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The Complete Works of John Gower

Edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes and glossaries by G. C. Macaulay
Gower, John (1325?-1408)
  
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CONFESSIO AMANTIS
  
TO KING HENRY THE FOURTH IN PRAISE OF PEACE

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Prima creatorem dat scire sciencia summum:
Qui caput agnoscit, sufficit illud ei.
Plura viros quandoque iuuat nescire, set illud
Quod videt expediens, sobrius ille sapit.
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