there was in portrature Adam Eue holdyng an appell rounde Noe in a shyp Abraham hauyng sure A flyntstone in his honde Isaac lay bounde On an hyghe mouÌ„te Iacob slepyng sounde And a long ladder stood hym besyde Ioseph in a Cysterne was also there y t tyde Next whom stood Moyses with his tables two Aaron Vrre his armes supportyng Ely in a brennyng chare was there also And Elyze stood clad in an hermytis clothyng Dauyd with an harpe a stone slyng Isaye Ieremy and Ezechyell And closed with lyons holy Danyell Abacuc Mychee with Malachy And Ionas out of a whales body comyng Samuell in a Temple holy zachary Besyde an aulter all blody standyng Ozee with Iudyth stood there conspyryng The dethe of Oloferne Salamon also A childe with his swerde dyuydyng in two Many moo ê“phetis certaynly there were whoo 's names now come not to my mynde Melchysedech also aspyed I there Brede wyne offryng as fyll to his kynde Ioachym and Anna stood all behynde Embraced in armes to the golden gate And holy Iohan baptyst in a desert sate And now cometh to my remembrauÌ„ce I am auysed I sawe Sodechy And Amos also with sobre countenauÌ„ce Standyng with her faces towarde Sophony Neemye Esdras bare hem company The holy man Iob as an Impotent Then folowed in pycture with Thoby pacyent These with many moo on that one syde Of that grene herber portrayed were A sayd Morpleus a lytyll tyme abyde Tourne thy face where thy backe was ere And beholde well what thou seest there Than I me tourned as he me badde with hert stedfast countenauÌ„ce sadde where I saw Peter with his keyes stonde Poule with a swerde Iames also with a scalop Thomas holdyng in his honde A spere Phylyp aproched hym to Iames the lesse next hem in pycture lo Stood with Barthylmew which was all flayn Symon Thadee shewed how they were flayn Mathy Barnabe drawyng lottys stode Next whome was Marke a lyon hym by His book holdyng Mathew in his mode Resemblyd an Angell with wynges gloryously Luke had a calfe to holde his book on hy And Iohan with a cuppe palme in his honde An Egle bare his book thus saw I hem stonde Gregory Ierome Austyne Ambrose with pylyons on her hedes stood lyke doctours Bernarde with Anselme and as I suppose Thomas of alquyne Domynyk confessours Benet Hew relygyous gouernours Martyne Iohan with bysshoppes tweyne were there also Crysostome certeyne Behynde all these was worshypfull Bede All behynde next hym stood Orygene Hydyng his face as he of his dede Had hem a shamed ye woot what I mene For of errour was he not all clene And on that syde stood there last of all The noble prophetyssa Sybyll men her call Let me remembre now I you pray My barayne is soo thynne I deme in myn hert Some of the feleshyp that I there say In all this whyle haue I ouerstert A benedycyte none ere coude I aduert To thynke on Andrew the apostle w t his crosse whome to forgete were a grete losse Many one moo were peynted on that walle whos names now come not to my remeÌ„brauÌ„ce But these I marked in especyall And moo coude I tell in contynuauÌ„ce Of tyme but forthe to shewe you the substauÌ„ce Of this mater in the myddes of that herbere Sate Doctryne coloured as ony crystall clere Crowned as I tolde you late here before whoo 's apparayll was worthe tresour Infynyte All erthely rychesse counte I noo more To that in comparyson valewyng then a myte Ouer her hede honyd a culuer fayre whyte Out of whoo 's byll proceded a grete leme Downewarde to Doctryne lyke a sonne beme The wordes of Doctryne yaue grete redolence In swetnes of sauour to her dyscyples all Hit ferre exceded myrre and frankensence Or ony other tree spyce or ellys gall And whaÌ„ she me aspyed anone she gan me call And coÌ„mauÌ„ded Morpleê° y t he shold bryÌ„g me nere For she wolde me shewe the effecte of my desyre She sayd I know the cause of thy comyng Is to vnderstonde be myn enformacyon Sensybly the mater of Morpleus his shewyng As he hath the ledde aboute in vysyon wherfore now I apply thy naturall reason Vnto my wordes er thou hens wende Thou shalt hit know begynnyng and ende Fyrst where Colus to Pluto was brought By his owne neclygence taken prysonere within the erthe for he to ferre sought Sygnyfyed is nomore be that matere But oonly to shewe the how it dooth apere That welthe vnbrydeled dayly at thyne ey Encreaseth mysrewle and ofte causeth foly For lyke as Colus beyng at his large Streyted hymselfe thrugh his owne lewdenesse For he wolde deele where he had no charge Ryght soo wantons by her wyldenesse Ofte sythe bryng hymselfe in dystresse Be cause they somtyme to largely deele what may wors be suffred than ouermykell wee le By Mynos the Iuge of hell desperate May be vnderstonde goddys ryghtwysnes That to euery wyght his payne deputate Assygneth acordyng to his wyckednes wherfore he is called Iuge of cruelnes And as for Dyana Neptunus compleynt Fygured may be fooles reason feynt For lyke as they made her suggestyon To haue me Colus from cours of his kynde whiche was Impossyble to bryng to correccyon For euermore his lyberte haue wyll the wynde In lyke wyse fooles otherwhyle be blynde wenyng to subdew with her one honde That is ouermykell for all an hole londe But what foloweth therof that shall y u here when they were come to the bankete The grete Apollo with his sad chere Soo fayre curtously gan theym entrete That he made her beerdys on the new gete Loo what wysdome dooth to a foole wherfore are children put to scoole Ofte is it seen with sobre contenaunce That wyse men fooles ouercome ay Tornyng as hem lyst all her varyaunce Chaunge from ernest in to mery play what were they bothe amendeth that day when they were dreuen to her wyttes ende were they not fayne to grauÌ„t to be his frende Ryght soo fooles when they haue done All that they can than he they fayne Gyue vp her mater to oblyuyone without rewarde they haue nomore brayne And yet full ofte hath hit be sayne when they it haue foryete set at nought That they full dere haue afterwarde it bought And as for all tho that represent To be called goddys at that banket Resemble false ydollys but to this entent was Morpleus coÌ„maunded thyder the to fet That thou sholdest know the maner the get Of the paynym lawe and of her byleue How false ydolatry ledeth hem by the sleue For soone vppon the worldys creacyon when Adam and Eue had broke the precept whiche clerkes call the tyme of deuyacyon The worldly people in paynym law slept Tyll moyses vnd god the tables of stone kept In whiche tyme Poetes feyned many a fable To dyscrete Reason ryght acceptable
〈◊〉 ¶ Here foloweth the Interpretacyon of the names of goddys and goddesses as is rehersed in this treatyse folowyng as Poetes wryte Phebus is as moche to sey as the Sonne Apollo is the same or ellys God of syght Morpleus Shewer of dremes Pluto God of helle Mynos Iuge of helle Cerberus Porter of helle Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre Dyana Goddesse of wode and Chace Phebe the Mone or Goddesse of wateres Aurora Goddesse of the morowe or the sprynge of the daye Mars God of batayll Iupyter God of wysdome Iuno Goddesse of rychesse Saturne God of colde Ceres Goddesse of corne Cupyde God of loue Othea Goddesse of wysdome Fortune The varyauÌ„t Goddesse Pan God of shepardis Isys Goddesse of frute Neptunus God of the see Mynerue Goddesse of the batayll or of harueste Bachus God of wyne Marcuryus God of langage Venus Goddesse of loue Dyscorde Goddesse of debate and stryfe Attropos Dethe ¶ Here endeth the Interpretacy on of the names of Goddys and Goddesses as is rehersed in the tretyse folowyng as poetes wryte WHan Phebus in the crabbe had nere his cours ronne And toward the Leon his Iourney gan take To loke on Pyctagoras spere I had bgonne Syttyng all solytary allone besyde a lake Musyng on a maneer how that I myght make Reason and sensualyte in one to accorde But I coude not bryng about that monacorde For longe er I myght slepe me gan oppresse Soo ponderously I coude make none obstacle In myne hede was fall suche an heuynesse I was fayne to drawe to myne habytacle To rowne with a pylow me semyd best tryacle Soo leyde I me downe my dyssease to releue Anone cam in Morpleus toke me by the sleue And as I soo laye halfe in a traunse Twene slepyng and wakyng he bad me aryse For he sayd I must yeue attendaunce To the grete Courte of Mynos 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 â–ª but I must go I sayd I was redy at his coÌ„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 parlyament where Pluto sate and kepte his estate And with hym Mynos the Iuge desperate But as we thyderwarde went by the waye I hym besought his name me to tell Morpleus he sayd thou me call maye A syr sayd I than where doo ye dwell In heuen or to erthe eyther ellys in hell Nay he sayd myn abydyng moost comonly Is in a lytyll corner called fantasy And as soone as he these wordes had sayd Cerberus the porter of hell with his cheyne Brought theder Colus in ragges euyll arayd Agayn whom Neptunê° Dyana dyd coÌ„pleyne Sayeng thus O Mynos thou Iuge souereyne Gyue thy cruell IugemeÌ„t ayen this traytour so That we may haue cause to preyse thy lord Pluto Then was there made a proclamacyon In Plutoos name coÌ„maunded sylence Vpon the payne of strayte correccyon That Dyana Neptunê° might haue audyence To declare her greef of the grete offence To theym do by Colus wheron they coÌ„pleyned And to begynne Dyana was constreyned whiche thus began as ye shall here Sayeng in this wyse O thou lord Pluto with thy Inge Mynos syttyng with the in fere Execute youre fury vpon Colus so Accordyng to the offence that he to me hath do That I haue noo cause forther to apele whiche yf I do shall not be for your we le Remembre fyrste how I a goddesse pure Ouer all desertes forestes and chaces Haue take the guydyng and vnder my cure This traytour Colus hath many of my places Destroyed with his blastes dayly me manaces where ony wood is he shall make it pleyne If he to his lyberte maye resorte ageyne The gretest trees that ony man may fynde In forest to shade the deere for her comfort He breketh heÌ„ asondre or rendeth heÌ„ rote rynde Oute of the erthe this is his dysport Soo that the deere shall haue noo resort within short tyme to noo maner shade where thorugh the game is lykly to fade whiche to myn name a reproche synguler Sholde be for euer whyle the worlde last And to all the goddis an hyghe dyspleser To see the game soo dystroyed by his blast wherfore a remedye puruey in hast And lete hym be punysshed after his offence Consyder the cryme and yeue your sentence And whan thus Dyana had made her coÌ„pleynt To Mynos the Iuge in Plutoos presence Came forth Neptunê° with vysage pale feyne Desyryng of fauour to haue audyence Sayeng thus Pluto to thy magnyfycence I shall reherse what this creature Colus hath done me out of mesure Thou knowest well that I haue the charge Ouer all the see and therof god I am Noo shyp maye sayle keruell boot nor barge Grete karyke nor hulke with ony lyuyng man But yf he haue my saue conduyte than who me offendeth within my Iurysdiccyon O weth to submyt hym to my correccyon But in asmekyll as hit is now soo That ye hym here haue as your prysonere I shall you shewe my compleynt loo wherfore I praye you that ye wyll hit here And lete hym not escape out of your daungere Tyll he haue made full seethe and recompence For hurt of my name thrugh this grete offence Fyrste to begynne this Colus hath ofte Made me to retourne my course agayn nature with his grete blastys whan he hath be a lofte And charged me to labour ferre out of mesure That it was grete meruayle how I myght endure The com of my swete wyll it testyfye That on the see bankes lythe beten full hye Secondly where as my nature is Both to ebbe flowe and so my course to kepe Ofte of myne entente hath he made me mys where as I sholde haue fylled dykes depe At a full water I myght not theder crepe Before my season came to retourne ageyne And than went I faster than I wolde certeyne Thus he hath me dryuen ayen myn entent And contrary to my course naturall where I shold haue be he made me be absent To my grete dyshonoure in especyall Do thyng he vsed that worst was of all For where as I my sauegarde graunted Ay in that cost he comonly haunted Of verrey pure malyce and of sylfe wyll Theym to dystroye in dyspyte of me To whome I promysed both in good and yll To be her protectour in all aduersyte That to theym sholde fall vpon the see And euen sodeynly er they coude beware with a sodeyn pyry he lapped hem in care And full ofte syth with his boystous blast Er they myght be ware he drofe hyÌ„ on y e sande And otherwhyle he brake toop seyle mast whiche caused theyÌ„ to perysshe er they cam to laÌ„ de Then cursed they y e tyme y t euer they me faÌ„de Thus among the people lost is
myn name And soo by his labour put I am to shame Consyder this mater and ponder my cause Tendre my compleynt as rygour requyreth Shewe forth your sentence with a breef clause I may not long tarye the tyme fast expyreth The offence is grete wherfore hit desyreth The more greuous payne and hasty Iugement For offence done wylfully wyll none auysement And whaÌ„ y e god Pluto a whyle had hyÌ„ be thought He rowned wâ— Mynos to know what was to do Then he sayd openly loke thou fayle nought Thy sentence to yeue without fauour so Lyke as thou hast herd the causes meuyd the to And so euenly dele twene these partyes tweyn That none of hem haue case on y e other coÌ„pleyn Then sayd Mynos full Indyfferently To Dyana Neptunus is there ony more That ye wyll declare agayn hym openly Nay in dede they sayd we kepe none in store we haue sayd ynough to punysshe hym fore If ye in this mater be not parcyall Remembre your name was wonte to be egall well than sayd Mynos now let vs here what this boystous Colus for hymselfe can saye For here Prima facie to vs dooth apere That he hath offended noo man can say naye wherfore thou Colus without more delaye Shape vs an answere to thyne accusement And ellys I muste procede vpon thy Iugement And euen as Colus was on warde to haue sayd For his excuse came in a messengere Fro god Apollo to Pluto and hym prayd On his behalfe that he withoute daungere wolde to hym come bryng with hym in fere Dyana and Neptunus vnto his banket And yf they dysdeyned hymselfe he wold heÌ„ fâ—â— Moreouer he sayd to the god Apollo Desyred to haue respyte of the Iugement Of Colus bothe of Mynos and Pluto So Dyana Neptunus were therwith content And yf they were dysposed to assent That he myght come vnto his presence He hit desyred to know his offence what sey ye herto sayd Pluto to hem tweyn wyll ye bothe assente that hit shall be thus ye sayd the goddesse for my parte certeyn And I also sayde this Neptunus I am well pleased quod this Colus And whan they had a whyle thê° togyder spoke Pluto commaunded the courte to be broke And than togeder went they in fere Pluto and Neptunus ledyng the goddesse whome folowed Cerberus with his prysonere And alder laste with grete heuynesse Came I and Morpleus to the forteresse Of the god Appollo vnto his banket where many goddys and goddesses met whan Apollo see that they were come He was ryght glad and prayed hem to syt Nay sayd Dyana this is all and some ye shall me pardone I shall not syt yet I shall fyrste knowe why Colus abyte And what execucyon shall on hym be do For his offence well sayd Apollo Madame ye shall haue all youre pleysere Syth that hit wyll none otherwyse be But fyrste I you praye let me the mater here why he is brought in this perplexite well sayd Pluto that shall ye soone se And gan to declare euen by and by Bothe her complayntes ordynatly And whan Apollo had herde the reporte Of Pluto in a maner smylyng he sayde I see well Colus thou haste small comforte Thy selfe to excuse thou mayste be dysmayde To here soo grete complayntis ayene the layde That notwithstondyng yf thou can sey ought For thyne one wele sey and tary nought Forsothe sayd Colus yf I had respyte Her to an answere cowde I counterfete But to haue her grace more is my delyte wherfore I praye you all for me entrete That I may by your request her good grace gete And what payne or greef ye for me prouyde withoute ony grutchyng I shall hit abyde Loo good Madame sayd god Apollo what maye he doo more but sew to your grace Beholde how the teeres from his eyen go Hit is satysfaccyon halfe for his trespace Now gloryous goddesse shewe your pyteous face To this poore prysoner at my request All we for your honour thynke thus is best And yf hit lyke you to doo in this wyse And to foryeue hym clerely his offence One thyng suerly I wyll you promyse If he ofte rebelle and make resystence Or dysobey vnto your sentence For euery tree that he maketh fall Out of the erthe an hundred aryse shall Soo that your game shall not dyscrease For lacke of shade I dare vndertake well syr Apollo sayd she than wyll I cease Of all my rancour and mercy with you make And than god Neptunus of his mater spake Sayeng thê° Apollo though Dyana hym relese Yet shall he sue to me to haue his pese A sayd Apollo ye wende I had foryete you for my lady Dyana the goddesse Nay thynke not soo for I wyll you entrete As well as hyr without long processe wyll ye agree that Phebus your maystresse Maye haue the guydyng of your varyaunce I shall abyde quod he her ordynaunce well than quod Apollo I praye you goddis all And goddesses eke that be here present That ye companably wyll a boorde fall Nay than sayd Othea hit is not conuenyent A dew ordre in euery place is expedyent To be had wherfore ye may not let To be your owne marchall at your own baÌ„ket And whan Apollo see hit wolde none other be He called to hym Aurora the goddesse And sayd though ye wepe yet shall ye before me Ay kepe your course and put your selfe in presse Soo he her set fyrst at his owne messe with her moyst clothes with teres all be spreynt The medewes in may shew therof her coÌ„pleynt Next her sat Mars myghty god and stronge with a flamme of fyre enuyrounde all aboute A crown of yron on his hede a spere in his hoÌ„de Hit semyd by his chere as he wold haue fought And next vnto hym as I perceue mought Sate the goddesse Dyana in a mantell fyne Of black sylke purfyly with poudryd hermyne Lyke as he had take the mantell and the ryng â–ª And next vnto hyr arayed royally Sate the god Iupyter in his demenyng Full sad and wyse he semed sykerly A crowne of tynne stood on his hede And that I recorde of all phylosophres That lytyll store of Coyne kepe in her cofres Ioynes to hym in syttyng next there was The goddesse Iuno full rychely beseene In a sercote that shone as bryght as glas Of goldsmytthes werke w t spaÌ„gles wrought be dene Of royal rychesse waÌ„ted she none I wene And next by her sate the god Saturne That oft sythe causeth many one to morne But he was clad me thought straungely For of frost and snowe was all his aray In his honde he helde a fawchon all blody Hit semyd by his chere as he wold make a fray A bawdryk of Isykles aboute his neck gay He had and aboue an hyghe on his hede Couchyd w t hayle stones he wered a crowne of lede And next in ordre was set by his syde Ceres the goddesse in a garmente