The Pastime Of Pleasure : The First Part. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDDECFFFCCBBBBBC CCGCGGCCGFGFFCCHIHII JJCCCCCCCCFCFFCC K BGGGGFFCGCGGGGFFFFFC CFLFLLBBBJBJJCCCFCFF FFBMBMMLLFBFBBFFJCJC CFFFGFGGBBNGNGGDDBBB BBJJFCFCCFFGFGFFNNGF GFFFFFFFGGBBBGBGGCCI CICCGGFHere begynneth the passe tyme of pleasure | A |
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Ryyght myghty prynce redoubted souerayne | B |
Saylynge forthe well in the shyppe of grace | C |
Ouer the wawes of this lyfe vncertayne | B |
Ryght towarde heuen to haue dwellynge place | C |
Grace dothe you guyde in euery doubtfull cace | C |
Your gouernaunce dothe euermore eschewe | D |
The synne of slouthe enemy to vertewe | D |
Grace stereth well the grace of god is grete | E |
Whiche you hathe brought to your ryall se | C |
And in your ryght it hath you surely sette | F |
Aboue vs all to haue the soueraynte | F |
Whose worthy power and regall dygnyte | F |
All our rancour and our debate and ceace | C |
Hath to vs brought bothe welthe reste and peace | C |
Frome whome dyscendeth by the ryghtfull lyne | B |
Noble pryuce Henry to succede the crowne | B |
That in his youthe dothe so clerely shyne | B |
In euery vertu castynge the vyce adowne | B |
He shall of fame attayne the hye renowne | B |
No doubte but grace shall hym well enclose | C |
Whiche by trewe ryght sprange of the reed rose | C |
Your noble grace and excellent hyenes | C |
For to accepte I beseche ryght humbly | G |
This lytell boke opprest with rudenes | C |
Without rethorycke or colour crafty | G |
Nothynge I am experte in poetry | G |
As the monke of Bury floure of eloquence | C |
Whiche was in tyme of grete excellence | C |
Of your predecessour the v kynge henry | G |
Vnto whose grace he dyde present | F |
Ryght famous bokes of parfyte memory | G |
Of his faynynge with termes eloquent | F |
Whose fatall fyccyons are yet permanent | F |
Grounded on reason with clowdy fygures | C |
He cloked the trouthe of all his scryptures | C |
The lyght of trouthe I lacke connynge to cloke | H |
To drawe a curtayne I dare not to presume | I |
Nor hyde my mater with a mysty smoke | H |
My rudenes connynge dothe so sore c sume | I |
Yet as I maye I shall blowe out a fume | I |
To hyde my mynde vnderneth a fable | J |
By conuert colour well and probable | J |
Besechynge your grace to pardon myne ignoraunce | C |
Whiche this fayned fable to eschewe ydlenesse | C |
Hane so compyled now without doubtaunce | C |
For to present to your hye worthynesse | C |
To folowe the trace and all the parfytenesse | C |
Of my mayster Lydgate with due exercyse | C |
Suche fayned tales I do fynde and deuyse | C |
For vnder a colour a truthe maye aryse | C |
As was the guyse in olde antyquyte | F |
Of the poetes olde a tale to surmyse | C |
To cloke the trouthe of theyr infyrmyte | F |
Or yet on Ioye to haue moralyte | F |
I me excuse yf by neclygence | C |
That I do offende for lacke of scyence | C |
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How graunde Amoure walked in a medowe met with fame enuyronned with tongues of fyre ca i | K |
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Whan Phebus entred was in Gemyny | B |
Shynynge aboue in his fayre golden spere | G |
And horned Dyane than but one degre | G |
In the Crabbe hadde entred fayre and clere | G |
Whan that Aurora dyde well appere | G |
In the depured ayre and cruddy fyrmament | F |
Forthe than I walked without impedyment | F |
In to a medowe bothe gaye and gloryous | C |
Whiche Flora depaynted with many a colour | G |
Lyke a place of pleasure most solacyous | C |
Encensynge out the aromatyke odoure | G |
Of zepherus brethe whiche that euery floure | G |
Throughe his fume dothe alwaye engendre | G |
So as I went amonge the floures tendre | G |
By sodayne chaunce a fayre pathe I founde | F |
On whiche I loked and ryght ofte I mused | F |
And than all aboute I behelde the grounde | F |
With the fayre pathe whiche I sawe so vsed | F |
My chaunce or fortune I nothynge refused | F |
But in the pathe forthe I went a pace | C |
To knowe whyther and vnto what place | C |
It wolde me brynge by ony symylytude | F |
So forthe I wente were it ryght or wronge | L |
Tyll that I sawe of ryall pulcrytude | F |
Before my face an ymage fayre and stronge | L |
With two fayre handes stretched out alonge | L |
Vnto two hye wayes there in pertycyon | B |
And in the ryght hande was this dyscrypcyon | B |
This is the streyght waye of contemplacyon | B |
Vnto the Ioyfull toure pedurable | J |
Who that wyll walke vnto that mancyon | B |
He must forsake all thynges varyable | J |
With the vayneglory somoche deceyuable | J |
And thoughe the waye be harde and daungerous | C |
The laste ende therof shall be ryght precyous | C |
And in the other hande ryght fayre wryten was | C |
This is the waye of worldly dygnyte | F |
Of the actyfe lyfe who wyll in it passe | C |
Vnto the toure of fayre dame beaute | F |
Fame shall tell hym of the waye in certaynte | F |
Vnto labell pucell the fayre lady excellent | F |
Aboue all other in clere beaute splendent | F |
I behelde ryght well bothe the wayes twayne | B |
And mused oft whiche was best to take | M |
The one was sharpe the other was more playne | B |
And vnto my selfe I began to make | M |
A sodayne argument for I myght not slake | M |
Of my grete musynge of this ryall ymage | L |
And of these two wayes somoche in vsage | L |
For this goodly pycture was in altytude | F |
Nyne fote and more of fayre marble stone | B |
Ryght well fauoured and of grete fortytude | F |
Thoughe it were made full many yeres agone | B |
Thus stode I musynge my selfe all alone | B |
By ryhgt longe tyme but at the last I went | F |
The actyfe waye with all my hole entent | F |
Thus all alone I began to trauayle | J |
Forthe on my waye by longe contynuaunce | C |
But often tymes I hadde grete meruayle | J |
Of the bypathes so full of pleasaunce | C |
Whiche for to take I hadde grete doubtaunce | C |
But euermore as nere as I myght | F |
I toke the waye whiche went before me ryght | F |
And at the last whan Phebus in the west | F |
Gan to auayle with all his beames mery | G |
Whan clere Dyana in the fayre southest | F |
Gan for to ryse lyghtynge our emyspery | G |
With cloudes clere without the stormy pery | G |
Me thought a fer I hadde a vysyon | B |
Of a pycture of meruoylous facyon | B |
To whiche I went without lenger delaye | N |
Beholdynge well the ryght fayre purtrayture | G |
Made of fyne copre shynynge fayre and gaye | N |
Full well truely accordynge to mesure | G |
And as I thought ix fote of stature | G |
Yet in the breste with lettres fayre ande blewe | D |
Was wryten a sentence olde and trewe | D |
This is the waye and the sytuacyon | B |
Vnto the toure of famous doctryne | B |
Who that wyll lerne must be ruled by reason | B |
And with all his dylygence he must enclyne | B |
Slouthe to eschewe and for to determyne | B |
And set his hert to be intellygyble | J |
To a wyllynge herte is nought Impossyble | J |
Besyde the ymage I adowne me sette | F |
After my laboure myselfe to repose | C |
Tyll at the last with a gaspynge nette | F |
Slouthe my heed caught with his hole purpose | C |
It vayled not the body for to dyspose | C |
Agaynst the heed whan it is applyed | F |
The heed must rule it can not be denyed | F |
Thus as I satte in a deedly slombre | G |
Of a grete horne I herde a ryall blast | F |
With whiche I awoke and hadde a grete wondre | G |
From whens it came it made me sore agast | F |
I loked aboute the nyght was well nere paste | F |
And fayre golden Phebus in the morowe graye | N |
With cloude reed began to breke the daye | N |
I sawe come rydynge in a valaye ferre | G |
A goodly lady enuyronned aboute | F |
With tongues of fyre as bryght as ony sterre | G |
That fyry flambes ensensed alwaye out | F |
Whiche I behelde and was in grete doubt | F |
Her palfraye swyfte rennynge as the wynde | F |
With two whyte grehoundes that were not behynde | F |
Whan that these grehoundes had me so espyed | F |
With faunynge chere of grete humylyte | F |
In goodly hast they fast vnto me hyed | F |
I mused why and wherfore it shoulde be | G |
But I welcomed them in euery degre | G |
They leped ofte and were of me ryght fayne | B |
I suffred them and cherysshed them agayne | B |
Theyr colers were of golde and of tyssue fyne | B |
Wherin theyr names appered by scypture | G |
Of Dyamondes that clerely do shyne | B |
The lettres were grauen fayre and pure | G |
To rede rheyr names I dyde my besy cure | G |
The one was gouernaunce the other named grace | C |
Than was I gladde of all this sodayne cace | C |
And than the lady with fyry flame | I |
Of brennynge tongues was in my presence | C |
Vpon her palfraye whiche hadde vnto name | I |
Pegase the swyfte so fayre in excellence | C |
Whiche somtyme longed with his premynence | C |
To kynge Percyus the sone of Iubyter | G |
On whome he rode by the worlde so fer | G |
To me she sayde she meruayled | F |
Stephen Hawes
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