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Title: Confessio amantis
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Pauli, Reinhold, 1823-1882
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Publisher: London : Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Ottawa

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ndre was betaughtOf Ariflotle and fo well taughtOf all that to a king belongeth,Wherof my herte fore longeth **»s To wite what it wolde mene.For by refon I wolde wene,But if I herde of thinges ftraunge,Yet for a time it fhulde chaungeMy peine and lifle me fomdele.Confeflbr. My gode fone, thou faieft wele. For wifdom, how that ever it ftonde,To him that can it underftondeDoth great profit in fondry wife,But touchend of fo high a prife, mis Which is nought unto Venus knowe,I may it nought my felve knowe,Which of her court am all forth draweAnd can no thing but of her lawe.But netheles to knowe more *m\o As wel as thou me longeth fore. LIBER SEXTUS. 83 And for it helpeth to comune,All be they nought to me comune,The fcoles of philofophyYet thenk I for to fpecify *H* In boke as it is comprehended, Wherof thou mighteft ben amended.For though I be nought all cunningUpon the forme of this writing,Some part therof yet I have herde, w*o In this matere how it hath ferde. Explicit liber fextus.
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I. Qina omnis doclrinabona humano regi-mini falutem confert,in hoc feptimo libroad inftanciam amantislanguidi intendit Ge-nius illam, ex quaphilofophi et aftrolo-gi philofophie doc-trinam regem Alex-andrum imbuerunt,fecundura aliquid de-clarare. Dividit e-nim philofophiam intres partes, quarumprima theorica, fe-cunda rhetorica, ter-cia pra£tica nuncu-pate eft, de quarumcondicionibus fubfe-quenter per fingulatraclabit. Incipit Liber Septimus. Omnibus in caufis fapiens do51 rina falutemConfequitur^ nee habet quis nifi doclus opem. Naturam fuperat doclrina^ viro quod et ortusIngenii docilis non dedit, ipfa dabit. Non ita difcretus hominum per climata regnat,£hiin magis ut fapiat^ indiget ipfe fchole. ;;j;;^ GENIUS the preft of love,My fone, as thou haft praid above,That I the fcole fhall declare Of Ariftotle and eke the fare Of Alifaundre, how he was taught, I am fomdele therof deftraught. For it is nought the matere Of love, why we fitten here To fhrive fo as Venus badde, But netheles

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