¶ Of Him That Desired to Be Made a Gentilman. LXX
¶ There was a rude clubbysshe256 felowe, that longe had serued the duke of Orliance; wherfore he cam on a tyme to the duke, and desired to be made a gentyll man. To whom the duke answered: in good feyth, I may well make the ryche, but as for gentyl man I can neuer make the.257
By which wordes appereth, that goodes and riches do not make a gentyl man, but noble and vertuous conditions do.