The Example Of Vertu : Cantos I.-vii. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu	A
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The prologe	B
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Whan I aduert in my remembraunce	C
The famous draughtes of poetes eloquent	A
Whiche theyr myndes dyd well enhaunce	C
Bokes to contryue that were expedyent	A
To be remembred without Impedyment	A
For the profyte of humanyte	A
This was the custume of antyquyte	A
I now symple and moost rude	A
And naked in depured eloquence	C
For dulnes rethoryke doth exclude	A
Wherfore in makynge I lake intellygence	C
Also consyderynge my grete neglygence	C
It fereth me sore for to endyte	A
But at auenture I wyll now wryte	A
As very blynde in the poetys art	A
For I therof can no thynge skyll	D
Wherfore I lay it all a part	A
But somwhat accordynge to my wyll	D
I wyll now wryte for to fulfyll	D
Saynt Powles wordes and true sentement	A
All that is wryten is to oure document	A
O prudent Gower in langage pure	E
Without corrupcyon moost facundyous	C
O noble Chauser euer moost sure	E
Of frutfull sentence ryght delycyous	C
O vertuous Lydgat moche sentencyous	C
Unto you all I do me excuse	C
Though I your connynge do now vse	C
Explicit prologus	C
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Capitulum Primsi	C
In Septembre in fallynge of the lefe	F
Whan phebus made his declynacyon	G
And all the whete gadred was in the shefe	F
By radyaunt hete and operacyon	G
Whan the vyrgyn had full domynacyon	G
And Dyane entred was one degre	E
Into the sygne of Gemyne	G
Whan the golden sterres clere were splendent	A
In the firmament puryfyed clere as crystall	D
By imperyall course without incombrement	A
As Iuppyter and Mars that be celestyall	D
With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall	D
Myxt with venus that was not retrograte	A
That caused me to be well fortunate	A
In a slombrynge slepe with slouth opprest	A
As I in my naked bedde was leyd	A
Thynkynge all nyght to take my rest	A
Morpleus to me than made abreyd	A
And in my dreme me thought he sayd	A
Come walke with me in a medowe amerous	C
Depeynted with floures that be delycyous	C
I walked with hym into a place	C
Where that there grue many a fayre floure	E
With Ioye replete and full of solace	C
And the trees dystyllynge redolent lycoure	E
More sweter fer than the Aprell shour	E
And tary I dyd there by longe space	C
Tyll that I saw before my face	C
A ryght fayre lady of myddell stature	E
And also enduyd with grete vertue	A
Her apparell was set with perlys pure	E
Whose beaute alway dyd renue	G
To me she sayd and ye wyll extue	A
All wyldnes I wyll be your guyde	A
That ye to fraylte shall not slyde	A
Unto her I answerde o lady gloryous	C
I pray you tell me what is your name	H
For ye seeme to be ryght precyous	C
And I am yonge and sore to blame	H
Of vyces full and in vertue lame	H
But I wyll be ruled now by your pleasure	E
So that your order be made by mesure	E
Eclepyd I am she sayd dyscrecyon	G
And yf ye wyll be ruled by me	I
Ye shall haue Ioye without reprehencyon	G
And neuer fall in to fragylyte	A
Youth lackynge me it is grete pyte	A
For in what place I am exyled	A
They be with synne ryght oft defyled	A
It longeth euer vnto my properte	A
Youth to gyue courage for to lerne	G
I wyll not medle with no duplycyte	A
But faythfulnes I wyll dyscerne	G
And brynge thy soule to blesse eterne	G
By wyse example and morall doctryne	G
For youth hauynge to me is a good syne	G
Forsake also all euyll company	G
And be founde true in worde and dede	A
Remembre that this worlde is transytory	E
After thy desert shall be thy mede	A
Loue god alway and eke hym drede	A
And for no mannes pleasure be thyn owne foo	F
Gyue theym fayre wordes and lete theym goo	F
Be to thy kynge euer true subgete	A
As thou sholdest be by ryght and reason	G
Lete thy herte lowely on hym be sete	A
Without ony spot of euyll treason	G
And be obedyent at euery season	G
Unto his grace without rebellyon	G
That thou with trouth may be companyon	G
Loue neuer vnloued for that is payne	G
Whyle that thou lyuest of that beware	E
Loue as thou seest the loued agayne	G
Or elles it wyll torne the to care	E
Be neuer taken in that fast snare	E
Proue or thou loue that is moost sure	E
And than thou in doubte shalt not endure	E
Beware byleue no flaterynge tonge	B
For flaterers be moost disseyuable	D
Though that they company with the longe	B
Yet at the ende they wyll be varyable	D
For they by reason are not fauorable	D
But euermore fals and double	D
And with theyr tonges cause of grete trouble	D
This brytell worlde ay full of bytternes	C
Alway turnynge lyke to a ball	D
No man in it can haue no sykernes	C
For whan he clymmeth he hath a fall	D
O wauerynge shadowe bytter as gall	D
O fatall welth full soone at ende	A
Though thou ryght hy do oft assende	A
Whan she to me had made relacyon	G
Of all these prouerbes by good conclusyon	G
She gaue to me an Informacyon	G
For to depryue all yll abusyon	G
And to consydre the grete derysyon	G
Whiche is in youth that may not se	C
No thynge appropred to his prosperyte	A
Forth than we went to an hauen syde	A
Wher was a shyp lyenge at rode	A
Taryenge after the wynde and tyde	A
And with moche spyces ryght well lode	A
Upon it lokynge we longe abode	A
Tyll colus with blastes began to rore	E
Than we her aborded with payne ryght sore	E
This water eclyped was vayneglory	E
Euer with yeopardy and tempestyous	C
And the shyp called was ryght truly	D
The vessell of the passage daungerous	C
The wawys were hyghe and gretly troublous	C
The captayn called was good comfort	A
And the sterysman fayre pasport	A
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Capitulum II	J
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Longe were we dryuen with wynde weder	E
Tyll we arryued in a fayre Ilonde	A
Wher was a boote tyed with a teeder	E
Of merueylous wood as I vnderstonde	A
Precyous stones ley vpon the sond	A
And poynted dyamondes grewe on the rockes	C
And corall also by ryght hyghe stockes	C
Amased I was for to beholde	A
The precyous stones vnder my fete	A
And the erth glysterynge of golde	A
With floures fayre of odour swete	A
Dame dyscrecyon I dyd than grete	A
Praynge her to me to make relacyon	G
Who of this Ilonde hath domynacyon	G
She sayd foure ladyes in vertue excellent	A
Of whiche the eldest is dame nature	E
That dayly fourmeth after her entent	A
Euery beest and lyuynge creature	E
Both foule and fayre and also pure	E
All that dependynge in her ordynaunce	C
Where that she fauoureth there is grete pleasaunce	C
The seconde is called dame fortune	G
Ayenst whome can be no resystence	C
For she doth sette the strynges in tune	G
Of euery persone by her magnyfycence	C
Whan they sound best by good experyence	C
She wyll theym loose and let theym slyp	K
Causynge theym fall by her turnynge tryp	K
The thyrde called is dame hardynes	C
That often rulyth by her cheualry	E
She is ryght stowt and of grete prowes	C
And the captayn of a lusty company	G
And ruleth theym euer full hardely	D
And to gete honour and worldely tresure	E
She putteth her oft in auenture	E
The fourth is wysedome a lady bryght	A
Whiche is my syster as ye shall se	C
Whom I do loue with all my myght	A
For she enclyneth euer to benygnyte	A
And medeleth not with fraude nor subtylyte	A
But maketh many noble clerkes	C
And ruleth theym in all theyr werkes	C
They dwell all in a fayre castell	D
Besyde a ryuer moche depe and clere	E
And be expert in feytys manuell	D
That vnto theym can be no peere	E
Of erthely persone that lyueth here	E
For they be so fayre and wounderous	C
That theym to se it is solacyous	C
Longe haue they trauerst gretly in the lawe	L
Whiche of theym sholde haue the preemynence	C
And none of them theyr case wyll withdrawe	L
Tyll of dame Iustyce they knowe the sentence	C
They argue often and make defence	C
Eche vnto other withouten remedy	A
I wyll no lenger of them specefy	F
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Capitulum Tercium	I
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Come on fayre youth and go with me	I
Unto that place that is delectable	D
Bylded with towres of curyosyte	A
And yet though that ye be lamentable	D
Whan thou art there you wylt be confortable	D
To se the merueyles that there be wrought	A
No man can prynt it in his thought	A
A path we founde ryght gretely vsed	A
Where in we went tyll at the last	A
A castell I sawe wherof I mused	A
Not fully from me a stones cast	A
To se the towres I was agast	A
Set in a valey so strongely fortefyed	A
So gentyll compassed and well edefyed	A
The towres were hyghe of adamond stones	C
With fanes wauerynge in the wynde	A
Of ryght fyne golde made	A