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The historie of graunde Amoure and la bell Pucel, called the Pastime of plesure co[n]teining the knowledge of the seue[n] sciences, [and] the course of mans life in this worlde. Iuuented [sic] by Stephen Hawes, grome of kyng Henry the seuenth his chamber.; Pastime of pleasure
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Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?
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Paiyng the swete due dette of nature Thus with my lady that was fayre and cleare In ioye I liued full ryght many a yere O lusty youth and yong tender hart The true companion of my lady bright God let vs neuer from other astart But all in ioye to liue bothe daye and nyght Thus after sorowe ioye ariued aryght After my payne I had sport and playe Full little thought I that it shoulde decaye Till that dame nature naturyng had made All thinges to growe vnto their fortitude And nature naturyng waxt retrograde By strength my youthe so for to exclude As was euer her olde consuetude First to augment and then to abate This is the custome of her hye estate THus as I liued in suche pleasure gladde Into the chamber came full priuely A fayre olde man and in his hand he had A croked staffe he wente full wekely Unto me then he came full softly And with his staffe he toke me on the breast Obey he saied I must you nedes arest My name is age whiche haue often sene The lusty youthe perishe vnhappely Through the desecte of the selfe I wene And euermore I do thinke in wardly That my dedes of youthe were of great foly And thou thy selfe right ioyous may be To liue so long for to be lyke to me Happy is he that may well ouer passe The narowe brydge ouer fragilitie Of his wanton youthe brittle as the glasse For the youthe is open to all frailtye Ready to fal into great iniquitye Full well is he that is brydled fast With faire dame Reason till his youthe be past I obeyed his rest there was no remedy My youthe was past and all my lustines And right anone to vs came Policye With auaryce bringyng great riches My whole pleasure and delite doubtles Was set vpon treasure insaciate It to beholde and for to agregate The fleshely pleasure I had cast aside Little I loued for to playe or daunce But euer I thought howe I myght prouide To spare my treasure lande and substaunce This was my minde and all my purueyaunce As vpon deathe I thought little or neuer But gathered riches as I shoulde liue euer BUt when I thought longest to endure Death with his dart arest me sodainely Obey he sayed as ye may be sure You can resist nothing the contrary But that you must obey me naturally What you auayleth suche treasure to take Sythens by force ye must it nowe forsake Alas quod I nothing can me ayde This worldely treasure I must leaue behinde For earth of earth will haue his dette now payed What is this worlde but a blast of winde I must neades dye it is my natife kinde And as I was at this conclusion To me did come dame Confession With dame Contricion whiche gan to bewaile My sinnes great with whole repentaunce And Satisfaction without any fayle With dame Conscience did weye in balaunce Howe that they might then without doubtaunce My treasure and good so gotten wrongfutly To restore againe to the rightfull party Of holy churche with all humilitie My rightes I toke and then incontinent Nature auailed in so lowe degree That death was come and all my life was spent Out of my bodye my soule then it went To Purgatory for to be purified That after that it might be glorified Capi. xlii THe good dame Mercy with dame Charitie My body buried full right humbly In a faire temple of olde antiquitie Where was for me a dyrege deuoutly And with many a masse full right solemnely And ouer my graue to be in memory Remembraunce made this little epitaphy O earth on earth it is a wonders case That thou art blinde and will not the knowe Though vpon earth thou hast thy dwellyng place Yet earth at last must nedes the ouerthrowe Thou thinkest the to be no earth I trowe For if thou diddest thou wouldest then apply To forsake pleasure and to learne to dye Pride O earth of earth why art thou so proude Nowe what thou art call to remembraunce Open thine eares vnto my song aloude Is not thy beutye strength and puissaunce Though it be cladde with clothes of pleasaunce Uery earth and also wormes fode When earth to earth shall turne the bloude Wrathe And earth with earth why art thou so wrothe Remember the that it vayleth right nought For thou maiest thinke of a perfite trouthe If with the earth thou hast a quarell sought Amiddes the earth there is a place ywrought When earth to earth is turned properly The for thy sinne to punishe wondersly Enuy. And earth for earth why hast thou Enuy And the earth vpon earth to be more prosperous Then thou thy selfe fretyng the inwardly It is a synne right foule and vycious And vnto God also full odious Thou thinkest I trowe there is no punishment Ordeyned for sinne by egall iudgement Slouthe Towarde heauen to folowe on the way Thou art full slowe and thinkest nothing That thy nature dothe full sone decay And death right fast is to the commyng God graunt the mercy but no tyme enlongyng When thou hast time take time and space When time is past lost is the time of grace Couetise And when earth to earth is next to reuert And nature lowe in the last age Of earthly treasure earth dothe set his hart Insaciatly vpon couetise to rage He thinketh not his life shall asswage His good is his God with his great riches He thinketh not for to leaue it doubtles Glotony The pomped clarkes with fode delicious Earth often feadeth with corrupt glotony And not hynge with workes vertuous The soule dothe fede right well ententifly But without measure full inordinately The body liueth and will not remember Howe earth to earth must his strenthe surrender Lechery The vile carkasse set vpon a fyre Dothe often haunt the sinne of lechery Fulfillyng the fowle carnall desire Thus earth with earth is corrupt marueyloussye And earth on earth will nothing purifye Till earth to earth be neare subuerted For earth with earth is so peruerted O mortall folke you may beholde and se Howe I lye here sometime a mighty knight The ende of ioye and all prosperitie Is death at last through his course and myght After the day there cometh the darke nyght For thoughe the day be neuer so long At last the belles ringeth to euensong And my selfe called la graunde amoure Sekyng aduenture in the worldely glory For to attaine the riches and honoure Did thinke full little that I shoulde here lye Till death did marke me fuil right priuely Lo what I am and wherto you must Like as I am so shall you be all dust Then in your minde inwardly despise The brittle worlde so full of doublenes With the vyle fleshe and right sone aryse Out of your slepe of mortall heauines Subdue the deuill with grace and mekenes That after your life frayle and transitory You may then liue in ioye perdurably Capit. xliii ANd as remembraunce mine epytaphy set Ouer my graue in came dame Fame With
winne the victory Of the sturdy gyauntes with famous chyualry O prynce of honoure and of worthy fame O noble knyghtes of olde antiquitie O redoubted courage the causer of their name Whose worthy actes Fame caused to be In bokes written as ye may well se So geue me grace ryght well to recure The power of Fame that shall long endure I thought me past all childely ygnoraunce The. xxi yere of my yonge flouryng age I thought that Uenus myght nothyng auaunce Her strength agaynst me with her lusty courage My witte I thought had suche aduauntage That it shoulde rule bothe Uenus and Cupide But alas for wo for all my sodayne pride WHen that Phebus entred was in Geminye Towarde the crabbe takyng ascention At the time of the great solemnitie From heauen aboue of Gods descention In a great temple with whole entencion As I went walkyng my selfe to and fro Full sodaynely Uenus wrought me suche wo For as I cast then my syght all aloft I sawe Uenus in beauty so cleare Whiche caused Cupide with his dart so soft To wounde my hart with feruent loue so deare Her louyng countenaunce so highe did appeare That it me rauished with a sodaine thought Alas for wo it auayled me right nought To geue audience vnto the melody Of waytes and organs that were at the feast Loue had me wounded so sore in wardly What was to do I knewe not the best Replete with sorowe and deuoyde of rest Sithen the time that she my hart so wounded My ioy and pride she hath full lowe confounded And so nowe for to attayne her grace As thou doest knowe become aduenturous Besechyng the in this perillous case O Mars me succoure in time tempestious That I may passe the passage daungerous And to thy laude honoure and glory I shall a temple right strongly edifye Well then saied Mars I shall the fortify In all thy warre as fast as I can But for thy payne I knowe no remedy For Uenus raygned when that thou began First for to loue makyng the pale and wanne And of the trouthe to make relation Thou was borne vnder her constellation Wherfore thou must of very perfite ryght Unto her sue by the disposicion Whiche the constrayneth with whole delite For to loue ladyes by true affection Suche is her course and operation Wherfore when thou hast learned perfitely The for to gouerne by prudent chiualrye Then to fulfill thy right hye enterprise Forthe on thy way thou shalt thy iourney take Unto a temple in all humble wise Before dame Uenus thine oblation to make Whiche all thy paine maye sone redresse and slake For at that time she holdeth a parliment To redresse louers of their impediment Aha quod fortune with the faces twayne Behinde sir Mars I haue a great maruayle That thou doest promise him that he shal attayne Unto his purpose with all diligent trauayle Throughe thine ayde eke strength and counsayle Sythence dependeth in mine ordinaunce Him to promote or bryng to mischaunce My power estate and royall dignitie Dothe turne the whele of worthely glory Often vp so downe by mutabilitie Haue not I promoted full noblye Many a lowe degre to raygne full royallye And often haue made a transmutation Of worldely wealthe into tribulation Thus can I make an alterasion Of worthely honoure whiche dothe depende All onely in my dominacion Throughe the worlde my whele dothe extende As reason dothe ryght well comprehende Of my great chaunces whiche are vnsure As dayly dothe appere well in vre If I shoulde worke with perfect stedfastnes As to exalt some to be honourable And that they knewe by perfite sykernes That it shoulde dure and not be variable It were a thing vnto me culpable For great orguel pride shoulde them so blynde To know them selues they should lose their mind Thus when that they shoulde them selues forget And in no wise their owne person knowe Full little then they woulde by me sette That them exalted to hye degree from lowe And by my chaunce coulde nought theÌ„ ouerthrow Thus shoulde they do dreade me nothing Wherfore my whele is euermore turnyng And where that I shoulde turne my face Castyng some in pytte of pouertye They were condempned without any grace As for to attayne any prosperitie Whiche were a cause of greate iniquitie For riche mens goodes I must oft translate Unto the pore them for to eleuate And thirdely I shoulde lose my name For this worde fortune is well derified Of an accident chaunce bothe good or shame When that the dede is so exemplified Wherfore by reason I must be duplified And nothing stable in my hye warke As writeth many a ryght noble clarke Therfore by reason I must be mutable And turne my whele ryght oft vp so downe Labouryng in workes whiche are vnstable On some to laughe on some I must frowne Thus all about in euery realme and towne I shewe my power in euery sundry wise Some to descende and on some to arise Wherfore my power dothe right well excell Aboue the Mars in thine house enclosed For to rule man thou hast power neuer adell Saue after the somewhat he is disposed Thy constelation hath him so apposed Who vnder the taketh his natiuitie Yet God hath geuen him power to rule the Wherfore I am of a farre higher power Then thou arte for there is no defence Agaynst my will at any time or houre And in my name there is a difference For in these wordes in my magnificence Predestinate and also desteny As I shall shewe anone more formably Predestinate dothe right well signifie A thing to come whiche is prepared None but God doth knowe it openly Tyll that the dede cause it to be declared For many a one when they well fared Full little thought that tribulation To them was ordeyned by predestination The desteny is a thing accident And by the worke dothe take the effect Tyll it be done it is ay precedent No man from it can him selfe abiect Thus euery chaunce dothe fortune direct Wherfore by reason la graunde Amoure Must sue vnto me to do him socoure A ha quod Mars suche a one as thou I neuer knewe before this season For thou thy selfe doest so muche enproue Aboue the heauens by exaltation But what for all thy commendation Arte thou nowe any thing substanciall Spirituall or els yet terrestriall Howe can a worke pâ—â—fitely be grounded But in these two and thou arte of those Wherfore for nought thou maiest be confounded For nought in substaunce can nothing transpose Of none effect thou canst thy selfe disclose Howe hast thou power in any maner of case In heauen or earth without a dwellyng place But that Poetes hath made a figure Of thee for thy great signification The chaunce of man so for to discure Accordyng to a moralization And of the trouthe to make relation The man is fortune in his proper dede And not thou that causeth him to spede What neadeth him vnto him selfe to sue Sithens thou art the dedes of his