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A06541
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Here endeth a lytyll tratyse named Le assemble de dyeus; Assembly of gods.
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.
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STC 17007; ESTC S109242
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electe Rewarded to all that folow the same secte And as for the keyes of the posternes fyue whiche were to Morpleê° rewarded for his labour Sygnyfye not elles but whyle man is on lyue His fyue inwarde wyttes shall be euery hour In his slepe occupyed in hele in langour with fantasyes tryfels Illusyons dremes whiche Poetes call Morpleus stremes And as for Resydyuacyon is nomore to say But after Confessyon tornyng ayene to synne whiche to euery man retorneth sanuz delay To vycyous lyuyng agayn hym to wynne whyle ony man lyueth wyll it neuer blynne That cursed conclusyon for to bryng aboute But Reason with Sadnes kepe it styll oute Here hast thou properly the verrey sentence Herde now declared of this vysyon The pycture also yeueth clere intellygence Therof beholden with good dyscresyon Loke well aboute and take consyderasyon As I haue declared whether hit soo be A syr quoth Morpleus what tolde I the Hast thou not now thyne hertes desyre Loke on you wall yonder before And all that tyme stood I in a wyre whiche way fyrst myn hert wolde yeue more To loke in a stody stood I therfore Neuerthelesse at last as Morpleus me badde I loked forwarde with contenaunce sadde where I behelde in portrayture The maner of the felde euen as it was Shewed me before euery creature On bothe sydes beyng drawyng in small space Soo curyously in soo lytyll a compace In all this worlde was neuer thyng wrought Hit were Impossyble in erthe to be thought And when I had long beholde that pycture what qd Morpleus how longe shalte thou loke Daryng as a dastard on you portrayture Come of for shame thy wytte stante a croke I heryng that myn herte to me toke Towarde the fourthe wall tornyng my vysage where I sawe Poetes Phylosophers sage Many one moo than at the banket Scrued the goddes as I layde before Som were made standyng som in chayris set Som lokyng on bokis as they had stodyed sore Som drawyng almenakis in her hondis bore Astyrlabes takyng the altytude of the sonne Among whome Dyogenes sate in a tonne And as I was lokyng on that fourthe wall Of Dyogenes beholdyng the ymage Sodeynly Doctryne began me to call And bad me tourne towarde hyr my vysage And soo then I dyde with humble corage what thynkest y u she sayd hast y u not th entent yet of these foure walles what they represent The pycture on the fyrst y t standeth at my bake Sheweth the y e present tyme of pylgremage Of whiche before I vnto the spake whiche is the tyme of dauÌ„gerous passage The seconde dyscrettly agayne my vysage The tyme expresseth of Deuyacyon whyle paynyme lawe had the domynacyon The thryd wall standyng on my lyfte honde The tyme representeth of Reuocacyon And the fourthe standyng on my ryght honde Determyneth the tyme of Reconsylyacyon This is the effecte of thy vysyon wherfore the nedeth nomore theron to muse Hit were but veyne thy wyttes to dysuse But duryng the tyme of Reconsylyacyon Thy tyme of pylgremage loke well y u spende And then well gracyous Predestynacyon Bryng the to glory at thy last ende And euen with that came to my mynde My fyrst conclusyon that I was aboute To haue dreuen er slepe made me to loute That is to say how Sensualyte w t Reason to acorde myght be brought aboute whiche caused me to knele downe on my kne And beseke Doctryne determyne that doute Do lord god sayd Doctryne canst y u not withoute Me that conclusyon bryng to an ende Ferre is fro the wytte ferther good mende And euen with that Dethe gan appere Shewyng hymselfe as though that he wolde His darte haue occupyed within that herbere But there was none for hym yong nor olde Saue oonly I Doctryne hym tolde And when I herde hyr with hym comon thus I me withdrew behynde Morpleus Dredyng full sore leest he with his dart Thorugh Doctrynes wordes ony entresse In me wolde haue had or claymed ony part whiche sholde haue caused me grete heuynesse within whiche tyme short processe Came thyder Reason and Sensualyte A quoth Doctryne ryght welcome be ye Hit is not long sythe we of you spake Ye must er ye goo determyne a doute And euen with that she the mater brake To theym tolde hit euery where aboute I wolde haue be thens yf I had moute For fere I loked as blake as a cole I wolde haue cropen in a mouse hole what quoth Doctryne where is he now That meued this mater straunge dyffuse He is a cowarde I make myn auow He hyded his hede his mocyon to refuse Blame hym not qd Reason alway y t to vse when he seeth Dethe soo nere at his honde Yet is his part hym to withstonde Or at the leste way elles fro hym flee As longe as he may who dooth otherwyse Is an ydeote quoth Sensualytee who dredeth not Dethe wyse men hym dyspyse what sayd Doctryne how long hathe this gyse Be holden vsed thus a twixe you tweyne ye were not wonte to acorde certeyne yes quoth Reason in this poynt alway To euery man haue we yeuen our counsayll Dethe for to flee as long as they may Al though we otherwyse haue done our trauayll Eche other to represse yet withoute fayll In that poynt oonly dyscordeth we neuer Thus condescended therin be we for euer A ha sayd Doctryne then is the conclusyon Clerely determyned of the gret doute That here was meuyd halfe in derysyon She me then called bade me loke oute Come forthe she sayd feere not this route And euen with that Reason Sensualyte And Dethe fro thens were vanysshed all thre Then loked I forthe as Doctryne me badde when Dethe was gone me thought I was bolde To shewe myselfe but yet was I sadde Me thought my doute was not as I wolde Clerely and openly declared tolde Hit sowned to me as a parable Derke as a myste or a fayned fable And Doctryne my conceyte gan espy wherfore sayd she standest thou soo styll wherin is thy thought art thou in stody Of thy questyon hast thou not thy fyll To the declared tell me thy wyll Herdest thou not Reason Sensualyte Declared thy doubte here before the For sothe quoth I. I herde what they sayde But neuerthelesse my wytte is so thynne And also of Dethe I was so afrayde That hit is out where hit went ynne And so that mater can I not wynne without your helpe benyuolence Therof to expresse the verray sentence well quoth Doctryne then yeue attendaunce Vnto my wordes thou shalt here Openly declared the concordaunce At wene Sensualyte Reason in fere If thou take hede hit clerely dooth apere How they were knette in one opynyon Bothe agayn Dethe helde contradyccyon whiche concordaunce nomore syguyfyeth To playne vnderstandyng but in euery mane Bothe Sensualyte Reason applyeth Rather Dethe to flee then with hit to be tane Loo