The
castell
of
loue
,
translated
out
of
Spanishe
in
to
Englyshe
,
by
Iohan
Bowrchier
knyght
,
lorde
Bernis
,
at
the
instaunce
of
the
lady
Elizabeth
Carew
,
late
wyfe
to
syr
Nicholas
Carew
knyght
.
The
whiche
boke
treateth
of
the
loue
betwene
Leriano
and
Laureola
doughter
to
the
kynge
of
Masedonia
.
¶
Cum
priuilegio
ad
imprimendum
solum
.
¶
The
Prologe
.
FOr
the
affeccyant
desyre
and
obligacyon
that
I
ame
bownde
in
,
towardes
your
ryghte
vertuous
and
good
lady
:
as
well
for
the
goodnes
that
it
hath
pleased
you
to
shewe
me
,
as
for
the
nyrenesse
of
consanguinite
,
hathe
pleased
me
to
accomplyshe
your
desyre
,
as
in
translatynge
this
present
boke
.
And
though
my
so
doynge
,
can
not
be
correspondente
any
thynge
to
recompence
your
goodnes
.
yet
not
beynge
ignorante
of
your
wyll
and
desyre
,
the
whiche
in
this
cause
I
take
for
the
hole
effecte
:
thynkynge
thereby
to
do
you
some
smale
rememoracyon
.
And
also
bycause
the
matter
is
very
pleasante
for
yonge
ladyes
and
gentle
women
.
Therfore
I
haue
enterprysed
to
translate
the
same
out
of
Spanyshe
in
to
Englysh●
,
not
adorned
with
so
fre●she
eloquence
,
that
it
shulde
meryte
to
be
presented
to
your
goodnesse
.
For
or
I
fyrste
entred
in
to
this
rude
laboure
I
was
brought
into
greate
doubtfulnesse
,
and
founde
my selfe
in
dyuers
ymagynacyons
.
For
seynge
the
quycke
intellygence
of
your
spyrit
,
I
feared
:
and
agayne
the
remembraunce
of
your
vertue
and
prudence
,
gaue
me
audacyte
.
In
the
one
I
found
feare
,
and
in
the
other
suertie
and
hardynesse
.
Fynally
I
dyd
chose
the
moste
vnuaylable
,
for
myne
owne
shame
,
and
most
vtilitie
in
any
reprehencion
or
rebuke
for
the
moche
boldenesse
,
in
that
I
haue
not
taken
suche
respyte
as
I
oughte
to
haue
done
.
yet
in
consyderacyon
of
your
gentlenesse
,
myne
affeccyon
is
alwayes
in
truste
to
skape
blameles
.
I
haue
taken
this
entrepryce
on
me
,
more
be
desyre
to
haue
blame
thereby
,
then
to
atteyne
by
my
prayse
or
laude
.
wherfore
ryghte
vertuous
lady
,
maye
it
please
you
of
your
goodnes
to
accept
this
lytle
presente
treatyse
,
and
to
receyue
this
my
good
wyll
,
or
ye
condempne
the
faulte
.
And
also
to
haue
the
more
affeccyon
to
the
presenter
,
then
to
the
valewer
of
the
thynge
presented
:
requyrynge
you
to
holde
and
repute
me
alwayes
as
one
of
the
nomber
of
them
,
that
alwayes
shal
be
redy
to
do
you
pleasure
.
And
for
the
surplus
,
I
desyre
the
creatour
of
the
fyrst
cause
long
to
indure
and
to
encrease
your
happy
prosperite
.
Amen
.
¶
The
ende
of
the
prologe
.
¶
The
Auctor
.
AFter
the
warres
done
and
finyshyd
in
my
countrey
,
beynge
in
my
poore
mansion
,
in
a
mornyng
whan
the
sonne
illuminyd
the
earthe
,
in
a
shadowyde
darke
valey
,
in
the
mountayne
called
Serua
de
Marenus
,
in
the
countrey
of
Masedonia
:
as
I
walkyd
in
a
strayte
way
shadowyd
with
fayer
trees
Sodenly
I
mette
with
a
knight
fyers
and
furious
,
whose
presence
was
ferfull
to
regarde
.
Coueryde
all
in
here
lyke
a
sauage
creature
.
In
his
lyfte
hande
he
bare
a
bryght
schilde
of
stele
,
&
in
his
ryght
hand
a
shynynge
ymage
entaillid
in
a
clere
stone
,
of
such
plesure
&
bewtle
,
that
the
clerenes
troublyd
the
syghte
of
myne
eyen
,
out
of
the
whiche
there
issuyde
dyuers
Rayes
of
fier
enbransing
&
enflaming
the
body
of
a
man
.
The
which
the
sayd
knight
forceably
ledde
behynd
hym
,
wh●●with
dolorous
playntes
and
sorowfull
passions
sayde
:
By
reason
of
my
hope
,
I
suffre
all
this
,
and
wheir
he
aprochyd
,
and
that
I
was
nere
hym
,
he
sayd
with
mortall
anguysh
frende
,
for
the
loue
of
god
I
pray
the
folow
me
and
ayde
me
in
this
my
great
be●ynes
,
and
I
as
then
had
more
cause
of
feare
,
then
reason
to
aunswere
,
but
I
set
myne
eyen
on
this
strange
vision
,
iudgyng
in
my
hart
dyuerce
consideracions●
as
to
leue
my
way
,
me
thought
it
symplenes
,
and
to
accomplysh
the
desire
of
the
pacient
,
I
thought
it
dangerous
to
folow
hym
was
perell
,
and
to
leue
hym
in
that
turbacion
was
pite
,
so
that
I
wiste
not
whiche
was
beste
to
chose
,
how
be
it
after
that
feare
had
left
myne
alteracion
in
some
ease
,
and
that
my
spirites
began
to
respyre
,
then
I
consyderyd
well
that
I
was
more
bounde
to
the
vertue
,
then
to
the
lyfe
.
And
then
determynyde
for
the
dought
that
I
was
in
,
to
folow
the
way
of
hym
who
desyred
myne
ayede
,
and
I
hastyde
me
to
go
after
in
suche
sorte
that
shortely
I
ouertoke
them
.
Do
we
went
all
.iii.
a
longe
space
,
with
no
lesse
anoyance
,
then
to
be
solytary
alone
fro
pleasur
or
company
,
and
though
the
desyre
of
the
dolorous
,
was
cause
of
my
folowynge
,
yet
to
speke
to
hym
that
ledde
the
pacient
,
I
faylyde
audacyte
,
and
to
desire
hym
,
me
thought
nothynge
auayleable
,
nor
I
hadde
not
deseruyd
it
,
though
in
this
case
I
fayled
counsayll
,
yet
after
I
had
reuoluyde
my
thoughtes
in
the
remembrance
of
many
thynges
,
I
thought
it
beste
to
put
to
hym
some
maner
of
purpose
,
to
th
entent
that
accordyng
to
his
aunswere
I
shuld
determyne
further
.
And
with
this
delyberacion
I
requyrede
hym
in
the
moste
curtes
wyse
that
to
me
was
possible
,
to
shew
me
what
he
was
:
who
aunswered
me
,
&
sayd
:
Frende
,
certaynly
accordyng
to
my
naturall
condycion
,
I
oughte
to
gyue
the
none
aunswere
:
bycause
myne
offyce
is
rather
to
assure
euyll
,
then
to
aunswere
well
:
how
be
it
in
that
I
haue
bene
alwayes
norished
among
men
of
good
nourture
:
I
shall
vse
to
the
of
the
gentylnes
,
that
I
haue
lernyd
,
a●d
not
of
the
fercenes
of
my
nature
.
Thou
shalt
vnderstand
sence
thou
wylt
know
it
,
that
I
ame
principall
officer
in
the
house
of
the
god
of
loue
:
and
I
ame
namyd
by
my
ryght
name
,
desire
.
And
with
the
force
of
this
chylde
/
I
resyst
&
defende
all
hoopes
:
And
with
the
beautie
of
this
Image
I
cause
the
affections
wher
with
I
broyle
and
enflame
the
lyues
as
thou
maist
se
by
this
prisoner
whom
I
lede
in
to
the
prisone
of
loue
:
who
all
onely
by
dethe
hopeth
his
delyuerance
.
Whan
this
tormentour
hadde
shewed
me
all
these
thynges
,
we
mountyd
vp
a
sharpe
&
an
hygh
mountayne
,
that
further
to
trauaylle
,
my
for●e
fayled
,
and
with
greate
payne
,
we
aryuyd
to
the
heyght
.
In
receyuynge
this
aunswer
,
then
I
studyed
,
how
to
thanke
hym
of
the
grace
that
he
hadde
shewed
me
:
and
therwith
sodenly
he
vanyshed
fro
my
presence
.
This
was
in
the
begynnynge
of
the
night
,
wherfore
I
coulde
not
kepe
my
waye
,
nor
knowe
whether
I
shulde
drawe
,
for
the
darkenes
of
the
nighte
,
&
the
small
knowledge
that
I
had
of
the
countrey
.
Howbeit
I
thought
it
best
not
to
returne
,
nor
to
departe
fro
the
palce
,
that
I
was
in
.
Then
I
began
to
course
●yne
aduenture
,
abandonyng
my selfe
fro
all
hope
,
abiding
there
my
p●rdiciō
.
Thus
in
the
myddes
of
my
tribulacyon
,
I
neuer
repentyd
of
that
I
had
done
,
for
I
estemyd
better
to
lese
my
lyfe
,
accomplyshynge
vertue
:
then
to
saue
it
,
doing
the
contrary
.
Thus
I
was
all
the
nyght
in
heuynes
and
trauelous
contemplacion
.
And
when
the
light
of
the
day
discoueryd
the
wayes
,
I
sawe
before
me
,
on
the
most
highest
place
of
the
mountayne
,
a
tower
so
hygh
,
that
me
semyd
it
atteynyd
to
the
heuyn
.
Hit
was
made
by
suche
artifice
,
that
of
the
strangnes
therof
,
I
began
to
meruayll
,
&
I
ioyned
my selfe
to
the
foote
therof
.
The
tyme
offeryd
me
more
to
feare
,
then
to
regard
or
note
it
,
beholding
the
strange
ouerage
&
newelte
of
the
edefice
.
The
fundacion
wheron
it
was
foundyd
,
was
of
a
stone
clere
and
stronge
of
nature
,
wherupon
was
reysed
.iiii.
great
pillers
of
violet
marble
,
so
fayre
,
and
so
hygh
,
beyonde
the
comon
forme
,
that
it
was
meruayll
how
they
were
systeynyd
.
Aboue
the
whiche
was
fabricate
a
tower
iii.
square
,
the
most
strongest
that
could
be
deuised
:
on
euery
square
therof
,
on
the
height
there
stode
an
humayn
Image
,
made
of
metall
,
paynted
with
theyr
owne
colours
,
one
tawny
,
a nother
blacke
,
&
the
thirde
gray
,
eche
of
them
holding
a
chayne
in
theyr
handes
,
made
of
great
force
.
And
on
the
heyght
of
the
tower
,
ther
was
a
pynacle
full
of
great
clerenes
&
light
,
comyng
fro
a
raye
of
light
issuyng
out
of
the
tower
.
I
harde
.ii.
watches
who
neuer
seaced
,
but
still
wakyd
.
Of
these
thynges
greatly
I
mernayled
,
&
could
not
tell
what
to
thynke
or
to
say
.
Thus
beyng
in
great
dought
and
confusion●
I
sawe
ioynynge
to
the
marbell
a
stayre
mountyng
to
the
gate
of
the
tower
,
wherof
the
entre
was
so
darke
,
that
to
mount
vp
,
semyd
impossible
:
how
be
it
,
I
deliberyd
,
wyllynge
rather
to
go
to
my
perdicyon
in
mountyng
,
then
to
saue
my self
with
tarieng
.
Thus
takyng
harte
,
I
began
to
mounte
and
when
I
was
vp
.iii.
steppes
,
I
found
a
dore
of
Iron
,
the
which
satisfied
me
rather
to
tast
with
my
handes
,
then
to
attayne
therto
by
syghte
,
by
reason
of
the
darknes
that
I
was
in
,
And
when
I
came
to
the
gate
,
I
founde
ther
a
porter
,
of
whome
I
demaundyd
licens
to
entre
.
He
aunswered
,
how
he
was
content
,
so
that
fyrst
I
shuld
leue
behynde
me
myne
armure
.
I
grauntyd
hym
to
leue
suche
as
I
bare
customably
vpon
me
.
Then
he
sayd
:
My
ffrend
,
it
aperith
well
,
that
of
the
vsage
&
custome
of
this
house
thou
knowest
but
lytle●
The
armoure
that
I
demaunde
,
and
those
that
it
behoueth
the
to
leue
,
are
suche
as
the
harte
is
wonte
to
be
defendyd
withall
,
fro
heuynes
&
sorowe
,
as
are
:
hope
,
rest
,
&
contentacion
:
for
to
haue
those
condicions
,
ther
may
none
ioy
of
the
demaunde
that
thou
desyrest
.
And
when
I
knew
his
entension
,
withoute
any
further
aduyse
,
I
aunswered
&
ass●●ryd
hym
,
that
I
was
come
thyther
with
out
any
of
those
armours
.
Then
he
grauntyd
the
openyng
of
the
gate
,
&
so
with
greate
trauaill
and
sore
trouble
,
I
aryuyd
to
the
height
of
the
tower
,
where
I
found
a nother
porter
,
who
demaundyd
of
me
as
the
other
dyd
.
And
when
I
had
made
hym
lyke
aunswere
,
he
gaue
me
place
to
entre
.
Then
I
went
all
the
length
of
the
tower
,
and
enteryd
in
to
a
halle
,
where
in
the
myddes
therof
stode
a
chayre
brennynge
full
of
fyre
:
in
the
whiche
satte
he
who
made
to
me
the
request
,
and
causer
of
my
perdicion
.
And
myne
eyen
were
so
chargyd
with
regarding
of
this
ouerage
,
&
my
tonge
was
so
oppressed
,
that
I
could
demaund
no
question
of
all
these
meruails
.
And
as
I
regardyd
them
,
I
sawe
the
.iii.
chaynes
that
the
Images
held
on
the
height
on
the
tower
,
were
fast
tyed
about
this
poore
captyue
prysoner
,
who
alwayes
brent
,
and
neuer
consumyd
.
Then
I
saw
two
sorowful
women
,
theyr
faces
ful
of
wepynges
and
dolours
.
They
ordeyned
to
sette
on
his
hed
with
greate
crueltie●
a
crowne
full
of
sharpe
poyntes
of
steale
,
without
pyte
,
persyng
his
hed
to
the
brayne
.
Also
ther
was
a
blacke
morion
,
vestured
in
yelowe
,
who
came
often
tymes
with
a
great
fawchon
,
to
strike
hym
,
and
euer
I
saw
how
the
pacient
receyued
the
strokes
with
a
shelde
,
subtilly
i●suyng
out
of
his
hedde
:
the
which
couered
hym
to
the
feete
.
I
saw
other
.iii.
seruauntes
ryght
diligent
,
who
brought
hym
meate
on
a
blacke
cloth
,
and
with
great
fury
gaue
him
mete
of
bitter
tast
.
And
on
the
one
syde
of
the
table
I
sawe
an
olde
man
syt
in
a
chaire
lenynge
his
hedde
in
one
of
his
handes
,
lyke
a
man
solitary
in
thought
&
pensyfenes
.
All
these
thynges
I
could
scant
se
for
the
darkenes
of
the
towre
:
but
by
reason
of
a
clere
shynynge
lyght
,
that
issuyd
out
of
the
prisoners
harte
,
which
gaue
clere
lyghte
ouer
all
.
And
when
this
prisoner
saw
me
so
astonyd
,
to
se
thinges
of
suche
mystery
:
And
that
he
saw
tyme
to
pay
me
with
his
wordes
,
though
he
were
not
in
my
det
yet
to
gyue
me
some
rest
,
&
solacious
comforte
,
with
his
discrete
reasons
,
medlyd
with
piteous
wepynges
,
he
began
to
say
in
this
maner
.
The
prisoner
.
SOme
parte
of
my
harte
I
shall
discouer
,
as
I
oughte
to
do
,
for
the
sorowe
that
I
haue
of
the
,
accordyng
to
thy
deserte
,
how
be
it
,
thou
seist
well
that
in
my
trybulacion
I
haue
no
powre
,
to
feale
any
other
mans
euil
,
myne
owne
is
so
great
,
I
pray
the
take
for
satisfaction
,
not
that
I
do
,
but
that
I
desire
,
of
thy
comyng
hyther
I
ame
the
cause
,
I
ame
he
whome
thou
sawest
led
as
a
prisoner
,
bycause
of
the
tribulacion
that
thou
arte
in
,
thou
knowest
me
not
.
Torne
agayne
to
thy
spirites
and
take
rest
,
and
quyet
iudgement
,
to
th
entent
thou
mayst
be
ententyue
to
that
I
wyll
say
.
Thy
comyng
was
to
remedy
me
,
my
wordes
shall
be
to
aduertyse
y●
,
who
I
ame
.
I
shall
shew
the
,
and
of
the
mysteryes
that
thou
hast
seene
,
I
shall
infourme
the.
The
cause
of
my
prison
,
I
wold
thou
knewdest
,
and
I
requyre
the
to
delyuer
me
if
it
be
in
thy
puissaunce
,
knowe
for
certayne
,
I
ame
Lereano
sonne
to
duke
Guerro
,
whome
god
perdon
,
&
of
the
duches
Colerea
,
my
byrthe
was
in
this
realme
,
where
thou
arte
present
,
named
Macedonia
,
my
fortune
ordeynyd
that
I
became
amorous
of
Laureola
doughter
to
kynge
Guallo
,
who
at
this
present
tyme
reygneth
,
whom
I
shuld
rather
haue
fledde
fro
,
then
to
haue
fallen
in
to
the
trace
of
loue
,
and
specially
in
so
hygh
a
place
,
but
as
the
fyrst
mouynge
,
maye
not
excuse
me
in
stede
of
forsakynge
therof
,
by
reason
I
haue
confermyd
it
by
good
wyl
.
Also
loue
hath
vanquyshed
me
,
&
brought
me
in
to
this
howse
,
namyd
the
Castell
of
loue
,
who
neuer
perdonyth
,
for
he
seing
displayed
the
vailes
of
my
desyre
,
hathe
broughte
me
in
to
the
state
that
thou
seist
me
in
,
and
to
the
entent
,
thou
shuldest
the
better
note
,
and
marke
the
fundacion
of
this
,
and
of
al
that
thou
hast
sene
,
thou
shalt
know
that
the
stone
,
wheron
the
pryson
is
foundyd
,
is
my
fayth
,
who
determineth
vtterly
to
suffre
the
dolour
of
this
payne
,
for
the
welth
of
his
euill
.
The
great
pyllers
that
are
assysted
to
this
stone
,
ary
my
vnderstandynge
,
my
reason
,
my
memory
,
&
my
wyll
,
whom
amours
commaundyd
to
apere
before
his
presence
,
or
he
wolde
gyue
any
sentence
apon
me
.
And
the
better
to
execute
on
me
his
true
iustyce
,
demaundyd
of
eche
of
them
,
yf
they
consentyd
that
I
shuld
be
taken
prisoner
,
bicause
if
any
of
them
wolde
not
haue
consentyd
,
he
wolde
haue
asoyled
me
fro
payne
and
blame
,
to
the
whiche
demaunde
all
.iiii.
aunswerd
in
this
maner
.
First
vnderstandynge
said
:
I
consent
to
the
euill
of
the
payne
,
for
the
welth
of
the
cause
,
wherfore
my
wyll
is
,
that
he
be
taken
.
Then
sayd
Reason
:
&
I
consent
not
allonely
that
he
be
in
prison
,
out
I
ordeyne
that
he
there
abyde
,
and
dye
:
for
it
were
better
for
hym
the
happy
deth
,
then
to
lyue
in
dispayre
considering
for
whom
he
shal
suffre
it
.
Then
sayd
Memory
,
syn
that
vnderstanding
&
reason
,
consentyth
that
without
deth
he
can
not
be
deliuered
,
I
then
pinyse
,
he
shall
neuer
forget
it
,
but
alwayes
haue
it
in
his
remembraunce
.
Then
sayd
wyll
:
seyng
it
is
thus
I
will
then
be
the
key
of
his
prisone
,
and
determyne
alwayes
to
be
persecuter
,
of
wyll
and
desyre
.
This
seing
the
god
of
loue
who
ought
to
haue
sauid
m●e
,
condemned
me
,
&
gaue
this
cruell
sentence
agaynst
me
.
As
for
the
.iii.
images
standing
on
the
walles
of
the
towre
eche
of
them
of
a
contrary
colour
,
as
tawny
,
blacke
,
&
gray
,
The
one
is
heuynes
,
the
other
anguish
,
and
the
thirde
trauaill
.
The
cheynes
in
theyr
handes
are
their
strengthes
,
wher
with
they
holde
falte
tyed
the
harte
in
such
wyse
that
it
can
recouer
none
ease
nor
rest
.
The
great
clerenes
&
shynyng
,
that
the
Egle
hath
in
his
bek
&
wynges
as
thou
hast
sene
in
the
hyghest
parte
of
the
towre
,
whiche
is
myne
inwardes
thoughtes
,
whiche
hath
so
great
clevenes
in
it selfe
,
that
it
suffiseth
to
enlumyne
the
darknes
of
this
clowdy
prison
,
and
the
force
therof
is
so
great
that
the
strength
of
the
thick
walles
,
can
not
le●
it
,
but
that
it
wyll
attaigne
to
the
Egl●
in
suche
wyse
,
that
they
wyll
go
together
in
company
,
bycause
they
are
the
thinges
that
mountyth
and
ascendyth
hyghest
,
for
the
which
cause
my
pryson
is
in
the
hyghest
place
of
the
lande
.
The
.ii.
watches
that
thou
he●est
,
so
dilygently
watchyng
be
Mishap
,
&
Hate
.
They
be
of
that
deuise
that
no
hope
nor
remedy
shuld
entre
into
me
.
the
darke
stayres
to
mount
on
,
is
anguysh
,
wheron
I
mountyd
,
as
thou
seyst
.
The
fyrst
porter
was
desyre
,
who
to
all
heuynes
openyth
the
gate
.
Therfore
he
sayd
to
the
that
thou
shuldest
leue
al
thyne
armure
of
pleasoure
.
The
other
porter
was
torment
,
who
brought
me
hyther
,
who
is
of
the
same
condicyon
.
The
chayre
of
fier
wherin
thou
seist
me
syt
,
is
my
iuste
affection
,
whose
flames
alwayes
brynneth
in
myne
entrayles
.
The
.ii.
women
that
gaue
me
the
crown
of
martyrdom
are
called
payne
&
passyon
,
who
satisfyeth
my
fayth
with
this
present
reward
.
The
olde
man
that
thou
seyst
syt
in
so
great
study
,
representeth
great
thought
&
pensyfenes
with
greuous
care
&
soli●itude
.
The
which
(
ioyned
with
the
other
euyls
)
manisheth
my
poore
lyfe
.
The
blacke
more
ve●●uryd
in
yelowe
,
who
traueyleth
to
take
awaye
my
lyfe
,
is
named
dispayre
,
&
the
sheld
that
issueth
out
of
my
hed
defending
me
fro
his
strokes
,
is
my
wytte
,
who
(
seynge
the
dispayre
wold
slee
me
)
commandeth
me
to
defende
my
lyfe
,
consyderyng
the
deserte
of
Laureola
,
he
commaundeth
me
to
desyre
long
life
with
sufferance
,
rather
then
with
deth
to
make
an
ende
.
The
black
boord
for
me
to
eate
on
,
is
ferme
stedfastnesse
wheron
I
eate
.
Thynke
&
slepe
,
theron
are
the
heuy
meates
,
of
myne
conteplatiōs
.
The
.iii.
diligent
seruantes
that
serueth
me
,
are
named
,
euyl
,
payne
and
dolour
.
One
bereth
the
meat
of
doubtfulnesse
,
wherof
I
eate
.
a nother
bereth
dispayre
wherin
the
meat
is
brought
,
&
another
bereth
the
cup
of
tribulation
,
wherin
I
drink
drawing
water
fro
the
hart
to
the
eyen
,
&
from
the
eien
to
the
mouth
.
Now
iudge
thy self
,
if
I
be
wel
serued
,
if
I
haue
nede
of
remedy
thou
seyst
.
I
requyre
the
syn
thou
arte
here
aryued
that
thou
wylt
serche
for
me
some
remedy
,
&
sorow
myne
euyll
,
I
desyre
of
the
none
other
good
,
but
that
Laureola
may
be
aduertysed●
&
knowe
by
the
state
how
thou
seyst
me
,
and
peraduenture
thou
wylt
excuse
the
bycause
thou
seyst
me
fayle
power
to
make
the
a
recompence
.
I
requyre
the
let
it
not
be
vndone
for
that
cause
,
for
more
vertue
it
is
to
remedy
them
that
be
in
tribulation
,
then
to
susteyne
them
that
be
in
prosperite
:
let
thy
workes
be
suche
,
that
thou
repente
not
thy selfe
,
for
lacke
of
doynge
it
,
when
thou
myghteste
haue
done
it
.
¶
The
aunswer
of
the
auctour
to
Laureola
.
THy
wordes
shewe
well
,
that
loue
hath
taken
and
occupieth
thy
lybertie
,
but
not
thy
vertue
,
the
whiche
I
proue
by
that
I
se
in
the
,
to
be
more
redyer
to
dye
,
then
to
speke
:
how
be
it
,
thou
hast
forcyd
thy
wyll
,
to
proue
the
werynes
of
my
lyfe
,
iudgynge
what
for
trauels
passyd
,
&
for
my
solycitude
present
,
that
I
haue
but
small
hope
to
lyue
,
&
without
doubt
,
so
it
is
,
for
thou
causest
my
perdicion
,
desyrynge
doughtes
remedy
,
and
yet
thou
doest
remedy
the
same
,
as
a
perfight
iudge
.
And
surely
.
I
haue
hadde
no
lesse
pleasour
to
heare
the
,
then
I
haue
had
sorowe
to
se
the.
For
by
thy
persone
is
well
sene
thy
payne
,
&
by
thy
reasons
knowen
is
thy
bountie
,
in
gyuynge
socour
and
ayde
to
the
nedy●lyke
as
thou
hast
do●e
now
to
me
.
For
I
consyderynge
the
strange
mysteries
of
this
thy
pryson
,
I
doubted
of
my
saluacyon
,
beleuynge
all
had
ben
but
illusions
done
by
arte
diabolycke
,
rather
then
by
any
condycyon
amorous
.
For
this
thou
hast
shewed
me
I
thanke
the
,
and
nowe
I
knowe
what
thou
arte
,
I
thynke
well
enployed
the
trauayll
that
I
haue
enduryd
for
thy
sake
,
the
knowledge
of
the
moralite
of
these
figures
,
hath
ryght
well
pleased
me
,
for
though
I
well
regardyd
them
yet
for
lacke
of
knowledge
my
harte
was
in
captyuyte
and
prisone
,
and
now
I
ame
out
of
doubt
&
feare
.
And
where
as
thou
hast
commaundyd
me
,
that
I
shuld
gyue
knowlege
to
Laureola
in
what
cas●
I
haue
sene
y●
,
the
which
to
do
I
fynd
gret
perel
for
a
man
of
a
strange
nacion
,
what
maner
&
forme
shuld
he
fynde
to
execute
such
a
message
,
I
haue
not
alonely
this
doubt
but
dyuerce
other
:
The
rudenes
&
dulnes
of
my
wytte
,
the
dyfference
of
oure
speche
&
tonge
,
the
noblenes
of
Laureola
,
and
the
grauite
of
this
be
synes
,
so
that
in
this
case
I
fynde
but
small
remedy
,
but
alonely
my
good
will
,
whiche
vanquyssith
all
other
inconuenientes
and
daungers
for
to
thy
seruice
I
offre
my selfe
as
moche
as
though
I
hadde
bene
thyne
owne
seruant
all
the
dayes
of
my
lyffe
.
And
I
promyse
the
that
with
good
hart
I
shal
accomplish
to
my
power
al
thy
commandementes
.
I
pray
to
god
,
I
may
be
as
happy
as
I
ame
desyrous
to
serue
the
so
that
thy
deliuerance
may
bere
witnes
of
my
true
dilygence
so
great
affeccion
I
bere
to
the
,
&
so
moche
I
ame
bound
to
loue
thy
noblenes
that
if
I
myght
remedy
thy
trybulacions
I
shuld
repute
my selfe
well
rewardyd
for
all
my
trauyls
,
so
that
in
the
meane
tyme
thou
wylt
bere
al
maner
of
assautes
pacyently
in
trustyng
vpon
me
that
when
I
returne
and
bryng
that
any
remedy
that
thou
mayste
take
suche
corage
in
thy
lyfe
,
that
thou
mayst
feale
the
sparkels
therof
.
The
Auctor
.
WHen
I
had
endyd
myne
aunsewre
to
Lereano
,
then
I
deptyd
fro
hym
and
lernyd
the
waye
to
the
cytie
of
Suria
where
as
lay
the
kyng
of
Mazedonia
,
which
was
halfe
a
iourney
fro
the
prisone
fro
whence
I
deptyd
.
Thus
I
came
to
the
courte
,
&
wente
to
the
palays
to
treat
,
and
to
se
the
maner
of
the
people
of
that
courte
,
and
to
regarde
the
forme
and
situacion
of
the
palayce
,
and
how
I
myght
resorte
,
goo
,
come
,
or
abyde
,
to
entre
in
to
the
enterprice
,
that
I
had
in
hand
.
And
this
I
dyd
dyuers
dayes
,
to
lerne
and
to
se
,
what
way
shulde
be
best
&
moste
couenable
to
my
purpose
,
&
the
more
I
studyed
the
lesse
disposycion
I
found
to
attayne
to
that
I
desyryd
&
when
I
had
serched
al
maner
of
wayes
I
thought
most
auayleable
to
my
purpose
to
acquaynte
my selfe
with
the
yong
courters
and
with
the
principall
of
the
courte
:
for
generally
among
them
is
found
good
maner
and
curtesye
,
and
thus
I
drew
so
longe
to
theyr
company
with
in
a
breue
tyme
I
was
estemydde
among
them
as
though
I
had
bene
one
of
theyr
ppre
nacion
,
and
at
last
I
fell
in
aquayntance
among
the
ladyes
,
and
lytle
and
lytle
I
fell
in
acquayntance
with
the
ladye
Laureola
,
and
dyuerce
tymes
I
recountyd
to
her
of
the
meruayls
of
spayne
and
of
other
places
,
where
as
I
had
bene
.
The
whiche
she
gretly
delyghtyd
to
here
.
Then
I
seyng
my selfe
in
maner
with
her
as
a
seruant
I
tho●ght
then
I
myght
shewe
her
that
thyng
that
I
desyryd
,
and
on
a
day
as
I
saw
her
aparte
fro
other
ladyes
I
knelyd
downe
and
sayd
as
folowith
.
The
Auctor
to
Laureola
.
IT
is
lesse
goodnes
to
perdone
the
great
&
puyssante
persones
,
when
they
haue
dseruyd
trespace
then
to
be
reuengyd
vpon
the
symple
&
small
psonages
,
when
they
haue
done
iniury
,
for
y●
one
wyll
make
amendes
by
reason
of
theyr
honour
and
the
other
are
perdonyd
by
vertue
,
the
whiche
is
due
to
be
vsyd
,
amonge
greate
personages
,
and
most
specyally
to
noble
ladyes
&
gentle
women
hauing
noble
hartes
according
to
theyr
birth
,
they
ought
naturally
to
haue
pyte
in
theyr
condicions
.
Lady
I
say
thys
for
peraduenture
in
shewyng
to
you
myne
entent
,
I
shal
be
reputyd
to
bolde
,
not
hauyng
respecte
to
your
great
magnyficens
.
In
the
begynnyng
or
I
was
determyned
to
speake
to
you
,
I
was
in
great
doubt
.
But
at
the
ende
I
thoughte
it
for
the
best
,
that
yf
ye
entreate
me
,
inhumaynly
,
to
suffre
the
payn
for
my
speakyng
,
rather
then
to
endure
in
dolour
for
beynge
styll
.
Lady
ye
shal
knowe
that
rydynge
on
a
daye
amonge
sharpe
mountayns
,
I
sawe
by
the
commandement
of
Amours
,
how
Lereano
sonne
to
duke
Guerro
,
was
taken
&
led
to
prison
as
a
prisoner
,
who
prayed
me
to
ayde
hym
in
his
trouble
and
besynes
.
By
whose
occasion
I
lefte
the
waye
of
my
reste
,
and
toke
the
daungerous
way
of
his
trauayle
:
and
after
that
I
hadde
longe
gone
with
hym
,
I
sawe
howe
he
was
put
in
to
a
swete
prisone
as
toward
his
wyll
,
but
it
was
ryght
bytter
,
as
to
his
lyfe
:
for
there
he
susteyneth
all
the
euyls
and
paynes
of
the
world
:
Dolour
turmenteth
hym
,
passyon
foloweth
hym
,
dispaire
distroieth
him
,
deth
manasheth
hym
,
payne
executeth
hym
,
thoughtes
waketh
hym
,
desyre
troubleth
hym
,
heuynes
condemneth
hym
,
his
fayth
wyll
not
saue
hym
,
&
I
knewe
by
hym
,
that
all
this
ye
are
the
cause
.
And
I
iudge
by
that
I
sawe
hym
,
his
dolour
(
whiche
he
kepethe
secrete
in
his
mynde
)
to
be
more
greater
,
then
he
hath
discouered
to
me
by
wepinges
,
but
by
reason
of
the
syghte
,
that
I
se
of
your
presence
,
I
fynde
that
his
torment
is
not
without
a
iuste
cause
.
And
with
sore
syghes
issuynge
fro
his
harte
,
he
desyred
me
to
gyue
you
knowledge
of
his
euyl
:
his
request
was
with
payne
&
dolour
,
&
my
obedience
,
of
pure
compassyon
of
his
payne
&
torment
,
though
I
iudge
you
cruel●
yet
by
the
frequētation
of
your
gentlenes
I
se
&
thinke
ye
be
piteous
,
&
not
without
reason
:
for
by
reasou
of
your
excellent
fayrenes
&
dignite
,
he
beleueth
the
one
,
&
by
your
noble
condicion
hopeth
on
the
other
:
&
his
payne
wherof
ye
be
causer
,
yf
ye
wyll
remedy
with
pitie
accordyng
to
his
deseruinge
,
ye
shal
be
then
praised
aboue
al
other
women
that
euer
were
.
Remembre
nowe
,
&
behold
whether
it
is
better
to
be
praysed
for
gyuynge
remedy
,
orels
to
be
blamyd
for
sleyng
of
hym
.
Consyder
how
moch
ye
be
bound
to
hym
,
that
for
al
his
passion
&
aduersite
,
yet
he
doth
serue
you
,
&
if
ye
remedy
hym
,
them
he
is
the
occasion
to
cause
you
to
do
as
moch
as
god
maye
do
,
for
it
is
of
no
lesse
esteme
,
the
redemer
,
then
is
the
creator
:
for
in
takynge
fro
hym
the
deth
,
ye
shall
do
as
moche
,
as
god
to
gyue
hym
lyfe
.
I
knowe
not
what
excuse
ye
can
make
not
to
remedy
hym
,
without
ye
beleue
that
sleynge
is
a
vertue
.
I
desyre
of
you
none
other
good
,
but
to
be
sory
for
his
euyll
and
payne
.
This
desyre
shall
be
to
you
nothynge
greuable
:
for
he
had
rather
endure
in
hym selfe
styll
payne
and
aduersite
,
then
to
cause
you
to
feale
any
payne
&
displeasour
.
This
my
bolde
speakynge
condemneth
me
,
but
the
dolour
of
hym
that
hathe
sente
me
,
assoyleth
me
agayne
,
his
payne
is
so
great
,
that
none
euyll
can
come
to
me
to
be
equall
to
his
payne
.
I
requyre
your
gentlenes
,
let
your
aunswer
be
confortable
to
your
vertue
,
and
not
to
the
fercenes
that
ye
shew
by
your
regardes
And
in
your
so
doynge
,
ye
shal
be
praysed
,
and
I
reputyd
a
good
messenger
,
and
the
paynefull
prisoner
Lereano
,
delyuered
quyte
fro
all
payne●
¶
The
aunswer
of
Laureola
to
the
auctour●
Lykewyse
as
thy
reasons
be
temerous
and
fearefull
to
declare
,
semblably
they
are
great
and
greuous
to
perdone
.
yf
thou
were
of
Macedonia
as
thou
arte
of
Spaygne
,
thy
reasons
and
thy
lyfe
shuld
fynishe
together
,
but
thou
beynge
a
straunger
shalte
not
receyue
the
payne
that
thou
deseruyste
.
And
as
for
the
pytie
that
thou
thynkest
to
be
in
me
,
I
wolde
thou
knewest
,
that
in
suche
lyke
cases
,
doubtefull
iustice
&
crueltie
is
as
ryue
and
dewe
,
as
is
clemence
or
pitie
,
the
whiche
yf
.
I
shulde
execute
vpon
the
,
shulde
be
cause
of
.ii.
welthes
.
The
one
,
therby
al
other
shuld
take
ensample
of
feare
.
And
the
other
,
all
noble
women
shulde
be
estemed
and
reputed
accordynge
to
theyr
demerites
.
How
be
it
,
if
thy
fole
hardynes
,
requyre
punycion
,
yet
my
mekenes
and
benignite
consenteth
to
perdone
the
,
though
it
be
agaynst
the
ryght
waye
of
iustice
:
for
not
alonely
for
thy
fole
hardynesse
thou
oughteste
to
dye
,
but
also
for
the
offence
that
thou
hast
done
agaynst
my
bountie
and
vertue
,
that
which
thou
haste
sette
in
the
balance
of
doubt
,
bycause
this
that
thou
haste
sayde
to
me
,
yf
it
came
to
knowledge
of
sundry
persons
,
some
wolde
beleue
that
thou
foundeste
me
redy
aparelled
to
accomplyshe
thy
desyre
,
as
in
hauyng
pytie
of
the
payne
of
Lereano
.
Thou
oughtest
to
thynke
that
my
dignyte
shulde
haue
put
the
in
feare
,
rather
then
his
fole
hardines
to
haue
made
the
so
bolde
.
yf
thou
entend
any
further
to
procure
his
liberte
,
thou
mayst
well
seke
for
his
remedy
,
and
fall
thy selfe
in
perell
:
therfore
I
aduyse
the
seynge
thou
arte
a
straunger
,
seke
for
thy
naturall
sepulture
,
and
not
in
Macedonia
,
and
to
comon
with
the
in
such
maters
,
I
offende
my
tonge
,
therfore
I
wyll
say
no
more
,
but
I
wyl
thou
know
that
this
that
I
haue
sayde
is
suffycyent
,
and
yf
any
hope
be
in
the
to
speake
any
further
in
this
case
,
thy
lyfe
shal
be
shorte
,
or
if
thou
thynke
to
come
to
me
with
any
mo
such
ambassades
.
¶
The
Auctor
.
WHen
Laureola
had
endyd
her
wordes
,
I
sawe
well
her
reasons
were
short
,
but
longe
was
her
trouble
&
displeasour
.
So
I
departed
fro
her
,
&
thought
vpon
many
thynges
,
the
which
greuously
tormentyd
me
,
I
remembred
how
farre
I
was
out
of
Spayne
,
&
of
my
longe
taryeng
thence
.
Also
I
callyd
to
my
mynd
the
great
dolour
of
Lereano
sore
mistrutyng
his
helthe
,
&
I
perceyued
well
I
could
not
accomplysh
that
I
was
purposyd
to
do
,
as
to
bryng
Lereano
to
lyberte
without
great
perel
yet
I
determyned
to
folow
myne
enterpryse
,
duryng
my
lyfe
,
orels
to
brynge
Lereano
some
hope
of
relefe
.
And
with
this
purpose
,
the
next
day
I
went
to
the
palays
to
se
what
countenan e
Laureola
made
:
and
when
she
saw
me
,
she
entreated
me
as
she
was
accustomyd
to
do
before
,
without
changynge
of
her
porte
or
chere
:
whose
sure
demeanour
brought
me
in
greate
suspecte
.
I
thought
she
dyd
it
to
proue
yf
I
wolde
returne
agayne
to
entre
in
to
my
fyrste
reasons
,
I
fearyd
leste
she
hadde
dissimuled
to
cause
me
to
take
corage
to
haue
spoken
agayne
for
Lereano
,
and
then
to
haue
punys●hed
me
for
my
folyshe
enterprice
.
So
I
coulde
not
tell
wherto
to
truste
,
thus
I
passed
that
daye
and
dyuerce
other
,
and
euer
me
thought
by
the
apparence
that
I
could
se
by
her
,
that
I
hadde
more
cause
to
be
bolde
,
then
reason
to
feare
.
And
in
that
byleue
,
I
wayted
a
tyme
conuenient
,
&
spake
with
her
agayne
,
shewynge
,
my selfe
fearefull
,
though
I
was
not
so
indede
.
For
in
such
besynes
,
and
with
suche
persons
,
it
is
behouable
to
fynde
some
doubtfull
turbation
:
for
in
suche
cases
,
to
moche
boldenes
is
reputyd
folye
,
for
therby
myghte
be
thought
that
the
dignyte
,
nor
auctorite
of
the
persone
were
not
estemed
.
Therfore
to
saue
me
fro
that
errour
,
I
spake
to
her
with
no
great
audacite
,
but
in
a
fearefull
maner
So
I
shewed
her
all
that
I
thought
conuenient
,
for
the
remedy
of
Lereano
,
but
her
aunswer
was
accordyng
to
the
fyrst
sauyng
she
was
not
so
force
,
nor
in
such
displeasour
with
me
,
as
she
was
before
.
How
be
it
,
in
her
wordes
,
she
gaue
me
knowledge
,
that
I
shulde
be
styll
and
holde
my
peace
,
but
yet
me
thought
her
continance
gaue
me
lycence
to
speake
.
And
thus
euer
when
I
founde
tyme
&
place
,
I
requyred
her
to
haue
pitie
vpon
Lereano
.
And
so
diuers
tymes
I
found
her
aunswers
sharpe
in
wordes
,
&
meke
in
countenance
.
And
when
I
had
well
aduysed
al
her
demeanour
,
I
hoped
vppon
some
profytte
,
scynge
in
her
dyuers
thynges
,
wherby
an
amorous
harte
myght
be
knowen
:
for
euer
when
I
saw
her
alone
,
she
was
pensyfe
and
full
of
study
.
And
when
she
was
amonge
compauy
,
she
wolde
not
be
mery
,
she
abhorred
company
,
and
to
be
alone
was
her
pleasour
,
often
tymes
she
wolde
fayne
her selfe
syke
,
to
eschewe
other
pleasurs
and
if
she
were
espyed
,
she
wolde
fayne
some
dolour
or
payne
,
and
often
tymes
she
wolde
gyue
sore
sighes
.
And
if
Lereano
hadde
bene
named
in
her
presence
,
she
wolde
sodeynly
starte
,
and
leue
her
comynge
,
and
blushe
redde
as
a
rose
&
agayne
pale
:
her
voyce
wolde
change
,
and
her
mouth
waxe
drye
,
and
though
she
coueryd
her
thoughtes
as
moch
as
was
possyble
,
yet
her
piteous
passyon
,
surmounted
her
discrete
dissimulation
,
(
I
say
)
pitefulnes
,
for
without
doubte
,
accordyng
as
she
shewed
after
,
she
receyued
these
alterations
,
more
of
pytie
,
than
of
loue
.
Howbeit
I
thought
otherwyse
in
her
,
seynge
the
tokens
that
I
sawe
in
her
,
I
thoughte
my selfe
halfe
spedde
of
some
good
hope
,
and
therwith
I
spedde
me
to
Lereano
,
and
after
that
I
hadde
shewed
hym
all
that
was
passyd
bytwene
me
and
Laureola
.
Then
I
counsayled
hym
to
wryte
to
her
,
offerynge
my selfe
to
bere
the
lettre
,
and
though
he
was
as
then
more
redyer
to
remember
what
was
best
for
hym
to
do
,
to
write
or
not
.
At
last
he
toke
ynke
and
paper
,
and
wrote
suche
reasons
as
foloweth
.
¶
The
lettre
fro
Lereano
to
Laureola
.
IF
I
hadde
as
good
reason
to
write
to
you
,
as
I
haue
to
loue
.
Then
without
feare
,
I
durste
be
bolde
to
do
it
but
to
thynke
to
wryte
to
you
troubleth
my
wytte
,
so
that
I
lese
myne
vnderstandynge
.
Therfore
or
I
begynne
,
I
fynde
my selfe
at
a
greate
confusyon
:
My
beleue
sayth
I
may
do
it
boldly
:
and
your
hyghnes
putteth
me
in
feare
&
doubte
.
In
the
one
I
fynde
hope
,
&
in
the
other
dispayre
:
at
the
ende
I
agreed
to
wryte
,
but
myne
vnhap
is
to
begyn
in
the
houre
of
sorow
,
for
ouerlate
it
is
,
now
to
complayne
me●
for
I
am
now
in
that
case
,
if
I
haue
deseruyd
any
grace
or
merite
,
ther
is
nygh
no
thynge
lefte
lyuynge
in
me
to
fele
it
sauyng
alonely
my
true
fayth
,
whiche
can
not
dye
,
as
for
my
harte
is
without
strength
,
and
my
soule
without
power
,
and
my
wytte
without
memory
.
How
be
it
yf
it
wold
please
you
to
shewe
me
so
moche
mercy
,
as
to
these
my
presente
reasons
,
to
make
some
aunswer
:
the
true
fayth
that
I
bere
you
,
shulde
then
suffice
,
to
restore
agayne
in
me
,
all
the
partes
that
are
destroyed
,
I
repute
my selfe
culpable
,
to
demaunde
of
you
any
reward
,
and
neuer
dyd
you
seruyce
,
and
though
ye
take
my
seruyce
&
payne
in
good
gree
,
yet
ye
paye
me
alwayes
with
doubtfull
thoughtes
.
ye
may
say
:
how
ame
I
so
bolde
to
write
to
you
,
yet
haue
no
meruayl
therof
,
for
your
beautie
causeth
myne
affection
,
and
the
affection
myne
desyre
,
and
desyre
the
payne
and
the
payne
causeth
the
boldnes
.
And
for
this
that
I
haue
done
,
yf
ye
thynke
I
haue
deserued
deth
,
commaund
to
gyue
it
me
:
For
it
were
better
for
me
to
dye
for
your
cause
,
then
to
lyue
without
the
hope
of
your
good
wyll
.
And
to
say
the
trouth
,
without
ye
gyue
me
the
deth
,
I
shall
gyue
it
my selfe
,
to
fynd
therby
the
lybertie
,
the
which
lyuynge
I
haue
serchyd
for
.
This
wolde
I
do
,
and
it
were
not
that
I
shulde
leue
you
defamyd
,
as
to
be
renomyd
a
murtherer
.
Unhappy
shulde
be
that
remedye
to
delyuer
me
out
of
payne
,
and
to
cause
you
to
bere
blame
.
Therfore
in
eschewynge
of
all
such
inconuenientes
,
I
requyre
you
send
me
your
lettre
,
as
a
reward
for
all
myne
euyls
,
that
I
slee
not
my selfe
,
for
I
can
not
lyue
with
that
I
suffre
,
&
my
deth
shuld
so
toche
your
honor
,
that
all
the
dayes
of
your
lyfe
ye
shuld
be
defamyd
.
And
yf
it
maye
please
you
to
do
me
any
relefe
tary
not
,
nor
be
not
slowe
lest
ye
shall
haue
no
tyme
to
repent
you
,
nor
no
place
to
redeme
me
.
¶
The
auctor
.
ANd
where
as
Lereano
accordyng
to
the
grauite
of
his
passyons
wold
further
haue
executed
his
wrytyng
,
but
then
vsyng
prudent
discrecion
,
for
all
hi●
payne
wrote
no
larger
,
for
that
he
had
wryten
was
sufficyent
to
cause
Laureola
to
knowe
hys
euyll
and
payne
,
for
when
letters
be
wryten
at
length
,
that
is
vsyd
when
the
writer
thynketh
,
that
the
rede●
hath
as
good
wyll
to
rede
them
,
as
th●
sender
hath
to
write
them
,
but
Laureola
was
quyte
deliuered
fro
that
p̄sumpcion
wherfore
he
extendyd
hys
letter
no
larger
.
The
which
when
it
was
endyd
,
I
receyuyd
.
with
greate
heuines
,
to
se
the
sore
wepyng
that
Laureano
made
,
the
which
I
felt
more
,
then
I
can
expresse
Then
I
went
fro
hym
and
spedde
me
to
Laureola
,
&
when
I
came
ther
as
she
was
,
I
found
a
tyme
propyse
to
speke
to
her
,
and
or
I
delyuered
the
letter
,
I
said
to
her
as
foloweth
.
¶
The
auctor
to
Laureola
.
Ryght
excellent
Lady
,
fyrst
or
I
say
any
thynge
to
you
I
require
you
to
receyue
the
dolour
&
payne
of
me
your
poore
kaytiue
,
for
the
discharging
of
myne
importunat
suet
,
for
wher
so
euer
ye
shall
fynde
me
of
custome
,
I
shal
be
euer
more
redy
to
serue
you
than
to
be
importunate
.
And
surely
Lereano
endureth
more
payne
for
the
trouble
that
ye
receyue
,
then
for
the
passion
that
he
suffreth
,
wherof
he
wold
excuse
hym selfe
though
his
wyll
desire
to
suffre
it
,
to
the
eutent
that
it
shuld
not
trouble
you
,
yet
his
sowle
desireth
not
to
suffre
but
rather
to
be
in
reste
.
The
one
commaundeth
hym
to
be
styll
,
and
the
other
byddeth
hym
put
oute
his
voyce
.
But
trustyng
in
your
vertue
,
his
dolour
is
oppressyd
,
desyryng
to
put
all
his
euyll
in
to
your
presence
,
beleuyng
on
the
one
parte
ye
shuld
be
dangerous
,
&
on
the
other
parte
that
it
shulde
cau●e
you
to
haue
compassyon
.
Beholde
now
many
wayes
he
deseruyth
meryte
,
to
forget
his
trouble
he
desyreth
the
deth
and
not
withoute
ye
consent
therto
,
and
bycause
it
shuld
not
be
said
that
ye
consent
therto
he
desyreth
the
life
,
in
that
he
receued
his
payne
to
be
happy
,
and
for
lacke
of
his
desyre
,
he
loseth
his
vnderstandyng
,
and
to
prayse
your
beawte
,
he
desyreth
ayde
of
all
the
worlde
.
Beholde
how
moche
ye
are
bounde
to
him
,
for
he
prayseth
them
that
distroyeth
him
,
he
hath
all
his
remembrance
vpon
that
thyng
that
is
the
occasyon
of
all
his
euyl
,
and
by
aduenture
I
shuld
be
so
vnhappy
that
he
shuld
lese
his
loue
by
my
intercession
,
which
he
hath
deseruyd
by
reason
of
his
faythfull
harte
:
yet
I
had
rather
I
were
dede
,
wherfore
I
requyre
you
to
receyue
this
letter
fro
hym
,
and
in
the
redyng
therof
to
shew
hym
some
mercy
,
for
the
payne
that
he
hathe
sufferyd
,
and
yf
ye
blame
hym
ye
are
more
culpable
then
he
,
for
that
ye
haue
sufferyd
hym
to
endure
payne
so
longe
,
ye
perceyue
well
the
sorow
that
he
is
in
,
by
the
wordes
in
his
letter
,
the
which
though
his
mouth
spake
them
,
&
his
hand
wrote
them
,
yet
his
dolour
dydde
ordeyne
and
deuise
them
,
&
as
god
sende
you
parte
of
heuen
as
ye
haue
deseruyd
in
the
erth
that
ye
will
receyue
this
his
letter
,
&
make
hym
an
aunswere
,
and
alonely
with
this
reward
ye
maye
redeme
hym
,
and
therby
do
away
his
debilite
,
&
mynysh
hys
torment
,
and
fauor
his
sykenes
,
and
brynge
hym
in
to
that
state
,
that
he
wyll
desyre
no
more
welth
,
nor
endure
no
more
payne
,
and
if
ye
wyll
not
thus
moch
do
for
hym
,
to
whom
ye
are
so
moch
bounde
,
nor
at
my
request
,
I
maye
then
well
repute
you
cruell
,
but
I
hope
so
moche
in
your
vertue
,
that
accordyng
to
yuor
olde
custome
,
ye
can
do
no
thyng
but
vertue
.
¶
Thanuswere
of
Laureola
to
the
Auctor
.
THe
perseuerance
in
thy
pursewt
bryngeth
me
to
so
streyght
a
case
,
that
many
tymes
my
thought
is
dought
what
to
do
,
other
to
banysh
the
owt
of
this
lande
,
orels
to
Ieobarde
my
fame
,
in
gyuyng
the
place
&
leysure
to
say
what
thou
lyst
,
yet
I
ame
agreyd
not
so
to
do
,
nor
to
put
the
to
that
extremyte
,
by
reason
of
the
compassyon
that
I
haue
of
the
:
for
though
thyne
ambassade
be
euyll
yet
thyne
entensyon
is
good
as
to
fynd
remedy
for
the
sorowfull
.
And
the
other
way
I
wyll
not
take
bycause
of
myne
honor
,
for
he
can
not
be
delyuered
fro
payne
,
without
I
be
defamed
.
yf
I
could
remedy
his
euyll
withoute
daunger
or
blottyng
of
myn
honour
,
I
wold
do
it
with
no
lesse
affeccyon
,
then
thou
desyrest
:
but
thou
knowest
well
how
that
women
are
bound
to
preserue
theyr
good
fame
,
rather
then
theyr
lyfe
,
at
the
lest
they
shuld
esteme
it
more
then
theyr
bounte
:
for
though
the
lyfe
of
Lereano
,
shuld
fynysh
by
deth
,
yet
iudge
thy self
,
whether
I
ought
rather
to
be
piteful
to
me self
,
or
to
his
euyll
.
And
if
all
women
ought
thus
to
do
,
then
specially
such
as
be
of
noble
blod
ought
so
to
do
:
for
al
peple
soner
regardeth
a
smal
spot
in
noble
persons
,
then
a
great
fawte
in
low
psonages
.
Therfore
in
thy
wordes
conferme
the
to
reason
,
for
thy
demaund
is
vniust
:
thou
thynkest
I
ame
pleased
with
thy
comoning
,
which
is
contrary
,
though
thy
demaund
trouble
me
;
yet
thy
condycion
pleaseth
me
,
&
I
haue
pseasour
to
shew
the
myne
escuse
with
iust
reasons
,
to
saue
me
fro
charge
,
blame
,
&
sclaunder
.
The
letter
that
thou
woldest
haue
me
to
receyue
maye
well
be
excusyd
,
for
my
defence
is
of
no
lesse
power
,
than
the
perceuerance
of
his
hope
:
but
syn
thou
haste
brought
it
,
I
ame
pleasyd
to
receyue
it
,
but
hope
not
of
any
aunswere
,
trauayll
no
more
to
desyre
it
,
nor
at
lest
speke
no
more
therof
,
lesse
that
my
dysplesure
trowble
that
not
asmoche
as
thou
now
prayseste
my
pacyence
&
sufferyng
I
blame
my selfe
,
&
that
in
:
ii
.
thynges
,
bycause
I
comon
so
longe
with
the.
The
one
is
bycause
the
qualyte
&
heate
of
the
cause
hath
brought
me
in
trouble
.
The
other
is
bycause
thou
mayst
thynke
that
I
ame
well
pleasyd
to
speke
with
the
in
this
mater
,
and
beleuest
how
I
shuld
agre
to
Lereano
though
thou
thynke
so
I
haue
no
meruayll
:
for
wordes
is
the
Image
of
the
harte
.
Go
thy
way
,
content
the
with
thyne
owne
Iudgement
,
and
cary
with
the
good
hope
,
of
that
thou
desyrest
,
and
not
to
be
condempnyd
in
thyne
own
thought
:
for
yf
thou
returne
agayn
to
make
new
request
,
thou
wylt
repent
it
,
I
will
aduyse
the
lette
this
be
the
last
spekyng
of
that
mater
oreles
thou
mayste
well
know
thou
shall
repent
it
,
for
sekyng
remedy
for
a nother
,
shalt
fayle
remedy
for
thy selfe
.
¶
The
Auctor
.
THe
wordes
of
Laureola
dyd
bryng
me
in
to
great
confusyon
,
for
when
I
thought
best
to
vnderstand
her
then
I
knew
lest
of
her
wyl
:
whan
I
had
most
hope
,
then
I
was
farthest
out
of
the
way
.
And
when
I
thought
my selfe
most
sure
,
then
I
was
in
most
feare
for
the
dyuersyte
of
her
.
Iesture
&
behauour
blyndyd
myne
vnderstandyng
.
The
receyuyng
of
the
letter
satisfyed
me
,
but
the
ende
of
her
wordes
put
me
in
dyspayre
,
so
that
I
know
not
what
way
to
folow
,
nor
how
I
shuld
fynd
any
hope
.
And
thus
as
a
man
without
counsayll
,
I
departyd
fro
her
,
&
went
to
Lereano
thynkyng
to
gyue
hym
some
counsayll
and
to
seke
the
best
meanes
that
I
coulde
deuyse
to
remedy
parte
of
his
euell
,
and
when
I
cam
to
hym
I
said
as
foloweth
¶
The
Auctor
to
Lereano
.
FOr
the
expedicion
that
I
bryng
,
ye
may
well
knowe
where
woordes
fayle
,
dylygence
can
not
preuayll
.
Thou
dyddyst
recommaunde
thy
remedy
to
me
,
but
fortune
hath
bene
to
me
so
contrary
,
in
that
she
wolde
not
be
to
me
so
fauourable
,
as
to
satysfye
me
in
any
thyng
that
is
passyd
,
but
fortune
is
rather
myne
enemy
.
Though
in
this
case
I
hadde
good
excuse
to
ayde
the
,
for
tough
I
was
the
messenger
,
thyne
was
the
besynes
.
The
mater
that
I
haue
passyd
with
Laureola
I
can
not
vnderstand
it
nor
can
not
shew
it
,
bycause
it
is
of
so
newe
and
dyuerce
condycyons
,
a
thousand
tymes
I
thought
to
haue
bene
at
the
poynte
,
to
haue
gyuen
the
remedy
.
And
agayne
as
often
,
to
haue
gyuen
the
thy
sepulture
:
al
tokens
of
her
wyl
,
(
wonne
&
vanquysshed
)
I
saw
in
her
contenance
,
and
all
the
folysh
frowardenes
of
women
withoute
loue
,
I
harde
in
her
woordes
,
Iudgyng
vpon
her
demeanour
.
I
was
ioyfull
,
and
heryng
her
wordes
,
I
was
sorowfull
.
Sometyme
I
thought
she
dyd
prudently
dyssimule
,
and
agayne
I
thought
she
wantyd
loue
,
but
fynally
when
I
saw
her
so
moueable
&
changable
,
I
beleuyd
then
veryly
that
ther
was
no
loue
in
her
:
for
if
a
persone
be
taken
with
loue
,
the
hart
shall
be
constante
,
and
where
as
loue
lacketh
,
ther
is
mutabylyte
.
On
the
other
parte
I
thought
she
dyd
it
for
fare
of
the
cruell
harte
of
the
king
her
father
what
shall
I
say
she
hath
receyued
thy
letter
,
&
manyshed
me
to
the
deth
,
yf
I
speke
any
further
in
thy
cause
,
beholde
now
this
greuous
case
,
Ther
semyth
in
one
poynt
.ii.
dyfferences
,
yf
I
shuld
shew
the
all
that
was
passyd
bytwene
her
&
me
,
I
shulde
want
tyme
to
speke
yt
.
I
requyre
the
enforce
thy
wytte
and
aswage
thy
passion
,
for
in
folowyng
thy
payne
,
thou
hast
more
nede
of
sepulture
thenne
of
comforte
:
for
withoute
thou
take
some
repose
,
thou
shalt
leue
here
thy
boones
,
in
stede
of
thy
true
fayth
,
the
whych
thou
oughtest
not
to
do
:
for
satysfying
of
thy selfe
,
it
were
more
conuenyent
for
the
to
lyue
rather
then
to
dye
,
for
to
be
out
of
payne
.
This
I
say
,
bycause
I
se
the
gloryfye
in
thy
payne
but
in
sufferyng
payne
,
thou
mayst
attaygne
to
the
crowne
of
lawde
&
prayse
In
that
it
may
be
sayd
,
that
thou
enforcest
thy
felfe
to
suffre
payne
for
the
ladyes
sake
.
Suche
as
be
stronge
&
vertuous
in
theyr
grettyst
mysfortune
,
shew
grettest
harte
.
Ther
is
no
dyfference
bytwene
the
good
&
euyll
,
without
the
bountye
be
tempt
and
prouyd
.
Consider
that
with
longe
lyfe
,
a
thyng
maye
be
wonne
:
haue
good
hope
in
thy
fayth
.
Thynke
that
the
purpose
of
Laureola
may
change
,
and
thy
ferme
stedfast
loue
neuer
.
I
wyll
not
say
all
that
I
thynke
for
thy
consolacion
,
for
I
perceyue
by
thy
wepynges
&
complaynt
,
that
ardent
deth
hath
lyghtened
his
flames
,
but
what
so
euer
thou
thynkyst
that
I
can
do
for
the
,
commaund
it
:
for
I
haue
no
lesse
wyl
to
serue
the
then
I
haue
to
remedy
thy
helth
.
¶
Lereano
to
the
auctor
.
THe
dysposycion
that
I
ame
in
,
the
seyst
.
The
priuasyō
of
my
vnderstandyng
thou
knowest
,
the
turbasyon
of
my
tong
thou
mayst
well
note
&
merke
:
therfore
haue
no
meruaylle
though
myne
aunswere
be
more
with
wepyng
,
then
with
ornate
wordes
,
bycause
the
Laureola
putteth
fro
her
harte
,
the
swete
appetyght
of
my
wylle
,
the
thynges
that
be
past
bytwen
that
and
her
,
for
all
that
thou
arte
at
thy
liberte
,
yet
thy
iudgement
can
not
vnderstande
her
meanyng
,
how
shuld
I
then
knowe
them
for
I
ame
so
passyonyd
:
than
I
can
not
lyue
but
alonely
to
prayse
her
beautie
&
to
repute
my
last
ende
happy
.
I
wolde
these
shulde
be
the
last
wordes
of
my
lyfe
:
bycause
they
be
to
prayse
her●
what
gretter
welth
can
I
haue
then
that
if
I
were
so
happy
to
be
rewardyd
therwith
,
as
I
deserue
by
reason
of
the
payne
that
I
suffre
.
who
then
shuld
be
lyke
me
?
better
it
were
for
me
to
dye
,
syn
I
haue
seruyd
her
,
them
to
lyue
causyng
her
to
haue
any
trouble
or
dyspleasour
.
The
thyng
that
most
shall
greue
me
,
is
when
I
dye
that
the
eyen
shall
peryshe
that
hath
seen
her
,
and
the
harte
that
remembreth
her
.
The
which
consyderyng
what
she
is
,
al
my
wyttes
are
past
,
the
ordre
of
reason
.
I
say
thus
bycause
thou
seyst
,
that
in
the
warkes
of
my
harte
in
steade
of
faynte
loue
,
my
stedfast
loue
encreaseth
if
in
my
captyue
harte
they
consolacions
could
take
any
frute
.
This
that
thou
hast
done
to
me
,
suffyseth
to
enforce
me
but
as
the
heryng
of
them
that
be
in
heuynes
and
lockyd
in
passyon
,
in
to
whose
sowle
can
entre
no
wordes
of
comforte
,
and
where
thou
saest
I
shuld
suffre
none
euyll
,
Gyue
me
the
strength
therto
,
and
I
shall
put
to
my
good
wyll
.
As
for
thynges
of
honor
that
thou
shewest
me
I
know
them
by
reason
,
and
I
deny
them
agayne
by
the
same
reasone
:
I
say
I
know
them
,
for
a
man
fre
in
liberte
,
shuld
vse
honor
,
and
agayn
I
denye
it
,
as
consernyng
to
my selfe
:
yet
I
seke
in
my
greuous
payne
to
chose
an
honorable
death
.
The
trauayll
that
thou
hast
receyuyd
for
my
sake
,
and
the
desyre
that
I
se
thou
hast
to
delyuer
me
fro
payne
,
byndeth
me
to
offre
for
the
my
lyfe
as
often
as
it
were
nedefull
.
But
syn
ther
is
but
smal
lyfe
left
in
me
,
take
for
satysfaction
my
desyre
,
and
not
my
power
:
yet
I
requyre
the
(
syn
this
shall
be
the
fynall
good
dede
,
that
thou
canst
do
for
me
,
&
the
last
that
I
shal
receyue
)
as
to
bere
fro
me
a nother
letter
to
Laureola
with
suche
newes
as
she
shall
be
gladde
of
,
and
wherby
she
shall
know
how
I
dyspose
me
to
passe
out
of
this
transytory
lyfe
,
and
no
more
to
trouble
her
:
&
to
the
entent
that
with
good
wyll
thou
shuldest
bere
it
to
her
,
I
wyll
begynne
it
in
thy
presence
wherof
the
mater
shal
be
as
folowith
.
¶
The
letter
of
Lereano
to
Laureola
.
Syn
that
the
sepulture
is
the
rewarde
of
all
myne
euels
,
I
ame
redy
now
to
receyue
it
,
beloue
that
deth
shall
not
dysplease
me
,
for
he
is
of
small
wytte
that
abhorryth
that
thyng
that
gyueth
libertie
:
but
one
thyng
dyspleaseth
me
,
that
is
in
dyeng
I
shal
lose
all
my
hope
euer
to
se
you
agayn
,
the
whiche
sore
greueth
me
.
It
may
be
sayd
in
so
shorte
a
space
as
I
haue
ben
your
seruant
,
how
shuld
I
so
sone
lose
my
puyssance
:
ye
ought
not
to
meruail
therat
,
for
the
hope
that
ye
haue
brought
me
in
,
and
smalle
comeforte
,
with
my
greate
passyon
,
suffyseth
to
put
away
&
to
destroy
greater
force
,
then
myne
,
yet
I
can
not
beleue
,
that
ye
are
cause
therof
,
without
your
workes
do
certifie
the
same
,
but
alwayes
I
haue
beleuyd
,
that
your
condycyon
piteous
,
shulde
surmount
your
obstynate
wyl
,
but
sin
ye
wyll
that
my
life
shal
receue
this
domage
,
the
faute
therof
is
myne
owne
mysfortune
.
I
am
sore
abasshyd
that
ye
sorow
not
in
your selfe
,
your
owne
ingratitude
.
I
haue
gyuen
you
my
liberte
,
&
intyerly
haue
gyuen
you
my
harte
,
nothyng
retaynyng
to
my selfe
:
for
all
that
,
I
can
haue
no
rewarde
of
loue
,
yet
I
desyre
to
serue
you
.
Who
wold
thynke
that
ye
shulde
dystroy
that
thyng
that
is
your
owne
certaynly
ye
are
your
owne
enemy
with
oute
ye
fynde
some
remedy
to
saue
me
.
This
ye
onght
to
do
,
orels
ye
condemne
your selfe
,
for
my
deth
&
perdycyon
can
not
profyght
you
.
But
I
desyre
that
ye
wold
sorowe
for
myne
euyll
:
yet
yf
your
sorow
shuld
do
you
any
payne
,
then
I
desyre
it
not
,
syn
that
lyuyng
I
neuer
dyd
ye
seruyce
.
It
were
no
ryght
that
dyeng
I
shuld
cause
you
to
haue
trouble
.
They
that
loke
agaynst
the
sonne
,
the
more
they
regard
it
,
the
blynder
they
be
.
And
so
the
more
I
remember
your
fayrenes
,
the
blynder
is
myne
vnderstandyng
.
This
I
say
to
th
entent
that
of
this
my
rude
wrytyng
ye
shuld
haue
no
meruayll
,
for
in
the
hard
case
that
I
ame
in
,
accordyng
to
my
wyll
,
I
am
better
dysposed
to
ende
my
lyfe
,
then
to
make
any
reasones
:
yet
I
wolde
that
thyng
that
ye
ought
to
regarde
,
were
so
orderyd
that
ye
shuld
not
occupye
your
vnderstandyng
on
a
thyng
so
fayre
fro
your
condycio●
.
yf
ye
consent
that
I
shall
dye
bycause
ye
wold
haue
it
publyshed
,
ye
haue
the
power
to
slee
me●
then
be
ye
euyll
cousayled
,
for
without
hope
your
beautie
hath
sertyfyed
me
therof
.
And
if
ye
esteme
my
deth
to
be
good
,
bycause
I
ame
not
worthy
to
receyue
your
grace
,
the
whiche
I
haue
●●●pyd
to
wynne
,
by
reasone
of
my
true
fayth
,
the
which
I
lese
for
lacke
of
deseruyng
,
and
with
this
thought
I
thynk
to
suffre
all
my
payne
.
And
if
it
seme
to
you
that
the
paynes
that
I
endure
for
your
sake
can
not
be
remedyed
,
with
oute
offence
to
your
honor
.
Thyuk
that
I
wyll
neuer
desyre
the
thyng
,
that
shuld
torne
you
to
blame
:
what
profyght
shuld
any
thyng
do
to
me
that
shuld
be
euyll
to
you
.
Allonely
I
desyre
your
aunswere
:
for
my
fyrst
&
last
reward
&
to
be
brefe
,
I
requyre
you
,
syn
ye
make
an
ende
of
my
lyfe
:
yet
at
lest
honor
my
deth
,
for
in
the
place
where
as
the
desperate
sowles
becometh
,
yf
ther
be
any
welth
:
There
I
desyre
,
to
feale
none
other
ioy
,
but
that
ye
wyll
honor
my
dede
bones
that
I
may
ioy
a
lytle
with
that
great
glory
.
¶
The
auctor
.
THe
wordes
and
letter
of
Lereano
finyshed
,
In
stede
of
wordes
myn●
eyen
were
satysfyed
,
with
greate
wepyng
,
&
so
withonte
power
to
speke
,
I
departyd
,
thynkynge
my
iudgement
that
it
shuld
be
the
last
tyme
that
I
had
any
hope
to
se
hym
agayn
alyue
.
And
as
I
was
on
my
way
I
wrote
a
supersc●ypcion
vpon
the
letter
,
to
th
entent
that
Laureola
shuld
be
in
doubt
fro
whence
it
came
.
And
when
I
came
in
to
her
presence
,
I
delyuered
her
the
letter
,
who
beleuyng
that
it
had
come
frome
some
other
persone
,
receyuyd
it
and
began
to
rede
it
.
And
all
the
season
that
she
was
redyng
,
I
regardyd
styll
her
vysage
,
&
when
she
hadde
made
an
ende
,
I
saw
well
she
was
sore
troubelyd
as
though
she
had
sufferyd
a
great
euyll
:
yet
the
regardyng
of
her
turbacyon
,
excusyd
not
my
trouble
Then
to
assure
my selfe
I
demaundyd
of
her
other
questyons
no
thyng
concernyng
to
that
purpose
.
And
to
delyuer
her selfe
fro
company
,
that
whych
in
suche
case
is
perelous
,
lesse
that
the
manyfest
mutacions
discouer
not
the
secrete
thoughtes
of
the
harte
.
Therfore
she
withdrew
her selfe
a
parte
and
all
that
nyghte
she
was
without
spekyng
of
any
word
to
me
,
as
tuchyng
that
purpose
.
And
the
next
day
she
sent
for
me
&
shewed
me
many
vertuous
resons
to
dyscharge
her selfe
fro
any
thyng
consentyng
to
release
the
payne
of
lereano
,
howbeit
,
she
sayd
that
she
thought
great
inhumanite
to
lese
suche
a
man
as
Lereano
,
for
so
small
a
pryce
,
as
in
wrytyng
of
a
letter
,
how
be
it
in
the
redyng
of
his
letter
I
take
but
smal
pleasour
.
Therfore
here
I
haue
wrytten
a
letter
,
not
with
so
pleasant
and
swet
wordes
,
as
be
in
his
reasons
:
for
who
so
euer
here
the
wordes
in
this
my
letter
,
may
well
knowe
that
I
haue
lytle
studyed
in
the
arte
of
eloquence
.
So
for
shamefastnes
sodenly
her
face
was
inflamyd
,
and
as
sodenly
agayne
pale
,
she
was
so
sore
alteryd
and
shorte
wyndyd
,
that
in
maner
she
brethed
for
the
deth
:
her
harte
&
voyce
so
sore
trymbled
,
that
her
dyscrecion
could
not
enforce
her selfe
to
speke
therfore
her
aunswere
was
shorte
,
and
also
the
place
requyred
no
lenger
tyme
.
So
she
toke
me
the
letter
,
and
kyst
her
hand
,
and
I
receyuyd
it
.
The
tenour
wherof
ensuyth
.
¶
The
letter
fro
Laureola
to
Lereano
.
THe
deth
that
thou
lokest
for
,
by
reasone
of
thy
payne
I
haue
rather
deseruyd
it
,
yf
I
shulde
put
my
wyll
to
thyne
:
but
that
is
not
so
,
for
this
my
wryttyng
is
more
to
redeme
thy
lyfe
,
then
to
satisfy
thy
desyre
,
what
shulde
it
profytte
me
to
accomplysh
it
,
for
yf
I
were
accusyd
therof
,
I
coulde
haue
no
wytnes
to
salue
me
,
but
alonely
my
pure
entensyon
,
which
is
so
pryncypall
a
pertye
,
that
his
wordes
shulde
not
be
taken
nor
beleued
And
with
this
feare
,
I
haue
put
to
my
hande
to
this
paper
,
my
harte
&
mynde
beyng
in
heuyn
makyng
hym
iudge
of
my
mynde
,
to
whome
the
trouthe
of
all
thynges
is
,
manyfest
&
knowen
.
The
cause
why
that
I
doubtyd
to
aunswere
the
,
was
,
bycause
withoute
my
condemnacion
thou
canst
not
be
assoyled
,
as
thou
mayst
well
se
:
for
though
no
creature
know
of
this
letter
,
but
thy selfe
&
the
berer
:
yet
I
know
not
what
iudgement
,
any
of
you
may
make
vpon
me
,
though
it
be
but
good
,
yet
I
ame
spottyd
with
the
suspecte
therof
.
Therfore
I
desyre
the
,
when
thou
hast
seen
myne
aunswere
,
remember
the
fame
&
reuome
of
her
that
hath
sent
it
,
of
this
I
hertely
desyre
the
,
for
often
tymes
suche
fawors
,
are
publyshyd
,
for
some
hath
more
regard
to
the
victory
,
then
to
honour
of
them
that
she
with
suche
fauour
.
And
whether
it
were
better
for
me
to
be
blamyd
for
crueltie
,
or
to
be
spotted
or
defamyd
for
beyng
to
piteous
,
I
reporte
me
to
thy selfe
:
&
yet
to
gyue
the
some
remedy
,
I
vse
now
the
contrary
,
thou
hast
that
thou
desyrest
:
&
I
that
I
feare
,
I
requyre
the
to
turne
&
wynde
,
and
kepe
secrete
my
letter
in
thy
remembrance
,
for
if
thou
do
beleue
it
,
then
it
nede
not
to
be
seen
:
for
that
I
haue
wryten
yf
it
were
sene
,
it
shuld
be
thought
that
I
loue
the
,
and
yf
thou
be
leue
,
the
reasons
that
I
haue
sayde●
to
be
spoken
rather
by
dissymulacion
,
then
of
trouth
:
then
arte
thou
begyled
,
in
that
beleue
,
for
yt
is
clene
contrary
,
for
surely
I
say
them
rather
with
a
piteous
entensciō
then
with
any
amorous
entent●
And
to
cause
the
to
beleue
this
,
I
wold
further
extende
my
wordes
,
yf
I
hadde
leysour
.
But
to
put
the
in
to
none
other
suspeccion
,
I
make
an
ende
of
my
letter
and
to
th
entent
that
my
warkes
shulde
receyue
,
a
iust
rewarde
,
thus
wyll
I
endure
my
lyfe
dayes
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHen
I
hadde
receyued
this
letter
of
Laureola
I
departyd
to
go
to
Lereano
,
thynkyng
then
to
haue
with
me
some
company
to
ayde
me
in
the
glory
of
myne
ambassade
,
&
to
encorage
therby
Lereano
,
I
callyd
then
to
me
,
the
grettest
enemyes
that
we
had
before
,
as
cōtentacion
,
hope
,
rest
,
pleysour
myrth
and
comforte
.
I
toke
these
with
me
for
feare
that
the
kepers
of
the
prisone
wolde
resist
&
defende
me
the
entre
.
Wherfore
I
thought
to
go
in
ordre
of
batayl
:
and
when
I
came
to
the
heyght
of
an
hygh
hyll
,
I
had
a
syghte
of
the
pryson
,
then
I
dysplayed
my
baner
all
of
grene
,
so
that
our
enemyes
toke
them
to
the
flyght
in
suche
wyse
that
he
that
fledde
fastyst
thought
to
be
next
the
ieoperdye
.
And
when
Lereano
harde
this
grete
rumour
not
knowyng
what
it
was
,
he
came
to
a
wyndow
of
the
towre
,
and
spake
more
with
wekenes
of
spirite
,
then
with
hope
of
socour
,
and
when
he
saw
me
comyng
in
batayll
with
suche
a
goodly
company
,
then
he
knew
what
the
mater
ment
,
&
what
for
his
feblenes
,
&
for
his
sodeyn
ioye
,
loste
his
fealyng
,
and
fell
downe
in
a
trance
in
the
howse
,
where
he
was
.
And
when
I
came
to
the
steyres
wheron
I
was
wont
to
mount
,
Rest
,
auauncyd
to
marche
on
before
,
who
gaue
clerenes
&
chasyde
away
all
the
darkenes
of
the
towre
,
and
when
I
came
to
hym
&
sawe
hym
in
that
mortall
maner
,
I
feared
I
came
sone
inough
to
wepe
,
and
to
late
to
gyue
hym
remedy
.
Then
with
great
dylygence
,
hope
stept
to
hym
,
&
cast
a
lytle
water
of
comeforte
in
his
face
,
and
therwith
he
returnyd
agayne
to
hym selfe
,
and
the
better
to
strength
hym
,
I
delyuered
hym
Laureolas
letter
.
And
all
the
season
that
he
redde
it
,
all
suche
as
I
brought
with
me
procured
for
his
helth
,
Myrth
gaue
ioy
to
his
harte
:
rest
comfortyd
his
spyrytes
,
hope
brought
hym
in
to
good
remembrance
.
Contentacion
cleryd
his
eyen
.
Comeforte
restoryd
his
helthe
and
strength
.
Pleasure
quyckenyd
his
vnderstandyng
:
they
treatyd
hym
in
suche
wyse
,
that
when
he
hadde
redde
ouer
the
letter
,
he
was
all
hole
,
as
though
he
hadde
neuer
felte
passyon
,
and
when
he
saw
that
my
dylygence
gaue
hym
lyberte
,
he
toke
me
often
tymes
in
his
armes
,
offeryng
hym selfe
to
be
myne
,
and
thought
that
but
a
small
rewarde
,
for
the
deseruyng
of
my
seruyce
.
His
offers
were
to
me
in
suche
maner
,
that
I
wyst
not
how
to
aunswer
hym
,
as
I
ought
to
haue
done
accordyng
to
his
degre
,
and
after
that
many
thynges
were
passyd
bytwene
hym
&
me
,
he
determy●ed
to
go
to
the
courte
and
fyrst
we
went
to
a
towne
of
his
,
and
taryed
there
a
certayne
season
,
to
recouer
his
strength
,
and
to
newe
aparell
hym
agaynst
he
shuld
go
to
the
courte
.
And
when
he
saw
his
tyme
,
he
set
forth
on
his
iourney
.
And
when
his
comyng
was
knowen
in
the
courte
,
many
great
lordes
and
yong
courtyaers
went
to
receyue
hym
,
but
he
toke
more
consolacion
of
his
secrete
glory
,
then
of
all
the
open
honour
that
was
done
to
hym
.
Thus
he
was
nobly
accompanyd
to
the
palace
,
and
his
duetie
done
to
the
kyng
,
he
kyst
the
hand
of
Laureola
,
wherein
was
many
thynges
to
be
notyd
,
and
specyally
to
me
who
knew
the
mater
bytwene
them
.
The
one
was
ouercome
with
trybulacion
,
the
other
faylyd
colour
.
He
wyst
not
what
to
say
,
nor
she
to
aunswere
,
suche
force
hathe
the
passyons
of
loue
,
alwayes
it
draweth
the
wyt
&
dyscrecion
downe
vnder
his
baner
,
the
which
I
saw
there
by
clere
experyence
.
And
though
that
no
man
saw
ther
demanour
,
nor
hadde
no
suspecte
bytwene
them
:
yet
Persio
sonne
to
the
lorde
of
Gania
behelde
them
,
and
was
as
farre
in
loue
,
as
Lereaon
was
.
And
by
reasone
that
all
gelous
suspecte
disordereth
all
thynges
secrete
,
he
regarded
ouer
ther
wordes
&
contenaunces
,
in
so
moch
that
he
gaue
full
credence
to
his
own
suspect
,
&
gaue
not
alonely
fayth
to
that
he
saw
,
the
which
was
nothyng
,
but
also
beleuyd
it
surely
in
his
imagynacion
,
&
with
that
euyl
thought
of
ielosy
,
without
deliberacyon
or
counsayle
,
he
fydyng
the
kyng
in
a
secrete
place
,
sayd
to
hym
(
affermyng
that
Laureola
&
Lereano
louyd
to gether
)
how
that
he
hadde
seen
them
together
,
dyuerce
nyghtes
,
when
the
kynge
was
a
bedde
,
sayng
how
he
shewyd
this
for
the
honour
and
seruyce
,
that
he
bare
to
the
kyng
.
The
kynge
then
beyng
sore
troubelyd
with
those
newes
was
in
great
doubte
,
and
studyed
long
or
he
was
determynyd
to
aunswere
.
And
after
he
had
slept
on
the
mater
,
he
bileued
Persius
sayeng
to
be
true
,
consyderyng
his
vertue
and
auctoryte
,
he
wolde
shew
no
thyng
,
but
of
trought
.
Then
the
kyng
determynyd
what
he
wolde
doo
,
and
therupon
he
sent
his
doughter
Laureola
in
to
a
towre
in
to
a
prysone
,
and
then
sent
for
Persio
,
&
commaundyd
hym
to
accuse
Lereano
of
treason
,
accordyng
to
his
lawes
,
of
the
which
commaundement
he
was
sore
abashyde
,
but
the
heate
of
the
busynes
enforsyd
hym
to
graunte
it
.
Then
he
acceptyd
the
kynges
commandement
and
sayde
,
howe
he
thankyd
god
that
he
was
offeryd
suche
a
case
,
that
his
handes
myght
bere
wytnes
of
his
bounte
&
vertue
:
and
bycause
that
in
Macedonia
suche
deades
were
accustumed
to
be
done
,
by
wrytyng
&
not
in
the
kynges
presence
by
wordes
,
therfore
Persio
sent
a
wrytyng
to
Lereona
with
suche
reasons
as
ensue
.
¶
Persius
writtyng
to
Lereano
.
Syn
that
of
good
workes
,
procedeth
vertuous
renome
and
fame
it
is
a
iuste
thynge
that
euylnes
be
chastysed
,
to
th
entent
that
vertue
maye
be
maynteynyd
,
and
with
great
dylygence
bounte
ought
to
be
exaltyd
.
So
that
the
enemyes
therof
,
when
ther
wylfull
operacions
be
to
the
contrary
,
they
ought
to
be
constrayned
to
vse
bountie●
:
for
dread
and
feare
of
punyshement
.
I
say
this
to
the
Lereano
,
for
the
payne
that
thou
shalt
receyue
,
for
the
trespace
that
thou
hast
commyttyd
,
shal
be
a
chastysement
to
the
,
and
an
ensample
for
all
other
to
feare
,
for
if
such
thynges
shuld
be
perdonyd
,
and
left
vnponyshed
,
vylany
shuld
then
be
no
lesse
fauoryd
in
them
that
do
euyl
,
then
noblenes
in
them
that
be
good
.
Certainly
euyl
hath
it
profited
y●
,
all
the
gentlenes
&
honeste
of
thy
lynage
,
who
gaue
the
ensample
to
folow
bounte
,
and
thou
folowest
the
workes
of
treasone
,
thy
progenitours
bones
wold
be
redy
to
ryse
agaynst
the
yf
they
knew
how
thou
defoilyst
(
with
suche
errour
)
theyr
noble
dedes
,
therfore
now
is
the
tyme
come
that
for
thyne
euyll
deades
,
thou
shalt
receyue
the
ende
of
thy
lyfe
,
and
defoyll
thy
fame
.
Cursyd
be
all
suche
as
thou
arte
,
that
canst
not
chose
an
honourable
lyfe
,
and
thou
not
regardynge
thy
seruyce
nor
duetie
to
thy
kyng
.
To
be
so
bolde
withoute
shame
as
to
falle
in
loue
with
Laureola
the
kynges
doughter
,
with
whome
with
oute
shame
,
thou
hast
spoken
dyuerce
tymes
aloone
,
after
the
kynges
beyng
a
bedde
not
folowyng
the
clere
lynage
,
by
which
reasone
I
appeale
the
as
a
traytour
,
and
vpon
that
quarel
I
thynk
to
s●e
the
,
orels
to
dryue
the
oute
of
the
feld
,
orels
to
cause
the
confesse
with
thy
mouth
my
sayeng
to
be
true
,
the
which
as
long
as
the
world
endureth
shal
be
an
ensample
of
my
trouth
.
And
thus
I
leue
,
trustyng
to
proue
thy
falsenes
,
and
to
verify
my
treuth
.
chose
thou
the
maner
of
our
batayll
&
armur
,
and
on
the
kynges
part
I
shal
make
the
assurance
¶
The
aunswer
of
Lereano
.
MOre
shal
be
my
mysfortune
then
the
malyce
withoute
the
fault
that
thou
chargest
me
withall
of
falsenes
shall
gyue
the
payne
by
iustice
accordyng
to
thy
deserte
:
if
thou
were
as
discrete
as
thou
art
euyll
,
in
escheweng
of
such
perels
.
First
thou
shuldest
haue
knowen
myne
entension
or
thou
haddest
gyuen
sentence
vpon
my
workes
,
but
nowe
I
knowe
by
the
that
thou
semyst
better
then
thou
arte
in
dead
.
I
thoughte
surely
to
haue
comoned
with
the
as
with
my
frende
,
hauynge
confidence
in
thy
vertue
,
but
nowe
thou
shewyst
thyne
euyll
condicion
,
lyke
as
here
before
thou
shewydyst
thy
bounti●
with
frendly
amyte
,
in
lykewyse
now
thou
discouerest
thy
falshod
,
wherfor
thou
causest
enuyte
bytwene
vs
:
or
I
may
say
by
reasone
,
enemy
to
thy selfe
for
by
thyne
owne
witnesse
thou
leuyst
the
good
memory
of
thy
life
with
infamy●
and
shalte
ende
thy
life
with
shame
.
why
hast
thou
put
thy
serpentyne
tonge
vpon
Laureola
,
whose
alonely
bounte
suffiseth
,
that
if
bounte
were
loste
throughoute
all
the
worlde
,
it
myght
be
recoueryd
&
founde
in
her
.
Thou
mayntaynyst
a
celre
falsehodde
,
and
I
shall
defend
a
iust
cause
,
and
shall
delyuer
&
discharge
her
fro
all
fawtes
and
shall
charge
thyn
honour
with
shame
.
I
will
not
aunswere
thyne
vnmesurable
wordes●
for
I
repute
it
a
more
honest
way
,
to
vanquysh
the
with
my
handes
rather
then
to
sacisfye
the
with
wordes
.
I
desyre
no
thyng
,
b●t
alonely
to
come
to
the
case
to
trye
our
debate
.
Thou
accusyst
me
of
treason
afferming
how
I
haue
ben
dyuerce
tymes
in
the
secrete
chamber
with
Laureola
after
the
kynges
beyng
a
bedde
&
at
his
rest
aswell
to
the
one
as
to
the
other
.
I
saye
thou
falsely
lyest
:
yet
I
denye
not
but
that
I
haue
regardyd
her
beawtie
with
an
amorouse
desyre
.
But
though
the
force
of
loue
ordre
the
thoughtes
,
yet
the
vertue
of
trouth
causyth
,
clenlynes
of
honeste
,
I
wold
be
glad
to
haue
her
fauour
,
but
for
none
euyll
thought
.
And
moreouer
I
shall
defende
the
quarel
,
and
say
that
I
alone
neuer
enteryd
in
to
her
secrete
chamber
,
nor
neuer
spake
wordes
of
loue
to
her
:
so
that
when
the
entension
synnyth
not
,
the
iudgement
then
shuld
alwayes
be
hole
without●
deformyte
.
And
syn
the
determynacion
herof
can
not
be
withoute
deth
of
one
of
vs
,
and
not
determynyd
with
our
tonges
,
therfore
lete
vs
leue
raylyng
with
our
tonges
and
abyde
vpon
the
day
of
our
sentence
the
which
I
truste
in
god
shal
be
for
my
profyght
,
and
honor
to
Laureola
,
and
shame
and
rebuke
to
the
,
bycause
thy
dedes
of
malyce
:
and
I
to
defende
by
reasone
,
the
trough
shal
be
determyned
by
iustice
.
The
armure
that
we
shall
chose
shal
be
all
peces
acordynge
to
the
custome
of
our
countrey
.
Our
horses
bardyd
with
lyke
speres
and
swordes
,
and
with
any
other
armure
or
wepyn
that
is
vsyd
,
with
the
whiche
I
truste
to
s●ee
the
or
to
cause
the
to
denye
,
that
thou
hast
sayde
,
orels
to
chase
the
oute
of
the
felde
.
¶
The
auctor
.
THus
euyll
fortune
,
enuyous
,
of
the
welth
&
prosperite
of
Lereano
,
vsyng
againste
hym
her
naturall
chaungeale
condycion
,
she
gaue
hym
a
torne
,
whan
she
saw
hym
in
his
moste
prosperite
,
whose
mysfortune
to
behold
,
was
great
passion
,
and
constreyned
the
here
to
payne
.
Thus
leuing
to
speke
of
this
trouble
.
After
Lereano
had
aunswered
Persius
letter
,
the
kynge
knowyng
the
couenaut
of
this
batayll
,
assuryd
the
feld
,
assyngned
out
the
place
where
the
batayll
shuld
be
determyned
&
all
thynges
necessary
was
ordeyned
,
that
perteyned
to
suche
deades
,
accordynge
to
the
custome
of
Macedonia
.
And
on
a
day
the
kyng
went
to
his
stage
,
and
the
knyghtes
came
in
to
the
felde
,
eche
of
them
accompanyd
as
they
were
fauoured
,
and
as
they
hadde
deserued
,
sauyng
the
equalnes
of
bothe
pertyes
honours
.
They
were
lyke
brought
in
to
the
felde
,
so
they
(
after
theyr
reuerence
done
to
the
kyng
)
ranne
eche
at
other
,
so
that
by
the
force
of
theyr
strookes
,
they
shewed
the
vertue
of
theyr
hartes
.
And
theyr
speres
broken
at
theyr
fyrste
encounter
:
then
they
drwe
on
t
theyr
swordes
,
and
fought
so
fercely
,
that
it
was
m●ruayll
to
behold
theyr
deades
and
compassyon
for
that
they
sufferyd
.
And
to
be
brefe
in
this
history
,
Lereano
in
gyuynge
his
heuy
strokes
at
a
stroke
strake
of
Persyus
ryght
hande
,
so
that
it
fell
to
the
erth
,
sworde
and
all
.
When
Lereano
saw
,
how
that
Persyo
had
lost
the
best
parte
of
his
defence
(
sayde
)
Persyo
to
th
entent
that
thy
lyfe
pay
not
his
duetye
,
for
thy
falseyes
,
reny
that
thou
haste
sayd
.
Then
Persyo
sayde
:
do
as
thou
oughtest
to
do
,
though
myne
arme
fayle
me
to
defend
,
yet
my
harte
faylyth
not
to
dye
.
Lereano
heryng
the
aunswere
preasyd
to
hym
,
and
gaue
hym
many
sharpe
&
heuy
strokes
.
And
when
Persyus
frendes
sawe
hym
in
ieoperdy
of
his
lyfe
they
requyryd
the
kyng
to
caste
downe
his
batone
,
assurynge
hym
that
Persyo
shuld
be
brought
forth
to
abyde
suche
iugement
as
it
shuld
please
hym
,
yf
he
were
found
culpable
and
gyltye
.
To
the
which
requeste
the
kyng
condiscendyd
,
&
so
they
were
depertyd
,
wherwith
Lereano
was
sore
agreuyd
,
&
not
withoute
good
reasone
.
For
he
hadde
great
meruayll
,
why
the
kyng
delte
so
with
hym
.
Then
they
were
conueyede
oute
of
the
feld
with
lyke
seremonyes
:
how
be
it
,
they
were
not
lyke
in
fame
&
honour
.
So
they
were
brought
to
theyr
lodgynges
and
there
taryed
all
nyght
.
The
next
day
in
the
mornyng
,
Lereano
determynyd
to
go
to
the
palace
to
desyre
the
kyng
in
presence
of
all
his
courte
to
restore
his
honour
,
&
to
do
vpon
Persio
ryghtwyse
iustyce
.
But
Persyo
,
who
was
malycyous
of
his
condycion
,
and
sharpe
wyttyd
,
to
th
entent
that
he
myght
by
some
meanes
attayn
to
his
purpose
,
whyls
that
Lereano
spake
with
the
kyng
,
he
callyd
to
hym
.iii.
false
men
lyke
to
his
own
condycions
,
&
toke
theyr
othe
that
they
shuld
shew
them
.
To
the
which
they
agreyd
.
Then
he
gaue
to
them
moche
money
,
so
that
they
shuld
say
,
and
swere
to
the
kyng
that
they
had
sene
Lereano
spekyng
with
Laureola
in
places
suspect
,
and
in
tyme
dyshonest
:
which
they
proferyd
to
afferme
,
and
to
swere
it
,
to
the
lefyng
of
theyr
lyues
.
I
leue
to
speke
of
the
doloure
that
Laureola
sufferyd
,
by
cause
the
passyon
shuld
not
trouble
so
my
wytte
,
but
that
I
myght
make
an
ende
of
that
I
haue
begonne
,
for
I
haue
no
lesse
payne
to
remembre
her
sorowe
beyng
absent
,
then
as
thought
I
were
present
,
and
saw
it
with
myne
eyen
:
but
I
wyll
torne
to
Lereano
,
who
had
more
sorow
for
her
prysonement
,
then
glory
of
his
victory
.
When
he
knew
that
the
kyng
was
ryson
he
went
to
the
palayce
,
&
in
the
presence
of
the
knyghtes
of
the
courte
he
sayd
to
the
kyng
as
folowith
¶
Lereano
to
the
kyng
.
SIr
of
suertie
with
better
wyll●
I
wold
haue
sufferyd
the
chastisement
of
your
iustice
,
then
the
shame
to
haue
come
to
your
presence
,
if
I
had
not
atteygned
yesterday
the
better
of
the
batayll
:
The
which
yf
ye
had
taken
well
,
I
shulde
haue
bene
clene
quyte
&
delyueryde
fro
the
false
accusacion
of
Persyo
,
for
in
the
syght
of
euery
man
I
shuld
haue
gyuen
hym
the
rewarde
,
that
he
deseruyd
,
It
is
great
dyfference
to
haue
power
to
do
a
thynge
,
and
to
do
it
in
deade
.
Great
auauntage
ye
shewyd
hym
,
the
reason
why
,
I
can
nother
thynke
nor
imagine●
ye
cōmaūdyde
to
deperte
vs
,
and
specially
syn
our
debate
tochyd
your selfe
so
nere
,
as
he
that
shuld
desyre
to
be
reuengyd
for
the
loue
of
Laureola
,
lyke
a
pytefull
father
,
and
I
beleue
well
that
as
now
ye
be
well
satysfied
of
her
dycharge
and
ignorance
.
And
syr
yf
ye
dyd
it
for
compassion
,
ye
hadde
of
Persyo
,
ye
ought
as
iustely
to
haue
regardyd
myne
honour
,
aswell
as
his
lyfe
,
seyng
I
ame
your
naturall
subget
.
And
yf
ye
dyd
is
by
reasone
of
the
inportunate●
suet
of
some
of
his
frendes
,
ye
ought
aswell
to
haue
remembryde
the
seruyce
that
I
&
myne
haue
done
you
,
syn
ye
know
with
what
constaunce
of
hart
,
many
of
them
in
dyuerce
bateyls
haue
loste
in
your
seruyce
theyr
lyues
,
which
none
of
them
haue
done
,
the
.iii.
parte
.
Therfore
syr
I
requyre
you
that
by
uistice
ye
wyll
satysfye
the
honour
that
I
haue
wonne
with
my
handes
.
Syr
kepe
your
lawes
if
ye
thynke
to
conserue
your
naturall
subiectes
,
nor
syr
consent
not
,
that
so
false
a
man
,
shuld
lyue
that
kepith
so
euyll
preemynence
of
his
predecessours
,
to
the
entent
that
his
venyme
do
not
corrupte
them
,
that
be
his
parte
takers
.
Certaynly
I
ame
culpable
in
no
thyng
,
but
in
that
I
haue
bene
so
good
a
frende
,
to
my
wrongfull
accuser
,
and
if
for
this
I
haue
deserued
payne
,
lette
me
haue
it
,
yet
my
clere
innocency
shall
assoyll
me
.
I
haue
conseruyde
his
amyte
,
beleuyng
he
had
bene
good
,
and
not
iudgyng
his
euyll
nor
falsenes
.
If
ye
suffre
hym
to
serue
you
,
I
say
he
shal
be
the
beste
seruaunt
to
make
dyscorde
and
lyes
,
that
shal
be
in
all
your
courte
.
Syr
remember
in
your selfe
how
ye
be
bounde
to
do
ryght
to
eury
man
.
Wherfore
determyne
this
cause
with
prudence
,
and
gyue
sentence
with
your
acustomed
iustice
.
Syr
the
thynges
of
honour
ought
to
be
clere
,
and
if
ye
perdone
hym
for
any
request
:
though
yt
be
by
the
pryncipall
of
your
realme
,
or
for
any
other
thyng
at
your
pleasur
,
I
wyll
not
then
abyde
the
iudgement
of
dyuerce
of
your
men
,
to
be
taken
as
clene
dyscharged
.
For
thought
some
beleue
the
trouth
by
reasone
,
yet
some
wyl
be
troubelyd
,
and
say
the
worste
.
And
though
in
all
your
realme
,
the
trouth
be
not
knowen
,
yet
comenly
the
fame
of
the
trouth
by
reasone
of
fouour
of
the
partye
wyll
not
be
borne
farre
of
:
so
that
I
can
not
be
clene
dyscharged
out
of
all
mennys
fantasyes
,
yf
this
man
scape
withoute
open
punyshement
.
Syr
for
goddessake
sette
myne
honour
with
oute
any
dysputacion
,
&
as
for
my
lyfe
ordeyne
at
your
pleysour
:
¶
The
auctor
TO
the
sayng
of
Lereano
,
the
kyng
gaue
good
entent
,
and
aunswered
that
he
wold
take
counsayll
what
was
best
to
do
,
and
sayde
that
in
suche
a
case
delybercion
wold
be
taken
,
or
any
sentence
shuld
be
gyuyn
.
Of
trouth
the
kynges
aunswere
,
was
not
so
swete
,
as
it
ought
to
haue
ben
:
for
by
that
I
saw
,
yf
the
kyng
hadde
put
Laureola
at
her
lybertie
,
Lereano
hadde
enduryde
no
trouble
.
For
he
thought
to
serue
her
,
for
all
that
he
was
reputyd
culpable
,
though
his
entent
were
clere
withoute
faulte
,
Thus
the
kyng
to
eschewe
the
rumour
and
besynes
that
was
lykely
to
fall
bytwene
Lereanos
frendes
&
Persius
,
commaundyd
Lereano
to
go
to
a
towne
of
his
owne
,
a
.ii.
leages
fro
the
court
cally●
Susa
,
and
there
to
tary
tyll
he
had
set
a
dyrection
in
the
mater
.
The
which
Lereano
dyde
with
a
ioyful
hart
,
thynkyng
that
●aureola
was
clerely
dy●chargyd
,
whiche
was
the
thyng
he
mooste
desiryd●
But
then
Persyo
who
alwayes
trauelyde
to
offend
and
to
shame
his
honour
and
to
defende
it
by
malyce
,
he
sente
for
ii
.
of
his
complyses
,
or
Laureola
was
delyuerede
and
sayde
to
them
:
That
eche
of
them
a
parte
shulde
go
to
the
kyng
,
and
of
them selfe
to
shew
hym
,
how
that
the
accusacion
of
Persio
was
trew
and
to
bere
wytnes
that
they
had
●een
Lereano
dyuerce
tymes
speke
with
Laureola
aloone
suspyciously
.
The
which
wytnes
and
affyrmacion
,
whe●
the
kyng
hard
it
,
he
was
sore
trowbelyd
therwith
,
and
examynyd
eche
of
them
a
parte
by
subtyle
&
sharpe
perswasions
to
se
yf
they
any
thyng
swaruyd
in
ther
sayenges
.
But
they
were
such
persons
,
that
if
a
man
shulde
haue
wastyde
all
his
lyfe
in
falsenes
,
coulde
not
be
lyke
them
.
They
were
so
sure
of
theyr
wordes
,
the
more
they
were
examynyde
the
surelyer
they
fortefyed
theyr
false
lyes
.
So
that
therby
the
kyng
gaue
to
theyr
false
sayenges
,
fayth
and
beleue
.
And
by
reasone
of
theyr
informacion
,
the
kyng
reputyd
Persyo
for
trew
seruant
and
beleuyd
that
it
was
more
by
reasone
of
his
fortune
,
rather
then
by
his
vntrw
quarell
,
that
he
lost
the
batayll
.
O
Persyo
better
it
hadde
ben
for
the
to
haue
sufferyd
the
deth
at
one
tyme
,
then
to
deserue
so
many
dethe
.
So
the
kyng
in
purpose
to
punysh
the
innocensy
of
Laureola
,
by
reasone
of
the
treasone
of
the
false
wytnes
,
ordeynyd
that
his
doughter
Laureola
shuld
haue
the
sentence
of
iustyce
.
The
whiche
when
it
came
to
the
knowledge
of
Lereano
,
he
was
ther
with
nere
oute
of
his
wytte
,
and
wi●h
great
fury
and
passion
desperate
,
determynyde
to
go
to
the
courte
to
delyuer
Laureola
,
and
to
slee
Persyo
,
orels
to
lese
his
owne
lyfe
in
the
quarell
.
And
when
I
saw
hym
wyllyng
to
folow
that
fantasye
,
wherin
was
more
perell
then
hope
.
Then
I
desyryd
hym
to
worke
sagely
,
and
so
by
reasone
of
the
alterasyon
that
he
was
in
,
he
was
in
a
great
perplexite
.
And
when
I
saw
hym
stande
in
suche
a
dysmayde
trance
,
I
thought
then
to
serue
hym
with
my
counsayll
,
to
th
entent
he
shuld
not
do
that
thyng
in
haste
,
wherby
to
repent
hym
after
.
And
consyderynge
the
way
that
I
tho●ght
moste
sure
,
I
sayd
to
hym
thus
.
¶
The
auctor
to
Lereano
.
SIr
I
desyre
you
to
be
dyscrete
to
th
entent
that
I
may
prayse
your
wytte
,
that
ye
may
so
deale
to
remedy
your
euyll
,
that
ye
may
be
ioyfull
as
I
desyre
,
and
praysed
as
ye
deserue
.
This
I
say
for
the
sage
pacience
that
thou
shuldest
shew
in
the
tyme
of
thyne
aduersyte
:
for
though
I
se
well
the
thyne
vnderstandyng
be
occupyed
with
passion
:
yet
thou
shuldest
consyder
what
thou
wylt
do
,
and
with
what
dyscrete
knowledge
.
Thou
shuldest
rather
folow
my
symple
counsayll
,
then
to
put
to
execucion
thy
foresayde
wyll
.
Thus
:
thou
shuldest
do
by
thyne
owne
naturall
in
tysemente
.
Moche
haue
I
studyed
on
that
thou
oughtest
to
do
in
this
thy
greate
fortune
:
And
accordyng
to
my
power
iudgement
.
The
fyrst
thyng
to
accomplysh
it
for
the
,
to
take
reste
,
the
lack
therof
trowbl●th
the
in
thy
present
case
.
And
after
myne
opynion
thy
fyrste
determynacion
shal
be
the
laste
to
put
to
execucion
:
for
as
thyne
enterprice
is
great
and
weyghty
,
accordyng
ther
to
,
demuer
delyberacion
shulde
be
determynyde
or
yt
were
executyd
all
wayes
in
a
thyng
doughtfull
.
The
most
surest
way
wolde
be
taken
.
And
yf
thou
be
disposede
to
slee
Persyo
,
or
to
delyuer
Laureola
.
Fyrste
thou
muste
consyder
by
what
wayes
thou
mayste
do
it
,
&
skape
away
with
both
your
honours
,
for
her
honour
is
more
to
be
estemyd
,
then
the
lyfe
.
For
yf
thou
canste
not
accomplyshe
thyne
enterpryce
,
thou
shalte
leue
her
condempnyd
,
and
thy selfe
dyshonouryd
.
Thou
knowyst
that
men
workyth
,
and
fortune
iudgith
.
And
if
thynges
passe
well
,
then
they
be
praysed
:
yf
they
fortune
euyll
,
then
they
be
dyspraysed
,
and
taken
for
euyll
.
If
thou
delyuer
Laureola
thou
shalte
be
callyde
valyant
:
yf
thou
assay
and
fayle
,
then
thou
shalt
be
reputyd
a
fole
.
Cary
here
a
.ix.
dayes
,
for
then
shal
be
the
execusion
of
the
sentence
agaynst
Laureola
.
In
the
meane
seasone
let
vs
proue
&
assay
all
other
remedyes
,
that
any
hope
is
in
.
And
if
we
fynde
no
remedy
in
that
,
then
execute
thyne
entent
,
though
thou
lese
thy
lyfe
therby
,
yet
it
shal
be
to
thyne
honour
and
fame
.
One
thynge
thou
shulde●te
prouyde
for
,
or
thou
begynne
,
I
putte
case
thou
haddeste
now
broken
the
prisone
,
&
taken
oute
therof
La●reola
,
and
caryed
her
away
,
into
thyne
owne
lande
:
yet
she
shulde
be
condempnyd
and
reputyd
culpable
,
and
wher
soeuer
thou
shuldest
sette
her
,
yet
she
shuld
suffre
payne
,
the
which
then
shuld
be
gretter
euyll
,
then
the
fyrst
.
Therfore
the
best
way
as
semeth
me
is
to
do
after
this
maner
.
I
wyll
go
in
thy
name
to
Galleo
,
brother
to
the
quene
,
who
for
parte
desyreth
the
delyuerance
of
Laureola
,
asmoche
as
thy selfe
doste
.
And
I
shall
shewe
hym
what
is
thyne
entent
:
and
desyre
hym
(
to
the
entente
he
sholde
bere
no
charge
nor
blame
)
that
he
wold
be
redy
with
a
certayn
nomber
of
men
,
the
same
day
that
thou
shuldest
do
thyne
enterpryce
,
that
yf
thou
fortune
to
gette
Laureola
oute
of
prisone
.
Then
to
put
her
in
to
his
handes
in
the
presence
of
eury
man
,
in
wytnes
of
his
ignorance
,
and
of
thy
clennes
,
and
so
he
to
receyue
her
tyll
the
kyng
haue
prouyd
the
trouth
in
euery
thyng
,
and
to
kepe
her
in
his
castell
:
wherby
this
busines
may
come
to
a
good
ende
:
but
as
I
haue
sayde
this
way
muste
be
the
laste
shote
ancre
.
Therfore
fyrste
I
wyll
go
to
the
court
,
and
speke
with
the
cardynall
of
Gaula
and
with
other
lordes
&
prelates
that
I
can
fynde
ther.
And
I
shall
desyre
them
to
speke
to
the
kyng
,
desyryng
hym
to
grant
Laureola
her
lyfe
.
And
yf
we
fynde
no
remedy
in
this
,
then
I
wyll
desire
the
quene
that
she
with
all
other
ladyes
&
honest
women
of
her
courte
and
of
the
citie
,
to
go
to
the
kyng
,
and
desyre
perdone
for
her
doughter
.
To
whose
wepynges
and
peticions
,
I
can
not
beleue
that
pitie
shal
be
denyed
.
And
yet
if
that
can
not
auayll
:
then
I
shall
cause
Laureola
to
wryte
to
the
kyng
her
father
,
certyfyeng
hym
of
her
innocency
,
and
if
all
these
wayes
wyll
not
serue
:
then
shall
I
offre
to
the
kyng
that
thou
shalt
fynde
a
persone
that
shall
do
deades
of
armes
agaynst
those
.iii.
false
witnesses
and
if
none
of
these
wayes
can
preuayll
Then
proue
thy
strength
,
and
therby
peraduenture
thou
shalte
fynde
the
pitie
in
the
kynge
that
thou
sekeste
for
.
But
yet
or
I
deperte
me
thynkyth
thou
shuldest
wryte
to
Laureola
in
strengthyng
of
her
feare
,
with
suertye
of
her
lyfe
.
The
whiche
thou
mayste
well
do
:
syn
heuyn
dysposith
,
that
is
wrought
vpon
the
erthe
it
can
be
none
other
wyse
,
but
that
god
wyll
receyue
the
wepynges
of
innocentes
,
and
thy
iuste
petycions
.
¶
The
auctor
.
SO
Lereano
swaruyde
no
poynt
fro
myne
aduyse
,
bycause
he
thought
it
the
moste
sure
way
,
for
the
expedicion
of
his
purpose
.
Howbeit
his
harte
was
not
sure
:
for
he
dough●yd
lest
the
kyng
in
his
ire
shuld
haue
gyuen
sentence
vpon
Laureola
or
the
day
came
.
How
be
it
by
the
lawes
of
the
lande
she
shulde
haue
.ix.
dayes
respyght
.
Though
his
harte
fearyd
this
it
was
no
meruaill
:
for
they
that
be
true
louers
,
all
that
is
contrary
to
them
,
they
lightely
beleue
it
.
And
that
they
desyre
most
,
they
thinke
them selfe
therof
most
vncertayne
.
How
be
it
he
concludyd
to
write
to
Laureola
with
greate
dought
,
that
she
wold
not
recyue
his
letter
.
The
tenour
wherof
was
as
folowith
.
¶
The
letter
of
Lereano
to
Laureola
.
RAther
wolde
I
put
my
handes
to
rydde
myne
owne
life
,
then
to
begyn
to
write
yf
I
knewe
that
my
workes
were
cause
of
your
prisone
,
asmoch
as
myne
euyll
fortune
is
,
the
which
is
to
me
so
contrary
that
it
can
not
cause
me
to
dye
well
withoute
I
may
saue
you
.
The
whiche
I
purpose
to
do
.
And
if
I
dye
in
that
quarell
(
ye
shal
be
delyueryd
quite
oute
of
presone
,
and
then
I
clene
rydde
fro
all
my
mysaduentures
:
and
so
the
deth
of
one
shal
be
cause
of
.ii.
liberties
.
I
requyre
you
take
me
not
as
your
enemy
,
for
any
thing
that
ye
suffre
syn
my
merites
are
nat
the
cause
,
but
rather
it
is
myne
euell
fortune
.
And
ye
may
well
beleue
that
though
your
dolours
be
neuer
so
great
,
yet
I
fele
more
torment
in
the
thinkyng
vpon
them
,
then
ye
do
in
the
suffrynge
.
Wolde
to
god
that
I
hadde
neuer
knowen
you
,
and
yet
therby
I
shulde
haue
lost
the
sight
of
you
:
the
which
to
me
is
the
gretest
welth
of
this
worlde
.
I
shulde
haue
ben
ryght
happy
,
and
I
hadde
neuer
sene
nor
harde
,
of
the
dolour
that
ye
suffre
and
I
ame
so
accustumyd
to
lyue
in
heuynes
that
I
ame
fayne
to
take
counsaill
for
your
cause
:
but
in
the
payne
that
I
fele
now
I
take
no
counsayl
,
nor
I
haue
no
rest
,
nor
my
harte
can
not
be
quyt
for
the
payne
that
ye
suffre
:
Feare
not
the
deth
,
for
my
propre
handes
shal
saue
you
therfro
.
I
shall
serche
all
the
remedies
that
I
cane
fynde
to
apeace
the
kynges
ire
.
And
if
that
faylle
,
trust
in
me
that
for
your
liberte
I
shall
deale
in
such
wyse
,
that
as
long
as
the
world
endureth
,
there
shal
be
remembrance
and
ensample
of
hardy
valiantnes
.
For
this
that
I
say
is
no
great
thyng
to
be
done
for
besilde
your
excellent
valeure
.
The
cruell
Iustice
of
your
presone
causeth
my
hardynes
,
who
can
resist
my
strength
syn
I
haue
it
by
your
meanes
.
What
thing
is
it
that
the
harte
dare
not
enter
price
,
your
beaute
being
fixed
therin
.
Ther
is
allonely
but
one
euyll
in
your
saluasion
,
the
which
may
be
bought
with
an
easy
pryce
accordyng
to
your
deserte
that
is
,
losynge
of
my
lyfe
.
And
though
I
so
do
it
is
but
a
smalle
losse
,
so
it
may
delyuer
you
.
With
my
good
hope
,
strengh
your
feble●es
:
for
and
ye
shuld
sette
your
thoughtes
vpon
al
ieoperdes
ye
myght
sone
therby
ende
your
life
:
wherby
.ii.
greate
inconuenientes
shuld
ensue
.
The
fyrst
and
principall
is
your
deth
.
The
.ii.
is
I
shuld
then
be
preuatyd
fro
the
gretest
honour
that
any
man
myght
haue
,
as
in
that
I
shulde
not
then
saue
you
.
Lady
,
beleue
in
my
wordes
and
trust
my
promyse
,
do
not
as
some
other
women
do
,
to
take
great
feare
:
for
a
small
cause
.
If
your
femynyne
condycion
accuse
you
with
feare
:
Then
lete
your
discrecion
strength
you
agayne
,
which
ye
may
well
do
by
myne
assurance
:
and
bycause
this
that
I
say
shal
be
wel
prouyd
.
Therfore
I
requyre
you
beleue
me
,
I
wryte
not
to
you
at
length
as
I
wold
do
,
but
I
shall
proue
to
further
your
lyfe
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHyle
Lereano
wrote
his
letter
I
made
me
redy
to
deperte
and
receyuyd
his
letter
,
and
made
all
the
dylygence
that
I
coulde
,
tyll
I
came
to
the
courte
and
dyd
my
deuour
that
in
me
was
to
haue
spoken
with
Laureola
,
to
haue
gyuen
her
some
comeforte
:
but
I
was
denyed
to
se
her
.
Then
I
was
enfourmyde
of
the
chamber
wher
she
laye
,
wher
was
a
wyndow
with
a
great
grate
of
irone
.
And
at
nyghte
I
came
thyther
,
&
wrappyd
the
letter
together
,
and
sette
it
on
a
spere
poynte
,
&
so
with
moche
trauaill
I
dyd
cast
the
letter
in
at
the
wyndowe
in
to
her
chamber
,
and
the
next
mornyng
I
came
thyder
agayne
,
and
saw
the
wyndow
open
,
and
I
saw
wher
Laureola
stode
,
but
the
latyse
was
so
thycke
,
that
I
cowlde
haue
no
perfyght
syght
of
her
.
Fynally
I
aprochyd
nerer
to
the
wyndowe
,
and
when
she
saw
me
marchyng
for
by
the
wyndowe
.
She
cast
sodenly
oute
a
letter
,
withoute
spekyng
of
any
worde
:
bycause
of
the
prease
that
was
nere
hande
.
And
as
I
was
goyng
away
,
she
sayd
:
Take
there
the
reward
of
the
pite
that
I
haue
shewed
,
and
by
cause
her
kepers
were
nere
aboute
her
I
durst
make
none
aunswere
:
but
her
wordes
dyd
put
me
in
to
suche
passion
,
that
who
so
hadde
folowyd
me
by
the
trace
of
my
wepynge
,
myght
well
haue
found
me
out
.
The
tenour
of
her
letter
folowith
.
¶
Laureolas
letter
to
Lerea
.
I
Cannot
tell
the
Lereano
,
how
to
aunswer
,
and
where
as
euery
man
lawdith
pite
and
reputith
it
for
a
vertue
,
and
in
me
it
is
taken
for
a
vice
.
And
accordyng
therto
I
ame
chastysed
,
I
do
as
I
ought
to
do
accordynge
to
pitie
:
&
I
haue
as
I
deserue
accordyng
to
my
mysfortune
.
For
surely
thy
fortune
nor
thy
workes
is
no
cause
of
my
presone
,
nor
I
complayne
not
of
the
nor
of
none
other
persone
lyuynge
,
but
alonely
vpon
my selfe
,
who
to
kepe
the
fro
the
deth
,
charge
my selfe
culpable
,
howbeit
,
this
compassyon
that
I
haue
of
the
is
more
paynefull
,
then
charge
.
I
do
remedy
as
innocent
,
and
yet
I
ame
punyshed
as
culpable
.
How
be
it
,
moche
more
pleasyth
me
this
presone
beynge
withoute
errour
,
then
to
be
at
liberte
,
&
infectyd
therwt.
And
though
yt
be
paynefull
to
suffre
,
yet
I
ame
easyd
agayne
that
I
haue
not
deseruyd
it
.
I
ame
she
that
amonge
all
lyuynge
creatours
,
ought
leste
to
lyue
,
without
the
kynge
saue
me
.
I
hope
vppon
no
thinge
but
deth
:
for
yf
thou
delyuer
me
,
or
any
of
thyne
,
in
what
so
euer
maner
it
be
,
I
shal
be
dolorous
.
And
yf
thou
do
not
remedye
me
,
I
ame
sure
to
dye
:
and
yf
thou
delyuer
me
and
take
me
awaye
I
shal
be
condempned
as
culpable
.
Therfore
I
requyre
the
to
trauayll
to
saue
myne
honoure
and
fame
,
rather
then
myne
lyfe
:
for
the
one
muste
ende
,
and
the
other
wyll
endure
.
As
I
haue
sayde
,
serche
to
apeace
the
furour
of
the
kynge
my
father
:
for
otherwyse
I
can
not
be
saued
without
the
destruction
of
myne
honour
.
How
be
it
,
I
remytte
all
to
thy
good
counsayle
and
adnyse
.
Thy
wysdome
can
chose
the
beste
waye
:
thou
mayste
se
the
rewarde
that
I
haue
for
the
fauoure
,
that
I
haue
shewed
the.
I
ame
put
in
prisone
where
as
murderers
were
wonte
to
be
kepte
:
and
I
ame
tyed
with
cheynes
,
and
with
sharpe
tormentes
,
my
tendre
flesshe
is
tormented
,
and
with
force
of
armes
I
ame
kepte
,
as
though
I
hadde
the
force
and
power
to
skape
awaye
.
Thus
delicate
is
my
sufferynge
,
and
my
paynes
so
cruell
,
that
besyde
the
sentence
of
deth
,
my
father
myght
otherwyse
haue
taken
vengeance
vpon
me
,
then
to
suffre
me
to
dye
in
this
cruell
prison
.
I
haue
great
meruayle
how
of
suche
a
cruell
father
,
shulde
issue
so
pacyente
a
doughter
:
yf
I
shulde
be
lyke
hym
in
condicion
,
I
shulde
not
feare
his
iustice
,
syn
he
wyll
do
it
so
vniustely
.
As
to
that
touched
Persio
I
wyll
make
none
aunswer
,
bycause
I
wyll
not
defyle
my
tongue
,
as
he
hath
done
my
fame
and
renowne
.
I
had
rather
he
wolde
reuoke
and
denye
his
wordes
that
he
hath
sayde
,
rather
then
he
shuld
dye
for
them
:
but
what
so
euer
I
say
,
determyne
thy selfe
as
thou
lyste
,
thou
mayest
not
erre
in
that
thou
wylte
do
.
¶
The
Auctour
.
Ryghte
dowtious
I
was
when
I
hadde
receyued
and
redde
the
letter
sent
fro
Laureola
to
Lereano
,
whether
I
shulde
sende
it
to
Lereano
,
orels
kepe
it
styll
,
tyll
I
weut
my selfe
.
At
last
I
determyned
not
to
sende
it
for
two
consyderacyons
and
inconueniences
.
The
one
was
,
I
feared
to
put
our
secretes
in
perell
of
discoueryng
by
reason
of
puttyng
truste
of
any
meane
messenger
.
The
other
was
for
feare
lest
the
trouble
that
the
letter
shulde
put
hym
vnto
,
shulde
cause
hym
to
execute
his
purpose
in
hast
,
before
the
tyme
agreed
betwene
hym
and
me
:
and
therby
all
myghte
haue
ben
lost
.
So
to
tourne
to
my
fyrst
purpose
:
The
fyrst
day
I
came
to
the
courte
,
I
proued
and
tempted
the
wylles
of
suche
,
as
I
thought
wolde
be
of
our
opinion
,
and
I
found
none
of
the
contrary
desyre
,
sauynge
the
frendes
of
Persio
,
to
whom
me
thoughte
it
but
a
foly
to
speake
.
And
then
I
went
to
the
Cardyna●l
,
and
desyred
hym
that
it
wolde
please
hym
to
make
supplicacion
to
the
king
for
the
life
of
his
doughter
Laureola
.
The
which
he
grauntyd
to
do
with
no
lesse
loue
and
compassion
,
then
I
desired
it
.
And
so
incontinent
with
dyuers
other
prelates
and
greate
Lordes
together
,
they
wente
to
the
kyng
.
Then
the
cardynall
in
hys
owne
name
,
and
in
all
theyrs
,
sayd
to
the
kinge
as
folowith
¶
The
cardynall
to
the
kinge
.
Syr
it
is
not
without
reason
that
noble
princes
in
tyme
past
ordyned
theyr
counsaillors
,
to
ordre
by
them
what
was
to
be
done
:
wherby
they
found
great
profytte
.
And
though
counsaill
were
stablished
for
many
goode
causes
,
yet
I
fynde
.vi.
reasones
that
the
same
law
ought
to
be
obserued
.
The
fyrst
is
bycause
that
men
may
moche
better
order
other
mens
maters
,
rather
then
theyr
owne
:
for
the
harte
of
hym
that
the
mater
tochyth
can
not
be
with
oute
some
ire
,
couetesnes
,
affection
,
or
desire
,
or
some
other
lyke
condicion
.
So
that
he
shall
not
determyne
the
cause
,
as
he
ought
to
do
.
The
.ii.
is
when
maters
be
pleatyd
and
arguyd
:
the
traugth
is
the
better
knowen
.
The
.iii.
yf
the
counsaylours
ordeyne
iustly
,
and
bryng
the
mater
well
to
passe
:
the
glory
and
honour
is
to
them
that
folowyth
suche
counsayll
.
The
.iiii.
is
yf
by
another
mannes
counsayll
the
besynes
fayleth
and
takyth
none
effecte
:
yet
he
that
demaundeth
the
counsayll
is
oute
of
blame
&
charge
:
and
they
that
gaue
the
counsayll
muste
bere
the
charge
&
faulte
.
The
.v.
ys
bycause
good
counsayl
often
tymes
assuryth
thynges
that
be
dobutious
.
The
.vi.
is
yf
a
man
be
faulen
in
euyl
fortune
:
yet
in
all
aduersites
good
counsayll
putteth
the
pertye
in
good
hope
.
Certaynely
syr
it
is
but
a
blynde
counsayll
,
a
man
to
counsayll
hym selfe
,
knowynge
hym selfe
in
any
furour
or
passion
.
Therfore
syr
blame
vs
not
,
though
in
the
fercenes
of
your
ire
,
we
be
come
to
trouble
you
:
for
we
hadde
rather
that
ye
shulde
in
your
ire
reprehende
vs
for
our
comynge
to
you
:
Then
that
after
ye
shulde
repent
you
and
condempe
vs
,
bycause
we
gaue
you
no
counsayll
.
Syr
thynges
done
by
good
delibercyō
and
accord
,
procurith
profyt
,
and
prayse
to
them
that
so
doth
:
And
thynges
done
in
hast
&
with
fury
,
repentance
must
make
amendes
.
Suche
wyse
and
noble
men
as
ye
be
,
when
they
shulde
do
any
warke
,
fyrst
they
shulde
determyne
,
or
they
dyspose
,
aswell
in
thynges
present
,
as
in
thynges
to
come
and
aswell
in
those
thyuges
that
they
hope
to
haue
profyte
by
,
as
in
those
thynges
that
they
feare
the
contrary
.
And
if
they
fynde
them selfe
troublyde
with
any
passion
,
tyll
they
be
cleryd
therfro
,
they
shulde
gyue
no
sentence
.
And
yf
they
debate
,
and
delaye
ther
deades
,
then
they
do
well
:
for
in
all
suche
weighty
maters
,
hast
is
daungerouse
,
and
tariynge
is
suretie
.
A
wyse
man
that
wyll
do
instly
must
thynke
on
all
these
thynges
,
and
or
he
do
any
thyng
,
folow
reasone
,
and
establish
the
execucion
honestly
.
It
is
the
properte
of
them
that
be
discrete
,
to
proue
theyr
counsailours
,
and
not
to
determyne
vpon
a
lyght
credence
:
And
there
as
a
thyng
femyth
do●btefull
,
holde
then
the
sentence
in
balance
:
for
all
thynges
ys
not
of
trouthe
,
that
semyth
to
be
true
The
thought
of
the
wyse
man
,
now
agreeth
&
now
demaundeth
,
and
now
ordeyn
,
and
all
wayes
cast
in
his
minde
what
may
fall
,
and
be
ielous
of
his
fame
,
and
kepe
hym selfe
fro
erryng
,
and
for
feare
of
fallynge
therin
wyll
remember
that
is
past
and
take
the
best
therof
,
and
ordeyne
for
the
tyme
present
with
a
temperance
,
and
to
remember
what
is
to
come
,
and
in
all
these
to
take
auysemente
.
Syr
all
this
that
we
haue
sayd
is
that
ye
shulde
remember
your
wysdome
,
and
ordeyne
your
deades
not
furyously
:
but
lyke
a
wyse
man
,
and
torne
the
force
of
your
natural
wysdome
against
the
accydent
of
your
ire
.
Syr
we
haue
knowlege
that
ye
wyll
condemne
your
doughter
Laureola
to
deth
yf
her
bountie
,
and
goodnes
haue
not
deseruyde
to
be
iustyfyde
:
Then
of
trouthe
,
ye
are
not
ryghtwyse
iudge
:
neuer
trouble
your
gloryous
fame
with
suche
a
iudgement
.
And
we
put
case
though
she
had
deserued
this
punyshement
,
yet
in
your
so
doyng
,
ye
shal
be
defamyde
and
reputyde
rather
for
a
cruell
father
,
then
a
ryghtwyse
kynge
.
ye
gyue
credence
to
.iii.
euyll
men
,
&
of
shamefull
conuersacion
,
certaynly
as
good
reasone
hadde
it
bene
,
to
haue
shortyd
theyr
lyues
,
as
to
haue
gyuen
credence
to
theyr
wytnes
.
They
be
men
sore
defamyd
in
your
courte
,
for
they
conferme
them selfe
to
all
iniquite
.
They
glorifye
them selfe
in
theyr
false
reasones
makyn●
,
&
in
the
begylynges
that
they
make
.
And
syr
why
gyue
you
more
fayth
to
theyr
informacio●
,
rather
then
to
the
iudgemente
of
god
,
the
which
was
clerely
sene
in
the
batayll
bytwene
Persio
&
Lereano
.
Be
not
the
sheder
of
your
owne
blodde
:
for
then
of
all
men
,
ye
shal
be
dyspraised
and
dispysed
:
blame
not
the
innocent
for
the
counsayle
of
the
enuyous
.
And
yf
ye
thynke
that
for
all
the
reasons
that
we
haue
sayde
,
that
Laureola
ought
not
to
be
sauyd
:
yet
for
that
ye
ought
to
do
for
vertue
,
&
bycause
ye
be
bound
of
your
royalnes
for
the
seruice
that
we
haue
done
you
,
in
our
most
humble
wyse
:
we
requyre
you
to
haue
mercy
of
her
lyfe
.
And
bycause
that
fewer
wordes
then
we
haue
spoken
shuld
suffice
to
your
clemency
,
to
conuerte
you
to
pytie
.
Therfore
we
wyll
saye
no
more
,
but
that
ye
wyll
remember
how
moche
better
it
is
that
your
i●e
shuld
peryshe
,
rather
then
your
noble
fame
.
¶
The
kynges
aunswere
.
Syrs
I
repute
me
,
well
counsaylyd
by
you
if
I
were
not
more
bound
to
punyshe
,
then
to
perdone●
ye
nede
not
shew
me
the
reasone
,
how
that
great
prynces
ought
to
receyue
conusayll
,
as
in
that
and
in
other
thynges
that
ye
haue
shewed
,
I
knew
them
ryght
well
,
but
ye
know
well
,
when
the
harte
is
chargyd
with
passione
,
then
is
it
locked
fro
herynge
of
any
counsayle
and
in
that
tyme
,
the
fruteful
wordes
,
to
mytigate
the
passion
of
ire
,
causeth
it
the
sorer
to
encrease
bringing
to
the
memory
the
cause
therof
wherfore
I
say
yf
I
were
quyte
for
that
impedyment
,
I
thynke
then
I
shuld
dispose
,
and
ordeyn
sagely
for
the
deth
of
Laureola
the
whiche
I
will
shewe
,
she
hathe
dese●uyd
by
iust
causes
determyned
acordyng
to
honour
and
iustice
,
and
yf
her
errour
shulde
be
lefte
vnpunnisshed
,
I
shulde
then
be
no
lesse
culpable
,
then
Lereano
.
As
tochyng
my
dishonour
and
shame
,
yf
it
were
publisshed
that
I
shulde
perdone
such
a
case
,
of
my
neigbours
I
shuld
be
dispraised
,
and
of
myne
owne
subgettes
disobeyed
,
and
of
euery
man
smally
e●●●ed
.
And
also
I
might
well
be
accused
that
I
haue
euil
conserued
the
generosite
of
my
predecessours
.
And
this
faulte
myght
be
so
far
exstemed
,
that
it
might
spotte
&
defowle
the
fame
of
myne
auncettours
passed
,
&
blemysh
the
honour
of
them
that
be
present
,
and
steyne
the
blud
of
them
that
be
to
come
:
for
one
spotte
in
our
lignage
,
myght
confounde
all
our
generacion
.
The
perdonynge
of
Laureola
shuld
be
cause
of
other
great
euils
,
the
whiche
shulde
folow
by
reason
of
my
perdonyng
:
wherfore
I
hadde
rather
to
cause
feare
,
by
reasone
of
my
crueltie
,
then
to
cause
boldnes
to
do
euil
by
reasone
of
my
pitie
.
And
in
my
so
doing
I
shal
be
estemed
as
a
kinge
ought
to
be
,
by
reason
of
doing
iustice
.
Be
holde
how
many
reasons
there
be
,
that
shlude
lede
,
that
she
ought
to
haue
sentence
ye
knowe
well
,
our
lawes
hath
stablisshed
,
that
a
woman
accused
in
such
causes
shuld
suffre
deth
,
and
ye
se
well
,
how
it
were
better
for
me
to
be
called
a
kyng
in
mynystrynge
iustice
then
to
perdone
the
culpable
.
And
it
ought
well
to
be
noted
that
in
stede
of
consernyng
the
lawe
,
if
I
do
breke
it
my selfe
,
the
whiche
I
ought
not
to
do
,
then
I
condemne
my self
.
The
righte
waye
oughte
equally
to
be
kept
&
obserued
:
for
the
hart
of
a
iuge
ought
not
to
be
mouede
for
fauoure
,
for
loue
,
nor
couetyse
,
nor
for
none
other
accident
:
folowing
the
right
iustyce
is
laudable
.
And
yf
it
be
fauourable
,
then
it
is
abhorred
.
Iustice
ought
neuer
to
go
oute
of
the
ryght
way
,
syne
it
is
cause
of
so
moche
goodnes
.
It
cansith
feare
to
them
that
be
euyll
,
and
it
susteynyth
them
that
be
goode
.
It
pacefyeth
all
differences
:
it
determynyth
al
questions
it
expelith
all
stryues
and
contensions
&
it
agreith
all
debates
,
it
assurith
the
wayes
,
it
honourith
the
people
,
it
fauourith
the
small
people
,
and
of
base
condicion
,
it
bridilith
the
myghty
men
,
and
to
the
comon
weale
,
it
is
ryght
profytable
.
Then
to
conserue
such
a
welthe
and
that
the
lawes
susteynyth
it
,
It
is
ryght
that
I
shuld
vse
iustice
.
yf
ye
desire
so
moch
the
helth
of
Laureola
,
and
prayse
so
moche
her
goodnesse
,
brynge
forth
one
witnes
of
her
innocensy
,
as
I
haue
.iii.
to
charge
her
,
then
she
shall
be
perdonyd
with
reasone
,
and
praysed
with
trouth
.
Also
where
as
ye
say
that
I
shulde
gyue
faith
to
the
iudgemente
of
god
,
aswell
as
to
the
wytnes
of
other
men
:
it
is
no
meruayll
thought
I
do
not
so
,
for
I
se
the
wytnes
certayne
at
myne
eye
:
and
as
for
the
iudgment
is
not
yet
endyd
,
For
thoughe
Lereano
hadde
the
better
of
the
batayll
we
may
iudge
the
my●●es
,
but
we
know
not
the
ende
.
I
will
not
aunswere
to
al
your
alegasyons
and
sayenges
,
bycause
I
wyll
make
no
longe
proces
,
and
at
the
ende
sende
you
away
without
hope
.
I
desire
moche
to
accept
your
requestes
bycause
of
your
well
deseruyng
therof
:
and
if
I
do
not
,
yet
I
requyre
yon
take
it
for
none
euyll
,
for
ye
ought
no
lesse
to
desyre
the
honour
of
the
father
,
then
the
saluacion
of
his
doughter
.
¶
The
Auctor
.
THe
desperate
aunswere
of
the
kyng
,
was
to
the
herers
great
heuynes
.
And
when
I
saw
that
this
remedy
was
to
me
cont●ary
,
then
I
sought
for
a nother
way
,
trustyng
that
shulde
be
more
profitable
.
And
that
was
I
thought
to
go
to
the
quene
that
she
shuld
desyre
the
kyng
for
the
saluacyon
of
her
doughter
Laureola
.
So
I
wente
to
her
,
who
was
partaker
of
her
doughters
sorow
.
And
I
founde
her
in
an
hall
acompanyd
with
many
noble
ladyes
and
other
.
who
were
suffycyente
to
haue
atteygnyde
theyr
desyres
,
other
iuste
or
vniuste
,
though
the
mttaer
hadde
ben
neuer
so
greate
,
yet
theyr
desyres
ought
not
to
haue
ben
refused
,
bycause
of
the
auctorite
of
the
quene
,
who
knelyd
downe
and
spake
wordes
to
the
kyng
,
aswel
leyeng
charge
to
hym
for
his
ire
,
as
also
wordes
of
pitie
to
apeace
hym
.
And
she
shewed
hym
the
moderacyon
that
a
kyng
ought
to
haue
,
and
reprehendyd
the
perceuerance
of
his
ire
:
and
shewyng
hym
how
he
was
a
father
,
and
allegyd
reasones
ryght
dyscrete
to
note
and
full
of
sorow
:
sayng
,
that
if
he
wolde
nedes
execute
his
cruell
iudgemente
,
to
do
it
rather
vpon
her selfe
(
seyeng
great
parte
of
her
yeres
were
passyd
)
then
vppon
Laureola
in
her
yonge
age
,
aprouyng
that
by
her
owne
deth
,
the
fame
of
the
iudge
shulde
be
sauyde
,
and
the
lyfe
of
her
that
is
iudgyd
,
and
the
mynd
of
the
desyrer
fulfylled
.
But
the
kynge
styll
was
indurate
in
his
fyrst
purpose
.
All
the
quenes
rasones
could
not
serue
nor
yet
her
bytter
wepynges
.
And
therwith
the
quene
went
in
to
her
chamber
with
small
strength
sore
wepyng
,
and
as
redy
to
dye
.
And
when
I
sawe
that
the
quene
could
gette
no
grace
of
the
kyng
,
I
went
to
the
kyng
withoute
any
feare
of
his
fers●es
,
and
sayd
:
how
he
ought
to
gyue
his
sentence
with
clere
iustice
,
for
Lereano
shulde
fynde
a
man
to
fyght
agaynst
all
those
.iii.
false
wytnesses
,
or
elles
to
do
it
his
owne
proper
person
,
and
to
pay
them
accordynge
to
theyr
desertes
,
and
then
god
shall
shew
where
the
ryght
is
.
Then
the
kyng
aunswered
me
,
that
I
shuld
leue
myne
ambassade
for
Lereano
:
sayeng
how
the
heryng
of
his
name
encresyd
his
passyon
and
ire
.
And
when
the
quene
knewe
there
was
no
remedy
to
saue
the
lyfe
of
Laureola
:
She
went
to
the
prisone
and
kyssed
her
dyuerce
tymes
,
and
sayde
,
as
folowith
.
¶
The
quene
to
laureola
.
O
Bountie
,
by
malice
accusyd
.
O
vertue
,
by
ire
condemnyd
.
O
doughter
borne
of
thy
mother
to
sorow
:
thou
shalte
dye
withoute
iustice
,
and
I
must
wepe
by
reason
.
Thyne
vnhappe
hath
more
pusance
to
condempne
the
,
then
thyn
innocency
to
saue
the
,
without
the
I
shall
lyue
accompanyed
with
doloures
,
the
whiche
in
thy
stede
thou
shalt
leue
me
.
Thy
deth
shal
ende
.ii.
lyues
,
the
one
is
thyne
without
cause
,
and
myne
by
good
reasone
and
ryght
.
To
lyue
after
that
shuld
be
to
me
a
sorer
deth
,
then
that
thou
shalte
receue
:
for
it
is
farre
greatter
tormente
,
to
desyre
the
deth
,
then
to
suffre
it
.
Wolde
to
god
,
thou
myghtest
be
called
the
doughter
of
the
mother
that
shuld
dye
,
rather
then
to
be
she
that
I
shuld
se
dye
.
Of
euery
man
thou
shalte
be
bewailed●
as
long
as
the
worlde
endureth
:
all
that
of
the
haue
any
knowledge
,
wyll
sette
litle
by
this
realme
,
the
whiche
thou
shuldest
enheryte
accordyng
to
thy
desertes
:
for
all
that
thou
art
fallen
in
to
thy
fathers
displeasour
,
yet
all
suche
as
knowith
the
affyrmyth
,
that
there
is
none
in
all
this
land
that
deserue
thy
merytes
:
suche
as
be
blynde
desyre
to
se
y●
:
the
dome
desyreth
to
speke
with
the
:
the
powre
and
the
ryche
to
serue
y●
,
all
the
world
is
wel
content
with
the
,
thou
arte
be
hatyd
with
no
creature
,
but
alonely
with
Persio
.
yf
I
may
lyue
a
seasone
,
he
shall
receue
for
his
demerites
,
iuste
rewarde
:
And
thouhe
I
haue
noone
other
strength
,
but
to
desyre
his
deth●
and
to
be
reuengyd
of
hym
yf
I
coulde
:
the
euill
will
I
bere
hym
,
shuld
then
soone
be
vtteryd
.
yet
this
can
not
satysfye
me
:
for
I
can
not
heale
the
dolour
of
the
spotte
of
the
execucion
of
the
vengeans
.
O
my
dere
doughter
thy
honesty
hath
prouyd
thy
vertue
.
why
doth
not
the
king
gyue
more
credence
,
to
thy
presence
,
then
to
the
wytnes
of
thy
false
enemyes
.
In
thy
wordes
,
deades
,
and
thoughtes
,
all
wayes
thou
hast
shewyd
a
vertuous
harte
.
Why
then
shulde
god
suffre
the
to
dye
,
I
can
fynde
none
other
cause
,
but
by
reason
of
my
synnes
that
I
haue
commyttyd
,
rather
then
for
any
meryt
of
thy
ryghtwisnes
.
I
wold
my
deades
myght
be
comparyd
to
thyne
innocency
.
Dere
doughter
lyfte
vp
thyne
harte
to
heuyn
,
take
no
sorow
,
to
leue
that
must
nedes
ende
,
for
that
thyng
that
is
permanent
I
:
assure
the
our
lord
god
wyll
that
thou
shalt
suffre
as
a
marter
,
to
th
entente
that
thou
shalte
ioye
in
his
beatitude
.
In
me
haue
none
other
hope
,
but
that
and
I
were
worthy
to
go
thyther
,
as
thou
arte
suer
to
go
,
I
wolde
shortely
bere
the
company
.
Thynkyst
thou
not
,
that
it
is
a
harde
trouble
to
me
to
remember
how
many
supplicacions
hathe
ben
made
to
the
kynge
for
thy
lyfe
,
and
yet
they
can
not
obteyne
.
And
at
this
houre
,
a
sharpe
knyfe
may
rydde
and
make
an
ende
of
thy
lyfe
,
and
therby
leue
the
father
in
faulte
,
and
the
mother
in
sorow
,
and
the
doughter
withoute
helthe
,
&
the
realme
withoute
an
herytour
.
O
the
lanterne
of
myne
eyen
,
I
say
to
the
these
feareful
wordes
to
the
entent
they
shuld
breke
thyne
harte
a sonder
:
for
I
hadde
rather
thou
shuldeste
dye
in
my
power
by
sorow
,
then
to
se
the
dye
by
iustice
:
for
though
I
shuld
shede
thy
bludde
,
yet
my
handes
shulde
not
be
so
cruell
,
as
is
the
condicion
of
thy
father
.
O
virgyne
immaculate
syn
I
can
not
accomplysh
my
desyre
,
and
that
I
muste
deperte
fro
the
:
yet
receyue
the
dolorous
laste
kyssynge
and
blyssyng
of
thy
sorowfull
mother
:
And
thus
I
wyll
go
fro
thy
syght
,
and
fro
thy
lyfe
,
&
most
desyring
to
go
fro
myne
owne
lyfe
.
¶
The
Auctor
WHen
the
quene
hadde
endyde
her
wordes
she
wolde
not
abyde
the
aunswere
of
the
innocent
her
doughter
Laureola
,
bycause
she
wolde
not
receyue
doble
sorow
.
Thus
the
quene
and
suche
lordes
as
were
in
her
company
departed
,
with
the
grettest
lamentacions
that
euer
was
made
.
And
when
she
came
in
to
her
chamber
,
she
sent
to
Laureola
a
messenger
,
aduysing
her
to
wryte
to
the
kyng
her
father
.
Thynkyng
that
he
wolde
take
more
compassion
by
reasone
of
her
piteous
wordes
,
rather
then
by
the
peticious
of
any
other
that
trauellyde
for
her
liberte
.
Who
at
the
commaundement
of
her
dolorous
mother
●oke
penne
and
inke
and
wrote
with
greater
turbacion
,
then
hope
of
remedy
.
Her
letter
specyfyed
as
folowith
.
¶
The
letter
of
Laureola
to
the
kynge
DEre
father
I
vnderstande
,
that
ye
haue
gyuen
sentence
vpon
me
to
dye
,
and
that
the
terme
of
my
lyfe
shal
be
accomplyshede
within
these
.iii.
dayes
,
&
I
knowe
well
the
innocentes
ought
no
lesse
to
feare
theyr
fortune
,
then
suche
as
be
culpable
to
feare
the
lawe
.
And
syn
it
is
so
that
my
mysfortune
hath
brought
me
in
to
this
parell
that
I
ame
in
,
and
not
for
any
defaute
that
I
haue
done
,
the
which
lyghtly
ye
moght
know
,
if
the
furour
of
your
ire
wolde
suffer
you
to
se
the
trouth
.
ye
are
not
ignorante
of
the
vertue
that
the
auncyante
cronicles
&
historyes
manyfestith
of
the
kynges
and
quenes
:
fro
whome
I
do
procede
.
Then
why
was
I
borne
of
suche
a
blodde
that
wyll
byleue
rather
the
false
informasion
,
then
the
bounte
naturall
.
yf
it
pleace
you
to
slee
me
,
for
your
pleasur
,
ye
may
well
do
it
:
But
as
toching
iustice
,
ye
haue
no
cause
therto
.
The
deth
that
ye
will
gyue
me
,
though
I
refuce
it
for
feare
:
yet
by
reasone
of
obedience
I
do
consent
therto
,
as
she
that
louyth
better
to
dye
vnder
your
obedyence
,
rather
then
to
lyue
in
your
dyspleasure
.
Howbeit
I
requyre
you
,
or
ye
determyne
,
take
good
aduyse
for
as
sure
as
god
is
true
I
neuer
dyd
thyng
to
deserue
to
suffre
any
payne
.
But
syr
I
say
to
you
,
it
is
as
conuenient
the
pitie
of
the
father
,
as
the
rygoure
of
iustice
.
Withoute
dought
I
desyre
aswell
my
lyfe
,
because
it
tocheth
your
honour
so
nere
,
as
I
do
,
bycause
it
perteyneth
to
my selfe
:
for
at
the
ende
I
ame
your
doughter
.
Co●sidre
syr
who
soeuer
vsith
crueltie
,
serchith
for
his
owne
perell
:
more
surer
it
is
to
be
belouyd
,
for
vsynge
of
pitie
and
clemence
rather
then
to
be
fearyd
by
crueltie
.
He
that
wyll
be
fearyd
,
muste
feare
.
Cruell
kynges
are
of
euery
man
behatyd
,
and
suche
,
some
tyme
in
serchynge
to
be
avenged
,
losyth
them
felfe
:
for
theyr
subgettes
rather
desyre
trouble
&
change
of
the
tyme
,
then
the
conseruacion
of
theyr
astates
.
For
good
people
feare
suche
condicions
in
a
prince
,
and
suche
as
be
euell
feare
theyr
cruell
iustice
:
so
that
therby
often
tymes
,
theyr
owne
seruantes
study
to
put
them
downe●
and
to
slee
them
:
vsynge
with
them
the
same
condicion
of
cruelte
,
suche
as
they
vsyd
them selfe
before
,
and
gaue
them
ensample
.
Syr
I
say
this
bicause
I
desyre
to
susteyne
your
honour
and
your
lyfe
.
Small
hope
your
subgettes
shall
haue
in
you
so
cruell
against
me
.
They
shall
feare
the
same
,
and
ther
by
haue
you
in
a
meruelous
suspecte
,
and
he
that
is
not
sure
,
can
make
no
suretie
.
O
how
frely
delyueryd
fro
suche
occasions
are
those
prynces●
whose
hartes
are
endeued
with
clemencye
and
pitie
.
Theyr
naturall
subgettes
careth
not
to
dye
in
theyr
quarels
,
to
saue
them
fro
perell
.
They
will
wake
all
nyght
,
and
defend●
them
on
the
day
More
hope
and
strength
these
benynge
and
pitefull
kynges
h●ue
,
by
reasone
that
they
be
belouyd
o●f
theyr
people
,
then
in
the
strenght
of
the
walles
of
theyr
stronge
forteresses
:
And
other
wyse
,
if
the
kynge
be
behatyd
of
his
subgiettes●
if
he
hadde
nede
,
they
that
come
most
slackest
to
saue
hym
,
shall
haue
moste
thanke
of
the
people
.
Therfore
syr
regarde
well
what
hurte
and
daunger
,
crueltie
causeth
:
and
what
profyt
gentlenes
and
pitie
procureth
:
Howbeit
if
ye
thynke
the
opinyon
of
your
furour
better
than
good
counsaill
and
naturall
prudence
,
then
vnhappy
is
that
doughter
to
be
borne
,
to
bryng
her
fathers
lyfe
in
to
condicion
of
sclaunder
prouyd
with
suche
cruell
deades
.
Thus
no
man
shall
trust
in
you
,
nor
ye
shall
trust
no
man
:
for
if
men
procure
your
deth
,
ye
can
be
in
no
suretie
.
And
the
thyng
that
most
greuith
me
is
,
i●
gyuyng
sentence
agaynst
me
,
ye
do
iustice
against
your
owne
honour
,
the
wiche
all
wayes
shal
be
reco●dyd
,
more
for
the
cause
,
then
for
iustice
in
it selfe
.
My
blode
shall
occupye
,
but
a
small
place
,
but
your
crueltie
shal
sprede
ouer
all
the
yerth
:
ye
shal
be
callyd
the
cruell
father
,
and
I
the
doughter
innocent
.
For
syn
god
is
iuste
he
shall
clere
my
trouth
:
for
I
shal
be
lefte
with
oute
faulte
,
when
I
haue
receyuyd
the
payne
of
dethe
.
¶
The
Auctor
.
WHen
Laureola
had
endyd
her
letter
,
she
sent
it
to
the
kynge
by
one
of
her
kepers
,
who
loued
and
fauoured
her
in
suche
wyse
,
that
he
wolde
gladly
she
had
bene
at
her
libertie
:
for
he
was
asmoche
moued
te
pytie
her
,
as
to
obey
the
kinges
comaundement
.
And
when
the
kynge
hadde
receyued
the
letter
and
redde
it
,
he
commaunded
streygthly
that
the
berer
therof
shulde
auoyde
his
presence
.
And
when
I
saw
that
,
then
newly
agayne
I
cursed
my
mysaduenture
,
&
thought
that
my
tormente
was
so
great
that
it
occupied
my
harte
in
dolour
:
yet
my
mynde
forgat
not
to
do
that
I
ought
.
And
though
I
hadde
more
space
to
endure
payne
,
rather
then
to
fynde
remedy
:
yet
then
I
wente
,
and
spake
with
the
lorde
Gawlo
her
vncle
,
and
shewyd
hym
how
Lereano
was
determynyd
to
take
Laureola
perforce
out
of
presone
,
wherfore
I
desyred
hym
to
be
redy
with
a
certayne
nombre
of
men
,
that
when
Lereano
hadde
taken
her
oute
of
preson
,
then
he
wold
delyuer
her
to
his
power
to
sette
her
in
sauegarde
.
Because
that
if
Lereano
shulde
cary
her
away
with
hym
,
it
shulde
veryfy
the
wytnes
of
the
false
accusers
.
And
bycause
that
the
deth
of
Laureola
was
as
dere
to
hym
,
as
to
the
quene
his
suster
:
he
aunswered
me
&
sayde
,
how
he
was
content
therwith
.
And
when
his
wyll
and
my
desyre
were
confyrmable
together
,
then
I
depertyd
secretly
,
bycause
that
or
any
brute
were
made
the
dead
myght
be
executyd
sodenly
.
And
when
I
came
to
Lereano
,
I
shewyd
hym
all
that
I
hade
done
,
and
of
the
small
effect
therof
.
And
then
I
delyuered
hym
Laureolas
letter
,
and
what
for
the
compassion
of
the
wordes
therin
and
with
the
thoughtes
that
he
determyned
to
do
,
his
harte
therwith
was
so
oppressyd
,
that
he
wist
not
what
aunswere
to
make
me
.
He
wepte
for
compassion
,
any
coulde
not
refrayne
his
ire
,
and
was
sore
discomefortyd
by
reasone
of
his
euyll
fortune
,
and
yet
he
hopyde
accordyng
to
iustice
.
When
he
thought
to
reskew
Laureala
,
he
was
ioyfull
.
And
agayne
when
he
doughtyde
to
brynge
it
aboute
,
his
harte
changyde
.
Fynally
leueng
al
doubtes
,
&
knowyng
the
aunswere
of
Galleo
,
then
he
began
to
study
what
waye
to
accomplishe
,
his
enterprice
.
And
lyke
a
wyse
knyghte
,
well
prouydyde
whyle
I
hadde
ben
in
the
courte
:
he
had
assemblyd
to gether
of
his
own
seruantes
.v.
C.
men
of
armes
without
knowledgyng
of
any
of
his
kynne
or
frendes
.
Some
peraduenture
wolde
haue
agreyd
with
hym
with
discrete
consideracion
,
suche
as
were
made
priuy
.
Some
of
them
sayd
,
the
kyng
dyd
euil
.
And
some
sayd
it
was
a
ieopdous
enterprice
and
perilous
to
accomplysh
.
Therfore
to
exchew
al
such
inconuenients
he
thought
to
execute
his
dead
alone
with
his
owne
men
.
So
the
day
before
that
Laureola
shuld
haue
bene
iudged
,
Lereano
callyd
before
hym
all
his
seruantes
and
sayde
to
them
:
how
the
good
vertuous
men
were
more
bounde
to
feare
theyr
shame
,
then
the
perell
of
theyr
lyues
.
Also
sayenge
,
how
yet
lyueth
the
fame
of
them
that
be
passyd
,
by
reasone
of
theyr
deades
that
they
haue
done
.
And
he
desired
them
that
for
couetyse
of
worldly
goodes
the
whiche
shall
haue
an
ende
,
that
they
shulde
not
for
that
,
lose
the
glory
of
them
,
that
liueth
perpetually
.
And
he
desyred
them
to
haue
in
theyr
memory
,
the
rewarde
of
well
dyeng
,
&
he
shewyd
them
what
folyshnes
it
was
to
feare
deth
.
And
in
theyr
so
doyng
,
he
promysed
them
great
gyftes
&
rewardes
.
And
when
he
hadde
made
to
them
a
long
sermon
,
then
he
declaryd
the
cause
that
he
sent
for
them
:
and
all
they
with
one
voice
proferyd
to
lyue
and
dye
with
hym
.
And
when
Lereano
saw
theyr
good
wylles
,
he
thought
hym selfe
then
well
accompanyd
,
and
so
depertyd
in
the
nyght
,
and
came
in
to
a
valey
nere
to
the
citie
,
ther
he
taryed
all
the
nyght
,
and
infourmyd
his
men
what
they
shulde
do
.
He
apoyntyd
one
capitayne
with
a.
C.
men
of
armes
,
that
they
shuld
go
streyght
to
the
lodging
of
Persyo
,
and
to
slee
hym
,
and
as
many
as
dyd
resyst
them
.
Then
he
apoyntyde
other
.ii.
capitayns
with
eche
of
them
.l.
footemen
,
to
go
vp
the
two
principall
streates
,
goyng
to
the
presone
where
as
Laureola
was
`cōmaundyng
them
that
when
they
came
to
the
preson
,
then
they
to
torne
theyr
faces
to
the
citie
warde
,
&
kepe
&
defende
that
no
person
shulde
entre
in
to
the
castell
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
he
with
other
.iii.
C.
men
came
to
take
oute
Laureola
.
And
the
capitayne
that
he
hadde
commaundyd
to
sle
Persio
he
cha●gyd
hym
that
when
he
had
done
to
come
and
mete
with
hym
at
the
preson
and
they
to
defende
the
passage
,
yf
any
came
to
entre
in
to
the
castell
,
whyle
he
were
taking
oute
of
Laureola
.
And
all
this
thus
agreyd
&
concluded
,
when
the
gates
were
opened
in
the
●ornynge
sodenly
he
and
all
hys
men
entered
in
to
the
citie
and
euery
capitayne●
toke
hede
to
his
charge
.
The
capitayne
that
had
the
charge
to
sle
Persio
,
executed
his
commaundemente
,
for
he
slew
Persio
,
&
all
other
that
were
in
his
way
to
lette
hym
.
Ther
Persio
endyd
his
myserable
lyfe
,
and
Lereano
went
to
the
preson
and
what
with
the
furour
of
his
ire
,
&
with
the
vertue
of
his
force
fought
so
fercely
with
the
kepers
of
the
presone
,
and
slew
so
many
that
he
could
not
get
for
dede
bodyes
,
but
with
mo●he
payne
.
But
as
i●
al
pe●els
the
bountie
encrea
seth
by
force
of
armes
.
So
by
clene
force
he
came
in
to
the
preson
wher
as
Laureola
was
,
and
there
he
toke
her
with
as
greate
seremony
and
honour
as
thought
hit
hadde
bene
in
tyme
of
peace
,
he
knelyd
downe
to
the
yerth
,
and
kyl●
her
hande
,
lyke
the
doughter
of
a
kynge
,
and
with
that
present
turbacion
,
she
stode
without
strenght
,
so
that
she
coulde
not
moue
her selfe
,
Her
harte
dismayd
,
her
colour
faylyd
,
litle
parte
of
any
lyfe
was
lefte
in
her
.
Then
Lereano
tooke
and
caryed
her
oute
of
prisone
,
and
then
mette
with
Galleo
her
vncle
accordynge
to
his
promyse
,
who
came
thyther
with
a
certayn
nomber
of
men
,
and
there
in
the
presence
of
euery
man
Lereano
delyueryd
,
Laureola
in
to
his
handes
,
and
still
his
men
fought
against
them
that
came
againste
hym
:
but
he
set
Laureola
vpon
an
hakeney
,
that
Galleo
had
ther
redy
,
and
agayne
kyste
her
hande
,
and
then
went
to
ayde
his
men
,
that
were
styll
fyghtyng
,
and
still
he
regardyd
after
Laureola
,
till
he
hadde
loste
the
syght
of
her
.
So
Galleo
her
vncle
ledde
her
to
a
castell
of
his
owne
not
farre
thence
,
and
when
the
brute
of
this
dead
,
came
to
the
heryng
of
the
kynge
,
he
callyd
for
his
armure
,
and
sownyd
trompettes
,
and
causyd
all
the
men
of
his
courte
to
be
armyd
,
&
many
of
the
citie
.
And
when
Lereauo
saw
that
of
necessite
it
was
tyme
for
hym
to
get
oute
of
the
towne
in
to
the
feldes
,
then
he
comfortyd
his
men
,
with
swete
and
hardy
woordes
.
And
all
wayes
in
his
reculynge
,
he
defendyd
the
multitude
of
his
enemyes
with
a
valiante
harte
,
and
to
kepe
an
honest
maner
in
his
reculynge
,
he
went
in
good
order
,
and
not
with
so
great
haste
,
as
the
case
requiryd
Thus
lesyng
some
of
his
men
,
and
sleyng
of
,
many
of
his
enemyes
,
he
came
thither
where
he
had
left
al
theyr
horses
So
suche
order
as
he
had
sette
before
was
well
and
truely
kepte
,
and
so
without
perel
he
&
his
lept
vpon
theyr
horses
,
the
which
was
hard
to
haue
ben
done
if
he
had
not
wysely
prouidyd
the
remedy
therof
before
hand
.
Then
the
horsemen
put
before
them
theyr
foremen
,
and
toke
the
way
to
Suria
,
fro
whence
they
cam
And
when
Lereano
saw
.iii.
bandes
of
the
kynges
aproche
nere
hym
,
then
he
wente
oute
of
the
waye
,
and
conductyd
so
wisely
his
company
by
wayes
of
a
vauntage
,
that
he
scapyd
with
as
great
honour
in
his
reculynge
,
as
he
hadde
wonne
in
the
fightynge
:
so
he
enteryde
agayne
in
to
the
towne
of
Suria
withoute
losse
of
any
of
his
men
,
which
was
greate
meruayll
:
for
the
kyng
was
ther
in
propre
person
with
.v.
M.
men
of
armes
,
who
was
inflamyd
with
ire
:
and
so
beset
the
towne
about
,
in
purpose
not
to
depert
thence
till
he
had
taken
vengeance
of
Lereano
.
when
Lereano
saw
how
he
was
besegyd
,
he
sette
his
men
lyke
a
wyse
man
of
warre
to
the
walles
,
where
as
was
most
feblyst
parte
,
there
he
sette
most
defence
,
and
where
as
he
myght
best
issue
out
in
to
the
feld
,
there
he
sette
such
men
as
were
mete
for
that
purpose
,
and
there
as
he
fearyd
other
crafte
or
treasone
,
there
he
sette
such
as
he
trustyd
best
.
Thus
he
vsyd
hym selfe
lyke
a
wyse
capitayne
.
The
kyng
thynkyng
to
bryng
his
enterprice
to
an
ende
commaundyd
to
fortefy
his
campe
,
and
to
prouyde
for
all
thynges
necessary
perteynynge
to
a
campe
royall
,
as
engyus
,
bastides
and
bulwerkes
to
beat
the
citie
with
artilery
,
and
made
greate
dykes
that
none
shuld
issue
oute
,
when
the
kynge
saw
so
longe
tariynge
at
this
siege
his
ire
encreasyde
:
for
he
hadde
thought
to
hade
taken
Lereano
by
reasone
of
famyne
,
and
for
all
that
he
saw
the
towne
ryght
stronge
,
yet
he
determynyd
to
sawte
it
the
whiche
he
prouyd
with
suche
fercenes
,
that
they
within
had
great
nede
to
put
to
theyr
strength
and
dilygence
to
resiste
.
Then
Lereano
went
&
visytyd
his
men
with
a
.
C.
men
suche
as
were
deputyd
for
that
purpose
,
and
euery
where
he
saw
any
fyghtyng
,
he
euer
encoragyd
them
,
and
where
as
he
saw
valiantnes
he
praysed
them
,
and
where
he
saw
any
euyll
order
he
founde
remedy
.
Fynally
the
kynge
caused
to
sowne
the
retrayte
with
losse
of
many
of
his
knyghtes
,
&
specially
of
the
yonge
lusty
courteers
who
euer
sekyth
for
perel●s
,
to
wynne
therby
glory
.
Lereano
at
the
same
assaulte
was
hurte
in
the
face
and
also
loste
many
of
his
princpal
men
.
This
assaulte
past
,
the
kyng
gaue
other
.v.
assaultes
within
the
space
of
iii.
monethes
,
so
that
in
maner
men
beganne
to
fayle
on
bothe
parties
,
so
that
Lereano
was
doubteous
of
that
enterprice
,
how
be
it
in
his
wordes
and
countenance
,
nor
in
his
deades
nothynge
of
feare
coulde
be
aspied
,
so
that
the
corage
of
the
capitayne
,
incoragyd
all
the
other
capitayns
,
and
then
to
gyue
corage
to
his
men
suche
as
were
lefte
,
he
sayde
to
them
as
folowith
.
¶
Lereano
to
his
company
.
CErtaynly
syrs
as
ye
be
but
few●
in
nomber
,
so
our
strength
is
not
greate
I
haue
doubte
in
our
enterprice
accordyng
to
our
euyll
fortune
,
but
in
that
,
vertue
is
estemyde
more
then
is
greate
nomber
,
and
consyderynge
your
noble
deades
passed
,
I
thynke
I
shuld
haue
more
nede
of
good
fortune
,
then
of
greate
nomber
of
knyghtes
:
wherfore
alonely
in
you
is
all
my
hope
,
and
syne
our
helthe
is
in
our
handes
,
aswell
for
the
sustentacion
of
our
lyues
,
as
for
the
glory
of
good
fame
,
we
ought
valiantly
,
to
fyght
,
now
the
case
is
offeryd
vs
orels
to
leue
the
profyt
of
our
enherytance
to
them
that
wold
disheryte
vs
.
Thus
we
shulde
be
vnhappy
if
for
feare
&
faynte
corage
we
shuld
lese
our
herytage
:
therfore
lette
vs
fyght
,
to
delyuer
our
blude
fro
shame
and
dishonour
and
my
name
fro
enfamy
,
this
day
lette
vs
make
an
ende
of
our
lyues
,
orels
conferme
our
honours
,
lette
vs
defende
our selfe
,
and
not
to
be
shamyd
,
for
greater
is
the
rewarde
of
vyctory
,
then
the
occasions
of
perel
.
This
paynefull
lyfe
that
we
lyue
in
,
I
know
not
why
we
shulde
somoche
desyre
it
,
the
daies
therof
are
but
shorte
and
longe
in
trauayll
,
the
which
for
feare
increseth
not
,
nor
for
hardynes
shorteth
not
:
for
when
we
be
borne
,
our
tyme
is
lymyted
,
the
whiche
we
shal
not
passe
,
thereby
feare
is
subdued
,
&
hardynes
lawded
,
we
can
not
put
our
fortune
in
a
better
state
,
then
to
hope
of
an
honourable
deth
.
O
glorious
fame
.
O
couetyse
laudable
the
auerise
of
honour
wherby
is
ateyned
greatter
deades
,
then
this
of
ours
is
,
lette
vs
not
feare
the
greate
company
that
is
in
the
kinges
campe
for
at
the
fyrste
encounter
,
the
weke
●hall
fyrst
fyght
,
and
ouercome
them
,
&
●hey
shall
abashe
the
multitude
&
the
small
nombre
wyll
enforce
themselfe
by
vertue
:
many
thynges
dryueth
vs
to
be
hardy
,
bountie
and
vertue
byndeth
vs
,
and
iustice
enforseth
vs
,
necessitie
shall
rewarde
vs
,
wherfore
we
ought
not
to
feare
,
for
theyr
is
nothynge
that
shulde
cause
vs
to
dye
.
Syrs
all
these
reasones
that
I
haue
sayde
is
but
superflew
to
enforce
our
strenght
.
Syn
we
haue
it
naturally
but
I
will
say
to
you
that
in
euery
tyme
our
hartes
onght
to
be
occupied
in
noblenes
,
&
our
handes
in
deades
of
armes
,
and
our
thoughtes
in
good
workes
&
good
wordes
amonge
company
,
as
we
do
now
I
●eceue
equal
glory
aswel
for
the
amorous
good
wyll
that
ye
shew
me
as
for
the
deades
of
armes
that
ye
haue
done
,
and
bycause
I
se
our
enmyes
prepayre
them
to
fight
we
be
constrayned
to
leue
our
talkyng
,
&
euery
man
to
gette
hym
to
his
charge
and
defence
.
¶
The
auctor
.
LEreano
was
aunswerd
of
his
knightes
with
greate
constance
and
corage
of
harte
,
whereof
he
thought
hym selfe
ryght
happy
,
that
he
hadde
suche
men
in
his
company
,
so
euery
man
went
to
his
defence
,
where
as
they
were
apoyntyd
and
then
anone
,
they
hard
the
trompettes
blowe
,
and
wihtin
shorte
space
there
came
to
the
walles
,
a.l.
M.
men
,
and
began
fresly
to
gyue
assaulte
.
Then
Lereano
shewed
his
vertue
,
and
by
reasone
of
theyr
defence
,
the
kynge
thought
they
within
hade
loste
neuer
a
man
.
This
assaut
endured
fro
the
myddes
of
the
day
,
tyll
it
was
nyght
,
the
which
depertyd
them
:
there
were
slayne
&
hurt
of
them
withoute
a
.iii.
M.
and
as
many
of
them
within
,
so
that
Lereano
hadde
lefet
no
mo
with
hym
but.
C.l.
persones
and
yet
by
his
contenance
,
he
semyd
as
though
he
had
loste
neuer
a
man
,
how
be
it
he
was
inwardly
sory
for
them
that
he
had
loste
.
All
that
nyght
he
buryed
the
dede
bodyes
,
and
praysed
and
lawdyde
the
valiantnes
of
them
that
were
lefte
alyue
and
gyuing
no
lesse
glory
to
them
that
were
dede
,
then
to
them
that
wer●
a
lyue
.
The
next
day
at
the
relyefe
in
the
morenynge
,
Lereano
determynyd
that
.l.
of
his
menne
with
hym
shulde
issue
oute
,
and
syt
vpon
a
lodgyng
that
ioynede
to
the
walles
perteynynge
to
a
kynnesmans
of
Persyos
.
Lereano
dyde
this
bicause
the
kynge
shuld
not
thy●ke
that
he
lacked
men
.
And
this
he
dyde
with
ferme
boldnes
and
so
brente
the
sayde
lodgynge
,
and
sleu
many
such
as
made
defence
.
And
as
god
wolde
in
the
same
busynes
there
was
taken
one
of
them
that
hadde
accusyde
Laureola
,
he
was
brought
to
Lereano
,
and
was
put
to
payne
till
he
was
causyd
to
shewe
all
the
trouth
of
the
hole
mater
,
and
so
he
confessed
the
hole
circumstance
of
the
mater
.
And
when
Lereano
was
enfourmed
of
the
trouth
,
he
sent
hym
to
the
kynge
,
besechynge
hym
to
dyscharge
Laureola
fro
all
blame
,
and
to
do
iustice
vpon
them
,
for
the
payne
that
they
haue
caused
Laureola
to
endure
.
And
when
the
●yng
knew
the
certaynte
,
he
was
ryght
gladde
,
and
thought
it
was
reason
that
he
requiryd
,
and
to
make
shorte
proces
The
kinge
dyd
iustice
vpon
the
.iii.
falc●
wytnesses
accodynge
to
theyr
desertes
,
then
incontynent
he
reised
vp
the
siege
and
reputyd
his
doughter
Laureola
discharged
,
&
Lereano
withoute
fawte
and
so
went
to
his
citie
of
Suria
,
&
then
sente
for
Laureola
by
the
grettest
lordes
of
his
court
,
and
she
was
brought
with
equall
houour
acordynge
to
her
deseruynge
,
and
was
ioyfully
receuyd
of
the
kyng
&
of
the
quene
,
who
wepte
for
ioy
and
there
the
kinge
discharged
her
fro
blame
,
and
the
quene
kyst
her
,
and
all
other
seruyd
her
Thus
the
payne
passed
was
turned
to
great
ioy
present
.
Then
the
kyng
sent
to
Lereano
commaundyng
hym
not
to
come
to
his
court
till
he
had
apeased
the
kynnesmen
&
frendes
of
Persio
,
the
whiche
commaundement
he
receyued
with
greate
sorow
,
bycause
he
mighte
not
se
Laureola
.
And
when
he
saw
none
other
remedye
,
he
felte
hym selfe
in
a
strange
maner
,
and
seynge
hym selfe
depertyd
fro
her
.
He
lefte
the
workes
of
chyualry
,
and
retourned
agayne
to
his
olde
amorouse
thoughtes
and
trowbles
desyryng
to
know
what
case
Laureola
was
in
.
He
desyrede
me
to
fynde
some
honest
maner
,
how
he
myght
se
&
speke
with
her
,
and
yet
his
desyre
was
so
honest
,
that
he
desyryd
not
to
speke
with
her
in
suche
wyse
that
any
suspecte
shulde
be
layde
to
her
,
of
the
whiche
he
deseruyde
to
haue
had
great
thanke
.
And
I
who
was
glade
to
folowe
his
desire
deperted
fro
hym
,
and
went
to
Suria
:
and
when
I
came
there
,
and
had
kyste
Laureolas
hande
,
then
I
shewyd
her
Lereanos
desyre
,
And
she
aunswered
me
and
sayde
,
that
in
no
wyse
she
wolde
speke
with
hym
,
for
dyuerce
causes
that
she
alledgyde
.
And
though
she
was
not
content
to
graunt
me
at
that
tyme
,
yet
euer
after
as
often
as
I
myght
speke
with
her
,
I
made
styll
my
supplycacion
,
and
fynaly
at
laste
she
aunswerede
me
&
sayde
ons
for
all
,
that
if
I
spake
any
more
to
her
in
that
mater
,
she
wolde
be
vtterly
displeasyd
with
me
.
And
when
I
harde
her
aunswere
,
and
saw
her
displeasure
then
I
went
to
Lereano
with
greate
heuynes
and
dolour
,
and
when
I
had
shewyd
hym
how
it
was
:
then
he
began
newly
to
complayne
,
and
sorowe
,
for
hys
mysaduenture
:
so
that
with
oute
doubt
he
was
in
the
condicion
to
haue
dispayred
.
And
when
I
saw
that
yet
to
entertayne
hym
I
sayde
&
counsaylyd
hym
to
write
agayne
to
Laureola
,
recordynge
therin
what
he
hadde
done
for
her
,
and
maruaylynge
of
her
change
,
seynge
she
had
rewardyd
hym
before
with
her
writynge
.
Then
he
aunswered
and
sayde
how
he
was
well
content
to
write
but
not
to
recite
therin
any
thyng
that
he
had
done
for
her
:
the
which
he
sayd
was
nothynge
accordynge
to
her
deseruynge
.
Nor
also
he
sayd
he
wolde
make
no
remembrance
in
his
letter
of
any
rewarde
that
he
had
receyuyd
of
her
.
For
he
sayd
,
the
lawe
of
loue
defendeth
any
suche
thynge
to
be
wryten
.
What
satisfacion
shulde
I
receue
therby
:
for
the
greate
perell
that
myght
fall
,
yf
the
letter
were
sene
.
Thus
not
tochynge
those
maters
I
wyll
wryte
to
Laureola
The
tenour
of
his
letter
folowith
.
¶
The
letter
fro
Lereano
to
Laureola
.
FAyre
lady
Laureola
accordyng
to
your
vertuous
pytie
synne
ye
know
my
passion
I
can
not
beleue
but
that
ye
wyll
consente
to
my
demaunde
,
syn
I
desyre
nothynge
that
shall
be
to
your
dishonour
seinge
ye
knowe
myne
euill
,
why
do
you
dought
,
withoute
reason
I
dye
.
ye
know
that
great
payne
occupyeth
so
myne
harte
,
that
I
feale
the
euill
,
and
can
not
shewe
it
:
yf
ye
take
it
for
good
that
I
shuld
dye
,
thynking
to
satisfye
me
with
the
passion
that
ye
gyue
me
,
syn
it
procedeth
fro
you
,
hit
is
the
grettest
welth
that
I
can
hope
for
,
and
iustely
I
shall
take
it
for
the
ende
of
my
reward
,
yf
ye
iudge
me
vncourteise
in
that
I
shulde
not
be
content
with
that
ye
do
to
me
,
gyuinge
me
cause
of
so
gloriouse
thoughts●
yet
blame
me
not
for
though
the
wyll
be
satisfyed
.
The
vnderstanding
maketh
quarell
,
and
yf
my
dolour
do
pleace
you
,
bycause
I
neuer
dyd
you
seruice
that
might
atteyne
to
the
heighnes
of
your
deseruyng
.
when
I
remember
these
thynges
,
&
many
mo
,
I
thynke
that
bycause
that
ye
wyll
not
graunte
my
supplycacion
,
bycause
I
can
do
nothynge
that
shuld
deserue
it
,
yet
hardynes
hath
causyd
me
to
hope
vpon
mercy
,
not
according
to
my
deseruing
,
but
according
to
your
bountie
that
may
gyue
it
.
And
I
thynk
that
your
vertue
,
compassyon
,
&
pitie
,
shulde
ayde
me
,
bycause
they
be
agreable
to
your
condycion
.
When
a
man
hathe
any
busynes
with
a
greate
personage
:
thynkyng
to
attayn
to
haue
grace
:
fyrste
he
must
wynne
the
good
wylles
of
the
seruauntes
,
wherby
a
man
lightely
shall
come
to
his
entent
.
But
as
for
me
I
can
fynde
no
remedye
.
I
haue
done
my
deuour
to
serche
for
ayde
whome
I
haue
found
alwayes
ferme
&
stable
for
all
they
haue
requyred
you
to
haue
mercy
vpon
me
:
the
sowle
bycause
he
sufferet
,
hand
the
lyfe
bycause
it
su●teyneth
,
the
harte
bycause
it
endureth
,
the
vnderstandynge
bycause
it
feleth
.
And
syn
ye
wyll
gyue
no
reward
for
all
these
,
in
that
they
desyre
,
and
by
reasone
haue
deseruyd
,
I
ame
the
moste
vnfortunat
of
all
other
vnhappy
.
The
water
refressheth
the
yerth
:
but
my
wepynges
can
not
molefye
your
endurat
hardnes
.
The
water
gyueth
liquor
to
the
feldes
,
herbys
,
and
trees
,
but
my
wepynge
can
not
entre
in
to
your
harte
.
As
I
fynde
my selfe
disposyd
,
dyspayre
shuld
rydde
my
lyfe
,
yf
I
myght
be
alone
.
But
alwayes
I
ame
accompanyd
with
the
thoughtes
that
ye
gyue
me
,
and
with
the
desyre
that
ye
ordeyne
me
.
Also
the
remembrance
of
that
I
wolde
do
conforteth
me
:
remembrynge
how
they
kepte
me
company
,
in
suche
wyse
,
that
what
soeuer
cause
I
haue
desperacion
yet
it
kepeth
me
fro
dispayryng
:
yf
it
be
your
plesure
that
I
shall
dye
,
let
me
haue
some
knowledge
therof
,
then
I
shall
not
be
all
vnhappy
:
for
then
I
shall
passe
it
the
more
wyllyngly
,
and
at
the
ende
it
shal
be
to
me
,
the
more
ease
:
bycau●e
it
is
for
your
gyfte
.
And
syn
ye
wyll
not
se
me
,
I
must
be
enforsed
to
go
that
trace
.
¶
The
auctor
.
THys
letter
I
bare
to
Laureola
,
with
moche
payne
she
receyued
it
,
and
to
dispache
her
fro
Lereano
honestly
she
wrote
agayne
in
this
maner
with
full
determynacyon
neuer
to
receyue
agayne
fro
hym
other
letter
or
message
The
tenour
of
her
letter
folowith
.
¶
The
letter
fro
Laureola
to
Lereano
.
LEreano
the
displeasure
that
I
haue
of
thyne
euyll
shulde
be
satisfaction
for
thy
loue
,
yf
thou
knew
how
greate
it
is
.
And
this
alonely
take
for
thy
remedy
withoute
demaundynge
of
any
other
.
Though
it
be
but
a
small
paymente
,
for
that
thou
hast
deserued
agaynst
me
.
For
as
I
am
bound
to
do
yf
thou
wylt
demaunde
of
my
goodes
and
ryches
,
as
thou
dost
desyre
agaynst
myne
honour
,
I
wolde
gladly
gyue
it
the.
I
will
not
aunswere
euery
article
of
thy
letter
for
I
considerynge
that
I
do
thus
wryte
to
the
,
the
bloud
rynneth
fro
my
harte
and
my
reason
vanyssheth
fro
my
iudgement
.
Ther
is
no
cause
that
thou
hast
wryten
of
,
that
causeth
me
to
consent
to
be
sory
for
thyne
euyll
,
but
it
is
alonely
by
reason
of
my
bounte
yet
I
haue
no
doubt
,
but
that
thou
enduryst
moche
euyll
:
for
the
perell
that
thou
hast
bene
in
,
beareth
wytnes
of
that
thou
hast
suffred
.
Thou
sayst
,
thou
dyddest
me
neuer
seruice
.
That
thou
hast
done
for
me
,
I
shall
neuer
forget
,
but
alwaye
desyre
to
satisfye
it
,
but
not
as
thou
desiryst
,
but
accordyng
to
myne
honestye
.
The
vertue
pitie
and
compassion
,
that
thou
thynkyst
shulde
ayde
the
agaynst
me
bycause
they
ar
agreable
to
my
condicion
.
How
be
it
in
this
case
they
are
enmies
to
my
fame
:
&
therfore
thou
findest
them
contrary
.
When
I
was
taken
thou
sauyddest
my
lyfe
,
&
now
that
I
am
quyte
,
thou
woldest
condemne
me
with
thy
desyre
.
Rather
I
ought
to
seke
thy
payne
with
myne
honour
:
then
to
remedy
the
with
myne
owne
faulte
&
shame
.
Beleue
not
that
the
people
lyue
so
holily
,
but
&
they
knew
that
I
spake
with
the
,
they
wold
iudge
our
clere
entensions
to
the
worste
:
for
the
worlde
is
so
dyuerce
,
that
men
wyll
rather
defame
bountie
,
then
to
prayse
vertue
.
Thus
thy
demaunde
is
excu●syd
therfore
take
no
hope
therein
,
though
thou
shuldest
dye
as
thou
sayst
.
For
better
is
honest
crueltie
,
then
pitie
culpable
Herynge
this
peraduenture
thou
wylte
say
I
ame
moueable
,
bycause
I
began
to
shew
the
some
mercy
,
as
in
wrytynge
to
the
,
and
now
determyned
not
to
remedy
y●
,
Thou
knowest
wel
vnder
what
maner
I
dyd
wryte
to
the
,
and
for
what
entent
,
and
though
it
hadde
ben
for
any
othere
cause
,
yet
as
conueniente
is
the
mutacion
in
thynges
that
be
hurtefull
:
As
is
ferme
stedfastnes
in
thynges
that
be
honest
.
I
require
the
,
strenght
thy selfe
,
lyke
a
valiant
knyght
,
and
remedy
thy selfe
discretly
.
Put
not
thy
life
in
perell
,
and
myne
honour
in
disputacion
,
syn
thou
somoche
desyrest
it
.
What
shal
be
sayde
if
thou
dye
,
that
I
do
rewarde
seruice
done
to
me
with
takynge
awaye
theyr
lyues
,
to
the
which
I
wyll
shew
y●
contrary●
yf
I
outelyue
,
the
kynge
my
father
,
for
then
shall
I
gyue
the
what
parte
of
the
reame
that
thou
wylte
desyre
.
And
I
shall
encrease
thyne
honour
,
&
double
thy
rentes
,
and
enhaunce
thyne
astate
,
&
all
that
thou
wylte
ordeyne
,
nothygne
shal
be
denyed
.
And
thus
by
thy
lyfe
I
shal
be
iudgyd
a
good
rewarder
.
And
if
thou
dye
I
shal
be
reputyde
of
euyll
condicions
,
and
if
it
were
for
none
other
thynge
but
for
this
.
Thou
shuldest
enforse
thy selfe
,
but
for
the
trouble
that
thy
payne
putteth
me
vnto
,
I
wyll
say
no
more
to
the.
Bycause
thou
shalte
not
think
that
in
thy
demaund
I
shuld
gyue
the
counsayll
,
or
put
the
in
any
hope
.
Wold
to
god
,
that
thy
desyre
were
honest
.
Thus
I
conusayll
the
on
the
one
parte
,
and
satysfye
the
on
the
other
.
And
at
this
poynte
I
send
to
the
this
letter
on
the
purpose
neuer
to
aunswere
,
nor
to
heare
the
speke
more
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHen
Laureola
had
wryten
this
letter
she
sayd
to
me
with
a
determynate
aunswere
that
this
shulde
be
the
last
tyme
that
I
shuld
apere
before
her
presence●
sayeng
that
her
comnyng
with
me
causyd
moche
suspect
,
and
that
in
my
goyng
&
comynge
,
ther
was
more
perell
to
her
,
then
hope
to
me
of
any
remedy
.
Then
I
seynge
her
determynate
will
,
it
semyd
to
me
that
my
trauayle
was
more
paynfull
to
me
,
then
remedy
to
Lereano
.
So
I
went
fro
her
with
more
wepyng
then
wordes
.
And
after
I
had
kyst
her
hand
,
I
wente
out
of
the
place
with
sobbynge
,
and
gulpynge
in
my
throte
,
that
I
was
nere
strangeled
to
kepe
in
my
wepynge
,
and
to
th
entent
to
couer
my
passion
.
And
when
I
was
oute
of
the
citie
alone
,
then
I
began
to
wepe
in
suche
wyse
,
that
I
coulde
not
retayne
my
voyce
fro
brayng
,
so
that
I
thought
it
was
better
for
me
to
dye
in
Masedonia
,
then
to
returne
into
Castile
,
the
which
desire
was
resonable
,
for
by
the
dethe
,
myne
euyll
aduenture
shulde
make
an
ende
:
and
with
lyfe
,
my
sorow
shulde
encrease
,
Thus
all
the
way
wepyng
and
syghyng
feylede
me
not
:
&
when
I
came
to
Lereano
,
I
delyueryd
hym
the
letter
fro
Laureola
,
and
when
he
hadde
redde
it
,
he
sayd
he
wolde
nother
take
strength
nor
receyue
any
counsayll
,
syn
it
was
so
good
reason
that
he
shulde
dye
.
Then
he
sayde
to
me
,
that
alwayes
he
wolde
take
me
,
for
more
then
his
frende
,
bicause
of
the
good
counsayll
that
I
had
gyuyn
hym
.
Then
with
voyce
and
colour
mortal
he
began
to
complayne
,
not
blamynge
his
wekenes
nor
dispraysynge
his
fall
,
for
euery
thynge
that
myght
shorten
his
lyfe
,
he
praysede
,
he
shewyde
hym selfe
,
frende
to
dolour
,
and
toke
recreacion
with
tormentes
,
he
louyd
sorowes
,
all
these
he
callyd
his
welthe
,
to
be
messengers
to
Laureola
.
And
bycause
they
shuld
be
entreatyde
accordynge
as
fro
thence
as
they
came
,
he
fyxyd
them
in
his
harte
,
he
ioynyde
them
to
his
vnderstandynge
and
conueied
them
with
his
memory
,
he
desiryde
them
to
make
a
shorte
ende
of
that
they
hadde
to
do
,
to
the
entent
that
Laureola
myght
be
seruyde
,
and
thus
beynge
without
hope
of
any
welth
,
and
trobled
with
mortall
paynes
,
could
not
susteyne
hym selfe
no
lenger
,
but
perforce
constreynede
to
lye
downe
,
vpon
his
bedde
where
he
wolde
nother
eate
,
drynke
,
nor
s●epe
,
nor
take
any
thyng
for
sustentacion
of
his
lyfe
,
euer
calyng
hym selfe
happy
to
come
to
the
case
to
do
some
seruice
to
Laureola
,
as
by
his
dethe
,
to
brynge
her
oute
of
all
trouble
,
so
anone
it
was
publyshed
abrode
in
the
realme
,
and
in
the
courte
how
Lereano
was
lyke
to
dye
.
Theu
his
kynne
&
frendes
came
to
comforte
hym
,
and
to
torne
his
purpose
,
they
sayde
and
dyde
asmoche
as
they
coulde
Imagyne
to
preuayle
his
lyfe
,
&
bycause
his
infyrmite
was
to
be
curyd
by
holsome
reasones
,
euery
man
sharpyd
theyr
wyttes
to
do
the
best
they
coulde
.
And
there
was
a
knyghte
callyd
Teseo
a
greate
frende
of
his
,
he
considerynge
that
his
sekenes
was
for
loue
,
though
he
knewe
not
for
whome
it
was
,
he
sayd
and
shewyde
to
Lereano
all
the
euyls
of
women
that
he
coulde
deuise
,
and
to
conferme
his
owne
reasones
,
he
alegyd
as
many
thynges
as
he
coulde
,
in
the
defamyng
of
women
,
thynkyng
therby
to
haue
restoryd
Lereano
to
his
helthe●
when
Lereano
hadde
well
harde
hym
,
and
consyderyde
that
Laureola
was
a
woman
,
he
rebukyde
greatly
Teseo
for
spekynge
of
suche
wordes
,
and
though
as
then
his
disposicion
was
not
moche
to
speke
,
yet
he
enforcyd
his
tonge
,
and
with
the
passion
of
greate
iri
:
sayde
as
folowith
.
¶
Lereano
agaynst
Teseo
,
and
agaynst
all
euell
spekers
agaynst
women
.
FRend
Teseo
yf
another
man
,
that
owed
the
not
so
good
loue
as
I
do
hard
my
wordes
,
it
wolde
cause
the
to
receyue
payne
accordynge
to
thy
deserte
:
howbeit
my
reasons
shal
be
to
the
suche
an
ensample
,
to
cause
the
to
kepe
thy
tonge
,
and
it
shal
be
a
chastisement
in
stede
of
thy
payne
,
in
the
which
I
shall
folow
the
condicion
of
a
true
frende
,
for
yf
I
shewyd
the
not
thy
fault
by
quyke
reasons
,
peraduenture
thou
woldest
vtter
forth
agayne
in
other
places
suche
like
wordes
as
thou
ryght
now
sayd
,
it
shal
be
most
for
thy
profyt
to
amend
thy self
by
my
contradictions
rather
then
to
shame
thy selfe
with
perseuerance
,
the
entent
of
thy
wordes
was
as
a
frende
,
the
whiche
I
well
considre
thou
sayedest
them
,
bycause
I
shulde
abhorre
them
that
hath
brought
me
in
to
the
case
that
thou
seist
me
in
.
And
by
reason
of
thy
sayeng
euyll
of
women
,
thyne
entension
was
therby
to
gyue
me
remedy
of
my
lyfe
,
and
therby
thou
hast
gyuen
me
the
soner
deth
:
for
the
shamefull
wordes
that
thou
hast
sayd
,
putteth
me
to
suche
torment
,
bycause
it
is
a
woman
,
that
hath
put
me
to
this
payne
,
therfore
by
reasone
of
herynge
of
thy
wordes
,
I
shall
lyue
the
lesse
season
,
wherby
I
shall
receue
a
great
welth
for
the
receyuynge
of
this
dolorous
deth
were
better
to
be
shortely
,
then
to
susteyne
the
lyfe
any
lenger
:
for
it
is
a
thyng
delectable
to
suffre
,
and
with
a
swet
rest
to
make
an
ende
of
this
lyfe
,
the
whiche
swete
ende
shal
be
by
reason
that
these
my
last
wordes
shal
be
in
the
prease
of
women
,
and
my
wyl
is
somewhat
to
satisfye
her
in
whome
resith
al
the
cause
,
&
to
begynne
to
shew
the
thyne
errour
,
I
wyll
alledge
.xv.
poyntes
agaynste
all
them
that
erreth
in
spekynge
euell
of
women
,
and
.xx.
other
reasones
I
shall
lay
wherby
we
are
bound
to
say
well
of
all
women
,
with
dyuerce
other
samples
of
theyr
bountie
&
goodnes
.
And
as
to
the
fyrst
let
vs
found
our
reasone
,
how
that
all
thynges
made
by
the
hande
of
god
,
are
necessarily
good
:
for
accordyng
to
the
warkeman
,
the
warke
ought
to
procede
:
then
knowynge
that
wome●
are
his
creatures
,
they
that
speke
euyll
of
them
,
offende
not
allonely
them
,
but
also
they
blaspheme
the
workeman
,
the
which
is
god
.
the
.ii.
cause
is
,
the
before
god
&
man
ther
is
not
a
more
abhomynable
synne
,
nor
harder
to
be
perdoned
,
then
is
ingratitude
,
for
where
can
ther
be
a
greatter
synne
,
then
to
put
out
of
knowledge
,
and
to
forgette
the
welth
that
is
to
come
to
vs
by
reasone
of
the
vyrgyn
mary
and
dayly
cometh
:
she
delyuered
vs
fro
payne
,
and
causeth
vs
to
meryte
the
glory
of
heuen
,
she
saueth
vs
,
she
susteyneth
vs
,
she
defendeth
vs
,
she
gydeth
vs
,
she
gyueth
vs
lyght
of
grace
.
Then
seynge
she
was
a
woman
,
then
all
other
for
her
sake
ought
to
be
crowned
with
lawde
and
prayse
.
The
.iii.
is
,
bycause
it
is
defended
to
all
men
accordynge
to
vertue
,
to
shew
any
strength
agaynst
the
weke
sex
femynyne
.
And
this
is
obserued
amonge
brewt
bestes
,
wherfore
men
shulde
folow
the
same
,
yet
some
suche
as
lyst
to
speke
euyll
say
,
though
that
women
can
make
but
small
resystence
with
theyr
handes
,
yet
they
haue
no
lesse
liberte
with
theyr
tonges
.
The
iiii
.
is
,
a
man
ought
not
to
say
euyll
of
women
,
withoute
he
dishonour
hym selfe
bycause
he
was
creatyde
and
noryshede
in
the
wombe
of
a
woman
,
and
is
of
her
substance
,
and
also
bycause
of
the
honour
and
reuerence
,
that
euery
child
ought
to
do
to
his
mother
.
The
.v.
is
,
bycause
of
the
disobedience
to
god
who
sayde
with
his
owne
mouth
,
that
father
&
mother
shulde
be
honouryde
,
therefor
suche
as
do
other
wyse
do
serue
sore
punishement
&
payne
,
The
.vi.
is
bycause
noble
men
are
bounde
to
occupye
them selfe
in
vertuous
deades
aswell
in
woordes
as
in
workes
,
then
yf
fowle
wordes
defowle
clenlynes
then
in
perell
of
slander
and
defamy
,
is
the
honour
of
suche
persons
that
wasteth
theyr
lyfe
in
suche
vayne
wordes
.
The
.vii.
is
when
that
the
ordre
of
chyuaylry
was
fyrste
stablysshed
among
other
thynges
,
who
soeuer
shuld
take
the
ordre
of
knighthod
,
he
shuld
be
bound
to
kepe
&
defend
all
women
,
and
to
gyue
them
all
reuerence
and
honeste
and
who
so
doth
the
contrary
,
breketh
the
lawe
of
noblenes
.
The
.viii.
is
to
defend
honour
fro
perell
,
the
auncyent
noble
men
with
greate
deligence
and
study
,
kepte
and
obserued
alwayes
such
thynges
as
perteyned
to
bountie
,
and
they
reputed
that
so
great
that
they
had
no
greater
feare
,
of
any
thynge
in
the
worlde
then
they
had
to
leue
behynde
them
the
remembrance
of
infamy
and
reproche
,
the
which
they
kept
not
,
the
preferreth
turpitud
&
fowlnes
before
vertue
,
putting
spottes
in
theyr
fame
,
by
reason
of
theyr
euyll
tonge
.
For
oftentymes
a
man
is
iuged
to
be
accordyng
to
his
wor●es
.
The
.ix.
&
most
princypal
is
for
the
condemnacion
of
the
sowle
:
al
thiges
wrong
fully
taken
,
may
be
satysfyed
,
but
the
fame
robbyd
and
taken
away
,
the
satisfaccion
thereof
is
doughtfull
,
the
which
is
more
completly
determynyde
in
our
beleue
.
The
.x.
is
to
eschew
hatryd
for
suche
as
bestowe
theyr
tyme
in
euyll
spekynge
agaynst
women
,
they
make
them selfe
not
onely
enemyes
agaynste
them
,
but
also
to
them
that
be
vertuous
:
for
lyke
as
vertue
&
vice
are
contrary
,
and
haue
dyfferente
propreties
so
the
euyll
speker
can
not
be
withoute
hate
and
euyll
wyll
and
many
enemyes
.
The
.xi.
bicause
of
the
hurtes
that
by
suche
malicious
deades
are
encreasyde
,
for
wordes
geuith
lycence
,
and
are
ioyned
to
the
herynge
,
of
the
rude
people
,
aswell
as
to
them
the
be
discrete
,
and
herynge
of
suche
tayles
,
suche
as
be
but
of
small
spe●yte
wyll
reproue
the
euyl
speker
,
&
cause
them
to
repente
theyr
wordes
,
&
entreate
them
euyll
,
ye
&
peraduenture
sle
them
the
causes
may
toche
so
nere
.
The
.xii.
to
eschew
the
murmuracions
,
the
whiche
euery
man
ought
to
dought
:
for
a
man
beyng
defamed
,
and
called
an
euyll
speker
in
euery
place
aswell
within
houses
as
a
brode
in
the
feldes
,
men
wyll
speke
shame
of
hym
,
&
murmure
at
his
vice
.
The
.xiii
is
for
the
perell
that
may
ensue
,
for
when
suche
be
taken
for
euyll
spekers
,
they
are
behated
of
euery
man
,
and
some
peraduenture
to
please
theyr
ladies
,
wil
set
ther
handes
vpon
them
that
speke
euyll
of
any
woman
.
The
.iiii.
●s
for
the
beautie
and
grace
that
is
in
women
,
the
whiche
is
of
suche
excelence
,
that
though
they
had
all
suche
other
vices
in
them
,
as
the
euyll
spekers
do
slaunder
them
withall
yet
it
were
better
to
prayse
one
thynge
of
trouth
,
then
to
dysprayse
all
with
malice
.
The
.xv.
and
the
last
is
for
the
great
welth
and
goodnes
,
that
women
be
causers
of
,
for
of
them
are
borne
emperours
,
kynges
,
lordes
,
and
all
other
noble
men
,
and
all
other
ve●tuous
men
doynge
deades
worthy
of
prayse
,
and
also
of
them
procedeth
wyse
men
,
who
seketh
to
know
,
what
is
good
,
in
whose
beleue
we
be
saued
.
Also
of
women
cometh
these
inuentyue
persons
,
who
maketh
cities
and
stronge
buyldynges
of
perpetuall
excellence
,
&
by
them
are
brought
forthe
such
men
as
seke
for
all
thynges
necessary
for
the
sustentacion
of
the
humayn
lynage
.
¶
The
other
.xx.
reasons
that
Lereano
shewed
,
wherby
that
men
are
bound
to
loue
women
.
NOw
Teseo
syn
thou
hast
hard
the
causes
wherin
thou
arte
culpable
,
and
all
other
that
folow
such
aronyous
opinyon
,
lette
vs
leue
all
prolixite
,
and
here
.xx.
reasones
wherby
I
wyll
proue
that
men
are
bounde
to
women
.
The
fyrst
is
bycause
by
theyr
meanes
,
the
symple
&
rude
persones
dispose
them selfe
to
attayne
to
vertue
,
and
to
prudence
,
and
not
alonely
,
they
cause
the
symple
to
be
discrete
,
but
they
cause
them
that
be
discrete
to
be
more
subtile
:
for
if
they
be
luryd
with
the
passion
of
loue
,
they
study
then
somoche
for
theyr
libertie
&
in
sufferynge
of
theyr
dolour
they
study
&
imagyne
to
speke
reasones
so
swete
and
so
mete
for
theyr
purpose
,
that
often
tymes
for
compassyon
therof
they
are
delyuerd
:
&
such
as
be
symple
,
and
rude
of
nature
,
yf
they
be
enteryd
in
to
loue
though
they
begynne
rudely
,
yet
they
quycken
so
theyr
vnderstandynge
,
that
often
tymes
they
come
therby
to
wysdome
.
This
they
haue
by
women
thought
theyr
naturall
reasone
fayle
.
The
.ii.
reason
is
that
by
reason
of
iustice
they
cause
men
to
haue
the
vertue
of
sufferance
,
for
such
as
be
in
the
trayn
of
loue
and
suffre
payne
out
of
mesure
they
take
it
in
maner
for
a
comeforte
,
iustifyinge
,
that
they
suffer
it
ryghtwy
fly
and
yet
they
make
vs
not
alonely
ioy
for
this
vertue
,
but
also
for
other
as
naturall
.
For
they
that
be
stedfast
louers
,
to
be
praysed
of
them
that
they
serue
,
they
seke
all
the
wayes
they
can
to
pleace
,
for
which
cause
they
lyue
iustly
not
excedynge
in
any
thynge
,
in
that
is
honourable
nor
mete
to
be
done
,
bycause
they
wolde
not
be
famyd
to
be
of
euyll
condycions
,
or
to
vse
any
euyll
customes
.
The
.iii.
cause
is
they
make
vs
worthy
in
the
vertue
of
atemperance
,
bycause
they
shulde
not
abhorre
vs
,
nor
that
we
shuld
not
be
behatyd
of
them
,
they
cause
vs
to
vse
atemperance
in
eatynge
and
drynkyng
and
slepyng
,
and
in
all
other
thynges
that
perteynith
to
the
vertue
of
atemperance
aswell
in
spekynge
as
in
all
other
warkes
,
so
that
we
woll
not
excede
in
no
poynte
frome
hones●ie
.
The
iiii
.
is
,
they
that
lacke
strength
,
women
do
gyue
it
to
them
,
and
suche
as
hath
strength
by
the
meanes
of
women
,
it
doth
encrease
,
they
cause
vs
to
be
strong
to
suffre
,
they
cause
hardynes
to
enterprice
,
they
cause
the
harte
to
hope
,
when
they
putte
theyr
louers
to
any
ieopedy
,
they
cause
them
to
be
●
glory
,
they
cause
vs
to
repute
feare
,
a
great
vice
,
for
we
esteme
more
the
prayse
of
our
louer
,
then
the
price
of
longe
lyfe
.
For
theyr
sakes
they
begynne
,
&
make
an
ende
of
many
greate
enterprices
,
puttyng
theyr
strength
in
the
state
as
they
deserue
:
wherfore
we
may
well
iudge
,
that
we
be
bounde
to
them
The
.v.
is
they
endue
vs
with
no
lesse
vertuos
theogecals
,
then
they
do
with
vertuos
cardynals
.
And
to
speke
of
the
fyrst
,
the
which
is
faith
,
yf
any
man
be
in
dought
of
his
beleue
,
if
his
mynde
be
ones
set
in
loue
,
then
he
shall
truely
beleue
in
god
,
and
laude
his
puyssance
to
create
suche
a
creature
as
his
louer
is
,
with
so
excellent
beawtye
,
and
they
wyll
be
so
deuoute
,
that
the
apostels
in
holynes
shall
haue
of
them
none
aduauntage
The
.vi.
reasone
is
bycause
they
engender
in
our
sowles
the
vertue
of
hope
,
so
though
the
subgiettes
to
the
lawe
of
loue
endure
moche
payne
,
yet
alwayes
they
hope
in
theyr
beleue
,
they
hope
in
theyr
stedfastnes
,
they
hope
in
the
pitie
of
them
that
cause
theyr
payne
,
they
hope
in
the
condycion
of
theyr
louer
,
who
distroyeth
them
,
they
hope
in
the
aduenture
seynge
they
haue
so
moche
hope
vpon
them
that
gyuith
them
theyr
passion
,
then
they
must
nedys
haue
hope
in
god
who
offerith
and
promyseth
perpetuall
comforte
and
reste
.
The
.vii.
reason
is
,
they
cause
vs
to
deserue
charyte
,
the
propretie
ther
of
is
loue
:
this
restith
in
our
wyll
,
this
we
put
in
our
thoughtes
,
this
we
drawe
in
to
our
memory
,
this
we
ferme
in
our
hartes
.
And
though
it
be
so
that
we
vse
this
loue
towardes
our
loueres
,
yet
it
redoundithe
to
the
souerayne
vtilyte
,
and
welthe
in
tyme
to
come
,
so
that
with
quyke
contricion
it
shall
brynge
vs
to
god
:
for
loue
at
the
pynche
of
deth
causith
vs
to
do
almesse
deades
,
and
commaundith
to
say
masses
and
occupieth
vs
in
charytable
warkes
to
th
entent
to
delyuer
vs
fro
our
cruell
thoughtes
,
and
by
cau●e
that
women
naturally
are
deuoute
and
bycause
we
wolde
be
pertakers
of
theyr
deades
,
it
enforsith
vs
to
do
suche
good
warkes
as
we
do
.
The
.viii.
reason
bycause
they
make
vs
contemplatiue
,
for
the
prisoners
of
loue
,
do
gyue
them selfe
to
contemplacion
,
in
remembrynge
the
beaute
grace
and
excellence
of
them
that
they
loue
,
and
so
moche
they
thynke
vpon
theyr
passions
,
that
often
tymes
they
remember
god
,
&
set
so
theyr
hartes
vpon
hym
,
that
they
thynke
them selfe
well
worthy
to
receyue
theyr
paynes
&
tormentes
.
Thus
it
may
be
knowen
clerly
that
women
helpe
&
ayde
men
,
to
wynne
the
glory
perdurable
.
The
.ix.
reasone
is
they
make
our
hartes
contryte
,
not
with
standynge
that
some
be
sore
peyned
,
by
cause
they
can
not
attayn
,
to
theyr
wylles
and
desires
,
then
with
wepynges
and
syghynges
they
desire
of
theyr
ladyes
,
some
remedye
.
And
the
accostumyng
of
this
doyng
bryngith
them
to
go
confesse
theyr
synnes
with
wepyng
and
waylynge
in
suche
wyse
that
they
deserue
perdone
and
absolucion
of
theyr
synne
.
The
.x.
is
the
good
counsayle
that
women
geuith
vs
,
often
tymes
it
falleth
that
we
fynde
i
theyr
redy
counsayle
,
that
we
haue
long
studyed
for
before
,
and
sought
for
with
great
dylygence
:
and
by
theyr
peaseable
counsaylls
withoute
sclaunder
,
they
haue
withstande
many
euylls
,
&
sauyde
many
lyues
:
they
conserue
the
peace
,
they
refrayne
ire
,
&
apeace
furiousnes
,
and
sette
amyte
betwene
enemyes
.
The
xi
.
is
men
be
honouryd
by
them
,
they
cause
greate
maryages
with
great
ryches
and
rentes
,
some
peraduenture
wyll
say
that
honour
restith
not
in
ryches
,
but
rather
in
vertue
,
I
say
therto
,
they
cause
aswell
the
one
as
the
other
.
I
presume
,
that
ther
be
greate
v●rtue
in
vs
yet
the
greate
honours
and
prayse
that
we
desyre
to
haue
commyth
by
them
,
bycause
of
women
,
we
esteme
more
shame
,
then
our
lyues
,
for
theyr
sakes
we
study
to
do
al
warkes
of
noblenes
.
The
.xii.
reasonne
is
,
they
seperate
fro
vs
all
auerise
the
which
is
the
rote
of
all
euyll
,
and
causith
vs
to
be
accompanyd
with
lyberalyte
,
wherby
lyghtly
we
get
the
good
wyll
of
euery
man
:
they
cause
vs
lyberally
to
spend
that
we
haue
,
wherby
we
are
praysed
&
fast
tyed
to
euery
man
with
good
loue
,
so
that
in
what
soeuer
necessite
we
fale
in
,
we
shall
receyue
ayde
and
seruice
,
and
not
alonely
they
profyt
vs
,
as
in
cau●ynge
vs
to
vse
lyberalyte
as
we
ought
to
do
,
but
therby
they
cause
vs
to
be
moche
set
by
and
made
of
,
and
what
surer
thynge
can
be
then
to
haue
the
good
wyll
of
the
people
.
The
.xiii.
reasone
is
women
encrease
and
kepe
our
goodes
and
rentes
,
and
that
we
haue
goten
,
they
con●erue
it
with
greate
dylygence
.
The
.xiiii.
is
the
clennes
that
they
procure
vs
to
vse
aswell
in
our
persones
as
in
our
habylymentes
,
and
in
euery
thynge
that
we
medle
with
.
The
xv
.
is
for
the
good
bryngynge
vp
of
chyldren
,
the
which
is
a
princypall
thyng
,
whereof
men
haue
greate
nede
,
for
if
we
be
well
brought
vp
we
shall
vse
all
curtesye
,
and
eschew
the
contrary
,
therby
we
shal
honour
the
small
,
and
serue
the
great
,
&
not
alonely
they
cause
vs
to
be
well
brought
vp
but
also
to
be
belouyd
,
for
yf
we
entreate
euery
man
as
he
deseruyth
,
they
shall
entreate
vs
accordyng
to
our
desertes
.
The
.xvi.
is
they
cause
vs
to
be
galante
and
freshe
in
our
aperell
,
for
theyr
sakes
we
study
how
to
aperell
vs
,
and
what
we
may
were
,
and
for
theyr
sakes
we
aray
vs
by
good
industry
,
and
crafte
to
brynge
our
personages
in
to
a
dewe
forme
,
the
which
sometyme
peraduenture
nature
denyeth
,
then
to
hyde
that
deformyte
,
crafte
must
be
vsyde
and
occupyed
,
deuysyng
the
aperell
accordynge
,
some
tyme
long
,
some
tyme
shorte
,
some
tyme
streyght
,
some
tyme
wyde
,
as
best
may
become
the
persone
,
these
galantes
for
loue
of
women
deuyse
new
entayles●
and
cuttes
with
discrete
borders
,
and
dyuerse
other
new
inuensions
.
The
.xvii.
reasone
is
often
tymes
they
cause
musyke
to
be
hadde
of
all
instrumentes
,
&
many
of
them
occupy
the
same
,
so
that
we
ioy
of
theyr
swete
armony
,
for
theyr
sakes
are
songe
these
swete
romanses
in
as
subtyle
wayes
as
can
be
deuysyd
.
The
.xviii.
is
they
cause
our
force
and
strength
to
encrease
,
for
when
men
come
before
ladyes
,
and
gentle
women
,
they
enforce
them
to
cast
stones
,
barres
,
and
dartes
,
and
to
wrestyll
,
rynne
,
and
leape
,
and
the
syght
of
the
women
vttereth
theyr
feates
with
more
force
,
then
yf
the
women
were
absent
,
&
all
this
is
to
th
entent
,
to
atayne
the
loue
of
theyr
lady
.
The
.xix.
is
they
quykken
the
inwarde
spirite
,
aswell
as
the
body
for
if
we
know
that
our
louer
take
pleasure
in
any
thynge
,
other
in
synginge
,
daunsynge
or
playeng
,
vpon
any
instrumente
,
they
wyll
then
applye
them selfe
to
lerne
it
and
to
trauayle
theyr
sprytes
there
aboute
,
and
though
they
were
but
dull
before
,
yet
with
suche
diligence
,
they
wyll
attayne
to
the
perfection
of
the
arte
,
therby
to
gyue
recreacion
to
theyr
louer
.
The
.xx.
and
the
last
reason
is
bycause
we
be
womens
chyldren
by
the
whiche
respect
we
are
most
bounde
to
women
,
rather
then
for
any
other
cause
sayd
before
or
to
be
sayde
.
For
pleasure
of
women
,
are
ordyned
these
iustes
royall
and
pompeous
tourneis
and
these
bankettes
,
and
ioyfull
feastes
,
for
them
is
begonne
thynges
of
gentlenes
,
there
is
no
cause
why
they
shulde
be
by
vs
disprayede
.
O
trespas
of
greuous
chastiment
,
what
woman
is
there
in
all
the
worlde
that
wyll
not
haue
compassion
of
the
cryes
&
lamentacions
that
we
shew
them
,
or
of
the
paynefull
wordes
and
syghes
that
we
vtter
before
them
,
or
of
the
swerynges
and
promyses
that
we
make
to
them
,
or
what
is
she
,
that
wyll
not
beleue
the
stedfast
fayth
that
we
promyse
,
what
harte
can
be
withoute
frute
herynge
the
commendable
prayses
that
we
gyue
them
by
ferme
harte
and
wyll
,
and
by
none
adulasiō
nor
malyce
.
what
woman
is
she
of
so
ferme
and
stable
a
mynde
that
can
defende
her selfe
,
yf
she
be
contynually
pursued
,
consyderynge
the
deades
of
armes
,
wherwith
they
be
fought
withall
,
though
they
make
but
small
defence
,
it
is
no
meruayll
,
and
yet
suche
as
can
not
defend
them selfe
ought
to
be
praysed
&
namyd
pitefull
,
rather
then
to
be
reputed
culpable
.
¶
The
profe
by
ensample
,
of
the
bounte
&
goodnes
of
women
shewed
by
Lereano
TO
th
entent
that
lawdable
vertue
of
the
sex
femenyn
,
shuld
be
declared
accordyng
to
theyr
desertes
.
I
purpose
to
alledge
certayne
ensamples
,
howbeit
my
desyre
was
to
haue
restyde
with
this
that
I
haue
sayde
to
th
entent
that
my
ignorante
and
rude
tonge
shulde
not
haue
troubled
theyr
clere
bounte
by
reason
of
my
vnwysedome
:
howbeit
my
prayse
can
not
encrease
theyr
goodnes
,
nor
my
disprayse
can
not
abate
theyr
,
propertye
,
if
I
shuld
make
rehersall
of
the
chast
virgins
tyme
past
and
present
I
hadde
nede
to
haue
the
deuyne
reuelasion
,
for
ther
be
and
haue
ben
so
many
that
no
humayne
wytte
can
comprehende
them
.
And
to
be
breue
I
shall
shew
of
some
as
I
haue
redde
,
aswell
crystened
as
gentyls
&
iewes
.
I
wyl
make
ensample
by
the
few
,
to
comprehende
the
vertue
of
the
mo
,
as
for
suche
as
be
auctorysed
to
be
sayntes
,
I
wyll
not
speke
of
them
for
.iii.
causes
.
The
fyrste
bycause
it
is
manyfeste
,
and
openly
knowen
,
then
it
were
but
symplenes
&
waste
to
reherce
it
.
The
.ii.
cause
is
the
chyrch
gyueth
them
vnyuersall
prayse
.
The
.iii.
bycause
I
ame
not
worthy
to
put
in
my
rude
wordes
,
theyr
excellent
goodnes
,
&
specially
of
our
blessed
lady
.
All
the
doctours
and
deuoute
contemplatyues
,
coulde
neuer
speke
nor
prayse
her
as
she
is
worthy
nor
reche
to
the
lest
parte
of
her
excellent●
wherfore
I
wyll
come
lower
and
declare
of
them
that
I
may
spek
more
liberally
.
I
wyll
begynne
at
the
chaste
gentiles
,
Lucresia
chefe
crowne
of
the
nacion
romayne
wyfe
to
Colatyne
,
knowynge
her selfe
enforsed
&
defowled
by
Traquyne
,
she
sayde
to
her
husband
Colatyne
,
dere
spouse
,
know
for
trouth
that
a
strange
man
hath
defowled
thy
bedde
.
Howbeit
though
my
body
be
enforced
,
my
harte
is
innocent
,
though
I
be
fre
fro
the
trespace
,
I
can
not
be
assoyled
fro
the
payne
,
and
to
th
entent
that
no
lady
nor
other
woman
hereafter
by
myne
ensample
shuld
erre
,
and
so
with
speking
of
those
wordes
with
a
sharpe
sword
she
ryd
her
owne
lyfe
.
Also
Porcia
who
was
doughter
to
the
noble
Catone
and
wyfe
to
the
noble
&
vertuos
Bruto
,
and
when
she
knew
the
deth
of
her
husband
she
tooke
such
greuous
sorow
,
that
to
the
ende
of
her
lyfe
,
she
dyd
eate
hote
coles
,
to
make
sacrefice
of
her selfe
.
Penolope
wyfe
to
Ulixes
,
she
knowyng
that
he
went
in
to
warre
agaynst
the
Troyans
,
knowyng
that
yonge
men
of
Italy
were
sore
enamored
vpon
her
beautie
,
in
the
absence
of
her
husband
,
dyuerce
desyred
to
mary
with
her
.
And
she
desyrynge
to
kepe
her
chastitie
,
&
to
defende
her selfe
agaynst
them
,
sayd
how
she
wold
make
a
webbe
as
ladies
vsed
in
those
dayes
:
&
when
it
was
finished
,
she
promysed
her
wowers
then
to
accomplish
theyr
desyres
.
And
when
she
hadde
graunted
this
,
by
her
subtile
wyt
asmoche
as
she
made
in
the
day
,
she
brake
it
agayn
in
the
nyght
.
And
by
that
meanes
she
draue
of
the
seasone
xx
.
yere
,
and
then
Ulixes
came
home
alone
olde
&
in
greate
pouertie
,
yet
the
chast
lady
receued
hym
ad
though
he
hadde
come
in
greate
prosperytie
.
Also
Iulia
doughter
to
Cesar
fyrst
enperour
beinge
wyfe
to
Pompeye
she
loued
hym
so
entierly
,
that
on
a
day
she
fyndynge
his
clothes
bloudy
,
beleuynge
that
he
hadde
bene
dede
fell
sodenly
to
the
erth
and
dyed
for
sorow
.
Atrenisa
amonge
other
mortayll
creatures
worthy
to
be
praysed
,
she
beinge
maried
to
Mansall
kynge
of
Icaria
she
loued
hym
with
so
ferme
a
harte
that
when
he
was
dede
,
she
gaue
hym
sepulture
,
within
her
owne
brest
,
she
brente
his
bones
,
and
the
asshes
of
them
she
dranke
litle
and
litle
,
and
the
seremonies
made
of
his
obsequy
thinkinge
that
she
wold
go
to
hym
,
slew
her selfe
with
her
owne
handes
.
Argea
doughter
to
kynge
Adastro
and
wyfe
to
Polymytes
sonne
to
Egisto
kynge
of
Thebes
,
when
Polimites
was
slaine
in
a
batayll
by
the
handes
of
his
brother
,
she
knowinge
therof
(
withoute
fearing
of
her
enemyes
,
or
of
any
other
wylde
bestes
,
nor
fearynge
the
emperous
law
)
wente
oute
of
Athenes
in
the
nyght
in
to
the
felde
,
and
found
oute
amonge
the
dede
bodies
her
husbandes
body
,
and
caryed
it
in
to
the
citie
,
and
caused
it
to
be
brent
accordyng
to
the
custome
with
bytter
wepynge
,
puttynge
the
asshes
in
to
a
cofer
of
golde
,
and
then
promysed
her
lyfe
to
perpetuall
chastite
.
Ipola
of
Grece
saylynge
by
thy
see
,
by
her
euyll
fortune
she
was
taken
by
her
enemyes
,
and
they
wolde
haue
enforsed
her
,
and
she
to
conserue
her
chastite
,
went
to
the
one
side
of
the
shyp
,
and
wyllyngly
fell
ouer
the
boorde
in
to
the
see
,
and
there
was
drowned
.
Howbeit
the
fame
of
her
dead
was
not
greatly
laudable
.
No
lesse
worthy
of
prayse
was
the
wyfe
of
Amede
kynge
of
Thesale
,
she
knoweng
by
the
aunswere
of
the
god
Apollo
,
that
her
hu●bnad
shulde
receyue
the
deth
,
withoute
voluntaryly
some
other
personne
wolde
dye
for
hym
,
and
so
wyllyngly
to
saue
the
kynge
,
she
disposed
her selfe
to
dye
.
Now
of
the
nacion
of
the
Iues.
Sara
wyfe
of
father
Abraham
,
when
she
was
taken
,
and
in
the
power
of
kynge
Pharao
,
defendynge
her
chastitie
with
the
armes
of
prayer
,
desyred
god
to
delyuer
her
oute
of
his
handes
.
And
when
the
kyng
thought
to
haue
fulfylled
his
enyll
dead
,
god
heryng
her
petecion
,
the
kynge
waxyde
seke
,
in
suche
wyse
that
then
he
knew
well
it
was
for
his
wanton
desyre
.
Then
he
commaydyd
to
delyuer
her
quyte
withoute
any
spotte
of
vnclennis
.
Delbora
enduyd
with
so
many
vertues
,
deseruyd
to
haue
the
spirite
of
prophesye
,
she
shewyd
not
alonely
her
voūte
in
artes
femenyne
,
but
also
in
stronge
batayles
feyghtynge
agaynste
her
e●emyes
with
a
valyante
and
a
vertuous
harte
.
And
she
was
of
suche
excellence
that
.xl.
yere
she
rulyd
the
people
of
the
iues
.
Hestere
brought
in
captyuyte
in
to
Babilone
for
her
vertue
&
fayernes
she
was
taken
to
wyfe
to
kyng
Assuara
who
at
that
tyme
rulyd
a
.
C.xxvii
.
prouynces
And
by
her
merites
&
prayers
delyuered
the
iues
,
fro
theyr
captyuyte
.
Also
the
mother
of
Sampson
desyrynge
to
haue
a
sonne
,
deseruyd
by
her
vertue
that
an
angell
shewyde
the
natyuyte
of
Sampsone
,
Elisabeth
wyfe
to
Sacarias
,
as
she
was
the
very
seruant
of
god
,
for
her
deseruynge
she
had
a
sonne
sanctified
or
he
was
borne
which
was
saynte
Iohn
.
Now
of
olde
stories
of
cristen
women
,
I
can
not
wryte
them
at
lenght
:
but
to
be
breue
to
shew
some
of
a
latter
tyme
of
the
nacion
of
Castile
.
Don
Marya
Coronell
by
whome
beganne
the
lynage
of
the
Coronelles
,
bycause
her
chastite
was
praysede
and
her
bountie
not
hyd
,
she
was
accusyde
of
a
cryme
,
wherfore
wyllyngly
,
she
brente
her selfe
hauyng
lesse
feare
of
the
deth
then
to
be
founde
culpable
.
Also
Done
Isabell
mother
to
the
mayster
of
the
order
of
Calatrane
.
Done
Rodigo
and
mother
to
.ii.
erles
,
of
Urema
.
Done
Alonso
&
Don
Iohn
,
she
beyng
a
widowe
fell
in
to
a
sikenes
,
and
the
phisycions
to
procure
her
helth
sayd
how
she
coulde
not
lyue
withoute
she
maryed
,
or
had
the
company
of
man
then
her
chyldren
knowynge
what
case
she
was
in
,
desyryd
and
counsayled
her
to
take
an
husbande
,
she
aunswerd
and
sayd
,
by
the
grace
of
god
that
shall
I
neuer
do
for
I
had
rather
dye
,
to
be
called
mother
to
suche
chyldren
as
ye
be
,
then
to
lyue
and
to
be
called
wyfe
to
another
husband
.
And
with
this
chaste
consyderacyon
,
and
by
the
pleasoure
of
god
,
when
she
dyed
,
ther
were
mysteries
sene
of
her
saluacion
.
Also
Don
Maria
gracia
the
blessed
woman
borne
in
Tolledo
of
the
gretest
lynage
in
all
the
citie
,
she
wolde
neuer
mary
,
kepynge
her
vyrginite
.iiii.
score
yere
,
at
whose
deth
were
sene
dyuerce
myracles
,
the
whiche
yet
in
Tolledo
be
had
in
perpetuall
remembrance
.
O
what
may
a
man
say
of
the
pure
vyrgyns
of
gentiles
.
Atrisalya
Sybela
borne
in
the
citie
of
Babilone
for
her
merites
she
prophesied
by
diuyne
reuelacion
many
thinges
to
come
after
always
conseruinge
her
vyrginytie
tyll
she
dyed
.
Pallas
&
Mynerua
fyrst
sene
about
the
ryuer
of
Tritonia
,
newe
inuenters
of
many
offices
perteynynge
to
the
femynyne
sex
,
and
also
to
men
,
alwayes
lyuyng
as
vyrgins
.
And
so
ended
Atalanta
she
that
fyrst
strake
the
porke
of
Calydonia
,
in
virgynite
and
noblenes
she
contynuyd
.
Canulla
doughter
to
Macabeo
kyng
of
the
Bostos
,
she
dyd
no
lesse
then
other
dyd
in
kepyng
of
her
virgynite
.
Calādea
,
Uesta
,
Clodya
,
Romayne
they
kepte
the
same
law
till
theyr
dethe
.
yf
it
were
not
to
length
my
trouble
yf
I
shuld
lyue
this
M.
yere
,
I
coulde
not
resite
the
ensamples
,
that
I
could
reherce
:
therfore
Tesio
accordyng
as
thou
haste
harde
,
thou
and
suche
other
as
do
blaspheme
the
nature
femenyne
,
are
well
worthy
of
iuste
punysion
,
the
which
I
counsaill
the
not
to
abide
to
receyue
it
of
a nother
,
but
rather
punyshe
thy selfe
yf
thou
do
it
of
malyce
condemne
the
shame
therof
.
¶
The
auctor
.
ALl
suche
as
were
present
had
great
maruayll
of
his
wordes
seynge
by
his
spekynge
to
be
so
nere
the
deth
as
he
was
for
when
he
had
ended
his
wordes
,
his
tonge
began
to
fayll
,
and
his
syght
nere
lost
,
then
his
seruauntes
began
to
crye
,
and
wayle
,
and
his
frend
begane
to
wepe
,
and
his
subiectes
cryynge
oute
in
the
streates
so
that
all
ioy
was
turned
to
sorow
,
and
the
lady
his
mother
beynge
absente
,
for
his
sekenes
was
kept
fro
her
knowledge
,
howbeit
she
gyuynge
more
credyte
to
her
feare
,
then
to
that
was
shewyd
her
with
boldnes
of
maternall
loue
,
she
deperted
fro
her
owne
howse
and
came
to
Susa
,
and
when
she
entered
the
gate
euery
persone
that
she
saw
gaue
her
euydence
of
dolour
with
wordes
of
extreme
passyon
,
rather
then
with
wordes
well
ordered
,
she
herynge
how
her
sone
Lereano
was
in
the
extremyties
of
deth
,
her
strenght
fayled
her
so
that
she
fell
downe
to
the
erth
in
a
trance
,
&
so
longe
she
laye
that
euery
man
thought
that
the
mother
and
the
sonne
shulde
take
theyr
sepulture
at
one
tyme
:
howbeit
with
harde
remedy
she
came
agayne
to
her selfe
,
and
then
went
to
her
sone
and
when
she
saw
hym
in
that
astate
,
with
greate
wepynge
and
passyon
of
deth
she
sayd
as
folowith
.
¶
The
complaynte
of
Lereanos
mother
.
O
Lereano
,
the
myrth
,
comforte
,
rest
and
supporte
of
myne
olde
dayes
O
swete
companyon
to
my
wyll
,
this
day
I
ame
lyke
to
leue
callyng
the
any
more
sonne
,
nor
thou
to
call
me
mother
,
of
this
I
haue
greate
feare
by
the
sygnes
that
I
se
of
thy
shorte
dayes
,
often
tymes
I
hadde
suche
dremes
,
where
with
I
haue
bene
in
greate
feare
all
the
nyght
durynge
,
other
tymes
,
when
I
haue
ben
in
my
oratory
,
prayng
for
thy
helth
my
harte
hath
faylede
me
,
and
a
colde
sweat
hath
taken
me
in
suche
maner
,
that
of
a
long
tyme
I
wyst
not
what
to
do
,
also
the
bes●es
haue
cretified
me
of
thyne
euyll
,
for
on
a
day
as
I
came
out
of
my
chamber
ther
came
to
me
a
dogge
and
made
sodenly
suche
a
howlyng
that
for
feare
ther
of
,
I
lost
the
strength
of
my
body
,
and
could
not
speke
,
nor
could
not
remoue
oute
of
the
place
that
I
was
in
.
And
therby
I
gaue
more
credence
to
my
suspecte
,
then
to
thy
messengers
,
and
to
satysfie
my selfe
,
I
ame
come
to
se
the.
O
the
lyght
of
my
syghte
and
lyfe
.
O
blyndnes
of
the
same
if
I
se
the
dye
&
I
can
se
none
occasion
of
thy
deth
,
thou
beyng
in
age
to
lyue
,
thou
hast
alwayes
ben
fearefull
of
god
,
&
louer
of
all
vertues
,
and
enemye
to
all
vyces
,
frende
to
frendes
and
belouyde
,
thynke
for
certane
,
this
day
the
force
of
thyne
euyll
fortune
takith
away
the
ryght
of
reason
,
syn
thou
dyest
or
thy
tyme
,
withoute
any
infyrmytie
.
Happy
be
they
,
that
be
of
low
and
base
condicion
,
and
rude
of
wytte
for
they
feale
no
thynge
,
but
take
euery
thynge
as
it
comyth
.
And
vnhappy
be
they
that
by
subtyll
wytte
and
sharpe
vnderstandyng
know
euery
thynge
.
wolde
to
god
thou
werte
one
of
the
rude
and
dull
,
for
I
had
rather
to
be
callyd
mother
to
a
rude
persone
hauynge
thy
lyfe
,
then
to
haue
thy
deth
,
beyng
neuer
so
wyse
.
O
cruell
deth
enemy
to
all
mortal
creatures
thou
wilt
perdone
no
synners
,
nor
a●soyll
the
innocentes
,
thou
arte
suche
a
traytour
,
that
no
man
can
make
defence
agaynst
the
,
thou
thretenyst
age
,
and
takest
awaye
yough
:
the
one
thou
sleyste
by
malyce
,
and
the
other
for
enuy
,
though
thou
tary
longe
,
yet
thou
wylte
not
forget
to
come
at
laste
,
thou
gouernyst
thy selfe
with
oute
law
or
reasone
,
it
had
ben
better
for
the
to
haue
conseruyd
my
sonne
beyng
of
xx
.
yeres
rather
then
to
leue
me
his
mother
of
.lxx.
yeres
of
age
,
why
doste
thou
turne
the
ryght
vpsedown
.
I
haue
lyued
longe
inough
,
and
he
is
yong
yet
for
to
lyue
:
perdon
me
that
I
thus
say
to
the
,
for
thou
by
thy
cruell
warkes
causyste
dolours
,
yet
agayne
thou
gyuist
comforte
takyng
away
them
shortely
,
that
thou
leuist
behynde
them
,
that
thou
takest
away
:
for
the
which
,
yf
thou
wylte
so
do
with
me
I
were
moche
bound
to
the
,
that
I
myght
go
with
my
sonne
Lereano
,
but
yf
he
myght
lyue
,
and
I
to
dye
,
it
shulde
be
my
comeforte
.
O
sone
what
shall
become
of
my
age
remembryng
the
ende
of
thy
yough
,
yf
I
lyue
it
shal
be
rather
to
wepe
and
bewayll
my
synnes
,
then
by
reasone
to
haue
any
wyll
or
desyre
to
lyue
with
what
thyng
coulde
I
receyue
more
cruell
payne
,
then
to
lyue
long
,
thyne
euyll
is
very
great
,
that
ther
canne
be
found
no
remedye
,
what
auay
lyth
now
the
strength
of
thy
body
,
or
the
vertue
of
thyne
harte
,
or
the
hardynes
of
thy
corage
,
all
these
thynges
that
shulde
auayll
the
faylythe
,
yf
for
the
price
of
loue
,
thy
lyfe
myght
be
bought
,
I
wolde
desyre
deth
to
do
his
offyce
vpon
me
,
and
to
delyuer
the
quyte
fro
hym
,
but
thy
fortune
wyll
not
suffer
it
,
nor
I
can
not
therfore
sorow
shal
be
my
drynke
and
my
mete
,
and
my
thought
my
slepe
vntyll
the
tyme
that
the
force
of
dethe
,
and
my
desyre
shall
brynge
me
to
my
sepulture
.
¶
The
auctor
.
THe
wepyng
that
Lereanos
mother
made
,
encreasyde
the
payne
of
all
them
that
were
presente
,
and
all
wayes
Lereano
had
Laureola
in
his
remembrance
,
of
that
was
past
he
had
but
small
memory
,
and
consyderyng
that
he
shulde
ioy
but
a
shorte
space
with
the
syght
of
the
.ii.
letters
that
Laureola
hadde
sente
hym
,
he
wiste
not
how
to
order
them
,
when
he
thought
to
breke
them
,
he
thought
he
shuld
offende
ther
by
Laureola
,
in
castynge
away
suche
wordes
of
so
worthy
price
as
was
wryten
in
them
,
and
when
he
thought
to
put
in
to
any
of
his
seruauntes
handes
,
he
fearyd
leste
they
shulde
be
se●e
,
wherby
perell
myght
folow
,
then
in
all
these
doubtes
he
toke
the
sureste
way
,
he
callyd
for
a
cup
of
water
,
and
then
brake
the
lettres
in
to
small
peces
,
and
so
sette
vp
in
his
bed
,
and
dranke
vp
the
water
with
the
peces
of
the
letters
,
and
so
he
satisfyde
therby
his
wyll
and
then
drawynge
to
his
ende
warde
,
he
cast
his
syght
vpon
me
&
sayde
,
frende
now
all
myne
euylles
be
endyd●
and
therwith
gaue
vp
his
lyfe
in
witnes
of
his
true
fayth
.
Then
what
sorow
I
felte
,
and
what
I
dyd
is
lyghtly
iudged
,
the
wepynges
that
was
there
made
of
his
deth
,
are
of
suche
esteme
,
that
me
thynke
it
cruelty
to
wryte
it
:
them
his
obsequyes
and
buryals
were
done
most
honourably
,
accordyng
to
the
deserdes
of
his
vertues
,
&
as
for
my selfe
,
with
a
better
wyll
I
wolde
haue
depertyd
this
lyfe
,
then
to
haue
taryed
on
the
yerth
alyue
:
so
with
sighes
I
went
my
way
,
and
depertyd
wyth
wepyng
,
and
with
lamentacion
I
sore
complaynyde
,
and
with
suche
thoughtes
I
wente
to
my
lodgynge
.
And
when
I
saw
that
the
consentynge
and
desirynge
of
my
deth
could
not
remedy
hym
that
was
passyd
,
nor
could
be
no
comforte
to
my selfe
,
them
I
determyned
to
deperte
,
and
to
go
in
to
myne
owne
countrey
,
and
yet
fyrst
I
purposed
to
go
to
the
courte
to
here
and
se
what
was
sayd
for
the
deth
of
Lereano
and
to
se
how
Laureola
toke
the
mater
:
Thus
I
thought
to
go
thyther
,
what
for
this
cause
,
&
for
other
busynes
that
I
had
ther
to
do
with
some
of
my
frendes
also
I
purposyd
to
speke
with
Laureola
if
I
myght
,
to
know
if
I
myght
se
in
her
any
repentance
,
and
to
se
what
true
louers
wolde
say
of
her
crueltye
vsyde
against
hym
,
that
deseruyd
hygh
reward
And
also
I
was
glad
to
deperte
fro
the
place
wher
as
Lereano
dyed
to
put
parte
of
my
sorow
out
of
my
mynde
.
So
I
came
to
the
courte
more
accompanyed
with
sorow
,
then
with
any
desire
to
lyue
remembryng
how
he
that
made
me
begynne
this
mater
,
was
in
his
sepulture
.
At
the
palayce
I
was
receyuyde
with
moche
heuynes
of
many
that
knew
the
deth
of
Lereano
,
then
I
resyted
to
suche
as
were
his
frende
,
the
secretenes
of
his
deth
Then
I
went
in
to
the
hall
,
where
I
was
acustumed
to
speke
with
Laureola
to
se
if
I
myght
se
what
chere
she
made
.
And
I
who
by
reasone
of
sore
wepynge
had
nere
lost
my
syght
,
I
lokyd
all
aboute●
but
I
culde
not
se
her
,
yet
when
she
saw
me●
lyke
a
dyscrete
ladye
suspectynge
that
I
wolde
haue
spoken
with
her
wenynge
that
I
hadde
not
seen
her
she
tur●ed
towarde
her
chambre
and
as
she
came
by
me
.
I
spied
well
it
was
she
,
who
hadde
brought
Lereano
fro
his
lyfe
&
me
almoste
withoute
knowledge
then
I
with
sore
wepynge
and
payneful
sighes
began
to
speke
to
her
in
this
maner
.
¶
The
auctor
to
Laureola
.
LAdy
moche
more
it
hadde
bene
better
for
me
to
haue
lost
my
lyfe
,
then
to
haue
know●n
your
cruelnes
and
small
pytie
,
I
say
this
bycause
I
had
rather
with
reason
ha●e
praysed
your
gentlenes
,
with
●einge
you
to
haue
satisfied
the
se●uyce
that
hath
bene
done
to
you
by
Lereano
,
then
to
prayse
your
beautie
&
great
deseruynge
gyuyuge
dethe
to
hym
that
so
often
tymes
with
so
good
will
to
do
you
seruyce
hath
desyred
to
dye
,
but
syn
your
mynde
was
to
gyue
hym
the
deth
,
ye
haue
not
begyled
hym
nor
me
,
for
ye
haue
payed
hym
ther
with
,
ye
haue
bleryd
the
clennes
of
your
lynage
.
Remembre
that
suche
as
be
of
so
hygh
blud
as
ye
be
,
are
asmoch
bound
to
satisfy
the
lest
seruyce
that
is
done
to
them
,
aswel
as
to
kepe
and
defend
theyr
honour
.
And
certaynly
I
say
that
if
ye
had
sene
his
deth
,
all
the
dayes
of
your
lyfe
,
ye
wolde
wepe
.
Remembre
now
what
charge
of
conscience
ye
brought
hym
in
,
for
when
he
died
where
as
he
shulde
haue
had
most
memory
vpon
hys
sowle
,
and
what
shuld
haue
ben
done
with
his
body
,
he
then
remembred
more
the
letters
that
ye
had
sent
hym
,
the
whiche
he
toke
and
tare
in
peces
,
&
drank
them
in
water
because
they
shuld
neuer
be
sene
,
and
bycause
he
wold
cary
with
gym
some
thynge
that
had
bene
yours
,
to
the
entent
that
ye
shulde
haue
more
compassion
of
his
deth
then
ye
had
of
his
lyfe
.
I
shew
you
for
certayne
thus
I
saw
hym
dye
,
bycause
ye
shewyd
hym
no
compassion
Now
ye
shew
your selfe
to
be
sory
that
in
the
absence
of
your
small
loue
was
clene
forgoten
.
O
how
many
now
do
wepe
for
his
deth
,
and
yet
they
know
not
the
cause
.
But
as
to
me
(
fro
whom
the
secretnes
was
not
hiden
)
then
moche
more
it
muste
nedes
greue
me
,
remembrynge
,
how
in
your
handes
restyd
his
lyfe
,
and
seynge
your
crueltie
and
his
small
remedy
,
ye
caused
hym
to
dye
&
cause
his
mother
to
lyue
in
sorow
bycause
she
can
not
dye
,
and
as
for
me
lyuynge
,
I
ame
alwayes
dyeng
:
and
I
beleue
ye
couytte
not
gretly
your
owne
lyfe
,
to
remembre
what
ye
haue
done
,
but
that
ye
know
well
there
be
but
few
persons
that
know
what
ye
haue
done
.
I
thynke
ye
feare
but
litle
the
fame
of
your
euyll
name
,
for
ye
se
clerely
how
I
ame
lyke
to
dye
,
therfore
ye
feare
not
that
I
shuld
publishe
youe
crueltie
,
thynke
not
that
I
ame
in
feare
to
say
thus
to
you
,
for
yf
I
trouble
you
with
the
qualitie
,
content
you
then
with
the
quantite
,
syn
I
haue
so
greate
reason
to
speake
,
and
not
to
ende
properly
,
and
for
this
my
boldenes●
yf
I
deserue
any
punyshement
,
cause
me
to
be
slain
,
for
ye
shal
better
reward
me
with
deth
,
then
to
suffre
me
to
lyue
in
this
case
.
¶
The
auctor
.
Sore
troubelyd
stode
Laureola
,
yet
for
all
that
euery
I
sayd
,
her
face
shewyd
no
alterasion
of
her
hart
,
howbeit
lyke
a
discret
lady
,
refreynynge
wepynge
dissimuled
her
sorow
,
and
not
blamyuge
my
boldenes
with
an
heuy
chere
she
aunswered
me
as
foloweth
.
¶
Laureola
to
the
auctor
.
I
wolde
I
had
asmoche
wisdome
to
satisfye
the
,
as
I
haue
reasone
to
discharge
my selfe
,
and
yf
it
were
so
thou
shuldest
fynd
me
aswel
discharged
as
I
repute
the
dylygent
.
Thou
sayest
thou
woldest
thou
haddest
asmoche
case
to
prayse
my
pytye
,
as
thou
hast
cause
to
blame
my
crueltie
,
and
on
that
condicion
y●
desyryst
no
lenger
to
lyue
:
thou
blamyst
me
sayng
how
I
thought
to
sle
Lereano
,
and
that
begylyde
hym
,
and
weryde
the.
I
wolde
thou
knewyste
I
neuer
thought
to
gyue
hym
the
deth
,
for
doyng
as
thou
sayst
,
what
is
it
that
I
haue
done
,
I
neuer
brake
any
promise
what
do
I
owe
the
or
hym
,
that
thou
dyddest
trawayll
for
:
or
what
dyde
I
to
satisfye
thyne
entension
,
I
dyde
put
hym
without
doubte
,
and
the
withoute
charge
,
if
I
had
ben
beleuyd
,
then
myne
is
but
a
small
charge
:
thou
saist
I
ought
to
regarde
the
clennes
of
my
lynage
,
lokyng
profoundly
theron
,
hath
causyde
me
to
do
as
I
haue
done
,
thou
knowyst
well
,
all
women
are
more
bounde
to
regarde
theyr
honors
,
rather
than
to
accomplysh
any
amorous
wyll
or
appetight
.
Then
syn
all
women
are
bounde
to
this
how
moche
more
then
by
reasone
,
are
those
bounde
that
be
dyscedyd
of
a
blude
roiall
thynk
not
that
I
receyue
any
pleasure
for
the
deth
of
Lereano
,
nor
beleue
not
that
it
can
so
moch
greue
y●
,
as
it
sorowith
me
how
be
it
the
feare
of
my
honour
,
&
the
feare
of
my
father
dyd
more
in
me
,
then
the
euyll
wyll
that
I
bare
hym
,
nor
thynke
not
that
the
knowledge
of
his
seruice
,
was
forgoten
,
but
that
I
gaue
hym
great
thank
,
and
yf
with
any
reward
I
myght
haue
payed
hym
,
sauynge
my
honour
,
it
shuld
haue
ben
done
,
and
cost
hym
nothyng
then
both
he
and
thy selfe
shulde
asmoche
haue
praysede
as
now
thou
blamyste
me
for
vnkyndnes
in
his
lyfe
without
the
losse
of
lyfe
I
could
not
rewarde
hym
accordyng
to
his
desire
,
I
wyll
thou
know
,
that
his
deth
causith
me
to
lyue
alwayes
dyenge
,
now
shalte
thou
se
how
moche
it
sorowith
me
and
how
moche
he
pleasyde
me
,
now
thou
shalt
iudge
what
loue
I
bare
hym
,
and
know
yf
I
dyd
well
to
suffer
hym
to
dye
thou
knowist
well
that
with
his
lyfe
he
myght
haue
wonne
,
that
by
his
deth
he
dysparyd
and
lost
it
,
but
syn
I
can
not
now
paye
nor
rewarde
hym
,
I
shall
satisfye
the
&
make
the
bere
witnes
,
yf
I
rewarde
not
seruice
as
I
ought
to
do
.
¶
The
auctor
.
SHe
endyd
her
wordes
with
suche
heuynes
,
that
she
coulde
scante
make
an
ende
for
sorow
:
then
she
went
fro
me
subbyng
,
and
sore
wepyng
wherby
her
tonge
was
sore
troubelyd
,
&
chaunged
colour
,
and
so
went
in
to
her
chamber
with
sore
inwarde
lamen●acion
,
for
feare
she
shuld
haue
ben
hard
.
Then
I
went
to
my
lodgyng
with
so
great
sorow
that
often
tymes
I
was
desperate
of
my
lyfe
,
with
myne
owne
deth
I
wold
haue
ben
reuengyd
if
I
coulde
,
not
puttynge
my selfe
in
dyspayre
.
And
thus
beynge
alone
withoute
pleasure
aswell
as
with
oute
frendes
to
speke
vnto
,
for
werynes
I
layd
me
downe
,
and
as
though
I
had
sene
Lereano
before
me
presente
,
I
sayd
to
hym
as
folowith
.
¶
The
auctor
to
Lereano
.
O
Lereano
enemye
to
thy
aduenture
,
and
frende
to
thy
myshape
,
who
can
be
cause
of
thy
lyfe
with
this
ambassade
,
as
I
was
cause
of
thy
deth
with
my
message
,
for
now
if
thou
knewyst
the
repentance
of
Laureola
,
thou
woldest
change
the
glory
celostyall
,
for
thy
lyfe
temporal
:
for
by
thy
deth
,
thou
hast
lost
thy
desyre
,
if
thou
haddest
sauyd
thy
lyfe
without
doubte
,
thou
shuldest
haue
wonne
,
that
by
thy
deth
thou
hast
lost
.
Dyd
I
nat
say
to
the
,
when
thou
lay
a
dyenge
,
that
by
thy
deth
thou
shuldest
lese
all
,
and
by
thy
lyfe
thou
myghtest
attayne
to
thy
desyre
.
O
vnhappy
that
I
am
,
that
I
were
not
in
the
place
where
as
I
myght
shew
the
all
that
Laureola
hath
sayd
to
me
,
and
of
the
thought
that
she
tak●th
for
lesynge
of
thy
lyfe
,
though
with
the
deth
thou
hast
wonne
the
desire
of
thy
will
,
by
that
she
shewith
now
,
thou
oughtest
to
thynke
thy
deth
well
bestowyd
,
great
ioy
I
shuld
recene
,
if
I
knew
that
thou
dyddeste
here
me
and
beleue
m●
:
for
thou
maist
se
that
alonely
her
repentance
suffyseth
to
pay
that
thy
reward
.
yf
thou
haddeste
lyuyde
,
thou
shuldeste
haue
had
no
cause
to
haue
been
in
trouble
now
thy
payne
shal
be
withoute
hope
of
sufferance
,
now
thou
nediste
not
to
be
troubly
with
thy
lyfe
,
nor
take
no
ioy
of
thy
deth
.
O
what
welth
shuld
it
be
for
me
,
if
god
wold
suffer
me
to
lese
my
lyfe
to
recouer
thyne
,
why
doth
god
leue
me
here
without
the.
who
can
lese
the
,
and
lyue
after
,
wold
to
god
,
that
the
good
will
that
I
haue
in
thy
lyfe
that
thou
myghtest
pay
me
with
my
deth
that
which
I
hope
thou
shuldest
do
,
if
thou
haddest
as
good
wyll
to
se
me
,
as
I
haue
desire
to
serue
the
.Thus
I
wyll
leue
,
any
further
to
trouble
the.
¶
The
auctors
dreme
.
THus
I
was
so
wery
that
I
left
my
talkynge
,
and
as
he
that
wyst
not
what
he
dyd
,
I
fell
in
a
slombere
and
amonge
other
thynges
I
beganne
to
dreme
,
wherby
I
had
more
payn
then
pleasure
.
I
drempt
that
I
saw
Lereano
before
me
aparelled
after
this
maner
,
he
had
on
his
hedde
a
bonet
of
scarlet
with
a
grene
ryband
of
an
euyll
colour
,
with
a
worde
enbrowdered
saieng
thus
:
hope
is
dead
with
his
colour
slayne
by
your
vnkyndnes
,
and
when
he
came
nere
me
,
I
sawe
he
had
on
a
shyrte
wrought
with
blak
sylke
with
a
border
of
letters
,
sayenge
:
encreasyng
my
stedfastnes
,
at
the
ende
I
found
deth
.
Also
he
had
a
doblet
of
yeolow
saten
enbrowdered
with
this
worde
:
my
passion
with
my
ioye
satisfied
,
in
doynge
that
I
haue
done
.
Also
he
had
on
a
iaket
of
blake
veluyt
with
a
border
of
saten
of
the
same
colour
,
and
theron
a
wrytynge
that
sayd
:
in
my
stedfastnes
shewed
is
myne
euyll
,
and
your
trespace
.
Also
he
had
a
gerdell
of
golde
with
letters
reportynge
:
more
rather
was
my
dethe
,
then
lyfe
,
if
ye
wolde
be
seruyd
therwith
.
He
had
also
a
dager
,
the
knyues
and
pomell
of
asure
,
with
letters
sayeng
,
ryght
sore
was
the
passion
that
ye
gaue
me
,
and
yet
ye
neuer
repentyde
it
.
Also
he
had
a
sworde
with
the
sheth
&
gyrdell
of
sylke
enbrowderyde
with
this
worde
(
gyuyn
to
my
lyfe
such
torment
)
that
diyng
and
lyuyng
I
was
content
.
Also
his
hosen
one
white
a nother
blew
with
this
word
:
chastite
ielus
of
my
lyfe
&
could
not
be
sufferyd
to
serue
.
And
ouer
all
this
he
had
a
cappe
of
blacke
enbrowderyd
with
darke
tawny
with
a
worde
that
sayd
:
heuynes
can
not
so
trauayll
me
,
that
it
shulde
change
my
stedfastnes
.
His
slippers
were
enbrowdered
with
smal
letters
that
sayde
:
myne
euyls
are
at
an
ende
for
my
seruyce
,
and
denyed
me
is
the
benyfyte
.
And
on
his
gloues
was
writen
:
thus
begynnyth
and
endeth
the
name
that
most
deseruyth
.
So
when
I
had
at
length
regarded
his
aparell
,
and
the
stedfaste
thoughtes
that
by
lykelyhod
he
enduryd
,
I
behelde
his
face
,
and
I
saw
his
iesture
so
beautefull
that
it
semed
he
had
neuer
taken
thought
,
and
with
an
amorous
semblant
.
After
he
had
curtesly
salutyd
me
with
the
same
voyce
,
as
he
was
wonte
to
speke
,
me
thought
he
began
to
say
in
this
maner
.
¶
Lereano
to
the
auctor
.
O
Thou
my
true
frende
,
thou
hast
thought
that
my
presence
hath
bene
longe
fro
the
so
that
I
could
not
tell
what
thou
dyddest
nor
hard
what
thou
hast
spoken
,
thynke
not
so
,
for
I
shall
neuer
be
so
farre
fro
the
,
but
that
I
shall
alwayes
be
ioyned
with
the
,
for
though
by
aduenture
in
my
lyfe
I
deperted
fro
the
,
neuer
in
the
deth
I
shall
deperte
fro
the
,
I
shall
alwayes
be
ionyed
with
the.
And
all
that
thou
hast
sayd
of
Laureola
and
of
me
I
was
present
and
hard
it
,
god
knowith
if
I
myght
I
wold
haue
spoken
to
the
,
but
I
could
not
,
nor
feare
wold
not
leue
me
,
for
I
certifie
the
that
this
that
I
do
,
though
my
speche
be
short
,
yet
it
tormenteth
me
,
and
therfore
acordynge
to
the
trust
that
I
haue
in
thy
great
vertue
I
wyll
not
put
the
to
the
payne
with
long
wordes
therfore
I
wyll
goo
to
the
effect
of
thy
wordes
and
to
my
aunswere
.
Thou
sayest
thou
woldest
gladly
put
me
agayne
in
to
life
as
thou
puttedest
me
to
deth
,
beleue
nat
that
thy
message
gaue
me
the
deth
,
nor
I
in
the
begynnynge
can
not
be
excused
fro
coming
to
this
ende
:
thou
sayst
thou
woldest
that
I
were
in
the
dysposicion
that
I
myght
ioy
me
for
the
repentynge
of
Loureola
.
I
can
not
thanke
the
therfore
,
bycause
I
can
not
make
y●
a
recompence
,
for
the
gretest
seruice
that
I
could
make
is
not
so
greate
,
but
the
lest
deseruynge
that
I
haue
receyued
of
the
is
moche
gretter
.
As
for
her
rewardes
I
desyre
them
not
,
for
I
can
haue
as
now
no
ioye
of
them
,
though
I
desyre
them
neuer
somoche
,
and
though
now
with
her
repentynge
she
thynk
to
satysfie
me
yet
her
cruelnes
was
so
trobelous
,
that
though
she
dyd
more
,
yet
I
can
not
be
rewardyd
.
Thou
sayst
I
shuld
thynke
my
dethe
well
enployede
,
syn
I
haue
wonne
by
her
that
without
her
I
lost
,
now
wold
I
do
it
,
if
lyfe
were
lefte
with
me
,
for
though
I
myght
ioy
therwith
what
profyt
shuld
it
be
to
me
to
beleue
this
without
I
myght
se
what
she
doth
,
and
I
beleue
if
she
myght
se
me
agayne
to
lyue
,
she
wolde
gyue
me
more
payne
and
lesse
hope
,
but
the
best
to
be
delyueryd
fro
hope
is
deth
,
for
it
is
better
to
suffer
a
good
deth
,
then
to
endure
with
an
euyll
lyfe
,
beleue
not
but
and
I
had
beleuyd
that
I
shuld
haue
seruyd
her
,
better
lyuyng
then
to
dye
,
I
wold
not
haue
dyed
yet
,
but
syn
that
with
my
lyfe
I
could
not
preuayll
,
I
thought
then
with
deth
to
remedy
me
,
thynke
not
that
I
was
so
farre
withoute
wytte
,
that
I
knew
not
that
it
was
good
to
lyue
to
serue
her
,
though
I
coulde
haue
no
ioy
of
her
,
but
I
could
neuer
know
by
her
aunswere
,
that
she
was
content
with
my
seruyce
as
thou
knowist
ryght
well
,
but
she
dyd
let
me
dye
,
for
I
desiryd
lyfe
to
leue
me
,
also
thou
seist
that
thou
desirest
to
recouer
me
&
to
lese
thy
lyfe
,
I
beleue
y●
,
and
I
thanke
y●
therof
,
though
I
can
do
none
other
thyng
thou
desirist
me
to
pray
for
thy
deth
,
bycause
we
myght
lyke
frendes
ioy
to gether
syn
we
could
not
in
our
lyfe
be
not
of
y●
beleue
for
I
had
rather
her
spekynge
of
thy
lyfe
withoute
syght
of
the
,
then
to
know
thou
shuldest
be
with
me
dede
,
howbeit
by
thy
deth
thou
shuldest
but
change
thy
lyfe
,
for
thy
fame
shuld
neuer
dye
but
euer
lyue
,
thus
I
wyll
leue
the
,
not
bicause
I
wyll
go
farre
fro
the.
wherfore
I
requyre
the
take
it
for
none
euyll
that
I
speke
no
more
to
the
,
for
though
I
wolde
I
can
not
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHen
Lereano
had
made
an
ende
of
his
wordes
I
thought
to
haue
aunswerd
hym
,
but
then
in
my
dreme
me
thought
I
saw
Laureola
entre
into
my
chambre
as
vysyble
,
as
though
I
had
bene
wakyng
me
thought
she
was
in
a
strange
aparel
,
and
with
a
new
companyon
,
and
in
the
regardynge
of
so
new
a
vision
I
left
aunswerynge
Lereano
,
and
began
to
marke
the
maner
of
her
aparell●
and
I
so
regarded
her●
that
I
left
lokyng
vpon
Lereano
.
She
hadde
vpon
her
hed
a
fresh
atyer
frete
&
enbrowdered
with
letters
sayeng
:
my
cruel
condicion
gyueth
no
deth
to
seruyce
,
nor
yet
rewarde
.
Her
smocke
wrought
with
whyte
sylke
tyed
with
letters
sayeng
:
thy
deth
is
so
fastened
to
my
lyfe
that
I
can
not
scape
without
deth
.
Her
kertell
of
blacke
saten
with
a
folyage
of
tawny
with
letters
sayeng
:
thy
stedfastnes
myght
haue
gyuen
me
suche
payne
,
that
at
the
ende
it
myght
haue
wonne
me
.
Her
gyrdell
was
wrought
with
thredes
of
gold
reportynge
:
More
rather
shulde
haue
bene
my
glory
with
thy
lyfe
,
then
with
thy
deth
.
Her
mantel
was
of
.ii.
colours
the
one
parte
red
,
the
other
blew
,
with
a
wrytynge
that
sayde
:
now
ioye
can
not
enioye
me
without
great
thought
.
She
had
a
tabard
of
blew
russet
with
letters
sayeng
,
with
thy
deth
my
memory
is
certayne
so
that
lyuynge
my
glory
is
dede
.
Also
on
her
gloues
was
wryten
thus
,
with
that
I
began
I
make
an
ende
though
I
deserue
no
deth
:
her
slyppers
were
enbrowdered
with
this
word
:
I
haue
more
payne
for
thy
payne
then
for
myne
own
,
yet
more
deserueth
my
shame
.
So
when
I
had
well
regarded
her
aparell
,
and
marked
well
the
sygnificacions
of
the
wrytynges
,
I
saw
how
with
moche
sorow
and
smal
pleasure
(
by
semblant
more
lykely
to
dye
then
to
lyue
)
she
turned
her
face
towardes
Lereano
wher
as
he
stode
and
began
to
say
in
this
maner
.
¶
Laureola
to
Lereano
.
FRende
Lereano
neuer
thynke
that
the
force
of
thy
strenght
for
so
litle
an
inconvenience
,
that
I
shuld
consent
to
lose
,
for
as
thou
hast
sayd
to
be
desyrous
to
serue
me
,
more
honour
thou
shuldest
haue
done
me
in
lyuynge
,
then
I
to
gyue
the
deth
,
for
surely
thy
wekenes
nor
thy
payne
,
nor
yet
thy
loue
coulde
not
make
me
beleue
,
that
thou
shuldest
haue
died
,
therfore
thou
maist
clerely
se
what
euyll
thou
hast
done
,
yf
thou
thynk
,
that
I
dyd
was
to
mocke
the
or
to
proue
the
,
what
errour
then
I
haue
done
to
thy
purpose
,
yf
true
louers
cane
not
suffre
,
how
shall
they
come
to
theyr
desyrs
he
that
can
not
suffre
,
can
not
ioy
,
nor
but
seldome
attayne
to
his
glory
,
there
is
no
vertue
,
but
in
sufferynge
of
payne
therby
to
haue
ioye
of
theyr
good
aduenture
,
thou
oughtest
more
to
be
blamed
,
beynge
discrete
for
that
thou
hast
done
,
then
to
be
praysed
for
a
trew
louer
.
And
beleue
surely
that
yf
I
had
not
ben
surer
of
thy
fayth
I
wolde
haue
gyuen
no
credence
to
thy
stedfastnes
nor
yet
haue
gyuen
the
none
occasion
at
the
begynnynge
to
haue
come
to
this
ende
,
and
more
to
shew
the
,
the
trouth●
then
to
rewarde
the
of
thy
payne
,
I
make
the
sure
yf
I
had
beleued
that
thou
shuldest
haue
died
I
wold
rather
haue
taken
the
deth
my selfe
●
then
to
haue
consented
to
thy
deth
,
for
it
shuld
haue
bene
greate
conscience
to
me
to
haue
sffuered
the
to
dye
,
for
the
trust
that
I
had
,
in
that
thou
dydest
for
my
seruyce
caused
me
in
maner
to
beleue
thy
wrytynge
,
but
then
agayne
the
suretie
that
I
thought
had
ben
in
thy
wysdome
and
dyscrecion
,
caused
me
to
doubte
it
,
and
in
this
maner
I
gaue
more
credence
to
thy
discrecion
,
then
to
thy
determyned
deth
,
Lereano
it
ought
to
haue
suffysid
the
to
remember
in
what
case
myne
honour
stode
in
and
perell
of
my
lyfe
,
and
to
haue
ben
content
to
know
that
I
ought
the
my
fauour
,
for
thy
euyll
greuyd
me
worse
,
than
myne
owne
,
though
I
shewyd
it
not
to
the
,
if
thou
wylte
denye
this
,
remember
what
I
was
,
and
how
small
necessite
I
had
of
thy
seruice
,
ones
writyng
to
the
shuld
haue
sufficyd
,
though
I
dyd
not
put
the
in
no
suretie
for
thou
knewist
well
,
that
my
wrytyng
procedyd
of
no
feare
,
but
of
myne
owne
good
wyll
,
&
thou
canste
not
denye
,
whan
of
my
message
,
thou
dyddeste
dispaire
and
dyed
,
dyd
I
not
put
the
in
hope
when
I
sayde
,
that
if
I
lyuyd
lenger
then
my
father
,
then
shuldest
se
how
I
wold
rewarde
thy
deseruyng
,
so
that
thou
shuldeste
not
blame
me
for
any
vnkindnes
,
I
will
speke
no
more
syn
I
shall
no
more
se
the
,
and
by
cause
I
can
receyue
no
more
passion
then
I
do
for
thy
deth
,
therfore
I
make
short
my
wordes
,
though
my
payne
be
large
makynge
the
sure
,
I
shall
rewarde
thy
sowle
,
syn
by
myne
vnhap
,
by
reasone
of
thy
deth
I
can
not
rewarde
thy
body
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHen
Laureola
spake
these
wordes
to
Lereano
I
stode
in
a
strange
maner
ryght
sore
abasshyde
to
se
her
greate
pite
and
ioynynge
her
wysdome
and
knowyng
her
wyll
,
and
heryng
of
her
amorous
reasones
,
these
ouer
came
my
strength
,
though
she
spake
not
to
me
,
yet
I
praysede
moche
her
sayeng
,
though
it
auaylyd
but
lytle
,
howe
be
it
me
thought
her
reasones
were
so
iust
that
Lereano
coulde
make
none
aunswere
,
to
satisfye
them
,
not
for
the
small
confydence
that
I
hadde
in
his
wis●ome
,
but
bycause
of
the
trouble
of
his
spirytes
in
seynge
present
before
hym
the
creature
whome
he
most
desiryd
,
yet
me
thought
he
cast
vp
his
eyen
to
heuyn
,
and
with
great
curtesye
he
aunswere
her
in
this
maner
.
¶
Lereano
to
Laureola
.
O
Dere
lady
yf
I
had
the
wisdome
to
shew
you
the
case
and
quarell
of
myne
euyll
,
aswell
as
I
haue
reasone
to
suffer
it
,
I
coulde
then
aswell
aunswere
you
as
if
I
myght
lyue
to
serue
you
,
ye
say
,
ye
coulde
neuer
beleue
that
the
force
of
my
dethe
coulde
ouercome
my
strength
:
Haue
no
meruayl
thereof
,
for
without
my
desyre
I
coulde
fynde
no
thyng
to
defende
me
,
but
of
that
ye
blame
me
,
ye
deserue
the
payne
,
for
ye
myght
haue
gyuyn
me
remedy
,
&
ye
consentyd
that
I
shuld
dye
.
And
where
as
ye
say
I
erred
,
bycause
I
wold
not
defend
my selfe
affermynge
that
I
shuld
haue
sought
all
the
wayes
therto
,
yf
ye
dyd
it
to
proue
or
to
mocke
me
,
iudge
what
ye
say
,
and
beholde
what
case
I
was
in
,
&
ye
shall
say
that
a
harte
full
of
sorowe
neuer
takyth
good
newes
:
for
certayne
and
of
euyll
newes
it
makith
no
doubte
and
all
this
that
ye
haue
sayd
,
I
beleue
it
trew
,
of
your
owne
parte
knowyng
your
great
cruelte
and
my
small
hap
thynke
not
that
the
small
trauayll
that
I
toke
was
in
defendyng
of
my
lyfe
,
but
that
it
was
to
serue
you
,
for
it
had
ben
more
payne
for
me
to
haue
defendyd
my selfe
fro
the
dethe
,
then
to
suffre
it
,
remembrynge
my selfe
that
I
had
no
desire
to
lyue
,
but
alonely
to
serue
you
,
and
when
I
●aw
that
I
erryde
and
that
ye
wolde
not
of
my
seruice
lyuyng
,
them
I
thought
to
serue
you
with
my
deth
,
and
thynke
not
that
I
ioy
so
litle
of
my
deth
,
but
that
I
thynke
it
well
enployed
,
syn
ye
haue
now
discoueryd
your
pitie
,
the
which
in
my
lyfe
allwayes
ye
denyed
,
ye
say
the
hope
that
ye
gaue
me
shuld
haue
suffisyd
me
,
I
denye
it
not
accordyng
to
that
ye
be
,
for
one
loke
of
you
had
ben
sufficient
for
any
seruice
that
I
could
haue
done
,
for
where
as
the
lesse
hope
aperyd
certayne
,
then
moche
more
was
your
deseruyng
,
and
of
my
deseruyng
I
was
in
doubte
:
for
the
greater
that
the
reward
was
,
the
lesse
I
beleuyd
it
,
and
therfore
I
dyd
as
ye
haue
seen
,
And
where
as
ye
speke
of
,
is
honour
and
lyfe
,
ye
know
well
for
certayne
,
if
ye
forgette
it
not
what
small
charge
it
was
to
you
,
and
the
experience
which
geemd
me
ye
know
your selfe
,
the
warkes
are
witnes
,
Also
ye
say
that
at
the
begynnynge
ye
were
withoute
any
charge
,
and
after
what
perell
I
saw
you
in
,
and
that
I
was
redy
to
haue
gyuen
occasion
to
haue
brought
you
in
to
suspect
.
I
begyled
you
not
,
for
afterwarde
I
shewed
your
clennes
ye
neuer
sayde
in
your
wrytynge
any
thyng
for
certayne
,
but
alwayes
I
was
in
doubt
of
any
rewarde
,
and
the
lesse
I
●o●yd
the
more
I
feared
,
and
thus
ye
may
se
that
by
your
owne
excuse
,
ye
condempe
your selfe
,
and
syn
I
can
not
serue
you
,
I
will
not
trouble
you
,
nor
speke
no
more
,
saue
I
desire
of
you
in
rewarde
of
my
true
faith
,
to
let
me
kysse
your
hand
,
bycause
with
that
glory
,
I
may
ioy
in
my
deth
,
seyng
I
co●ld
not
in
my
lyfe
,
nor
ye
wolde
not
suffer
me
,
and
thus
I
wyll
deperte
fro
you
,
besechyng
you
as
ye
saye
to
haue
remembrance
of
my
sowle
,
syn
ye
haue
forgoten
my
body
,
nor
I
desire
no
more
to
trouble
you
,
nor
to
be
inportunate
with
any
mo
wordes
,
thus
I
make
an
ende
,
desirynge
you
of
perdone
,
&
if
any
thynge
may
presume
to
auayll
for
the
ryches
of
my
seruice
,
that
ye
wyll
remember
my
trouth
and
good
wyl
,
the
which
I
set●e
before
your
eyen
,
to
th
entent
that
of
my
deth
ye
shulde
haue
some
compassion
,
syn
ye
had
none
of
my
lyfe
.
¶
The
auctor
.
WHen
this
mater
was
thus
passed
betwene
them
I
stode
and
behelde
the
curtesy
that
Lereano
made
and
the
small
thought
that
he
shewed
of
his
deth
for
then
he
knowyng
,
that
she
was
no
lesse
sorowfull
for
his
deth
then
hym
selfe
was
,
therfore
to
th
entent
not
to
trouble
her
,
he
sufferyd
the
payne
,
and
wolde
speke
no
more
of
his
deth
,
and
asmoche
as
it
pleased
me
to
se
them
to gether
,
asmoche
it
greued
me
the
remembrance
of
the
deth
of
Lereano
,
and
accordynge
to
ther
reasones
,
they
ioyed
me
so
that
I
wolde
theyr
reasons
shulde
neur
haue
endyd
,
for
then
I
knew
well
that
Lereano
receyued
glory
to
se
her
,
and
Laureola
receyued
no
payne
to
se
hym
,
though
he
were
dede
I
desyre
that
theyr
speche
shuld
neuer
haue
endyd
,
nor
theyr
●yght
depertyd
a
sounder
,
but
alwayes
the
thynges
of
pleasour
,
seldome
end●rith
longe
.
And
as
I
thus
lay
dremyng
at
last
me
thought
I
harde
a
heuy
voice
that
said
,
come
away
Lereano
and
tary
no
longer
.
And
then
with
adolorous
sygh
Lereano
with
his
bonet
in
his
hand
went
to
Laureola
,
and
kyst
her
hand
,
and
she
to
gyue
hym
some
glory
sufferyde
hym
the
which
in
his
lyfe
tyme
she
wold
neuer
do
,
and
so
kyssyng
her
hand
he
sayd
O
the
deth
thou
hast
slayne
my
memory
yet
to
my
deth
is
giuen
glory●
&
therwith
he
vanished
away
.
And
when
I
saw
I
could
se
hym
no
more
,
than
I
regarded
Laureola
to
se
what
contenance
she
made
,
I
saw
her
stand
in
greate
heuynes
,
her
eyen
bathed
in
water
,
&
her
beautie
●adyd
of
colour
pale
and
wanne
,
and
had
lost
her
spech
,
and
I
seynge
her
in
suche
maner
of
disposicion
,
hadde
compassion
to
se
her
,
then
Lereano
that
was
dede
what
with
the
syght
of
the
one
,
and
of
the
other
,
was
in
suche
perell
,
and
so
disperate
,
that
to
say
the
truth
,
I
desyred
rather
to
haue
folowed
Lereano
dede
,
then
to
haue
folowyd
Laureola
lyuynge
,
who
with
great
heuynes
,
asmoche
as
she
myght
,
dyssimuled
her
payne
that
she
enduryd
for
the
deth
of
Lereano
,
&
discretly
she
dyd
refrayne
her
wepynge
and
sayd
to
me
as
folowith
.
¶
Laureola
to
the
auctor●
FRende
truely
with
a
better
harte
and
wyll
I
wyll
contynew
this
lyfe
,
rather
thenne
to
goo
oute
of
thy
chamber
without
it
were●
that
I
beleue
in
my
goynge
away
,
my
sowle
shall
departe
,
for
surly
,
yf
I
had
beleued
to
haue
sene
Lereano
i
that
case
,
as
I
haue
sene
hym
now
I
wolde
neuer
haue
come
hither
to
se
hym
,
but
rather
haue
suffered
payne
with
his
absence
,
then
glory
to
se
hym
seinge
I
can
not
remedy
hym
,
I
had
thought
neuer
to
haue
had
suche
payne
for
hym
,
for
the
more
that
the
greatnes
of
astate
withstode
&
denyed
yet
for
all
that
,
I
thought
to
haue
done
the
contrary
,
or
my
lyfe
had
departed
,
for
with
great
trauayll
,
I
thought
to
haue
suyd
to
the
kyng
my
father
for
his
libertie
it
was
not
by
my
consent
,
that
he
was
commaundyd
,
not
to
come
in
to
the
courte
,
where
as
he
myght
haue
place
to
haue
sene
me
,
yet
for
al
that
he
neded
not
to
haue
dyed
for
the
tyme
myght
haue
come
that
he
shulde
haue
hadde
no
cause
to
haue
disparyd
,
for
thought
I
by
my
crueltie
had
consentyd
to
haue
put
hym
to
passion
,
yet
I
myght
aswell
agayne
haue
rewarded
hym
by
my
bountie
and
pitie
,
as
to
haue
denyed
hym
,
I
wyll
as
now
make
no
quarell
to
my
wyll
,
syn
his
seruyce
&
good
warkes
I
thought
to
haue
rewardyd
,
but
I
quarell
with
the
bautie
that
god
hath
gyuen
me
,
and
so
myght
Lereano
haue
done
:
for
that
more
begyled
hym
,
then
other
condicion
or
wyll
:
But
bycause
the
tyme
is
short
and
the
passion
great
,
I
wyll
no
more
say
but
I
make
the
sure
,
that
thought
Lereauo
were
not
worthy
of
a
state
nor
lynage
,
to
haue
had
me
to
his
wyfe●
yet
he
shuld
not
haue
bene
in
dispayre
ther
of
,
but
syn
I
can
not
as
now
rewarde
his
warkes
and
good
seruyce
,
I
desyre
the
not
to
depart
fro
the
courte
,
thouhg
thy
desyre
be
in
to
thyne
owne
natural
countrey
,
&
so
doinge
thou
shalt
know
,
by
the
rewardes
that
I
shal
gyue
the
,
what
honour
I
bare
to
Lereano
lyuing
¶
The
auctor
WHen
Laureola
had
endyd
her
wordes
she
was
so
heuy
,
and
so
full
of
wepyng
,
that
in
a
maner
hre
payneful
lyfe
greuyde
me
as
sore
as
the
dethe
of
Lereano
.
And
to
all
this
that
she
hadde
sayd
I
wolde
haue
aunswerde
her
,
and
thankyd
her
of
her
great
bountie
to
me
shewyd
,
aswell
as
for
the
curtesye
of
her
meke
speche
.
And
so
me
thought
as
I
was
mouyd
sodenly
with
a
great
sighe
she
depertyde
fro
me
,
and
with
a
loude
voyce
sayd
:
I
can
no
more
sorow
the
deth
which
is
euer
certeyne
,
then
the
losse
of
the
lyfe
of
hym
that
is
dede
:
them
I
lokyd
all
aboute
,
and
saw
how
I
was
left
all
alone
,
and
therwith
awoke
out
of
my
dreme
,
then
was
I
so
sorowfull
,
that
I
wist
not
what
to
do
,
nor
thynke
of
my
dreme
,
and
when
I
saw
no
man
to
speke
vnto
,
I
was
so
pensyue
that
often
tymes
with
myne
owne
handes
I
thought
to
haue
ryde
my
lyfe●
therby
thynkynge
to
haue
founde
that
I
had
lost
,
and
when
I
remembryd
that
with
my
deth
I
could
not
recouer
the
lyfe
of
the
dede
,
then
I
thought
it
a
great
errour
to
lese
myne
own
sowle
without
the
ioyeng
of
his
body
And
as
it
is
a
sure
xeperiēce
that
musyk
encreasith
payne
to
hym
that
is
in
sorow
,
so
lyke
wyse
it
encreasith
pleasur
in
the
harte
of
them
that
be
contente
and
in
ioye
,
then
I
toke
an
harpe
and
songe
as
folowith
.
Harte
take
no
payne
in
this
lyfe
for
it
may
be
ouercome
,
for
it
canne
not
endure
longe
bicause
we
be
mortall
the
euyll
that
shewith
her
force
,
is
redy
to
take
the
deth
,
synne
that
lyfe
is
most
euyll
,
them
I
counsayl
the
shew
no
strength
against
the
ouercome
,
for
who
that
sleith
the
lyfe
,
with
deth
is
pleasyd
,
therfore
that
lyfe
is
good
,
that
takith
deth
after
the
best
sorte
,
he
that
dyeth
lyuyng
hath
not
moche
to
suffre
,
but
he
that
lyueth
dyenge
his
euyll
&
payne
is
stronge
,
who
can
not
suffre
euyll
,
when
they
be
satisfyed
with
euyll
,
and
though
they
be
mortall
,
yet
the
sorow
is
equall
,
thus
I
make
an
ende
of
my
songe
,
and
then
without
any
more
studyng
that
I
had
to
do
.
I
commaunded
to
sadell
my
horse
for
I
thought
it
was
tyme
for
me
to
deperte
to
go
in
to
my
owne
country
,
And
thus
I
departed
fro
them
that
I
mette
in
the
streate
more
acompaned
with
sorow
and
wepynge
yes
then
with
any
other
consolasion
of
pleasoure
my
heuynes
so
encreased
,
and
my
helth
so
payred
that
I
neuer
thought
to
come
a
lyue
in
to
my
countrey
,
&
when
I
was
well
entered
on
my
way
there
came
so
many
thynges
to
my
fantasye
,
that
thynkyng
on
them
I
was
nere
oute
of
my
witte
,
howbeit
at
last
remembrynge
my selfe
that
it
was
no
profyt
to
muse
on
them
I
traueled
my self
asmoch
as
I
myght
to
brynge
them
out
of
my
remembrance
So
I
traueled
my
body
in
this
yourney
and
my
sowle
in
sundry
thoughtes
,
and
fynally
I
arryued
at
my
owne
poore
mansion
,
and
thus
I
bydde
fare
well
&
adew
all
true
louers
.
And
all
the
readers
an
herers
of
this
proces
,
desyryng
them
where
they
fynd
faulte
to
amend
it
.
and
I
shall
pray
to
god
for
theyr
prosperyte
and
at
theyr
ende
to
send
them
the
ioyes
of
paradyce
.
Amen
.
Finis
.
¶
Prynted
at
London
in
Pauls
churcheyarde
,
by
Iohan
Turke
,
at
the
sygne
of
the
byble
.