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    The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers
    The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers
    The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers
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    The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers

    By Stephen Hawes

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers - Stephen Hawes

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      Title: The cõforte of louers

      The Comfort of Lovers

      Author: Stephen Hawes

      Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22326]

      Language: English

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      . Reconstructions are shown in italics. Folio numbers in iiii-vi were added by the transcriber. Details about abbreviations and reconstructions are given at the end of the text.

      The comforte of louers made and compyled by Steuen Hawes somtyme grome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henry ye seuenth (whose soule god pardon). In the seconde yere of the reygne of our most naturall souerayne lorde kỹge Henry the eyght.

      ¶ The prohemye.

      He gentyll poetes / vnder cloudy fygures

      Do touche a trouth / and cloke it

      subtylly

      Harde is to cõstrue poetycall scryptures

      They are so fayned / & made sẽtẽcyously

      For som do wryte of loue by fables pryuely

      Some do endyte / vpon good moralyte

      Of chyualrous actes / done in antyquyte

      Whose fables and storyes ben pastymes pleasaunt

      To lordes and ladyes / as is theyr lykynge

      Dyuers to moralyte / ben oft attendaunt

      And many delyte to rede of louynge

      Youth loueth aduenture / pleasure and lykynge

      Aege foloweth polycy / sadnesse and prudence

      Thus they do dyffre / eche in experyence

      I lytell or nought / experte in this scyence

      Compyle suche bokes / to deuoyde ydlenes

      Besechynge the reders / with all my delygence

      Where as I offende / for to correct doubtles

      Submyttynge me to theyr grete gentylnes

      As none hystoryagraffe / nor poete laureate

      But gladly wolde folowe / the makynge of Lydgate

      Fyrst noble Gower / moralytees dyde endyte

      And after hym Cauncers / grete bokes delectable

      Lyke a good phylozophre / meruaylously dyde wryte

      After them Lydgate / the monke commendable

      Made many wonderfull bokes moche profytable

      But syth the are deed / & theyr bodyes layde in chest

      I pray to god to gyue theyr soules good rest

      ¶ Finis prohemii.

      Whan fayre was phebus

      / wt his bemes bryght

      Amyddes of gemyny / aloft the fyrmament

      Without blacke cloudes / castynge his pured lyght

      With sorowe opprest / and grete incombrement

      Remembrynge well / my lady excellent

      Saynge o fortune helpe me to preuayle

      For thou knowest all my paynfull trauayle

      I went than musynge / in a medowe grene

      Myselfe alone / amonge the

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