Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte Edited from the Fairfax MS. 16 (Bodleian) and the additional MS. 29,729 (Brit. Mus.) by Ernst Sieper |
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Of tharray of natures hede.
Touching thatire and the Rychesse
That this wonderful goddesse
Had on her hede, to tel[le] blyve,
I ha no konnyng to discrive;
Whos here shoon as the sonne bryght;
That cast about[e] swych a lyght,
So persyng pleynly and so shene,
That I myghte nat sustene
To beholde the bryghtnesse
Nor the excellent fairnesse.
For vp to the sterres rede
This lady raughte with hir hede,
And as I koude loke aferris,
Cloystred rounde with bryght[e] sterres,
Hir hed was cercled environ,
That Argus, in conclusion,
With hys hundred eyen bryght
The noumbre of hem nat tel[le] myght.
That this wonderful goddesse
Had on her hede, to tel[le] blyve,
I ha no konnyng to discrive;
Whos here shoon as the sonne bryght;
That cast about[e] swych a lyght,
So persyng pleynly and so shene,
That I myghte nat sustene
To beholde the bryghtnesse
Nor the excellent fairnesse.
For vp to the sterres rede
This lady raughte with hir hede,
And as I koude loke aferris,
Cloystred rounde with bryght[e] sterres,
Hir hed was cercled environ,
That Argus, in conclusion,
With hys hundred eyen bryght
The noumbre of hem nat tel[le] myght.
And in hir corovne, high as hevene,
Were set the planetis sevene.
And as me thought, I saugh my selve
In hir cercle sygnes twelve,
In ther course, out of Doute,
From Est to West goynge aboute,
That the ryche corovne shene
Of Adriane, the fresshe quene,
Was nat so lusty to be-holde.
And thus thys lady, as y tolde,
Vpon hir hede arrayed was,
Bryghter than ston, cristal, or glas
Were set the planetis sevene.
And as me thought, I saugh my selve
In hir cercle sygnes twelve,
In ther course, out of Doute,
From Est to West goynge aboute,
That the ryche corovne shene
Of Adriane, the fresshe quene,
Was nat so lusty to be-holde.
And thus thys lady, as y tolde,
Vpon hir hede arrayed was,
Bryghter than ston, cristal, or glas
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