A SATYNG OF DAN JOHN. Tuer bethe foure thingis that makith man a fole; Honour first puttith him into outrage, And aldir next folitarie and fole; The second is unweldy crokid age; Women also bring men into dotage; And mighty wine in many divers wise Diftemprin folke whiche ben yholdin wife.

YET OF THE SAME.
Ther ben foure thingis causing grete folye;
Honour first; and second unwildy age;
Women and wine I dare eke fpecify
Ymake wise men fallin into dotage;
Wherfore by counseil of philosophers sage
In gret honour lernith this rule of me,
With thine eftare havith humilite.

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MOTTO TO JACKE UPLAND.
Or freris I have told before
Now in a making of a crede,
And yet I could tell worse and more,
But men would werrien it to rede.

CONTENTS.

Page

Annelida and Arcite,

5

The Complaint of the Blacke Knight,

38

The Complaint of Mars and Venus,

43

The Complaint of Mars,

48

The Complaint of Venus,

54

The Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine, 57

The Floure and the Leafe,

83

The Court of Love,

105

The Remedie of Love,

157

A Saiyng of Dan John,

178

Yet of the same,

ib.

Motto to Jacke Upland,

ib.

For Chaucer's Prophecie fee vol. 1. p. 247.

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From the APOLLO PRE83,
by the MARTINS,

March 1.173 3.

END OF VOLUME TWELFTO,