Council , 1845-6.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CAP. I. HOWE GRAUNDE AMOURE WALKED IN A MEDOWE, AND MET WYTH FAME ENVYRONED WITH TONGUES OF FYRE.
CAP. II. OF THE SWETE REPORTE OF FAME OF THE FAYRE LADY LA BELL PUCELL IN THE TOURE OF MUSYCKE.
CAP. III. HOWE FAME DEPARTED FROM GRAUNDE AMOURE, AND LEFT WITH
CAP. IV. HOWE HE WAS LET IN BY COUNTENAUNCE THE PORTERES, AND
CAP. V. HOW SCIENCE SENT HIM FYRST TO GRAMER, WHERE HE WAS RECEIVED BY DAME CONGRUYTE.
CAP. VI. HOW HE WAS RECEYVED OF LOGYCKE.
CAP. VII. HOW HE WAS RECEYVED OF RETHORYKE, AND WHAT RETHORYKE IS.
CAP. VIII. OF THE FIRST, CALLED INVENCYON, AND A COMMENDACION OF POETS.
CAP. IX. A REPLICATION AGAINST IGNORAUNT PERSONES.
CAP. X. OF DISPOSITION, THE II. PARTE OF RETHORYKE.
CAP. XI. OF ELOCUTION, THE THIRDE PARTE OF RETHORYKE, WITH COLOURYNG OF SENTENCES.
CAP. XII. OF PRONUNCIATION, THE IV. PART OF RETHORIKE.
CAP. XIII. OF MEMORY, THE V. PART OF RETHORYKE.
CAP. XIV. A COMMENDATION OF GOWER, CHAUCER, AND LYDGATE.
CAP. XV. OF ARSMETRIKE.
CAP. XVI. OF MUSIKE: MUNDAIN, HUMAYN, AND INSTRUMENTAL.
CAP. XVII. HOWE GRAUNDE AMOURE WAS ENAMOURED OF LA BELL PUCELL
CAP. XVIII. OF THE DOLOROUS AND LOWLY DISPUTACION BETWENE LA BEL PUCELL AND GRAUNDAMOURE.
CAP. XIX. HOW LA BELL PUCELL GRAUNTED GRAUND AMOURE LOVE, AND OF HER DISPITEOUS DEPARTAGE.
CAP. XX. OF THE GREAT SOROWE THAT GRAUNDE AMOUR MADE AFTER THE
CAP. XXI. HOWE GRAUNDE AMOURE WENT TO GEOMETRY, AND WHAT GEOMETRY IS.
CAP. XXII. OF DAME ASTRONOMY.
CAP. XXIII. OF THE DIRECT OPERATION OF NATURE.
CAP. XXIV. OF THE FIVE INTERNALL WITTES.
CAP. XXXV. OF THE HYE INFLUENCES OF THE SUPERNALL BODIES.
CAP. XXVI. HOW GRAUNDE AMOURE CAME TO THE TOURE OF CHYVALRY.
CAP. XXVII. OF THE MARVEYLOUS ARGUMENT BETWENE MARS AND FORTUNE.
CAP. XXVII. HOWE MINERVE LEDDE GRAUNDE AMOURE TO KYNG MELYZYUS, WHICHE MADE HYM KNYGHT
CAP. XXIX. HOWE HE DEPARTED FROM KYNGE MELYZYUS, WITH HIS
CAP. XXX. THE SUPPLICATION.
CAP. XXXI. THE COPY OF THE LETTER THAT VENUS SENT TO LA BELL PUCELL.
CAP. XXXII. HOW GODFREY GOBELIVE WAS TAKEN OF CORRECTION, AND PUNYSHED.
CAP. XXXIII. HOW GRAUNDE AMOURE DYSCOMFYTED THE GIAUNTE WITH
CAP. XXXIV. HOW HE MET WITH PERCEVERAUNCE, AND REPOSED HYM IN THE MANOUR PLACE OF DAME COMFORT.
CAP. XXXV. HOWE HE VAINQUYSHED A GYAUNT WITH SEVEN HEADES, AND WAS RECEIVED OF VI. LADYES.
CAP. XXXVI. HOW HE MADE OBLACYON TO THE GODES PALLAS, AND SAYLED OVER THE TEMPESTUOUS FLODE.
CAP. XXXVII. HOWE GRAUNDE AMOURE DISCOMFITED THE WONDERFULL
CAP. XXXVIII. HOW GRAUNDE AMOURE WAS RECEYVED OF LA BELLE PUCELL.
CAP. XXXIX. OF THE GRETE MARIAGE BETWENE GRAUNDE AMOURE AND LA BELLE PUCELL.
CAP. XL. HOW WHAN GRAUNDE AMOURE HAD LIVED LONGE WYTH LA BEL
CAP. XLI. HOWE HE WAS ARESTED BY DEATH.
CAP. XLII. HOWE REMEMBRAUNCE MADE HIS EPYTAPHY ON HIS GRAVE.
CAP. XLIII. HOWE FAME CAME INTO THE TEMPLE WYTH BURNYNG TONGUES AND OTHER PRAYSE.
CAP. XLIV. HOWE TYME CAME INTO THE TEMPLE IN A MARVAYLOUS SEMILITUDE, AND OF HIS REPLYCATION.
CAP. XLV. HOWE ETERNYTE CAME INTO THE TEMPLE, AND OF HER VERTUOUS EXHORTACYON.
THE EXCUSATION OF THE AUCTOUR.
Transcriber's Notes
Percy Society.
EARLY ENGLISH POETRY,
BALLADS,
AND POPULAR LITERATURE
OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
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AND SCARCE PUBLICATIONS.
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THE PASTIME OF PLEASURE.
BY STEPHEN HAWES.
THE
PASTIME OF PLEASURE:
An Allegorical Poem,
BY
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