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The cõforte of louers
The comforte of louers made and compyled by Steuen Hawes somtymegrome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henryye seuenth (whose soule god pardon). In the seconde yere ofthe reygne of our most naturall souerayne lorde kỹge Henry theeyght.
& for your sake / I shall it take // holde this / a token y wys
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¶ The prohemye.
T (The)
Hegentyll 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.
A.ii.
Whan fayre was phebus / wt his bemes bryght
Amyddes of gemyny / al                        
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