gesyppus had been there a space They took their leave of the damsel foresaid And went together home unto their place Tytus which by love was full sore dismayed Upon his bed alone himself he laid With musing he called to his remembrance Her noble beauty in each circumstance The more he did think the more was his pain After many sighs & busy thought Unto himself he 'gan thus to complain Alas poor wretch whereto am I now brought Tytus this life that thou hast chosen is naught Where is thy mind where is thy love so set Where is thy hope thou should no wise forget Alas Tytus thou should well consider That she that thou lovest with heart so free Thou should her love as she were thy thy sister Cremes kindness deserved so to be Thou art also bounden by amity With Gesyppus thou art confyderate Wherefore now thou mayst not his honour hate Reason would thou should thy courage abate Refrain thyself from love so fraudulent For thy desire is full disordinate Close thy sight & mind from this ill intent Knowledge thyself thy folly eke repent Let reason now thy mind & heart excite To eschew thine unlawful appetite Upon some thing else do now thy mind set With stand the love that doth the so assail Thou hast good cause this love for to forget The deed were shame thy purpose is but frail With honour thou mayst not therewith prevail Love & kindness should 'cause the i'll therefro If thou consider what thou aught to do If thou should break thy love and amity And to Gesyppus commit so great shame What should happen of thine ennormyte Every man of untruth would the blame Thereby thou should lose honour & good name And where thou were named a friend steadfast As false & untrue thou should be outcast But when her beauty he did remember From his counsel he did this wise reply The law of love of might is more stronger Than any law the truth to verify To gods & mannes it doth reply Amity is oft lost by violence Among many to Err is small offence The father hath by love condescended And with his daughter done his fowl pleasure Brother with sister eke have offended Which is great offence & displeasure Than from his friend his wife for to procure Wherefore none can one of this deed reprove sith I am compelled by fervent love My youth & courage my deed shall excuse Love to this purpose doth me sore compel This virgin doth my heart such wise abuse In beauty and wisdom which doth excel That love and reason together rebel So that to love her I can not refrain Whom each man desireth for to obtain But fortune here I havecause for to ban Which to my friend Gesyppus hath her lent Rather than unto some other strange man From him to take her I can not assent From an other I might convenient Alas this chance doth encumber me so That I can not tell what is best to do In this wise Tytus woefully did plain Of his purpose being variable That day nor night he could himself refrain From sighs & weeping lamentable Meet nor sleep was to him agreeable He was so low brought by this heaviness That from his bed he could not him redress Gesyppus which saw him so impotent The sudden chance he greatly did bewail And from his friend Tytus he seldom went But often asked of him in counsel What thing might best for his sorrow prevail And where the sickness did his body grieve promising him he would his pain relieve Tytus made unto him feigned excuse Not she wing him the cause of his grievance But Gesyppus his saying did refuse That need he must declare his woeful chance Wherefore to him with deadly countenance With great sighs & tears distilling He showed him it in manner following My friend if it pleased god Immortal death more than life to me were far better For fortune hath made me so bond & thrall That I am like from virtue dyffever Wherefore an honest death I had liefer Than for to live & be in worldly shame Whereby I might impair & lose my name To tell the the chance I am right shamefast But for I aught not dissemble with the To tell the truth I shall not be aghast The cause of my grief & ennormyte Love beauty shame & also honest Contend & strive which shall have mastery That I know not whereto I may apply Unto him orderly he did declare How of Sophrone the excellent noblesse Was the chief cause of his sorrow & care And how her love his heart did so oppress That of comfort he was remediless And how by love he intended to die For without shame he knew no remedy Gesyppus of this was astonied As he that loved her with all his heart And to himself this wise he replied Better it were from her for to depart Rather than Tytus by the cruel dart Of love should thus finish his woeful life A friend to find is harder than a wife By Tytus te●es to pity moved Was Gesyppus which wept for company And in this 〈◊〉 Tytus be reproved Me thinketh ye be not to me friendly In keeping your sorrow so secretly You should to me sooner your mind disclose What had been your desire will & purpose Though ye thought the deed to be unhonest Yet to your friend ye should it discover As well the ill as good he will digest If he be a steadfast friend and lover Your health & mind he will gladly further And if you need give you his best counsel What thing therein might to you most avail If ye love Sophrone. I do not marvel For knowing her beauty and nobleness Her virtue wisdom which doth so excel Would move thy mind of very gentleness To love a maid of so great worthiness For the greater a thing is of valour The more a noble heart it doth procure But where ye do now on fortune complain Which hath Sophrone put in my governance Me think thereof ye should be glad & fain For what man would thy desire more advance Than his pleasure & namely in such chance But alway I have converted thy health Moore than mine own or any singular wealth And if the matter stood in such a case That I might not refuse it honestly You had I rather mine honour dyffare Than by her cruel love that ye should die But she is yet in such estate truly That ye may have her for to be your wife Which I shall do for saving of your life You had good cause to dyspryse my friendship If in this case I left you destitute He is no friend that kindness will let slip With honour when he may it execute How should ye me for your friend now repute If I would not in this extremity As a steadfast friend show you amity Sophrone I have loved with tender heart desiring the day of our marriage But my love is not so fervent & smart But that I shall myself therefro assuage You love her with a more better courage Wherefore be glad of her ye shall not fail In my chambre shall be your espousayle Wherefore put from your mind this thought & care Leave of your heaviness lamentable Restore yourself to your former welfare You have good cause to be comfortable Apply yourself to be strong and able That ye may the fruit of your love attain Which for to have ye do so much complain Tytus with this was greatly comforted Yet of his proffer he had great marvel To see his kindness so soon exhorted To his desire voluptuous & frail Gesyppus love which so moche did prevail Made him have shame of his great usurping Wherefore he spoke thus with tears weeping Gesyppus thy great liberality Is openly to me now manifest Which on my part should be showed to the But I shall not obey to thy request To take thy wife the deed were unhonest Wherefore enjoy that fortune hath the lent My hard chance to suffer I am content Of thy good fortune use the chance & lote And suffer me in sorrow to abide And in salt tears my body to rote For hard fortune for me doth so provide And cruel love to death shall be my guide Which by desire me daily doth so grieve That my wretched life it shall me bereave Tytus if amity may now purchase That to my desire ye will you assent I shall find the mean within a short space That ye shall have your purpose & intent For ye know well that love is so fervent That many have lost their life by the pain Of their purpose when they might not attain The grief ye suffer is importunate That ye can not therewith long continue And if ye should by such mortal ●ate Than by like chance I should after ensue If amity my mind could not subdue Yet do I covet your life for to have Whereby I might mine own purchase & sau● Therefore Sophrone unto you shall abide Which is so excellent a creature That ye can not such another provide That should be so moche unto your plasure My fervent love I shall right well endure To love some other I shall me apply Both our minds I may so satisfy Thomas such a wife be hard for me to find yet a sure friend is harder to purchase Wherefore to leave her reason doth me bind Than I should lose my friend by her trespass A wife I may me get in like space But hard it is to find a friend steadfast A thousand year if that my life should last yet do I not my wife in this case lose sith y● unto my friend she shall remain But of. ij. ills the jest I do cheese Wherefore if my prayer may aught obtain From so great sorrow do yourself refrain Unto your former state yourself restore That ye may have that ye desire so sore Tytus of this was comforted greatly And to Gesyppus in this wise he spoke I am in doubt where I may apply And if I should your proffer now forsake Whom ye desire so specially to take But for your kindness doth my shame expel I shall apply to your desire and will God grant that I may be so fortunate You to advance with honour & riches Or to increase your degree & estate Whereby I might my faithfulness express And deserve your benevolent kindness That ye may know how moche acceptable Your mercy is to me agreeable Gesyppus said I hold this counsel best For asmuch as I have made a promise I must follow and colour my behest For if that I should Sophrone now despise Murmur among our friends soon would rise That to an other they would her marry And so we both should lose her wilfully Wherefore I think it best in my deeming That Sophrone as my wife that I shall wed And hither to my house her for to bring And after that she is brought unto by bed To her instead of me ye shall be led Where as ye may accomplish your pleasure As man & wife by law & eke nature And when this chance is plainly manifest If her friends there with will be content Than is the matter in good case & rest And if they will not thereunto assent yet at the jest ye shall have your intent The deed so done amended can not be Wherefore need shall 'cause them with you agree ¶ How Gesyppus went out of his chambre to Tytus and how Tytus lay with Sophrone. This marriage in that time was used That after the triumph of the wedding The spouse & bride should be brought unto bed Where each unto other should give a ring And if they made thereat no refusing Than during life they do each other take And else they may promise than forsake Tytus allowed the foresaid counsel Gesyppus Sophrone as his wife did wed And in his house was made their espousayle When Tytus had his health recovered At night the wives brought the bride to bed And Gesyppus as custom was truly Went to the chamber with her to lie Gesyppus chambre where as the bride lay Tytus chambre annexed was unto Which had a little door & secret way From the one to the other for to go Gesyppus the candle light quenched tho And to Tytus chambre fast he hasted And with his wife to lie he did him bid Tytus for shame at the first did deny But Gesyppus of word & deed steadfast Unto his saying did such wise reply That to lie with her he granted at last To Sophrons' bed he ascended in haste And asked in familiaryte His wife for ever if that she would be Sophrone which knew nothing of this matter Thought it was Gesyppus y● to her spoke Wherefore unto him she made this answer For her husband she would him not forsake Tytus his wedding ring forth than did take And put it on the finger of his wife Granting to be her husband term of life Of venus they used the sport & play As pastime is of lovers amerus This custom they used many a day yet in the time she could never distus That her husband she lay with was Tytus But this could not be hid so privily But at length it must be known openly In the mean time from Rome were sent letters How his father his mortal life had past Wherefore he must his substance to possess Resort thither in all possible haste Which tidings made Tytus full sore aghast He coveting Sophrone with him to go With Gesyppus counsel what to do This thing they could not do connuenyent Without Sophrone had thereof knowledging Wherefore to show her both they did assent And in a secret chambre they her bring As ye have herd told her of each thing Which for sorowre wept in great abundance Reproving Gesyppus of this false chance Without declaring her mind & purpose Unto her father's house she resorted And unto him the chance she did disclose How by Gesyppus she was deceived And that she was not as they supposed The wife of Gesyppus but contrary By covert mean Tytus did her marry This thing her father and friends did grieve And to Gesyppus kin they did complain So that they together did him reprove And for the deed they did him ill disdain saying he deserved for his false train In deep prison to suffer punishment And that this deed he should right sore repent Gesyppus to their saying did reply affirming the deed to be commendable And that he deserved to have truly Of them love & thank inestimable Which had her wedded to one more able In riches honour blood & dignity Whereby she & hers advanced should be Tytus having knowledge of this barate In his mind he was greatly troubled Knowing the greeks manner and & estate With words & threatenings to fight & chide Till they meet one that dare them well abide Than are they of their words patient Their simple manner is so Innocent He knowing their custom variable To 'cause them to leave their malice & hate With a romans heart he did him able In actual sapience decorate Both their friends he did there congregate Gesyppus being with him in presence This wise he rebuked their negligence The phylozophers have determined The acts of every man mortal By the gods should be predestined Afore their birth to be their chance fatal Therefore what fortune unto us do fall We can not though we would thereto reply sith that it is given us by destyny We aught also faithfully to believe That the gods have such pre-eminence Our fortune at their pleasure for to give And that is judged by their sentence Can not be broken by our violence Wherefore he is a fool that will despise The works done by the god's advise To my purpose I have knowledge truly That Gesyppus ye have ill reproved For that Sophrone to me he did marry But if reason your minds had moved The deed so done ye should have approved sith that the gods did it so ordain Not to him but to me she should remain But for that some this reason do despyce That fortune is by divine providence Which thing to man should be great prejudice I will now treat of an other sentence Two things I am bound by violence Which to my nobleness is contrary But I am compelled for to vary One is myself of honour to advance The other to dispraise mine enemy Which I shall do with good remembrance As the matter doth now require Justly From the troth of it I will not reply But with circumspect deliberation Of my purpose I shall make relation Your words are grounded more of malice Than of any Just title or reason Which do Gesyppus shamefully dyspyce For that he hath great kindness to me done Of two things hath the best choson My life to save rather than to fulfil His own pleasure or your purpose & will We are confederate in amity Wherefore the law of love doth him thus bind To help his friend in his extremity Therefore to prove himself steadfast & kind He showed love contrary to your mind Which thing to him is more commendable Than to follow your mind unreasonable To one of athens ye her married And he hath given her unto a Roman Athenes to rome may not be compared Of all the world which that is sovereign In which I was mine honour to sustain Born as a cytezyn therein to devil In manhood & learning which doth excel You be bond & thrall but I am borne free For unto Rome ye be bond & subject Because I am scholar in this city As come of vile blood ye do me suspect I will ye know that I am not abject My places at rome declare my lineage Portured with mine ancestors image With tiles of Triumph the gate is set Which mine ancestors by their worthiness Within the capitol long time did get Which at this day doth more and more encrase I am a shamed to boast my riches And possession which are so importune As I were the friendly child of fortune What cause have ye Gesyppus to reprove That hath wedded Sophrone to such estate At Rome I may do moche to your behove For the common wealth public & private If ye be wise ye be right fortunate Gesyppus doth your blood to honour raise Wherefore ye have 'cause him to love & praise Some may fortune do not so much disdain That Sophrone is given me in espousing But for that I did get her by a train Her friends thereunto not consenting Thomas that I did covertly do this thing Like a lecher I have not her forlain Whereby I should her & her blood disdain Her fair beauty inflamed my courage That in her love my heart was set on fire I durst not atempte her in matyage Nor of your consent therein to require For I should not obtain of my desire sith with me to rome that I should her take Whose company ye are loath to forsake Therefore I have done this thing covertly To you my mind I durst not manifest Gesyppus in my name her to marry To colour my purpose I thought it best Which did it according to my request As a concubine I did not her use But for my lawful wife I did her choose From Rome there is tidings unto me sent That my father hath left his mortal life Wherefore as reason would I did assent Her to lead with me as my lawful wife And for I must be from you fugetyve Therefore the matter I do many fist requiring you it friendly to digest If your affinity I did dispyce Sophrone with you if I would I might leave And as deluded I may her remyse Which should your hearts more anger & grieve But god dyffende that ye should me reprove Of such a shame I being a Roman Or that my friends by it should disdain Wherefore as a friend I do you require Your malice that ye remember no more But as friends apply to my desire Sophrone my wife unto me to restore With kindness I will acquit you therefore For whether the deed done be good or ill It to amend ye can not though ye will And if my request ye do now despise Gesyppus with me unto Rome shall go With armed power I shall again you rise Sophrone with strong hand for to take you fro By fell battle I shall entreat you so That ye shall know what indignation romans will take for your transgression These words said he arose from his place And Gesyppus by the hand he did take knitting his brows & frowning with his face His heed for anger at them he did shake Such countenance unto them he did make As he did despise all them utterly And as he would take vengeance cruelly They by these words part for love did 'gree And part for fere of his great manasing With him to have love & affinity They thought it best for to be assenting Sigh the Gesyppus had made refusing Tytus affynyte not to forsake Whereby they should them both their enemies make Wherefore all they after Tytus tho went saying thy would not his wife him withhold His petition to have they were all content Gesyppus their talon forgive they would And in their arms they him clasp & fold With loving manner as friends should do Each from other departed home to go Sophrone unto Tytus they sent again Which like a noble lady & prudent From Gesyppus her love she did refrain And to Tytus her heart she did assent And with him to Rome as his wife she went Where of Tytus friends & family She was received right honourably Gesyppus at athens still did remain Which for he showed to Tytus amity Of all the people was in great disdain And by cruyle discord & enmity He was brought in to such calamity They him exiled desolate & poor Within athens never to come more He leading his life in great poverty Unto Rome he took his passage & way To pray Tytus of his benignity Him for to help in his needful afray Unto his place he came upon a day Before the gate Tytus he 'gan abide As he came in of him to be espied Tytus from the market came at the last In to his house he went incontinent Gesyppus was so heavy & shamefast That to Tytus he would him not present That he should first know him was his intent Which knew him not he was so ill arrayed Wherefore he passed by & to him naught said Gesyppus which wrongfully supposed That Tytus did forsake his acquaintance Because that he was so poorly clothed His great kindness calling to remembrance To Tytus showed in his most needful chance part for sorrow & part eke for disdain He went from thence & woefully 'gan plain Till it was night about he wandered Meet he would eat but money had he none With thought & care he was so come bere That for his death he made ruefully moon And as he was thus walking all alone Within the city he came at the last Unto a place which was forgrown and waste ¶ How Gesyppus dying asleep/ two thieves came & the stronger slew the weaker in dividing of their prey. Aderke cave by chance he there soon had found In to the which he did descend and creep And laid him prostrate there upon the ground Provoking himself for to fall a sleep His hard fortune he did complain & weep With heaviness he was so sore oppressed That at the last he fell unto his rest The same time to the cave there came by chance Two thieves which had stolen a pray the night between them two there fell great variance For their boty was not departed right first they do chide & after that they fight The stronger thief the weaker in the str●fe Overcame & bereaved him his life Gesyppus saying this was glad & fain Knowing this way his death for to purchase Should be better than he himself certain His despaired life by weepen difface All night he tarried in the same place Till the praetors men in the morning tide Took him as guilty of the homicide Bound of them like a these brought he was Before the praetor Uarro by his name Which asked him if he the said trespass Had committed by his importune blame Gesyppus as guilty granted the same Wherefore the praetor as the law had set Bad he should be hang on the gibbet By fortune at the time of this judgement Tytus came in to the said pretory Of Gesyppus face taking advisement marveled greatly of his penury To save his life knowing no remedy Before the praetor sorrowful dismayed In this manner unto him thus he said Uarro command this man Infortunate To be called again whom y● forjudged He is guiltless for I by cruel fate This homicide myself have committed Whom thy men found this morning strangled By which offence the god's Immortal I have offended and the law with all Wherefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heart can not assent Unt● 〈…〉 such I●●ury To suff●e this man 〈◊〉 innocent For my trespass thus wrongfully to die Uarro of this was marvelous sorry That Tytus 〈◊〉 audience this wise spoke Which confession he might not forsake Wherefore to save his honour & nobles According as the law him commanded Gesyppus was re●●ked than doubtless And in this wise varro him reproved What foolish madness hath thy mind moved To grant the 〈◊〉 without ●ny ●●●ment Whereof thou art guiltless & Innocent sith that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 death certain Why did thou the said 〈◊〉 〈…〉 de confess Thou being not compelled by no pain Behold Tytus which 〈◊〉 doth express That of this homicide 〈◊〉 guiltless And that he himself the deed did commit Wherefore the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath the now quit Gesyppus beheld Tytus woefully Knowing he did it his life to purchase Unto the Juge this wise he did reply For pity tears running 〈◊〉 his face Uarro he said my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tytus hath now showed his pity to late To me that am a man Infortunate Tytus contrary said praetor take heed This man Juged is a stranger doubtless Thou mayst perceive that he did not the deed By the deed man he was take wepenles He would fain die he is in such distress Wherefore as unguilty let him now go And me the trespassoure to death for to do The praetor marveled of their constance His mind perceived they were not guilty Wherefore of them to make deliverance To save them both his mind he did apply And as he was casting for remedy There came a young man named publius Of life & deed which was susspecius This publius which the murder had done Knowing them both for to be Innocent He was moved with such contrition To die for his trespare he did assent Before the praetor he did him present And wilfully without any asking He told the deed in manner following Praetor my great 〈◊〉 doth me compel Plainly to discuss this altercation What god doth move my mind I cannot tell Of mine offence to make the relation My heart is taken with compunction To see them offer themself for to die Of this trespate they being not guilty Truly myself before the morning tide Slew this man which was my companion This infortunate sleeping there beside Of our boty making partition We fell together at dissension As most strongest in the debate & strife From my fellow I took the mortal life For to excuse Tytus it shall not need For his noble fame & great worthiness Do show that he would not do such a deed Wherefore praetor of this my wretchedness Do quite them both as men that be guiltless And to me which slew this man my fellow Do justice according unto the law Octavyan had knowledge of this chance The parties before him examined Knowing the matter in 〈◊〉 circumstance The two ungylty he there pardoned And also the thief which was foruiged For the love of Tytus he did forgive His trespass & in liberty to live After Tytus had rebuked friendly Gesyppus of mistrust & ferefulnes He clasped him in arms lovingly Unto his house with him he went doubtless Sophrone Tytus wife wept for heaviness To see Gesyppus in such poverty Complaining fortunes mutability She received him as her own brother Retaining him well & honourably Tytus likewise as a friendly lover appareled him in clothing richly With that he was fed right delycatly That in short time he was brought in such plight That he recovered both his health & might Tytus his substance evenly divided And to Gesyppus in matrimony With his sister fuluia so named A noble virgin he gave it freely This kindness for kindness he did truly And Gesyppus secret Tytus 'gan take And unto him in this wise he though spoke Friend & brother of two things now choose For they shall be at your arbitrement Which for to take & which for to refuse The one is whither ye can be content Here to abide or that ye will assent Unto athens to go with this substance Which I have given to you in governance Gesyppus in his mind considering His unkind exile & great indigence With drew his mind from athenes' returning And perceiving Tytus benevolence Said unto him his mind was & sentence if his will were there to abide certain desiring to be made a free Roman In one house they led together their life Tytus & Sophrone in prosperity Gesyppus & fuluia eke his wife Abiding with them in tranquylite Daily with them increasing amity Till cruel death with his furious dart Their mortal life from this world did depart lenvoy du translateur. Amity is for to be commended As the true mother to magnificence Of whom all honest is descended Germayne to charity & beneficence enemy to avarice & violence Flattering & praising it doth also i'll Such is the kind of perfit amity Ready to help in each extremity Her neighbour by kindness favourable As if she were in such necessity They should to her be like agreeable To steadfastness alway conformable With each man having love & unite Such is the kind of perfit amity What riches friendship or affinity Might do so much as Tytus heaviness To move Gesyppus heart to such pity To give his wife of so great worthiness Whom he loved more than any riches Unto Tytus in his adversity Him to relieve but only amity What thing Gesyppus courage did thus move Sophrons'/ & his friends great manasing The people's rumour which did him remove Their scorning & their unkind exiling To set at naught for to be maintaining Tytus quarrel in each manner degree But only love & perfit amity What thing did thus move Tytus consequent To offer himself ready for to die affirming Gesyppus as Innocent Of the murder & himself as guilty His acquaintance dissemblyge there friendly As he knew not what man that he should be But only love & perfit amity What thing did move Tytus heart & courage To give Gesyppus in his most needful chance His sister fuluia in marriage With half his patrimony & substance Him in honour & riches to advance Whom fortune brought in extreme poverty But only love & perfit amity But now a days amity doth decay Each man coveteth his singular profit Upon perils they do forecast alway That by a friend they do but little set All their delight is riches for to get Ingratitude woe worth unto the Which dost exclude both love & amity Finis. winkin de word. Thus endeth the friendly history of Tytus & Gesyppus. imprinted at London in Fleetstreet at the sign of the Son/ by me Wynkyn de word.