"that ye (of true affectïon,)
have on me compassyon,
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on my doolle and on my smert.
I thankë yow with all myn hert; [Stowe folio 363b]
but I ha no devosyon
In cursynge nor in malison;
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I shall delay[e]n all cursynge,
tyll tymë that the myghty kynge,
by iugëment, eche thyng shall deme,
as vnto hym it shall but seme,
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of ryghtwisenessë, to provide."
and in this wise, the clerke Ovide
went his way, and leftë [[left St.]] me
lyggynge in great adversitie;
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and to expresse (in complaynynge)
my gretë [[great St.]] sorow by writynge,
I will myn ownë namë shewe,
sette out by lettars on a rowe
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at the gynnynge of this ditie
in eche ballad as ye may se,
of Frenche and Lattyn, bothe I-fere,
ryght anon as ye shall here.
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hauythe me excusyd of my rudenesse,
thowghe I to you my name expresse:
[ACROSTIC OF GUILLAUME DE DEGUILVEVILLE'S NAME: GUILLERMUS DE DEGUILEVILLA.]
Grato messium tempore,
Quant nature sez beaux [beaux, Petit print, om. St.] fruiz dore, [Stowe ends here. The rest is copied from Petit's French edition of Le romant des trois Pelerinaiges. Le premier pelerinaige est de l'homme durant qu'est en vie. . . ab. 1500. Foeillet .lxxxiiij. col. 2, sign. l.iiij.]
Et prompta sunt in liquore
Ses vins qu'encore pas n'affore,
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Quo folium in arbore
Se commence a deuenir sore,
Et boreas in equore
Si n'est pas trop nuysant encore.
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VIdi scriptum in margine
Ou cestuy escript s'enracine,
Mirandam pulcritudine,
Grace dieu, du ciel royne digne,
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Me vocantem ex nomine:
'Vien auant, et si t'achemine
Mecum, quia regimine
Tu as mestier, et de doctrine.'
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ILla me duxit prospere
En l'ung des chasteaulx de son pere,
Exhortando summopere,
Que l'un de leans ie fusse frere,
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Virginique puerpere,
Estoille de mer pure et clere,
Me servum vellem tradere,
En la faisant ma bonne mere.
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