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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Example of Vertu, by Stephen Hawes
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+Title: The Example of Vertu
+       The Example of Virtue
+
+Author: Stephen Hawes
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+Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]
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+[P] Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Tabula libri
+
+[P] Fyrste a prologue.
+
+[P] How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was
+reformed by her prouerbes      ca.i.
+
+[P] How youth with discrecyon sayled ouer the daungerous passage
+of vayne glorye and arryued in a fayre Ilonde longynge to foure
+ladyes named Hardynes / Sapyence / fortune / & nature.     ca.ii
+
+[P] Of the meruaylous palays of fortune      ca.iii.
+
+[P] Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes.      ca.iiii.
+
+[P] Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence.      ca.v.
+
+[P] Of the stronge operacyons of nature      ca.vi
+
+[P] How these foure ladyes pleeded at the barre before Iustyce
+whiche of theym was moost proufytable vnto mankynde & of the
+Iugement of Iustyce.      ca.vii.
+
+[P] How after the Iugement of Iustyce / Sapyence c[om]maunded
+Discrec[on]n to lede youth to marye with clennes the kynge of loues
+doughter.      ca.viii.
+
+[P] How youth by the waye mette [with] lechery rydynge on a gote
+and pryde maned with couetyse on an olypha[un]tes backe in a fayre
+castell / & how by the ayde of dyscrecyon he dyde withstande
+theyr temptac[on]n and how he mette with sapience in the mase of
+wordely besynes.      capitulo.ix.
+
+[P] How Sapyence & dyscrecyon ledde youth ouer the narowe brydge
+of vanyte of the worlde to the palays of [the] kynge of loue &
+of his meruaylous appareyl.      ca.x
+
+[P] How sapyence presented youth to the kynge of loue for to mary
+Clennes his doughter & how he before [the] maryage dyde fyght
+and discomfyte the dragon with thre hedys.      capitulo.xi.
+
+[P] How after the discomfyture of the sayd dragon he well growen
+in age was receyued with a farye company of ladyes and was named
+vertu & with all Ioye brought to the palays of the kynge of
+loue.      ca.xii.
+
+[P] Of the maryage of vertu & clennes & of [the] celestyal feste
+how after the maryage an aungell shewed vnto theym hell / & of
+the dyuysyons of hell.      ca.xiii.
+
+[P] How vertu cleymed the enherytaunce longynge to Clennes his
+wyfe / & how many aungelles & sayntes brought theym to heuen / &
+how heuen is enteyled to Vertu and to Clennes & to all theym
+that loue them & folowe & procede in theyr steppes.
+     capitulo.xiiii.
+
+[P] This boke called the example of vertue was made and compyled
+by Stephyn hawys one of the gromes of the moost honorable
+chaumber of oure souerayne lorde kynge Henry the .vii. the .xix.
+yere of his moost noble reygne / and by hym presented to our
+sayd souerayne lorde chapytred & marked after this table here
+before sette.
+
+
+
+
+The prologe.
+
+
+Whan I aduert in my remembraunce
+The famous draughtes of poetes eloquent
+Whiche theyr myndes dyd well enhaunce
+Bokes to contryue that were expedyent
+To be remembred without Impedyment
+For the profyte of humanyte
+This was the custume of antyquyte.
+
+I now symple and moost rude
+And naked in depured eloquence
+For dulnes rethoryke doth exclude
+Wherfore in makynge I lake intellygence
+Also consyderynge my grete neglygence
+It fereth me sore for to endyte
+But at auenture I wyll now wryte.
+
+As very blynde in the poetys art
+For I therof can no thynge skyll
+Wherfore I lay it all a part
+But somwhat accordynge to my wyll
+I wyll now wryte for to fulfyll
+Saynt Powles wordes and true sentement
+All that is wryten is to oure document
+
+O prudent Gower in langage pure
+Without corrupcyon moost facundyous
+O noble Chauser euer moost sure
+Of frutfull sentence ryght delycyous
+O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous
+Vnto you all I do me excuse
+Though I your connynge do now vse
+
+
+Explicit prologus.
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum prim[um]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+In Septembre in fallynge of the lefe
+Whan phebus made his declynacyon
+And all the whete gadred was in the shefe
+By radyaunt hete and operacyon
+Whan the vyrgyn had full domynacyon
+And Dyane entred was one degre
+Into the sygne of Gemyne
+
+Whan the golden sterres clere were splendent
+In the firmament puryfyed clere as crystall
+By imperyall course without incombrement
+As Iuppyter and Mars that be celestyall
+With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall
+Myxt with venus that was not retrograte
+That caused me to be well fortunate
+
+In a slombrynge slepe with slouth opprest
+As I in my naked bedde was leyd
+Thynkynge all nyght to take my rest
+Morpleus to me than made abreyd
+And in my dreme me thought he sayd
+Come walke with me in a medowe amerous
+Depeynted with floures that be delycyous
+
+I walked with hym into a place
+Where that there grue many a fayre floure
+With Ioye replete and full of solace
+And the trees dystyllynge redolent lycoure
+More sweter fer than the Aprell shour
+And tary I dyd there by longe space
+Tyll that I saw before my face
+
+A ryght fayre lady of myddell stature
+And also enduyd with grete vertue
+Her apparell was set with perlys pure
+Whose beaute alway dyd renue
+To me she sayd and ye wyll extue
+All wyldnes I wyll be your guyde
+That ye to fraylte shall not slyde.
+
+[>>]
+Vnto her I answerde o lady gloryous
+I pray you tell me what is your name
+For ye seeme to be ryght precyous
+And I am yonge and sore to blame
+Of vyces full and in vertue lame
+But I wyll be ruled now by your pleasure
+So that your order be made by mesure
+
+Eclepyd I am she sayd dyscrecyon
+And yf ye wyll be ruled by me
+Ye shall haue Ioye without reprehencyon
+And neuer fall in to fragylyte
+Youth lackynge me it is grete pyte
+For in what place I am exyled
+They be with synne ryght oft defyled
+
+It longeth euer vnto my properte
+Youth to gyue courage for to lerne
+I wyll not medle with no duplycyte
+But faythfulnes I wyll dyscerne
+And brynge thy soule to blesse eterne
+By wyse example and morall doctryne
+For youth hauynge to me is a good syne
+
+Forsake also all euyll company
+And be founde true in worde and dede
+Remembre that this worlde is transytory
+After thy desert shall be thy mede
+Loue god alway and eke hym drede
+And for no mannes pleasure be thyn owne foo
+Gyue theym fayre wordes and lete theym goo
+
+[<>]
+Be to thy kynge euer true subgete
+As thou sholdest be by ryght and reason
+Lete thy herte lowely on hym be sete
+Without ony spot of euyll treason
+And be obedyent at euery season
+Vnto his grace without rebellyon
+That thou with trouth may be companyon
+
+Loue neuer vnloued for that is payne
+Whyle that thou lyuest of that beware
+Loue as thou seest the loued agayne
+Or elles it wyll torne the to care
+Be neuer taken in that fast snare
+Proue or thou loue that is moost sure
+And than thou in doubte shalt not endure.
+
+Beware byleue no flaterynge tonge
+For flaterers be moost disseyuable
+Though that they company with the longe
+Yet at the ende they wyll be varyable
+For they by reason are not fauorable
+But euermore fals and double
+And with theyr tonges cause of grete trouble
+
+This brytell worlde ay full of bytternes
+Alway turnynge lyke to a ball
+No man in it can haue no sykernes
+For whan he clymmeth he hath a fall
+O wauerynge shadowe bytter as gall
+O fatall welth full soone at ende
+Though thou ryght hy do oft assende
+
+[<>]
+Whan she to me had made relacyon
+Of all these prouerbes by good conclusyon
+She gaue to me an Informacyon
+For to depryue all yll abusyon
+And to consydre the grete derysyon
+Whiche is in youth that may not se
+No thynge appropred to his prosperyte
+
+Forth than we went to an hauen syde
+Wher was a shyp lyenge at rode
+Taryenge after the wynde and tyde
+And with moche spyces ryght well lode
+Vpon it lokynge we longe abode
+Tyll eolus with blastes began to rore
+Than we her aborded with payne ryght sore
+
+This water eclyped was vayneglory
+Euer with yeopardy and tempestyous
+And the shyp called was ryght truly
+The vessell of the passage daungerous
+The wawys were hyghe and gretly troublous
+The captayn called was good comfort
+And the sterysman fayre pasport
+
+
+
+
+[P] Capitulum .ii.
+
+
+Longe were we dryuen with wynde & weder
+Tyll we arryued in a fayre Ilonde
+Wher was a boote tyed with a teeder
+Of merueylous wood as I vnderstonde
+Precyous stones ley vpon the sond
+And poynted dyamondes grewe on the rockes
+And corall also by ryght hyghe stockes
+[<<]
+
+Amased I was for to beholde
+The precyous stones vnder my fete
+And the erth glysterynge of golde
+With floures fayre of odour swete
+Dame dyscrecyon I dyd than grete
+Praynge her to me to make relacyon
+Who of this Ilonde hath domynacyon
+
+She sayd foure ladyes in vertue excellent
+Of whiche the eldest is dame nature
+That dayly fourmeth after her entent
+Euery beest and lyuynge creature
+Both foule and fayre and also pure
+All that dependynge in her ordynaunce
+Where that she fauoureth there is grete pleasaunce
+
+The seconde is called dame fortune
+Ayenst whome can be no resystence
+For she doth sette the strynges in tune
+Of euery persone by her magnyfycence
+Whan they sound best by good experyence
+She wyll theym loose and let theym slyp
+Causynge theym fall by her turnynge tryp
+
+The thyrde called is dame hardynes
+That often rulyth by her cheualry
+She is ryght stowt and of grete prowes
+And the captayn of a lusty company
+And ruleth theym euer full hardely
+And to gete honour and worldely tresure
+She putteth her oft in auenture
+
+[P] The fourth is wysedome a lady bryght
+Whiche is my syster as ye shall se
+Whom I do loue with all my myght
+For she enclyneth euer to benygnyte
+And medeleth not with fraude nor subtylyte
+But maketh many noble clerkes
+And ruleth theym in all theyr werkes
+
+[P] They dwell all in a fayre castell
+Besyde a ryuer moche depe and clere
+And be expert in feytys manuell
+That vnto theym can be no peere
+Of erthely persone that lyueth here
+For they be so fayre and wounderous
+That theym to se it is solacyous.
+
+[P] Longe haue they trauerst gretly in the lawe
+Whiche of theym sholde haue the preemynence
+And none of them theyr case wyll withdrawe
+Tyll of dame Iustyce they knowe the sentence
+They argue often and make defence
+Eche vnto other withouten remedy
+I wyll no lenger of them specefy
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum tercium.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Come on fayre youth and go with me
+Vnto that place that is delectable
+Bylded with towres of curyosyte
+And yet though that ye be lamentable
+Whan thou art there you wylt be confortable
+To se the merueyles that there be wrought
+No man can prynt it in his thought
+
+A path we founde ryght gretely vsed
+Where in we went tyll at the last
+A castell I sawe wherof I mused
+Not fully from me a stones cast
+To se the towres I was agast
+Set in a valey so strongely fortefyed
+So gentyll compassed and well edefyed
+
+The towres were hyghe of adamond stones
+With fanes wauerynge in the wynde
+Of ryght fyne golde made for the noonys
+And roobuckes ran vnder the lynde
+And hunters came theym fer behynde
+A Ioye it was suche sawe I neuer
+Abyde quod she ye shall se a better.
+
+Forth she me ledde to the castell warde
+Where we were let in by humylyte
+And so after she lede me forwarde
+Tyll that I sawe a royall tre
+With buddys blossomed of grete beaute
+And than we wente in to the hall
+That glased was truely with crystall
+
+And hanged was with clothes of Aras
+Made of fyne golde with a noble story
+How that there some tyme reynynge was
+In the regyon of hyghe Italy
+A valyaunt emperour and a myghty
+That had to name forsothe Tyberius
+Whiche dyde enquere of prudent Iosethus
+
+[P] Why he his offycers so longe kepte
+Vnto hym he answered a good cause why
+Somtyme I sawe a man that slepte
+That wounded was full pyteously
+And on his woundes suckynge many a fly
+I than for pyte moued theym away
+By whiche he woke and to me dyde say
+
+[P] Wher that thou trowed to me comfort
+Thou now hast done me double greuaunce
+Puttynge away the flyes that dyde resorte
+To me beynge full of blody sustynaunce
+By this thou mayst haue good perseueraunce
+That now wyll come the flyes moost hungry
+That wyll me byte .x. tymes more greuously
+
+[P] The roof was wrought by merueylous gemetry
+Colered with asure gold and gowlys
+With knottes coruen full ryght craftely
+And set also with wanton fowlys
+As popyniays / pyes / Iays / and owlys
+And as I loked on my ryght syde
+A lady I sawe of meruellous pryde
+
+[P] Syttynge in a chayer at the vpper ende
+Of all the hall as a lady and prynces
+Amonge many kynges that dyde entende
+To be obedyent to her hyghe noblenes
+Her apparell was made of moche fayre ryches
+Set with rubyes moost pure and rubicound
+Embrawded with perles and many a dyamound
+
+Besydes her sate the worthyes nyne
+And she amonge theym a whele turnynge
+Full lowe to her they dyd than enclyne
+She somtyme laughynge and somtyme lowrynge
+Her condycyon was to be dyssymelynge
+And many exalten vpon her whele
+Gyuynge theym grete falles that they dyd fele
+
+Than sayd dyscrecyon beholde and see
+That in dame fortune is no stablenes
+This worlde also is but a vanyte
+A dreme a pompe nothynge in stedfastnes
+For fortune is fals and full of doblenes
+Whan she moost flatereth she is not sure
+As thou mayst se dayly in vre
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .iiii.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Forth than we went vnto the habytacle
+Of dame hardynes moost pure and fayre
+Aboue all places a ryght fayre spectacle
+Strowyd with floures that gaue good eyer
+Of vertuous turkeys there was a cheyr
+Wherin she sate in her cote armure
+Berynge a shelde the felde of asure
+
+Wherin was sette a rampynge lyon
+Of fyne golde ryght large and grete
+A swerd she had of merueylous fassyon
+As though a thousand she sholde bete
+No man the vyctory of her myght gete
+A noble vyrgyn there dyde her serue
+That fyrst made harnes called Mynerue
+
+The chaumbre where she held her consystory
+The dewe aromatyke dyde oft degoute
+Of fragraunt floures full of delycasy
+That all yll heyres dyde ensence oute
+A carbuncle there was that all aboute
+Enlumyned the chaumbre both day and nyght
+My thought it was an heuenly syght
+
+Nyne quenes I sawe that satte her by
+Beynge all armed of grete fortytude
+In many a stower they wanne the vyctory
+And were endued with facounde pulcrytude
+For to haunte armes was theyr consuetude
+Many a regyon they often wanne
+And also vaynquysshed many a noble man
+
+Nexte vnto her sate the hyghe quene Azia
+That was a conqueres so puyssaunt
+And besyde her the quene of Saba
+Whiche in grete ryches was tryumphaunt
+And also Ipolyte in armes valyaunt
+Sate with her besyde quene Hecuba
+And yet also the quene Europa
+
+Present ther was the wiche quene Iuno
+And quene Pantasyll wyth fayre quene Elyn
+And yet I sawe by her than also
+The noble vyrgyn yonge Polyxyn
+That was destroyed at the last ruyn
+Of Troye the grete by cruell Pyrrus
+The sone of Achylles that was so cheualrus
+
+As I dyd loke I had commaundement
+Of dame dyscrecyon for to remembre
+These noble ladyes so pure and excellent
+Hardy in corage of age ryght tendre
+Yet not withstandynge deth dyde surrendre
+And all theyr strength and lusty corage
+For he spareth nother youth ne age
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .v.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Forth we walked to the dwellynge place
+Of dame sapyence so full of blys
+Replete with Ioye vertu and grace
+No thynge there lacked that possyble is
+Man for to comfort withouten mys
+Though he were derke in wordely foly
+He sholde there b enlumyned shortely
+
+Her towre was made of werkes curyous
+I can no thynge extende the goodlynes
+Of her palays so good and gloryous
+Bylded in the place soth of fastnes
+With owten tast of wordely bytternes
+No persone can extoll the souerente
+Of her worthy and royall dygnyte
+
+She eche estate sholde haue in gouernaunce
+As theym to rule or that they repent
+For better it is to haue good puruyaunce
+At the begynnynge as is expedyent
+Than for to wyssh for thynges myspent
+That myght be saued longe afore
+And with a for wytte kepte in store
+
+Her chaumbre was glased with byrall clarefyed
+Depeynted with colours of delectacyon
+A place of pleasure so heuenly gloryfyed
+In vertue heale lyfe and saluacyon
+Without ony stormy trybulacyon
+That myght anoy the heuenly helth
+But alway comfort to the sowlys welth
+
+There sate dame prudence in vertue magnyfyed
+Impossyble it is to shewe her goodelyhed
+She was so fayre and clerely puryfyed
+And so dyscrete and full of womanhede
+That and I trowe vertue were deed
+It sholde reuyue yet in her agayne
+She was so gentyll and without dysdeyn
+
+It was grete comfort vnto my hert
+For to beholde that heuenly syght
+Dyscrecyon sayd I sholde not depert
+Tyll I had spoken with her syster bryght
+Forth she me ledde with all her myght
+Vnto that prynces and royall souerayn
+Ergo my labour was not in vayn
+
+Than spake dame prudence with meke contena[un]ce
+Welcome dyscrecyon my syster dere
+Where haue ye ben by longe contynuaunce
+Wyth youth she sayd that ye se here
+And for my sake I you requere
+Hym to receyue in to your seruyse
+And he shall serue you in goodely wyse
+
+Welcome she sayd for my systers sake
+And yet also now for your owne
+In to my seruyce I wyll you take
+Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen
+The sede of vertu on you shall be sowen
+Vyce to depryue by his good auctoryte
+As for to subdue all yll iniquyte
+
+Of other mennes wordes be thou not bolde
+And of theyr promys make no behest
+And yf thou here an yll tale tolde
+Gyue no iugement but say the best
+So shall thou lyue euermore in rest
+Who lytell medeleth is best at ease
+For well were he that all myght please
+
+Beware kepe the from grete offence
+That thou condempned be not by ryghtwysnes
+Whan she doth gyue her mortall sentence
+Without pease or mercy cause her reles
+Her iugement of mortall heuynes
+That the best frende to the wyll be
+The for to socour in grete necessyte
+
+But yet in theym haue none affyaunce
+As fyrst to synne thynkynge that they
+At the ende to the wyll be delyueraunce
+Nay ryghtwysnes wyll dryue theym away
+For of all synnes without delay
+Suche synne in hope it is the moost
+For it is the synne of the holy ghoost
+
+Now I amytte you into your rome
+In the whiche ye shall your selfe apply
+Of myn owne chaumbre ye shall be grome
+Loke ye be dylygent and do not vary
+From my c[om]maundementes neuer specyally
+For and ye wyll theym well obserue
+A moche better rome ye do deserue
+
+The fyrst c[om]maundement that I gyue the
+Thynke on the ende or thou begynne
+For thou by ryght may knowe the certente
+That deth is fyne of euery synne
+Be neuer taken in dyabolycall engyne
+But that repentaunce may loose the sone
+Of that grete synne that thou hast done
+
+Trust not to moche in fortunes grace
+Though that she laugh on the a whyle
+For she can sodenly turne her face
+Whan that she lyst the to begyle
+She welth and Ioye can sone defyle
+And plonge the in the pyte of pouerte
+Wherfore in her haue thou no suertye
+
+Presume no ferther than the behoueth
+For it wyll turne the to grete shame
+For who that from his rome remoueth
+He is often full gretely to blame
+And medeleth with other in theym lame
+As no thynge connynge nor expert
+They may hym say syr malapert
+
+Or that thou speke call to remembraunce
+Vnto what mater thy worde shall sygnyfye
+Loke that it torne no man to greuaunce
+Though that it be spoken merely
+Yet many a one wyll take it greuously
+Whiche that myght cause wroth and debate
+Whyle that thou lyues beware of that
+
+For a thynge lost without recouer
+Loke that thou neuer be to pensyfe
+Thanke god of it thynke to haue an other
+Lete wysedome than be to the comfortyfe
+That to thy brayn is best preseruatyfe
+For euermore ryght wyse is he
+That can be pacyent in aduersyte
+
+Proue thy frende in a mater fayned
+Or thou haue nede than shalt thou se
+Whyther he be iustly with the reteyned
+The for to socour in thy necessyte
+By profe thou mayst knowe the veryte
+For profe afore that nede requere
+Defeteth dowte euer in fere
+
+Be thou neuer so blynde in wylle
+Yet loke thou be refourmed by reason
+Than shalt thou my mynde fulfyll
+And thou therto thy selfe abandon
+Stryue not with reason for none encheson
+For wher she lacketh ther is grete outrage
+And without her may not aswage
+
+Eschew also the synne of pryde
+The moder and the feruent rote
+Of all the synnes at euery tyde
+Wherfore trede thou her vnder fote
+With helpe of vertue so swete and sote
+Whiche is best salue to hele thy sore
+And to thy helth the to restore
+
+Wo worth synne without repentaunce
+Wo worth bondage without reles
+Wo worth man without good gouernaunce
+Wo worth infynall payne and dystresse
+Wo worth vyce put fer in presse
+Wo worth soueraynte hauynge dysdeyn
+And wo worth pyte that doth refrayn
+
+Wo worth ryght that may not be herd
+Wo worth frendshyp without stabylyte
+Wo worth true sentence that is deferd
+Wo worth the man full of duplycyte
+Wo worth hym without benygnyte
+Wo worth lybertye withouten pease
+And wo worth crueltye that may not cease
+
+Wo worth connynge that is abused
+Wo worth promys withouten payment
+Wo worth vertue that is refused
+Wo worth trouble without extynguysment
+Wo worth foly on message sent
+Wo worth reason that is exyled
+And wo worth trouth that is defyled
+
+Wo worth the trust without assuraunce
+Wo worth grace not sette by
+Wo worth Iustyce kepte in dystaunce
+Wo worth welth replete with enuy
+Wo worth the batayll without vyctory
+Wo worth begynnynge without good ende
+And wo worth wronge that doth defende
+
+These commaundementes I put in memory
+Theym for to kepe doynge my dylygence
+With dame Sapyence I dyd longe tary
+Whiche dyd me teche with partynge influence
+Of her delycate and doulcete complacence
+Than spake dyscrecyon anone to me
+In the presens of her systers mageste
+
+Thou art beholdynge to my syster reuerent
+That the reteyned hath vnto her seruaunt
+Wherfore be thou to her obedyent
+And at euery houre to her attendaunt
+And ryotous company do thou not haunt
+For that wyll payre and yll thy name
+Wherfore of vertuous myrth let be thy game
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .vi.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Discrecyon ferther forth me lede
+Vnto the solempne and royall mancyon
+Of dame nature in humayne stede
+Ryght pleasaunt was her habytacyon
+Of merueylous werke and sytuacyon
+And she her selfe helde her estate
+In a gloryous chaumbre without chekmate
+
+Her towre was gylted full of sonne bemys
+And within hanged with cloth of aras
+The roof was paynted with golden stremys
+And lyke crystall depured was
+Euery wyndowe aboute of glas
+Where that she sat as a fayre goddes
+All thynges creatynge by her besynes
+
+Me thought she was of merueylous beaute
+Tyll that Dyscrecyon lede me behynde
+Where that I sawe all the pryuyte
+Of her werke and humayne kynde
+And at her backe I dyd than fynde
+Of cruell deth a dolfull ymage
+That all her beaute dyd perswage
+
+Full wonderous was her operacyon
+In euery kynde eke and ryght degre
+Withouten rest or recreacyon
+I wyll not medle with her secrete
+For it no thynge longeth to my faculte
+But somwhat after I wyll expres
+Of her grete power and worthynes
+
+But in my boke well for to procede
+Dame dyscrecyon ferther me brought
+Into a fayre chambre as ye may rede
+Of fyne gemetry ryght well wrought
+To comfort man there lacked nought
+But that me thought there was no company
+Saue onely dame dyscrecyon and I
+
+We had ben but a lytell whyle there
+But that we sawe a lady clere
+Ryght well appareled in sad gere
+Mylde in her hauour dyscrete of chere
+That came vs by and very nere
+Ascendynge vp in to her hyghe sete
+Garnysshed with perle and with gold bete
+
+Than sayd dyscrecyon this is dame Iustyce
+Clene of conscyence without corrupcyon
+And neuer be spotted with the synne of couetyse
+But true as stele in the entencyon
+Of ryght euermore without destruccyon
+Geuynge alway a ryghtfull iugement
+Obey thou youth this lady reuerent
+
+A iuge fulfylled with the synne of auaryce
+Or with fauour of kynne made blynd
+Must nedys do wronge by grete [pre]iudyce
+For fauour shold not conscyence bynd
+Ryght to dyssymyll as I now fynd
+In problemys wryten of antiquyte
+Made by phylosophers of auctoryte
+
+As we stode talkynge thus to gydere
+Vp came dame fortune so gayly gloryfyed
+Impossyble it is for me to dyscouere
+How gorges she was & gretly magnyfyed
+Full lyke a goddes that had ben deyfyd
+Clothed with gold sette full of rubyes
+And tynst [with] emeraudys & many a turkes
+
+And next to her there dyd ensue
+Dame Hardynes that noble lady
+After whome anone dyd pursue
+Dame Sapyence whiche dyd not tary
+Than came dame nature appareled royally
+And all the other cladde in gold
+Set with dyamondes many a fold
+
+They lowted all vnto the ground
+Afore dame Iustyce for obeysaunce
+That sate there both hole and sound
+Withouten ony dyscontynuaunce
+Gyuynge god ere vnto the vteraunce
+Of these foure ladyes pledynge at barre
+With all theyr cases dyd well avarre
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .vii.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Fyrst dame hardynes began to plede
+Saynge she was to man moost profytable
+For she the hertes hath often fede
+Of conquerous as it was couenable
+And by my corage haue made theym able
+Regyons to wynne theyr ennemyes to subdue
+And yf I were not they had it rue
+
+And yf a man be neuer so wyse
+Withouten me he getyth none vteraunce
+Wherfore his wysedome may not suffyse
+All onely without myn allegeaunce
+For I by ryght must nedys enhaunce
+A lowe born man to an hyghe degre
+Yf that he wyll be ruled by me
+
+Haue I not caused many a noble warreour
+To wynne the batell by my grete myght
+Without me was made neuer conquerour
+Nor yet man coragious whan he dyd fyght
+No man without me may defende his ryght
+I may be worst from hym forborne
+For and I were not he were forlorne
+
+Dyd I not cause the noble hercules
+By my power to wynne the vyctory
+Of the sturdy and stronge Philotes
+As is recorded in bokes of memory
+For without me can be no cheualry
+And vnder the wynge of my proteccyon
+All rebels brought be to subieccyon
+
+A realme is vpholden by thynges thre
+The fyrst and the chyef it is the swerd
+Whiche causeth it to be in good suerte
+And other realmes of it to be aferd
+By whiche the vsurpers be dyfferd
+From theyr wyll with treason knyte
+And by me slayn for theyr fals fyte
+
+The seconde is lawe that euer serueth
+But within the realme onely
+For other nacyons our lawe ne dredeth
+But our swerd they do in specyally
+For and they roose ayenst vs proudly
+As they haue done often in tymes past
+Yet [with] our swerd they shold be ouercast
+
+The thyrde be marchauntes that do multyply
+In this realme welth and prosperyte
+For of euery thynge they often occupy
+Euery man lyke vnto his faculte
+For without marchauntes can not be
+No realme vpholden in welth & pleasure
+For it to vs is a specyall tresure
+
+Also yet hercules the puyssaunt geaunt
+Dyd slee the monstre afore Troy the grete
+And with his strokes he dyd hym daunt
+They were so peysantly on hym sette
+That he the vyctory on hym dyd gette
+Had I not be comfort vnto his harte
+Suche vyctory had ben leyd aparte
+
+Dyd he not vaynquysshe in [the] forest of Nemee
+The thre mortall lyons by his grete hardynes
+And ryued theyr Iawes as was to se
+By twene his handes by chyualrus prowes
+And yet by armes and knyghtly exces
+In egypt he slewe the tyraunt Busyre
+And brent hym after in a grete fyre
+
+Also he slewe the tyraunt Cacus
+For his tyranny and grete myschefe
+By cause his dedys were so odyous
+For he dyd murdre and was a thefe
+Wherfore his deth to many was leef
+Who more of his actes wyll haue report
+To the Troyans story lette hym resort
+
+Also the worthy and the noble hectour
+That eclyped was the troyans champyon
+And of all cheualry called the flour
+In his tyme reynynge and of renowne
+Of whose noble dedes the brute and sowne
+Was spred by euery straunge habytacyon
+That they of his faytys dyde make relacyon
+
+By his power and hardy corage
+He put the grekes full often to flyght
+And bete theym downe by a grete outrage
+That well was he that hym saue myght
+Full often he brought theym to the plyght
+His dedes were pure without magycyon
+And without nygromancy or suche corrupcyon
+
+Dyd I not cause also kynge dauith
+A lyon Iawbones to rent and tere
+That dyd deuour his shepe in the fryth
+As he sat kepynge of theym there
+The lyons crueltye myght not hym fere
+And he in his youth so hardy was
+That he dyd sle the gyaunt Golias
+
+Dyd I not cause the noble Iulius
+Emperour of rome for to be electe
+By cause he was so stronge and cheualrus
+Whan in armes he knewe the affecte
+He all his ennemyes dyd abiecte
+And by the support of my chyef socour
+He gouerned hymselfe lyke a noble emperour
+
+And also Arthur kynge of Bretayne
+With all the knyghtes of the rounde table
+Neuer auentures had sought certayne
+And I therto had not ben greable
+They for to fyght had not ben able
+Who that me lacketh is but a coward
+And shame is euer his rewarde
+
+Also kynge Charlemayne kynge of Fraunce
+With his dyssypers Rowland and Olyuer
+With all the resydue of his alyaunce
+That in all armes so noble were
+On goddys ennemyes brake many a spere
+Causynge them to flee to theyr grete vylony
+Hardynes was cause that they had vyctory
+
+O worthy hardynes the shynynge sterre
+Alway to mannys herte the comfort
+Whan that it is the tyme of werre
+Vnto what partye that thou resort
+They wynne the batall by thy support
+And wher that thou lettest thy bemys dyssende
+They often hye to honoure assende
+
+Than sayd dame hardynes vnto the Iuge
+I pray you that ryght I may haue
+Sythens I to man am chyef refuge
+Whan that he lysteth of me to craue
+I make hym coragyous and his worshyp saue
+Wherfore I owte to haue the preemynence
+By ryght reason and good experyence
+
+That I deny you sayd dame Sapyence
+Of whom haue you your ordre of pledynge
+For ye neuer can haue none intellygence
+But by the meane of myn informynge
+For I am alway your mynde techynge
+And without me your tale were but a fable
+For ye without wytte sholde alway bable
+
+This wyll I proue by myn opynyon
+That I am grounde of the artes seuen
+And of all good werkes in c[om]munyon
+For no man without me can go to heuen
+My dedys be merueylous for man to neuen
+Whan they ben wrought in to theyr degre
+Who that wyll lerne theym he hath the lyberte
+
+Of my dedes bokes do make recorde
+The whiche clerkes put into remembraunce
+For an example without dyscorde
+Of heuenly way by vertuous gouernaunce
+Without me man can haue no pleasaunce
+Nor yet hym rule in no maner wyse
+A man without wytte is to dyspyse
+
+Hardynes without prudence may not auayle
+Though that a man be neuer so sturdy
+For a wyseman feble may wynne the batayle
+Of hym that is ryght stronge and myghty
+For better it is for to be ryght wytty
+In the defence of his good saue garde
+Than often to stryke and to renne forwarde
+
+That thynge that hardynes may not wynne
+May be goten by my hyghe souerente
+And with the helpe of subtyle engynne
+It may be brought to the extremyte
+Wher that it myght not by possybylyte
+Of hardynes longe afore be wonne
+Yet by grete wysedome it may be donne
+
+Vnto dyuers cases I take excepcyon
+Of dame Hardynes whiche are no lawe
+Vnto the fyrst vndre your correccyon
+She sayd and she her power dyd wythdrawe
+No rebell than shold stand in awe
+And she is the chyef as I knowe well
+That causeth hym for to be rebell
+
+By her foly and folysshe hardynes
+She causeth men to ryse ayenst theyr lorde
+She is the cause of mortall heuynes
+Whan she doth breke the good concorde
+Wherfore me thynke by one accorde
+For to exyle her it is now the best
+Than man sholde lyue in peas and rest
+
+And where she sayd that she exalted
+Iulius cesar by her grete exylence
+In that case she ryght clerely varyed
+For it was I by my grete dylygence
+That neuer was out of his presence
+But ruled hym and made hym worthy
+To be chosen emperour of all Italy
+
+Chosen he was by the comyn assent
+For the grete wysedome that in hym shone
+With a grete voyce and a hole entente
+For lyke vnto hym was there none
+That was so abell as he alone
+For to occupye an Emperours dygnyte
+Of his promocyon he myght thanke me
+
+I Sapyence am endewed with grace
+And the lode sterre of heuenly doctryne
+The sprynge of comfort Ioye and solace
+Who that lyst to me for to enclyne
+He shall knowe thynges that be dyuyne
+And at his ende beholde the deyte
+That is one god and persones thre
+
+It pleased the fader that is omnipotent
+His sone to send to be incarnat
+Of the vyrgyn Mary the sterre moost excellent
+Mayden and moder yet not vyolate
+Lyke a vessell chosen and made ornat
+All onely for to be goddys moder
+And he hym selfe vnto man broder
+
+But a stryfe there was bytwene god and man
+Whan man consented to synne dedely
+By that the dyscorde fyrst began
+Whan he the sone of god on hy
+That is his brother agayn wyll crucefy
+Yf he had power by whiche is offended
+The fader of heuen as is entended
+
+Therfore lete vs to our brother go
+Named Ihesu Cryst and axe hym mercy
+With a good entent and hert also
+There is for vs none other remedy
+That ony tonge truely can specyfy
+And he wyll take it for a correccyon
+And of all vengeaunce sease the affeccyon
+
+That we may of hym haue forgyuenes
+Of our grete synne with reformacyon
+Of peas bytwene the faders hyghenes
+Of heuen and vs in suspyracyon
+Therfore yf thou drede the amocyon
+Of his ryghtwysnes loke that thou flee
+Ryght fast vnto his mercyfull pyte
+
+For his mercy is more than all our mysery
+And eke aboue his werkes all
+As Dauyd sheweth in his prophecy
+Saynge his mercy is ouer all
+To whom I pray euer in especyall
+To gyue me grace well my penne to lede
+That quaketh aye for drede
+
+Dame Sapyence sayd I do procede
+Of the strength of the holy ghoost
+That is and shall be mater in dede
+God and lorde of myghtys moost
+Whose infynall power was neuer lost
+And yet neuer had no begynnynge
+But alway lyke stronge without endynge
+
+Where that dame hardynes in her pledynge
+Made her selfe to knyghtes moost necessary
+By the meanes of her power shewynge
+That I by ryght do now well deny
+For in that case she dyd moche vary
+For syxe there are that more profyte be
+Of whiche the lest is better than she
+
+The fyrst is prudence that is the chefe
+That hym doth rule and is his gyde
+And kepeth hym from grete reprefe
+And causeth his worshyp for to abyde
+So euery crysten man shold prouyde
+By his wit to withstand the deuyll
+That he consent not to do euyll
+
+The seconde is that he sholde be true
+To his souerayn lorde that on hym reyneth
+And all treason for euer to eschewe
+In whiche grete shame often remayneth
+And by whiche he hiz k[yn]ge dysteyneth
+So a crysten man sholde be true euer
+To Ihesu Cryst that was his redemer
+
+The thyrde is that he sholde be lyberall
+Amonge his c[om]mons withouten lette
+That is the cause euer in generall
+That he the loue of theym doth gette
+For it causeth theyr hertes on hym be sette
+So euery true crysten man sholde be
+To god intended with lyberalyte
+
+The fourth is that he sholde be stronge
+His ryght euer for to defende
+And neuer to no man for to do wronge
+But wronges for to dyrecte and amende
+As ferre as his power wyll extende
+So a true crysten man sholde exclude
+All maner of vyces by his fortytude
+
+The fyfth is [that] he sholde be mercyable
+In all his dedes withouten furoure
+For that to hym is gretly conuenable
+And eke to kepe hym out of erroure
+For he of mercy sholde be a myrroure
+So vnto them it is ryght necessary
+Who that wyll be saued for to haue mercy
+
+The syxte is a knyght ought for to kepe
+The poore folke in theyr grete nede
+That often for hungre and thyrst do wepe
+He ought with almes theym for to fede
+And the better he shall than spede
+So euery true crysten man sholde do
+As ferre as his power cometh vnto
+
+I Sapyence am of the kynges counsayll
+Whiche is clothed with purple that sygnyfyeth
+The grace and the pulcrytude without fayll
+Of grete vertues that in hym shyneth
+For to no vyces he neuer enclyneth
+Hauynge in his hede a fayre crowne royall
+That sheweth his dygnyte to be regall
+
+Whiche to his people is the chefe glory
+Thrugh whome his subgectes be dyrecte
+And made obedyent to hym certaynly
+At euery houre by ryght true effecte
+But forthermore by good aspecte
+He bereth a ball in his lefte hande
+The whiche betokeneth as I vnderstande
+
+A kynge to be a good admynystratour
+Vnto his subgectes in euery place
+And to be for theym a good prouysour
+As reason requyreth in euery case
+I Sapyence do rule his noble grace
+In his ryght hand he hath a septure
+That doth sygnyfye by ryght his rygoure
+
+Yll men to punysshe for theyr offence
+By his ryghtwysnes whome the loue
+Of vertue shynynge in experyence
+Doth not extoll nor yet now remoue
+A lampe doth hange his heed aboue
+Alway lyght and clerely brennynge
+Whiche sygnyfyeth the mercy of a kynge
+
+The olde philosophers by theyr prudence
+Fonde the seuen scyences lyberall
+And by theyr exercyse & grete dylygence
+They made theyr dedes to be memoryall
+And also poetes that were fatall
+Craftely colored with clowdy fygures
+The true sentence of all theyr scryptures
+
+O Iustyce lady and souerayne goddesse
+Gyue you true sentence now vpon me
+As ye be surmountynge in vertue & noblesse
+Lete me dame Sapyence haue the soueraynte
+As is accordynge to my royall dygnyte
+For I am moost profytable vnto man
+And euer had ben syns the world began
+
+Than sayd dame Fortune ye are imperfyte
+Without that I therto be accordaunt
+For all your hardynes & prudence perfyte
+I vnto you must be well exuberaunt
+And with your werkes euer concordaunt
+Where that I fauer they haue good c[om]fort
+In all theyr dedes by my swete resort
+
+I Fortune am the rule and steere
+Of euery persone lyke to my wyll
+That in this worlde now lyueth here
+Whan that I lyst for to fulfyll
+My mynde ryght sone I can dystyll
+The dewe of comfort welth and rychesse
+To man exaltynge hym to noblenesse
+
+Though that a man were neuer so hardy
+Without me he myght not attayne
+And though that a man were neuer so wytty
+And I dyd my power from hym refrayne
+All his labour were lost in vayne
+So hardynesse and prudence in no wyse
+Without good fortune may well suffyse
+
+Though that a man were but a fole
+Yf I consent that he be fortunate
+He nedyth not to make no grete dole
+For I shall mayntene so his estate
+That he in rychesse shall be so eleuate
+Fulfylled with welth & worldely tresure
+That he shall lacke no maner of pleasure
+
+Where that dame hardynes wold afferme
+By her cases that are so vnsure
+That she by her power doth conferme
+The knyghtes of vyctory for to be sure
+Whan she doth take theyr hertes in cure
+Yf fortune be awaye she may not auayle
+For they by reason must lose the batayle
+
+Yet forthermore as I do well consyder
+How dame hardynes dyd expresse
+Sythens the tyme that I came hyder
+That she promoted had to worthynes
+Hector dauid and the noble hercules
+With many other wherof she fayleth
+For it was fortune as she well knoweth
+
+For in olde tyme the noble warryours
+For to eschewe euer my grete daungere
+In whiche tyme they were ydolestours
+Than they to put hym oute of fere
+To ydols went that theyr goddes were
+For to haue answer yf they sholde wynne
+The batayll or they dyd begynne
+
+What nede I pleed by longe contynuaunce
+As dame Sapyence dyd in maters hy
+It were of tyme but dyscontynuaunce
+But o dame Iustyce the gentyll lady
+Loke that ye Iuge my mater ryght wysely
+That I of hardynes may be the pryncypall
+And of dame prudence & nature with all
+
+Than sayd dame nature that may not be
+As I can proue by ryght and reason
+For I am moost confort to humanyte
+As man well knoweth at euery encheason
+And can not be forborne for none season
+For where I lacke without ony delay
+Man is but dede and turned to clay
+
+That nature gyueth by her power
+Wysedome nor hardynes may not defete
+For I to man am the chefe doer
+Durynge his lyfe without retrete
+Also dame fortune may not well lete
+Me of my course though she it thought
+In sondery wyse my dedes are so wrought
+
+Though that a man were infortunable
+And though that he were neuer so folysshe
+And a grete coward to fyght not able
+Yet shulde he lyue and neuer perysshe
+Tyll that my power of hym doth fynysshe
+Whiche fayle must ones it is my proprete
+And that was gyuen me by the deyte
+
+I am the orygynall of mannes creacyon
+And by me alway the world doth multyply
+In welth pleasure and delectacyon
+As I wyll shewe now in this party
+My dedes be subtyll & wrought craftely
+What were the worlde yf I were note
+It were sone done as I well wote
+
+The lawe of nature doth man bynde
+Both beste foule and fysshe also
+In theyr degre to do theyr kynde
+Blame theym not yf they do so
+For harde it is euer to ouer go
+The kynde of nature in her degre
+For euery thynge must shewe his proprete
+
+Who of theyr propretes lyst to rede
+Lete hym loke in the boke of barthelmewe
+And to his scripture take good hede
+That ryght nobly of theym do shewe
+With all theyr actes beynge not a fewe
+But wounderous many by alteracyon
+For lyke hath lyke his operacyon
+
+I nature norysshe by myn afflyccyon
+Mannes humayne partyes superfyxcyall
+And am the sprynge of his complexion
+The fonteyne of his vaynes inferyall
+To hym conserue moost dere and specyall
+Though he were hardy & wyse he my[gh]t not me forbere
+Nor fortune without me auayleth not hym a pere
+
+Wherfore dame Iustyce be you now indyfferent
+Consydre that I am moost dere and lefe
+Vnto euery man that is eliquylent
+And aboue all medycyns to hym moost chefe
+And by my strongh vnto hym relefe
+In his dysease wherfore as thynke me
+I ought of reason to haue the soueraynte
+
+Than spake dame Iustyce with meke contena[un]ce
+I wyll all your contrauersy now redresse
+For I of your reasons haue good perseueraunce
+And after your cases both more and lesse
+Wherfore I Iustyce by good ryghtwysnesse
+Gyue now vpon you a fynall Iugement
+That ye foure agree by a hole assent
+
+Man for to please at euery houre
+Without dysgrement or contradiccyon
+And in his nede to do hym socoure
+With louynge herte and true affeccyon
+He shall be in your good iurysdyccyon
+And you of hym shall be copertyners
+Both of his lyfe and of his maners
+
+Than sayd dame hardynes I agre therto
+And so do I than sayd dame Sapyence
+Than sayd dame Fortune I also do
+Agre vnto dame Iustyce sentence
+And I dame Nature wyll do my dylygence
+Lyke as ye do man for to please
+And hym to strength in his dysease
+
+With that dame Iustyce vp arose
+Vnto the ladyes byddynge fare well
+And went into her chaumbre close
+I cleped conscyence wher she dyd dwell
+As dame Dyscrecyon dyd me tell
+Than hardynes & fortune went downe the stayre
+And after theym Nature so clere and fayre
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .viii.
+
+
+Dame Sapyence taryed a lytell whyle
+Behynd the other saynge to Dyscrecyon
+And began on her to laugh and smyle
+Axynge her how I stode in condycyon
+Well she sayd in good perfeccyon
+But best it is that he maryed be
+For to eschewe all yll censualyte
+
+I knowe a lady of meruelous beaute
+Spronge out of hyghe and noble lynage
+Replete with vertue and full of bounte
+Whiche vnto youth were a good maryage
+For she is comen of royall apparage
+But herde it wyll be to gete her loue
+Without youth frayltye do sore reproue
+
+I kneled downe than vpon my kne
+Afore dame Sapyence with humble chere
+Besechynge her of me to haue pyte
+And also Dyscrecyon her syster dere
+Than dame Sapyence came me nere
+Saynge youth wyll ye haue a wyfe
+And her to loue durynge her lyfe
+
+Ye madame that wolde I fayne
+Yf that she be both fayre and bryght
+I wyll her loue euer more certayne
+And pleas her alway with all my myght
+Of suche a persone wolde I haue a syght
+With all my herte now at this houre
+Wolde to god I had so fayre a floure
+
+Than sayd dyscrecyon there is a kynge
+Dwellynge fer hens in a fayre castell
+Of whome I oft haue herd grete talkynge
+Whiche hath a doughter as I you tell
+I trowe that youth wyll lyke her well
+She is both good eke fayre and pure
+As I report me vnto dame Nature
+
+But yf that youth sholde her go seke
+Ye must syster than hym well indue
+With your grete power so good and meke
+That he all frayltye may eschue
+For by the way it wyll oft pursue
+On hym by flatery and grete temptacyon
+That shall brynge hym in tribulacyon
+
+As for that sayd she he shall not care
+For he shall theym sone ouercome
+And of theyr flatery ryght well beware
+For I to hym shall gyue grete wysedome
+Theyr dedes to withstande & make theym d[om]me
+Wherfore dere syster as I you pray
+Vnto her lede hym now on the way
+
+Loke that ye send me in his necessyte
+By dame swyftnes full sone a letter
+By whiche that I may knowe the certaynte
+That I may come to ayde hym beter
+So that fraylte to hym be no freter
+And though I be not alway vysyble
+With hym my power he hath inuyncyble
+
+Than sayd dame Sapyence to dyscrecyon
+Fare well dere syster I may not tary
+Loke ye of youth haue the tuycyon
+That he fall not into vaynglory
+And that ye puruey for hym shortly
+That he may wedde the fayre dame clennesse
+Whiche for her loue haue ben in duresse
+
+With that dame Sapyence downe went
+In to her place that was the doctrynall
+Of famous clerkes in connynge splendent
+A myrrour of lernyng that was dyuynall
+With all the craftes artyfycyall
+Byfore her dame Fortune went to her mancyon
+And eke dame hardynes to her habytacyon
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum nonum
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+Forth than went dyscrecyon and I
+Out of the castell into a grene
+Where byrdys sange by grete melody
+There daunst also the fayre quene
+Besyde a ryuer named Ephesene
+Ouer whiche we wente to the other syde
+That was a medowe both longe and wyde
+
+Longe there we wandred tyll at the last
+We came vnto a ryght grete wyldernes
+By that tyme Phebus was ouer past
+Wherfore we walked in grete derkenes
+The whiche to me was a grete heuynes
+For Lucyna eke dyd her shrowde
+Vnder a blacke and mysty clowde
+
+For she was horned and no thynge cleere
+And entred into the sygne of caprycorne
+Ryght ferre from phebus fulgent speere
+And not ayenst hym the crowne had worne
+I went vp and downe tyll on the morne
+That phebus his golden reyes dyd sprede
+Than dyscrecyon ferther forth me lede
+
+Amonge thornes sharpe & bestes wylde
+There was the lyon the wolf & the bere
+But I coude mete nother man ne chylde
+But many serpentes that dyde me fere
+And by a swete smelle I knewe a pantere
+So forth I went by longe contynuaunce
+Tyll that I sawe an herber of pleasaunce
+
+To whiche I toke anone my waye
+Where that I sawe a lady excellent
+Rydynge on a goote in fresshe arraye
+Ryght yonge of age & lusty of entent
+Prayenge me to her for to assent
+As to fulfyll the flesshly pleasure
+Whiche she desyred me out of mesure
+
+Nay sayd dyscrecyon that may not be
+No sayd I in no maner of wyse
+To her request I wyll now agree
+But euermore here foule lust despyse
+For I my selfe do now aduyse
+To kepe me chast that I may mary
+Fayre dame Clennes that noble lady
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+So forth I went walkynge my iournay
+Metynge a lady olde and amyable
+Syttynge in a castell both fressh and gay
+On an olyphauntes backe in strength so stable
+Whiche it to bere was good and able
+Hauynge in her hande a cup of golde
+Sette with perles ryght many afolde
+
+She sayd she was the lady of rychesse
+The quene of welth and worldely glory
+Praynge me to company with her noblenesse
+And she than wolde promote me shortely
+To innumerable ryches and make me worthy
+Where I am poore and sette by nought
+By her to worshyp I sholde be brought
+
+Vnto her I answered I wolde not so
+As for to hunt in the parke of pryde
+The whiche to Clennes is mortall fo
+But with Dyscrecyon I wyll abyde
+Whiche doth a wyfe for me prouyde
+By whome I shall haue the possessyowne
+Of heuenly kyngdome & grete renowne
+
+So forth I went and had grete trauayle
+Without the comfort of ony persone
+Saue of dyscrecyon whiche dyd me counsayle
+As she went walkynge with me alone
+Vnto her I made full grete mone
+And lykened the wyldernes by morall scence
+Vnto worldely trouble by good experyence
+
+She sayd the fyrst lady that I dyd mete
+Iclyped was dame Sensualyte
+Whiche can well flater with wordes swete
+Causynge a man to fall into fragylyte
+And for to haunt the carnall freylte
+Whiche vnto clennes is abhomynable
+For they in werke be gretely varyable
+
+The seconde was pryde enduyd with couetyse
+A lady of ryght fruytles medytacyon
+Delytynge gretly in the synne of auaryce
+The whiche is cause of her dampnacyon
+For she by her fals supportacyon
+Blyndeth many a mannes conscyence
+And dryueth ryght oft fer in absence
+
+So ferther I went tyll at the last
+I was in a mase goynge in and oute
+Ther was none other way I was agast
+But forth I walked in grete doute
+Now here now there and so rounde aboute
+Than sayd vnto me dame Dyscrecyon
+Ye are in the besynes of worldely fastyon
+
+Therein I trauayled by longe space
+Tyll that I mette a lady gloryous
+Indued with vertue and grete grace
+To whom I sayd o lady precyous
+As ye seme to be good and vertuous
+I you beseche now without delaye
+Vnto dame Clennes to teche me the waye
+
+I Sapyence now wyll shewe to the
+The ryght waye vnto fayre clennes
+And yf thou wylt be ruled by me
+Thou shalt mary that noble prynces
+Yes that wyll I sayd than douteles
+Dyscrecyon sayd she wolde be my suerte
+Sapyence sayd none better myght be
+
+Than sayd dyscrecyon to dame sapyence
+Welcome to vs my syster dere
+And I to her dyd humble reuerence
+Saynge who had went to fynde you here
+Yes she sayd I haue ben neere
+You often tymes syth my departynge
+And haue ben cause of your goode gydynge
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .x.
+
+
+Come on your waye walke on a pace
+For ye longe for to haue a syght
+Of dame Clennes so clere a face
+So goodely of body in beauty bryght
+That there can not be so fayre a wyght
+So forth we walked to a ryuer syde
+That ebbed and flowed at euery tyde
+
+Than I saw a castell a pales royall
+Bylded with marble blacke as the gette
+With glasse wyndowes as clere as crystall
+Whiche on the other syde was sette
+No man to the castell myght gette
+But ouer the water on a lytell brydge
+Not halfe so brode as a hous rydge
+
+But as I cast myn eye than asyde
+I saw a lady wounderous fayre
+Demure of contenaunce without pryde
+That went her selfe for to repayre
+By the water syde to take the ayre
+Beholde and se than sayd dame sapyence
+Yonder is dame Clennes the sterre of excellence
+
+Full glad was I than in my mynde
+For to se that flour of complacence
+The syght of her dyd my herte bynde
+Euer her to loue with percynge influence
+Vnto her I sayd o well of contynence
+Vnto your grace fayne wolde I go
+Ner lettynge of this water blo
+
+To me she answered than agayne
+Saynge this worlde withouten mys
+Is but a vanyte no thynge certayne
+In the lyke wyse as this water is
+Ye can not come to me now ywys
+But by that brydge that goth ouer
+This stormy troublous & wawy water
+
+Therof sayd sapyence he shall not lette
+Well sayd Clennes be you his gyde
+And dyscrecyon also for to be sette
+For to vpholde hym vnto the other syde
+That he do not in the water slyde
+So to the brydge they dyde me lede
+I quacked than for fere and drede
+
+I sawe there wryten this lytterall sence
+No man this brydge may ouer go
+But he be pure without neglygence
+And stedfast in goddes byleue also
+Yf he be ignoraunt and do not so
+He must nedys into this water fall
+Ouer the heed and be drowned with all
+
+They led me ouer this brydge so peryllous
+Tyll that I came to a preuy place
+Where were wryten with letters gloryous
+This is the kyngdome of grete grace
+No man by yonde this marke may trace
+But yf he be brought in by dame wysedome
+If he so be he is moche welcome
+
+So forthermore yet forth we went
+Into a hall that was solacyous
+Made of precyous stones splendent
+That theym to se it was ryght wounderous
+They were there so gretly plenteuous
+That the hall paued was for the nones
+With none other grauell but precyous stones
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There was dame Clennes that lady gent
+And eke her fader the kynge of loue
+He satte in a chayre ryght clere and excellent
+At the vpper ende of the hall aboue
+He satte styll and dyd not remoue
+Gyrde with wylowes and myght not se
+No maner a thynge in his degre
+
+He had two wynges ryght large and grete
+And his body also was naked
+And a dart in his ryght hand was sette
+And a torche in his left hand brenned
+A botell aboute his necke was hanged
+His one leg armed and naked the other
+Hym for to se it was a wonder
+
+Sapyence bad me meruayll no thynge
+For she wold shewe me the sygnifycacyon
+Why he so sate by shorte rekenynge
+Accordynge to a morylyzacyon
+Now of the fyrste to make relacyon
+Loue sholde be gyrde faste with stabylyte
+Without whiche loue can haue no suerte
+
+Loue may not se but is alway blynde
+And wenyth no man can haue perseuera[un]ce
+Where that he loueth by naturall kynde
+But he do shewe hym by wordes of vtera[un]ce
+Trught he bewreyeth hym by contenaunce
+For hard it wyll be loue so to couere
+But that som man shall it perceuere
+
+Also his nakednes doth sygnyfy
+That true loue no thynge ellys desyreth
+But the very persone and eke body
+That he so well and feruentely loueth
+His wynges also well betokenyth
+That his mynde fleeth vnto the persone
+That he doth loue so well alone
+
+And also loue is stryken with a sharpe darte
+That maketh a man for to complayn
+Whan that it hath wounded sore his herte
+It brenneth hote lyke fyre certeyn
+Than loue his purpose wolde fayne atteyn
+And is euermore both hoot and drye
+Tyll his lady gyue hym drynke of mercy
+
+His one legge is armed to defende
+The ryght that longeth vnto amyte
+And wronge loue for to amende
+His naked legge betokeneth charyte
+That is the Ioye of grete felycyte
+So charyte ryght loue and good concorde
+With stablynes reygneth in this myghty lorde
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .xi.
+
+
+Than forth me led good dame Sapyence
+Afore that myghty lordes mageste
+Come on she sayd put the in presence
+That thou mayst se dame clennes beaute
+Ponder in thy mynde by veryte
+That so fayre as she was not quene helyn
+Quene Ipolyte or yonge Polyxyn
+
+This lady is clene without corrupcyon
+And wereth thre crownes for her vyrgynyte
+One is for people of perfyt relygyon
+An other for maydens kepynge chastyte
+The therde for true wedowes as [thou] mayst se
+I wyll the now to her fader present
+Her for to mary yf she wyll consent
+
+Than sayd dame sapyence o noble emperour
+O souerayne lorde and royall potestate
+O vyctoryous prynce & famous conquerour
+O kynge of loue and seaser of debate
+To the no creature may say chekmate
+I present the now this vertuous knyght
+For to mary clennes your doughter bryght
+
+I thanke you he sayd for your good wyll
+But he that to Clennes maryed must be
+He must my commaundement fyrste fulfyll
+As to scomfyte the dragon with heedes thre
+That is a serpent of grete subtylte
+Whiche well betokeneth as we do fynde
+The worlde the flesshe & the deuyll by kynde
+
+Sapyence sayd I sholde not fayle
+To do his comma[un]dement for Clennes sake
+As for to sle the dragon in batayle
+That lay in a marys in a grete lake
+Whiche was moche stynkynge foule & blake
+Wysedome bade me be not aferde
+For she wolde gyue me a shelde and swerde
+
+And arme me also with fayre armure
+To vaynquysshe that dragon so ferse & grete
+She sayd it sholde be so good and sure
+That I no harme of hym sholde gete
+Though he his teth on me had sete
+Yet sholde I slee hym for all his myght
+By my grete strokes whan I dyd fyght
+
+Fyrst she my legge harneys sette on
+And after my plackerd of grete ryches
+She armed me her selfe alone
+And laced my helmet of her gentylnes
+I thanked her for her grete goodnes
+And gaue me my swerde and sheld also
+Saynge lete vs to the dragon go
+
+This is the armure for the soule
+That in his epystole wrote saynt Poule
+Good hope thy legge harneys shall be
+The habergyn of ryghtwysnes gyrde [with] chastyte
+Thy plackarde of besynes [with] bra[un]ches of almes dede
+Thy shelde of beleue and mekenes for the hede
+Thy swerde shall be the to defend
+The worde of god the deuyll to bl[ey]nde
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Dame sapyence & I dyd take our lycence
+Of the kynge of loue in vertue depured
+And of his doughter shynynge in excellence
+Whiche to me sayd with wordes assured
+O vertuous knyght you for me haue dured
+In grete wo & payne but thynke you verely
+To scomfyt that dragon by wysedome shortly
+
+Than went we forth to that serpent
+In merueylous trauayle of sorowe and bale
+By that tyme the daye ryght fayre was spent
+And phebus his course began to auale
+But at the last we came into a dale
+Wher we felt the sauer of a dungeon
+Of the foule and stynkynge dragon
+
+Nere to that dragon there was a way
+That men vsed vpon a fayre hyll
+Vnto hyghe heuen so fressh and gay
+But that dragon lette theym theyr wyll
+And by the way he dyd theym kyll
+Bryngynge theym vnto the dungeon
+Iclyped the place of grete oblyuyon
+
+I had not be there halfe an houre
+But that this dragon me approched
+As though that he wolde me deuoure
+He so fersly than on me marched
+The batayle bytwene vs longe contynued
+But he had me ryght sone ouercome
+If I had not helpe of dame wysedome
+
+I strake at hym fast with my swerde
+And with my shelde dyd me defende
+Wysedome bad me not be aferde
+But my stroke that for to amende
+As fer as my myght weld extende
+So by her wordes I plucked vp myn herte
+And dyd than vnto the dragon sterte
+
+But he caught me than in his clawes
+And so we wrasteled longe to gyder
+But he hyld me sharpely in his pawes
+Tyll wysedom my feblenesse dyd consyder
+Beholde she sayd dame clennes yonder
+Than as a syde I cast all my syght
+I sawe that lady so pure and bryght
+
+My strength than dobeled an hundred folde
+And I from hym brake by vertuous prowes
+My herte was warme that afore was colde
+With the c[om]fortable syght of fayre dame clennes
+Than I to hym gaue strokes of exces
+And with my sharpe swerde cut of anone
+Two of his heedes leuynge hym but one
+
+These two heedes by good morall sens
+The worlde and the flesshe do sygnyfy
+As I in scrypture haue intellygence
+The fyrste the worlde that is transytory
+Lyeth bytwene man and heuenly glory
+Lettynge hym often of his passage
+If it of hym can gete auauntage
+
+The seconde is the flesshly desyre
+That troubleth a man ryght sore within
+Settynge his courage vpon a fyre
+Causynge hym to enclyne to dedely syn
+His flessh the batayll of hym doth wyn
+Often bryngynge hym into dampnacyon
+If repentaunce were not his saluacyon
+
+Repentaunce alway requyreth mercy
+And penaunce to god is a satisfaccyon
+For god desyreth euermore truely
+An humble herte full of contrycon
+And the worlde desyreth restytucyon
+Of goodes that haue be goten wrongfully
+To be restored vnto the ryghtfull party
+
+Whan I by wysedom had won the vyctory
+Of these two heedes I was ryght glad
+His thyrde heed marched ayenst me sharpely
+But I my swerd in my hand had
+Strykynge at hym with strokes sad
+And blode of hym coude I drawe none
+For he had nother flesshe ne bone
+
+But at the last I dyd hym vaynquysshe
+Dryuynge hym home to his derke regyon
+Of infernall payne that shall not fynysshe
+For hell is called his propre mancyon
+And of all other of his opynyon
+That do the preceptes of god forsake
+And to deuelyche werkes theym do be take
+
+God by his ryghtwysnes made a lawe
+By whiche man for dedely synne is cond[em]pned
+If god his vengeaunce do not withdrawe
+In euerlastynge payne he sholde be prysoned
+But and man mercy of hym requyred
+With penytent hert he sholde it haue
+And with his mercy he wyll man saue
+
+
+
+
+[P] Capitulum .xii.
+
+
+[>>]
+Whan I had scomfyte this serpent venymous
+Sapyence to me ryght gentely sayd
+Blessyd be god ye are so gracyous
+That ye shall mary Clennes the mayd
+But yet erwhyles ye were afrayd
+Ye I sayd and swet full ryght sore
+Tyll ye newe strength dyd me restore
+
+This batayll was grete & longe endured
+Whiche caused me to be ryght wery
+But sapyence with her wordes me mured
+With walles of comfort makynge me mery
+Come on she sayd and walke on lyghtly
+Vnto the castell that we come fro
+I answered to her I wolde do so
+
+Than forth we went a grete pace
+Tyll that we came to the castell syde
+There mette vs ladyes with grete solace
+And welcomed vs at the same tyde
+So fayre a sort in the worlde so wyde
+May not be founde by no maner of reason
+As I sawe there at the same season
+
+The fyrste lady that dyd vs mete
+Iclyped was dame perseueraunce
+Whiche to me sayd with wordes swete
+Blessyd be god of your good gouernaunce
+That hath kept you from the incomberaunce
+Of the serpent with the heedes thre
+And caused you vyctor of hym to be
+
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+Than came dame fayth that lady gloryous
+Welcome she sayd with wordes amyable
+I am ryght glad ye ar so vyctoryous
+Of that foule dragon so abhomynable
+She sayd that I was euermore stable
+In her in dede eke worde and thought
+Or elles my labour had ben to nought
+
+Than spake the lady fayre dame charyte
+Welcome vertue the noble veteran
+Sythens that ye alway haue loued me
+From the fyrst season that ye began
+Bothe in your youth & syth ye were man
+Ye haue had me in humble reuerence
+And haue ben ruled by my preemynence
+
+Than sayd dame prayer in my presence
+Ye neuer cast me in oblyuyaunce
+By no slouth nor wordely neglygence
+But haue had me in grete remembraunce
+Whiche hath ben to me very grete pleasaunce
+Wherfore welcome vertue my dere
+Vnto this castell that ye se here
+
+Than came fast to me dame lowelynes
+Clyppynge me harde with louely chere
+Byddynge me welcome with grete gladnes
+As by her contena[un]ce it dyd well appere
+Come on she sayd and walke on nere
+So than amonge these fayre ladyes all
+I went in to the grete castell hall
+
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+And there met me dame clennes blyue
+And dame grace bare vp her trayne
+Whiche euer to her was affyrmatyue
+From whome dame clennes myght not refrayne
+Than sayd she to me I am ryght fayne
+That ye ar comen in to this place
+Where ye shall wedde me in short space
+
+Vpon my kne I kneled than downe
+Saynge o sterre of the blysse eterne
+O well of vertue and of grete renowne
+O dyuyne comfort moost sempyterne
+Whan I your beautye do so well decerne
+Ye set myn hert vpon a brennynge fyre
+With feruent loue to come to my desyre
+
+To me she answered in this wyse
+O my dere herte my spouse so pure
+Why do ye not on your fete aryse
+You of my true loue shall be sure
+For ye my hert haue now in cure
+Lete vs go now to our fader reuerente
+So forthe vnto hym than we wente
+
+Whan that we came afore his fayre face
+Dame clennes made curtesye vnto the grounde
+Saynge o fader kynge of grete grace
+This knyght to loue ye are now bounde
+And so am I for I haue often founde
+Grete kyndnes on hym both nyght and day
+For he hath loued me ryght well alway
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+
+Welcome he sayd ryght noble knyght
+How haue ye done sythens your departynge
+Haue ye scomfyted with your myght
+The merueylous dragon so gretly slynkynge
+Ye I sayd with the power shynynge
+Of my maystresse good dame sapyence
+I dyd hym vaynquysshe by her experyence
+
+Wher is dame Sapyence than sayd he
+And eke her syster dame dyscrecyon
+Syr I sayd they are comen with me
+And they haue had me in iurisdyccyon
+Syns my departynge without destruccyon
+Than spake dame sapyence by her faculte
+Vnto that myghty lordes mageste
+
+Saynge this knyght than cleped vertue
+Hath loued your doughter by longe contynua[un]ce
+With stable loue so faythfull and true
+And for her sake hath put to vteraunce
+The thre heeded dragon by wyse puruyaunce
+Wherfore me thynke he ought to mary
+Your doughter Clennes that noble lady
+
+The kynge sayd me thynke the same
+If that my doughter wyll agre
+And she do not she moche is to blame
+Consyderynge his wysedome & grete beaute
+Come hyder he sayd my doughter fre
+To be wyfe to vertue wyll ye consent
+Ye fader she sayd with hole entent
+
+Than he called vnto his presence
+Perseueraunce charyte and fydelyte
+With lowlynes prayer and intellygence
+Shewynge vnto theym the certeynte
+How clennes his doughter wedded shall be
+Vnto me now vertu in all godely hast
+By fore that thre dayes be ryght fully past
+
+He called me than to his magnyfycence
+Byddynge me go to bed and to rest
+In the chaumbre of clene conscyence
+Than so to do I thought it the best
+For phebus was tourned into the west
+So sapyence and I went forthe to bed
+For lake of rest oppressed was my hed
+
+A lytyll welp within this chaumbre was
+That lay wakynge and barked alway
+That no man in to it sholde passe
+That wolde with conscyence make a fray
+I dyd slepe there tyll that it was day
+Than vp I rose and made me redy
+Callynge vnto me dame sapyence shortely
+
+Saynge vnto her o lady and maystres
+O comfortable salue vnto euery sore
+O fontayne of welth and carbuncle of clernes
+Without ye helpe me I am forlore
+Wherfore I shewe you as now before
+Without I mary fayre dame clennes
+I shall endure in mortall heuynes
+
+Therof sayd she be no thynge adred
+For ye shall mary here ryght soone
+By me your mater shall be well sped
+And the same daye it shall be doone
+Aboute the houre truely of noone
+And there shall be at your good dyner
+Charyte fayth penaunce and prayer
+
+Dame sapyence led me into a gardeyn
+Where Clennes was amonge floures swete
+Her to repayre without dysdeyn
+As I to her wente she dyd me mete
+Bryngynge me a floure called the margarete
+Whiche is a floure ryght swete and precyous
+Indued with beaute and moche vertuous
+
+This floure I kyst often ryght swetely
+Settynge it nere vnto my hert
+Dame Clennes loked vpon me louely
+Saynge that I sholde not depert
+Tyll she had shewed me a grete couert
+So with her I wente without delay
+Where byrdes sate on many a spray
+
+By this tyme phebus had begon
+His ascencyall cours in grete bryghtnes
+In to the sygne of the fierous lyon
+Exylynge the fenerous frosty coldnes
+And depryuynge the noxyall derkenes
+And also setherus his fragraunt breth
+Dystylled had vpon euery heth
+
+Than to her I sayd my lady dere
+Beholde this weder so clere and fayre
+How royall walkynge that it is here
+Lyke a place of pleasure you to repayre
+Amonge the floures so swete of ayre
+An other she had as she me tolde
+Bryghter than phebus a thousande folde
+
+This is a place of recreacyon
+My mynde to comfort after study
+In welth pleasure and delectacyon
+For yf I sholde my selfe applye
+Euer to pray to god an hye
+Without this place I may not be sure
+In other tyme in prayer to endure
+
+But the other gardyn is celestyall
+That longeth to vs by enherytaunce
+And is entayled to vs in generall
+For our clene lyfe & vertuous gouerna[un]ce
+Who that vs loueth without doubta[un]ce
+With vs shall go to eternall glory
+In short space or elles to purgatory
+
+Than forth we went to her fader royall
+Whiche welcomed vs by grete humylyte
+Saynge my doughter dere and specyall
+Ye shall this daye by grete solempnyte
+Be wedded to vertue with benygnyte
+We kneled downe and thanked his grace
+And than forth we went to an other place
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .xiii.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+In to a chapell gayly gloryfyed
+And also hanged with cloth of tyssue
+A place it was ryght gretly deyfyed
+The roof was set with stones of vertue
+As with rubyes and emeraudes bryght of hue
+The rood loft was yuery garnysshed with gold
+Set with dyamoundes ryght many a fold
+
+Ther I dyd se the arke of god
+With many sayntes that suffred martyrdom
+And also I sawe there Moyses rod
+And saynt Austyn that brought crystendom
+Into englonde by his grete wysedom
+And the xii. apostles that fast gan wryte
+Of our byleue and eke dyd endyte
+
+There was saynt peter the noble pope
+That dyd stande on the ryght syde
+Of the hyghe auter in a ryche cope
+Dame clennes and I dyd there abyde
+And vp there came than at that tyde
+Dame prayer with her syster charyte
+And eke dame penytence with humylyte
+
+Than came dame fayth anone to vs
+With ryghtwysenes peas and dame mercy
+With dame contrycyon gay and gloryous
+Whiche after theym dyd not longe tary
+And than came bede and eke saynt gregory
+With saynt ambrose the noble doctour
+Whiche of our fayth was good protectour
+
+Than came the kynge of feruent loue
+Led with argos in goodely wyse
+Without whome he myght not remoue
+From his sete by ryght prudent gyse
+Who loueth argos wyll not deuyse
+Nor yet begynne no maner of thynge
+Without in his mynde he se good endynge
+
+Also saynt Ierome the noble cardynall
+Came vp to vs by humble reuerence
+Whiche euermore was a good doctrynall
+Prechynge to vs by vertuous influence
+With exhortacyon of dyuyne complacence
+And than foure bysshoppes in grete dygnyte
+Ryght connynge cernynge vnto the deyte
+
+On hym wayted by grete dylygence
+And neuer dyd forsake his company
+But hym obeyed by good experyence
+And from his c[om]maundement dyd not vary
+But in the chapell they dyd there tary
+And than saynt Ierome wente to the kynge
+Of feruent loue vnto hym saynge
+
+O amyable kynge seasour of debate
+O ioyner of vertue and well of vnyte
+O royall emperour o souerayne estate
+O messenger of feruent amyte
+O feruent dart of cordyall pryuyte
+Here is your doughter fayre dame clennes
+That must be maryed with good ryghtwysenes
+
+Vnto vertue the louely knyght
+Whiche the batayle now hath won
+By dame sapyence helpe and myght
+Of the foule thre heeded dragon
+This maryage by me shall be don
+Go ye now streyght into your tabernacle
+Whiche is to you moost propre habytacle
+
+Than the souerayne kynge to hym dyd call
+Dame fayth dyscrecyon and dame sapyence
+With dame contrycyon & charyte withall
+And eke dame mercy and dame penytence
+Vnto theym saynge ye haue intellygence
+That this daye clennes my doughter dere
+Shall be maryed to vertue that ye se here
+
+Than they dyde all come vnto me
+With dame peas and dame grace
+And after theym came dame virgynyte
+Whiche in her armes dyd me enbrace
+Saynge that I was to her grete solace
+Gyuynge me vnto my good maryage
+A gowne of syluer for grete aparage
+
+She gafe an other of the same
+Vnto dame clennes puttynge it one
+Vpon her back withouten blame
+After whiche Clennes wente anone
+Vnto her fader her selfe alone
+And I with saynt Ierome dyd there tary
+To wed dame Clennes that noble lady
+
+And all the ladyes with meke contenence
+Stode on a rewe besyde the closette
+Of Clennes fader without resystence
+Whiche hanged was gayly with blue veluet
+And with perles & rubyes rychely set
+Than forth came Clennes with two a[un]gels led
+Whiche theyr golden wynges abrode dyd spred
+
+Dame grace after her bare vp her trayn
+And .xv. ladyes her dyd ensue
+Fyrst went dame humylyte certayn
+And after her than dyd pursue
+Dame fayth in stablenes so true
+Ledynge with her the fayre dame pease
+That welth and ryches doth well encrease
+
+Than went dame reason with perseuera[un]ce
+And than dame mercy with contricyon
+And than exersyce with remembraunce
+After whome went dame restytucyon
+With dame prayer and dame confessyon
+And dame charyte with obedyence
+And after theym came fayre dame abstynence
+
+Saynt Ierome dyd make there coniunccyon
+Of dame Clennes and me in matrimonye
+With heuenly wordes and vertuous fastyon
+And aungels came downe from heuen hye
+As saynt Mychell with gabryell & the gerachye
+To helpe saynt peter the masse to synge
+The organs went and the bellys dyd rynge
+
+My penne for feblenes may not now wryte
+Nor my tonge for domnes may not expresse
+Nor my mynde for neglygence may not endyte
+Of the aungelycall Ioye and swete gladnesse
+That I sawe there without heuynesse
+And whan this weddynge holy was fynysshed
+The aungels than to heuen vanysshed
+
+Than downe I went in to the hall
+Where ordeyned was by grete solempnyte
+A dyner of vertue moost celestyall
+To whiche came my wyf full of benygnyte
+On the one syde led by good auctoryte
+With saynt Edmond the noble kynge
+And martyr whiche dyd her downe brynge
+
+And she was led on the other syde
+With saynt Edward the kynge and confessour
+And so bytwene theym wente this bryde
+To whom all the ladyes made grete honour
+As alway seruynge her without errour
+And a lytell whyle anone after her
+Ergos brought downe her noble fader
+
+The kynge of loue than sat hym downe
+At the table for that tyme to ette
+Causynge dame Clennes for her renowne
+On his one syde than for to be sette
+And I on the other without ony lette
+And besyde me sapyence and dyscrecyon
+And than by theym sat dame contrycyon
+
+Than sate saynt Edwarde with vyrgynyte
+And afore hym sate dame obedyence
+Saynt Edmond and dame charyte
+And than dame prayer with dame abstynence
+And than dame fayth shynynge in excellence
+With saynt Ierome and saynt Austeyn
+And than saynt gregory without dysdeyn
+
+There was two aungels holdynge fast
+The table cloth at euery ende
+Knelynge downe humbly and stedfast
+Whose seruyce no man coude amende
+Other there were that dyd entende
+Vs for to serue with theyr grete dylygence
+That in theym founde coude be no neglygence
+
+There dyd saynt Peter by grete holynes
+Serue vs of our swete lordes body
+Fyrst he serued the fader of clennes
+And after that he serued her shortly
+With charyte fayth and dame mercy
+And I with dyscrecyon and dame sapyence
+Of saynt Peter was serued with grete indulgence
+
+So dame obedyence with contrycyon
+With saynt Edwarde and virgynyte
+In lyke wyse were serued without corrupcyon
+And saynt Edmond with dame charyte
+And saynt Ierome with dame humylyte
+With saynt austyn and saynt gregory
+What nede I lenger of theym specyfy
+
+This was a fest moost swete and precyous
+To fede the soule with dyuyne comfort
+This was a mete moost dere and gloryous
+That causeth all man for to resorte
+To sempyternall lyfe and comforte
+Than saynt ambrose beynge dyuyne
+After our mete gafe vs good wyne
+
+By this tyme was I .lx. yere olde
+And desyred for to lyue in peace
+For I began to growe two folde
+And my feblenes dyde sore encreace
+For nature her strength than dyd seace
+Wherfore after this ghoostly fest
+I thought with my wyfe to abyde in rest
+
+And I to her sayd with louynge chere
+O my swete spouse moost fayre and beauteous
+To me euer ryght leyfe and dere
+Where is your lande that is solacyous
+Ye shewyd me of your gardeyn gloryous
+Vnto whiche now fayne wolde I go
+There for to dwell and you also
+
+Syr she sayd the aungell raphaell
+Shall with these martyrs & noble confessours
+Brynge you thyder with theym to dwell
+Where ye shall see all your progenytours
+With many sayntes and gloryous auctours
+This lande is heuen that to vs longeth
+As our euydence the gospell telleth
+
+Than came my fader in lawe to vs
+Saynge by ryght I dyd combynd
+Clennes my doughter with vertue precyous
+And you must I loue by naturell kynde
+For on you now is all my mynde
+Afore hym I kyst my wyfe moost swetely
+For we loued to gyder hote and truely
+
+Than came my good aungell to me
+Causynge me with hym for to go
+With clennes my wyfe wher I dyd se
+The paynes of hell full of grete wo
+There was the dragon that I dyd slo
+Bounde with chaynes in fyer infynall
+With the seuen dedely synnes in generall
+
+Than my good aungell to me sayd
+If ye had loued dame sensualyte
+The whiche with you dyd make a brayde
+Ye had ben dampned by ryght and equyte
+In to this pytte full of all iniquyte
+Wherfore thanke god that sent you wysedome
+Suche deedly perylles for to ouercome
+
+Also the lady with the cup of golde
+Is here condempned for her grete pryde
+In endeles payne both hote and colde
+Where in for synne she shall abyde
+This is a dongeon longe and wyde
+Made for theym that do synne dedely
+And of cryst Ihesu wyll axe no mercy
+
+This is a place full of all derkenes
+Wherin be serpentes foull and odyous
+This is a place of mortall heuynes
+Where I sawe deuyles blacke and tedyous
+Dampned soules turmented with hokes rygorous
+This is the vppermoost parte of hell
+In whiche paynyms dampned do dwell
+
+For as moche as they lacked instruccyon
+For to beleue in god omnypotent
+They haue deserued the lesse correccyon
+Yet theyr payne haue none extinguysshement
+For they are dampned by true sentyment
+For theyr byleue and fals idolatry
+That made theyr goddes of mars & mercury
+
+Than went we doune to an other vaute
+Where Iewes lay in grete paynes stronge
+Whome deuylles tourmented by grete assaute
+Drawynge theym with hokes a longe
+For theyr opynyon so fals and wronge
+Whiche byleued not in the natyuyte
+Of Ihesu cryst and the vyrgyn Mare
+
+Nor yet that he dyd suffre passyon
+Bothe for theym and all mankynde
+Nother yet of his resurreccyon
+In theyr byleue they are so blynde
+Yet as in bokes wryten we do fynde
+That they haue ben taught many a tyme
+For to forsake theyr owne fals cryme
+
+Than went we downe to a depper vale
+Where crysten soules dyd weppe & crye
+In grete sorowe payne and bale
+Brennynge in fyer moost hote and drye
+And some in Ice ryght depe dyd lye
+For to expresse it is impossyble
+The paynes there they are so horryble
+
+These crysten men knowe goddes lawe
+And euery daye had informacyon
+From deuelysshe werkes theym to withdrawe
+That they sholde not fall in dampnacyon
+Yet wyll they not make sequestracyon
+Of goddes c[om]maundement but syn deedly
+Therfore here are they dampned ryght wysey
+
+And thou haddest set thy delectacyon
+In flesshely pleasure and vayne glory
+Thou haddest ben here without saluacyon
+Without thou of god had axed mercy
+Who that it axeth shall haue it truely
+Yf he be contryt and do repent
+That he his lyfe in yll hath spent
+
+This place sythens it is moost heuy
+Moost derke and moost ferre from lyghtnes
+As philosophers afferme by astronomy
+Is in the myddes of the erthe doutles
+That is a place of dyssolate derkenes
+Wherfore by reason it must nedes be sette
+In the myddes of the erthe both longe & grette
+
+
+
+
+Capitulum .xiiii
+
+
+My good aungell by his grete vertue
+Shewed me all this in a shorte space
+And after hym I dyd than pursue
+With my wyfe vnto the fayre place
+That we came fro full of all solace
+Where was my fader in the company
+Of many sayntes that dyd there tary
+
+My wyfe and me than for to brynge
+To the place of eternall glory
+With heuenly tewnes swetely syngynge
+That theym to here it was grete melody
+More than ony tonge can specyfy
+This was theyr songe so swete and gloryous
+That they dyd synge with voyce so vertuous
+
+O celestyall kynge one two and thre
+All people prayse the god and lorde
+Whiche art in heuen o noble trynyte
+Whose royall power and miserycorde
+Confermed is by thyn hye accorde
+On vs with trouth for to endure
+Withouten ende as we are sure
+
+Glory be to the fader almyghty
+And to the sone and to the holy ghoost
+Thre persones and one god truely
+Whose power neuer can be loost
+For he is lorde of myghtes moost
+And so hath ben without begynnynge
+And euer shall be without endynge
+
+Whan we were in the ayre of asure
+There dyd vs mete the noble Ierarchy
+As Cherubyn and Seraphyn so pure
+With other aungels in theyr company
+That dyd proclayme & synge on hye
+With voyce insacyat moost melodyous
+To god aboue Sanctus sanctus sanctus
+
+There dyd I se the planettes seuen
+Moue in ordre by alteracyon
+To merueylous for me to neuen
+For they seassed not theyr operacyon
+Some assended some made declynacyon
+Entrynge theyr houses of the .xii. synes
+Some indyrectly and some by dyrecte lynes
+
+To heuen we styed a place moost gloryous
+Where that we dyd beholde the deyte
+With insaciable contenaunce moost desyrous
+And truely than the more that we
+Dyd loke vpon his souerayne beaute
+The more our desyre dyd encreace
+This is a Ioye that shall not seace
+
+This is a regyon moost full of swetnes
+This is a realme of delectacyon
+This is a lande of infenyte gladnes
+Without ony stormy tribulacyon
+This place is of eterne saluacyon
+Where aungels and sayntes for theyr solace
+Euermore do loke on goddes face
+
+What sholde I wryte thynges of dyuynyte
+Or endyght of suche maters hye
+Sythen it no thynge longeth to my faculte
+Therfore of it I wyll not lenger tarye
+For fere that I in it sholde varye
+And by cause that trouth shall be my mede
+I wyll now leue and take me to my crede
+
+So vertue and clennes by good ryght
+Truely in maryage ioyned must be
+For they loue to gyder with all theyr myght
+Without dyscencyon or duplycyte
+And they both are alway in vnyte
+To whome heuen by tayll generall
+Entayled is by a dede memoryall
+
+Now are they to gyder to heuen gone
+There for to dwell in Ioye eternall
+Where that there is the heuenly trone
+Of our sauyour Ihesu deere & specyall
+Who that hym loueth truely ouer all
+Ledynge his lyfe with vertue and clennes
+Shall come vnto the glory endeles
+
+But in the fynysshynge of my mater
+To god the maker of all thynge
+Deuoutely now I make my prayer
+To saufe kynge Henry our ryghtfull kynge
+From all treason and dolefull mornynge
+And for to maynteyn the grete honour
+Of this swete rede rose so fayre a colour
+
+This floure was kepte ryght longe in close
+Amonge the leuys holsom and sote
+And regally sprange and arose
+Out of the noble stoke and rote
+Of the rede rose tre to be our bote
+After our bale sente by grete grace
+On vs to reygne by ryght longe space
+
+O lorde god what Ioye was this
+Vnto his moder so good and gracyous
+Whan that she sawe her sone I wys
+Of his ennemys to be so vyctoryous
+It caused her to be moost Ioyous
+And yet there of no wonder why
+For he was ryght longe from her truely
+
+A ioyfull metynge than bytwene
+The moder and the sone so dere
+A daye of gladnes bryght and shene
+Fressher than phebus myddaye spere
+Whan her sone to vs dyd appere
+He dyd vs lyght with his pure bemys
+Quenchynge of mars the fyrous lemys
+
+O heuenly kynge o eternall emperoure
+O thre persons and one god equall
+I praye the to kepe from all doloure
+This moder with her sone in specyall
+With all theyr noble buddes in generall
+And laude be to the that dyd enhaunce
+Hym to his ryght and propre herytaunce
+
+The whyte rose that [with] tempestes troublous
+Aualed was and eke blowen asyde
+The reed rose fortyfyed and made delycyous
+It pleased god for hym so to prouyde
+That his redolent buddes shall not slyde
+But euer encrease and be vyctoryous
+Of fatall brerys whiche be contraryous
+
+Thus god by grace dyd well combyne
+The rede rose and the whyte in maryage
+Beynge oned ryght clere doth shyne
+In all clennes and vertuous courage
+Of whose ryght and royall lynage
+Prynce Henry is spronge our kynge to be
+After his fader by ryght good equyte
+
+O noble prynce Henry our seconde treasure
+Surmontynge in vertue & myrour of beaute
+O geme of gentylnes & lanterne of plasure
+O rubycound blossome and sterre of humylyte
+O famous bud full of benygnyte
+I pray to god well for to encrease
+Your hyghe estate in rest and pease
+
+O thoughfull hert for lack of connynge
+Now layde to slepe this longe wynters nyght
+Ryse vp agayne loke on the shynynge
+Of fayre lucyna clere and bryght
+Beholde eke mercury with his fayre lyght
+Castynge a doune his stremys mery
+It may well glad thyn emyspery
+
+O gower fountayne moost aromatyke
+I the now lake for to depure
+My rudnes with thy lusty retoryke
+And also I mys as I am sure
+My mayster Chaucers to take the cure
+Of my penne for he was expert
+In eloquent termes subtyll and couert
+
+Where is now lydgate flourynge in sentence
+That shold my mynde forge to endyte
+After the termes of famous eloquence
+And strength my penne well for to wryte
+With maters fresshe of pure delyte
+They can not helpe me there is no remedy
+But for to praye to god almyghty
+
+For to dystyll the dewe of influence
+Vpon my brayn so dull and rude
+And to enlumyn me with his sapyence
+That I my rudnes may exclude
+And in my mater well to conclude
+Vnto thy pleasure and to the reders all
+To whome I excuse me now in generall
+
+Explicit exemplum virtutis
+
+
+[Illustration: {Printer's symbol}]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+           *       *       *       *
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Errors and Irregularities
+
+_Transposed Text_
+
+Two groups of pages appear to have been printed out of sequence. Each
+involves pages from the later part of a signature, so visible page
+numbering is absent. It is not known whether the error is from the
+original printing or from the facsimile reprint.
+
+  Pages 9-11 = aa.v.(recto) - aa.vi.(recto)  [unnumbered]
+  Pages 69-71 = ff.iii.(recto) - ff.iiii.(recto)  [unnumbered]
+
+Pages beginning:
+
+  Vnto her I answerde o lady gloryous  [printed as page 11]
+  Be to thy kynge euer true subgete
+  Whan she to me had made relacyon  [printed as pages 9, 10]
+
+  Whan I had scomfyte this serpent venymous  [printed as page 71]
+  Than came dame fayth that lady gloryous  [printed as page 70]
+  And there met me dame clennes blyue  [printed as page 69]
+
+Printed folio numbers show an unusual pattern:
+  aa, cc, ee: 16 pages each
+  gg: 12 pages
+  bb, dd, ff, hh: 8 pages
+
+_Numbers_
+
+Numbers such as .x. were usually printed without spaces.
+
+Chapter headings for .vi. and .vii. were printed near the bottom of
+the page-- as main text, not catchwords-- and again at the top of the
+following page. This pattern was not consistently followed for all
+chapters that began at the top of a page.
+
+
+_Typographical Errors_
+
+  Unless otherwise noted, errors were left unchanged.
+
+  Tabula Libri, cap. viii:
+  -maunded Discrec[on]n to lede youth to marye with clen-
+  Tabula Libri, cap. ix:
+  ... dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr temptac[on]n and ...
+    [error for Discrecy[on], temptacy[on]]
+    [Both words occur in full-length lines of prose. When the
+    typesetter saw that he needed an abbreviation to make the line
+    fit, he may have removed the wrong letter from the words to be
+    abbreviated.]
+  Morpleus to me than made abreyd  [error for Morpheus]
+  Tyll eolus with blastes began to rore  [text reads "colus"]
+  Whiche dyde enquere of prudent Iosethus
+    [error for Iosephus? compare "setherus" below]
+  He sholde there b enlumyned shortely  [error for be enlumyned]
+  And with a for wytte kepte in store
+    [spacing ambiguous: may be one word "aforwytte"]
+  With all theyr cases dyd well avarre  [v letterform in original]
+  For I by ryght must nedys enhaunce  [text reads "enhauncce"]
+  Whan they ben wrought in to theyr degre  [text reads "beu"]
+  He shall knowe thynges that be dyuyne  [text reads "dyuyue"]
+  And by whiche he hiz k[yn]ge dysteyneth  [text reads "k[yn]ne"]
+    [there is no evident reason for using an abbreviation in this line]
+    [for "hiz", see below]
+  To man exaltynge hym to noblenesse  [text reads "exaltyuge"]
+  The worde of god the deuyll to bl[ey]nde
+    [e, required by rhyme, printed above y, required by sense]
+  In grete wo & payne but thynke you verely  ["Ingrete" without space]
+  Lettynge hym often of his passage  [text reads "Lettyuge"]
+  An humble herte full of contrycon [error for contrycyon]
+  The merueylous dragon so gretly slynkynge
+    [reading may be "stynkynge", but letterforms are closer to "sl-"]
+  And also setherus his fragraunt breth
+    [error for sepherus? compare "Iosethus" above]
+  Who that vs loueth without doubta[un]ce
+    [text reads "doubtau[un]ce", probably through confusion with
+    preceding line where -a[un]ce abbreviation was required by line
+    length]
+  And than dame mercy with contricyon
+    [text unchanged, but "contrycyon" is the usual form]
+  For to beleue in god omnypotent  [be leue]
+  Therfore here are they dampned ryght wysey  [error for wysely]
+  O geme of gentylnes & lanterne of plasure  [error for pleasure]
+
+
+_Unusual Letter_
+
+In four places the text has an unusual letter. It has been variously
+transcribed as "z" or "[gh]" (yogh) according to context, but appears
+to be the identical letter every time:
+
+  Nexte vnto her sate the hyghe quene Azia
+  And by whiche he hiz k[yn]ge dysteyneth
+  Though he were hardy & wyse he my[gh]t not me forbere
+  Accordynge to a morylyzacyon
+
+
+
+
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