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    The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue
    The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue
    The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue
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    The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue

    By Stephen Hawes

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue - Stephen Hawes

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      Title: The Example of Vertu

      The Example of Virtue

      Author: Stephen Hawes

      Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22415]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXAMPLE OF VERTU ***

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      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 end of the text, along with notes on a few other problems.

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      . Numerals such as .x. were printed without adjoining spaces; spacing has been silently added.

      The table of contents was part of the original text.

      ¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.

      Tabula libri

      ¶ Fyrste a prologue.

      ¶ How youth mette with discrecyon in a medowe in his dreme & was reformed by her prouerbes ca.i.

      ¶ How youth with discrecyon sayled ouer the daungerous passage of vayne glorye and arryued in a fayre Ilonde longynge to foure ladyes named Hardynes / Sapyence / fortune / & nature. ca.ii

      ¶ Of the meruaylous palays of fortune ca.iii.

      ¶ Of the triumphaunt estate of hardynes. ca.iiii.

      ¶ Of the gloryfyed towre of sapyence. ca.v.

      ¶ Of the stronge operacyons of nature ca.vi

      ¶ How these foure ladyes pleeded at the barre before Iustyce whiche of theym was moost proufytable vnto mankynde & of the Iugement of Iustyce. ca.vii.

      ¶ How after the Iugement of Iustyce / Sapyence cõmaunded Discrecõn

      A to lede youth to marye with clennes the kynge of loues doughter. ca.viii.

      ¶ How youth by the waye mette wt lechery rydynge on a gote and pryde maned with couetyse on an olyphaũtes backe in a fayre castell / & how by the ayde of dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr temptacõn

      A and how he mette with sapience in the mase of wordely besynes. capitulo.ix.

      ¶ How Sapyence & dyscrecyon ledde youth ouer the narowe brydge of vanyte of the worlde to the palays of ye kynge of loue & of his meruaylous appareyl. ca.x

      ¶ How sapyence presented youth to the kynge of loue for to mary Clennes his doughter & how he before ye maryage dyde fyght and discomfyte the dragon with thre hedys. capitulo.xi.

      ¶ How after the discomfyture of the sayd dragon he well growen in age was receyued with a farye company of ladyes and was named vertu & with all Ioye brought to the palays of the kynge of loue. ca.xii.

      ¶ Of the maryage of vertu & clennes & of ye celestyal feste how after the maryage an aungell shewed vnto theym hell / & of the dyuysyons of hell. ca.xiii.

      ¶ How vertu cleymed the enherytaunce longynge to Clennes his wyfe / & how many aungelles & sayntes brought theym to heuen / & how heuen is enteyled to Vertu and to Clennes & to all theym that loue them & folowe & procede in theyr steppes. capitulo.xiiii.

      ¶ This boke called the example of vertue was made and compyled by Stephyn hawys one of the gromes of the moost honorable chaumber of oure souerayne lorde kynge Henry the .vii. the .xix. yere of his moost noble reygne / and by hym presented to our sayd souerayne lorde chapytred & marked after this table here before sette.

      The prologe.

      Han I aduert in my remembraunce

      The famous draughtes of poetes eloquent

      Whiche theyr myndes dyd well enhaunce

      Bokes to contryue that were expedyent

      To be remembred without Impedyment

      For the profyte of humanyte

      This was the custume of antyquyte.

      I now symple and moost rude

      And naked in depured eloquence

      For dulnes rethoryke doth exclude

      Wherfore in makynge I lake intellygence

      Also consyderynge my grete neglygence

      It fereth me sore for to endyte

      But at auenture I wyll now wryte.

      As very blynde in the poetys art

      For I therof can no thynge skyll

      Wherfore I lay it all a part

      But somwhat accordynge to my wyll

      I wyll now wryte for to fulfyll

      Saynt Powles wordes and true sentement

      All that is wryten is to oure document

      O prudent Gower in langage pure

      Without corrupcyon moost facundyous

      O noble Chauser euer moost sure

      Of frutfull sentence ryght delycyous

      O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous

      Vnto you all I do me excuse

      Though I your connynge do now vse

      Explicit prologus.

      Capitulum primũ

      N Septembre in fallynge of the lefe

      Whan phebus made his declynacyon

      And all the whete gadred was in the shefe

      By radyaunt hete and operacyon

      Whan the vyrgyn had full domynacyon

      And Dyane entred was one degre

      Into the sygne of Gemyne

      Whan the golden sterres clere were splendent

      In the firmament puryfyed clere as crystall

      By imperyall

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