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    The Assemble of Goddes
    The Assemble of Goddes
    The Assemble of Goddes
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    The Assemble of Goddes

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      The Assemble of Goddes - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Assemble of Goddes, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Assemble of Goddes

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: February 21, 2007 [EBook #20642]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ASSEMBLE OF GODDES ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Taavi Kalju and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

      Transcriber's note: Until recently this work was attributed to John Lydgate, but now most scholars consider that the author is unknown. The first mention of Lydgate's authorship of this work was made by Stephen Hawes in 1505 as one of Lydgate's seven major works. But many scholars have doubted over the years that this poem was written by Lydgate, because the style used doesn't greatly resemble the style of Lydgate's other works, and the vocabulary is somewhat more modern than Lydgate is known to have used. Modern scholars believe that this work was written between 1478 and 1483 (about forty years after Lydgate's death). Analysis of style and vocabulary have led scholars to conclude that the author might have been a woman. For further information about this poem please see The Assembly of Gods, edited by Jane Chance, published by Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999, ISBN: 1580440223, which is also available online at Rochester University.

      The book from which this e-book was transcribed is a fascimile reprint of the third printing of this book, made by Wynkyn de Worde circa 1500. The book was printed in blackletter font known as Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, and uses many abbreviations, which I have expanded and rendered in italics. The abbreviations used in this book are:

      —Macron over the letter. The most common one, usually meaning missing n or m after the letter. But in some cases might also mean missing e, er or re after the letter. This happens usually when p, q or r have macrons.

      —Little e over Middle-English thorn, meaning the.

      —Little t over Middle-English thorn, meaning that.

      —Little u over Middle-English thorn, meaning thou.

      —Little t over w, meaning with.

      —Middle-English yogh, representing gh.

      —Superscripted 9 after letter, meaning missing us. Used only at the end of the word.

      —Superscripted 2 after letter, meaning missing e, er or re. Used only at the end of the word.

      —Stretched s, looking like integral sign, meaning missing e or i before letter s.

      —Dot over the letter, meaning missing e, er or re after the letter. Usually used with d, t, e and u. Combination q+d with dot means quod.

      —Strike through letter, meaning missing e, er or re after the letter. Usually used with p, v and s. Striked through p might also mean missing ro or or after p.

      Occasionally there were some letters printed upside down. I have rendered them inside brackets, e.g., [x]. The poem uses two types of punctuation--a dot, meaning longer pause, and a slash, meaning shorter pause or comma. I have corrected many errors and noted them

      . Also this printing was missing three lines and one line had several letters missing from the middle of the line. They are marked and the correct reading is supplied from the modern edition mentioned above. There were a couple of places where the word nota or note was printed, but the actual notes weren't found in this reprint. There's a fair chance that those notes were never printed. The original page images are displayed on the left margin and each links to a larger view.

      The assemble of goddes

      by

      John Lydgate

      Printed at Westminster

      by Wynkyn de Worde about the year

      1500

      Cambridge

      at the University Press

      1906

      The work here reprinted formed part of the famous volume of black-letter tracts (formerly marked AB. 4. 58), which came to the University Library in 1715 by the gift of King George the First with the rest of the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely. No other copy of this edition is recorded to be in existence.

      The types used are Caxton's type 3 (for the title) and Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, with final m and n etc. from type 1 (in the rest of the book). This type 3 is not known to have been used before 1499.

      Mr Sayle remarks that the woodcut illustration is taken from Caxton's second edition (ab. 1483-4) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

      FRANCIS JENKINSON

      1906 March 5.

      I certify that I have printed 250 copies only of this facsimile, that the impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives destroyed.

      P. DUJARDIN

      Here foloweth the Interpretacoin of the names

      of goddes and goddesses as is reherced

      in this tretyse folowynge as Poetes wryte

      han Phebus the crabbe had nere his cours ronne

      And toward the Leon his Iourney gan take

      To loke on Pyctagoras spere / I had begonne

      ¶ Syttyng all solytary allone besyde a lake.

      ¶ Musyng on a maner how that I myght make.

      ¶ Reason and sensualyte in one to accorde.

      ¶ But I coude not bryng about the manacorde.

      ¶ For longe er I myght slepe me gan oppres

      ¶ So ponderously I coud make none obstacle

      ¶ In myne hede was fall suche an heuinesse.

      ¶ I was fayne to drawe to myne habytacle.

      ¶ To rowne with a

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