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CHAP. XXII.
In what forme of Poesie the amorous affections and allurements were vttered.
THe first founder of all good affections is honest loue, as the mother of all the vicious is hatred. It was not therefore with∣out reason that so commendable, yea honourable a thing as loue well meant, were it in Princely estate or priuate, might in all ci∣uil common wealths be vttered in good forme and order as other laudable things are. And because loue is of all other humane af∣fections the most puissant and passionate, and most generall to all sortes and ages of men and women, so as whether it be of the yong or old or wise or holy, or high estate or low, none euer could truly bragge of any exemptiō in that case: it requireth a forme of Poesie variable, inconstant, affected, curious and most witty of a∣ny others, whereof the ioyes were to be vttered in one sorte, the sorrowes in an other, and by the many formes of Poesie, the ma∣ny moodes and pangs of louers, throughly to be discouered: the poore soules sometimes praying, beseeching, sometime honou∣ring, auancing, praising: an other while railing, reuiling, and cur∣sing: then sorrowing, weeping, lamenting: in the ende laughing, reioysing & solacing the beloued againe, with a thousand delicate deuises, odes, songs, elegies, ballads, sonets and other ditties, moo∣uing one way and another to great compassion.