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Name: The Assemble of Goddes
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The Assemble of Goddes

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“The Assemble of Goddes”, is a work by Anonymous. It explores elements such as Vyce, hym and Middle-English.

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ The book was printed in blackletter font known as Wynkyn de Worde's type 3, and uses many abbreviations, which I have expanded and rendered in italics. The abbreviations used in this book are:
, , , , —Macron over the letter. The most common one, usually meaning missing "n" or "m" after the letter. But in some cases might also mean missing "e", "er" or "re" after the letter. This happens usually when p, q or r have macrons. —Little e over Middle-English thorn, meaning "the." —Little t over Middle-English thorn, meaning "that." —Little u over Middle-English thorn, meaning "thou." ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ For no thyng may me plese the souneth to corrupcyon.
¶ And whan he had thus sayd the keyes he hym toke.
¶ And toward his castell with his people went
¶ Byddyng reason take good hede & about loke
¶ That sensualite by Nature were not shent.
¶ Kepe hym short he sayd tyll his lust be spent
¶ For better were a chylde to by vnbore
¶ Than let hym haue the wyll & foreuer be lore.
¶ And whan olde Attropos had seen & herd all this
¶ How Vertu had opteyned astonyed as he stood.
¶ He sayd to hymselfe somwhat there is amys.
¶ I trow well my patent be not all good. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ Occasionally there were some letters printed upside down. I have rendered them inside brackets, e.g., [x] . The poem uses two types of punctuation--a dot, meaning longer pause, and a slash, meaning shorter pause or comma. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ For than wold he haue thought he hade to long slept
¶ In this mene tyme whyle Vertu thus proceded
¶ For hym & his people the feld for to wynne.
¶ He charged euery man by grace to be guyded
¶ And al that euer myght the feld to enter ynne.
¶ In all that season went orygynal synne.
¶ To let Vyce know how Baptym with his hoste.
Had entred Macrocosme & serched euery cooste
¶ A sayd Vyce I se well it is tyme. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ Modern scholars believe that this work was written between 1478 and 1483 (about forty years after Lydgate's death) . Analysis of style and vocabulary have led scholars to conclude that the author might have been a woman. For further information about this poem please see The Assembly of Gods, edited by Jane Chance, published by Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999, ISBN: 1580440223, which is also available online at Rochester University. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ Whiche were to Morpleus rewarded for his laboure
¶ Sygnyfye not elles but whyle man is on lyue
¶ His fyue inwarde wyttes shall be euery hour
¶ In his slepe occupyed in hele & in langour
¶ With fantasyes tryfels Illusyons & dremes
¶ Whiche Poetes call Morpleus stremes
¶ And as for Residiuacyon is nomore to say
¶ But after Confessyon tornyng ayene to synne
¶ Whiche to euery man retornyth sauns delay
¶ To vycyous lyuyng agayn hym to wynne
¶ Whyle ony man lyueth wyll it neuer blynne
¶ That cursed conclusyon for to bryng aboute
¶ But Reason with Sadnes kepe it styll oute ”

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“ Of goldsmyth werk with spangles wrought bedene
¶ 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
¶ For of froste & snowe was all his aray.
¶ In his honde he helde a fawchon all blody
¶ It semed by his chere as he wold make a frai
¶ A baudryck of Isykles about his necke gaye
¶ He had and aboue on hygh on his hede.
¶ Couchid with hayl stones he wered a croun of lede
¶ And nexte in ordre was set by his syde. ”

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“ She sayd she rewled Neptunus & made hym bayl
¶ And ones in the monthe with phebus was she meint
¶ Also ne were she Ceres were ateynte
¶ Thus she sat & tolde the myght of her nature
¶ & on her hede she wered a croun of siluer pure
¶ Ioyntly to her Marcuryus toke his see. ”

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“ Neuertheles they seyd they wold endure tho shours
¶ And make an ende shortly of that they went aboute.
¶ Soo forth came Vyce with all his grete route.
¶ Er he came at the felde he sent yet priuely.
¶ Sensualyte before in maner of a spy.
¶ Whiche sewe the felde with his vnkynde seede.
¶ That caused Vertu after mykyll woo to feele
¶ For therof grewe nought but all oonly weede.
¶ Whiche made the grounde as sleper as an yele.
¶ He went ayene to vice & tolde hym euery dele.
¶ How he had done and bad hym come a way. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ About hym in his gyrdelsted hing fysshes mani a xx
¶ Of his straunge aray merueyled I sore.
¶ A shyp wyth a top and sayle was hys creste.
¶ Me thought he was gayly dysgysed at the fest.
¶ Than toke mynerue the goddes her sete.
¶ Ioyntly to Neptunus all in curas cladde.
¶ Gauntelettis on hondes & sabatouns on her fete
¶ She loked about as though she had be mad.
¶ An hamer and a sythe on her hede she hadde
¶ She wered two bokelers one by her syde. ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ And then may ye say ye have a sure staff
¶ To stande by at nede of ye wyll it holde
¶ And walke by the way of Vertue
¶ But alwey beware be ye yong or olde
¶ That your Frewyll ay to Vertue more
¶ Apply than to Vyce the easyer may be bore
¶ The burden of the felde that ye dayly fyght
¶ Agayn your .iii. enemyes for all her gret myght ”

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Anonymous, The Assemble of Goddes

“ Yet in the mene tyme while the felde thus grow.
¶ And reson with sadnesse therof had goueraunce.
¶ Many a preuy messenger thyder sent Vertew.
¶ To know yf it were guyded to his plesaunce.
¶ Now prayer eft fastyng & often tyme penaunce.
¶ And whan he myght goo preuely almesdede.
¶ And bad hym to his power helpe where he se nede
While that felde thus rewled reson with sadnesse. ”

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