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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
hell {with} his cheyne.
¶ Brought theder Colus i{n} ragges euyll
arayd
¶ Agay{n} whom Neptun{us} & Dyana dyd co{m}pley{n}t
Original has ¶ Saynge thus O Mynos {thou} Iuge souerayn.
co{m}pey{n}t ¶ Gyue thy cruel iugeme{n}t aye{n} this traytour so
instead of ¶ {That} we may haue cause to preyse thy lord Pluto
co{m}pley{n}t
¶ Then was there made a proclamacyon.
¶ In Plutoos name
co{m}maunded scylence.
¶ Vpon the payn of strayt correccyon.
¶
{That} Dyana & Neptun{us} might haue audience.
¶ To declare her

grefe of the grete offence.
¶ To hem do by Colus wheron they
co{m}pleined
¶ And to begyn Dyana was constreyned.
¶ Whyche thus begyn as ye shall here.
¶ Saynge in this wyse. O thou
lorde Pluto.
¶ Wyth thy iuge Mynos syttyng {with} the in fere
¶
Execute your fury vpon Colus soo.
¶ Accordyng to thofence that he to
me hath do
¶ That I haue no cause forther to appele.
¶ Whyche yf I
do shall not be for youre wele.
¶ Remembre fyrst how I a goddesse pure.
¶ Ouer all desertes /
forestes and chaces.
¶ Haue the guydynge and vnder my cure.
¶
This traytour colus hath mani of mi places
¶ Destroyd {with} his
blastes & daily me manaces
¶ Where ony wood is he shall make it
playne.
¶ If he to his lyberte may resorte ageyne
¶ The gretest trees that ony man may fynde
¶ In forest to shade the
dere for her comforte.
¶ He breketh he{m} aso{n}der or rendith he
rote & ri{n}de ¶ Out of the erthe this is his dysporte.
¶ So that the
deere shall haue noo resorte.
¶ Wythin shorte tyme to noo maner
shade
¶ Where thorough the game is lykly to fade.
¶ Which to my name a reproche synguler.
¶ Sholde be foreuer whyle
the worlde laste.
¶ And to all the goddes an hygh dyspleyser.
¶ To
see the game soo destroyed by his blaste.
¶ Wherfore a remedy
puruey in haste.
¶ And lete hym be punysshed after his offence.
¶
Cousyder the cryme and yeue your sentence.
¶ And whan Dyana had made her compley{n}t
¶ To mynos the Iuge
in Plutoos presence.
¶ Came forth Neptun{us} {with} vysage pale &
feynt
¶ Desyrynge of fauour to haue audyence.
¶ Saynge thus Pluto
to thy magnyfycence.
¶ I shall reherce what this creature.
¶ Colus
hath done me out of mesure.
¶ Thou knowest well that I haue the charge
¶ Ouer all the se and

therof god I am.
¶ No shyp may sayl Keruel / bote ne barge.
¶ Grete
karyk nor hulke {with} ony lyuyng man.
¶ But he haue my saue
conduyte than.
¶ who me offendith wythin my Iurysdyccyon
¶
Owyth to submyt him to my correccyon.
¶ But in asmoche as it is now soo.
¶ That ye hym here haue as your
prysonere
¶ I shall shew my compleynt soo.
¶ wherfore I pray you
that ye wyll here.
¶ And let hy{m} not escape out of your daungere.

¶ Tyl he haue made full sethe & recompence
¶ For hurt of my
name thrugh his grete offe{n}ce
¶ Fyrst to begyn this Colus hath ofte.
¶ Made me to retorne mi course
agein nature.
¶ wyth his grete blastes whan he hath be alofte
¶ And
charged me to labour fer out of mesure
¶ {that} it was grete merueyl
how I might endure Original has ¶ The com of my swete wyll testyfy.
gtete ¶ That on the se bankes lye beten full hye. instead of
grete ¶ Secundly where my nature is.
¶ Both to eb & flowe a[n]d so
thy course to kepe.
¶ Ofte of myne entent hath he made me mys
¶
where as I shulde haue fylled dykes depe.
¶ At a full water I myght
not theder crepe.
¶ Before my season came to returne ageyn.
¶ And
than went I faster than i wold certayn
¶ Thus he hath me dryuen ayen myn entente
¶ And contrary to my
course naturall.
¶ where I shuld haue be he made me absente
¶ To
my grete dyshonour & in especyall.
¶ Do thynge he vsed that worst
was of all.
¶ For where I my sauegard graunted
¶ Ay in that coste he
comonly haunted
¶ Of very pure malyce and sylfwyll.
¶ Theym to destroy in dyspyte of
me.
¶ To whome I promised both in gode & yll.
¶ For to be her
protectour in all aduersyte.
¶ That to theym shulde fall vpon the se.

¶ And euen sodenly or they coud beware
¶ wyth a sodeyn