Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.
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- Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday.
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- Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.
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- Imprined at London :: By H. D[enham] for Thomas Hacket, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyarde, at the signe of the Key,
- [1566?]
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- Human beings -- Early works to 1800.
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"Theatrum mundi the theatre or rule of the world, wherein may be sene the running race and course of euerye mans life, as touching miserie and felicity, wherin be contained wonderfull examples, learned deuises, to the ouerthrowe of vice, and exalting of vertue. wherevnto is added a learned, and maruellous worke of the excellencie of mankinde. Written in the Frenche & Latin tongues by Peter Boaystuau, and translated into English by Iohn Alday." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16241.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ¶In prayse of the Booke.
- To the Right Worship∣full Sir William Chester Knight, Alderman of the Citie of London, and Mer∣chant of the Staple, Iohn Alday wisheth health to the pleasure of God, with most happie and prosperous successe in all your affaires.
- To the Right Excellent and Reuerende Lord and Prelate, my Lord Iames of Betoun, Archbishop of Glas∣co, and Ambassador of Scotland, Peter Boaystuau wisheth health, and perpetu∣all obedience.
- ¶Peter Boaystuau to the Reader health.
- The rule of the Worlde, wherin is contained an am∣ple discourse of the miseries of man, like∣wise of many vices that raīgne at this daye in all the estates of the worlde.
- The second booke.
- ¶The thirde boke.