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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: UTF-8 + +*** 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 + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class = "mynote"> +<!-- utf-8 boilerplate --> + +<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 ||. 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 & 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 / & 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 & 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 +/ & 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 & dyscrecyon ledde youth ouer the narowe brydge of +vanyte of the worlde to the palays of y<sup>e</sup> kynge of loue & +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 & 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 & +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 & clennes & of y<sup>e</sup> +celestyal feste how after the maryage an aungell shewed vnto theym hell +/ & of the dyuysyons of hell. +<span class = "chapter">ca.xiii.</span></p> + +<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. +<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 +& 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> </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 & +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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & bestes wylde</p> +<p>There was the lyon the wolf & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & myrour of beaute</p> +<p>O geme of gentylnes & 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—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.</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"> <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB1">text</a> +<!-- Azia --></p> + +<p><img src = "images/lastletter2.png" width = "250" height = "33" +alt = "text image"> <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"> <a class = "tag" href = "#tagB3">text</a> +<!-- mi[gh]t --></p> + +<p><img src = "images/lastletter4.png" width = "152" height = "26" +alt = "text image"> <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> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Example of Vertu, by Stephen Hawes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXAMPLE OF VERTU *** + +***** This file should be named 22415-h.htm or 22415-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/4/1/22415/ + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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