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A32749	The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.; Works. 1687	Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Siege of Thebes.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3736; ESTC R3920	1,295,535	731

parting For to the Queene it was a paine As to a Martyr new yssaine That for her woe and she so tender Yet I weepe oft when I remember She offerd there to resigne To my Lady eight times or nine Thastate the yle shortly to tell If it might please her there to dwell And said for euer her linage Should to my Lady doe homage And hers be hole withouten more Ye and all theirs for euermore Nay God forbid my Lady oft With many conning word and soft Said that euer such thing should beene That I consent should that a Queene Of your estate and so well named In any wise should be attamed But would be faine with all my hert What so befell or how me smert To doe thing that you might please In any wise or be your ease And kissed there and bad good night For which leue wept many a wight There might men here my Lady praised And such a name of her araised What of cunning and friendlinesse What of beauty with gentilnesse What of glad and friendly cheare●● That she vsed in all her yeares That wonder was here euery wight To say well how they did their might And with a prees vpon the morrow To ship her brought and what a sorrow They made when she should vnder saile That and ye wist ye would meruaile Forth goeth the ship out goeth the fond And I as wood man vnbond For doubt to be behind there Into the sea withouten fere Anon I ran till with a waw All sodenly I was ouerthraw And with the water to and fro Backward and forward trauailed so That mind and breath nigh was gone For good ne harme knew I none Til at the last with hookes tweine Men of the ship with mikel peine To saue my life did such trauaile That and ye wist ye would meruaile And in the ship me drew on hie And saiden all that I would die And laid me long downe by the mast And of their clothes on me cast And there I made my testament And wist my selfe not what I ment But when I said had what I would And to the mast my wo all told And tane my leaue of euery wight And closed mine eyen and lost my sight Auised to die without more speech Or any remedy to seech Of grace new as was great need My lady of my paine tooke heed And her bethought how that for trouth To see me die it were great routh And to me came in sober wise And softly said I pray you rise Come on with me let be this fare All shall be wel haue ye no care I will obey ye and fulfill Holy in all that lords will That you and me not long ago After his list commaunded so That there againe no resistence May be without great offence And therefore now what I say I am and will be friendly aye Rise vp behold this auauntage I graunt you inheritage Peaceably without striue During the daies of your liue And of her apples in my sleue One she put and took her leue In words few and said good hele He that all made you send and we le Wherewith my paines all at ones Tooke such leaue that all my bones For the new durense pleasaunce So as they couth desired to daunce And I as whole as any wight Vp rose with joyous heart and light Hole and vnsicke right we le at ease And all forget had my disease And to my lady where she plaid I went anone and to her said He that all joies persons to please First ordained with parfite ease And euery pleasure can depart Send you madame as large a part And of his goods such plenty As he has done you of beauty With hele and all that may be thought He send you all as he all wrought Madame quoth I your seruaunt trew Haue I ben long and yet will new Without chaunge or repentaunce In any wise or variaunce And so will do as thriue I euer For thing is none that me is leuer Than you to please how euer I fare Mine hearts lady and my welfare My life mine hele my lech also Of euery thing that doth me wo My helpe at need and my surete Of euery joy that longs to me My succours whole in all wise That may be thought or man deuise Your grace Madame such haue I found Now in my need that I am bound To you for euer so Christ me saue For heale and liue of you I haue Wherefore is reasoun I you serue With due obeisaunce till I sterue And dead and quicke be euer yours Late early and at all hours Tho came my lady small alite And in plaine english con consite In words few whole her entent She shewed me there and how she ment To meward in euery wise Wholly she came at their deuise Without processe or long trauell Charging me to keepe counsell As I would to her grace attaine Of which commaundement I was faine Wherefore I passe ouer at this time For counsell cords not well in rime And eke the oth that I haue swore To breake me were better vnbore Why for untrue for euermore I should be hold that neuermore Of me in place should be report Thing that auaile might or comfort To mewards in any wise Andech wight would me dispise In that they couth and me repreeue Which were a thing sore for to greeue Wherefore hereof more mencion Make I not now ne long sermon But shortly thus I me excuse To rime a councell I refuse Sailing thus two dayes or three My lady towards her countrie Ouer the waues high and greene Which were large and deepe betweene Vpon a time me called and said That of my hele she was well paid And of the Queene and of the yle She talked with me long while And of all that she there had seene And of the state and of the queene And of the ladies name by name Two houres or mo this was her game Till at the last the wind gan rise And blew so fast and in such wise The ship that euery wight can say Madame er eue he of this day And God tofore ye shall be there As ye would fainest that ye were And doubt not within sixe hours Ye shall be there as all is yours At which words she gan to smile And said that was no long while That they her set and vp she rose And all about the ship she gose And made good cheare to euery wight Till of the land she had a sight Of which sight glad God it wot She was abashed and aboot Aud forth goeth shortly you to tell Where she accustomed was to dwell And receiued was as good right With joyous cheere and hearts light And as a glad new auenture Pleasaunt to euery creature With which landing tho I woke And found my chamber full of smoke My cheekes eke vnto the eares And all my body weat with teares And all so feeble and in such wise I was that vnneth might I rise So fare

foes to vttraunce God would so so would eke your legiaunce To tho two aye pricketh you your dutie Who so nat keepeth this double obseruaunce Of merite and honour naked is he Your stile saieth ye be foes to shame Now kith of your faith the perseuerance In which an heap of us he halt and lame Our christen King of England of France And ye my lords with your alliance And other faithfull people that there be Trust I to God shal quench al this noisance And this land set in high prosperitie Conquest of high prowesse is for to tame The wild woodnesse of all these miscreaunce Right to the rote daily repe ye that same Slepen nat this but for Gods pleasaunce And his mother and in signifiaunce That ye been of Saint Georges liuere Doeth him seruice and knightly obeisaunce For Christs cause is his well knowne ye Stiff stand in that ye shall greeue grame The foe to peace the norice of distaunce That now is earnest turne it into game Now kithe of your beleeve the constaunce Lord liege Lords haue in remembraunce Lord of all is the blisfull Trinitie Of whose vertue the mightie habundaunce You heart and strength in faithfull vnitie Explicit WHen faith fayleth in Priestes sawes And lords hestes are holden for lawes And robberie is holden purchace And letchery is holden sollace Then shall the lond of Albion Be brought to great confusion It falleth for a gentleman To say the best that he can Always in mannes absence And the sooth in his presence It commeth by kind of gentill blood To cast away all heauinesse And gader togither words good The werke of wisdome beareth witnesse The Argument to the Prologues THE Author in these Prologues to his Canterbury Tales doth describe the Reporters thereof for two causes first that the Reader seeing the quality of the Person may judge of his speech accordingly wherein Chaucer hath most excellently kept that decorum which Horace requireth in that behalf Secondly to shew how that even in our Language that may be performed for descriptions which the Greek and Latine Poets in their Tongues have done at large And surely this Poet in the judgment of the best learned is not inferiour to any of them in his descriptions whether they be of Persons Times or Places Under the Pilgrims being a certain number and all of differing Trades he comprehendeth all the People of the Land and the nature and disposition of them in those dayes namely given to devotion rather of custom than of zeal In the Tales is shewed the state of the Church the Court and Countrey with such Art and cunning that although none could deny himself to be touched yet none durst complain that he was wronged For the man being of greater Learning than the most and backed by the best in the Land was rather admired and feared than any way disgraced Whoso shall read these his Works without prejudice shall find that he was a man of rare Conceit and of great Reading WHen that Aprill with his shours sote The drought of March had pierced to the rote And bathed every vaine in suche lycour Of which vertue engendred is the flour When Zephyrus eke with his sote breath Espired hath in every holt and heath The tender croppes and that the yong sonne Hath in the Ram halfe his course yronne And small foules maken melody That slepen all nyght with open eye So priketh hem nature in her courage Then longen folke to goe on pilgrimage And Palmers to seeken straunge strondes To serve hallowes couth in sundry londes And specially fro every shyres end Of England to Canterbury they wend The holy blissful martyr for to seeke That hem hath holpen when they were seeke IT befell that season on a day In Southwarke at the Taberde as I lay Ready to wend in my pilgrimage To Canterbury with devout courage That night was come into that hostelry Well nine and twenty in a company Of sundry folke by aventure yfall In fellowship and pilgrimes were they all That toward Canterbury would ride The chambers and stables weren wide And well weren they eased at the best And shortly when the sunne was at rest So had I spoken with hem everychone That I was of her fellowship anone And made forward early for to rise To take our way there as I you devise But nathelesse while I have time space Or that I ferther in this tale pace Me think it accordaunt to reason To tell you all the condition Of each of hem so as it seemed me And which they were and of what degree And eke in what array that they were in And at a Knight then will I first begin ¶ The Knight 1. A Knight there was and that a worthy man That fro the time that he first began To riden out he loved chivalry Trouth honour freedome and courtesie Full worthy was he in his Lords warre And thereto had he ridden no man so farre As well in Christendome as in Heathenesse And ever had honour for his worthinesse At Alisaundre he was when it was won Full often time he had the bourd begon Aboven all nations in Pruce In Lettowe had he ridden and in Luce No Christen man so oft of his degree In Garnade at the Siege had he be At Algezer and riden in Belmary At Leyes was he and also at Sataly When they were wonne in the great see At many a noble Army had he be At mortal Battels had he been fiftene And foughten for our faith at Tramissene In listes thries and aye slaine his fo This ilke worthy Knight had been also Sometime with the Lord of Palathy Ayenst another Heathen in Turky And evermore he had a soveraigne prise And though he was worthy he was wise And of his sport as meeke as is a Maid He never yet no villany ne said In all his life unto no manner wight He was a very perfite gentil knight For to tell you of his array His horse were good but he was nothing gay Of fustian he weared a gippon All besmottred with his Haubergion For he was late come fro his voyage And went for to done his pilgrimage ¶ The Squire 2. WIth him there was his son a yong squire A lover and a lusty Bachelere With his locks crull as they were laid in presse Of twenty yeare of age he was as I gesse Of his stature he was of even length And wonderly deliver and of great strength And he had be sometime in chivauchy In Flaunders in Artois and Picardy And borne him well as of so little space In hope to stand in his Ladies grace Embrouded was he as it weren a mede All full of fresh floures both white and rede Singing he was or floiting all the day He was fresh as is the moneth of May. Short was his gown with sleves long wide Well coud he sitte on a horse and faire ride He coud songs make and eke well indite Iust and eke

The Court of Love This Book is an imitation of the Romaunt of the Rose shewing that all are subject to love what impediments soever to the contrary containing also those twenty Statutes which are to be observed in the Court of Love WIth timerous heart and trembling hand of drede Of cunning naked bare of eloquence Vnto the floure of porte in womanhede I write as he that none intelligence Of metres hath ne floures of sentence Saufe that me list my writing to conuey In that I can to please her high nobley The blosomes fresh of Tullius gardein soot Present they not my matter for to born Poemes of Virgil taken here no root Ne craft of Galfride may not here sojourn Why nam I cunning O well may I mourn For lacke of science that I cannat write Vnto the princes of my life aright No tearmes digne vnto her excellence So is she sprong of noble stirpe and high A world of honour and of reuerence There is in her this will I testifie Caliope thou suster wise and slie And thou Minerua guide me with thy grace That language rude my matter not deface Thy suger dropes sweet of Helicon Distill in me thou gentle muse I pray And thee Melpomene I call anone Of ignoraunce the mist to chase away And giue me grace so for to write and say That she my lady of her worthinesse Accept in gree this little short treatesse That is entituled thus The Court of Loue And ye that ben Metriciens me excuse I you beseech for Venus sake aboue For what I mean in this ye need not muse And if so be my lady it refuse For lacke of ornate speech I would be wo That I presume to her to writen so But my entent and all my busie cure Is for to write this treatesse as I can Vnto my lady stable true and sure Faithfull and kind sith first that she began Me to accept in seruice as her man To her be all the pleasure of this book That when her like she may it rede and look WHen I was young at eighteene yeare of age Lusty and light desirous of pleasaunce Approching on full sadde and ripe courage Loue arted me to do my obseruaunce To his estate and done him obeisaunce Commaunding me y● Court of Loue to see Alite beside the mount of Citharee There Citherea goddesse was and quene Honoured highly for her majeste And eke her sonne the mighty God I wene Cupide the blind that for his dignite A M. louers worship on their kne There was I bid in paine of death to pere By Mercury the winged messengere So then I went by strange fer countrees Enquiring aye what coast had to it drew The Court of Loue thiderward as bees At last I see the people gan pursue And me thoght some wight was there that knew Where that y● court was holden ferre or nie And after them full fast I gan me hie Anone as I them ouertooke I said Heile friends whither purpose ye to wend Forsooth qd ofte that answered liche a maid To Loues Court now go we gentle friend Where is that place qd I my fellow hend At Citheron sir said he without dout The king of Loue and all his noble rout Dwelleth within a castle rially So then apace I journed forth among And as he said so fond I there truly For I beheld the toures high and strong And high pinacles large of hight and long With plate of gold bespred on euery side And precious stones y● stone werke for to hide No Saphire in Inde no Rube rich of price There lacked then nor Emeraud so grene Bales Turkes ne thing to my deuice That may the castle maken for to shene All was as bright as sterres in Winter bene And Phebus shone to make his peace ageine For trespas done to high estates tweine Venus and Mars the god goddesse clere When he them found in armes cheined fast Venus was then full sad of hert and chere But Phebus beams streight as is the mast Vpon the castle ginneth he to cast To please the lady princes of that place In signe he looketh after loues grace For there nis God in heauen or hell ywis But he hath ben right soget vnto loue Ioue Pluto or whatsoeuer he is Ne creature in yearth or yet aboue Of these the reuers may no wight approue But furthermore the castle to descrie Yet saw I neuer none so large and hie For vnto heauen it stretcheth I suppose Within and out depeinted wonderly With many a thousand daisie rede as rose And white also this saw I verely But who tho daisies might do signifie Can I not tell safe that the quenes floure Alceste it was that kept there her sojoure Which vnder Venus lady was and quene And Admete king soueraine of that place To whom obeied the ladies good ninetene With many a thousand other bright of face And yong men fele came forth with lusty pace And aged eke their homage to dispose But what they were I coud not well disclose Yet nere and nere forth in I gan me dress Into an hall of noble apparaile With arras spred and cloth of gold I gesse And other silke of esyer auaile Vnder the cloth of their estate sauns faile The king and quene there sat as I beheld It passed joy of Helise the field There saints haue their comming resort To seene the king so rially beseine In purple clad and eke the quene in sort And on their heads saw I crownes tweine With stones fret so that it was no paine Withouten meat and drink to stand see The kings honour and the rialtee And for to treat of states with the king That ben of councel cheef with the quene The king had Danger nere to him standing The quene of loue Disdain that was sene For by the faith I shall to God I wene Was neuer straunger none in her degree Than was the quene in casting of her eye And as I stood perceiuing her apart And eke the beames shining of her eyen Me thought they weren shapen lich a dart Sharp persing smal and streight of line And all her haire it shone as gold so fine Dishiuil crispe down hanging at her backe A yard in length and soothly then I spake O bright regina who made thee so faire Who made thy colour vermelet and white Wher wonneth y● God how far aboue the aire Great was his craft great was his delite Now maruell I nothing that ye do hight The quene of loue and occupie the place Of Cithare now sweet lady thy grace In mewet spake I so that nought astart By no condition word that might be hard But in my inward thought I gan aduert And oft I said my wit is dull and hard For with her beauty thus God wot I ferde As doth the man yrauished with sight When I beheld her cristall eyen so bright No respect hauing what was best to done Till right

And eke the Kight O admirabile This quere wil thorow mine ears pers and thril But what welcome this May season qd he And honour to the lord of loue mote be That hath this feste so solempne and so hie Amen said al and so said eke the Pie And forth the Cockow gan procede anon With Benedictus thanking God in hast That in this May would visite them echon And gladden them all while the feast shal last And therewithal a laughter out he brast I thanke it God that I shuld end the song And all the Seruice which hath ben so long Thus sang they all the seruice of the fest And that was done right erly to my dome And forth goth all y● court both most lest To fetch y● floures fresh braunch blome And namely Hauthorn brought both page grome W th fresh garlants party blew white And then rejoysen in their great delite Eke ech at other threw the floures bright The Primerose the Violete the gold So then as I beheld the royall fight My lady gan me sodenly behold And with a trewe loue plited many a fold She smote me through y● very heart as bliue And Venus yet I thanke I am aliue Explicit Chaucer's DREAM never Printed before the Year 1597. That which heretofore hath gone under the name of his Dream is the Book of the Dutchess or the Death of Blanch Dutchess of Lancaster This Dream devised by Chaucer seemeth to be a covert report of the Marriage of John of Gaunt the King's Son with Blanch the Daughter of Henry Duke of Lancaster who after long love during the time whereof the Poet feigneth them to be dead were in the end by consent of Friends happily Married figured by a Bird bringing in her Bill an Herb which restored them to life again Here also is shewed Chaucer's match with a certain Gentlewoman who although she was a Stranger was notwithstanding so well liked and loved of the Lady Blanch and her Lord as Chaucer himself also was that gladly they concluded a Marriage between them WHen Flora the queen of pleasaunce Had whole achieued thobeysaunce Of the fresh and new season Thorow out euery region And with her mantle whole couert That winter made had discouert Of auenture without light In May I lay vpon a night Alone and on my lady thought And how the Lord that her wrought Couth well entayle in Imagery And shewed had great maistry When he in so little space Made such a body and a face So great beauty with swich features More than in other creatures And in my thoughts as I lay In a lodge out of the way Beside a well in a forest Where after hunting I tooke rest Nature and kind so in me wrought That halfe on sleepe they me brought And gan to dreame to my thinking With mind of knowliche like making For what I dreamed as me thought I saw it and I slept nought Wherefore is yet my full beleeue That some good spirit that eue By meane of some curious port Bare me where I saw payne and sport But whether it were I woke or slept Well wot I of I lough and wept Wherefore I woll in remembraunce Put whole the payne and the pleasaunce Which was to me axen and hele Would God ye wist it euery dele Or at the least ye might o night Of such another haue a sight Although it were to you a payne Yet on the morow ye would be fayne And wish it might long dure Then might ye say ye had good cure For he that dreames and wenes he see Much the better yet may hee Wit what and of whom and where And eke the lasse it woll hindere To thinke I see this with mine eene Iwis this may not dreame kene But signe or signifiaunce Of hasty thing souning pleasaunce For on this wise vpon a night As ye haue heard without light Not all wakyng ne full on sleepe About such houre as louers weepe And cry after their ladies grace Befell me this wonder cace Which ye shall heare and all the wise So wholly as I can deuise In playne English euill written For sleepe writer well ye witten Excused is though he do mis More than one that waking is Wherefore here of your gentilnesse I you requyre my boistousnesse Ye let passe as thing rude And heareth what I woll conclude And of the endityng taketh no heed Ne of the tearmes so God you speed But let all passe as nothing were For thus befell as you shall here Within an yle me thought I was Where wall and yate was all of glasse And so was closed round about That leauelesse none come in ne out Vncouth and straunge to behold For euery yate of fine gold A thousand fanes aie turning Entuned had and briddes singing Diuers and on each fane a paire With open mouth again th aire And of a sute were all the toures Subtily coruen after floures Of vncouth colours during aye That neuer been none seene in May With many a small turret hie But man on liue could I non sie Ne creatures saue ladies play Which were such of theyr array That as me thought of goodlihead They passeden all and womanhead For to behold them daunce and sing It seemed like none earthly thing Such was their vncouth countinaunce In euery play of right vsaunce And of one age euerichone They seemed all saue onely one VVhich had of yeeres suffisaunce For she might neyther sing ne daunce But yet her countenaunce was so glad As she so fewe yeeres had had As any lady that was there And as little it did her dere Of lustines to laugh and tale As she had full stuffed a male Of disports and new playes Fayre had she been in her daies And maistresse seemed well to be Of all that lusty companie And so she might I you ensure For one the conningest creature She was and so said euerichone That euer her knew there fayled none For she was sober and well auised And from euery fault disguised And nothing vsed but faith and truth That she nas young it was great ruth For euery where and in ech place She gouerned her that in grace She stode alway with poore and riche That at a word was none her liche Ne halfe so able maistres to be To such a lusty companie Befell me so when I auised Had the yle that me suffised And whole the state euery where That in that lusty yle was there Which was more wonder to deuise Than the Ioieux paradise I dare well say for floure ne tree Ne thing wherein pleasaunce might bee There fayled none for euery wight Had they desired day and night Riches heale beauty and ease With euery thing that them might please Thinke and haue it cost no more In such a country there before Had I not bene ne heard tell That lives creature might dwell And when I had thus all about The yle auised throughout The state and how

that there were VVith sober countenaunce auised In few words that well suffised And to this lord anon present A bill wherein whole her entent VVas written and how she besought As he knew euery will and thought That of his godhead and his grace He would forgyue all old trespace And vndispleased be of time past For she would euer be stedfast And in his seruice to the death Vse euery thought while she had breath And sight and wept and said no more VVithin was written all the sore At whych bill the lord gan smyle And said he would within that yle Be lord and syre both east and west And cald it there his new conquest And in great councell tooke the Queene Long were the tales them betweene And ouer her bill he read thrise And wonder gladly gan deuise Her features faire and her visage And bad good thrift on that Image And sayd he trowed her compleint Should after cause her be corseint And in his sleeue he put the bill Was there none that knew his will And forth he walke apace about Beholding all the lusty rout Halfe in a thought with smiling chere Till at the last as ye shall here He turned vnto the Queene ageine And said to morne here in this pleine I woll ye be and all yours That purposed ben to weare flours Or of my lusty colour vse It may not be to you excuse Ne none of yours in no wise That able be to my seruise For as I said haue here before I will be lord for euermore Of you and of this yle and all And of all yours that haue shall Ioy peace ease or in pleasaunce Your liues vse without noysaunce Here will I in state be seene And turned his visage to the Queene And you giue knowledge of my will And a full answere of your bill Was there no nay ne words none But very obeisaunt seemed echone Queene and other that were there VVell seemed it they had great fere And there tooke lodging euery night VVas none departed of that night And some to read old Romances Them occupied for their pleasances Some to make verelaies and laies And some to other diuerse plaies And I to me a Romance tooke And as I reading was the booke Me thought the sphere had so run That it was rising of the Sun And such a prees into the piaine Assemble gone that with great paine One might for other go ne stand Ne none take other by the hand VVithouten they distourbed were So huge and great the prees was there And after that within two houres This mighty lord all in floures Of diuers colours many a paire In his estate vp in the aire VVell two fathom as his hight He set him there in all their sight And for the Queene and for the Knight And for my lady and euery wight In hast he sent so that neuer one VVas there absent but come echone And when they thus assembled were As ye haue heard me say you here VVithout more tarrying on hight There to be seene of euery wight Vp stood among the prees aboue A counsayler seruaunt of loue VVhich seemed well of great estate And shewed there how no debate Owe ne goodly might be vsed In gentilnesse and be excused VVherefore he said his lords will VVas euery wight there should be still And in pees and one accord And thus commaunded at a word And can his tongue to swiche language Turne that yet in all mine age Heard I neuer so conningly Man speake ne halfe so faithfully For euery thing he said there Seemed as it insealed were Or approued for very trew Swiche was his cunning language new And well according to his chere That where I be me thinke I here Him yet alway when I mine one In any place may be alone First con he of the lusty yle All thastate in little while Rehearse and wholly euery thing That caused there his lords comming And euery we le and euery wo And for what cause ech thing was so VVell shewed he there in easie speech And how the sicke had need of leech And that whole was and in grace He told plainly why each thing was And at the last he con conclude Voided euery language rude And said that prince that mighty lord Or his departing would accord All the parties there present And was the fine of his entent VVitnesse his presence in your sight VVhich sits among you in his might And kneeled downe withouten more And not o word spake he more Tho gan this mighty lord him dresse VVith cheare auised to do largesse And said vnto this knight and me Ye shall to joy restored be And for ye haue ben true ye twaine I graunt you here for euery paine A thousand joys euery weeke And looke ye be no lenger seeke And both your ladies lo hem here Take ech his own beeth of good chere Your happy day is new begun Sith it was rising of the sun And to all other in this place I graunt wholly to stand in grace That serueth truely without slouth And to auaunced be by trouth Tho can this knight and I downe kneele VVening to doe wonder wele Seeing O Lord your great mrrcy Vs hath enriched so openly That we deserue may neuer more The least part but euermore VVith soule and body truely serue You and yours till we sterue And to their Ladies there they stood This knight that couth so mikel good VVent in hast and I also Ioyous and glad were we tho And also rich in euery thought As he that all hath and ought nought And them besought in humble wise Vs taccept to their seruice And shew vs of their friendly cheares VVhich in their treasure many yeares They kept had vs to great paine And told how their seruants twaine VVere and would be and so had euer And to the death chaunge would we neuer Ne doe offence ne thinke like ill But fill their ordinance and will And made our othes fresh new Our old seruice to renew And wholly theirs for euermore VVe there become what might we more And well awaiting that in slouth VVe made ne fault ne in our trouth Ne thought not do I you ensure VVith our will where we may dure This season past againe an eue This Lord of the Queene tooke leue And said he would hastely returne And at good leisure there sojourne Both for his honour and for his ease Commaunding fast the knight to please And gaue his statutes in papers And ordent diuers officers And forth to ship the same night He went and soone was out of sight And on the morrow when the aire Attempred was and wonder faire Early at rising of the sun After the night away was run Playing vs on the riuage My Lady spake of her voyage And said she made small journies And held her in straunge countries And forthwith to the Queene went And shewed her wholly her entent And tooke her leaue with cheare weeping That pitty was to see that

you find of the Cooks Tale add this What thorow himself his felaw y● fought Vnto a mischief both they were brought The tone ydamned to prison perpetually The tother to deth for he couth not of clergy And therefore yong men learne while ye may That with many divers thoughts beth pricked all the day Remembre you what mischief cometh of misgovernaunce Thus mowe ye learn worschip and come to substaunce Think how grace and governaunce hath brought aboune Many a poore man'ys Son chefe state of the Town Euer rule thee after the best man of name And God may grace thee to come to y● same Immediately after these words at the end of the Squires Tale Apollo whirleth up his chare so hie Vntill the God Mercurius house he flie Let this be added But I here now maken a knotte To the time it come next to my lotte For here ben felawes behind an hepe truly That wolden talk full besily And have here sport as well as I And the day passeth certainly So on this mattere I may no lenger dwell But stint my clack and let the other tell Therefore oft taketh now good hede Who shall next tell and late him spede FINIS 1 This Leland had Commission from King Hen. Eighth to search all Libraries in England for matters of Antiquity He died in the days of Edw. Sixth 2 In the 1. Book and 5th Sect. 3 About the 2d or 3d Year of Edw. Third 1 Vintner quasi Wineturner that is a Merchant of the Vi●●ry which sold by whole sale 1 This Q. Isabel being sent into France with her young Son Edw. by the K. of England her Husband to conferr about matters with her Brother the French King would by no means return having conceived a great Hatred against the Spensers and also against the King for suffering himself to be misled by their naughty Counsel but by all means stirred the People to Rebellion and in the end came over her self with almost three thousand Strangers besides Englishmen 2 Henault a Province lying between France and Flanders 1 This Coniecture is of small force for the Merchants of the Staple had not any Arms granted to them as I have been informed before the time of Henry the Sixth or much thereabout Canterbury Colledge in Oxford founded by Simon Islip Archbishop of Canterbury was suppressed in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and joyned unto Christs-Church 2 Nicholas de Lynna studiorum praecipuas partes in Mathesi collocavit quae quatuor disciplinarum orbem complectitur videlicet Arithmeticam Geometriam Musicam Astrologiam Bale 3 John Gower a Knight as Bale writeth studied not only the common Laws of the Land but all other kind of good Literature He lieth buried in St. Mary Overies in Southwark in a stately Tomb erected in the Wall with his Image lying over him in a Habit of greenish Damask down to his Feet a Collar of Esses Gold about his Neck and on his Head a Chaplet of Roses the Ornaments of Knighthood Under his Head he hath the likeness of three Books which he compiled the first Speculum Meditantis in French the second Vox Clamantis in Latin the third Confessio Amantis in English 4 John Plantagenet sirnamed Gaunt of Gaunt in Flanders where he was born was the fourth Son of King Edward the Third He was Duke of Lancaster Earl of Lincoln Darby and Leicester King of Castile and Lyons and Steward of England He was also Earl of Richmond and Duke of Aquitain He had three Wives Blanch Constance and Katharine He lieth buried in the Quire of Pauls 1 Thomas Chaucer was born about the 38 or 39th Year of Edw. 3. 2 Written Ann. Domini 1391. Rich. secund 14. 1 This John Burghershe was of the same Line of Barrholomew Burghershe one of the first Knights of the Garter at the Institution thereof by Edward 3. and of Henry Burghershe Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor and Treasurer of England 2 Ewelme olim Chauceri Delapolorum nunc Regiae aedes Dum enim Johannes Lincolniae Comes Gulielmo Delapolo è filio Johanne nepos res novas contra Henricum septimum moliretur proscriptus omnibus honoribus his possessionibus excidit quae in patrimonium Regium transcriptae fuerunt G. C. 3 Dunnington Castle standeth in a Park in Barkshire not far from Newberry where to this day standeth an old Oak called Chaucer's Oak 4 Wallingford in Barkshire Castrum admirandae amplitudinis magnificentiae duplici murorum ambitu duplici item vallo circundatum in medio moli in magnam altitudinem aeditae arx imponitur in cujus acclivi per gradus ascensu fons est immensae profunditatis Incolae constructum à Danis credunt alii à Romanis G. Camben 5 Knaresborow in Yorkshire Castrum rupi asperrimae impositum quod Serlonem de Burgo patruum Eustacii Vescii condidisse ferunt nunc patrimonii Lancastrensis censetur G. Camden 6 This Jane of Navarr Widow to John of Mounford Duke of Britain was married to Henry the Fourth about the fourth Year of his Reign 7 The Pooles Advancement grew first by Merchandise and Sir Richard Poole Kt. was Father to William de la Pool Merchant of Hull who for that he frankly and freely did lend to King Ed. 3. a great Sum of Mony at Mortaign in France when he was greatly distressed was honoured with the Girdle Military made Banneret and endued with 1000 Marks by the Year and his Successors after were advanced to be Dukes of Suffolk as in Master Stow's Annals appeareth William de la Pole was first secretly married to the Countess of Henault by whom he had a Daughter and after being divorced from her was publickly married to Chaucer's Daughter Countess of Salisbury who proved this Daughter being married to one Barentine a Bastard The which Barentine afterward for a Rior made against the Countess was condemned and lost an hundred Pounds by the Year J. Stow. In the 28. of K. Hen. 6. 1450. this William de la Pole was banished the Realm for five Years to pacifie the hard opinion which the Commons had conceived against him In his Journey to his Banishment he was taken and beheaded and his Body cast up at Dover Sands and buried in the Charter-house at Hull J. St. This Sir Rich. Dangle a Knt. of Poictu came over with the Duke of Lancaster who for his Valiancy and tryed Truth to the King of England was made Knight of the Garter 1 Some say he did but translate it and that it was made by Sir Otes de Grantsome Knight in French of my Lady of York Daughter to the King of Spain representing Venus and my Lord of Huntingdon sometime Duke of Excester This Lady was younger Sister to Gaunt's second Wife This Lord of Huntingdon was called John Holland half Brother to Richard the Second He married Elizabeth the Daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Out of the Records in the Tower a Thomas Occleve vel Ockelese vir tam bonis literis quam generis prosapia clarus exquisua quadam Anglici sermonis eloquentia post Chaucerum cujus suerat discipulus patriam ornavit linguam Johannis Wiclevi ipsius Berengarii in religione doctrinam sequebatur Tractatus hos fecit Planctum proprium Dialogum and amicum De quadam Imperatrice De arte moriendi De coelesti Hierusalem De quodam Jonatha De Regimine Principis * John Lidgate Monk of Bury an excellent Poet He travelled France and Italy to learn the Languages and Sciences * That is Geffrey Vinesause of whom read in the Recital of Authors This William Caxton of London Mercer brought Printing out of Germany into England about the latter end of the Reign of Henry the Sixth and practised the same in the Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster It was first found in Germany at Mogunce by one John Cuthembergus a Knight and brought to Rome by Conradus an Almaigne as some Authors say