Chaucer's ghoast Or, A Piece of antiquity. Containing twelve pleasant Fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England. Which makes them prove Mock-Poems to the present Poetry. With the History of Prince Corniger, and his Champion Sir Crucifrag, that run a tilt likewise at the present Historiographers |
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Arg. III.
How Jupiter and Juno fell at odds concerning Love, and how they chose Tiresias for their Judge, &c.
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Quærere Tiresiæ. Venus huic erat utraq;
utraq; nota.------
Ovid. l. 3.
Quærere Tiresiæ. Venus huic erat utraq;
utraq; nota.------
Ovid. l. 3.
Truth 'tis that good ne're came of strife,
to seek it in all a mans life,
though it begin upon pure game,
full oft it turneth into bane,
and doth grievance on some side,
whereof the great Clerk Ovide,
after this manner, as I trow,
of Jupiter and's Wife Juno,
makes in his books mention
how they fell at dissention
amongst themselves in unity,
and that was upon this degree;
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or man or wife; and upon this
they might no ways accord in one,
and took one to judge thereupon,
which called is Tyresias,
and bid him deem just in this case;
and he without any avisement
against Juno gave his judgment.
This Goddess upon his answer
was wroth, and would not forbear,
but took away for evermo
the light from both his eyes two.
When Jupiter this hurt had seen,
another benefit then agen
he gave, and such a grace him doth,
that what he wist he said soth,
a Sothsayer he was for ever;
but yet that other had lever
have had the looking of his eye,
then of his word the Prophecy.
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