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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Thenuoye.
Go humble style submytte the to correccyon
Be not so bolde to presume to the presence
Of ony but suche as be enuyronde with effeccyon
Let them arrect theyr eeres to rebuke thy neglygence
To them thou perteynest of due congruence
Let them more curyously thy rurall termes affyle
How thou sholdest be amended they haue best intellygence
Therfore submytte the to theym my poore & humble style
Be not so bolde to presume to the presence
Of ony but suche as be enuyronde with effeccyon
Let them arrect theyr eeres to rebuke thy neglygence
To them thou perteynest of due congruence
Let them more curyously thy rurall termes affyle
How thou sholdest be amended they haue best intellygence
Therfore submytte the to theym my poore & humble style
Yf ony that be more sad delytynge in grauyte
And yf forther age wolde agayne the gyue euydence
Sayenge they were well occupyed that were troubled with the
Wrote not Ouyde in as low style whiche yf they prepence
They may thynke that I to auoyde of slouthe the vyolence
Made this without cloke or rethorycall language
Thynkynge that I ought not of due conuenyence
Wryte the in so hyghe style as wyse storyes and sage.
And yf forther age wolde agayne the gyue euydence
Sayenge they were well occupyed that were troubled with the
Wrote not Ouyde in as low style whiche yf they prepence
They may thynke that I to auoyde of slouthe the vyolence
Made this without cloke or rethorycall language
Thynkynge that I ought not of due conuenyence
Wryte the in so hyghe style as wyse storyes and sage.
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