The Assemble of Goddes | Page 5

theyr complayntes
ordynatly.
¶ And whan Appolo had herd the reporte
¶ Of Pluto in a maner
smylynge he sayd.
¶ I se well Colus thou hast small comforte.
¶
Thy selfe to excuse thou mayst be dysmayde·
¶ For to here so grete
co{m}pleyntes ayen the layd
¶ And notwythstondyng if thou can say
ought
¶ For thyne own wele say and tary nought
¶ Nota
¶ Forsoth sayd Colus yf I had respyte.
¶ Hereto an answere cowd I
counterfete.
¶ But to haue her grace more is my delyte.
¶ wherfore I
pray you all for me entrete.
That I may by your req{ue}st her gode
grace gete
¶ And what payn or greef ye for me prouyde
¶ wythout
ony grutchyng I shall it abyde.
¶ Lo good dame sayd god Appollo.
¶ what may he do more but sew
to your grace.
¶ Beholde how the teres from his eyen goo.
¶ It is
satysfaction half for his trespace.
¶ Now gloryo{us} goddes shew
your petio{us} face
¶ To this pore prysoner at my request.
¶ All we
for youre honour thynke thus is best.
¶ And yf it lyke you to do in thys wyse.
¶ And so to foryeue hym
clerely his offence.
¶ One thynge surely I wyll you promyse.
¶ If he
ought rebell and make resystence
¶ Or dysobey vnto your sentence.
Original has
¶ For euery tree that he maketh fall.
sencence
¶ Out of the erthe an /C/ ryse shall.
instead of

sentence

¶ Soo that youre game shall not dyscrease
¶ For lacke of shade i dare
vndertake
¶ well syr Appolo sayd she than wyll I cease
¶ Off all my
rancour and mercy {with} you make
¶ And than god Neptunus of his
maner spak
¶ Saying th{us} appolo though dyana him relese
¶ yet
shall he sue to me to haue his pease.
¶ A sayd Appolo ye wende I had forgete.
¶ You for my lady Dyana
the goddesse.
¶ Nay thynke not so for I wyll you entrete.
¶ As well
as her wythoute longe processe.
¶ wyll ye agre that Phebus your
maystresse.
¶ May haue the guydyng of your varyaunce.
¶ I shall
abyde quod he / her ordynaunce.
¶ Wel than quod appolo I pray you godd{i}s all
¶ And goddesses that
ben here presente.
¶ That ye companable wyll aborde falle.
¶ Nay
than sayd Othea it is not conuenyente.
¶ A dew ordre in euery place is
expedyente.
¶ To be hadde wherfore ye may not lette.
¶ To be your
own marshal at your own ba{n}ket
¶ And whan appolo se it wolde none other be
¶ He called to hym
Aurora the goddesse.
¶ And sayd though ye wepe ye shall before me.

¶ Ay kepe your course and put yourself in p{re}sse
¶ Soo he her
set fyrste at his owne messe.
¶ wyth her moyst clothes {with} teres all
be sprey{n}t
¶ The medewes in may shew therof her co{m}plei{n}t
¶ Next her sat Mars myghty god and strong
¶ wyth a flamme of fyre
enuyroned all about Original has ¶ A crown of yron on his hede a spere
i{n} his ho{n}d aboeut ¶ It semed by his che{re} as he wold haue
fought. instead of ¶ And next vnto hym as I perceyue mought. about ¶
Sat {the} goddesse Dyana in a mantell fyne.
¶ Of black sylke
purfyled {with} poudred ermine
¶ Lyke as he had take {the} mantell & the rynge
¶ And next vnto her
arayed roally.
¶ Sat the god Iupyter in his demenynge.
¶ Full sad
and wyse he semed sykerly.
¶ A crowne of tynne stood on his hede.

¶ And that I recorde of all phylosophers.
¶ {that} lytyll store of

Coyne kepe in her cofres.
¶ Ioyned to hy{m} in syttyng next there was
¶ The goddesse Iuno full
rychely besene.
¶ In a sercote {that} shone as bryght as glas
Of
goldsmyth werk {with} spa{n}gles wrought beden{e}
¶ Of royall
ryches wanted she none I wene.
¶ And next to her sat the god saturne.

¶ That oft syth causeth many one to morne.
¶ But he was clad me thought straungely
¶