The Assemble of Goddes | Page 9

{that} prysonere /
¶ Tyl I haue
hy{m} sene let hy{m} not go at large /
¶ As {the} wylt answere of
hem I yeue the charge
¶ Thus was this Colus take prysonere
¶ Than happed it so that the sa[m]e day
Original has
¶ Pluto had prefyxed for a grete mater
thh instead
¶ Mynos to syt in his robe of Ray
of the
¶ Wherfore Cerber{us} toke the next way
¶ And led hy{m} to the
place where the court shalbe
¶ where I told you Morpleus brought me
¶ So thyder c[a]me Dya[n]a caryed in carre
¶ To make her compleynt
as I told you all
¶ And so dyd Neptunus {that} doth make and mar
¶
Walewyng {with} his wawys & to{m}blyng as a ball
¶ Her matters
they meued fal what may befall
¶ There was the fyrst syght {that}
euer I them saw
¶ And yf I neuer do eft I care not a straw
¶ But now to my matter retourne agayn
¶ And tu begyn new where I
left.
¶ whan al the goddis had done her besy payne.
¶ The way to
contryue how it shuld be reft
¶ Of his lyf Attropos had no cause eft

¶ To co{m}pleyn than Phebus stert vpon her fete /
¶ And sayd I pray
you let me speke a word yet
¶ Othea menyth wel to say on this wyse
¶ But al to entret Neptun{us}
i hope shal not nede
¶ Me semyth I alone durst take {that} entesprise.
¶ Er I am begyled or ellis I shal spede
Original has
¶ How say ye Neptunus shal I do this dede.
ellie
¶ Wy[l] ye your rancour seale at my request
instead of
¶ Madame quod he reule me as ye lykyth best
ellis

¶ Gr[a]mercy sayd she of your good wyll
¶ That it pleysyth you to
shew me that fauorus
¶ Wherfore the goddys hygh pleysur to fulfyll

¶ Performe my desyre & leue al olde rancoure
¶ For our elders
wele & sauyng of oure honour
¶ Agayn this colus that ye long haue
had
¶ It is done quod he forsoth than am I gladd
¶ Sayd he now than Colus be {thou} to vs trewe
¶ Kepe well the eyr
and oure grete rebell
¶ May we than sone euer to vs subdew
¶ Yes
and that quod Colus shall here tell
¶ Nowhere in the eyr shall he rest
nor dwel
¶ If he do therof put me in the faute
¶ Wyth my bytter
blastes so shal I hy{m} asaut
¶ What sayd the god Pluto what is his name.
¶ That thus presumyth
agayn vs to rebell
¶ Vertu quod attropes {that} haue he mykyl shame

¶ He is neuer confou{n}ded thus of hy{m} here I tell
¶ A sayd this
pluto in dede I know hy{m} wel
¶ He hath ben euer myn vtter
ennemye Original has ¶ Wherfore this mater agayn hy{m} take wyll I
Ho instead
of He ¶ For all the baytes {that} we for hym haue layde
¶ Wythout
my helpe be not worth a pere
¶ For though ye all the contrary had
sayd
¶ yet wold he brede right nigh your althris ere
¶ No maner of
thynge can hym hurt or dere
¶ Saue only a sone of my bastard
¶
Whos name is vice he kepyth my vawarad.
¶ Wherfore you Cerber{us} now I the charge
¶ Of Colus & wyl that
thou heder fet
¶ My dere sone Vyce & say that I hy{m} charge.
¶
That he to me come without ony let
¶ Armed at all poyntes for a day
is set
¶ That he {with} Vertu for al {the} goddis sake
¶ In our
defence must on hym batayl take.
¶ Forth then went Cerberus {with} his fyry chein
¶ Brought thyd{er}
vyce as he