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The Assemble of Goddes
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P. DUJARDIN
Here foloweth the Interpretacoin of the namesof goddes and goddesses as is reherced
in this tretyse folowynge as Poetes wryte
¶ Phebus is as moche to saye as the Sonne.¶ Apollo is the same or elles God of syght.¶ MorpleusShewer of dremis¶ PlutoGod of hell.¶ MynosIuge of hell.¶ CerberusPorter of hell.¶ Colus the wynde or God of the Eyre.¶ Dyana Goddesse of wode and chase.¶ Phebe the Mone or Goddesse of waters.Aurora Goddes ofthemorow or spryng ofthedaye¶ MarsGod of batyll¶ IupiterGod of wysdom.¶ IunoGoddesse of rychesse¶ SaturneGod of colde.¶ CeresGoddesse of corne.¶ CupydoGod of loue.¶ OtheaGoddesse of wysdome.¶ FortuneThe varyant Goddesse¶ PanGod shepherdes.¶ IsysGoddesse of frute.¶ NeptunusGod of the se.¶ MynerueGoddes ofthebatail or of heruest¶ BachusGod of wyne.¶ MercuryusGod of langage.¶ VenusGoddesse of loue.¶ DyscordeGoddes of debate & stryffe¶ AttroposDethe¶ Here endeththeinterpretacyon of the namesof Goddes & Goddesses as is reherced in thetreatyse folowynge as poetes wryte.
han Phebus the crabbe had nere his cours ronne
And toward the Leon his Iourney gan take
To loke on Pyctagoras spere / I had begonne
¶ Syttyng all solytary allone besyde a lake.
¶ Musyng on a maner how that I myght make.
¶ Reason and sensualyte in one to accorde.
¶ But I coude not bryng about the manacorde.
¶ So ponderously I coud make none obstacle
¶ In myne hede was fall suche an heuinesse.
¶ I was fayne to drawe to myne habytacle.
¶ To rownewitha pylow me semyd best tryacle.
¶ So leyde I me downe my dysease to releue.
¶ Anone cam in Morpleus & toke me bythesleue
¶ And as I soo laye halfe in a traunse
¶ Twene slepyng & wakyng he bad me aryse.
¶ For he sayd I must yeue attendaunce.
¶ To the grete Courte of Mynes the Iustyse.
¶ Me nought auayled ayene hym to sylogyse.
¶ For hit is oft sayd by hem that yet lyues.
¶ He must nedes go that the deuell dryues.
¶ Whan I see noo better but I must go.
¶ I sayd I was redy at his commaundement.
¶ Wheder that he wolde me lede to or fro.
¶ Soo vp I arose and forth with hym went.
¶ Tyll he had me brought to the parlament.
¶ Where Pluto sate and kepte is estate.
¶ And with hym Mynos the Iuge desperate.
¶ But as we thyderwarde went by the way.
¶ I hym besought his name me to tell.
¶ Morpleus he sayde thou me call may.
¶ A syr sayde I than where do ye dwell.
¶ In heuen or in erthe eyther elles in hell.
¶ Nay he sayde myn abydyng most commonly
¶ Is in a lytyll corner called fantasy.
¶ And as sone as he thyse wordes had sayd.
¶ Cerberus the porter of hellwithhis cheyne.
¶ Brought theder Colus inragges euyll arayd
¶ Agaynwhom Neptunus& Dyana dyd
¶ Saynge thus O MynosthouIuge souerayn.
¶ Gyue thy cruel iugement ayenthis traytour so
¶Thatwe may haue cause to preyse thy lord Pluto
¶ Then was there made a proclamacyon....