DUJARDIN
Here foloweth the Interpretacoin of the names
of goddes and
goddesses as is reherced
in this tretyse folowynge as Poetes wryte
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¶ Phebus is as moche to saye as the Sonne.
¶ Apollo is the same or
elles God of syght.
¶ Morpleus Shewer of dremis
¶ Pluto God of hell.
¶ Mynos Iuge of hell.
¶ Cerberus Porter 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 of {the} morow or spry{n}g of {the} daye
¶ Mars God of batyll
¶ Iupiter God of wysdom.
¶ Iuno Goddesse of rychesse
¶ Saturne God of colde.
¶ Ceres Goddesse of corne.
¶ Cupydo God of loue.
¶ Othea Goddesse of wysdome.
¶ Fortune The varyant Goddesse
¶ Pan God shepherdes.
¶ Isys Goddesse of frute.
¶ Neptunus God of the se.
¶ Mynerue Goddes of {the} batail or of
heruest
¶ Bachus God of wyne.
¶ Mercuryus God of langage.
¶ Venus Goddesse of loue.
¶ Dyscorde Goddes of debate & stryffe
¶ Attropos Dethe
¶ Here
endeth {the} interpretacyon of the names
of Goddes & Goddesses as
is reherced in the
treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte.
Whan 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.
¶ For longe er I myght slepe me gan oppres
¶ So ponderously I coud
make none obstacle
¶ In myne hede was fall suche an heuinesse.
¶ I
was fayne to drawe to myne habytacle.
¶ To rowne {with} a pylow
me semyd best tryacle.
¶ So leyde I me downe my dysease to releue.
¶ Anone cam in Morpleus & toke me by {the} sleue
¶ 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
co{m}maundement.
¶ Wheder that he wolde me lede to or fro.
¶
Soo vp I arose and forth with hym went.
¶ Tyll he had
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