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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
+
+Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]
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+Language: English
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+
+¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Tabula libri
+
+¶ Fyrste a prologue.
+
+¶ How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was
+reformed by her prouerbes      ca.i.
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ Of the meruaylous palays of fortune      ca.iii.
+
+¶ Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes.      ca.iiii.
+
+¶ Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence.      ca.v.
+
+¶ Of the stronge operacyons of nature      ca.vi
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ How after the Iugement of Iustyce / Sapyence cõmaunded
+Discrecõn to lede youth to marye with clennes the kynge of loues
+doughter.      ca.viii.
+
+¶ How youth by the waye mette [with] lechery rydynge on a gote
+and pryde maned with couetyse on an olyphaũtes backe in a fayre
+castell / & how by the ayde of dyscrecyon he dyde withstande
+theyr temptacõn and how he mette with sapience in the mase of
+wordely besynes.      capitulo.ix.
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ 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 primũ
+
+[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
+
+
+
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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.
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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
+
+¶ 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 contenaũce
+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 cõmaundementes neuer specyally
+For and ye wyll theym well obserue
+A moche better rome ye do deserue
+
+The fyrst cõmaundement 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 cõmunyon
+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 kỹge 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 cõmons 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 cõfort
+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 myȝt 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 contenaũce
+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 dõme
+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 perseueraũce
+Where that he loueth by naturall kynde
+But he do shewe hym by wordes of vteraũce
+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 commaũdement 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] braũches 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 cõfortable 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 condẽpned
+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
+
+
+
+
+¶ 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 contenaũce 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 contynuaũce
+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 gouernaũce
+Who that vs loueth without doubtaũce
+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 cõmaundement 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 aũgels 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 perseueraũce
+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 cõmaundement 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 Discrecõn to lede youth to marye with clen-
+  Tabula Libri, cap. ix:
+  ... dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr temptacõn and ...
+    [error for Discrecyõ, temptacyõ]
+    [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 kỹge dysteyneth  [text reads “kỹne”]
+    [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 doubtaũce
+    [text reads “doubtauũce”, probably through confusion with preceding
+    line where -aũce 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 “ȝ” (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 kỹge dysteyneth
+  Though he were hardy & wyse he myȝt not me forbere
+  Accordynge to a morylyzacyon
+
+
+
+
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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
+
+Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]
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+<p>The printed book did not number the pages in sequence; instead it
+numbered the recto (odd, right) pages of the first few leaves in each
+signature. Folio numbers in smaller print were added by the transcriber;
+all verso (even, left) pages are shown as&nbsp;||. Two sets of pages
+were apparently printed out of sequence. Details are given at the
+<a href = "#endnote">end of the text</a>, along with notes on a few other
+problems.</p>
+
+<p>A few words such as “with” or “the” were printed as abbreviations:
+initial “y” (for þ, thorn) or “w” with small “t” or “e” above it. These
+are shown as ordinary superscripts: y<sup>e</sup>, w<sup>t</sup>.
+Typographical errors are shown with <ins class = "correction" title =
+"like this">mouse-hover popups</ins>. Numerals such as “.x.” were
+printed without adjoining spaces; spacing has been silently added.</p>
+
+<p>The table of contents was part of the original text.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">aa .i.</span>
+<!-- png 01 -->
+
+<div class = "maintext">
+
+<h1>¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.</h1>
+
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic60.png" width = "363" height = "387"
+alt = "King of Love, see chapter x">
+</p>
+<!-- png 02 -->
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">aa .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 03 -->
+
+<div class = "contents">
+
+<h2><a name = "contents" id = "contents">
+Tabula libri</a></h2>
+
+<p>¶ Fyrste a prologue.</p>
+
+<p>¶ How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme &amp; was
+reformed by her prouerbes
+<span class = "chapter">ca.i.</span></p>
+
+<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 / &amp; nature.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.ii</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ Of the meruaylous palays of fortune
+<span class = "chapter">ca.iii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.iiii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.v.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ Of the stronge operacyons of nature
+<span class = "chapter">ca.vi</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How these foure ladyes pleeded at the barre before Iustyce whiche
+of theym was moost proufytable vnto mankynde &amp; of the Iugement of
+Iustyce.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.vii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How after the Iugement of Iustyce / Sapyence cõmaunded <ins class =
+"correction" title = "error for ‘Discrecyõ’">Discrecõn</ins><a class =
+"tag" name = "tagA" id = "tagA" href = "#noteA">A</a> to lede youth to
+marye with clennes the kynge of loues doughter.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.viii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How youth by the waye mette w<sup>t</sup> lechery rydynge on a gote
+and pryde maned with couetyse on an olyphaũtes backe in a fayre castell
+/ &amp; how by the ayde of
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 04 -->dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr <ins class =
+"correction" title = "error for ‘temptacyõ’">temptacõn</ins><a class =
+"tag" href = "#noteA">A</a> and how he mette with sapience in the mase
+of wordely besynes.
+<span class = "chapter">capitulo.ix.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How Sapyence &amp; dyscrecyon ledde youth ouer the narowe brydge of
+vanyte of the worlde to the palays of y<sup>e</sup> kynge of loue &amp;
+of his meruaylous appareyl.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.x</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How sapyence presented youth to the kynge of loue for to mary
+Clennes his doughter &amp; how he before y<sup>e</sup> maryage dyde
+fyght and discomfyte the dragon with thre hedys.
+<span class = "chapter">capitulo.xi.</span></p>
+
+<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 &amp;
+with all Ioye brought to the palays of the kynge of loue.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.xii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ Of the maryage of vertu &amp; clennes &amp; of y<sup>e</sup>
+celestyal feste how after the maryage an aungell shewed vnto theym hell
+/ &amp; of the dyuysyons of hell.
+<span class = "chapter">ca.xiii.</span></p>
+
+<p>¶ How vertu cleymed the enherytaunce longynge to Clennes his wyfe /
+&amp; how many aungelles &amp; sayntes brought theym to heuen / &amp;
+how heuen is enteyled to Vertu and to Clennes &amp; to all theym that
+loue them &amp; folowe &amp; procede in theyr steppes.
+<span class = "chapter">capitulo.xiiii.</span></p>
+<span class = "pagenum">aa iii.</span>
+<!-- png 05 -->
+
+<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
+&amp; marked after this table here before sette.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>The prologe.</h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capW.png" width = "58" height = "55"
+alt = "W(Whan)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">W</span>Han I aduert in my remembraunce</p>
+<p>The famous draughtes of poetes eloquent</p>
+<p>Whiche theyr myndes dyd well enhaunce</p>
+<p>Bokes to contryue that were expedyent</p>
+<p>To be remembred without Impedyment</p>
+<p>For the profyte of humanyte</p>
+<p>This was the custume of antyquyte.</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I now symple and moost rude</p>
+<p>And naked in depured eloquence</p>
+<p>For dulnes rethoryke doth exclude</p>
+<p>Wherfore in makynge I lake intellygence</p>
+<p>Also consyderynge my grete neglygence</p>
+<p>It fereth me sore for to endyte</p>
+<p>But at auenture I wyll now wryte.</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+As very blynde in the poetys art</p>
+<p>For I therof can no thynge skyll</p>
+<p>Wherfore I lay it all a part</p>
+<p>But somwhat accordynge to my wyll</p>
+<p>I wyll now wryte for to fulfyll</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 06 --><p>Saynt Powles wordes and true sentement</p>
+<p>All that is wryten is to oure document</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O prudent Gower in langage pure</p>
+<p>Without corrupcyon moost facundyous</p>
+<p>O noble Chauser euer moost sure</p>
+<p>Of frutfull sentence ryght delycyous</p>
+<p>O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous</p>
+<p>Vnto you all I do me excuse</p>
+<p>Though I your connynge do now vse</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2>Explicit prologus.</h2>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">aa .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 07 -->
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_i" id = "cap_i">
+Capitulum primũ</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic07.png" width = "359" height = "380"
+alt = "the ship, see cap. i-ii">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capI_dec.png" width = "63" height = "87"
+alt = "I(In)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">I</span>N Septembre in fallynge of the lefe</p>
+<p>Whan phebus made his declynacyon</p>
+<p>And all the whete gadred was in the shefe</p>
+<p>By radyaunt hete and operacyon</p>
+<p>Whan the vyrgyn had full domynacyon</p>
+<p>And Dyane entred was one degre</p>
+<p>Into the sygne of Gemyne</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 08 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whan the golden sterres clere were splendent</p>
+<p>In the firmament puryfyed clere as crystall</p>
+<p>By imperyall course without incombrement</p>
+<p>As Iuppyter and Mars that be celestyall</p>
+<p>With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall</p>
+<p>Myxt with venus that was not retrograte</p>
+<p>That caused me to be well fortunate</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+In a slombrynge slepe with slouth opprest</p>
+<p>As I in my naked bedde was leyd</p>
+<p>Thynkynge all nyght to take my rest</p>
+<p><ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘Morpheus’?">Morpleus</ins> to me than made abreyd</p>
+<p>And in my dreme me thought he sayd</p>
+<p>Come walke with me in a medowe amerous</p>
+<p>Depeynted with floures that be delycyous</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I walked with hym into a place</p>
+<p>Where that there grue many a fayre floure</p>
+<p>With Ioye replete and full of solace</p>
+<p>And the trees dystyllynge redolent lycoure</p>
+<p>More sweter fer than the Aprell shour</p>
+<p>And tary I dyd there by longe space</p>
+<p>Tyll that I saw before my face</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A ryght fayre lady of myddell stature</p>
+<p>And also enduyd with grete vertue</p>
+<p>Her apparell was set with perlys pure</p>
+<p>Whose beaute alway dyd renue</p>
+<p>To me she sayd and ye wyll extue</p>
+<p>All wyldnes I wyll be your guyde</p>
+<p>That ye to fraylte shall not slyde.</p>
+<!-- to png 11 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum added"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"see endnote">aa .vi.</ins></span>
+<!-- png 11 -->
+
+<!-- after png 08 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Vnto her I answerde o lady gloryous</p>
+<p>I pray you tell me what is your name</p>
+<p>For ye seeme to be ryght precyous</p>
+<p>And I am yonge and sore to blame</p>
+<p>Of vyces full and in vertue lame</p>
+<p>But I wyll be ruled now by your pleasure</p>
+<p>So that your order be made by mesure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Eclepyd I am she sayd dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>And yf ye wyll be ruled by me</p>
+<p>Ye shall haue Ioye without reprehencyon</p>
+<p>And neuer fall in to fragylyte</p>
+<p>Youth lackynge me it is grete pyte</p>
+<p>For in what place I am exyled</p>
+<p>They be with synne ryght oft defyled</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+It longeth euer vnto my properte</p>
+<p>Youth to gyue courage for to lerne</p>
+<p>I wyll not medle with no duplycyte</p>
+<p>But faythfulnes I wyll dyscerne</p>
+<p>And brynge thy soule to blesse eterne</p>
+<p>By wyse example and morall doctryne</p>
+<p>For youth hauynge to me is a good syne</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Forsake also all euyll company</p>
+<p>And be founde true in worde and dede</p>
+<p>Remembre that this worlde is transytory</p>
+<p>After thy desert shall be thy mede</p>
+<p>Loue god alway and eke hym drede</p>
+<p>And for no mannes pleasure be thyn owne foo</p>
+<p>Gyue theym fayre wordes and lete theym goo</p>
+<!-- to png 09 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum added"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"see endnote">aa .v.</ins></span>
+<!-- png 09 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Be to thy kynge euer true subgete</p>
+<p>As thou sholdest be by ryght and reason</p>
+<p>Lete thy herte lowely on hym be sete</p>
+<p>Without ony spot of euyll treason</p>
+<p>And be obedyent at euery season</p>
+<p>Vnto his grace without rebellyon</p>
+<p>That thou with trouth may be companyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Loue neuer vnloued for that is payne</p>
+<p>Whyle that thou lyuest of that beware</p>
+<p>Loue as thou seest the loued agayne</p>
+<p>Or elles it wyll torne the to care</p>
+<p>Be neuer taken in that fast snare</p>
+<p>Proue or thou loue that is moost sure</p>
+<p>And than thou in doubte shalt not endure.</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Beware byleue no flaterynge tonge</p>
+<p>For flaterers be moost disseyuable</p>
+<p>Though that they company with the longe</p>
+<p>Yet at the ende they wyll be varyable</p>
+<p>For they by reason are not fauorable</p>
+<p>But euermore fals and double</p>
+<p>And with theyr tonges cause of grete trouble</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This brytell worlde ay full of bytternes</p>
+<p>Alway turnynge lyke to a ball</p>
+<p>No man in it can haue no sykernes</p>
+<p>For whan he clymmeth he hath a fall</p>
+<p>O wauerynge shadowe bytter as gall</p>
+<p>O fatall welth full soone at ende</p>
+<p>Though thou ryght hy do oft assende</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"aa .v. verso, see endnote">||</ins></span>
+<!-- png 10 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whan she to me had made relacyon</p>
+<p>Of all these prouerbes by good conclusyon</p>
+<p>She gaue to me an Informacyon</p>
+<p>For to depryue all yll abusyon</p>
+<p>And to consydre the grete derysyon</p>
+<p>Whiche is in youth that may not se</p>
+<p>No thynge appropred to his prosperyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Forth than we went to an hauen syde</p>
+<p>Wher was a shyp lyenge at rode</p>
+<p>Taryenge after the wynde and tyde</p>
+<p>And with moche spyces ryght well lode</p>
+<p>Vpon it lokynge we longe abode</p>
+<p>Tyll <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘colus’">eolus</ins> with blastes began to rore</p>
+<p>Than we her aborded with payne ryght sore</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This water eclyped was vayneglory</p>
+<p>Euer with yeopardy and tempestyous</p>
+<p>And the shyp called was ryght truly</p>
+<p>The vessell of the passage daungerous</p>
+<p>The wawys were hyghe and gretly troublous</p>
+<p>The captayn called was good comfort</p>
+<p>And the sterysman fayre pasport</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_ii" id = "cap_ii">
+¶ Capitulum .ii.</a></h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capL.png" width = "53" height = "38"
+alt = "L(Longe)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">L</span>Onge were we dryuen with wynde &amp;
+weder</p>
+<p>Tyll we arryued in a fayre Ilonde</p>
+<p>Wher was a boote tyed with a teeder</p>
+<p>Of merueylous wood as I vnderstonde</p>
+<p>Precyous stones ley vpon the sond</p>
+<p>And poynted dyamondes grewe on the rockes</p>
+<p>And corall also by ryght hyghe stockes</p>
+<!-- to png 12 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 12 -->
+<!-- from png 10 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Amased I was for to beholde</p>
+<p>The precyous stones vnder my fete</p>
+<p>And the erth glysterynge of golde</p>
+<p>With floures fayre of odour swete</p>
+<p>Dame dyscrecyon I dyd than grete</p>
+<p>Praynge her to me to make relacyon</p>
+<p>Who of this Ilonde hath domynacyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+She sayd foure ladyes in vertue excellent</p>
+<p>Of whiche the eldest is dame nature</p>
+<p>That dayly fourmeth after her entent</p>
+<p>Euery beest and lyuynge creature</p>
+<p>Both foule and fayre and also pure</p>
+<p>All that dependynge in her ordynaunce</p>
+<p>Where that she fauoureth there is grete pleasaunce</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The seconde is called dame fortune</p>
+<p>Ayenst whome can be no resystence</p>
+<p>For she doth sette the strynges in tune</p>
+<p>Of euery persone by her magnyfycence</p>
+<p>Whan they sound best by good experyence</p>
+<p>She wyll theym loose and let theym slyp</p>
+<p>Causynge theym fall by her turnynge tryp</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The thyrde called is dame hardynes</p>
+<p>That often rulyth by her cheualry</p>
+<p>She is ryght stowt and of grete prowes</p>
+<p>And the captayn of a lusty company</p>
+<p>And ruleth theym euer full hardely</p>
+<p>And to gete honour and worldely tresure</p>
+<p>She putteth her oft in auenture</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">aa .vii.</span>
+<!-- png 13 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ The fourth is wysedome a lady bryght</p>
+<p>Whiche is my syster as ye shall se</p>
+<p>Whom I do loue with all my myght</p>
+<p>For she enclyneth euer to benygnyte</p>
+<p>And medeleth not with fraude nor subtylyte</p>
+<p>But maketh many noble clerkes</p>
+<p>And ruleth theym in all theyr werkes</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ They dwell all in a fayre castell</p>
+<p>Besyde a ryuer moche depe and clere</p>
+<p>And be expert in feytys manuell</p>
+<p>That vnto theym can be no peere</p>
+<p>Of erthely persone that lyueth here</p>
+<p>For they be so fayre and wounderous</p>
+<p>That theym to se it is solacyous.</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ Longe haue they trauerst gretly in the lawe</p>
+<p>Whiche of theym sholde haue the preemynence</p>
+<p>And none of them theyr case wyll withdrawe</p>
+<p>Tyll of dame Iustyce they knowe the sentence</p>
+<p>They argue often and make defence</p>
+<p>Eche vnto other withouten remedy</p>
+<p>I wyll no lenger of them specefy</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 14 -->
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_iii" id = "cap_iii">
+Capitulum tercium.</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic14.png" width = "367" height = "389"
+alt = "Dame Hardiness">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capC.png" width = "44" height = "38"
+alt = "C(Come)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">C</span>Ome on fayre youth and go with me</p>
+<p>Vnto that place that is delectable</p>
+<p>Bylded with towres of curyosyte</p>
+<p>And yet though that ye be lamentable</p>
+<p>Whan thou art there you wylt be confortable</p>
+<p>To se the merueyles that there be wrought</p>
+<p>No man can prynt it in his thought</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">aa .viii.</span>
+<!-- png 15 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+A path we founde ryght gretely vsed</p>
+<p>Where in we went tyll at the last</p>
+<p>A castell I sawe wherof I mused</p>
+<p>Not fully from me a stones cast</p>
+<p>To se the towres I was agast</p>
+<p>Set in a valey so strongely fortefyed</p>
+<p>So gentyll compassed and well edefyed</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The towres were hyghe of adamond stones</p>
+<p>With fanes wauerynge in the wynde</p>
+<p>Of ryght fyne golde made for the noonys</p>
+<p>And roobuckes ran vnder the lynde</p>
+<p>And hunters came theym fer behynde</p>
+<p>A Ioye it was suche sawe I neuer</p>
+<p>Abyde quod she ye shall se a better.</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Forth she me ledde to the castell warde</p>
+<p>Where we were let in by humylyte</p>
+<p>And so after she lede me forwarde</p>
+<p>Tyll that I sawe a royall tre</p>
+<p>With buddys blossomed of grete beaute</p>
+<p>And than we wente in to the hall</p>
+<p>That glased was truely with crystall</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And hanged was with clothes of Aras</p>
+<p>Made of fyne golde with a noble story</p>
+<p>How that there some tyme reynynge was</p>
+<p>In the regyon of hyghe Italy</p>
+<p>A valyaunt emperour and a myghty</p>
+<p>That had to name forsothe Tyberius</p>
+<p>Whiche dyde enquere of prudent <ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘Iosephus’?">Iosethus</ins></p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 16 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ Why he his offycers so longe kepte</p>
+<p>Vnto hym he answered a good cause why</p>
+<p>Somtyme I sawe a man that slepte</p>
+<p>That wounded was full pyteously</p>
+<p>And on his woundes suckynge many a fly</p>
+<p>I than for pyte moued theym away</p>
+<p>By whiche he woke and to me dyde say</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ Wher that thou trowed to me comfort</p>
+<p>Thou now hast done me double greuaunce</p>
+<p>Puttynge away the flyes that dyde resorte</p>
+<p>To me beynge full of blody sustynaunce</p>
+<p>By this thou mayst haue good perseueraunce</p>
+<p>That now wyll come the flyes moost hungry</p>
+<p>That wyll me byte .x. tymes more greuously</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ The roof was wrought by merueylous gemetry</p>
+<p>Colered with asure gold and gowlys</p>
+<p>With knottes coruen full ryght craftely</p>
+<p>And set also with wanton fowlys</p>
+<p>As popyniays / pyes / Iays / and owlys</p>
+<p>And as I loked on my ryght syde</p>
+<p>A lady I sawe of meruellous pryde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+¶ Syttynge in a chayer at the vpper ende</p>
+<p>Of all the hall as a lady and prynces</p>
+<p>Amonge many kynges that dyde entende</p>
+<p>To be obedyent to her hyghe noblenes</p>
+<p>Her apparell was made of moche fayre ryches</p>
+<p>Set with rubyes moost pure and rubicound</p>
+<p>Embrawded with perles and many a dyamound</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">bb .i.</span>
+<!-- png 17 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Besydes her sate the worthyes nyne</p>
+<p>And she amonge theym a whele turnynge</p>
+<p>Full lowe to her they dyd than enclyne</p>
+<p>She somtyme laughynge and somtyme lowrynge</p>
+<p>Her condycyon was to be dyssymelynge</p>
+<p>And many exalten vpon her whele</p>
+<p>Gyuynge theym grete falles that they dyd fele</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dyscrecyon beholde and see</p>
+<p>That in dame fortune is no stablenes</p>
+<p>This worlde also is but a vanyte</p>
+<p>A dreme a pompe nothynge in stedfastnes</p>
+<p>For fortune is fals and full of doblenes</p>
+<p>Whan she moost flatereth she is not sure</p>
+<p>As thou mayst se dayly in vre</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 18 -->
+<h2><a name = "cap_iiii" id = "cap_iiii">
+Capitulum .iiii.</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic18.png" width = "366" height = "385"
+alt = "Dame Hardiness with banner">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capF.png" width = "47" height = "38"
+alt = "F(Forth)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">F</span>Orth than we went vnto the habytacle</p>
+<p>Of dame hardynes moost pure and fayre</p>
+<p>Aboue all places a ryght fayre spectacle</p>
+<p>Strowyd with floures that gaue good eyer</p>
+<p>Of vertuous turkeys there was a cheyr</p>
+<p>Wherin she sate in her cote armure</p>
+<p>Berynge a shelde the felde of asure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wherin was sette a rampynge lyon</p>
+<p>Of fyne golde ryght large and grete</p>
+<p>A swerd she had of merueylous fassyon</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">bb .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 19 -->
+<p>As though a thousand she sholde bete</p>
+<p>No man the vyctory of her myght gete</p>
+<p>A noble vyrgyn there dyde her serue</p>
+<p>That fyrst made harnes called Mynerue</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The chaumbre where she held her consystory</p>
+<p>The dewe aromatyke dyde oft degoute</p>
+<p>Of fragraunt floures full of delycasy</p>
+<p>That all yll heyres dyde ensence oute</p>
+<p>A carbuncle there was that all aboute</p>
+<p>Enlumyned the chaumbre both day and nyght</p>
+<p>My thought it was an heuenly syght</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Nyne quenes I sawe that satte her by</p>
+<p>Beynge all armed of grete fortytude</p>
+<p>In many a stower they wanne the vyctory</p>
+<p>And were endued with facounde pulcrytude</p>
+<p>For to haunte armes was theyr consuetude</p>
+<p>Many a regyon they often wanne</p>
+<p>And also vaynquysshed many a noble man</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Nexte vnto her sate the hyghe quene Azia<a class = "tag" name = "tagB1"
+id = "tagB1" href = "#noteB">B</a></p>
+<p>That was a conqueres so puyssaunt</p>
+<p>And besyde her the quene of Saba</p>
+<p>Whiche in grete ryches was tryumphaunt</p>
+<p>And also Ipolyte in armes valyaunt</p>
+<p>Sate with her besyde quene Hecuba</p>
+<p>And yet also the quene Europa</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Present ther was the wiche quene Iuno</p>
+<p>And quene Pantasyll wyth fayre quene Elyn</p>
+<p>And yet I sawe by her than also</p>
+<p>The noble vyrgyn yonge Polyxyn</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 20 --><p>That was destroyed at the last ruyn</p>
+<p>Of Troye the grete by cruell Pyrrus</p>
+<p>The sone of Achylles that was so cheualrus</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+As I dyd loke I had commaundement</p>
+<p>Of dame dyscrecyon for to remembre</p>
+<p>These noble ladyes so pure and excellent</p>
+<p>Hardy in corage of age ryght tendre</p>
+<p>Yet not withstandynge deth dyde surrendre</p>
+<p>And all theyr strength and lusty corage</p>
+<p>For he spareth nother youth ne age</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_v" id = "cap_v">
+Capitulum .v.</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic20.png" width = "367" height = "378"
+alt = "Dame Prudence">
+</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">b .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 21 -->
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capF.png" width = "47" height = "38"
+alt = "F(Forth)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">F</span>Orth we walked to the dwellynge place</p>
+<p>Of dame sapyence so full of blys</p>
+<p>Replete with Ioye vertu and grace</p>
+<p>No thynge there lacked that possyble is</p>
+<p>Man for to comfort withouten mys</p>
+<p>Though he were derke in wordely foly</p>
+<p>He sholde there <ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘be’">b</ins> enlumyned shortely</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Her towre was made of werkes curyous</p>
+<p>I can no thynge extende the goodlynes</p>
+<p>Of her palays so good and gloryous</p>
+<p>Bylded in the place soth of fastnes</p>
+<p>With owten tast of wordely bytternes</p>
+<p>No persone can extoll the souerente</p>
+<p>Of her worthy and royall dygnyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+She eche estate sholde haue in gouernaunce</p>
+<p>As theym to rule or that they repent</p>
+<p>For better it is to haue good puruyaunce</p>
+<p>At the begynnynge as is expedyent</p>
+<p>Than for to wyssh for thynges myspent</p>
+<p>That myght be saued longe afore</p>
+<p>And with <ins class = "correction" title =
+"possibly one word, ‘aforwytte’">a for wytte</ins> kepte in store</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Her chaumbre was glased with byrall clarefyed</p>
+<p>Depeynted with colours of delectacyon</p>
+<p>A place of pleasure so heuenly gloryfyed</p>
+<p>In vertue heale lyfe and saluacyon</p>
+<p>Without ony stormy trybulacyon</p>
+<p>That myght anoy the heuenly helth</p>
+<p>But alway comfort to the sowlys welth</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 22 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+There sate dame prudence in vertue magnyfyed</p>
+<p>Impossyble it is to shewe her goodelyhed</p>
+<p>She was so fayre and clerely puryfyed</p>
+<p>And so dyscrete and full of womanhede</p>
+<p>That and I trowe vertue were deed</p>
+<p>It sholde reuyue yet in her agayne</p>
+<p>She was so gentyll and without dysdeyn</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+It was grete comfort vnto my hert</p>
+<p>For to beholde that heuenly syght</p>
+<p>Dyscrecyon sayd I sholde not depert</p>
+<p>Tyll I had spoken with her syster bryght</p>
+<p>Forth she me ledde with all her myght</p>
+<p>Vnto that prynces and royall souerayn</p>
+<p>Ergo my labour was not in vayn</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than spake dame prudence with meke contenaũce</p>
+<p>Welcome dyscrecyon my syster dere</p>
+<p>Where haue ye ben by longe contynuaunce</p>
+<p>Wyth youth she sayd that ye se here</p>
+<p>And for my sake I you requere</p>
+<p>Hym to receyue in to your seruyse</p>
+<p>And he shall serue you in goodely wyse</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Welcome she sayd for my systers sake</p>
+<p>And yet also now for your owne</p>
+<p>In to my seruyce I wyll you take</p>
+<p>Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen</p>
+<p>The sede of vertu on you shall be sowen</p>
+<p>Vyce to depryue by his good auctoryte</p>
+<p>As for to subdue all yll iniquyte</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">b .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 23 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Of other mennes wordes be thou not bolde</p>
+<p>And of theyr promys make no behest</p>
+<p>And yf thou here an yll tale tolde</p>
+<p>Gyue no iugement but say the best</p>
+<p>So shall thou lyue euermore in rest</p>
+<p>Who lytell medeleth is best at ease</p>
+<p>For well were he that all myght please</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Beware kepe the from grete offence</p>
+<p>That thou condempned be not by ryghtwysnes</p>
+<p>Whan she doth gyue her mortall sentence</p>
+<p>Without pease or mercy cause her reles</p>
+<p>Her iugement of mortall heuynes</p>
+<p>That the best frende to the wyll be</p>
+<p>The for to socour in grete necessyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But yet in theym haue none affyaunce</p>
+<p>As fyrst to synne thynkynge that they</p>
+<p>At the ende to the wyll be delyueraunce</p>
+<p>Nay ryghtwysnes wyll dryue theym away</p>
+<p>For of all synnes without delay</p>
+<p>Suche synne in hope it is the moost</p>
+<p>For it is the synne of the holy ghoost</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Now I amytte you into your rome</p>
+<p>In the whiche ye shall your selfe apply</p>
+<p>Of myn owne chaumbre ye shall be grome</p>
+<p>Loke ye be dylygent and do not vary</p>
+<p>From my cõmaundementes neuer specyally</p>
+<p>For and ye wyll theym well obserue</p>
+<p>A moche better rome ye do deserue</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 24 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+The fyrst cõmaundement that I gyue the</p>
+<p>Thynke on the ende or thou begynne</p>
+<p>For thou by ryght may knowe the certente</p>
+<p>That deth is fyne of euery synne</p>
+<p>Be neuer taken in dyabolycall engyne</p>
+<p>But that repentaunce may loose the sone</p>
+<p>Of that grete synne that thou hast done</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Trust not to moche in fortunes grace</p>
+<p>Though that she laugh on the a whyle</p>
+<p>For she can sodenly turne her face</p>
+<p>Whan that she lyst the to begyle</p>
+<p>She welth and Ioye can sone defyle</p>
+<p>And plonge the in the pyte of pouerte</p>
+<p>Wherfore in her haue thou no suertye</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Presume no ferther than the behoueth</p>
+<p>For it wyll turne the to grete shame</p>
+<p>For who that from his rome remoueth</p>
+<p>He is often full gretely to blame</p>
+<p>And medeleth with other in theym lame</p>
+<p>As no thynge connynge nor expert</p>
+<p>They may hym say syr malapert</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Or that thou speke call to remembraunce</p>
+<p>Vnto what mater thy worde shall sygnyfye</p>
+<p>Loke that it torne no man to greuaunce</p>
+<p>Though that it be spoken merely</p>
+<p>Yet many a one wyll take it greuously</p>
+<p>Whiche that myght cause wroth and debate</p>
+<p>Whyle that thou lyues beware of that</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">cc .i.</span>
+<!-- png 25 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+For a thynge lost without recouer</p>
+<p>Loke that thou neuer be to pensyfe</p>
+<p>Thanke god of it thynke to haue an other</p>
+<p>Lete wysedome than be to the comfortyfe</p>
+<p>That to thy brayn is best preseruatyfe</p>
+<p>For euermore ryght wyse is he</p>
+<p>That can be pacyent in aduersyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Proue thy frende in a mater fayned</p>
+<p>Or thou haue nede than shalt thou se</p>
+<p>Whyther he be iustly with the reteyned</p>
+<p>The for to socour in thy necessyte</p>
+<p>By profe thou mayst knowe the veryte</p>
+<p>For profe afore that nede requere</p>
+<p>Defeteth dowte euer in fere</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Be thou neuer so blynde in wylle</p>
+<p>Yet loke thou be refourmed by reason</p>
+<p>Than shalt thou my mynde fulfyll</p>
+<p>And thou therto thy selfe abandon</p>
+<p>Stryue not with reason for none encheson</p>
+<p>For wher she lacketh ther is grete outrage</p>
+<p>And without her may not aswage</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Eschew also the synne of pryde</p>
+<p>The moder and the feruent rote</p>
+<p>Of all the synnes at euery tyde</p>
+<p>Wherfore trede thou her vnder fote</p>
+<p>With helpe of vertue so swete and sote</p>
+<p>Whiche is best salue to hele thy sore</p>
+<p>And to thy helth the to restore</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 26 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wo worth synne without repentaunce</p>
+<p>Wo worth bondage without reles</p>
+<p>Wo worth man without good gouernaunce</p>
+<p>Wo worth infynall payne and dystresse</p>
+<p>Wo worth vyce put fer in presse</p>
+<p>Wo worth soueraynte hauynge dysdeyn</p>
+<p>And wo worth pyte that doth refrayn</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wo worth ryght that may not be herd</p>
+<p>Wo worth frendshyp without stabylyte</p>
+<p>Wo worth true sentence that is deferd</p>
+<p>Wo worth the man full of duplycyte</p>
+<p>Wo worth hym without benygnyte</p>
+<p>Wo worth lybertye withouten pease</p>
+<p>And wo worth crueltye that may not cease</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wo worth connynge that is abused</p>
+<p>Wo worth promys withouten payment</p>
+<p>Wo worth vertue that is refused</p>
+<p>Wo worth trouble without extynguysment</p>
+<p>Wo worth foly on message sent</p>
+<p>Wo worth reason that is exyled</p>
+<p>And wo worth trouth that is defyled</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wo worth the trust without assuraunce</p>
+<p>Wo worth grace not sette by</p>
+<p>Wo worth Iustyce kepte in dystaunce</p>
+<p>Wo worth welth replete with enuy</p>
+<p>Wo worth the batayll without vyctory</p>
+<p>Wo worth begynnynge without good ende</p>
+<p>And wo worth wronge that doth defende</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">cc .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 27 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+These commaundementes I put in memory</p>
+<p>Theym for to kepe doynge my dylygence</p>
+<p>With dame Sapyence I dyd longe tary</p>
+<p>Whiche dyd me teche with partynge influence</p>
+<p>Of her delycate and doulcete complacence</p>
+<p>Than spake dyscrecyon anone to me</p>
+<p>In the presens of her systers mageste</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Thou art beholdynge to my syster reuerent</p>
+<p>That the reteyned hath vnto her seruaunt</p>
+<p>Wherfore be thou to her obedyent</p>
+<p>And at euery houre to her attendaunt</p>
+<p>And ryotous company do thou not haunt</p>
+<p>For that wyll payre and yll thy name</p>
+<p>Wherfore of vertuous myrth let be thy game</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_vi" id = "cap_vi"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"chapter head printed twice">Capitulum.vi.</ins></a></h2>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 28 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic28.png" width = "365" height = "386"
+alt = "Dame Nature">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capD.png" width = "53" height = "40"
+alt = "D(Discrecyon)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">D</span>Iscrecyon ferther forth me lede</p>
+<p>Vnto the solempne and royall mancyon</p>
+<p>Of dame nature in humayne stede</p>
+<p>Ryght pleasaunt was her habytacyon</p>
+<p>Of merueylous werke and sytuacyon</p>
+<p>And she her selfe helde her estate</p>
+<p>In a gloryous chaumbre without chekmate</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">cc .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 29 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Her towre was gylted full of sonne bemys</p>
+<p>And within hanged with cloth of aras</p>
+<p>The roof was paynted with golden stremys</p>
+<p>And lyke crystall depured was</p>
+<p>Euery wyndowe aboute of glas</p>
+<p>Where that she sat as a fayre goddes</p>
+<p>All thynges creatynge by her besynes</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Me thought she was of merueylous beaute</p>
+<p>Tyll that Dyscrecyon lede me behynde</p>
+<p>Where that I sawe all the pryuyte</p>
+<p>Of her werke and humayne kynde</p>
+<p>And at her backe I dyd than fynde</p>
+<p>Of cruell deth a dolfull ymage</p>
+<p>That all her beaute dyd perswage</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Full wonderous was her operacyon</p>
+<p>In euery kynde eke and ryght degre</p>
+<p>Withouten rest or recreacyon</p>
+<p>I wyll not medle with her secrete</p>
+<p>For it no thynge longeth to my faculte</p>
+<p>But somwhat after I wyll expres</p>
+<p>Of her grete power and worthynes</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But in my boke well for to procede</p>
+<p>Dame dyscrecyon ferther me brought</p>
+<p>Into a fayre chambre as ye may rede</p>
+<p>Of fyne gemetry ryght well wrought</p>
+<p>To comfort man there lacked nought</p>
+<p>But that me thought there was no company</p>
+<p>Saue onely dame dyscrecyon and I</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 30 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+We had ben but a lytell whyle there</p>
+<p>But that we sawe a lady clere</p>
+<p>Ryght well appareled in sad gere</p>
+<p>Mylde in her hauour dyscrete of chere</p>
+<p>That came vs by and very nere</p>
+<p>Ascendynge vp in to her hyghe sete</p>
+<p>Garnysshed with perle and with gold bete</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dyscrecyon this is dame Iustyce</p>
+<p>Clene of conscyence without corrupcyon</p>
+<p>And neuer be spotted with the synne of couetyse</p>
+<p>But true as stele in the entencyon</p>
+<p>Of ryght euermore without destruccyon</p>
+<p>Geuynge alway a ryghtfull iugement</p>
+<p>Obey thou youth this lady reuerent</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A iuge fulfylled with the synne of auaryce</p>
+<p>Or with fauour of kynne made blynd</p>
+<p>Must nedys do wronge by grete p<sup>re</sup>iudyce</p>
+<p>For fauour shold not conscyence bynd</p>
+<p>Ryght to dyssymyll as I now fynd</p>
+<p>In problemys wryten of antiquyte</p>
+<p>Made by phylosophers of auctoryte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+As we stode talkynge thus to gydere</p>
+<p>Vp came dame fortune so gayly gloryfyed</p>
+<p>Impossyble it is for me to dyscouere</p>
+<p>How gorges she was &amp; gretly magnyfyed</p>
+<p>Full lyke a goddes that had ben deyfyd</p>
+<p>Clothed with gold sette full of rubyes</p>
+<p>And tynst w<sup>t</sup> emeraudys &amp; many a turkes</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">cc .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 31 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And next to her there dyd ensue</p>
+<p>Dame Hardynes that noble lady</p>
+<p>After whome anone dyd pursue</p>
+<p>Dame Sapyence whiche dyd not tary</p>
+<p>Than came dame nature appareled royally</p>
+<p>And all the other cladde in gold</p>
+<p>Set with dyamondes many a fold</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+They lowted all vnto the ground</p>
+<p>Afore dame Iustyce for obeysaunce</p>
+<p>That sate there both hole and sound</p>
+<p>Withouten ony dyscontynuaunce</p>
+<p>Gyuynge god ere vnto the vteraunce</p>
+<p>Of these foure ladyes pledynge at barre</p>
+<p>With all theyr cases dyd well <ins class = "correction" title =
+"letterform ‘v’ in original">avarre</ins></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_vii" id = "cap_vii"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"chapter head printed twice">Capitulum.vii.</ins></a></h2>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 32 -->
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic32.png" width = "365" height = "381"
+alt = "pleas before Dame Justice">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capF.png" width = "47" height = "38"
+alt = "F(Fyrst)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">F</span>Yrst dame hardynes began to plede</p>
+<p>Saynge she was to man moost profytable</p>
+<p>For she the hertes hath often fede</p>
+<p>Of conquerous as it was couenable</p>
+<p>And by my corage haue made theym able</p>
+<p>Regyons to wynne theyr ennemyes to subdue</p>
+<p>And yf I were not they had it rue</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">c .v.</span>
+<!-- png 33 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+And yf a man be neuer so wyse</p>
+<p>Withouten me he getyth none vteraunce</p>
+<p>Wherfore his wysedome may not suffyse</p>
+<p>All onely without myn allegeaunce</p>
+<p>For I by ryght must nedys <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘enhauncce’">enhaunce</ins></p>
+<p>A lowe born man to an hyghe degre</p>
+<p>Yf that he wyll be ruled by me</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Haue I not caused many a noble warreour</p>
+<p>To wynne the batell by my grete myght</p>
+<p>Without me was made neuer conquerour</p>
+<p>Nor yet man coragious whan he dyd fyght</p>
+<p>No man without me may defende his ryght</p>
+<p>I may be worst from hym forborne</p>
+<p>For and I were not he were forlorne</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dyd I not cause the noble hercules</p>
+<p>By my power to wynne the vyctory</p>
+<p>Of the sturdy and stronge Philotes</p>
+<p>As is recorded in bokes of memory</p>
+<p>For without me can be no cheualry</p>
+<p>And vnder the wynge of my proteccyon</p>
+<p>All rebels brought be to subieccyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A realme is vpholden by thynges thre</p>
+<p>The fyrst and the chyef it is the swerd</p>
+<p>Whiche causeth it to be in good suerte</p>
+<p>And other realmes of it to be aferd</p>
+<p>By whiche the vsurpers be dyfferd</p>
+<p>From theyr wyll with treason knyte</p>
+<p>And by me slayn for theyr fals fyte</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 34 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+The seconde is lawe that euer serueth</p>
+<p>But within the realme onely</p>
+<p>For other nacyons our lawe ne dredeth</p>
+<p>But our swerd they do in specyally</p>
+<p>For and they roose ayenst vs proudly</p>
+<p>As they haue done often in tymes past</p>
+<p>Yet w<sup>t</sup> our swerd they shold be ouercast</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The thyrde be marchauntes that do multyply</p>
+<p>In this realme welth and prosperyte</p>
+<p>For of euery thynge they often occupy</p>
+<p>Euery man lyke vnto his faculte</p>
+<p>For without marchauntes can not be</p>
+<p>No realme vpholden in welth &amp; pleasure</p>
+<p>For it to vs is a specyall tresure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also yet hercules the puyssaunt geaunt</p>
+<p>Dyd slee the monstre afore Troy the grete</p>
+<p>And with his strokes he dyd hym daunt</p>
+<p>They were so peysantly on hym sette</p>
+<p>That he the vyctory on hym dyd gette</p>
+<p>Had I not be comfort vnto his harte</p>
+<p>Suche vyctory had ben leyd aparte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dyd he not vaynquysshe in y<sup>e</sup> forest of Nemee</p>
+<p>The thre mortall lyons by his grete hardynes</p>
+<p>And ryued theyr Iawes as was to se</p>
+<p>By twene his handes by chyualrus prowes</p>
+<p>And yet by armes and knyghtly exces</p>
+<p>In egypt he slewe the tyraunt Busyre</p>
+<p>And brent hym after in a grete fyre</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">cc .vi.</span>
+<!-- png 35 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also he slewe the tyraunt Cacus</p>
+<p>For his tyranny and grete myschefe</p>
+<p>By cause his dedys were so odyous</p>
+<p>For he dyd murdre and was a thefe</p>
+<p>Wherfore his deth to many was leef</p>
+<p>Who more of his actes wyll haue report</p>
+<p>To the Troyans story lette hym resort</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also the worthy and the noble hectour</p>
+<p>That eclyped was the troyans champyon</p>
+<p>And of all cheualry called the flour</p>
+<p>In his tyme reynynge and of renowne</p>
+<p>Of whose noble dedes the brute and sowne</p>
+<p>Was spred by euery straunge habytacyon</p>
+<p>That they of his faytys dyde make relacyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+By his power and hardy corage</p>
+<p>He put the grekes full often to flyght</p>
+<p>And bete theym downe by a grete outrage</p>
+<p>That well was he that hym saue myght</p>
+<p>Full often he brought theym to the plyght</p>
+<p>His dedes were pure without magycyon</p>
+<p>And without nygromancy or suche corrupcyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dyd I not cause also kynge dauith</p>
+<p>A lyon Iawbones to rent and tere</p>
+<p>That dyd deuour his shepe in the fryth</p>
+<p>As he sat kepynge of theym there</p>
+<p>The lyons crueltye myght not hym fere</p>
+<p>And he in his youth so hardy was</p>
+<p>That he dyd sle the gyaunt Golias</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 36 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dyd I not cause the noble Iulius</p>
+<p>Emperour of rome for to be electe</p>
+<p>By cause he was so stronge and cheualrus</p>
+<p>Whan in armes he knewe the affecte</p>
+<p>He all his ennemyes dyd abiecte</p>
+<p>And by the support of my chyef socour</p>
+<p>He gouerned hymselfe lyke a noble emperour</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And also Arthur kynge of Bretayne</p>
+<p>With all the knyghtes of the rounde table</p>
+<p>Neuer auentures had sought certayne</p>
+<p>And I therto had not ben greable</p>
+<p>They for to fyght had not ben able</p>
+<p>Who that me lacketh is but a coward</p>
+<p>And shame is euer his rewarde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also kynge Charlemayne kynge of Fraunce</p>
+<p>With his dyssypers Rowland and Olyuer</p>
+<p>With all the resydue of his alyaunce</p>
+<p>That in all armes so noble were</p>
+<p>On goddys ennemyes brake many a spere</p>
+<p>Causynge them to flee to theyr grete vylony</p>
+<p>Hardynes was cause that they had vyctory</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O worthy hardynes the shynynge sterre</p>
+<p>Alway to mannys herte the comfort</p>
+<p>Whan that it is the tyme of werre</p>
+<p>Vnto what partye that thou resort</p>
+<p>They wynne the batall by thy support</p>
+<p>And wher that thou lettest thy bemys dyssende</p>
+<p>They often hye to honoure assende</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">cc .vii.</span>
+<!-- png 37 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame hardynes vnto the Iuge</p>
+<p>I pray you that ryght I may haue</p>
+<p>Sythens I to man am chyef refuge</p>
+<p>Whan that he lysteth of me to craue</p>
+<p>I make hym coragyous and his worshyp saue</p>
+<p>Wherfore I owte to haue the preemynence</p>
+<p>By ryght reason and good experyence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+That I deny you sayd dame Sapyence</p>
+<p>Of whom haue you your ordre of pledynge</p>
+<p>For ye neuer can haue none intellygence</p>
+<p>But by the meane of myn informynge</p>
+<p>For I am alway your mynde techynge</p>
+<p>And without me your tale were but a fable</p>
+<p>For ye without wytte sholde alway bable</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This wyll I proue by myn opynyon</p>
+<p>That I am grounde of the artes seuen</p>
+<p>And of all good werkes in cõmunyon</p>
+<p>For no man without me can go to heuen</p>
+<p>My dedys be merueylous for man to neuen</p>
+<p>Whan they <ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘ben’?">beu</ins> wrought in to theyr degre</p>
+<p>Who that wyll lerne theym he hath the lyberte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Of my dedes bokes do make recorde</p>
+<p>The whiche clerkes put into remembraunce</p>
+<p>For an example without dyscorde</p>
+<p>Of heuenly way by vertuous gouernaunce</p>
+<p>Without me man can haue no pleasaunce</p>
+<p>Nor yet hym rule in no maner wyse</p>
+<p>A man without wytte is to dyspyse</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 38 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Hardynes without prudence may not auayle</p>
+<p>Though that a man be neuer so sturdy</p>
+<p>For a wyseman feble may wynne the batayle</p>
+<p>Of hym that is ryght stronge and myghty</p>
+<p>For better it is for to be ryght wytty</p>
+<p>In the defence of his good saue garde</p>
+<p>Than often to stryke and to renne forwarde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+That thynge that hardynes may not wynne</p>
+<p>May be goten by my hyghe souerente</p>
+<p>And with the helpe of subtyle engynne</p>
+<p>It may be brought to the extremyte</p>
+<p>Wher that it myght not by possybylyte</p>
+<p>Of hardynes longe afore be wonne</p>
+<p>Yet by grete wysedome it may be donne</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Vnto dyuers cases I take excepcyon</p>
+<p>Of dame Hardynes whiche are no lawe</p>
+<p>Vnto the fyrst vndre your correccyon</p>
+<p>She sayd and she her power dyd wythdrawe</p>
+<p>No rebell than shold stand in awe</p>
+<p>And she is the chyef as I knowe well</p>
+<p>That causeth hym for to be rebell</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+By her foly and folysshe hardynes</p>
+<p>She causeth men to ryse ayenst theyr lorde</p>
+<p>She is the cause of mortall heuynes</p>
+<p>Whan she doth breke the good concorde</p>
+<p>Wherfore me thynke by one accorde</p>
+<p>For to exyle her it is now the best</p>
+<p>Than man sholde lyue in peas and rest</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">cc .viii.</span>
+<!-- png 39 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+And where she sayd that she exalted</p>
+<p>Iulius cesar by her grete exylence</p>
+<p>In that case she ryght clerely varyed</p>
+<p>For it was I by my grete dylygence</p>
+<p>That neuer was out of his presence</p>
+<p>But ruled hym and made hym worthy</p>
+<p>To be chosen emperour of all Italy</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Chosen he was by the comyn assent</p>
+<p>For the grete wysedome that in hym shone</p>
+<p>With a grete voyce and a hole entente</p>
+<p>For lyke vnto hym was there none</p>
+<p>That was so abell as he alone</p>
+<p>For to occupye an Emperours dygnyte</p>
+<p>Of his promocyon he myght thanke me</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I Sapyence am endewed with grace</p>
+<p>And the lode sterre of heuenly doctryne</p>
+<p>The sprynge of comfort Ioye and solace</p>
+<p>Who that lyst to me for to enclyne</p>
+<p>He shall knowe thynges that be <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘dyuyue’">dyuyne</ins></p>
+<p>And at his ende beholde the deyte</p>
+<p>That is one god and persones thre</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+It pleased the fader that is omnipotent</p>
+<p>His sone to send to be incarnat</p>
+<p>Of the vyrgyn Mary the sterre moost excellent</p>
+<p>Mayden and moder yet not vyolate</p>
+<p>Lyke a vessell chosen and made ornat</p>
+<p>All onely for to be goddys moder</p>
+<p>And he hym selfe vnto man broder</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 40 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+But a stryfe there was bytwene god and man</p>
+<p>Whan man consented to synne dedely</p>
+<p>By that the dyscorde fyrst began</p>
+<p>Whan he the sone of god on hy</p>
+<p>That is his brother agayn wyll crucefy</p>
+<p>Yf he had power by whiche is offended</p>
+<p>The fader of heuen as is entended</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Therfore lete vs to our brother go</p>
+<p>Named Ihesu Cryst and axe hym mercy</p>
+<p>With a good entent and hert also</p>
+<p>There is for vs none other remedy</p>
+<p>That ony tonge truely can specyfy</p>
+<p>And he wyll take it for a correccyon</p>
+<p>And of all vengeaunce sease the affeccyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+That we may of hym haue forgyuenes</p>
+<p>Of our grete synne with reformacyon</p>
+<p>Of peas bytwene the faders hyghenes</p>
+<p>Of heuen and vs in suspyracyon</p>
+<p>Therfore yf thou drede the amocyon</p>
+<p>Of his ryghtwysnes loke that thou flee</p>
+<p>Ryght fast vnto his mercyfull pyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+For his mercy is more than all our mysery</p>
+<p>And eke aboue his werkes all</p>
+<p>As Dauyd sheweth in his prophecy</p>
+<p>Saynge his mercy is ouer all</p>
+<p>To whom I pray euer in especyall</p>
+<p>To gyue me grace well my penne to lede</p>
+<p>That quaketh aye for drede</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">dd .i.</span>
+<!-- png 41 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dame Sapyence sayd I do procede</p>
+<p>Of the strength of the holy ghoost</p>
+<p>That is and shall be mater in dede</p>
+<p>God and lorde of myghtys moost</p>
+<p>Whose infynall power was neuer lost</p>
+<p>And yet neuer had no begynnynge</p>
+<p>But alway lyke stronge without endynge</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Where that dame hardynes in her pledynge</p>
+<p>Made her selfe to knyghtes moost necessary</p>
+<p>By the meanes of her power shewynge</p>
+<p>That I by ryght do now well deny</p>
+<p>For in that case she dyd moche vary</p>
+<p>For syxe there are that more profyte be</p>
+<p>Of whiche the lest is better than she</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The fyrst is prudence that is the chefe</p>
+<p>That hym doth rule and is his gyde</p>
+<p>And kepeth hym from grete reprefe</p>
+<p>And causeth his worshyp for to abyde</p>
+<p>So euery crysten man shold prouyde</p>
+<p>By his wit to withstand the deuyll</p>
+<p>That he consent not to do euyll</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The seconde is that he sholde be true</p>
+<p>To his souerayn lorde that on hym reyneth</p>
+<p>And all treason for euer to eschewe</p>
+<p>In whiche grete shame often remayneth</p>
+<p>And by whiche he hiz<a class = "tag" name = "tagB2" id = "tagB2" href
+= "#noteB">B</a> <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘kỹne’">kỹge</ins> dysteyneth</p>
+<p>So a crysten man sholde be true euer</p>
+<p>To Ihesu Cryst that was his redemer</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 42 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+The thyrde is that he sholde be lyberall</p>
+<p>Amonge his cõmons withouten lette</p>
+<p>That is the cause euer in generall</p>
+<p>That he the loue of theym doth gette</p>
+<p>For it causeth theyr hertes on hym be sette</p>
+<p>So euery true crysten man sholde be</p>
+<p>To god intended with lyberalyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The fourth is that he sholde be stronge</p>
+<p>His ryght euer for to defende</p>
+<p>And neuer to no man for to do wronge</p>
+<p>But wronges for to dyrecte and amende</p>
+<p>As ferre as his power wyll extende</p>
+<p>So a true crysten man sholde exclude</p>
+<p>All maner of vyces by his fortytude</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The fyfth is y<sup>t</sup> he sholde be mercyable</p>
+<p>In all his dedes withouten furoure</p>
+<p>For that to hym is gretly conuenable</p>
+<p>And eke to kepe hym out of erroure</p>
+<p>For he of mercy sholde be a myrroure</p>
+<p>So vnto them it is ryght necessary</p>
+<p>Who that wyll be saued for to haue mercy</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The syxte is a knyght ought for to kepe</p>
+<p>The poore folke in theyr grete nede</p>
+<p>That often for hungre and thyrst do wepe</p>
+<p>He ought with almes theym for to fede</p>
+<p>And the better he shall than spede</p>
+<p>So euery true crysten man sholde do</p>
+<p>As ferre as his power cometh vnto</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">dd .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 43 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I Sapyence am of the kynges counsayll</p>
+<p>Whiche is clothed with purple that sygnyfyeth</p>
+<p>The grace and the pulcrytude without fayll</p>
+<p>Of grete vertues that in hym shyneth</p>
+<p>For to no vyces he neuer enclyneth</p>
+<p>Hauynge in his hede a fayre crowne royall</p>
+<p>That sheweth his dygnyte to be regall</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whiche to his people is the chefe glory</p>
+<p>Thrugh whome his subgectes be dyrecte</p>
+<p>And made obedyent to hym certaynly</p>
+<p>At euery houre by ryght true effecte</p>
+<p>But forthermore by good aspecte</p>
+<p>He bereth a ball in his lefte hande</p>
+<p>The whiche betokeneth as I vnderstande</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A kynge to be a good admynystratour</p>
+<p>Vnto his subgectes in euery place</p>
+<p>And to be for theym a good prouysour</p>
+<p>As reason requyreth in euery case</p>
+<p>I Sapyence do rule his noble grace</p>
+<p>In his ryght hand he hath a septure</p>
+<p>That doth sygnyfye by ryght his rygoure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Yll men to punysshe for theyr offence</p>
+<p>By his ryghtwysnes whome the loue</p>
+<p>Of vertue shynynge in experyence</p>
+<p>Doth not extoll nor yet now remoue</p>
+<p>A lampe doth hange his heed aboue</p>
+<p>Alway lyght and clerely brennynge</p>
+<p>Whiche sygnyfyeth the mercy of a kynge</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 44 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+The olde philosophers by theyr prudence</p>
+<p>Fonde the seuen scyences lyberall</p>
+<p>And by theyr exercyse &amp; grete dylygence</p>
+<p>They made theyr dedes to be memoryall</p>
+<p>And also poetes that were fatall</p>
+<p>Craftely colored with clowdy fygures</p>
+<p>The true sentence of all theyr scryptures</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O Iustyce lady and souerayne goddesse</p>
+<p>Gyue you true sentence now vpon me</p>
+<p>As ye be surmountynge in vertue &amp; noblesse</p>
+<p>Lete me dame Sapyence haue the soueraynte</p>
+<p>As is accordynge to my royall dygnyte</p>
+<p>For I am moost profytable vnto man</p>
+<p>And euer had ben syns the world began</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame Fortune ye are imperfyte</p>
+<p>Without that I therto be accordaunt</p>
+<p>For all your hardynes &amp; prudence perfyte</p>
+<p>I vnto you must be well exuberaunt</p>
+<p>And with your werkes euer concordaunt</p>
+<p>Where that I fauer they haue good cõfort</p>
+<p>In all theyr dedes by my swete resort</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I Fortune am the rule and steere</p>
+<p>Of euery persone lyke to my wyll</p>
+<p>That in this worlde now lyueth here</p>
+<p>Whan that I lyst for to fulfyll</p>
+<p>My mynde ryght sone I can dystyll</p>
+<p>The dewe of comfort welth and rychesse</p>
+<p>To man <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘exaltyuge’">exaltynge</ins> hym to noblenesse</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">dd .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 45 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Though that a man were neuer so hardy</p>
+<p>Without me he myght not attayne</p>
+<p>And though that a man were neuer so wytty</p>
+<p>And I dyd my power from hym refrayne</p>
+<p>All his labour were lost in vayne</p>
+<p>So hardynesse and prudence in no wyse</p>
+<p>Without good fortune may well suffyse</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Though that a man were but a fole</p>
+<p>Yf I consent that he be fortunate</p>
+<p>He nedyth not to make no grete dole</p>
+<p>For I shall mayntene so his estate</p>
+<p>That he in rychesse shall be so eleuate</p>
+<p>Fulfylled with welth &amp; worldely tresure</p>
+<p>That he shall lacke no maner of pleasure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Where that dame hardynes wold afferme</p>
+<p>By her cases that are so vnsure</p>
+<p>That she by her power doth conferme</p>
+<p>The knyghtes of vyctory for to be sure</p>
+<p>Whan she doth take theyr hertes in cure</p>
+<p>Yf fortune be awaye she may not auayle</p>
+<p>For they by reason must lose the batayle</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Yet forthermore as I do well consyder</p>
+<p>How dame hardynes dyd expresse</p>
+<p>Sythens the tyme that I came hyder</p>
+<p>That she promoted had to worthynes</p>
+<p>Hector dauid and the noble hercules</p>
+<p>With many other wherof she fayleth</p>
+<p>For it was fortune as she well knoweth</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 46 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+For in olde tyme the noble warryours</p>
+<p>For to eschewe euer my grete daungere</p>
+<p>In whiche tyme they were ydolestours</p>
+<p>Than they to put hym oute of fere</p>
+<p>To ydols went that theyr goddes were</p>
+<p>For to haue answer yf they sholde wynne</p>
+<p>The batayll or they dyd begynne</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+What nede I pleed by longe contynuaunce</p>
+<p>As dame Sapyence dyd in maters hy</p>
+<p>It were of tyme but dyscontynuaunce</p>
+<p>But o dame Iustyce the gentyll lady</p>
+<p>Loke that ye Iuge my mater ryght wysely</p>
+<p>That I of hardynes may be the pryncypall</p>
+<p>And of dame prudence &amp; nature with all</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame nature that may not be</p>
+<p>As I can proue by ryght and reason</p>
+<p>For I am moost confort to humanyte</p>
+<p>As man well knoweth at euery encheason</p>
+<p>And can not be forborne for none season</p>
+<p>For where I lacke without ony delay</p>
+<p>Man is but dede and turned to clay</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+That nature gyueth by her power</p>
+<p>Wysedome nor hardynes may not defete</p>
+<p>For I to man am the chefe doer</p>
+<p>Durynge his lyfe without retrete</p>
+<p>Also dame fortune may not well lete</p>
+<p>Me of my course though she it thought</p>
+<p>In sondery wyse my dedes are so wrought</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">dd .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 47 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Though that a man were infortunable</p>
+<p>And though that he were neuer so folysshe</p>
+<p>And a grete coward to fyght not able</p>
+<p>Yet shulde he lyue and neuer perysshe</p>
+<p>Tyll that my power of hym doth fynysshe</p>
+<p>Whiche fayle must ones it is my proprete</p>
+<p>And that was gyuen me by the deyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I am the orygynall of mannes creacyon</p>
+<p>And by me alway the world doth multyply</p>
+<p>In welth pleasure and delectacyon</p>
+<p>As I wyll shewe now in this party</p>
+<p>My dedes be subtyll &amp; wrought craftely</p>
+<p>What were the worlde yf I were note</p>
+<p>It were sone done as I well wote</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The lawe of nature doth man bynde</p>
+<p>Both beste foule and fysshe also</p>
+<p>In theyr degre to do theyr kynde</p>
+<p>Blame theym not yf they do so</p>
+<p>For harde it is euer to ouer go</p>
+<p>The kynde of nature in her degre</p>
+<p>For euery thynge must shewe his proprete</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Who of theyr propretes lyst to rede</p>
+<p>Lete hym loke in the boke of barthelmewe</p>
+<p>And to his scripture take good hede</p>
+<p>That ryght nobly of theym do shewe</p>
+<p>With all theyr actes beynge not a fewe</p>
+<p>But wounderous many by alteracyon</p>
+<p>For lyke hath lyke his operacyon</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 48 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+I nature norysshe by myn afflyccyon</p>
+<p>Mannes humayne partyes superfyxcyall</p>
+<p>And am the sprynge of his complexion</p>
+<p>The fonteyne of his vaynes inferyall</p>
+<p>To hym conserue moost dere and specyall</p>
+<p>Though he were hardy &amp; wyse he myȝt<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagB3" id = "tagB3" href = "#noteB">B</a> not me forbere</p>
+<p>Nor fortune without me auayleth not hym a pere</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wherfore dame Iustyce be you now indyfferent</p>
+<p>Consydre that I am moost dere and lefe</p>
+<p>Vnto euery man that is eliquylent</p>
+<p>And aboue all medycyns to hym moost chefe</p>
+<p>And by my strongh vnto hym relefe</p>
+<p>In his dysease wherfore as thynke me</p>
+<p>I ought of reason to haue the soueraynte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than spake dame Iustyce with meke contenaũce</p>
+<p>I wyll all your contrauersy now redresse</p>
+<p>For I of your reasons haue good perseueraunce</p>
+<p>And after your cases both more and lesse</p>
+<p>Wherfore I Iustyce by good ryghtwysnesse</p>
+<p>Gyue now vpon you a fynall Iugement</p>
+<p>That ye foure agree by a hole assent</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Man for to please at euery houre</p>
+<p>Without dysgrement or contradiccyon</p>
+<p>And in his nede to do hym socoure</p>
+<p>With louynge herte and true affeccyon</p>
+<p>He shall be in your good iurysdyccyon</p>
+<p>And you of hym shall be copertyners</p>
+<p>Both of his lyfe and of his maners</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">ee .i.</span>
+<!-- png 49 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame hardynes I agre therto</p>
+<p>And so do I than sayd dame Sapyence</p>
+<p>Than sayd dame Fortune I also do</p>
+<p>Agre vnto dame Iustyce sentence</p>
+<p>And I dame Nature wyll do my dylygence</p>
+<p>Lyke as ye do man for to please</p>
+<p>And hym to strength in his dysease</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+With that dame Iustyce vp arose</p>
+<p>Vnto the ladyes byddynge fare well</p>
+<p>And went into her chaumbre close</p>
+<p>I cleped conscyence wher she dyd dwell</p>
+<p>As dame Dyscrecyon dyd me tell</p>
+<p>Than hardynes &amp; fortune went downe the stayre</p>
+<p>And after theym Nature so clere and fayre</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_viii" id = "cap_viii">
+Capitulum .viii.</a></h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capD.png" width = "53" height = "40"
+alt = "D(Dame)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">D</span>Ame Sapyence taryed a lytell whyle</p>
+<p>Behynd the other saynge to Dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>And began on her to laugh and smyle</p>
+<p>Axynge her how I stode in condycyon</p>
+<p>Well she sayd in good perfeccyon</p>
+<p>But best it is that he maryed be</p>
+<p>For to eschewe all yll censualyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I knowe a lady of meruelous beaute</p>
+<p>Spronge out of hyghe and noble lynage</p>
+<p>Replete with vertue and full of bounte</p>
+<p>Whiche vnto youth were a good maryage</p>
+<p>For she is comen of royall apparage</p>
+<p>But herde it wyll be to gete her loue</p>
+<p>Without youth frayltye do sore reproue</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 50 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+I kneled downe than vpon my kne</p>
+<p>Afore dame Sapyence with humble chere</p>
+<p>Besechynge her of me to haue pyte</p>
+<p>And also Dyscrecyon her syster dere</p>
+<p>Than dame Sapyence came me nere</p>
+<p>Saynge youth wyll ye haue a wyfe</p>
+<p>And her to loue durynge her lyfe</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Ye madame that wolde I fayne</p>
+<p>Yf that she be both fayre and bryght</p>
+<p>I wyll her loue euer more certayne</p>
+<p>And pleas her alway with all my myght</p>
+<p>Of suche a persone wolde I haue a syght</p>
+<p>With all my herte now at this houre</p>
+<p>Wolde to god I had so fayre a floure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dyscrecyon there is a kynge</p>
+<p>Dwellynge fer hens in a fayre castell</p>
+<p>Of whome I oft haue herd grete talkynge</p>
+<p>Whiche hath a doughter as I you tell</p>
+<p>I trowe that youth wyll lyke her well</p>
+<p>She is both good eke fayre and pure</p>
+<p>As I report me vnto dame Nature</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But yf that youth sholde her go seke</p>
+<p>Ye must syster than hym well indue</p>
+<p>With your grete power so good and meke</p>
+<p>That he all frayltye may eschue</p>
+<p>For by the way it wyll oft pursue</p>
+<p>On hym by flatery and grete temptacyon</p>
+<p>That shall brynge hym in tribulacyon</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">ee .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 51 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+As for that sayd she he shall not care</p>
+<p>For he shall theym sone ouercome</p>
+<p>And of theyr flatery ryght well beware</p>
+<p>For I to hym shall gyue grete wysedome</p>
+<p>Theyr dedes to withstande &amp; make theym dõme</p>
+<p>Wherfore dere syster as I you pray</p>
+<p>Vnto her lede hym now on the way</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Loke that ye send me in his necessyte</p>
+<p>By dame swyftnes full sone a letter</p>
+<p>By whiche that I may knowe the certaynte</p>
+<p>That I may come to ayde hym beter</p>
+<p>So that fraylte to hym be no freter</p>
+<p>And though I be not alway vysyble</p>
+<p>With hym my power he hath inuyncyble</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame Sapyence to dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>Fare well dere syster I may not tary</p>
+<p>Loke ye of youth haue the tuycyon</p>
+<p>That he fall not into vaynglory</p>
+<p>And that ye puruey for hym shortly</p>
+<p>That he may wedde the fayre dame clennesse</p>
+<p>Whiche for her loue haue ben in duresse</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+With that dame Sapyence downe went</p>
+<p>In to her place that was the doctrynall</p>
+<p>Of famous clerkes in connynge splendent</p>
+<p>A myrrour of lernyng that was dyuynall</p>
+<p>With all the craftes artyfycyall</p>
+<p>Byfore her dame Fortune went to her mancyon</p>
+<p>And eke dame hardynes to her habytacyon</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 52 -->
+<h2><a name = "cap_ix" id = "cap_ix">
+Capitulum nonum</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic52.png" width = "363" height = "384"
+alt = "lust riding a goat">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capF.png" width = "47" height = "38"
+alt = "F(Forth)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">F</span>Orth than went dyscrecyon and I</p>
+<p>Out of the castell into a grene</p>
+<p>Where byrdys sange by grete melody</p>
+<p>There daunst also the fayre quene</p>
+<p>Besyde a ryuer named Ephesene</p>
+<p>Ouer whiche we wente to the other syde</p>
+<p>That was a medowe both longe and wyde</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">ee .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 53 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Longe there we wandred tyll at the last</p>
+<p>We came vnto a ryght grete wyldernes</p>
+<p>By that tyme Phebus was ouer past</p>
+<p>Wherfore we walked in grete derkenes</p>
+<p>The whiche to me was a grete heuynes</p>
+<p>For Lucyna eke dyd her shrowde</p>
+<p>Vnder a blacke and mysty clowde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+For she was horned and no thynge cleere</p>
+<p>And entred into the sygne of caprycorne</p>
+<p>Ryght ferre from phebus fulgent speere</p>
+<p>And not ayenst hym the crowne had worne</p>
+<p>I went vp and downe tyll on the morne</p>
+<p>That phebus his golden reyes dyd sprede</p>
+<p>Than dyscrecyon ferther forth me lede</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Amonge thornes sharpe &amp; bestes wylde</p>
+<p>There was the lyon the wolf &amp; the bere</p>
+<p>But I coude mete nother man ne chylde</p>
+<p>But many serpentes that dyde me fere</p>
+<p>And by a swete smelle I knewe a pantere</p>
+<p>So forth I went by longe contynuaunce</p>
+<p>Tyll that I sawe an herber of pleasaunce</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+To whiche I toke anone my waye</p>
+<p>Where that I sawe a lady excellent</p>
+<p>Rydynge on a goote in fresshe arraye</p>
+<p>Ryght yonge of age &amp; lusty of entent</p>
+<p>Prayenge me to her for to assent</p>
+<p>As to fulfyll the flesshly pleasure</p>
+<p>Whiche she desyred me out of mesure</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 54 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Nay sayd dyscrecyon that may not be</p>
+<p>No sayd I in no maner of wyse</p>
+<p>To her request I wyll now agree</p>
+<p>But euermore here foule lust despyse</p>
+<p>For I my selfe do now aduyse</p>
+<p>To kepe me chast that I may mary</p>
+<p>Fayre dame Clennes that noble lady</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic54.png" width = "361" height = "379"
+alt = "riches riding an elephant">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<span class = "pagenum">ee .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 55 -->
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capS.png" width = "48" height = "40"
+alt = "S(So)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">S</span>O forth I went walkynge my iournay</p>
+<p>Metynge a lady olde and amyable</p>
+<p>Syttynge in a castell both fressh and gay</p>
+<p>On an olyphauntes backe in strength so stable</p>
+<p>Whiche it to bere was good and able</p>
+<p>Hauynge in her hande a cup of golde</p>
+<p>Sette with perles ryght many afolde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+She sayd she was the lady of rychesse</p>
+<p>The quene of welth and worldely glory</p>
+<p>Praynge me to company with her noblenesse</p>
+<p>And she than wolde promote me shortely</p>
+<p>To innumerable ryches and make me worthy</p>
+<p>Where I am poore and sette by nought</p>
+<p>By her to worshyp I sholde be brought</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Vnto her I answered I wolde not so</p>
+<p>As for to hunt in the parke of pryde</p>
+<p>The whiche to Clennes is mortall fo</p>
+<p>But with Dyscrecyon I wyll abyde</p>
+<p>Whiche doth a wyfe for me prouyde</p>
+<p>By whome I shall haue the possessyowne</p>
+<p>Of heuenly kyngdome &amp; grete renowne</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+So forth I went and had grete trauayle</p>
+<p>Without the comfort of ony persone</p>
+<p>Saue of dyscrecyon whiche dyd me counsayle</p>
+<p>As she went walkynge with me alone</p>
+<p>Vnto her I made full grete mone</p>
+<p>And lykened the wyldernes by morall scence</p>
+<p>Vnto worldely trouble by good experyence</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 56 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+She sayd the fyrst lady that I dyd mete</p>
+<p>Iclyped was dame Sensualyte</p>
+<p>Whiche can well flater with wordes swete</p>
+<p>Causynge a man to fall into fragylyte</p>
+<p>And for to haunt the carnall freylte</p>
+<p>Whiche vnto clennes is abhomynable</p>
+<p>For they in werke be gretely varyable</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The seconde was pryde enduyd with couetyse</p>
+<p>A lady of ryght fruytles medytacyon</p>
+<p>Delytynge gretly in the synne of auaryce</p>
+<p>The whiche is cause of her dampnacyon</p>
+<p>For she by her fals supportacyon</p>
+<p>Blyndeth many a mannes conscyence</p>
+<p>And dryueth ryght oft fer in absence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+So ferther I went tyll at the last</p>
+<p>I was in a mase goynge in and oute</p>
+<p>Ther was none other way I was agast</p>
+<p>But forth I walked in grete doute</p>
+<p>Now here now there and so rounde aboute</p>
+<p>Than sayd vnto me dame Dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>Ye are in the besynes of worldely fastyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Therein I trauayled by longe space</p>
+<p>Tyll that I mette a lady gloryous</p>
+<p>Indued with vertue and grete grace</p>
+<p>To whom I sayd o lady precyous</p>
+<p>As ye seme to be good and vertuous</p>
+<p>I you beseche now without delaye</p>
+<p>Vnto dame Clennes to teche me the waye</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">ee .v.</span>
+<!-- png 57 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+I Sapyence now wyll shewe to the</p>
+<p>The ryght waye vnto fayre clennes</p>
+<p>And yf thou wylt be ruled by me</p>
+<p>Thou shalt mary that noble prynces</p>
+<p>Yes that wyll I sayd than douteles</p>
+<p>Dyscrecyon sayd she wolde be my suerte</p>
+<p>Sapyence sayd none better myght be</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dyscrecyon to dame sapyence</p>
+<p>Welcome to vs my syster dere</p>
+<p>And I to her dyd humble reuerence</p>
+<p>Saynge who had went to fynde you here</p>
+<p>Yes she sayd I haue ben neere</p>
+<p>You often tymes syth my departynge</p>
+<p>And haue ben cause of your goode gydynge</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_x" id = "cap_x">
+Capitulum .x.</a></h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capC.png" width = "44" height = "38"
+alt = "C(Come)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">C</span>Ome on your waye walke on a pace</p>
+<p>For ye longe for to haue a syght</p>
+<p>Of dame Clennes so clere a face</p>
+<p>So goodely of body in beauty bryght</p>
+<p>That there can not be so fayre a wyght</p>
+<p>So forth we walked to a ryuer syde</p>
+<p>That ebbed and flowed at euery tyde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than I saw a castell a pales royall</p>
+<p>Bylded with marble blacke as the gette</p>
+<p>With glasse wyndowes as clere as crystall</p>
+<p>Whiche on the other syde was sette</p>
+<p>No man to the castell myght gette</p>
+<p>But ouer the water on a lytell brydge</p>
+<p>Not halfe so brode as a hous rydge</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 58 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+But as I cast myn eye than asyde</p>
+<p>I saw a lady wounderous fayre</p>
+<p>Demure of contenaunce without pryde</p>
+<p>That went her selfe for to repayre</p>
+<p>By the water syde to take the ayre</p>
+<p>Beholde and se than sayd dame sapyence</p>
+<p>Yonder is dame Clennes the sterre of excellence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Full glad was I than in my mynde</p>
+<p>For to se that flour of complacence</p>
+<p>The syght of her dyd my herte bynde</p>
+<p>Euer her to loue with percynge influence</p>
+<p>Vnto her I sayd o well of contynence</p>
+<p>Vnto your grace fayne wolde I go</p>
+<p>Ner lettynge of this water blo</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+To me she answered than agayne</p>
+<p>Saynge this worlde withouten mys</p>
+<p>Is but a vanyte no thynge certayne</p>
+<p>In the lyke wyse as this water is</p>
+<p>Ye can not come to me now ywys</p>
+<p>But by that brydge that goth ouer</p>
+<p>This stormy troublous &amp; wawy water</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Therof sayd sapyence he shall not lette</p>
+<p>Well sayd Clennes be you his gyde</p>
+<p>And dyscrecyon also for to be sette</p>
+<p>For to vpholde hym vnto the other syde</p>
+<p>That he do not in the water slyde</p>
+<p>So to the brydge they dyde me lede</p>
+<p>I quacked than for fere and drede</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">ee .vi.</span>
+<!-- png 59 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+I sawe there wryten this lytterall sence</p>
+<p>No man this brydge may ouer go</p>
+<p>But he be pure without neglygence</p>
+<p>And stedfast in goddes byleue also</p>
+<p>Yf he be ignoraunt and do not so</p>
+<p>He must nedys into this water fall</p>
+<p>Ouer the heed and be drowned with all</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+They led me ouer this brydge so peryllous</p>
+<p>Tyll that I came to a preuy place</p>
+<p>Where were wryten with letters gloryous</p>
+<p>This is the kyngdome of grete grace</p>
+<p>No man by yonde this marke may trace</p>
+<p>But yf he be brought in by dame wysedome</p>
+<p>If he so be he is moche welcome</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+So forthermore yet forth we went</p>
+<p>Into a hall that was solacyous</p>
+<p>Made of precyous stones splendent</p>
+<p>That theym to se it was ryght wounderous</p>
+<p>They were there so gretly plenteuous</p>
+<p>That the hall paued was for the nones</p>
+<p>With none other grauell but precyous stones</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 60 -->
+
+<!-- P1 wrote "Illustration of The King of Love, a winged crowned
+figure, bearing an arrow in his right hand and a torch in his left, &c."
+-->
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic60.png" width = "363" height = "387"
+alt = "King of Love as described in text">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+There was dame Clennes that lady gent</p>
+<p>And eke her fader the kynge of loue</p>
+<p>He satte in a chayre ryght clere and excellent</p>
+<p>At the vpper ende of the hall aboue</p>
+<p>He satte styll and dyd not remoue</p>
+<p>Gyrde with wylowes and myght not se</p>
+<p>No maner a thynge in his degre</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">cc .vii.</span>
+<!-- png 61 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+He had two wynges ryght large and grete</p>
+<p>And his body also was naked</p>
+<p>And a dart in his ryght hand was sette</p>
+<p>And a torche in his left hand brenned</p>
+<p>A botell aboute his necke was hanged</p>
+<p>His one leg armed and naked the other</p>
+<p>Hym for to se it was a wonder</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Sapyence bad me meruayll no thynge</p>
+<p>For she wold shewe me the sygnifycacyon</p>
+<p>Why he so sate by shorte rekenynge</p>
+<p>Accordynge to a morylyzacyon<a class = "tag" name = "tagB4" id =
+"tagB4" href = "#noteB">B</a></p>
+<p>Now of the fyrste to make relacyon</p>
+<p>Loue sholde be gyrde faste with stabylyte</p>
+<p>Without whiche loue can haue no suerte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Loue may not se but is alway blynde</p>
+<p>And wenyth no man can haue perseueraũce</p>
+<p>Where that he loueth by naturall kynde</p>
+<p>But he do shewe hym by wordes of vteraũce</p>
+<p>Trught he bewreyeth hym by contenaunce</p>
+<p>For hard it wyll be loue so to couere</p>
+<p>But that som man shall it perceuere</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also his nakednes doth sygnyfy</p>
+<p>That true loue no thynge ellys desyreth</p>
+<p>But the very persone and eke body</p>
+<p>That he so well and feruentely loueth</p>
+<p>His wynges also well betokenyth</p>
+<p>That his mynde fleeth vnto the persone</p>
+<p>That he doth loue so well alone</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 62 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+And also loue is stryken with a sharpe darte</p>
+<p>That maketh a man for to complayn</p>
+<p>Whan that it hath wounded sore his herte</p>
+<p>It brenneth hote lyke fyre certeyn</p>
+<p>Than loue his purpose wolde fayne atteyn</p>
+<p>And is euermore both hoot and drye</p>
+<p>Tyll his lady gyue hym drynke of mercy</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+His one legge is armed to defende</p>
+<p>The ryght that longeth vnto amyte</p>
+<p>And wronge loue for to amende</p>
+<p>His naked legge betokeneth charyte</p>
+<p>That is the Ioye of grete felycyte</p>
+<p>So charyte ryght loue and good concorde</p>
+<p>With stablynes reygneth in this myghty lorde</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_xi" id = "cap_xi">
+Capitulum .xi.</a></h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capT.png" width = "54" height = "39"
+alt = "T(Than)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">T</span>Han forth me led good dame Sapyence</p>
+<p>Afore that myghty lordes mageste</p>
+<p>Come on she sayd put the in presence</p>
+<p>That thou mayst se dame clennes beaute</p>
+<p>Ponder in thy mynde by veryte</p>
+<p>That so fayre as she was not quene helyn</p>
+<p>Quene Ipolyte or yonge Polyxyn</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This lady is clene without corrupcyon</p>
+<p>And wereth thre crownes for her vyrgynyte</p>
+<p>One is for people of perfyt relygyon</p>
+<p>An other for maydens kepynge chastyte</p>
+<p>The therde for true wedowes as y<sup>u</sup> mayst se</p>
+<p>I wyll the now to her fader present</p>
+<p>Her for to mary yf she wyll consent</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">cc .viii.</span>
+<!-- png 63 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame sapyence o noble emperour</p>
+<p>O souerayne lorde and royall potestate</p>
+<p>O vyctoryous prynce &amp; famous conquerour</p>
+<p>O kynge of loue and seaser of debate</p>
+<p>To the no creature may say chekmate</p>
+<p>I present the now this vertuous knyght</p>
+<p>For to mary clennes your doughter bryght</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I thanke you he sayd for your good wyll</p>
+<p>But he that to Clennes maryed must be</p>
+<p>He must my commaundement fyrste fulfyll</p>
+<p>As to scomfyte the dragon with heedes thre</p>
+<p>That is a serpent of grete subtylte</p>
+<p>Whiche well betokeneth as we do fynde</p>
+<p>The worlde the flesshe &amp; the deuyll by kynde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Sapyence sayd I sholde not fayle</p>
+<p>To do his commaũdement for Clennes sake</p>
+<p>As for to sle the dragon in batayle</p>
+<p>That lay in a marys in a grete lake</p>
+<p>Whiche was moche stynkynge foule &amp; blake</p>
+<p>Wysedome bade me be not aferde</p>
+<p>For she wolde gyue me a shelde and swerde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And arme me also with fayre armure</p>
+<p>To vaynquysshe that dragon so ferse &amp; grete</p>
+<p>She sayd it sholde be so good and sure</p>
+<p>That I no harme of hym sholde gete</p>
+<p>Though he his teth on me had sete</p>
+<p>Yet sholde I slee hym for all his myght</p>
+<p>By my grete strokes whan I dyd fyght</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 64 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Fyrst she my legge harneys sette on</p>
+<p>And after my plackerd of grete ryches</p>
+<p>She armed me her selfe alone</p>
+<p>And laced my helmet of her gentylnes</p>
+<p>I thanked her for her grete goodnes</p>
+<p>And gaue me my swerde and sheld also</p>
+<p>Saynge lete vs to the dragon go</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This is the armure for the soule</p>
+<p>That in his epystole wrote saynt Poule</p>
+<p>Good hope thy legge harneys shall be</p>
+<p>The habergyn of ryghtwysnes gyrde w<sup>t</sup> chastyte</p>
+<p>Thy plackarde of besynes w<sup>t</sup> braũches of almes dede</p>
+<p>Thy shelde of beleue and mekenes for the hede</p>
+<p>Thy swerde shall be the to defend</p>
+<p>The worde of god the deuyll to bl[ey]nde<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagC" id = "tagC" href = "#noteC">C</a></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">ff .i.</span>
+<!-- png 65 -->
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic65.png" width = "363" height = "380"
+alt = "the three-headed dragon">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dame sapyence &amp; I dyd take our lycence</p>
+<p>Of the kynge of loue in vertue depured</p>
+<p>And of his doughter shynynge in excellence</p>
+<p>Whiche to me sayd with wordes assured</p>
+<p>O vertuous knyght you for me haue dured</p>
+<p><ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘Ingrete’ without space">In grete</ins> wo &amp; payne
+but thynke you verely</p>
+<p>To scomfyt that dragon by wysedome shortly</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 66 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than went we forth to that serpent</p>
+<p>In merueylous trauayle of sorowe and bale</p>
+<p>By that tyme the daye ryght fayre was spent</p>
+<p>And phebus his course began to auale</p>
+<p>But at the last we came into a dale</p>
+<p>Wher we felt the sauer of a dungeon</p>
+<p>Of the foule and stynkynge dragon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Nere to that dragon there was a way</p>
+<p>That men vsed vpon a fayre hyll</p>
+<p>Vnto hyghe heuen so fressh and gay</p>
+<p>But that dragon lette theym theyr wyll</p>
+<p>And by the way he dyd theym kyll</p>
+<p>Bryngynge theym vnto the dungeon</p>
+<p>Iclyped the place of grete oblyuyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I had not be there halfe an houre</p>
+<p>But that this dragon me approched</p>
+<p>As though that he wolde me deuoure</p>
+<p>He so fersly than on me marched</p>
+<p>The batayle bytwene vs longe contynued</p>
+<p>But he had me ryght sone ouercome</p>
+<p>If I had not helpe of dame wysedome</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+I strake at hym fast with my swerde</p>
+<p>And with my shelde dyd me defende</p>
+<p>Wysedome bad me not be aferde</p>
+<p>But my stroke that for to amende</p>
+<p>As fer as my myght weld extende</p>
+<p>So by her wordes I plucked vp myn herte</p>
+<p>And dyd than vnto the dragon sterte</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">ff .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 67 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But he caught me than in his clawes</p>
+<p>And so we wrasteled longe to gyder</p>
+<p>But he hyld me sharpely in his pawes</p>
+<p>Tyll wysedom my feblenesse dyd consyder</p>
+<p>Beholde she sayd dame clennes yonder</p>
+<p>Than as a syde I cast all my syght</p>
+<p>I sawe that lady so pure and bryght</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+My strength than dobeled an hundred folde</p>
+<p>And I from hym brake by vertuous prowes</p>
+<p>My herte was warme that afore was colde</p>
+<p>With the cõfortable syght of fayre dame clennes</p>
+<p>Than I to hym gaue strokes of exces</p>
+<p>And with my sharpe swerde cut of anone</p>
+<p>Two of his heedes leuynge hym but one</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+These two heedes by good morall sens</p>
+<p>The worlde and the flesshe do sygnyfy</p>
+<p>As I in scrypture haue intellygence</p>
+<p>The fyrste the worlde that is transytory</p>
+<p>Lyeth bytwene man and heuenly glory</p>
+<p><ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘Lettyuge’">Lettynge</ins> hym often of his passage</p>
+<p>If it of hym can gete auauntage</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The seconde is the flesshly desyre</p>
+<p>That troubleth a man ryght sore within</p>
+<p>Settynge his courage vpon a fyre</p>
+<p>Causynge hym to enclyne to dedely syn</p>
+<p>His flessh the batayll of hym doth wyn</p>
+<p>Often bryngynge hym into dampnacyon</p>
+<p>If repentaunce were not his saluacyon</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 68 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Repentaunce alway requyreth mercy</p>
+<p>And penaunce to god is a satisfaccyon</p>
+<p>For god desyreth euermore truely</p>
+<p>An humble herte full of <ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘contrycyon’">contrycon</ins></p>
+<p>And the worlde desyreth restytucyon</p>
+<p>Of goodes that haue be goten wrongfully</p>
+<p>To be restored vnto the ryghtfull party</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whan I by wysedom had won the vyctory</p>
+<p>Of these two heedes I was ryght glad</p>
+<p>His thyrde heed marched ayenst me sharpely</p>
+<p>But I my swerd in my hand had</p>
+<p>Strykynge at hym with strokes sad</p>
+<p>And blode of hym coude I drawe none</p>
+<p>For he had nother flesshe ne bone</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But at the last I dyd hym vaynquysshe</p>
+<p>Dryuynge hym home to his derke regyon</p>
+<p>Of infernall payne that shall not fynysshe</p>
+<p>For hell is called his propre mancyon</p>
+<p>And of all other of his opynyon</p>
+<p>That do the preceptes of god forsake</p>
+<p>And to deuelyche werkes theym do be take</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+God by his ryghtwysnes made a lawe</p>
+<p>By whiche man for dedely synne is condẽpned</p>
+<p>If god his vengeaunce do not withdrawe</p>
+<p>In euerlastynge payne he sholde be prysoned</p>
+<p>But and man mercy of hym requyred</p>
+<p>With penytent hert he sholde it haue</p>
+<p>And with his mercy he wyll man saue</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_xii" id = "cap_xii">¶ Capitulum .xii.</a></h2>
+<!-- to png71 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum added"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"see endnote">ff .iiii.</ins></span>
+<!-- png 71 -->
+<!-- from png68 -->
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capW.png" width = "58" height = "55"
+alt = "W(Whan)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">W</span>Han I had scomfyte this serpent
+venymous</p>
+<p>Sapyence to me ryght gentely sayd</p>
+<p>Blessyd be god ye are so gracyous</p>
+<p>That ye shall mary Clennes the mayd</p>
+<p>But yet erwhyles ye were afrayd</p>
+<p>Ye I sayd and swet full ryght sore</p>
+<p>Tyll ye newe strength dyd me restore</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This batayll was grete &amp; longe endured</p>
+<p>Whiche caused me to be ryght wery</p>
+<p>But sapyence with her wordes me mured</p>
+<p>With walles of comfort makynge me mery</p>
+<p>Come on she sayd and walke on lyghtly</p>
+<p>Vnto the castell that we come fro</p>
+<p>I answered to her I wolde do so</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than forth we went a grete pace</p>
+<p>Tyll that we came to the castell syde</p>
+<p>There mette vs ladyes with grete solace</p>
+<p>And welcomed vs at the same tyde</p>
+<p>So fayre a sort in the worlde so wyde</p>
+<p>May not be founde by no maner of reason</p>
+<p>As I sawe there at the same season</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The fyrste lady that dyd vs mete</p>
+<p>Iclyped was dame perseueraunce</p>
+<p>Whiche to me sayd with wordes swete</p>
+<p>Blessyd be god of your good gouernaunce</p>
+<p>That hath kept you from the incomberaunce</p>
+<p>Of the serpent with the heedes thre</p>
+<p>And caused you vyctor of hym to be</p>
+<!-- to png70 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 70 -->
+<!-- from png71 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came dame fayth that lady gloryous</p>
+<p>Welcome she sayd with wordes amyable</p>
+<p>I am ryght glad ye ar so vyctoryous</p>
+<p>Of that foule dragon so abhomynable</p>
+<p>She sayd that I was euermore stable</p>
+<p>In her in dede eke worde and thought</p>
+<p>Or elles my labour had ben to nought</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than spake the lady fayre dame charyte</p>
+<p>Welcome vertue the noble veteran</p>
+<p>Sythens that ye alway haue loued me</p>
+<p>From the fyrst season that ye began</p>
+<p>Bothe in your youth &amp; syth ye were man</p>
+<p>Ye haue had me in humble reuerence</p>
+<p>And haue ben ruled by my preemynence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sayd dame prayer in my presence</p>
+<p>Ye neuer cast me in oblyuyaunce</p>
+<p>By no slouth nor wordely neglygence</p>
+<p>But haue had me in grete remembraunce</p>
+<p>Whiche hath ben to me very grete pleasaunce</p>
+<p>Wherfore welcome vertue my dere</p>
+<p>Vnto this castell that ye se here</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came fast to me dame lowelynes</p>
+<p>Clyppynge me harde with louely chere</p>
+<p>Byddynge me welcome with grete gladnes</p>
+<p>As by her contenaũce it dyd well appere</p>
+<p>Come on she sayd and walke on nere</p>
+<p>So than amonge these fayre ladyes all</p>
+<p>I went in to the grete castell hall</p>
+<!-- to png69 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum added"><ins class = "correction" title =
+"see endnote">ff .iii.</ins></span>
+<!-- png 69 -->
+<!-- from png70 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+And there met me dame clennes blyue</p>
+<p>And dame grace bare vp her trayne</p>
+<p>Whiche euer to her was affyrmatyue</p>
+<p>From whome dame clennes myght not refrayne</p>
+<p>Than sayd she to me I am ryght fayne</p>
+<p>That ye ar comen in to this place</p>
+<p>Where ye shall wedde me in short space</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Vpon my kne I kneled than downe</p>
+<p>Saynge o sterre of the blysse eterne</p>
+<p>O well of vertue and of grete renowne</p>
+<p>O dyuyne comfort moost sempyterne</p>
+<p>Whan I your beautye do so well decerne</p>
+<p>Ye set myn hert vpon a brennynge fyre</p>
+<p>With feruent loue to come to my desyre</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+To me she answered in this wyse</p>
+<p>O my dere herte my spouse so pure</p>
+<p>Why do ye not on your fete aryse</p>
+<p>You of my true loue shall be sure</p>
+<p>For ye my hert haue now in cure</p>
+<p>Lete vs go now to our fader reuerente</p>
+<p>So forthe vnto hym than we wente</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whan that we came afore his fayre face</p>
+<p>Dame clennes made curtesye vnto the grounde</p>
+<p>Saynge o fader kynge of grete grace</p>
+<p>This knyght to loue ye are now bounde</p>
+<p>And so am I for I haue often founde</p>
+<p>Grete kyndnes on hym both nyght and day</p>
+<p>For he hath loued me ryght well alway</p>
+<!-- to png72 -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 72 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Welcome he sayd ryght noble knyght</p>
+<p>How haue ye done sythens your departynge</p>
+<p>Haue ye scomfyted with your myght</p>
+<p>The merueylous dragon so gretly slynkynge<a class = "tag" name =
+"tagD" id = "tagD" href = "#noteD">D</a></p>
+<p>Ye I sayd with the power shynynge</p>
+<p>Of my maystresse good dame sapyence</p>
+<p>I dyd hym vaynquysshe by her experyence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Wher is dame Sapyence than sayd he</p>
+<p>And eke her syster dame dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>Syr I sayd they are comen with me</p>
+<p>And they haue had me in iurisdyccyon</p>
+<p>Syns my departynge without destruccyon</p>
+<p>Than spake dame sapyence by her faculte</p>
+<p>Vnto that myghty lordes mageste</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Saynge this knyght than cleped vertue</p>
+<p>Hath loued your doughter by longe contynuaũce</p>
+<!-- since he first learned of her existence, two pages ago -->
+<p>With stable loue so faythfull and true</p>
+<p>And for her sake hath put to vteraunce</p>
+<p>The thre heeded dragon by wyse puruyaunce</p>
+<p>Wherfore me thynke he ought to mary</p>
+<p>Your doughter Clennes that noble lady</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The kynge sayd me thynke the same</p>
+<p>If that my doughter wyll agre</p>
+<p>And she do not she moche is to blame</p>
+<p>Consyderynge his wysedome &amp; grete beaute</p>
+<p>Come hyder he sayd my doughter fre</p>
+<p>To be wyfe to vertue wyll ye consent</p>
+<p>Ye fader she sayd with hole entent</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">gg .i.</span>
+<!-- png 73 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than he called vnto his presence</p>
+<p>Perseueraunce charyte and fydelyte</p>
+<p>With lowlynes prayer and intellygence</p>
+<p>Shewynge vnto theym the certeynte</p>
+<p>How clennes his doughter wedded shall be</p>
+<p>Vnto me now vertu in all godely hast</p>
+<p>By fore that thre dayes be ryght fully past</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+He called me than to his magnyfycence</p>
+<p>Byddynge me go to bed and to rest</p>
+<p>In the chaumbre of clene conscyence</p>
+<p>Than so to do I thought it the best</p>
+<p>For phebus was tourned into the west</p>
+<p>So sapyence and I went forthe to bed</p>
+<p>For lake of rest oppressed was my hed</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A lytyll welp within this chaumbre was</p>
+<p>That lay wakynge and barked alway</p>
+<p>That no man in to it sholde passe</p>
+<p>That wolde with conscyence make a fray</p>
+<p>I dyd slepe there tyll that it was day</p>
+<p>Than vp I rose and made me redy</p>
+<p>Callynge vnto me dame sapyence shortely</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Saynge vnto her o lady and maystres</p>
+<p>O comfortable salue vnto euery sore</p>
+<p>O fontayne of welth and carbuncle of clernes</p>
+<p>Without ye helpe me I am forlore</p>
+<p>Wherfore I shewe you as now before</p>
+<p>Without I mary fayre dame clennes</p>
+<p>I shall endure in mortall heuynes</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 74 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Therof sayd she be no thynge adred</p>
+<p>For ye shall mary here ryght soone</p>
+<p>By me your mater shall be well sped</p>
+<p>And the same daye it shall be doone</p>
+<p>Aboute the houre truely of noone</p>
+<p>And there shall be at your good dyner</p>
+<p>Charyte fayth penaunce and prayer</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dame sapyence led me into a gardeyn</p>
+<p>Where Clennes was amonge floures swete</p>
+<p>Her to repayre without dysdeyn</p>
+<p>As I to her wente she dyd me mete</p>
+<p>Bryngynge me a floure called the margarete <!-- daisy?! --></p>
+<p>Whiche is a floure ryght swete and precyous</p>
+<p>Indued with beaute and moche vertuous</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This floure I kyst often ryght swetely</p>
+<p>Settynge it nere vnto my hert</p>
+<p>Dame Clennes loked vpon me louely</p>
+<p>Saynge that I sholde not depert</p>
+<p>Tyll she had shewed me a grete couert</p>
+<p>So with her I wente without delay</p>
+<p>Where byrdes sate on many a spray</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+By this tyme phebus had begon</p>
+<p>His ascencyall cours in grete bryghtnes</p>
+<p>In to the sygne of the fierous lyon</p>
+<p>Exylynge the fenerous frosty coldnes</p>
+<p>And depryuynge the noxyall derkenes</p>
+<p>And also <ins class = "correction" title =
+"error for ‘sepherus’?">setherus</ins> his fragraunt breth</p>
+<p>Dystylled had vpon euery heth</p>
+<!-- Whan Zephirus eke with his swete breeth / Inspired hath in every
+holt and heeth -->
+
+<span class = "pagenum">gg .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 75 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than to her I sayd my lady dere</p>
+<p>Beholde this weder so clere and fayre</p>
+<p>How royall walkynge that it is here</p>
+<p>Lyke a place of pleasure you to repayre</p>
+<p>Amonge the floures so swete of ayre</p>
+<p>An other she had as she me tolde</p>
+<p>Bryghter than phebus a thousande folde</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This is a place of recreacyon</p>
+<p>My mynde to comfort after study</p>
+<p>In welth pleasure and delectacyon</p>
+<p>For yf I sholde my selfe applye</p>
+<p>Euer to pray to god an hye</p>
+<p>Without this place I may not be sure</p>
+<p>In other tyme in prayer to endure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But the other gardyn is celestyall</p>
+<p>That longeth to vs by enherytaunce</p>
+<p>And is entayled to vs in generall</p>
+<p>For our clene lyfe &amp; vertuous gouernaũce</p>
+<p>Who that vs loueth without doubtaũce<a class = "tag" name = "tagE" id
+= "tagE" href = "#noteE">E</a></p>
+<p>With vs shall go to eternall glory</p>
+<p>In short space or elles to purgatory</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than forth we went to her fader royall</p>
+<p>Whiche welcomed vs by grete humylyte</p>
+<p>Saynge my doughter dere and specyall</p>
+<p>Ye shall this daye by grete solempnyte</p>
+<p>Be wedded to vertue with benygnyte</p>
+<p>We kneled downe and thanked his grace</p>
+<p>And than forth we went to an other place</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 76 -->
+<h2><a name = "cap_xiii" id = "cap_xiii">
+Capitulum .xiii.</a></h2>
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/pic76.png" width = "370" height = "391"
+alt = "Virtue marries Dame Cleanness">
+</p>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capI.png" width = "41" height = "37"
+alt = "I(In)">
+</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">I</span>N to a chapell gayly gloryfyed</p>
+<p>And also hanged with cloth of tyssue</p>
+<p>A place it was ryght gretly deyfyed</p>
+<p>The roof was set with stones of vertue</p>
+<p>As with rubyes and emeraudes bryght of hue</p>
+<p>The rood loft was yuery garnysshed with gold</p>
+<p>Set with dyamoundes ryght many a fold</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">gg .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 77 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Ther I dyd se the arke of god</p>
+<p>With many sayntes that suffred martyrdom</p>
+<p>And also I sawe there Moyses rod</p>
+<p>And saynt Austyn that brought crystendom</p>
+<p>Into englonde by his grete wysedom</p>
+<p>And the xii. apostles that fast gan wryte</p>
+<p>Of our byleue and eke dyd endyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+There was saynt peter the noble pope</p>
+<!-- Paul was invited, but made up an excuse -->
+<p>That dyd stande on the ryght syde</p>
+<p>Of the hyghe auter in a ryche cope</p>
+<p>Dame clennes and I dyd there abyde</p>
+<p>And vp there came than at that tyde</p>
+<p>Dame prayer with her syster charyte</p>
+<p>And eke dame penytence with humylyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came dame fayth anone to vs</p>
+<p>With ryghtwysenes peas and dame mercy</p>
+<p>With dame contrycyon gay and gloryous</p>
+<p>Whiche after theym dyd not longe tary</p>
+<p>And than came bede and eke saynt gregory</p>
+<p>With saynt ambrose the noble doctour</p>
+<p>Whiche of our fayth was good protectour</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came the kynge of feruent loue</p>
+<p>Led with argos in goodely wyse</p>
+<p>Without whome he myght not remoue</p>
+<p>From his sete by ryght prudent gyse</p>
+<p>Who loueth argos wyll not deuyse</p>
+<p>Nor yet begynne no maner of thynge</p>
+<p>Without in his mynde he se good endynge</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 78 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also saynt Ierome the noble cardynall</p>
+<p>Came vp to vs by humble reuerence</p>
+<p>Whiche euermore was a good doctrynall</p>
+<p>Prechynge to vs by vertuous influence</p>
+<p>With exhortacyon of dyuyne complacence</p>
+<p>And than foure bysshoppes in grete dygnyte</p>
+<p>Ryght connynge cernynge vnto the deyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+On hym wayted by grete dylygence</p>
+<p>And neuer dyd forsake his company</p>
+<p>But hym obeyed by good experyence</p>
+<p>And from his cõmaundement dyd not vary</p>
+<p>But in the chapell they dyd there tary</p>
+<p>And than saynt Ierome wente to the kynge</p>
+<p>Of feruent loue vnto hym saynge</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O amyable kynge seasour of debate</p>
+<p>O ioyner of vertue and well of vnyte</p>
+<p>O royall emperour o souerayne estate</p>
+<p>O messenger of feruent amyte</p>
+<p>O feruent dart of cordyall pryuyte</p>
+<p>Here is your doughter fayre dame clennes</p>
+<p>That must be maryed with good ryghtwysenes</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Vnto vertue the louely knyght</p>
+<p>Whiche the batayle now hath won</p>
+<p>By dame sapyence helpe and myght</p>
+<p>Of the foule thre heeded dragon</p>
+<p>This maryage by me shall be don</p>
+<p>Go ye now streyght into your tabernacle</p>
+<p>Whiche is to you moost propre habytacle</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">gg .iv.</span>
+<!-- png 79 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than the souerayne kynge to hym dyd call</p>
+<p>Dame fayth dyscrecyon and dame sapyence</p>
+<p>With dame contrycyon &amp; charyte withall</p>
+<p>And eke dame mercy and dame penytence</p>
+<p>Vnto theym saynge ye haue intellygence</p>
+<p>That this daye clennes my doughter dere</p>
+<p>Shall be maryed to vertue that ye se here</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than they dyde all come vnto me</p>
+<p>With dame peas and dame grace</p>
+<p>And after theym came dame virgynyte</p>
+<p>Whiche in her armes dyd me enbrace</p>
+<p>Saynge that I was to her grete solace</p>
+<p>Gyuynge me vnto my good maryage</p>
+<p>A gowne of syluer for grete aparage</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+She gafe an other of the same</p>
+<p>Vnto dame clennes puttynge it one</p>
+<p>Vpon her back withouten blame</p>
+<p>After whiche Clennes wente anone</p>
+<p>Vnto her fader her selfe alone</p>
+<p>And I with saynt Ierome dyd there tary</p>
+<p>To wed dame Clennes that noble lady</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And all the ladyes with meke contenence</p>
+<p>Stode on a rewe besyde the closette</p>
+<p>Of Clennes fader without resystence</p>
+<p>Whiche hanged was gayly with blue veluet</p>
+<p>And with perles &amp; rubyes rychely set</p>
+<p>Than forth came Clennes with two aũgels led</p>
+<p>Whiche theyr golden wynges abrode dyd spred</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 80 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Dame grace after her bare vp her trayn</p>
+<p>And .xv. ladyes her dyd ensue</p>
+<p>Fyrst went dame humylyte certayn</p>
+<p>And after her than dyd pursue</p>
+<p>Dame fayth in stablenes so true</p>
+<p>Ledynge with her the fayre dame pease</p>
+<p>That welth and ryches doth well encrease</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than went dame reason with perseueraũce</p>
+<p>And than dame mercy with <ins class = "correction" title =
+"usual spelling is ‘contrycyon’">contricyon</ins></p>
+<p>And than exersyce with remembraunce</p>
+<p>After whome went dame restytucyon</p>
+<p>With dame prayer and dame confessyon</p>
+<p>And dame charyte with obedyence</p>
+<p>And after theym came fayre dame abstynence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Saynt Ierome dyd make there coniunccyon</p>
+<p>Of dame Clennes and me in matrimonye</p>
+<p>With heuenly wordes and vertuous fastyon</p>
+<p>And aungels came downe from heuen hye</p>
+<p>As saynt Mychell with gabryell &amp; the gerachye</p>
+<p>To helpe saynt peter the masse to synge</p>
+<p>The organs went and the bellys dyd rynge</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+My penne for feblenes may not now wryte</p>
+<p>Nor my tonge for domnes may not expresse</p>
+<p>Nor my mynde for neglygence may not endyte</p>
+<p>Of the aungelycall Ioye and swete gladnesse</p>
+<p>That I sawe there without heuynesse</p>
+<p>And whan this weddynge holy was fynysshed</p>
+<p>The aungels than to heuen vanysshed</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">gg .v.</span>
+<!-- png 81 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than downe I went in to the hall</p>
+<p>Where ordeyned was by grete solempnyte</p>
+<p>A dyner of vertue moost celestyall</p>
+<p>To whiche came my wyf full of benygnyte</p>
+<p>On the one syde led by good auctoryte</p>
+<p>With saynt Edmond the noble kynge</p>
+<p>And martyr whiche dyd her downe brynge</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And she was led on the other syde</p>
+<p>With saynt Edward the kynge and confessour</p>
+<p>And so bytwene theym wente this bryde</p>
+<p>To whom all the ladyes made grete honour</p>
+<p>As alway seruynge her without errour</p>
+<p>And a lytell whyle anone after her</p>
+<p>Ergos brought downe her noble fader</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The kynge of loue than sat hym downe</p>
+<p>At the table for that tyme to ette</p>
+<p>Causynge dame Clennes for her renowne</p>
+<p>On his one syde than for to be sette</p>
+<p>And I on the other without ony lette</p>
+<p>And besyde me sapyence and dyscrecyon</p>
+<p>And than by theym sat dame contrycyon</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than sate saynt Edwarde with vyrgynyte</p>
+<p>And afore hym sate dame obedyence</p>
+<p>Saynt Edmond and dame charyte</p>
+<p>And than dame prayer with dame abstynence</p>
+<p>And than dame fayth shynynge in excellence</p>
+<p>With saynt Ierome and saynt Austeyn</p>
+<p>And than saynt gregory without dysdeyn</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 82 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+There was two aungels holdynge fast</p>
+<p>The table cloth at euery ende</p>
+<p>Knelynge downe humbly and stedfast</p>
+<p>Whose seruyce no man coude amende</p>
+<p>Other there were that dyd entende</p>
+<p>Vs for to serue with theyr grete dylygence</p>
+<p>That in theym founde coude be no neglygence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+There dyd saynt Peter by grete holynes</p>
+<p>Serue vs of our swete lordes body</p>
+<p>Fyrst he serued the fader of clennes</p>
+<p>And after that he serued her shortly</p>
+<p>With charyte fayth and dame mercy</p>
+<p>And I with dyscrecyon and dame sapyence</p>
+<p>Of saynt Peter was serued with grete indulgence</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+So dame obedyence with contrycyon</p>
+<p>With saynt Edwarde and virgynyte</p>
+<p>In lyke wyse were serued without corrupcyon</p>
+<p>And saynt Edmond with dame charyte</p>
+<p>And saynt Ierome with dame humylyte</p>
+<p>With saynt austyn and saynt gregory</p>
+<p>What nede I lenger of theym specyfy</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This was a fest moost swete and precyous</p>
+<p>To fede the soule with dyuyne comfort</p>
+<p>This was a mete moost dere and gloryous</p>
+<p>That causeth all man for to resorte</p>
+<p>To sempyternall lyfe and comforte</p>
+<p>Than saynt ambrose beynge dyuyne</p>
+<p>After our mete gafe vs good wyne</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">gg .vi.</span>
+<!-- png 83 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+By this tyme was I .lx. yere olde</p>
+<!-- this was a very long meal -->
+<p>And desyred for to lyue in peace</p>
+<p>For I began to growe two folde</p>
+<p>And my feblenes dyde sore encreace</p>
+<p>For nature her strength than dyd seace</p>
+<p>Wherfore after this ghoostly fest</p>
+<p>I thought with my wyfe to abyde in rest</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And I to her sayd with louynge chere</p>
+<p>O my swete spouse moost fayre and beauteous</p>
+<p>To me euer ryght leyfe and dere</p>
+<p>Where is your lande that is solacyous</p>
+<p>Ye shewyd me of your gardeyn gloryous</p>
+<p>Vnto whiche now fayne wolde I go</p>
+<p>There for to dwell and you also</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Syr she sayd the aungell raphaell</p>
+<p>Shall with these martyrs &amp; noble confessours</p>
+<p>Brynge you thyder with theym to dwell</p>
+<p>Where ye shall see all your progenytours</p>
+<p>With many sayntes and gloryous auctours</p>
+<p>This lande is heuen that to vs longeth</p>
+<p>As our euydence the gospell telleth</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came my fader in lawe to vs</p>
+<p>Saynge by ryght I dyd combynd</p>
+<p>Clennes my doughter with vertue precyous</p>
+<p>And you must I loue by naturell kynde</p>
+<p>For on you now is all my mynde</p>
+<p>Afore hym I kyst my wyfe moost swetely</p>
+<p>For we loued to gyder hote and truely</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 84 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than came my good aungell to me</p>
+<p>Causynge me with hym for to go</p>
+<p>With clennes my wyfe wher I dyd se</p>
+<p>The paynes of hell full of grete wo</p>
+<p>There was the dragon that I dyd slo</p>
+<p>Bounde with chaynes in fyer infynall</p>
+<p>With the seuen dedely synnes in generall</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than my good aungell to me sayd</p>
+<p>If ye had loued dame sensualyte</p>
+<p>The whiche with you dyd make a brayde</p>
+<p>Ye had ben dampned by ryght and equyte</p>
+<p>In to this pytte full of all iniquyte</p>
+<p>Wherfore thanke god that sent you wysedome</p>
+<p>Suche deedly perylles for to ouercome</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Also the lady with the cup of golde</p>
+<p>Is here condempned for her grete pryde</p>
+<p>In endeles payne both hote and colde</p>
+<p>Where in for synne she shall abyde</p>
+<p>This is a dongeon longe and wyde</p>
+<p>Made for theym that do synne dedely</p>
+<p>And of cryst Ihesu wyll axe no mercy</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This is a place full of all derkenes</p>
+<p>Wherin be serpentes foull and odyous</p>
+<p>This is a place of mortall heuynes</p>
+<p>Where I sawe deuyles blacke and tedyous</p>
+<p>Dampned soules turmented with hokes rygorous</p>
+<p>This is the vppermoost parte of hell</p>
+<p>In whiche paynyms dampned do dwell</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">hh .i.</span>
+<!-- png 85 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+For as moche as they lacked instruccyon</p>
+<p>For to <ins class = "correction" title =
+"text reads ‘be leue’ with space">beleue</ins> in god omnypotent</p>
+<p>They haue deserued the lesse correccyon</p>
+<p>Yet theyr payne haue none extinguysshement</p>
+<p>For they are dampned by true sentyment</p>
+<p>For theyr byleue and fals idolatry</p>
+<p>That made theyr goddes of mars &amp; mercury</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than went we doune to an other vaute</p>
+<p>Where Iewes lay in grete paynes stronge</p>
+<p>Whome deuylles tourmented by grete assaute</p>
+<p>Drawynge theym with hokes a longe</p>
+<p>For theyr opynyon so fals and wronge</p>
+<p>Whiche byleued not in the natyuyte</p>
+<p>Of Ihesu cryst and the vyrgyn Mare</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Nor yet that he dyd suffre passyon</p>
+<p>Bothe for theym and all mankynde</p>
+<p>Nother yet of his resurreccyon</p>
+<p>In theyr byleue they are so blynde</p>
+<p>Yet as in bokes wryten we do fynde</p>
+<p>That they haue ben taught many a tyme</p>
+<p>For to forsake theyr owne fals cryme</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Than went we downe to a depper vale</p>
+<p>Where crysten soules dyd weppe &amp; crye</p>
+<p>In grete sorowe payne and bale</p>
+<p>Brennynge in fyer moost hote and drye</p>
+<p>And some in Ice ryght depe dyd lye</p>
+<p>For to expresse it is impossyble</p>
+<p>The paynes there they are so horryble</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 86 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+These crysten men knowe goddes lawe</p>
+<p>And euery daye had informacyon</p>
+<p>From deuelysshe werkes theym to withdrawe</p>
+<p>That they sholde not fall in dampnacyon</p>
+<p>Yet wyll they not make sequestracyon</p>
+<p>Of goddes cõmaundement but syn deedly</p>
+<p>Therfore here are they dampned ryght <ins class = "correction" title
+= "error for ‘wysely’">wysey</ins></p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+And thou haddest set thy delectacyon</p>
+<p>In flesshely pleasure and vayne glory</p>
+<p>Thou haddest ben here without saluacyon</p>
+<p>Without thou of god had axed mercy</p>
+<p>Who that it axeth shall haue it truely</p>
+<p>Yf he be contryt and do repent</p>
+<p>That he his lyfe in yll hath spent</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This place sythens it is moost heuy</p>
+<p>Moost derke and moost ferre from lyghtnes</p>
+<p>As philosophers afferme by astronomy</p>
+<p>Is in the myddes of the erthe doutles</p>
+<p>That is a place of dyssolate derkenes</p>
+<p>Wherfore by reason it must nedes be sette</p>
+<p>In the myddes of the erthe both longe &amp; grette</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><a name = "cap_xiiii" id = "cap_xiiii">
+Capitulum .xiiii</a></h2>
+
+<div class = "poem">
+
+<p class = "dropcap">
+<img src = "images/capM.png" width = "53" height = "38"
+alt = "M(My)">
+</p>
+<p class = "stanza">
+<span class = "hidden">M</span>Y good aungell by his grete vertue</p>
+<p>Shewed me all this in a shorte space</p>
+<p>And after hym I dyd than pursue</p>
+<p>With my wyfe vnto the fayre place</p>
+<p>That we came fro full of all solace</p>
+<p>Where was my fader in the company</p>
+<p>Of many sayntes that dyd there tary</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">hh .ii.</span>
+<!-- png 87 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+My wyfe and me than for to brynge</p>
+<p>To the place of eternall glory</p>
+<p>With heuenly tewnes swetely syngynge</p>
+<p>That theym to here it was grete melody</p>
+<p>More than ony tonge can specyfy</p>
+<p>This was theyr songe so swete and gloryous</p>
+<p>That they dyd synge with voyce so vertuous</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O celestyall kynge one two and thre</p>
+<p>All people prayse the god and lorde</p>
+<p>Whiche art in heuen o noble trynyte</p>
+<p>Whose royall power and miserycorde</p>
+<p>Confermed is by thyn hye accorde</p>
+<p>On vs with trouth for to endure</p>
+<p>Withouten ende as we are sure</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Glory be to the fader almyghty</p>
+<p>And to the sone and to the holy ghoost</p>
+<p>Thre persones and one god truely</p>
+<p>Whose power neuer can be loost</p>
+<p>For he is lorde of myghtes moost</p>
+<p>And so hath ben without begynnynge</p>
+<p>And euer shall be without endynge</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Whan we were in the ayre of asure</p>
+<p>There dyd vs mete the noble Ierarchy</p>
+<p>As Cherubyn and Seraphyn so pure</p>
+<p>With other aungels in theyr company</p>
+<p>That dyd proclayme &amp; synge on hye</p>
+<p>With voyce insacyat moost melodyous</p>
+<p>To god aboue Sanctus sanctus sanctus</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 88 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+There dyd I se the planettes seuen</p>
+<p>Moue in ordre by alteracyon</p>
+<p>To merueylous for me to neuen</p>
+<p>For they seassed not theyr operacyon</p>
+<p>Some assended some made declynacyon</p>
+<p>Entrynge theyr houses of the .xii. synes</p>
+<p>Some indyrectly and some by dyrecte lynes</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+To heuen we styed a place moost gloryous</p>
+<p>Where that we dyd beholde the deyte</p>
+<p>With insaciable contenaunce moost desyrous</p>
+<p>And truely than the more that we</p>
+<p>Dyd loke vpon his souerayne beaute</p>
+<p>The more our desyre dyd encreace</p>
+<p>This is a Ioye that shall not seace</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This is a regyon moost full of swetnes</p>
+<p>This is a realme of delectacyon</p>
+<p>This is a lande of infenyte gladnes</p>
+<p>Without ony stormy tribulacyon</p>
+<p>This place is of eterne saluacyon</p>
+<p>Where aungels and sayntes for theyr solace</p>
+<p>Euermore do loke on goddes face</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+What sholde I wryte thynges of dyuynyte</p>
+<p>Or endyght of suche maters hye</p>
+<p>Sythen it no thynge longeth to my faculte</p>
+<p>Therfore of it I wyll not lenger tarye</p>
+<p>For fere that I in it sholde varye</p>
+<p>And by cause that trouth shall be my mede</p>
+<p>I wyll now leue and take me to my crede</p>
+<span class = "pagenum">hh .iii.</span>
+<!-- png 89 -->
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+So vertue and clennes by good ryght</p>
+<p>Truely in maryage ioyned must be</p>
+<p>For they loue to gyder with all theyr myght</p>
+<p>Without dyscencyon or duplycyte</p>
+<p>And they both are alway in vnyte</p>
+<p>To whome heuen by tayll generall</p>
+<p>Entayled is by a dede memoryall</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+Now are they to gyder to heuen gone</p>
+<p>There for to dwell in Ioye eternall</p>
+<p>Where that there is the heuenly trone</p>
+<p>Of our sauyour Ihesu deere &amp; specyall</p>
+<p>Who that hym loueth truely ouer all</p>
+<p>Ledynge his lyfe with vertue and clennes</p>
+<p>Shall come vnto the glory endeles</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+But in the fynysshynge of my mater</p>
+<p>To god the maker of all thynge</p>
+<p>Deuoutely now I make my prayer</p>
+<p>To saufe kynge Henry our ryghtfull kynge</p>
+<p>From all treason and dolefull mornynge</p>
+<p>And for to maynteyn the grete honour</p>
+<p>Of this swete rede rose so fayre a colour</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+This floure was kepte ryght longe in close</p>
+<p>Amonge the leuys holsom and sote</p>
+<p>And regally sprange and arose</p>
+<p>Out of the noble stoke and rote</p>
+<p>Of the rede rose tre to be our bote</p>
+<p>After our bale sente by grete grace</p>
+<p>On vs to reygne by ryght longe space</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 90 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+O lorde god what Ioye was this</p>
+<p>Vnto his moder so good and gracyous</p>
+<p>Whan that she sawe her sone I wys</p>
+<p>Of his ennemys to be so vyctoryous</p>
+<p>It caused her to be moost Ioyous</p>
+<p>And yet there of no wonder why</p>
+<p>For he was ryght longe from her truely</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+A ioyfull metynge than bytwene</p>
+<p>The moder and the sone so dere</p>
+<p>A daye of gladnes bryght and shene</p>
+<p>Fressher than phebus myddaye spere</p>
+<p>Whan her sone to vs dyd appere</p>
+<p>He dyd vs lyght with his pure bemys</p>
+<p>Quenchynge of mars the fyrous lemys</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O heuenly kynge o eternall emperoure</p>
+<p>O thre persons and one god equall</p>
+<p>I praye the to kepe from all doloure</p>
+<p>This moder with her sone in specyall</p>
+<p>With all theyr noble buddes in generall</p>
+<p>And laude be to the that dyd enhaunce</p>
+<p>Hym to his ryght and propre herytaunce</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+The whyte rose that w<sup>t</sup> tempestes troublous</p>
+<p>Aualed was and eke blowen asyde</p>
+<p>The reed rose fortyfyed and made delycyous</p>
+<p>It pleased god for hym so to prouyde</p>
+<p>That his redolent buddes shall not slyde</p>
+<p>But euer encrease and be vyctoryous</p>
+<p>Of fatall brerys whiche be contraryous</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum added">hh .iiii.</span>
+<!-- png 91 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Thus god by grace dyd well combyne</p>
+<p>The rede rose and the whyte in maryage</p>
+<p>Beynge oned ryght clere doth shyne</p>
+<p>In all clennes and vertuous courage</p>
+<p>Of whose ryght and royall lynage</p>
+<p>Prynce Henry is spronge our kynge to be</p>
+<p>After his fader by ryght good equyte</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O noble prynce Henry our seconde treasure</p>
+<p>Surmontynge in vertue &amp; myrour of beaute</p>
+<p>O geme of gentylnes &amp; lanterne of <ins class = "correction" title
+= "error for ‘pleasure’">plasure</ins></p>
+<p>O rubycound blossome and sterre of humylyte</p>
+<p>O famous bud full of benygnyte</p>
+<p>I pray to god well for to encrease</p>
+<p>Your hyghe estate in rest and pease</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O thoughfull hert for lack of connynge</p>
+<p>Now layde to slepe this longe wynters nyght</p>
+<p>Ryse vp agayne loke on the shynynge</p>
+<p>Of fayre lucyna clere and bryght</p>
+<p>Beholde eke mercury with his fayre lyght</p>
+<p>Castynge a doune his stremys mery</p>
+<p>It may well glad thyn emyspery</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+O gower fountayne moost aromatyke</p>
+<p>I the now lake for to depure</p>
+<p>My rudnes with thy lusty retoryke</p>
+<p>And also I mys as I am sure</p>
+<p>My mayster Chaucers to take the cure</p>
+<p>Of my penne for he was expert</p>
+<p>In eloquent termes subtyll and couert</p>
+
+<span class = "pagenum">||</span>
+<!-- png 92 -->
+<p class = "stanza">
+Where is now lydgate flourynge in sentence</p>
+<p>That shold my mynde forge to endyte</p>
+<p>After the termes of famous eloquence</p>
+<p>And strength my penne well for to wryte</p>
+<p>With maters fresshe of pure delyte</p>
+<p>They can not helpe me there is no remedy</p>
+<p>But for to praye to god almyghty</p>
+
+<p class = "stanza">
+For to dystyll the dewe of influence</p>
+<p>Vpon my brayn so dull and rude</p>
+<p>And to enlumyn me with his sapyence</p>
+<p>That I my rudnes may exclude</p>
+<p>And in my mater well to conclude</p>
+<p>Vnto thy pleasure and to the reders all</p>
+<p>To whome I excuse me now in generall</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2>Explicit exemplum virtutis</h2>
+
+
+<p class = "illustration">
+<img src = "images/backpage.png" width = "262" height = "318"
+alt = "printer's mark: William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde">
+</p>
+
+</div> <!-- end div maintext -->
+
+<div class = "endnote">
+
+<h4><a name = "endnote" id = "endnote">Transcriber’s Notes</a></h4>
+
+<h5>Mixed Pages</h5>
+
+<p>Two sets of three pages appear to have been printed out of order:</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+Page <b>aa.vi.</b> (11, beginning <i>Vnto her I answerde o lady
+gloryous</i>) appears before pages <b>aa.v.</b> and
+<b>aa.v.<i>verso</i></b> (9 and 10, beginning <i>Be to thy kynge euer
+true subgete</i>).</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+Pages <b>ff.iii.</b> (69, beginning <i>Whan I had scomfyte this serpent
+venymous</i>) and <b>ff.iiii.</b> (71, beginning <i>And there met me
+dame clennes blyue</i>) are transposed, with <b>ff.iii.<i>verso</i></b>
+(70, beginning <i>Than came dame fayth that lady gloryous</i>) between
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Each involves pages from the later part of a signature, so page
+numbering is absent. It is not known whether the error is from the
+original printing or from the facsimile reprint.</p>
+
+<p>Printed folio numbers show an unusual pattern:</p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+<b>aa</b>, <b>cc</b>, <b>ee</b>: 16 pages each<br>
+<b>gg</b>: 12 pages<br>
+<b>bb</b>, <b>dd</b>, <b>ff</b>, <b>hh</b>: 8 pages</p>
+
+<h5>Duplicate Chapter Heads</h5>
+
+<p>Chapter headings for .vi. and .vii. were printed near the bottom of
+the page&mdash;as main text, not catchwords&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<h5>Unusual Errors</h5>
+
+<p><a name = "noteA" id = "noteA" href = "#tagA">A.</a>
+<b>Discrecõn</b>, <b>temptacõn</b><br>
+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 word to be abbreviated.</p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/discr.png" width = "567" height = "29"
+alt = "text image"></p>
+
+<p class = "inset">
+and</p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/tempt.png" width = "573" height = "30"
+alt = "text image"></p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteB" id = "noteB">B.</a>
+In four places the printed text has an unusual letter. It has been
+transcribed as “z” or “ȝ” (yogh) according to context, though it is the
+same letterform every time:</p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/lastletter1.png" width = "237" height = "30"
+alt = "text image"> &nbsp; <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB1">text</a>
+<!-- Azia --></p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/lastletter2.png" width = "250" height = "33"
+alt = "text image"> &nbsp; <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB2">text</a>
+<!-- hiz --><p>
+<p class = "inset">
+There is no apparent reason for abbreviating “kynge” in this line.</p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/lastletter3.png" width = "246" height = "30"
+alt = "text image"> &nbsp; <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB3">text</a>
+<!-- mi[gh]t --></p>
+
+<p><img src = "images/lastletter4.png" width = "152" height = "26"
+alt = "text image"> &nbsp; <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB4">text</a>
+<!-- morylyzacyon -->
+</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteC" id = "noteC" href = "#tagC">C.</a>
+<b>bl[ey]nde</b><br>
+A small “e”, required by the rhyme, is printed above “y”, required by
+the sense.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteD" id = "noteD" href = "#tagD">D.</a>
+<b>so gretly slynkynge</b><br>
+The printed text is very slightly defective. The reading “stynkynge”
+fits the sense better, but the letterforms are closer to “sl-”.</p>
+
+<p><a name = "noteE" id = "noteE" href = "#tagE">E.</a>
+<b>doubtaũce</b><br>
+Text reads “doubtauũce”, possibly through confusion with the preceding
+line, where the “governaũce” abbreviation was required by line
+length:</p>
+<p><img src = "images/aunce.png" width = "439" height = "57"alt =
+"text image"></p>
+
+</div>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Example of Vertu, by Stephen Hawes
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Example of Vertu
+       The Example of Virtue
+
+Author: Stephen Hawes
+
+Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXAMPLE OF VERTU ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+  [Transcriber's Note:
+
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+
+  A few words such as "with" or "the" were printed as abbreviations:
+  initial "y" or "w" with small "t" or "e" above it. These are shown
+  in brackets as [the].
+
+  Two sets of three pages were out of sequence. The sections involved
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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
+
+[<>]
+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
+[<<]
+
+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
+
+
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+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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