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*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 on a right margin. Also this printing was missing three lines and one line had several letters missing from the middle of the line. I have marked them on a right margin and the correct reading supplied from the modern edition. 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 available with html edition.]
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.
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.
¶ Phebus is as moche to saye as the Sonne. ¶ Apollo is the same or elles God of syght. ¶ Morpleus Shewer of dremis ¶ Pluto God of hell. ¶ Mynos Iuge of hell. ¶ Cerberus Porter of hell. ¶ Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre. ¶ Dyana Goddesse of wode and chase. ¶ Phebe the Mone or Goddesse of waters. Aurora Goddes of {the} morow or spry{n}g of {the} daye ¶ Mars God of batyll ¶ Iupiter God of wysdom. ¶ Iuno Goddesse of rychesse ¶ Saturne God of colde. ¶ Ceres Goddesse of corne. ¶ Cupydo God of loue. ¶ Othea Goddesse of wysdome. ¶ Fortune The varyant Goddesse ¶ Pan God shepherdes. ¶ Isys Goddesse of frute. ¶ Neptunus God of the se. ¶ Mynerue Goddes of {the} batail or of heruest ¶ Bachus God of wyne. ¶ Mercuryus God of langage. ¶ Venus Goddesse of loue. ¶ Dyscorde Goddes of debate & stryffe ¶ Attropos Dethe ¶ Here endeth {the} interpretacyon of the names of Goddes & Goddesses as is reherced in the treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte.
Whan 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 pylow me semyd best tryacle. ¶ So leyde I me downe my dysease to releue. ¶ Anone cam in Morpleus & toke me by {the} sleue
¶ And as I soo laye halfe in a traunse ¶ Twene slepyng & wakyng he bad me aryse. ¶ For he sayd I must yeue attendaunce. ¶ To the grete Courte of Mynes the Iustyse. ¶ Me nought auayled ayene hym to sylogyse. ¶ For hit is oft sayd by hem that yet lyues. ¶ He must nedes go that the deuell dryues.
¶ Whan I see noo better but I must go. ¶ I sayd I was redy at his co{m}maundement. ¶ Wheder that he wolde me lede to or fro. ¶ Soo vp I arose and forth with hym went. ¶ Tyll he had me brought to the parlament. ¶ Where Pluto sate and kepte is estate. ¶ And with hym Mynos the Iuge desperate.
¶ But as we thyderwarde went by the way. ¶ I hym besought his name me to tell. ¶ Morpleus he sayde thou me call may. ¶ A syr sayde I than where do ye dwell. ¶ In heuen or in erthe eyther elles in hell. ¶ Nay he sayde myn abydyng most commonly ¶ Is in a lytyll corner called fantasy.
¶ And as sone as he thyse wordes had sayd. ¶ Cerberus the porter of hell {with} his cheyne. ¶ Brought theder Colus i{n} ragges euyll arayd ¶ Agay{n} whom Neptun{us} & Dyana dyd co{m}pley{n}t Original has ¶ Saynge thus O Mynos {thou} Iuge souerayn. co{m}pey{n}t ¶ Gyue thy cruel iugeme{n}t aye{n} this traytour so instead of ¶ {That} we may haue cause to preyse thy lord Pluto co{m}pley{n}t
¶ Then was there made a proclamacyon. ¶ In Plutoos name co{m}maunded scylence. ¶ Vpon the payn of strayt correccyon. ¶ {That} Dyana & Neptun{us} might haue audience. ¶ To declare her grefe of the grete offence. ¶ To hem do by Colus wheron they co{m}pleined ¶ And to begyn Dyana was constreyned.
¶ Whyche thus begyn as ye shall here. ¶ Saynge in this wyse. O thou lorde Pluto. ¶ Wyth thy iuge Mynos syttyng {with} the in fere ¶ Execute your fury vpon Colus soo. ¶ Accordyng to thofence that he to me hath do ¶ That I haue no cause forther to appele. ¶ Whyche yf I do shall not be for youre wele.
¶ Remembre fyrst how I a goddesse pure. ¶ Ouer all desertes / forestes and chaces. ¶ Haue the guydynge and vnder my cure. ¶ This traytour colus hath mani of mi places ¶ Destroyd {with} his blastes & daily me manaces ¶ Where ony wood is he shall make it playne. ¶ If he to his lyberte may resorte ageyne
¶ The gretest trees that ony man may fynde ¶ In forest to shade the dere for her comforte. ¶ He breketh he{m} aso{n}der or rendith he rote & ri{n}de ¶ Out of the erthe this is his dysporte. ¶ So that the deere shall haue noo resorte. ¶ Wythin shorte tyme to noo maner shade ¶ Where thorough the game is lykly to fade.
¶ Which to my name a reproche synguler. ¶ Sholde be foreuer whyle the worlde laste. ¶ And to all the goddes an hygh dyspleyser. ¶ To see the game soo destroyed by his blaste. ¶ Wherfore a remedy puruey in haste. ¶ And lete hym be punysshed after his offence. ¶ Cousyder the cryme and yeue your sentence.
¶ And whan Dyana had made her compley{n}t ¶ To mynos the Iuge in Plutoos presence. ¶ Came forth Neptun{us} {with} vysage pale & feynt ¶ Desyrynge of fauour to haue audyence. ¶ Saynge thus Pluto to thy magnyfycence. ¶ I shall reherce what this creature. ¶ Colus hath done me out of mesure.
¶ Thou knowest well that I haue the charge ¶ Ouer all the se and therof god I am. ¶ No shyp may sayl Keruel / bote ne barge. ¶ Grete karyk nor hulke {with} ony lyuyng man. ¶ But he haue my saue conduyte than. ¶ who me offendith wythin my Iurysdyccyon ¶ Owyth to submyt him to my correccyon.
¶ But in asmoche as it is now soo. ¶ That ye hym here haue as your prysonere ¶ I shall shew my compleynt soo. ¶ wherfore I pray you that ye wyll here. ¶ And let hy{m} not escape out of your daungere. ¶ Tyl he haue made full sethe & recompence ¶ For hurt of my name thrugh his grete offe{n}ce
¶ Fyrst to begyn this Colus hath ofte. ¶ Made me to retorne mi course agein nature. ¶ wyth his grete blastes whan he hath be alofte ¶ And charged me to labour fer out of mesure ¶ {that} it was grete merueyl how I might endure Original has ¶ The com of my swete wyll testyfy. gtete ¶ That on the se bankes lye beten full hye. instead of grete ¶ Secundly where my nature is. ¶ Both to eb & flowe a[n]d so thy course to kepe. ¶ Ofte of myne entent hath he made me mys ¶ where as I shulde haue fylled dykes depe. ¶ At a full water I myght not theder crepe. ¶ Before my season came to returne ageyn. ¶ And than went I faster than i wold certayn
¶ Thus he hath me dryuen ayen myn entente ¶ And contrary to my course naturall. ¶ where I shuld haue be he made me absente ¶ To my grete dyshonour & in especyall. ¶ Do thynge he vsed that worst was of all. ¶ For where I my sauegard graunted ¶ Ay in that coste he comonly haunted
¶ Of very pure malyce and sylfwyll. ¶ Theym to destroy in dyspyte of me. ¶ To whome I promised both in gode & yll. ¶ For to be her protectour in all aduersyte. ¶ That to theym shulde fall vpon the se. ¶ And euen sodenly or they coud beware ¶ wyth a sodeyn pyry he lapped theym in care.
¶ And full oft syth wyth hys boystous blaste. ¶ Or they myght be war{e} he drof he{m} on {the} sond ¶ And other whyle he brake top sayl & maste. ¶ which caused thei{m} to peryssh or thei ca{m} to lond ¶ Then cursed they the tyme {that} euer thei me fa{n}d ¶ Thus amonge the people lost is my name. ¶ And so by his labour put I am to blame. Original has ¶ Consyder this mater and ponder my case. sencence ¶ Tender my compleynt as rygure requyreth instead of ¶ Shew forth youre sentence {with} a breef clause sentence ¶ I may not longe tary the tyme fast expyreth Original has ¶ The offence is grete wherfore it desyreth. erpyreth ¶ The more greuous payn and hasty iugeme{n}t instead of ¶ For offence don wylfully wyl non auysement expyreth
And wha{n} {the} god pluto a whyl had hi{m} bethought ¶ He rowned {with} mynos what was to do. ¶ Then he sayde openly loke thou fayl nought ¶ Thy sentence to yeue wythoute fauoore soo. ¶ Lyke as thou hast herde the causes the too. ¶ And so euenly dele twene thise partyey twein ¶ That none of he{m} haue case on {the} other co{m}pleint
¶ Thenne sayd mynos full indyfferently. ¶ To Dyana & Neptunus is there ony more. ¶ That ye wyll declare ageyn hym openly. ¶ Nay in dede they sayd we kepe none in store / ¶ we haue sayd Inough to punysshe hym fore ¶ If ye in this mater be not parcyall· ¶ Remembre your name was wont to be egall.
¶ Well than sayd Mynos now let vs see. ¶ what this boystous Colus for hy{m}self cay say ¶ For here Prima facie to vs doth appere. ¶ That he hath offended no man can say naye ¶ wherfore thou Colus wythoute more delaye ¶ Shape vs an answere to thyne accusemente ¶ And elles I must procede vpon thy iugeme{n}t
¶ And euen as col{us} was onward to haue said ¶ For his excuse / came in a messengere. ¶ Fro god Appolo to Pluto and hym prayde. ¶ On his behalfe that he wythoute daungere ¶ wolde to hym come & bry{n}ge wyth hym in fere ¶ Dyana and Neptunus vnto his banket ¶ And yf they dysdeyned hy{m}self he wold he{m} fet.
¶ Moreouer he sayde to god Appolo ¶ Desyred to haue respyte of the iugemente ¶ Of Colus bothe of Mynos and Pluto ¶ So Dyana & Neptun{us} were therwith co{n}te{n}t ¶ And yf they were dysposed to assente ¶ That he myght come vnto his presente ¶ He it desyred to knowe his offence
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