Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
Gower
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Gower · 19 chapters
Quotes from this book
What schal befalle hierafterward God wot, for now upon this tyde Men se the world on every syde In sondry wyse so diversed, That it welnyh stant al reversed, As forto speke of tyme ago.
And tho that deden thanne amis Thurgh tirannie and crualte, Right as thei stoden in degre, So was the wrytinge of here werk.
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- PrologusSample
- Incipit Liber Primus
- Chapter
- Incipit Liber Secundus
- Mi Sone, if reson be wel peised,
- Incipit Liber Tercius
- Horestes dede his moder calle
- Incipit Liber Quartus
- Ther was a king, which Oënes
- Incipit Liber Quintus
- Of Rome tho was Emperour
- Lo, what mihte eny man devise,
- King Lichaon upon his wif
- Incipit Liber Sextus
- Incipit Liber Septimus.
- In Rome, to poursuie his riht,
- And upon this matiere also
- Incipit Liber Octavus
- Mi Sone, unto the trouthe wende 2060