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

XXIV, THE MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES. 28923 What could these wordes but make me more agast.To heare her tell whereon I musde while-eare ?So was I mazed therewyth, tyllat the last,Musing vpon her wurdes, and what they were,All sodaynly well lessoned was my feare :For to my minde returned howe she teldeBoth what she was, and where her wun she helde.24 Whereby I knewe that she a Goddesse was,And therewithall resorted to my mindeMy thought, that late £res£nied„me the glasOf brittle state, of cares that here we finde,Of thousand woes to silly men assynde :And howe she nowe byd me come and beholde,To see with iye that erst in thought I rolde.25 Flat downe I fell, and with al reuerenceAdored her, perceyuing nowe that she,A^Goddesse sent by godly prouidence,Jn earthly shape thus showed her-selfe to me.To wayle and rue this worldes vncertayntye :And while I honourd thus her godheds might.With playning voyce these wurdes to me she shryght26 *I shal the guyde first to the griesly lake.And thence vnto the blisfull place of rest,Where thou shalt see and heare the playnt they make.That whilom here bare swinge among the best.This shalt thou see, but great is the vnrestThat thou must byde before thou canst attayneVnto the dreadfull place where these remayne.u