The Castell of Pleasure by William Nevill: The text of the first issue of the poem with variant readings from the reprint of 1518; Together with introduction, notes and glossary by Roberta D. Cornelius |
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Dysdayne.
As for promyse and othe I lytell them regarde
For as it is sayd wordes is nothynge but wynde
Was not parys false of promyse and harde
Whan to Enone he was so unkynde
Whiche by a solempne othe to her dyd hym bynde
That he wolde mary her in all goodly haste
But whan the golden apple .iii. goddesses dyd fynde
His Iugement fulfylled his wordes proued but waste
For as it is sayd wordes is nothynge but wynde
Was not parys false of promyse and harde
Whan to Enone he was so unkynde
Whiche by a solempne othe to her dyd hym bynde
That he wolde mary her in all goodly haste
But whan the golden apple .iii. goddesses dyd fynde
His Iugement fulfylled his wordes proued but waste
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