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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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ix.

Propter transgressos leges statuuntur in orbe,
Ut viuant iusti Regis honore viri.
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Lex sine iusticia populum sub principis umbra
Deuiat vt rectum nemo videbit iter.
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