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The Example of Vertu The Example of Virtue By: Stephen Hawes (-1523) |
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¶ Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.
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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 to lede youth to marye with clennes the kynge of loues
doughter. ca.viii. ¶ How youth by the waye mette [with] 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 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 [the] 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 [the] 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 [the] 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.
Whan 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... Continue reading book >>
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