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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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XII, THE PASSETYME OF PLEASURE. 1219 And whan a knyght with noble chyvalryOf La Belle Pucell should attayne <strong>the</strong> grace,Wyth my great falshed I werke so subtyllyThat in her herte he ^ hath no [certayn] place :Thus <strong>of</strong> his purpose I do let <strong>the</strong> cace.This isI my power and my condicion,Love <strong>to</strong> remove by great illusion.'•10 And <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> second head in a silken tassell,'There I saw wrytten : Ymaginacion ;My crafty wytte is withouten fayleLove for <strong>to</strong> bring in perturbacionWhere La Belle Pucell wold have affeccionTo Graund Amour, I shall a tale devyseTo make her hate him and him <strong>to</strong> dispyse.1 By my false wytte, so muche imaginative,The trouth full <strong>of</strong>te I bring in diseaseWhereas was peace, I cause <strong>to</strong> be stryfeI wyll suffer no man for <strong>to</strong> lyve in easeFor if by fortune he wyll me ^ displease,I shall <strong>of</strong> him ymagin such a tale.That out <strong>of</strong> joy it shall turne in<strong>to</strong> bale/12 And on <strong>the</strong> thirde hede, in a stremer grene,There was written :'Myname is PerjuryIn many a <strong>to</strong>wne I am knowen, as I weneWhere as I lyst, I do great injury,And do forswere my selfe full wrongfullyOf all thinges, I do hate conscience,But I love lucre with alldiligence.^ Old text ' she.' 2 qM text' be.'

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